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phillyfan26 said:


Hmmm ... well, trying to remember the songs ...

I re-wrote David Bowie's "Heroes" as a song about Holden Caulfield in my English class. That went pretty well.

I re-wrote Flight of the Conchords' Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros as a song about World War I propaganda in my history class. That killed everyone.

I re-wrote U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday as a song about The Scarlet Letter in my English class. However, I fucked up some of the playing during it and had some more serious lyrics towards the end. It went alright, but not nearly as well as the others.
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It always neat when the class can see your craft and your art. I'm glad you got to experience that. :up:
 
I think I was ESTJ. I think I was blatantly E and J, but markedly close on S and T, to the point where there was essentially no difference. I could just as easily, on a different day have taken it and been an ENFJ.
 
unico said:
next time YOUTUBE!!!! i d on't care if you wear a freakin mask, that sort of awesomeness needs to be posted.
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The FOTC was the best one. I didn't actually bring the guitar in on that one, because it's too difficult to rap and play at the same time without losing my timing. So, I recorded the guitar on my shitty microphone and put it on a CD, brought it on, and rapped over it.

I also did the instrumental part where they shuffle back and forth, only did it while sitting in a chair, which ended up hilarious, as I was sliding the chair abruptly on each chord change.
 
Screwtape2 said:


I think I would play music during sex. That way that music was "ours." Everytime I hear that I remember that moment. By the way if anyone was wondering I would play Julee Cruise. :drool:

I was just wondering if anything like that stuck out for you. :)
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I don't think that makes the music "yours." At least it didn't for me, though I sometimes smirk when I hear simon and garfunkle, I mean that guy was a huge tool.
 
Screwtape2 said:
It always neat when the class can see your craft and your art. I'm glad you got to experience that. :up:
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All of those were songs that were about school subjects, too, so, out of a desperate attempt not to take an assignment seriously, I made them humorous, though still to the point.

No one's actually ever read any of my real lyrics, or heard my real songs.
 
Varitek said:


I don't think that makes the music "yours." At least it didn't for me, though I sometimes smirk when I hear simon and garfunkle, I mean that guy was a huge tool.
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It might make the music theirs. He's a romantic. He's going to eventually, hopefully, find a kindred spirit. Everyone's different. :shrug:
 
Dalton said:



As someone who had a wild time being single and also has a very satisfying marriage, I have to say that I am VERY worried about your long term happiness. You simply put too much on a pedestal, be it sex or love or women. The fact of the matter is that sometimes sex is an unbelievable connecting moment with another person. Other times its simply a lot of fun. Sometimes romance seems like it can change the color of the sky other times it seems like the hardest thing in the world.

BUT the big thing I am concerned about is how you talk about women. I love my wife. We have been together for 8 years. We have been married for 5 years in May, but the simple fact of the matter is that my wife has strengths and weaknesses just like every other person you meet. If you can't see a woman you are romantic with in that light, then you are objectifying her as much as a man who only looks at her for sex. You have to learn how to let people simply be who they are.

That's much more satisfying anyways. I love the fact that I know my wife and she knows me. We are at the same time impressed and not impressed with one another. We are partners.
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Women deserve pedestals though. Varitek deserves a pedestal in some man's eye some day. If you are special you deserve to be looked at in a special way. It is the least you can give them for the wonders they bring. Women deserve that kind of respect. :shrug:
 
Varitek said:


I don't think that makes the music "yours." At least it didn't for me, though I sometimes smirk when I hear simon and garfunkle, I mean that guy was a huge tool.
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I remember hearing Lakeside's 'All The Way Live" or something like that waaaaay back when. I haven't heard it since :happy: Yeah, that guy was a tool too.
 
No spoken words said:


Eh, not gonna bore you to death by elaborating. I'd just like to find a middle ground between how I used to view love, and how I am now.
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I am cynnical/unromantic/happily single now, but I had a long period of intense romance that I then got sick of and hence my current condition. And at this point almost a year after the relationship ended I'd be happy to date, even to get serious except 1) I am currently having lots of fun catching guys, as alluded to before and 2) I am graduating and bailing in 3 months so no point really. I hated long distance.
 
phillyfan26 said:


All of those were songs that were about school subjects, too, so, out of a desperate attempt not to take an assignment seriously, I made them humorous, though still to the point.

No one's actually ever read any of my real lyrics, or heard my real songs.
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It was still "you" in those assignments so it was your art. :)
 
Screwtape2 said:


Women deserve pedestals though. Varitek deserves a pedestal in some man's eye some day. If you are special you deserve to be looked at in a special way. It is the least you can give them for the wonders they bring. Women deserve that kind of respect. :shrug:
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Why don't you ask the women here if they would like to be put up on a pedestal by the person she loves or if she would like to be loved and accepted for the person she REALLY is not the person you wish she was. Ask them.
 
Screwtape2 said:


Women deserve pedestals though. Varitek deserves a pedestal in some man's eye some day. If you are special you deserve to be looked at in a special way. It is the least you can give them for the wonders they bring. Women deserve that kind of respect. :shrug:
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He's not saying they shouldn't be put on a pedestal, but he's worried about your definition of them being on a pedestal.
 
Screwtape2 said:


Women deserve pedestals though. Varitek deserves a pedestal in some man's eye some day. If you are special you deserve to be looked at in a special way. It is the least you can give them for the wonders they bring. Women deserve that kind of respect. :shrug:
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As a woman, I have to say that there's gotta be a line between respect and illusion. I'm well aware of my own faults, that's perhaps why I put so much pressure on myself. If some else had me on a pedestal my insecurities would take over because I'd feel like I could never meet those expectations, thus really turning the relationship downwards.

I'd be much more inclined to engage with a man who saw me for who I am. One who did not see me as perfect, but rather as imperfect, and accepted my imperfections and limitations, which are really what make us so human. I'd appreciate someone who saw the human in me, as opposed to the goddess in me.
 
unico said:


As a woman, I have to say that there's gotta be a line between respect and illusion. I'm well aware of my own faults, that's perhaps why I put so much pressure on myself. If some else had me on a pedestal my insecurities would take over because I'd feel like I could never meet those expectations, thus really turning the relationship downwards.

I'd be much more inclined to engage with a man who saw me for who I am. One who did not see me as perfect, but rather as imperfect, and accepted my imperfections and limitations, which are really what make us so human. I'd appreciate someone who saw the human in me, as opposed to the goddess in me.
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Snap.
 
Dalton said:



Why don't you ask the women here if they would like to be put up on a pedestal by the person she loves or if she would like to be loved and accepted for the person she REALLY is not the person you wish she was. Ask them.
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It is them. It is a celebration of them. It isn't who I wish they were it is who they actually are. It is pedestal of what they are. :)
 
Dalton said:



I've got a pimp slap for you.


Hey Vtek, "FUCK YOU!"

That's for your wire spoilers last night.
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i'm sorry i didn't know you read the thread when you weren't around. and didn't you say you'd watched it? or was that nsw?
 
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