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Post by ryan on Jun 22, 2008 13:06:45 GMT
iPods are awesome. Before I got one I had a Sony Walkman (an mp3 one, not a tape one) and was totally against them, but it died and a refurbed iPod was the cheepest option for space. It's ace. Album art is a big plus. Love it.
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Post by Nikos on Jun 23, 2008 9:49:22 GMT
my guiltiest pleasure?
hmmm
STRYPER.
Late 80's/Early 90's spandex clad hair metal band.
actually, I'm not guilty about it at all!
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Post by isador21 on Jun 23, 2008 20:32:09 GMT
I'd be ...
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Post by hyperborean on Jun 24, 2008 14:03:26 GMT
...Chicago based punk-rock band The Lawrence Arms. Why? You might call them emo if you heard them. I don't think so... but you might. What pleasure? They wrote an album inspired by the novel, "The Master And Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Major props for that marriage - one of the best bands to come out of Chicago, and one of the best novels of Russian literature I've ever read. ...but you might call them emo. haha
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Post by hyperborean on Jun 24, 2008 15:09:46 GMT
A guilty pleasure no more! ...from Wikipedia:
The Master And Margarita
Allusions/references from other works:
Various authors and musicians have credited The Master and Margarita as inspiration for certain works.
Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses, was influenced by Bulgakov's masterwork. It is claimed that Mick Jagger was inspired by the novel in writing the song "Sympathy for the Devil". [1], [2] The grunge band Pearl Jam were influenced by the novel's confrontation between Yeshua Ha-Nozri and Pontius Pilate for the song, "Pilate" on their 1998 album "Yield". The Lawrence Arms based their album The Greatest Story Ever Told on the book and several of its themes. The Franz Ferdinand song "Love and Destroy" was based on a scene where Margarita flies over Moscow on her way to the Walpurgis Night Ball. The Canadian group The Tea Party also were inspired by this book when they wrote their song "The Master and Margarita." Arlie Carstens sings the line "Bulgakov to Woland's crowd," on the Juno song "The French Letter" from their album A Future lived in Past Tense. Elefant, a New York City-based group, released The Black Magic Show in April 2006. The title and first track reference Satan's magic show. Brakes's song "Margarita" from the album The Beatific Visions was inspired by the novel. The German composer York Höller's opera Der Meister und Margarita was premiered in 1989 at the Paris Opéra and released on CD in 2000. Jolie Holland has said that the song "Amen" from her album Escondida was inspired by the book (Margarita's flight), and that she would devote an album to it in the future. The 1975 cult classic Rocky Horror Picture Show is sometimes noted for its similarities to the book. There is a complete overlap of personality between the redheaded witch/maid Gella and the East European accented Magenta, the maid of Dr. Frank N Furter – who, like Woland, aims to cause chaos and break taboos (sexual taboos, in the movie). Frank N. Furter's servant Riff Raff echoes Behemoth and Azazello, while the character Janet echoes Margarita – she gets her "tensions relieved" by adultery, just like this "saves" Margarita from a cold marriage. It may also be argued that the anarchic, absurd "mood" of the movie is the same as the mood of "Master and Margarita". While it is quite possible there has been an inspiration, this has never been confirmed by the movie's creators. Surrealist artist H. R. Giger named a 1976 painting of his after the novel. The painting was later featured on the cover of Danzig's 1992 album Danzig III: How the Gods Kill. In the videogame Grand Theft Auto 4, a mission is entitled "The Master and The Molotov", in which you kill a Russian man named Mikhail.
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Post by Nikos on Jun 24, 2008 16:46:22 GMT
...Chicago based punk-rock band The Lawrence Arms. Why? You might call them emo if you heard them. I don't think so... but you might. What pleasure? They wrote an album inspired by the novel, "The Master And Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov. Major props for that marriage - one of the best bands to come out of Chicago, and one of the best novels of Russian literature I've ever read. ...but you might call them emo. haha Man, the Lawrence Arms are AWESOME! (and from what I understand, one of Jamie PRR's favorite bands) what is Emo anyway? Subgenre's = gash.
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Post by Nikos on Jun 24, 2008 16:47:12 GMT
thankfully, I'm not. but then again, I don't bang on about how great my band that doesn't exist yet is going to be.
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Post by ryan on Jun 24, 2008 23:03:04 GMT
now now, play nice.
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Post by Nikos on Jun 25, 2008 16:10:32 GMT
*ahem* yes. apologies.
just my usual chipper self, you see....
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Post by isador21 on Jun 25, 2008 16:20:23 GMT
thankfully, I'm not. but then again, I don't bang on about how great my band that doesn't exist yet is going to be. It will either be great or never exist Being bad isn't a part of the options ...
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Post by hyperborean on Jun 25, 2008 17:13:58 GMT
thankfully, I'm not. but then again, I don't bang on about how great my band that doesn't exist yet is going to be. It will either be great or never exist Being bad isn't a part of the options ... Nice. Very... Henry Rollins of you. Not trying to take credit away from what you said, it just seems like something he'd say.
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Post by ryan on Jun 25, 2008 20:54:06 GMT
*ahem* yes. apologies. just my usual chipper self, you see.... i expect nothing less!
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