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- Mon Aug 09, 2004 4:52 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Bushwhackers only after cheap cheers
- Replies: 28
- Views: 20069
If you face the world in a state of paranoia, you are defensive. If you are defensive, you make people round you nervous. Nervous people are mistrustful and are a lot more likely to turn mean than trusting people are. If there are lunatics about with truly evil intent, no amount of planning or contr...
- Sat Aug 07, 2004 4:09 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Bushwhackers only after cheap cheers
- Replies: 28
- Views: 20069
You know, I had the same reaction when I saw Eurythmics come over all political a few years ago at a gig in The Point Depot. There’s no doubt that U2’s musical achievements are fantastic – just as it happens, musically they’re not my particular bag of bananas. I also occasionally find myself reactin...
- Fri Aug 06, 2004 12:10 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: http:///www.presidentmatch.com
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13400
Well said, Noiseradio. Couldn't agree more. And the beauty of democracy is that everyone has the freedom and the right to have their say: to at least be respected and heard. But the trouble is that (clicheed but always true too), with rights come responsibilities. We can't just blindly, mindlessly, ...
- Thu Aug 05, 2004 7:27 am
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Life's a bitch and...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16253
- Sat Jul 10, 2004 8:17 am
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: The Word magazine guide to Elvis
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8502
- Fri Jul 09, 2004 5:47 pm
- Forum: Elvis Costello General Discussion
- Topic: The Word magazine guide to Elvis
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8502
- Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:45 am
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: **ulysses**
- Replies: 58
- Views: 41734
- Mon Jun 21, 2004 7:19 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: **ulysses**
- Replies: 58
- Views: 41734
Lapinsjolies and all other comers for that matter, I find it hard to express this without falling into cliches...so I won't even try. Ulyssess has proved extremely universal. Your interpretation is as good as anyone else's here or anywhere so please don't be shy about sharing thoughts. I've heard so...
- Mon Jun 21, 2004 7:19 am
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: **ulysses**
- Replies: 58
- Views: 41734
Well you're positively leap-frogging ahead of me so, LJ. As my last pre-project, I'm pooling info with a friend and at the same time picking his brains so I can do correlation between Homeric references and character's in Ulysses. I'm a great believer in short cuts: anything to avoid the reference b...
- Sun Jun 20, 2004 4:47 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: **ulysses**
- Replies: 58
- Views: 41734
o Next Odysseus and his men sailed southwards, and on to the floating island of Aeolia, south of Siciliy. Aeolus held sway of the winds hereabouts, to release or bind them at the will of Zeus (king of the gods). Luckily Aeolus was well disposed toward Odysseus. To make sure that the fleet had an une...
- Sun Jun 20, 2004 10:23 am
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: **ulysses**
- Replies: 58
- Views: 41734
At the risk of causing offense to anyone who knows all this already, I thought it might be useful to straighten out the bare bones of the story of the wanderings of Odysseus. You can work out the parallels yourselves. It'll help clear up a lot of the classical references in the Joyce Ulysses. Won't ...
- Sat Jun 19, 2004 2:14 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: **ulysses**
- Replies: 58
- Views: 41734
- Sat Jun 19, 2004 7:59 am
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: **ulysses**
- Replies: 58
- Views: 41734
Women of action! Otis, get on stand-by with your master class! I never took this on. In case it's of any help, and you don't know the who's and wherefores, here's a very, very potted intoduction to Telemachus: Odysseus (Greek for Latin version of same character, Ulysses), as regional Greek king, was...
- Fri Jun 18, 2004 1:07 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: **ulysses**
- Replies: 58
- Views: 41734
STONGLY recommend to the uninitiated to read about Joyce's life before you tackle Ulysses itself! Also inclined to agree with Blue Chair about buying the book. Trying to read it on the net... you'll be cross-eyed within the first half hour. Better again, get Otis to give you prelimin class. Galvanis...
Ulysses deals with mainly banal things in taking place in a very ordinary day. Leopold Bloom is Jewish, which was unusual in Dublin. Leopold Bloom is the inside of Joyce's head. I think his Jewishness is mainly for that reason: to set aside the workings of the subconscious as special, rich: to eleva...
- Fri Jun 11, 2004 5:41 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Recently viewed films
- Replies: 1602
- Views: 1935616
- Wed Jun 09, 2004 5:40 am
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: Your Album To Pass Down...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 16094
- Mon Jun 07, 2004 10:31 am
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: RIP Ronald Reagan
- Replies: 42
- Views: 31407
It's possibly partly BECAUSE of the IRA's hijacking of the concept of Irish nationalism that I have difficulty with the concept of nationalism full stop. There's an awful lot of palmed off in the name of isms. But I do admit to missing the smoke in the pubs. Aside from anything else, its exit has un...
- Mon Jun 07, 2004 8:05 am
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: RIP Ronald Reagan
- Replies: 42
- Views: 31407
Nationalism, eh? Here in Ireland it’s found at its most passionate furthest away from any actual fighting. Bars are a great spot for nationalism, I find. Just another way of slaughtering a few braincells I suppose. As an irishwoman I know better than most that most people mean well and just want to ...
- Sun Jun 06, 2004 6:47 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: RIP Ronald Reagan
- Replies: 42
- Views: 31407
What El Vez is saying makes complete sense. As an outsider, I can't understand is why there isn't a greater populist outcry in the US against this terrible war. To state the obvious, aside from the unfortunate Iraqis, it your US citizens, mainly young with a whole lot to contribute to their undoubte...
- Sun Jun 06, 2004 12:50 pm
- Forum: The Annex
- Topic: RIP Ronald Reagan
- Replies: 42
- Views: 31407
Good grief! I can't imagine anyone censoring SJN for expressing his views. What makes me a little ... tired and depressed to read this style of hyperbole is that it shows few people ever really learn from any mistakes of the past ... it's all SO repetitive, designed to rehash hoary old absolutes and...
- Fri Jun 04, 2004 3:11 am
- Forum: Tin Pan Alley
- Topic: EC song title inspired movies
- Replies: 19
- Views: 23621