Am I officially smarter than most people because I listen to classical music?

[TVC15]

Every time I read one of his posts, I just can't help but say, "Oh Himuro, I bet you can't tell Brahms from Beethoven!" and then I sip some wine and put on a few monocles.

I mean, I just picture it like, I'm in my apartment in the suburbs listening to Debussy, and Himumu is out getting crunk, no doubt on foot, harassing women by yelling into the Taco Bell drive-thru window as he also demands tacos to consume because he is stoned, and desires some "munchies" to have as he listens to his violent rap music.  Let me be the first to tell you, Himumu, the only way you'll be seeing any engorged vaginas tonight is if you hack them up yourself. I don't particularly like putting down other people to make myself feel better, but I also don't like lying, so I'm just going to hit post before I feel the urge to continue this sentence.  Just remember, Himuro, too much purple drink means that you might actually believe the framerate in GTA4 is acceptable, and then you die.

[MrAngryFace]

lol

[Vizzys]

http://rapidshare.com/files/75304858/090_-_Family_Matters_Second_Movement.mp3.html

[Beezy]

PURPLE DRANK

[Van Cruncheon]

you're smarter than himu at the VERY least simply because he likes sega

[Himu]

My e-feelings are hurt

[Van Cruncheon]

i'll make your e-butt e-hurt

[Himu]

e-cum is e-delicious

[Himu]

i'm never talking to you ever again tvc you're on ignore

[Ichirou]

I love Sega and I'm at least as smart as TVC.

[TVC15]

Oh well, at least Himumu has experienced the pleasures of Agent Scully, which is more than I can say about certain upstanding forum members.

I love Sega and I'm at least as smart as TVC.

You support this:



NUFF SAID

EXCELSIOR!

[Himu]

lalalala can't read your post becauase you're on ignore laal

[Phoenix Dark]

Why listen to shitty math music when you can measure ya dikk, no homo
http://forums.sohh.com/showthread.php?t=943720&page=3

[Himu]

i am serious when i say my e-feelings are hurt i can't believe he said this about me i know i'm not the brightest person on this forum but i have e-feelings too

you're no longer my internet freidn

[TVC15]

Why listen to shitty math music when you can measure ya dikk, no homo
http://forums.sohh.com/showthread.php?t=943720&page=3

to that I respond

(Image removed from quote.) this shiit is high key homo

[Himu]

smh @ this thread

[Phoenix Dark]

When i was 14 ma dikk wuz like 7.5 inches, b. (Image removed from quote.)

But...now im 16 and ma dikk is only 8 inches....

half a damn inch in two years

wtf (Image removed from quote.)

 

who remembers how big their dick was at age 14?

[Ichirou]

Oh well, at least Himumu has experienced the pleasures of Agent Scully, which is more than I can say about certain upstanding forum members.

I love Sega and I'm at least as smart as TVC.

You support this:

http://goldenaxe.classicgaming.gamespy.com/daimages/ps2cover.jpg

NUFF SAID

EXCELSIOR!

Hmm, no, I don't.  Just because I love Sega doesn't mean I have to support everything they do.

[Himu]

[TVC15]

Oh well, at least Himumu has experienced the pleasures of Agent Scully, which is more than I can say about certain upstanding forum members.

I love Sega and I'm at least as smart as TVC.

You support this:

http://goldenaxe.classicgaming.gamespy.com/daimages/ps2cover.jpg

NUFF SAID

EXCELSIOR!

Hmm, no, I don't.  Just because I love Sega doesn't mean I have to support everything they do.

You know what they say about the still-hardcore amongst sega fans, right?

[Smooth Groove]

Am I officially smarter than most people because I listen to classical music?

Probably.  I listened and played classical music and many people say that I'm a fucking genius.  

[Himu]

what would happen if knuckles stuck his knuckles up YOUR ASS?

[Beezy]

I've been taking an intro to music class at school this semester. Opera isn't as bad as I thought it was.

[Himu]

a black man giving cred to opera............................

[TVC15]

I've been taking an intro to music class at school this semester. Opera isn't as bad as I thought it was.

I'm easing into that.  Aside from like Wagner, I am only trying bits of operas by composers that I know I like, like Ligeti 

[Beezy]

a black man giving cred to opera............................

I'm easing into that.  Aside from like Wagner, I am only trying bits of operas by composers that I know I like, like Ligeti 

Ride of the Valkyrie by Richard Wagner

[Smooth Groove]

TVC, would you watch a performance of the complete Ring cycle?  It's like longer than 12 hrs.  

[TVC15]

a black man giving cred to opera............................

I'm easing into that.  Aside from like Wagner, I am only trying bits of operas by composers that I know I like, like Ligeti 

Ride of the Valkyrie by Richard Wagner

Die Walkure!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

TVC, would you watch a performance of the complete Ring cycle?  It's like longer than 12 hrs.

I can't confirm since that sort of thing is virgin territory to me, but I would be interested in checking out opera, and where better to start than Wagner?

I did watch Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen last night!

[Himu]

I liked playing classic music in band but whatever.

[TVC15]

But it's not stoned Taco Bell "Let's rape some white women" music, right?

[Himu]

no what music would that be

[TVC15]

no what music would that be

Whatever you wish you could be listening to on your iPod when you get crunk on purple drank and your so-called "marijuana."

[Phoenix Dark]

REAL MUSIC

[youtube=425,350]hL5cun2kQ6M&[/youtube]

[Himu]

i don't have an iPod

[TVC15]

In all seriousness, this is probably closer to Himuro's speed:

[youtube=425,350]Qf8Y9dEqvUM[/youtube]

You know I <3 you Himumu.

[Beezy]

Get out of here PD!
[youtube=425,350]vPcnGrie__M[/youtube]

[Smooth Groove]

Why do nigs try to buy food at the drive-thru window when it says drive-thru? 

[Phoenix Dark]

this is MY type of classical

[youtube=425,350]imrfo-uRjcE[/youtube]

[Himu]

love can never be bought, hence why tvc has given me his love with

[Himu]

this is MY type of classical

[youtube=425,350]imrfo-uRjcE[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]o09L-hkrzhw[/youtube]

[Phoenix Dark]

great music, shitty film. sort of like Blade Runner

Vangelis

[Mandark]

Classical + suburbs makes you comfortably middle class.

To go upper class, you have to start making oblique statements about the music, preferably in the form of "I find most of [Classical Composer]'s work to be... just so [Misapplied Adjective], don't you?"

Sort of like the ironic gnome rule.

[CajoleJuice]

great music, shitty film. sort of like Blade Runner

Vangelis

I kinda feel the opposite.

[Smooth Groove]

great music, shitty film. sort of like Blade Runner

Vangelis

I want to get my hands on this.  

[TVC15]

Dude, Ligeti will BLOW YOUR ASS OUT OF THE WATER

[youtube=425,350]jBT__4ldjAs[/youtube]

 

If there is music more awesome than that, it would probably make someone's head explode.  Like this:

[youtube=425,350]HY-03vYYAjA[/youtube]

[Beezy]

[youtube=425,350]x1Vm6_mn4ME[/youtube]
Bach

[Oblivion]

Ride of the Valkyries is pretty cool, but it's all about Carmen. 

[Beezy]

[youtube=425,350]VdhRYMY6IEc[/youtube]

Erlkönig by Schubert

[Mandark]

[youtube=425,350]rZ_w_ZLmqAU[/youtube]

I love this, but I think it also shows how my appreciation of classical music is completely warped by Tim Burton and Bugs Bunny.

[Oblivion]

I love this, but I think it also shows how my appreciation of classical music is completely warped by Tim Burton and Bugs Bunny.

[recursivelyenumerable]

you'll be even more superior if you listen to

Alban Berg: Wozzeck, Lulu : I think the Boulez versions are good
Shostakovich : Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk/Katerina Ismailova.  here's a nice 1936 Pravda review (rumored to have been written by Stalin) since you're into that sort of thing:

With the general cultural development of our country there grew also the necessity for good music. At no time and in no other place has the composer had a more appreciative audience. The people expect good songs, but also good instrumental works, and good operas.

Certain theatres are presenting to the new culturally mature Soviet public Shostakovich's opera Lady MacBeth as an innovation and achievement. Musical criticism, always ready to serve, has praised the opera to the skies, and given it resounding glory. The young composer, instead of hearing serious criticism, which could have helped him in his future work, hears only enthusiastic compliments.

From the first minute, the listener is shocked by deliberate dissonance, by a confused stream of sound. Snatches of melody, the beginnngs of a musical phrase, are drowned, emerge again, and disappear in a grinding and squealing roar. To follow this "music" is most difficult; to remember it, impossible.

Thus it goes, practically throughout the entire opera. The singing on the stage is replaced by shrieks. If the composer chances to come upon the path of a clear and simple melody, he throws himself back into a wilderness of musical chaos - in places becoming cacaphony. The expression which the listener expects is supplanted by wild rhythm. Passion is here supposed to be expressed by noise. All this is not due to lack of talent, or lack of ability to depict strong and simple emotions in music. Here is music turned deliberately inside out in order that nothing will be reminiscent of classical opera, or have anything in common with symphonic music or with simple and popular musical language accessible to all. This music is built on the basis of rejecting opera - the same basis on which "Leftist" Art rejects in the theatre simplicity, realism, clarity of image, and the unaffected spoken word - which carries into the theatre and into music the most negative features of "Meyerholdism" infinitely multiplied. Here we have "leftist" confusion instead of natural human music. The power of good music to infect the masses has been sacrificed to a petty-bourgeois, "formalist" attempt to create originality through cheap clowning. It is a game of clever ingenuity that may end very badly.

The danger of this trend to Soviet music is clear. Leftist distortion in opera stems from the same source as Leftist distortion in painting, poetry, teaching, and science. Petty-bourgeois "innovations" lead to a break with real art, real science and real literature.

The composer of Lady MacBeth was forced to borrow from jazz its nervous, convulsive, and spasmodic music in order to lend "passion" to his characters. While our critics, including music critics, swear by the name of socialist realism, the stage serves us, in Shostakovich's creation, the coarsest kind of naturalism. He reveals the merchants and the people monotonously and bestially. The predatory merchant woman who scrambles into the possession of wealth through murder is pictured as some kind of "victim" of bourgeois society. Leskov's story has been given a significance which it does not possess.

And all this is coarse, primitive and vulgar. The music quacks, grunts, and growls, and suffocates otself in order to express the love scenes as naturalistically as possible. And "love" is smeared all over the opera in the most vulgar manner. The merchant's double bed occupies the the central position on the stage. On this bed all "problems" are solved. In the same coarse, naturalistic style is shown the death from poisoning and the flogging - both practically on stage.

The composer apparently never considered the problem of what the Soviet audience looks for and expects in music. As though deliberately, he scribbles down his music, confusing all the sounds in such a way that his music would reach only the effete "formalists" who had lost all their wholesome taste. He ignored the demand of Soviet culture that all coarseness and savagery be abolished from every corner of Soviet life. Some critics call the glorification of the merchants' lust a satire. But there is no question of satire here. The composer has tried, with all the musical and dramatic means at his command, to arouse the sympathy of the spectators for the coarse and vulgar inclinations and behavior of the merchant woman Katerina Ismailova.

Lady MacBeth is having great success with bourgeois audiences abroad. Is it not becuase the opera is non-political and confusing that they praise it? Is it not explained by the fact that it tickles the perverted taste of the bourgeois with its fidgety, neurotic music?

Our theatres have expended a great deal of energy on giving Shostakovich's opera a thorough presentation. The actors have shown exceptional talent in dominating the noise, the screaming, and the roar of the orchestra. With their dramatic action, they have tried to reinforce the weakness of the melodic content. Unfortunately, this has served only to bring out the opera's vulgar features more vividly. The talented acting deserves gratitude, the wasted efforts - regret.

[Madrun Badrun]

The song that made me want to listen to classical

[youtube=425,350]83PDO_iLn_E[/youtube]

[BlueTsunami]

GTA4 trash talking is what broke the camels back for HIMU and TVC? I thought, after the EB SHENMUE CRUSADES, that Himu could withstand all trolling. HIMUMUMUMUMUMU

[tiesto]

Just remember, Himuro, too much purple drink means that you might actually believe the framerate in GTA4 is acceptable, and then you die.

OMG