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Old 06-01-2011, 07:19 AM

Yay, I've been looking forward to this :squee:
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Old 06-02-2011, 09:34 PM

I just read Plato's Symposium. Very interesting piece, especially with the translator's commentary.

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Old 06-03-2011, 05:31 AM

I love the Symposium!
A Socratic aside: I've always thought poor Xanthippe got short shrifted by history, coming down to us solely as a crotchety broad. On the other hand, she might have the last laugh, how many actual (ever marginalized) ancient Greek women have anything of them remembered at all?

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Old 06-06-2011, 09:57 PM

I suppose I could put this in the social group, but I'm not fully feeling that idea, it seems. 'Course, it doesn't need sharing at all, but the thread could use resuscitating. Baby, hold on!

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Old 06-06-2011, 10:40 PM

Sounds interesting... I hope I'll be able to watch a recording of that.

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#1156
Old 06-06-2011, 10:47 PM

Yep, yep, nice for him to be branching out, I hope it goes swimmingly.

Oh, given your love of surrealism, you might be interested to know that Leonora Carrington died the other day. She had some truly engaging works (again cementing my preference for female surrealists over the male ones :sweat:)

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Old 06-06-2011, 10:51 PM

I found the coolest surrealist (a guy though) when i was looking for a painting to write a poem on for creative writing. His name is Vladimir Kush.



I think this is one of his more famous works?

Arg! If I can make it work!

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Let me try this...

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Old 06-07-2011, 02:40 AM

That's sad to hear, but I can't say I'd previously heard of her. I really don't know that much about art and artists, I'm afraid. :sweat:

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#1159
Old 06-07-2011, 04:08 AM

@ Fairy:
Ah, that's got a nice, concurrent feel to it, I like it

My favourite is still Remedios Varo, methinks.

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Old 06-12-2011, 07:41 AM

I don't know when it was taken, but it makes me very happy:
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Old 06-12-2011, 05:06 PM

It's magnificent. :heart:

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#1162
Old 06-12-2011, 06:11 PM

They found a way to get Graham in :heart:

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Old 06-12-2011, 06:52 PM

I have to pee. :heart:

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Old 06-12-2011, 07:22 PM

They did? Is that where... he is? :gonk:

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Old 06-13-2011, 05:46 AM

-hands Bra Cherry's Grandmother's Ming vase-

Gilliam is sweeping him up. On occasion, when they get together publicly since he passed, they bring out an urn and claim it's Graham. More than once they've spilled "him" as well.

Yay, I just got back from SIFF's live stream of The Importance of Being Ernest, which I treated my mum to. We had such a good time. The production (mentioned previously) was fantastic. It illicted many, many laughs. It's gratifying to know Oscie's material still has that impact :3 If any of you get the chance to see it, do! It's the same set up as The Met does with it's operas, though I don't know, or rather doubt, that it would make it to PBS as the operas do, but unno. Speaking of which, come on folks, if you've got PBS, which most of you must, take notice and make use of those occasions. But I digress. I gathered some of the material available, and in July they've* got a live stream of The Cherry Orchard, with top billing going to... Ms. Zoe Wanamaker, woo. I'm really wanting to immerse myself more in the Russian classics, so I'm definitely making an attempt to see that too. I also learned that they streamed some of the performances of [I]Frankenstein[/], same as the one KatMagenta: saw. I really need to get in the loop with these things.

*Seattle International Film Festival, is, of course, a festival, taking place every year for a few weeks at various venues around the area, but they also maintain a cinema at the Seattle Center for events year round.

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Old 06-19-2011, 09:37 PM

Y Hallo Thread. You coy thing, going the absence makes the heart grow fonder route....

Art, Comedy, Books... Well, something was needed to revive the thread.
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Old 06-20-2011, 03:53 AM

Noel Fielding book! Yeah!

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Old 06-20-2011, 06:41 AM

:}
It should be interesting to see.

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Old 06-20-2011, 10:14 PM

I thought I'd add this, what with follow-through generally being a treat and all that:
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Old 06-20-2011, 10:48 PM

That certainly sounds interesting. I remember reading Craig Ferguson's book. Very interesting, considering that for most of the book the main character is on LSD.

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Old 06-20-2011, 11:40 PM

Oh that's right, I think I was vaguely aware he wrote a book. On LSD, you say? Interesting.

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Old 06-21-2011, 12:54 AM

He's written two, but I assume Fairy is talking about Between the Bridge and the River, his novel? He also wrote a memoir, American on Purpose.

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Old 06-21-2011, 05:30 AM

Yeah, that sounds about right. I swear I know these things in some capacity. Please don't revoke my bibliophile certification.

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#1174
Old 06-21-2011, 10:58 PM

On that note, as it's the first day of summer, do you fine folks have any summer reads in mind?

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Old 06-21-2011, 11:04 PM

Depends on what you're in the mood for. I've been reading a lot of magical realism lately. I just finished Jasper Fforde's Shades of Grey, about a society than can only see certain colors, and has a class system based on that. It's listed as a romance by my library, but it's more like Farenheit 451, in that he's discovering that what he was told his entire life isn't true.

Oh yeah, I forgot he wrote a memoir too. i should read that.

 



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