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  • BrighternowBrighternow
    edited January 2013
    how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
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  • MrVMrV
    "how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"

    Revenge! Revenge for Wanda!
    Ken.
  • BrighternowBrighternow
    The past must be invented, the future must be revised. Doing both makes what the present is. Discovery never stops.
    - John Cage.
  • MrVMrV
    The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
    -Jean-Paul Sartre
  • ludditeluddite
    "That'll teach the little twerp to get an 'A' in Citizenship" - Eddie Haskell
  • BrighternowBrighternow
    edited February 2013
    [/i]Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better !
    - Laurie Anderson in Language is a virus from outer space
    - a quote from William S. Burroughs
  • greggreg
    "Now is the winter of discontent made glorious summer by this son of York" or " A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse"

    Both relevant today, as it has been confirmed that the remains of a body found under a car park,in Leicester are highly likely to be those of Ricard III, following DNA testing and a wide range of circumstantial evidence. The two above quotes are the only two that I can remember from Shakespeare's play that I did for A level English four plus decades ago!
  • LowlifeLowlife
    Jazz is the Teacher, Funk is the Preacher by James Blood Ulmer
  • Bad ThoughtsBad Thoughts
    @greg: Take in a little Richard III in OP.
  • cafreemacafreema
    A "Little Richard"?
    Bop bopa-a-lu a whop bam boo!

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    Craig
  • DoofyDoofy
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    I actually just picked up this DVD after reading about a new Criterion remaster coming soon. The famous scenery-munching Olivier version; perhaps an inspiration for Monty Python's Royal Hospital for Over-Acting
  • NereffidNereffid
    Speaking of which:
  • DoofyDoofy
    Oh, I've never seen that before. Didn't realize the apex of Western Civilization had already occurred.

    My interest was stirred by reports of this (digital) restoration restoration of the original VistaVision, Technicolor film, on the big screen. Would have liked to be there that night!
  • greggreg
    I had forgotten that, Nereffid! Thanks for the reminder
  • BrighternowBrighternow
    edited February 2013
    I am the Ayatollah of Rock and Rollah !
    - From the Heartbreak Ridge movie.
  • BrighternowBrighternow
    Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.
    - Kristin Hersh
  • greggreg
    edited February 2013
    "I'll let you into the secret of jazz," the young man said "if you like"
    "Go on then"
    "It's all about control...."

    From Ian Rankin's Standing in Another Man's Grave, the book I'm currently reading.
  • BrighternowBrighternow
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    Tragedy is considered to be greater art than comedy.
    - Yes, isn't that comical ?
    Robert Storm Petersen
  • BrighternowBrighternow
    The worst thing in the world for music is to keep it going, identical, forever and ever.
    - Robert Plant.
  • BrighternowBrighternow
    edited February 2013
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    Life is a riddle . . . And the solution is on the backside.
    Robert Storm Petersen
  • BrighternowBrighternow
    edited February 2013
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    you'll be given love you'll be taken care of you'll be given love you have to trust it
    Björk on Twitter
  • BrighternowBrighternow
    edited February 2013
    Blow up someone else's balloons, then pop them with your own pin.
    - John Cage.
  • BrighternowBrighternow
    Without music, life would be a mistake.
    - Friedrich Nietzsche.
  • BrighternowBrighternow
    edited March 2013
    Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
    - John Lennon.
  • BrighternowBrighternow
    edited March 2013
    The human body is extremely limited. I would love to upgrade myself.
    Kevin Warwick
  • BrighternowBrighternow
    edited March 2013
    The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.
    - Sun Ra.
  • BrighternowBrighternow
    edited April 2013
    Art Is Not a Mirror to Reflect Reality, but a Hammer to Shape It.
    - Bertolt Brecht
  • BrighternowBrighternow
    “IS THAT A USB KEY IN YOUR POCKET, OR ARE YOU JUST HAPPY TO SEE ME?”
    - POSTCARD AUDIO #037 – AIRPORT SECURITY CHECK > from Textile Audio
  • DoofyDoofy
    My daughter, who works at a children's museum, reports this "Best Explanation for how the dinosaurs went extinct:"
    child 1: they all died because of a meteor
    *pause*
    child 2: and then they ate it?
  • BrighternowBrighternow
    edited April 2013
    An artist can only produce pure art when the expectations and influences of the outside world are not taken into consideration
    - The mysterious N. Senada's Theory of Obscurity.
    "N. Senada (which may be a play on "Ensenada", "en se nada", meaning "in himself nothing," or "ense
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