tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post3575587697081761384..comments2023-10-17T08:19:58.196-04:00Comments on FreeThinke: FreeThinkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-67722740013860695612013-10-10T17:51:42.492-04:002013-10-10T17:51:42.492-04:00By the way I neglected to mention that the poem th...By the way I neglected to mention that the poem that inspired Schubert was by <i>Heinrch Heine</i>. <br /><br />Heine is generally considered to be a mediocre poet --sort of like our Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who may not be as great as Emily Dickinson or Robert Frost, but much <i>much</i> better than Edgar A. Guest, Joyce Kilmer or Ella Wheeler Wilcox -- HOWEVER Schubert's music is so fine it infuses the poetry with his great insight and gives it a tremendous power the words would not have if they had to stand on their own.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-29086950150491693142013-10-10T17:43:11.672-04:002013-10-10T17:43:11.672-04:00As for music, Alas! we may never agree, but I'...As for music, Alas! we may never agree, but I'm delighted to learn you felt an impulse to experience Onegin, even if you didn't follow through in it.<br /><br />I urge you please to listen to Der Doppelgaenger. I left a detailed post at your place on the subject. Schubert evokes in music exactly what you described there in words.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-39949027026634500612013-10-10T17:39:45.872-04:002013-10-10T17:39:45.872-04:00Apparently, FJ, there are communists, and there ar...Apparently, FJ, there are communists, and there are COMMUNISTS. A genuinely insightful person is a rarity, and much to be prized no matter what his religion, ideology, ethnicity or sexual orientation may be.<br /><br />I can't understand why any intelligent person would be a Communist, but this man seems sincere and not in it for the purpose of EXPLOITING anyone. He seems like warm, good-hearted fellow. <br /><br />I only wish he could get rid of that terrible lateral lisp. ;-)FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-73200954853150013692013-10-10T17:13:24.193-04:002013-10-10T17:13:24.193-04:00btw - do investgate the author... i highly recomme...btw - do investgate the author... i highly recommend it. ;)-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-60659891934280799782013-10-10T17:05:41.430-04:002013-10-10T17:05:41.430-04:00Onegin was a filmed version of a Metropolitan oper...Onegin was a filmed version of a Metropolitan opera performance, just as tonight's Vermeer exhibition is also a film, (but it runs less than 2 hours).<br /><br />i'm glad you appreciate the Zizek. For a Communist, he's not "half-"bad. ;)<br /><br />As for the background music... <a href="http://thersitescorner.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-sound-of-no-music-in-life-there-is.html" rel="nofollow">more here</a>. :P-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-19826156700817207662013-10-10T15:56:37.105-04:002013-10-10T15:56:37.105-04:00Hey, Andie!
So good to see you here! Please don&...Hey, Andie! <br /><br />So good to see you here! Please don't be a stranger.<br /><br />BTW, I looked at your latest post, though I haven't commented yet, and I was SO impressed.<br /><br />House & Garden really ought to do a feature on you. Your vision is marvellous, your imagination and ingenuity boundless. Your determination just PHENOMENAL.<br /><br />Many of us dream, but few have what it takes to make their dreams come true.<br /><br />You are living The Life Triumphant, believe me. <br /><br />CONGRATULATIONS!FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-35651093821418906992013-10-10T15:48:04.366-04:002013-10-10T15:48:04.366-04:00¡Allred es pura caca!¡Allred es pura caca!Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-22272894408378733512013-10-10T15:46:03.506-04:002013-10-10T15:46:03.506-04:00FT,
The background music makes all the difference....FT,<br />The background music makes all the difference. Those screeching strings in <i>Psycho</i>!<br /><br />Back when <i>Jaws</i> was being filmed, Spielberg discovered that his test audience didn't jump <b>UNTIL</b> the music was added.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-73156440821101140152013-10-10T15:23:58.071-04:002013-10-10T15:23:58.071-04:00cacca, not dacca (my bad) :( sorry.....cacca, not dacca (my bad) :( sorry.....Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00845520038316676855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-13749384622820899502013-10-10T15:23:15.828-04:002013-10-10T15:23:15.828-04:00Free thinke you just made laugh so hard! I love i...Free thinke you just made laugh so hard! I love it, "dacca phony!" That says it all and "PHEW!" Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00845520038316676855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-27078160687558778152013-10-10T15:21:04.583-04:002013-10-10T15:21:04.583-04:00I would call it "cacca phony," myself, A...I would call it "cacca phony," myself, AOW. ;-) <br /><br />Allred is a lump of "cacca," a right, and she certainly is a phony.<br /><br />Everything she gets involved with stinks to high heaven. PHEW!FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-30354834087917795182013-10-10T15:17:29.515-04:002013-10-10T15:17:29.515-04:00Do you think the film would have been successful w...Do you think the film would have been successful without Bernard Herrman's music? Very few are aware of "background music" at all, yet it has a powerful effect all the same. Movies would have been "flat, dull, stale and unprofitable" without it. I've always felt it was terribly unfair that the genius of men like Herrmann, Max Steiner, Dmitri Tiomkin, Bronislau Kaper, Miklos Rosza, Alex North, Eric Korngold, Aaron Copland (Our Town, The Heiress), and a host of others has never been celebrated the way the "stars" and the "directors" have been lionized to vulgar excess. But, such is life. Injustice is endemic to Existence, <i>nicht wahr?</i>FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-76249017772114274402013-10-10T15:06:57.378-04:002013-10-10T15:06:57.378-04:00My God Thersites, that Virginia Cherrill was certa...My God Thersites, that Virginia Cherrill was certainly beauty, wasn't she? Lovelier by far than Kim Novak, if you ask me. Too bad she born was born too early.<br /><br />By the way, my favorite character in Vertigo is Midge. Too bad Jimmy Stewart didn't have the good sense to return her affection, isn't it? But then we'd have no story, and Hitchcock would have had no film. ;-) <br /><br />That mock portrait of "Carlotta Valdez" with Midge's cute, wholesome face was wonderfully clever. I thought his reaction to it was downright churlish frankly, But then, Eros renders so many blind and witless, doesn't it?<br /><br />Ah well! What is life anyway but a kind of madness? Those who claim to be sane may be delusional.<br /><br />By the way, I LOVE your friend Zizek -- especially when he says exactly what I say without either of us having consulted the other. Definitely a validation. ;-)FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-52536218622943219602013-10-10T14:53:43.409-04:002013-10-10T14:53:43.409-04:00Onegin is a magnificent opera, Thersites. I would ...Onegin is a magnificent opera, Thersites. I would never be able to miss a production if I were lucky enough to have one staged in my bailiwick.<br /><br />Was this a FILM or a LIVE performance?<br /><br />Tchaikovsky was homosexual, but deeply closeted about it. Like may great creative geniuses he was haunted by demons. But, who knows all that may have inspired him? Such things do not matter when it comes to Art.<br /><br />What is life, anyway, but a series of conflicts with hoped-for-but-rarely-attained resolutions?<br /><br />In the most elemental sense that's what makes significant music -- a series of DISSONANCES relieved temporarily by a series of CONSONANCES. Often consonance triumphs over dissonance, but not always. When a great work ends on a tragic note, however, it is rarely sad. The idea is to produce CATHARSIS through witnessing tragedy on a grand scale. <br /><br />Wager's Tristan certainly doesn't have what-you-would-call a "happy ending," but it's BETTER than that. If you "get it" the tragedy becomes TRANSFORMATIVE -- EXALTED -- ENLIGHTENING.<br /><br />There's a much higher purpose to existence than merely being "happy." Once one accepts that, the suffering becomes a great deal easier to bear.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-89346461614580610242013-10-10T13:41:12.979-04:002013-10-10T13:41:12.979-04:00I'll have to catch it on IPad. :)I'll have to catch it on IPad. :)<br />Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-28261608068812763942013-10-10T13:39:50.318-04:002013-10-10T13:39:50.318-04:00The four hour playing time made it run past my bed...The four hour playing time made it run past my bedtime... so I decided to skip it. :(Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-30524540173041574472013-10-10T13:35:03.735-04:002013-10-10T13:35:03.735-04:00she was just a simple shopgirl who was "just ...<i>she was just a simple shopgirl who was "just following orders."<br /><br />How many times I've had women fall in love with me, believe it or not. Invariably they became angry and abusive when I did no turn out to fulfill the expectations they had conjured up in their van imaginings. I's a very common part of the human condition, I'm afraid.<br /><br />Most of the injury we suffer stems from self-deception.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://youtu.be/9MykZfESyA4" rel="nofollow">Indeed.</a> I was tempted last night to go to the local theater, as they had a special presentation of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Onegin_%28opera%29" rel="nofollow">Eugene Onegin</a>" on the marquis... perhaps a bit too autobiographical.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-59070763355073546092013-10-10T12:50:12.691-04:002013-10-10T12:50:12.691-04:00"Well, Izzie, I could never say that Gloria, ...<i>"Well, Izzie, I could never say that Gloria, herself, is weak or "lame," it is only her claim to high moral standards in the pursuit of "justice," and a noble sense of purpose that I find ludicrous in the extreme. The woman is a loud-mouthed prostitute in search of fame, fortune and personal notoriety -- an "ambulance chaser" extraordinaire. "</i> (Free Thinke, 2013)<br /><br />I stand corrected. You are right. She is not lame. My bad verbiage to explain away the fact that she does truly have low morals as you point out so correctly. Thank you.Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00845520038316676855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-1294969103016154832013-10-10T12:26:26.031-04:002013-10-10T12:26:26.031-04:00Sir, I apologize for the crudity of my vulgarity, ...Sir, I apologize for the crudity of my vulgarity, but leftwing witches and warlocks like Allred and Here's Ducky really get me all het up.<br /><br />They have destroyed the moral foundations of our society, and then they scold and foam at the mouth about how bad things have become. Well no shit. What did you expect?<br /><br />Oops! There I go again.<br /><br />Lefties want to ban guns, but they applaud all vulgar displays of libertinism and moral license, and then wonder why we are where we are.<br /><br />There are anthropological reasons for systems of morality. The flaming red progressives have destroyed our Judeo-Christian morality, but they haven't replace it with anything!<br /><br />Fools! But are they? No, we who stood by and let them jackhammer the Ten Commandments off of courthouse walls are the ones to blame.<br /><br />&*%$##$&*!!!<br /><br />Apologies,<br /><br />-- Skoal ManAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-79694046621926566082013-10-10T12:18:05.444-04:002013-10-10T12:18:05.444-04:00"I'm curious why my right wing brethren c..."I'm curious why my right wing brethren consider a publicity seeking ambulance chaser like Allred a "progressive"."<br /><br />Because she identifies herself as one, by her words, her political affiliations, and her society destroying actions.<br /><br />Next question.<br /><br />-- Warheit Stern<br /><br />(The word verificaton was 'anyhell.' Quite appropriate when addressing Ducky.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-41045919878289403582013-10-10T12:07:05.123-04:002013-10-10T12:07:05.123-04:00Ducky,
I'm glad you feel as you do about the ...Ducky,<br /><br />I'm glad you feel as you do about the biker case. Unfortunately, I think Mr. Stern may be correct in his cynical analysis though I continue to hope not.<br /><br />Allred's revolting behavior is entirely consistent with the tactics leftists have used since time immemorial to claw their way to positions of prominence and influence -- i.e. loud, abrasive, rude, aggressive, accusatory, pushy, insinuating, perverse, consummately disingenuous, and always self-aggrandizing. <br /><br />The creature strongly identifies herself as a liberal Democrat -- in other words a Marxist -- so what else are we to think? <br /><br />I see no benevolence whatsoever in anything spawned by Marx. This much vaunted desire to achieve "Social Justice" is a fraud. Everything these people have done springs from a manic -- almost maniacal -- desire to achieve DOMINANCE and DICTATORIAL POWER.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-41318301418281905682013-10-10T11:55:23.940-04:002013-10-10T11:55:23.940-04:00A charm invests a face
Imperfectly beheld.
The lad...<i><b>A charm invests a face<br />Imperfectly beheld.<br />The lady dare not lift her veil <br />For fear it be dispelled.<br /><br />But peers beyond her mesh,<br />And wishes, and denies, <br />'Lest interview annul a want<br />That image satisfies.</b></i><br /><br />~ Emily Dickinson (1839-1886)<br /><br />Thersites,<br /><br />Regarding your Hitchcock clip: I immediately thought of this poem. Ms. Dickinson was a seeress of unimaginable depth and quiet power. It seems she accurately foresaw not only the Vertigo scenario, but was able from her small, sparsely appointed bedchamber in Amherst to comprehend the deepest, darkest secrets of human behavior all over the world simply through the use of her astonishing, almost uncanny insight.<br /><br />I love Hitchcock, but didn't particularly care for his explanation. It was unnecessarily vulgar and lacked the subtlety often read into his work.<br /><br />The James Stewart character fell in love with an ILLUSION -- as so many of us do. It wasn't poor Judy's fault. She didn't intend to deceive or entrap him, she was just a simple shopgirl who was "just following orders."<br /><br />How many times I've had women fall in love with me, believe it or not. Invariably they became angry and abusive when I did no turn out to fulfill the expectations they had conjured up in their van imaginings. I's a very common part of the human condition, I'm afraid.<br /><br />Most of the injury we suffer stems from self-deception.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-57439238623066460872013-10-10T11:34:02.420-04:002013-10-10T11:34:02.420-04:00I'm sorry Skoal Mn, but while I agree with you...I'm sorry Skoal Mn, but while I agree with your assessment of the formidable Ms Allred, I don't like the use of vulgarity in your description. Please try to exercise a little restraint when stating dislike and disapproval. remarks such as yours may be basically true, but they make "our" side look bad.<br /><br />Also, I disagree that Miese -- or anybody else - DESERVES such injury. His life may be worthless as far as you are concerned, but he still has a God-given constitutional right to live it. This whole episode was a series of tragic events precipitated by lack of wisdom and self control on the part of the bikers. Their idea of 'fun" is not only despicable and indecent, it is illegitimate.<br /><br />The driver go caught in terrifying circumstances that should never have occurred. The law of self-preservation always supersedes all other considerations when one feels threatened with violence and possibly imminent death.<br /><br />What happened was terrible for all concerned, but it is the BIKERS'' fault.<br /><br />There's no point in my saying anything else about Allred. She is a disgusting MONSTER. PERIOD!FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-35278846367556319932013-10-10T11:30:54.581-04:002013-10-10T11:30:54.581-04:00I'm curious why my right wing brethren conside...I'm curious why my right wing brethren consider a publicity seeking ambulance chaser like Allred a "progressive".<br /><br />I have to inform them that this tactic of assigning the "progressive" label to any idea, any person they dislike gives a significant insight into the shallowness of their thought.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-75377424736978981532013-10-10T11:28:30.482-04:002013-10-10T11:28:30.482-04:00Beautiful acrostic, Mr. FreeThinke. I love your c...Beautiful acrostic, Mr. FreeThinke. I love your clever poetry.<br /><br />I'm afraid, Mr. Ducky, that this recidivist goon's prior rap sheet will prove inadmissible to the facts at hand. Progressives have worked hard to ensure habitual criminals are place on equal moral footing a law-abiding citizens with a clean record. Anything else would be *GASP!* <b>Unfair!</b><br /><br />He will end up getting some kind of settlement from the victim, as befits the "New Normal" in America.<br /><br />I also predict the Thug cop will be treated lightly, thanks to his gang, oops, union affiliation.<br /><br />If we still had a justice system, the dirty cop would receive double whatever sentence the other perpetrators get. <br /><br />-- Warheit SternAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com