Chris: What's your five fav books and authors?

I'm embarrassed that a list doesn't shoot straight to mind. But I'll say

"The Giver" by Lois Lowry

"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

"The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Remarque

Ranking of Sigur Ros albums, details please

AHHH!! MK! I was...err...just giving your mazzerati a test drive. to err...make sure it was still working.

 

:lol:

 

Milica: what do you hate to do most in life?

 

Oh, this is a tough question.

I try not to hate anything. My life is cool. :p

I dislike it when I have to lie. (Not always, there are occasions.) I dislike doing pointless things which I don't enjoy (duh :P).

 

Umm... I hate realising how I could've done something, which was very important to me, better than I did do it... only because I was too lazy, a last-minuter or not concentrated. If that counts. It's not really "doing" anything.

Do you hate someone Milica?

I tend to say sometimes "I hate him/her" or "I hate him/her for doing [...]", but no, I don't really hate anyone.

do you agree with school team work?

In my first 6 years of school I mostly disliked any type of school team work because I didn't get along very well with other kids and I was the one doing most of the work. In 7th and 8th grade we barely had any team work... I only remember the one time when I made a short PowerPoint presentation with my best friend for our geometry class, that was awesome. And this year I haven't done any team work yet but I am supposed to prepare some problems for our upcoming physics class, with the already mentioned best friend.

I hope I got what you meant, it may be different here.

Anyway, it sucks when it's compulsory, but if get to choose, it's cool. I think the teachers should notice what the kids are interested in and think about what the kids could be interested in and allow them to do projects/team work based on that.

Do you have good grades?

Here, the grades are from 1 to 5 with 5 being the highest. I have only 2 fours so far in this school year, all of the others are fives. During my earlier school years almost all of my grades were fives, too.

Holy shit, if it wasn't by homeworks etc my grades would be better

Do you like mexican food?

What's your fav food? -international-

One of the things I have to improve in my life is a list of different food I've eaten... I've never eaten Mexican food. :sad:

 

International fav food? You mean something people around the world eat? That'd be chocolate (especially Milka chocolate :wacky:), cereal, apples, and pizza. Yes, I am very uncreative about that.

Ranking of Sigur Ros albums, details please

5. Von

Its actually really interesting, and many of the tracks are comparable to stuff by brian eno, but people seem to dismiss it really quickly. It doesn't have nearly the wholesomeness of the others, but in some ways its unfair to compare it at all.

 

4. ( )

If perfection is the sun, imagine the inner rocky planets being sigur ros albums, and the gaseous planets being everything else. So if () is Mars, its fourth from the sun, but still really awesome and miles ahead of everything else. The first four tracks are soul-churning and popplagio is their most intense track, my only critique is that the second half gets to be really monotonous. While they're all great songs on their own right, alafoss and daolagio could've been replaced by something more unique, to keep the flow.

 

3. Meo suo i eyrum vid spilum endalaust.

Their most accessible album, and while the first half replaces is bouncy and poppy for sigur ros, everything from meo suo to all alright is unfiltered beauty.

 

2. Takk...

Probably the greatest two song opening combo in their repertoire. but the first four songs in general are just a shower of twinkling awe-inspiring lights. Only possible criticism is the repetitive sound of the vocals near the end, such as in gong and milano. Still though, it closes brilliantly. On a side-note, I love how all of their albums sort of leave you hanging at the end. at the end of heysatan and all alright I can't help expecting to hear that final resolving chord, but it never sounds.

 

1. Agaetis Byrjun

Brilliance. This album doesn't just introduce bowed guitar and orchestral arrangements for the band, it keeps innovating and surprising you to the very end. You go from the bliss of svefn-g-englar into palindromic strings, and then plunge into darkness with misshapen symbols and moaning brass. Then out of nowhere, a harmonica and electric piano ending with piano and the roar of what sounds like an airplane taking off. Oh yeah, and the next two tracks are soul-crushingly epic. When most of the tracks are completely unlike one another, and they're each extraordinarily fresh, you have a damn good start.

excellent Chris, exactly what I wanted.

Now, Goethe or Oscar Wilde?

One of the things I have to improve in my life is a list of different food I've eaten... I've never eaten Mexican food. :sad:

 

International fav food? You mean something people around the world eat? That'd be chocolate (especially Milka chocolate :wacky:), cereal, apples, and pizza. Yes, I am very uncreative about that.

 

I mean italian, french, mexican etc

excellent Chris, exactly what I wanted.

Now, Goethe or Oscar Wilde?

 

interesting comparison. I'll go with Wilde, if only because I adore his formulaic wit.

"I dislike [subject], its so [description that is contrary to or opposite of subject]"

I mean italian, french, mexican etc

 

:uhoh:

 

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I can't answer this one. The reason is stated in my previous post.

who is being asked now?

 

question:

what is your favourite radiohead album and song? and your least favourite? why?

Favourite album:

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I don't know. Right now it's In Rainbows. I like the whole feeling of the album. I could describe it as colourful and emotional.

 

Favourite song:

Right now, Reckoner. Not sure why, I just love that song. Some of my other favourites would have to be Idioteque [it's such a powerful song], How To Disappear Completely [epic], Street Spirit (Fade Out) [one of the first Radiohead songs I loved], True Love Waits, 2+2=5, I Might Be Wrong, Lucky, Talk Show Host, ...

 

Least favourite album:

Pablo Honey, because it simply fails compared to the others.

 

Least favourite song:

Well, I don't know. But if I decide to skip songs, it's usually some off of Pablo Honey or Hail To The Thief.

OMG RLY?

In Rainbows = :heart:

Both of you: Are you tired of my questions?

No.

Both of you: Are you tired of my questions?

 

nope

Both: would you like me to ask more questions?

If you have more to ask, sure.

Both: What is art for you?

Both: What is art for you?

Okay, I'll try to reply to this without comparing an contrasting definitions via wikipedia, merriam-webster etc. *skip to the last paragraph if necessary, I got carried away*

 

The word that I associate most with art is expression.

Most art is an expression of what the creator considers to be aesthetically, musically, or verbally pleasing, but art also has no obligation to be attractive, or impressive to anyone. I get upset easily when people scoff at modern paintings or loud music, and say 'that's not art.' People often say this because they want to keep 'art' on a pedestal, reserved for stuff that only they find agreeable. Not only is this idea preposterous, but I feel it ironically cheapens and shallow's art from being more than meaningless kitsch. Where do you draw the line between art and non-art?

 

As much as I dislike dadaism and anti-art movements, I feel that anything that has an observer can be considered art, regardless of intent. John Cage's 4'33 and Marcel Duchamp's Fountain are both art imo, if only because they are individual expressions of something. As long as individuals compose, look at, listen to, or read something and deem it significant, there will be art. My only real parameter is that it must be limited or extracted from regular life by having a beginning and an end. If 4'33 was instead titled "an ongoing work of art that started with the beginning of time, and will conclude at the end of time" I think that would have crossed the line.

 

But remember that this is only my way of qualifying art, by no means am I saying that all art is equal. IMHO, Art is not to be judged by wholely objective, or wholely subjective standards. Like robin williams said in one of my favorite movies, "we're not laying pipe, we're talking about poetry." Thus, no one can use a generic scale to factually prove that one piece of art is universally superior to another, however every field from music to literature, as well as their corresponding genre's, utilize certain objective standards by which we can compare their virtues.

 

While this subject is ripe for debate, I believe that the main things that keeps art open to speculation, but not relative, are authorial import (what a poet means to say or express in a poem), and the way it impacts the individual (Since we don't live in a vacuum, no two people can perceive something the exact same way...Hence the ambiguity). So while our objective understanding of music tells us that a beethoven sonata is superior to the same musician turning around and just sitting on the keys... gradually instituting authoritative laws about what art should and should not be creates huge problems.

 

 

On a less technical note... art is way more than entertainment, but a way of communicating what its like to be alive and human, often using modes that transcend the effectiveness of normal speech, like sounds and images. I listen to, and view art to relate to ideas and expressions of beauty and life (music is the most accesible because it envelops you; sound has the ability to resonate every conceivable emotion in human beings). And I create art to serve as a lasting representation of who I am and what I value.