rrmanless wrote:Alright, a "little" far-fetched.

You "use" an "awful lot" of "quotes."

Salut, quote-using new guy! I do not know if you are of the serious!

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rrmanless wrote:P.S. What's the magic # of posts I need to have before I'm no longer considered the "new guy". You wrote that, endofanera. That's why I put it in qoutes. Hope that's an acceptable use.

I'd say 100 posts and you'd be considered a novice.

200, and you'd be apparoaching an amateur.

You need a bit of time too.

If you want to emphasize text, use italics just as if you were writing by hand. The option is at the top of the screen when you make a post.

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Hi,

I was only kidding with what I said.

I'd say 100 posts and you'd be considered a novice.

200, and you'd be apparoaching an amateur.

You need a bit of time too.

The first two lines were supposed to be silly. The third was just adding to make it more ridiculous. People don't really care how long you have been a member really, for all we know, you could have been reading the forum for years. In fact, I read the forum for a long time before joining.

The reason I replied was because I was bored. Sorry. I do have opinions on MP3, etc. but what I had to offer didn't really fit in here.

Remember never to take anything too seriously.

geiginni wrote:Given my penchant for Bartok

hey, geiginni... do you like bartok's early stuff? i love his 2 rhapsodies above all (for piano and 1 violin)

edit: just looked them up and they're not so early

one plus as far as mp3s/etc. go is that they can make it easier to mentally organize one's collection. personally i have so many goddamn recordings laying around, sometiems i can't even remember what there is to listen to. it's nice when you have an ipod in your palm and are able to sift quickly through the better music in your collection with your right thumb. just like that.

also, i've found that in many instances i have a greater emotional response to certain music while walkign about the world at large. sometimes i don't wanna be sitting down or just standing around my apartment while hearing great music. sometimes i want a change of scenery that'll alter the way i hear things. (this is sort of like the difference in context between watching a movie alone and watching it with someone else; almost all the time, when i watch a movie with someone else, i see it differently.) in lieu of seeing a band live, walking around while listening to their album is the best thing.

but vinyl is great. there's no way i'd part with mine. i'm just not overly precious about it in the same way that it wont kill me to see a film on DVD if the transfer is up to snuff.

shagboy wrote:

geiginni wrote:Given my penchant for Bartok

hey, geiginni... do you like bartok's early stuff? i love his 2 rhapsodies above all (for piano and 1 violin)

edit: just looked them up and they're not so early

Hey there,

Posting a little drunk right now, not sure how to respond....I'm listening to LV Beethoven's Op. 132 (15th) string quartet, 3rd mvmt. right now.... so I'm out of context...

Early Bartok is kinda a mix of R. Strauss and Debussy (the Debussy is fine, as exemplified in his Two Pieces for Orchestra; the Strauss influence isn't my cup o' tea). Probably reflected in "Wooden Prince".

I really like "Miraculous Mandarin". "Bluebeard...." is magnificient, especially considering I don't care for opera. The 2nd Violin Concerto...the 3rd Piano Concerto...Allegro Barbaro...Dance Suite...Hungarian Sketches (played on Cimbalom). Concerto for Orchestra, of course...

Bartok is just incredible all around. I can't think of a 20th century composer that was a original and developmental while at the same time as absorbed with and acknowleging/appreciative of the past. Everything he wrote is just about top notch....cohesive, moving, and relavent. As a person and human being, he seemed to be without fault. Open minded, independant, and a true humanitarian (he helped found the first Unitarian church in Budapest). I really, truely love the music of Bela Bartok.

Besides pehaps, Debussy, Stravinsky, and late Dvorak chamber music; Bartok is at the top of my list of composers. Though the LvB late quartets and the Haydn late quartets (op's. 71, 74, 76, and 77) are top notch too. (Thanks again, Cap'n Reverb!)...

Cheers...

geiginni wrote:
Given my penchant for Bartok, Kodaly, Paprikash, Cimbalom, gypsy music, hot steamy baths, and women that don't shave their pits, I'd probably pick Budapest for my fake location....or possibly Prague.

Cheers!

WTF: You're more likely to meet a non-pit shaving woman in the US than in Hungary or the CzR. Central European women are very self-conscious and spend a ton of time with all kinds of cosmetic shit extending way beyond shaving. Where the did this retarded stereotype come from?

rrmanless wrote:Anyway... Any thoughts? Anything productive to add?

No, almost never. As you spend some more time here, you'll see that I rarely add anything of substance.

rrmanless wrote:P.S. What's the magic # of posts I need to have before I'm no longer considered the "new guy".

Probably the number that it takes for you to know how to use the quote...

endofanera wrote:new guy

... and italics and other posting functions and not get angered by a little gentle ribbing.

Salut, still new guy! Welcome!