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Which is actually the Italian way of doing it, so it's Italian Pizza :p

Not at all. NY style is very different from traditional italian from what i've had, though some of the ny pies get close if my memory serves me correctly... but italian pizza and NY pizza are two different animals.

Incidentally, the best NY style pizza i've had is in Olympia. the stuff i had in new york wasn't horrible by any means, i'm just used to my Old School Pizzeria.
 
New Adagio album artwork

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Here's the tracklisting. Album due out in Feb.09. 1 Song will be released on Halloween. I'm interested to see where they've gone with this album.

01- Vamphyri
02- The Astral Pathway
03- Fear Circus
04- Undead
05- Archangels In Black
06- The Fifth Ankh
07- Codex Oscura
08- Twilight At Dawn
09- Getsu Senshi

Here's a sample of the new song, actually...

[ame]http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=OIrmbehKKB4[/ame]

I don't know. Doesn't sound too promising.
 
So, I had a four day weekend (post-midterm break), and yet I still had to pull an all-nighter tonight/this morning to try to get on top of things. Now, I'm starting a 5 page paper that's due tomorrow on a composer who's entire life story, if I were to copy/paste every bit of relevant information I've found on him, might take up 2 1/2 pages. So, I'll get that mostly done...then go to work from 10-3, then a 3 hour rehearsal immediately afterwards, then I'll come home to finish the paper and run through my recital set a couple of times, possibly eat the first/last meal for the day, practice as much as possible, then pass out by 11 hopefully.

Fuck today:erk:



^not fishing for sympathy, just wanted to bitch for a second....everybody get's one:heh:
 
Which composer? If you ever need a really interesting story...do Charles Ives. I found him to be quite an interesting fellow. Grossly misunderstood...a true, original American composer and influential businessman.
 
So, I had a four day weekend (post-midterm break), and yet I still had to pull an all-nighter tonight/this morning to try to get on top of things. Now, I'm starting a 5 page paper that's due tomorrow on a composer who's entire life story, if I were to copy/paste every bit of relevant information I've found on him, might take up 2 1/2 pages. So, I'll get that mostly done...then go to work from 10-3, then a 3 hour rehearsal immediately afterwards, then I'll come home to finish the paper and run through my recital set a couple of times, possibly eat the first/last meal for the day, practice as much as possible, then pass out by 11 hopefully.

Fuck today:erk:



^not fishing for sympathy, just wanted to bitch for a second....everybody get's one:heh:

May I suggest:
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Every paper I have ever written in college was conceived with coffee in hand! The other hand, of course!
 
One of my teachers once said, "Of ALL the American composers, Charles Ives was the BEST... insurance salesman." :heh:

I love his stuff...wildly avant garde...eerie and haunting. Are you familiar with his works?

To each his own. His Symphony #3 did win a Pulitzer. He was highly regarded by Schoenberg, Schuman, Mahler, Copland...I'd say that's pretty good company. A rather naive comment...no offense.
 
I never started drinking coffee till I was in the workplace. I hit my first week-long training class on Nortel CDMA equipment back in 1995, and I figured something had to change by the second day. Coffee was born unto me on that day. I went all the way through high school and college without it. And I was quite the late nighter in college too...
 
I love his stuff...wildly avant garde...eerie and haunting. Are you familiar with his works?

To each his own. His Symphony #3 did win a Pulitzer. He was highly regarded by Schoenberg, Schuman, Mahler, Copland...I'd say that's pretty good company. A rather naive comment...no offense.
It was just a joke. Actually, Ives was Dr. Cutler's favorite composer (he made us try to guess at the beginning of class once, and ripped on a lot of composers rather hilariously).

Yeah, I took a semester on 20th century stuff, and like I said, the guy loved Ives, so we did a lot of listening/analyzing. Some of it's good, and, like all early-20th-century stuff... a lot of it sounds "shitty for the hell of it," which academia just eats right up.
 
I never started drinking coffee till I was in the workplace. I hit my first week-long training class on Nortel CDMA equipment back in 1995, and I figured something had to change by the second day. Coffee was born unto me on that day. I went all the way through high school and college without it. And I was quite the late nighter in college too...

I just started drinking it a year ago, actually. The first cup of coffee I ever had was one I just decided to get at McDonalds. I have been hooked ever since. Instead of waking up and feeling like shit, I was happy and alert!:lol:
 
It was just a joke. Actually, Ives was Dr. Cutler's favorite composer (he made us try to guess at the beginning of class once, and ripped on a lot of composers rather hilariously).

Yeah, I took a semester on 20th century stuff, and like I said, the guy loved Ives, so we did a lot of listening/analyzing. Some of it's good, and, like all early-20th-century stuff... a lot of it sounds "shitty for the hell of it," which academia just eats right up.

Ives is one of my favorite composers. He did some innovative stuff in the insurance business as well, basically creating the idea of estate planning. I believe he published a book on it for the insurance industry.

I love his 2nd symphony...the 4th is just way out there...interesting, creepy stuff and then that amazing, beautiful fugue for the 3rd movement. His stuff is like huge tone poems...he had a lot of imagery behind his music.
 
It's on Carlo Gesualdo for me History of of Western Art Music class...the most notable thing the guy did was kill his cheatin' wife. The papers for my 20th century harmony class on the other hand are generally made of win and gold.