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We have one of that type of party as well, recent posters in the warmup to the election are all about how fantastic 'danish values' are, read other values are not so fantastic. I never thought I would say it, but at least the damn sweedes can keep the nationalists from getting a stranglehold on the formation of new governments.

Office mice humor ?

This is a memorial ceremony ? scuse me then.

I am not even into classical music, but such greatness should be deserved. Not my kinda thing, but different strokes for different people I guess.

People die all the time, I didn't know him or his music. So i'm supposed to feel bad because he was famous ?

I'm not really into the whole opera singer thing. Can't say I understand why people find it beautiful.

Become a master of breast fondling. No seriously sometimes it can be really hard to decipher what technique works best.

If not immediately treated the critter will die and fester in the urinary tract. The only cure is, you guessed it, amputation. The fish is a parasite that bores into another fish's gills, but for some reason it finds the scent of human urine irresistable.

Interesting that some of these parasites clearly posess mind and behavior altering abilities, the slug one leads it's host into the open to be eaten by birds, the crab one steers it's host around like a beast of burden.

Well you still need energy to make electricity, the cheapest is coal, which is worse than gasoline for the environment. So.

Ellington Indigoes, a collection of remastered big band compositions, and blue in green (Miles Davis) is on my mp3 player. It's all very sunday morning. Nevermind that ambient muzak, this will melt your strees right off.

Well, getting our asses kicked seemed motivational. Once our fleet had been stolen and our ambitions for control of a regional alliance with Norway and Sweeden had become irellevant, our painters and poets started on whats commonly described as the danish golden age, our most prolific cultural boom. Being a land locked contender in Northern Europe with neighbours like Germany and France is more trouble than it's worth.

The Bourne Ultimatum. Great movie except in a few places where the hand-held action style shooting gets so epelectic you can't tell whats up or down. Other than that it's mostly action, not much talking heads, despite all this it works extremely well.

heh, yeah. Brainfart.

Ha, are all visual arts to be reduced to this then? Is Michelangelo also nothing but eye candy? Rembrandt perhaps? You don't think film making shares a similar plane of existence, considering how crucial the visual element is to the form? If photography is to be considered art, then likewise for the visual counterpart of a film, which can become even more engrossing when you add other forms of stimulation (like music). I don't have a preference, as long as a film aims at the highest order of craft and expression. 2001 does this, and i think it earns great distinction from being so peculiar in the first place. I realise that this is how it usually is, but, it can get pretty annoying when people take one part of one of my my posts and reply at lenght pretending the rest doesen't exist. Let me just remind you that I also said it was superb cinematography. Even if the graphics are out of the ordinary, I need a strong story to keep me interested. The sixteenth chapel it is not.

Having been recently reduced from major regional power to more or less insignificant peninular on top of Germany we decided to be practical about it, much like when Hitler invaded.

I prefer movies with a strong human acting component. 2001 has practically none. I still like it for other reasons, but there isen't much rewach quaility in they eye candy alone. Despite all this it's still a good sci fi movie.

Since some twerp stole my bike I have had to walk everywhere, public transportation is a joke. An hour to work and back, I bet thats real heathy though. I don't subscribe to the philosophy of moving with no tangible purpose other than improving my constitution, much less running. The vast majority of self inflicted injuries are fitness related, I might not live to be a hundred but at least i'll have all my tendons and joins in good working order.

My opinion is that 2001 and 2010 are rather slow moving and extremely pretentious, but are good enough to forgive their faults. They are also supremely skilled cinematography.

'I thought Solaris was a very interesting Sci-Fi, the original Russian film is albiet more groundbreaking - but still.' Well theres one. It might not be to the liking of the puritans, and indeed, why re-make when you can cre-ate (ain't I clever) It did take the genre seriously though. Science fiction is what might be possible, staying within the realm of physics, science fantasy is what you wish were possible.

He's dead on the money with sci fi, I can't even remember the last movie to take the genre seriously.

Well, anything consenting adults get up to for kicks should be their business and no one else's, but this was a public restroom, thats kinda gross.

Hey guys, Federalism obviously means NO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT! Even the founding fathers understood the utility of a Federal government. It's like you think everyone against the federal government holding too much power over individuals are like those militants who tried arguing that Texas was still a Republic. No, I believe I said that Federealism was good in a country that is so large and diverse, otherwise the people would be too far removed from the seat of power.

There really aren't that many countries that adhere as religiously to their founding documents as the US. If the relation between state and local government had not changed over the course of 3 centuries that would be unusual in the extreme. Federalism is all well and good as a democratic country that is so large and diverse as the US, but who other than the federal goverment was going to tackle Al Capone, the institutionalised racism that came to the forefront during the civil rights era, the great depression, etc. Funny you should quote Reagan, who engineerd the largest increase in federal spending in US history during the cold war. Where was local accountability then ?.

Chirac had two mistresses show up at his funeral. Are there any openly gay senators, congresmen/women ?. Got one rather loudly gay city councilman where i'm at.