drewfx1
 
 
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I'm betting some of them were duplicates. I know I've managed to buy stuff I already had on more than one occasion.

I guess you think that all Portuguese, Brazilian and Spanish (including Latin America) people are completely illiterate and stupid and never wrote a word in their life!
 
Very smart dude ... very smart ... even as a joke that is asinine!
 
The whole library is now in Lisbon, and i wish I knew what they plan on doing with it ... as it will probably stay in the crates for centuries and get buried by the next tsunami! Who knows. Originally mom wanted our house in Lisbon to become a museum, but that fell through with no financing, and the house had to get sold. Now, who knows what's going on ... she was finally able to get his remains taken to Lisbon and he got an honorary burial, and mom's spot next to him is reserved (she's 95 now!), but the sad thing is that not a whole lot has been done about it as far as I know. And I doubt that a government that is not known for appreciating the arts, will do anything about it, but that's as much as I know.
 
There were a lot of things in there that I wanted, like the large quantity of books on film and theater, but my mom would not allow them to be removed, or taken. So, off they go to heaven knows where ... isn't it typical ... literature ... and the arts ... get buried!
 
It's just hard to talk about those things even in a place like this, because the respect side of the arts and literature (or painting or music!) is minimal, other than the pop songs that get defended. History, has had a lot more than just songs, but no one really knows about it, or has created a conceptual theory so that their appreciation of the pop music also comes in line with the rest ... it's like the rest doesn't exist, and in my estimation that is really naive and sad. 
 
I just don't like to think that folks here keep thinking I'm just being a jerk when talking about a lot of this music and work as ART ... not just a song ... and the folks that I end up fighting, always seem to be the ones that have least ... to discuss ... about the arts themselves and their history ... you don't have to have the knowledge ... you just need the respect for the human ability that it took to "create" ... and where it has taken us after all these years ... to be stupid? Doesn't mean that punks are wrong, but most of them were fake and then some ... !!!!! That is wrong!

bapu

jamesg1213
It seems Dylan has not responded whatsoever to numerous phone calls and emails from the Swedish Academy. They've called him 'impolite and arrogant'
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...tainment-arts-37740379

See post 30. Bottom of the barrel on page juan.

Ok, I'm just linking to the story because I heard it on the radio earlier today.

Moshkito

drewfx1
 
 
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I'm betting some of them were duplicates. I know I've managed to buy stuff I already had on more than one occasion.

I guess you think that all Portuguese, Brazilian and Spanish (including Latin America) people are completely illiterate and stupid and never wrote a word in their life!
 
Very smart dude ... very smart ... even as a joke that is asinine!

 
You have an odd quality of missing the point completely for someone who is perceptive enough to know and understand anything about the arts. Or perhaps I need to be more blunt so that you might understand - reading into things and discovering things that simply aren't there but suit your agenda is not a sign of higher perceptive abilities.
 

The whole library is now in Lisbon, and i wish I knew what they plan on doing with it ... as it will probably stay in the crates for centuries and get buried by the next tsunami! Who knows. Originally mom wanted our house in Lisbon to become a museum, but that fell through with no financing, and the house had to get sold. Now, who knows what's going on ... she was finally able to get his remains taken to Lisbon and he got an honorary burial, and mom's spot next to him is reserved (she's 95 now!), but the sad thing is that not a whole lot has been done about it as far as I know. And I doubt that a government that is not known for appreciating the arts, will do anything about it, but that's as much as I know.
 
There were a lot of things in there that I wanted, like the large quantity of books on film and theater, but my mom would not allow them to be removed, or taken. So, off they go to heaven knows where ... isn't it typical ... literature ... and the arts ... get buried!

 
 
This is indeed a sad state of affairs.
 

It's just hard to talk about those things even in a place like this, because the respect side of the arts and literature (or painting or music!) is minimal, other than the pop songs that get defended. History, has had a lot more than just songs, but no one really knows about it, or has created a conceptual theory so that their appreciation of the pop music also comes in line with the rest ... it's like the rest doesn't exist, and in my estimation that is really naive and sad. 
 
I just don't like to think that folks here keep thinking I'm just being a jerk when talking about a lot of this music and work as ART ... not just a song ... and the folks that I end up fighting, always seem to be the ones that have least ... to discuss ... about the arts themselves and their history ... you don't have to have the knowledge ... you just need the respect for the human ability that it took to "create" ... and where it has taken us after all these years ... to be stupid? Doesn't mean that punks are wrong, but most of them were fake and then some ... !!!!! That is wrong!

Again, I think you are forcing your own views upon us for whatever reason. I see a place here that's full of people dedicated to the arts in various forms. The reason people give you a hard time is that you consistently act like you're the only one here who takes music or film or literature seriously, which is just preposterously silly. And the fact that you insist on believing this reflects poorly on you as a person of intellect.
 
Let me see if I can find the words - you seem to think everyone else is completely illiterate and stupid when it comes to arts.
 
Personally, I'm actually interested in what you have to say about certain things, but you completely undermine yourself and your own credibility when you constantly belittle everyone else as inferior because you've apparently convinced yourself that everyone else here only listens to Top 40 and has only ever read a book with pictures in it. 
 
And please don't respond by talking about your background as that completely misses the point - that a number of other people here also have a background in arts, literature, film and most especially music.

I know I haven't listened to the Top 40 since the late 60's / early 70's...

craigb
I know I haven't listened to the Top 40 since the late 60's / early 70's...

I'll listen to anything as long as it's good. I couldn't care less if it's 'popular', or 'obscure and different' or 'experimental', or 'a song' or 'a long cut', it just needs to sound good, to me.
 
Pretty sure that goes for everyone really...or maybe not...

jamesg1213

craigb
I know I haven't listened to the Top 40 since the late 60's / early 70's...

I'll listen to anything as long as it's good. I couldn't care less if it's 'popular', or 'obscure and different' or 'experimental', or 'a song' or 'a long cut', it just needs to sound good, to me.
 
Pretty sure that goes for everyone really...or maybe not...

I'm the same, which is why I haven't listened to the Top 40 since the late 60's / early 70's... 

craigb

jamesg1213

craigb
I know I haven't listened to the Top 40 since the late 60's / early 70's...

I'll listen to anything as long as it's good. I couldn't care less if it's 'popular', or 'obscure and different' or 'experimental', or 'a song' or 'a long cut', it just needs to sound good, to me.
 
Pretty sure that goes for everyone really...or maybe not...

I'm the same, which is why I haven't listened to the Top 40 since the late 60's / early 70's... 

So you've only listened to the bottom 20 or 30?

bapu

craigb

jamesg1213

craigb
I know I haven't listened to the Top 40 since the late 60's / early 70's...

I'll listen to anything as long as it's good. I couldn't care less if it's 'popular', or 'obscure and different' or 'experimental', or 'a song' or 'a long cut', it just needs to sound good, to me.
 
Pretty sure that goes for everyone really...or maybe not...

I'm the same, which is why I haven't listened to the Top 40 since the late 60's / early 70's... 

So you've only listened to the bottom 20 or 30?

That's why I'm here isn't it? 

drewfx1

craigb

bapu

Moshkito
To me, and perhaps because I was born in a house with 40K books of literature, 

REALLY!!!???!!!!
 
We never knew that about you.

Wow! 40 of them, eh?  I wonder what they could all be...
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Dang!  That's only 10 and he has 40 K books???  

I'm betting some of them were duplicates. I know I've managed to buy stuff I already had on more than one occasion.

UCSB spent something like three years cataloguing the Spanish Literature section ... you can ask them ... but I doubt, from experience ... that you would find too many duplicates ... and I spent a lot of time there. There was a reason why so many Graduate Students spent so much time at our house ... and we're talking every day non-stop from as far away as you can imagine! Maybe if one of you can define "scholar", and "scholarship", something like this, and helping students learn more ... might be appreciated by people that can only read one thing ... comic books! Just like Craig's jokes!
 
That's what happens when small minds, simply can not accept/understand and believe that there are other things out there ... the kind of jokes that are not even funny ... maybe I should tell them to head towards the bathroom and start telling Polish jokes again?
 
Boring!

I just gave away over 3,000 of my own books in June before I moved.  No choice, I couldn't afford to keep storing them in boxes that weighed about 125 pounds each in a storage unit that was costing over $220 a month!  As for comic books, if I'd had any to save, I bet they'd be worth a lot more than the books!
 
By the way, did you hear about the scholar who shot an arrow into the air and missed?