Malcador Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 (edited) Wrong thread. Edited August 26, 2022 by Malcador Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromnir Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 On 8/22/2022 at 11:30 AM, ShadySands said: Putting out fires at work have always liked billy joel. not top ten or anything, but we rare dislike a billy joel tune. another song from k-tel's 1980 rock album, one o' our favorite 8-tracks. HA! Good Fun! 2 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xzar_monty Posted August 29, 2022 Author Share Posted August 29, 2022 @Gromnir: There's a hilarious video of Billy Joel losing his rag in Moscow. I wonder if you've seen it. Good songwriter, no question. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 On the music tangent... "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 2 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 (edited) Just to say, this is still ... well, "genius" is far too generous a word, but comically and darkly relatable. I often put it on repeat for a day as a weird sort of reminder/motivator that for quite a while now, most of the time, the "internet" puts me in a worse mood than before, for a myriad of reasons. Hubby kept remarking "You must have been on the 'net today" because apparently I'd always get extra cranky or misanthrope-y etc, haha. I largely stay off the 'net now, except for occasional streaming-TV/YouTube short skit binges. And this forum. Anyway, the song is also simply catchy and carnival like or something and I like it. Edit: should probably say there's some language. Edited September 1, 2022 by LadyCrimson “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xzar_monty Posted September 1, 2022 Author Share Posted September 1, 2022 One of my all-time favourite musical pieces. Mathematical, haunting, beautiful, hell to play, at least on the drums, at least for me (starts with 17/16 with the hands on top of 4/4 on the bass drum). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majestic Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 Yes, it is as 'good' as the thumbnail would suggest. 1 No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Some classical music for a change... 1 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xzar_monty Posted September 7, 2022 Author Share Posted September 7, 2022 Speaking of classical, this is as beautiful today as it was back when Wagner wrote it. I mean dang that's some finely written stuff. "Awesome" is a word used far too often, but this does fill me with awe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NvUyCdKAxM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 1 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexx Posted September 8, 2022 Share Posted September 8, 2022 1 "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Dedicated to Stack Overflow Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 A bit of 80's nostalgia... 4 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xzar_monty Posted September 19, 2022 Author Share Posted September 19, 2022 Amazing to think that the Yes of Fragile and Close to the Edge went and wrote Owner of a Lonely Heart. Which is a great song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 I actually knew Jon from his collaborations with Vangelis before I heard Yes Edit: That was a decade and a half before the internet “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 6 Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 Ah, Ronnie James Dio. Good stuff “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromnir Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 8 hours ago, xzar_monty said: Amazing to think that the Yes of Fragile and Close to the Edge went and wrote Owner of a Lonely Heart. Which is a great song. am feeling no need to apologize for enjoying 90125, big generator and talk. HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanisatha Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 19 hours ago, Gorth said: A bit of 80's nostalgia... Back on the Chain Gang is one of my all-time favs. The guitar riffs are pure awesome! Was listening to my Best of the Pretenders CD just the other day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xzar_monty Posted September 20, 2022 Author Share Posted September 20, 2022 12 hours ago, Gorth said: Ah, Ronnie James Dio. Good stuff The video is also classic 1980s in the sense of what the heck does any of this have to do with what he's singing about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xzar_monty Posted September 20, 2022 Author Share Posted September 20, 2022 (edited) 14 hours ago, Gromnir said: am feeling no need to apologize for enjoying 90125, big generator and talk. Surely there's nothing to apologize for. 90125 is mostly very good. Yes is a great band. Heck, even the first non-Jon album Drama is excellent. The synth sounds are a bit cheesy, but the songwriting is first rate. Edited September 20, 2022 by xzar_monty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 An old song by my favourite Faeroese songbird 2 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majestic Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 1 No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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