quote of the day

[rone]

"I say, follow your dreams!  Even if they're about a giant spider with your father's head and he keeps stealing your penis."

        — Dean Venture

Comments

Go Team Venture!!!

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

One needs to be a bit venturous every day!!!

[thedarkages]

I've always liked the third movement of the Ninth. Pity Gracenote doesn't realize that it's by Beethoven.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Well, the performing artist is displayed and not the composer, as is the case with the popular music i have. There is some argument over whether classical music should be displayed the same way as popular music. mmcirvin or iayork might know more.

[vrbtm.livejournal.com]

I was just watching that. Lovely.

[iayork.livejournal.com]

If you use a Mac, and post with XJournal, there's a simple enough workaround. I use a little applescript to swap in the correct form for my classical music.

---------------
tell application "iTunes"
set This_Artist to artist of current track
set this_album to album of current track
set This_Composer to composer of current track
end tell
activate
set Track_Info to This_Composer & " - " & this_album & " - " & This_Artist

activate application "Xjournal"
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Xjournal"
-- GUI Scripting statements:
set value of text field 2 of window 1 to Track_Info

end tell
end tell

---------------------------------

In my case I save the name of classical works as "album", but you could just switch album to grouping or whatever.

I save the script in the script menu, so it appears in the menubar pulldown.

GUI scripting needs to be enabled.

[erikred.livejournal.com]

"That won't work on me, silly willy."

Mind you, it has to be in Killinger's voice.

[urbeatle.livejournal.com]

That was actually pretty good. I've been worried; the season so far has been OK shows, lots of interesting details, but not their best work. Episode 4 was much funnier, and promises some kind of conflict between The Monarch and Hatred.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

My reaction is the opposite... the opener had me rolling, and any episode with Dr. Killinger or Col. Gathers in it is a plus. Ep 4 was merely OK; the killer midgets can go away any day now, and i knew exactly what would happen with the microexplosive once Dr. Venture appeared in the jacuzzi scene.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

1) What about us Windows lusers?

2) I am uncomfortable treating classical music differently. Don't the musicians deserve to be listed? What about the conductor? Should the composer have chosen a more easily recognizable title for their work than Symphony/Concerto/Sonata and a number, despite the fact that the composer couldn't possibly have foreseen that centuries down the road, obsessive music fans would argue over nomenclature like their lives depended on it?

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

I am uncomfortable treating classical music differently.

So, you chromasort all your records, then?

[zeigen.livejournal.com]

I agree with you: Timtum & Kevin, not very funny. Season 3 Episodes 1 through 3, all brilliant and they can keep doing background stories all season long as far as I'm concerned. Also, the Sgt.-Hatred-is-a-pedophile bit is truly unfunny.

21 cracked me up with this line though: "Uh! Ah, I reopened my pancreas! I'm bleeding internally!" And the Pac-Man imitations? Gold.

[pootrootbeer.livejournal.com]

I tag my classical music in iTunes thusly:

Artist: (Soloist Name, if Deserved /) Conductor Name / Performing Group Name
Title: Title of Work: Mvt#. Title (or tempo marking) of movement
Composer: Composer (duh)
Album: Label and Catalog Number, just like pretentious journalists refer to classical recordings by
Year: copyright date of recording (original recording, if remastered for CD)

Except for showcase works like concerti, soloists usually do not deserve to be credited. Their egos are too big already.

Thanks for a much needed laugh.

[asienieizi.livejournal.com]

I'm so using that quote.

[coldsleep.livejournal.com]

Yes. Oh my god yes.