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Stepping on the Devil's Tail
Created on 2003-08-09 04:45:57 (#1242587), last updated 2009-11-19
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Basic Info| Name: | "You can't get romantic on a subway line!" |
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BioFrancesca gave me my lj user name as part of a private joke.
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"Caius Marcius....proved that, hard though the lot of an orphan may be, yet it does not prevent a man's becoming great and distinguished, and that the bad alone allege it as an excuse for an intemperate life. He also proves to us that a naturally noble nature, if it be not properly disciplined, will produce many good and bad qualities together, just as a rich field, if not properly tilled, will produce both weeds and good fruit. The immense energy and courage of his mind used to urge him to attempt and to perform great exploits, but his harsh and ambitious temper made it difficult for him to live on friendly terms with his companions. They used to admire his indifference to pleasure and pain, and his contempt for bribes, but in politics they were angered by his morose and haughty manner, too proud for a citizen of a republic." --Plutarch
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"Certainly I receive Monsieur de Valmont as he is received everywhere: there you have another of the thousand inconsistencies that rule society. You know as well as I do that one spends one's life noticing them, complaining about them, and submitting to them. Monsieur de Valmont, with an illustrious name, a large fortune, and many agreeable qualities, early realized that to achieve influence in society no more is required than to practice the arts of adulation and ridicule with equal skill. He has more talent for both than anyone. In the one instance he uses it to charm: in the other to intimidate. No one respects him, but everybody flatters him. Such is his position among people who, with more discretion that courage, would rather humour him than cross swords with him." --Choderlos de Laclos
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"It is the unfounded complaint of mankind that they are naturally weak and short-lived, and that it is chance, not merit, that rules their destiny. So far is this from the truth, that consideration will show that nothing surpasses or excels our nature, and that it is rather energy that is lacking to it than power or length of days. It is mind that is the guide and commander of life in mortal men. Where this advances to glory along the path of virtue, its powers, resources, and renown are ample without the help of fortune; for uprightness, activity, and other good qualities, fortune can neither give nor take away. Where, on the other hand, it has become the slave of low passions and has succumbed to sloth and bodily pleasures, a short submission to the fatal influence of lust suffices to fritter away strength, opportunities, and intellect, in idleness, and then the weakness of our nature receives the blame, and the doers charge circumstances with the defect that lies in themselves. Were men but as anxious in an honorable cause as they are zealous in the pursuit of matters of no concern or profit, and often even attended with danger (and ill effects), they would be as much the masters as the slaves of destiny, and would attain to such a pitch of greatness as would make them, as far as mortal men may be, undying in their glory." -- Sallust
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"There was no rake~hell, no ruffian, no knaue, no villaine, no cogging raskall, but his hand was in with him." --Angel Day, The English Secretary 44 (1586)
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Favorite music:
one man bands, one night stands, season tickets, opening acts that are better than the headliner, nostalgia acts, triplet quarter notes, sax solos, sexy backup singers, Classic Arts Showcase, call and answer, vamp 'til ready, "The Royal Artillery Quick March, " cello played by a beautiful woman, bar bands, big bands, Middle Eastern orchestras, covering a song in a different genre, music of the Pygmy people of Africa, the beer bottle used on Herbie Hancock's Head Hunters, striptease, fugues, con brio, sizzle cymbals, "Garb of Old Gaul," Queen, improvisation, steel drums, barrelhouse, metal, homages, rip-offs, minor keys, dub, piano rolls, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, percussion toys, ad lib and fade, countermelodies, distortion, chamber orchestras, mash ups, harmonic minors, vibraslaps, sopranos, French horns, lead guitar, repeat 3x, "Barracuda," roots artists, popularizers, blues scales, Apoptgyma Berzerk, The Soviet Army Chorus and Band in a Program of Favorites, concept albums, tribute albums, remix albums, break up albums, Juno Reactor, 1970s jazz-funk fusion, pyrotechnics, dry ice, both kinds of music: gothic and industrial, Johnny Cash, Johnny Nash, horn lines, funk basslines, vocal harmonizing, Hammond B-3 organs, Fender Rhodes keyboards, riffs, licks, fills, synths, oboes, rubato, glissandi, crescendi, fortissimo, purists, sellouts, slide guitar, New Orleans-style piano, Irish tenors, Avalon, Havana 3AM, dixieland, "Spain," Sketches of Spain, España Rhapsody, acid jazz, cadenzas, effects pedals, falsetto, Chopin, harpsichord, Romanticism, Impressionism, Modernism, New Wave, power pop, power chords, power noise, tympani, rockabilly, psychobilly, Western Swing, high hats, gongs, Le Oud, bass flute, the twelve tone scale, reverb, hard house, "I Am a Spy in the House of Love," music boxes, "Music Box," klezmer, Ivy League a capella groups, rhumba, tango, salsa, cumbia, musical preservation, the avant-garde, calypso, lovers' rock, rock, roots rock reggae, dancehall, reggaeton, syncopation, doubling on sax and flute, doublebass, drum 'n bass, double bass drums, chromaticism, EBM, flamenco guitar, flutists, flautists, halftime shows, half-time funk, ragtime, brushed snare, classical guitar, high school marching bands, barbershop quartets, Def Leppard, 3 Mustaphas 3, film soundtracks, sea shanties, belly dances, forbidden dances, dance crazes, christmas carols, 18th-century drinking songs, national anthems, electronica, ambient, songbirds, silence, strange noises, forest sounds, crickets, frogs, Microsoft Windows "Jungle" sound scheme, etc.
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"Caius Marcius....proved that, hard though the lot of an orphan may be, yet it does not prevent a man's becoming great and distinguished, and that the bad alone allege it as an excuse for an intemperate life. He also proves to us that a naturally noble nature, if it be not properly disciplined, will produce many good and bad qualities together, just as a rich field, if not properly tilled, will produce both weeds and good fruit. The immense energy and courage of his mind used to urge him to attempt and to perform great exploits, but his harsh and ambitious temper made it difficult for him to live on friendly terms with his companions. They used to admire his indifference to pleasure and pain, and his contempt for bribes, but in politics they were angered by his morose and haughty manner, too proud for a citizen of a republic." --Plutarch
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"Certainly I receive Monsieur de Valmont as he is received everywhere: there you have another of the thousand inconsistencies that rule society. You know as well as I do that one spends one's life noticing them, complaining about them, and submitting to them. Monsieur de Valmont, with an illustrious name, a large fortune, and many agreeable qualities, early realized that to achieve influence in society no more is required than to practice the arts of adulation and ridicule with equal skill. He has more talent for both than anyone. In the one instance he uses it to charm: in the other to intimidate. No one respects him, but everybody flatters him. Such is his position among people who, with more discretion that courage, would rather humour him than cross swords with him." --Choderlos de Laclos
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"It is the unfounded complaint of mankind that they are naturally weak and short-lived, and that it is chance, not merit, that rules their destiny. So far is this from the truth, that consideration will show that nothing surpasses or excels our nature, and that it is rather energy that is lacking to it than power or length of days. It is mind that is the guide and commander of life in mortal men. Where this advances to glory along the path of virtue, its powers, resources, and renown are ample without the help of fortune; for uprightness, activity, and other good qualities, fortune can neither give nor take away. Where, on the other hand, it has become the slave of low passions and has succumbed to sloth and bodily pleasures, a short submission to the fatal influence of lust suffices to fritter away strength, opportunities, and intellect, in idleness, and then the weakness of our nature receives the blame, and the doers charge circumstances with the defect that lies in themselves. Were men but as anxious in an honorable cause as they are zealous in the pursuit of matters of no concern or profit, and often even attended with danger (and ill effects), they would be as much the masters as the slaves of destiny, and would attain to such a pitch of greatness as would make them, as far as mortal men may be, undying in their glory." -- Sallust
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"There was no rake~hell, no ruffian, no knaue, no villaine, no cogging raskall, but his hand was in with him." --Angel Day, The English Secretary 44 (1586)
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Favorite music:
one man bands, one night stands, season tickets, opening acts that are better than the headliner, nostalgia acts, triplet quarter notes, sax solos, sexy backup singers, Classic Arts Showcase, call and answer, vamp 'til ready, "The Royal Artillery Quick March, " cello played by a beautiful woman, bar bands, big bands, Middle Eastern orchestras, covering a song in a different genre, music of the Pygmy people of Africa, the beer bottle used on Herbie Hancock's Head Hunters, striptease, fugues, con brio, sizzle cymbals, "Garb of Old Gaul," Queen, improvisation, steel drums, barrelhouse, metal, homages, rip-offs, minor keys, dub, piano rolls, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, percussion toys, ad lib and fade, countermelodies, distortion, chamber orchestras, mash ups, harmonic minors, vibraslaps, sopranos, French horns, lead guitar, repeat 3x, "Barracuda," roots artists, popularizers, blues scales, Apoptgyma Berzerk, The Soviet Army Chorus and Band in a Program of Favorites, concept albums, tribute albums, remix albums, break up albums, Juno Reactor, 1970s jazz-funk fusion, pyrotechnics, dry ice, both kinds of music: gothic and industrial, Johnny Cash, Johnny Nash, horn lines, funk basslines, vocal harmonizing, Hammond B-3 organs, Fender Rhodes keyboards, riffs, licks, fills, synths, oboes, rubato, glissandi, crescendi, fortissimo, purists, sellouts, slide guitar, New Orleans-style piano, Irish tenors, Avalon, Havana 3AM, dixieland, "Spain," Sketches of Spain, España Rhapsody, acid jazz, cadenzas, effects pedals, falsetto, Chopin, harpsichord, Romanticism, Impressionism, Modernism, New Wave, power pop, power chords, power noise, tympani, rockabilly, psychobilly, Western Swing, high hats, gongs, Le Oud, bass flute, the twelve tone scale, reverb, hard house, "I Am a Spy in the House of Love," music boxes, "Music Box," klezmer, Ivy League a capella groups, rhumba, tango, salsa, cumbia, musical preservation, the avant-garde, calypso, lovers' rock, rock, roots rock reggae, dancehall, reggaeton, syncopation, doubling on sax and flute, doublebass, drum 'n bass, double bass drums, chromaticism, EBM, flamenco guitar, flutists, flautists, halftime shows, half-time funk, ragtime, brushed snare, classical guitar, high school marching bands, barbershop quartets, Def Leppard, 3 Mustaphas 3, film soundtracks, sea shanties, belly dances, forbidden dances, dance crazes, christmas carols, 18th-century drinking songs, national anthems, electronica, ambient, songbirds, silence, strange noises, forest sounds, crickets, frogs, Microsoft Windows "Jungle" sound scheme, etc.
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