It's time you were all bored by my music preferences :)
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I'm listening to a piece by John Adams 'I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky'. It's 'about' the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. Full of then contemporary references to INS (Immigration and Nationalisation Service) raids on 'illegal immigrants' in the USA. A TV reporter who has the hots for a cop in San Francisco who nabs a black who stole 3 beers. A defense attorney who pleads for the beer stealer and offers to pay $4.95 for the three beers to save the State of California a bunch of money in prison costs*. It's great music - the scene where the attorney pleads in court for his client ranks up there with the scene in 'Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahogonny' where Fatty Moses, as the lawyer plays the prosecutor and proclaims (in english) 'This information is not available to the court'. And the scene where Dwayne (having survived the earthquake and the wall of his cell falls and yet he chooses not to escape) matches the scene where Wozzeck, bathed in the blood of Marie, shouts at the moon 'der mond ist blut, der mond ist blut, ist blut...' *I suspect an anachronism here. As far as I can recall the '3 strikes' law in California came in after the 1989 earthquake. I seem to remember Polly Klaas Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net "I killed him dead cuz he was stepping on my turf, cutting me out of my bling the same way my ho cuts cookies, officer" "Alright then, move along" - Ian Darling, The Lounge, Oct 10 2003
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I'm listening to a piece by John Adams 'I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky'. It's 'about' the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. Full of then contemporary references to INS (Immigration and Nationalisation Service) raids on 'illegal immigrants' in the USA. A TV reporter who has the hots for a cop in San Francisco who nabs a black who stole 3 beers. A defense attorney who pleads for the beer stealer and offers to pay $4.95 for the three beers to save the State of California a bunch of money in prison costs*. It's great music - the scene where the attorney pleads in court for his client ranks up there with the scene in 'Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahogonny' where Fatty Moses, as the lawyer plays the prosecutor and proclaims (in english) 'This information is not available to the court'. And the scene where Dwayne (having survived the earthquake and the wall of his cell falls and yet he chooses not to escape) matches the scene where Wozzeck, bathed in the blood of Marie, shouts at the moon 'der mond ist blut, der mond ist blut, ist blut...' *I suspect an anachronism here. As far as I can recall the '3 strikes' law in California came in after the 1989 earthquake. I seem to remember Polly Klaas Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net "I killed him dead cuz he was stepping on my turf, cutting me out of my bling the same way my ho cuts cookies, officer" "Alright then, move along" - Ian Darling, The Lounge, Oct 10 2003
Sheez, I'm bored. Somebody pass me a .NET reference manual. It's time for a nap, I think. ;P Chris Meech It's much easier to get rich telling people what they want to hear. Chistopher Duncan I can't help getting older, but I refuse to grow up. Roger Wright I've been meaning to change my sig. Thanks! Alvaro Mendez
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I'm listening to a piece by John Adams 'I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky'. It's 'about' the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. Full of then contemporary references to INS (Immigration and Nationalisation Service) raids on 'illegal immigrants' in the USA. A TV reporter who has the hots for a cop in San Francisco who nabs a black who stole 3 beers. A defense attorney who pleads for the beer stealer and offers to pay $4.95 for the three beers to save the State of California a bunch of money in prison costs*. It's great music - the scene where the attorney pleads in court for his client ranks up there with the scene in 'Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahogonny' where Fatty Moses, as the lawyer plays the prosecutor and proclaims (in english) 'This information is not available to the court'. And the scene where Dwayne (having survived the earthquake and the wall of his cell falls and yet he chooses not to escape) matches the scene where Wozzeck, bathed in the blood of Marie, shouts at the moon 'der mond ist blut, der mond ist blut, ist blut...' *I suspect an anachronism here. As far as I can recall the '3 strikes' law in California came in after the 1989 earthquake. I seem to remember Polly Klaas Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net "I killed him dead cuz he was stepping on my turf, cutting me out of my bling the same way my ho cuts cookies, officer" "Alright then, move along" - Ian Darling, The Lounge, Oct 10 2003
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