No, I never been through that part of the country at all.
TNP thinks about Minnesota is about the most East in the United States he or she thinks would be a good place to relocate. If there was gold in them hills, that is.
Actually, yeah, I was just thinking the other day about that sort of terrain up around that bit kind of near Pittsburgh. Pretty country, I would say, and I did say it a few days ago. The glacial hills give an admirable texture that extends, at least in my mind, all the way out to the Rockies that is pretty neat. Check me if I'm wrong, but that's about one of the best things about this country, beautiful land that's good to look at too.
TNP likes living in a place where it's good to look at.
Absolutely. Nice scenery is always a plus (as it happens, I grew up in a little Ohio River town just an hour west of Pittsburgh, in the Appalachian foothills).
No, but I think it would be fun to spend some time thereabouts. What with the heavy drinking, and women who are both loose and expert at music. And tame bears which are good for snacking on too.
Interesting question. I was just thinking about nose-rings earlier today. So, yeah, yes, that would cut into my time of grooming my pre-pubescent mates and finding words that rhyme.
TNP thinks noserings/studs are not for people of the Western cultures.
was the Argerich I was thinking of, but I'm grateful that on the concert stage Martha still hammed it up on the same piece. Granted, it's a hell of a piece -- basically, it's hard to play.
Argerich is one of the few non-lesbian women whom I know to probably proudly trumpet her strong forearms.
For the rubes at home: K141 dos not need strength, but it requires a hell of lot of stamina. Like a boogie.
ETA this has been bothering me: yeah, in fact, this lady or wife or whatever, she did have both ears, plus nose, plus navel. Makes you think, don't it? That's four right there, and she was just a stupid Jew. I'm sure most people know a bunch of stupid Jews -- hell, five piercings doesn't sound outrageous for a dude -- few in each ear, whatever.
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Yeah, I guess. For me, my brain cannot have more than a few countries at once, but true to form, I kind of find them both despicable. And yet I like having my country the USA to come back to. Nothing is ever going to be as nice a sight to me as seeing the Hudson and that improbable pile of rubble across it. Still makes me fucking happy, and I'm not even from NY/NJ originally. Whatever they call it, imprinting at an impressionable age -- I'm still always going to like it, and it's like a nice feeling, coming in off a jet, taking a bus from Newark, whatever. Those rocks, those rivers. Makes me happy.
TNP has, if he or she is a musical sort, seen recently a key signature in Cb major. Or, if not, something equivalent -- it's extremely strange, almost ridiculous. The Cb in my case came up looking at Bill Bolcolm's "Seabiscuit Rag," and, trust me, it's pretty fucking weird. It's like seeing a sentence put in ebonics or something.
Goddammit. That is fucking about the worst fucking thing I ever fucking seen or heard. Do you understand now why people drink? It's to get shit like that out of their fucking heads.
Yeah, that's a little better. I still hate it, but, hey, what can I say? I don't have the golden ears, and I'm no zen master, man.
TNP really has to make an extraordinary effort to listen to chamber music or recital repertoire featuring violin or cello. Because he or she just plain doesn't care for it.
Yeah, I love chamber music as well in general -- string quartets and piano quintets or trios. Something about too much violin or cello out front just makes my teeth start to grind, though. Not that there isn't exceptional music composed that features solo time for those instruments, even concertos with full orchestra. Still not as bad as the harpsichord, but close -- and I like the harpsichord (well, you know, maybe "healthy respect"). Come on, those classical violinists and cellists -- so smug, think they're so fancy!
Probably longer than that it's been -- at least four or five years.
TNP thinks it would be pretty cool to acquire a pet tortoise -- a little one. You know, for companionship and mutual, one hopes, amusement.
Not really. Some rabbits, a rat, and a cat. I think my sister had a little bird, which was stupid. My rat was not very awesome, because I was too lazy to make him do tricks.
TNP thinks gangs of children playing on schoolyards sound like Hitler youth, and should be discouraged.
No, I have not, but it's very possible I'll end up down south for some job or other in the next decade.
TNP thinks the anti-hero, Uncle Ethan, of the movie *The Searchers* is one of the more understandable characters drawn in fiction from the nineteenth century to present. I don't speak to his or her simplicity or motives, just that the way that the character is drawn is an exemplary lesson in how to make the character's intentions plain.
Yeah, I guess. I teared up a little at the recent documentary *Hitchcock/Truffaut* first time I saw it, and also at *Five Easy Pieces.* Since I've seen those more recently, nothing. I bet it's a glandular problem, to snip a bit of dialogue from *The 400 Blows*.
TNP thinks the guy in the movie *Frenzy*'s character in *Frenzy* reminds him or her of someone he or she knows or knows of.
Hmm. He looks just a little like a guy who was a friend of my parents - can't even remember his name. He also kinda looks like the dad on The Brady Bunch, now that I think about it. Maybe it's the hair?
Eh, I'm probably a typical Gen-Xer who grew up with seeing the odd repeats and whatever of *TBB*, along with all the other dregs of TV at that time, what with reruns being all that was on, while all the new dregs was being made.
So, sure, I've seen my share of the Brady Bunch. And let me tell you now, laddie, Robert Reid is no Donald Trump, for that I'm for sure telling you now, laddie.
TNP has not seen a single episode of "Game of Thrones" (or insert similarly popular genre TV show, like *Walking Dead* or *Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman* or one of those).
TNP can think of a better "gritty reboot" than *Blue Velvet* of *Rear Window*, and will name names.
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True: I was very pleased when Hilary Clinton visited Cleveland, and I hope she enjoyed some of the wonderful marine cuisine that can be found among the lakes.
TNP has smelled BO so bad (from someone else) it made him or her consider changing positions recently.
Yep. Every time one gets a chance to have a good wash and a brush up is just great. Super.
TNP wonders if an isolated tribe of she-women, self-propoagating, would bother to groom themselves to man's standards. Or if it would be some gross basketball team.