TheInvisibleDan

There's another thread from last year, "Was Wierwille Mentally Ill?", that might be of some interest to this discussion. http://www.gscafe.com/groupee/forums?a=tpc...42&m=6436018111

I've transferred a lot material from cassette to my hard-drive, plugging the cassette player into a small mixer, and then plugging the mixer into the input jack of my soundcard. From there I use Soundforge or Dart Pro 32 to record the music onto the drive. Dart32 is a great program because it includes tools for cleaning up the sound by reducing or removing any pops, tape hiss, and noise in the recording. It's a slightly older program which works well for me, though there are perhaps newer programs out there that simplify the process even further. Danny

O cripes, *they* got "Goey" too!!! Why, God?!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! (flashbacks of Kevin McCarthy running down the middle of the highway in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers") : FOOOOOLS!!!! THEY'RE COMING! THEY'RE CO-MING!!!! YOU'RE NEXT - YOU'RE NEEEEEEEXT!!!!!! [This message was edited by TheInvisibleDan on February 26, 2003 at 23:38.]

Tull! Yeeeeah!! (raise left hand, position fingers to signify "devil horns").... "Thick as a Brick" was my favorite album.

BORN OF THE WRONG SEED! Gandhi. Mother Theresa. Albert Schweitzer. Captain Kangaroo. The cartoon martian on the old "Quisp" cereal boxes. Barney the Dinosaur. Ronald MacDonald. And let's not forget that hippy-freak "Jesus" guy! NOT BORN OF THE "WRONG SEED": Wierwille. Martindale. Charles Manson. Adolf Hitler. :/ [This message was edited by TheInvisibleDan on February 26, 2003 at 0:18.] [This message was edited by TheInvisibleDan on February 26, 2003 at 0:21.]

My favorite Bruce Springsteen album is "Nebraska". It's a freakin' masterpiece. Danny

"fungus" as compared to what - alfalfa sprouts?- what would a more natural representation for goodness/truth be in this updated analogy of the wheat and tares? I'm trying to imagine an antithesis for fungus. Then again it's late and I need to go to bed. [This message was edited by TheInvisibleDan on January 16, 2003 at 21:22.]

The Black Sea.

"Toy Symphony" by Carl Reineke. I taped it off the radio one Christmas eve, while I was gift-wrapping. I haven't seen it released on CD yet. But it's very nice stuff. Soundtrack to "It's a Wonderful Life" (Dmitri Tiomkin) and "A Christmas Carol" (R. Addisell) (Sundance Film Music, vol.1; the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra). It kind of reminds me of stuff from "The Twilight Zone". "Fantasia on Christmas Carols" by Ralph Vaughn Williams, on a "Weekend Classics" budget CD, that included "Fantasia on Greensleeves" and "The Lark Ascending".

Thanks Geo, I'll have to keep an eye out for that old version. In the meantime, I've gotten sucked in by that darn "Taken" miniseries on the Sci-Fi channel, produced by Steven Spielburg, which has proven to be immensely entertaining and very well done. (far more interesting than the new version of "Solaris" playing in the theaters.) This show has Spielburg's stamp all over it. Danny

Don't waste your money. Unless you're a fan of George Cloony's butt. Which I am not. The original 1972 version was regarded something of a Russian "2001" when it first came out - artsy and long. I haven't seen it, but I read that a few faulted the movie for being too long. The new version suffers the opposite effect - too short, a bit underbaked - it could have used a little bit more work. There's something entirely unsatisfactory and incomplete about it. I will have to rent the original version sometime to compare.

I went through a stage, after leaving "the cult", where I ate up as much modernist "classical" works as I could get my ears on. I was particularly interested in American composers, like Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, William Schuman, Alan Hovahness...I don't know why, but I found the "dissonant" works to be rather cathartic. I think it largely depends on an individual's tastes. Some works, which may be difficult to absorb at first, require repeated listenings, which may cause one's appreciation and understanding of a work to blossom, or in some cases, not. My old room-mate, who had been involved in the Way for many years, was a composer who recorded his own albums at home, and he would give friends a copy of his music. One time he gave me a tape of his stuff, which I personally enjoyed and found immensely peaceful and contemplative. Other "Way-bots" to whom he gave a copy of his music, complained and gossiped amongst themselves how his songs dragged, and how "spiritually off" his stuff was. I was really taken aback by this response, because I had quite the opposite reaction. But that was reflective at the time of the restrictions of mind to which people in the Way fenced in themselves - music had to be "happy" and "poppy" positive, "biblically correct", "edifying", tasteless garbage. Otherwise, I guess there was that danger of a wrong chord pouncing on them and opening their minds up to derbil spurts. We're very complex, emotional beings. There are times when the soul craves and needs the blues, a violent dissonant thunder, a series of blow-the-roof-off-the-house power chords, a Hendrix bomb, a spanish guitar piece, a choral piece, etc., etc. Things which remind us that we're still alive. Certainly a gifted composer is able to still produce a masterpiece in even the most repressive of environments, such as Shostakovich did under Stalin. But sadly I rarely witnessed Shostakoviches appearing on the stage under the "bigtop". Danny

Originally posted by ChattyKathy: "Video killed the radio star!" (lol) And ironically the very first video MTV played when they went on the air. It "buggles" the mind!

Perhaps not to be overlooked in this discussion is the riot caused in a Paris theater in 1913, by the performance of the music and ballet of Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring", which employed a heavy rythmic foundation. I imagine the subject matter (concerning the sacrifice of a virgin in a Pagan spring festival) was strong stuff for the times as well. My only bone to pick with the pop music industry nowadays has more to do with how much more "image" intensive it seems to have become, rather than the promoting of works by those with any real musical talent. In other words, various celebrities come across more as models than genuine composers and musicians. I suppose the industry has always been that way to some degree (think the Monkees). It just impresses me as more blatant nowadays, and perhaps that's the natural direction it's gone toward with the advent of music video stations like MTV and VH1.

12 years ago today, a woman-child was begat in the tribe of Dan. Yea, and there was much rejoicing. "12" is supposedly the number of "order"? Perhaps my daughter will clean her room more often this year. Now I must go bake a sacred cake offering. Danny

I find it easier to believe Martindale (or even VPW) was "born of the devil", if there is such a thing.

I've tried both McCaffee and Norton, and half the time, they just crashed my computer in the process of scanning. I hate 'em too. The only anti-virus software that I ever did like was "Dr.Solomon", but unfortunately they discontinued it (I think the evil McCaffee bought them out). Unlike the memory-greedy Norton and MacCaffee, the Dr. Solomon program didn't dig it's multi-tentacles into every nook and cranny of my operating system - you installed it, and it stayed in it's own folder and behaved and kept to itself, from whence you beckoned it to run whenever you wished. A matter of fact, I think installation amounted to nothing more than unzipping the contents of the prog into a folder and that was that. This other crap - all it wants to do is dig, dig, dig, dig and dig its tentacles into your system and leach off of its memory. I hope someone revives the old Dr.Solomon prog.

A "Lego" version of the Bible. Hilarious stuff, but read it while the kids are out of the room. www.thereverend.com/brick_testament/

Zix- That is a great flick. Much better and more suspenseful than the talkier 1950s version directed by Howard Hawks (though I recall some footage from the original was used in Carpenter's version, on the videotape everyone was watching recovered from the Swedes.) Thanks. I'll have to pick that up on DVD. Stil enjoying my copy of Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey". Now if someone would only restore and release on DVD the classic 1962 Russian sci-fi, "Planeta Burg"....

Joe was my "WOW" comrade in NC back in 82-83. A real gentleman and a scholar. I've lost track of him, but last I knew, he was in Illinois, as others here have already mentioned.

You tasteless brutes! Have you no heart? It's no laughing matter - why did you start? Thar's other evils to rhyme if you choose well of money, guns, and doctrines but not the worse hells! The lesser violations is what you should rhyme; leave the worse ones alone to the vacuum of time. Make your bad poetry good and on lesser evils solely; but hide the greater evils in the Holy of Holies! [This message was edited by TheInvisibleDan on September 01, 2002 at 15:16.]

On top of Old Pokey all covered with crust Herr lost his cookies and pursued his lust.

I heard that about "ET" too while I was with that loony bin! I'll take "The Day the Earth Stood Still" over "Athletes of the Spirit" any day of the week.

www.altavista.com (or any other search engine such as www.hotbot.com ) There's bound to be numerous Veterans' sites listed along with helpful links, that should help in your father's search. Try a few keywords, such as "Korean Veterans". I would imagine any sites on the Korean War would have some good links as well. Here's one link (out of hundreds listed at alta.vista) I just looked up - http://www.vetfriends.com/

Thank you, Plotinus! Great site!