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Author Topic: From Amsterdam to Paris to GeekForum  (Read 6490 times)

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Re: From Amsterdam to Paris to GeekForum
« Reply #25 on: February 26, 2009, 05:12:17 PM »
Quote from: ivan on February 26, 2009, 02:33:54 PM
Good to see you, LS!

All is well?


Exquisite. I've spent the better part of the year down at the palm springs place, doing just about zero work. Went to Ghana for two weeks with an old drummer, came back, and I found someone here in Oregon who wanted to pay me to sit around a university for a term and write songs "at my pleasure" for their jazz studies program. So, I'm in the life of Riley until I pack up for Seattle again when the rain is gone. Although, the rain is here as well.

The only issue I'm having is a proclivity to unintentionally steal Billy Corgan riffs on a peice that I'm working on right now. I'm much too old to responsibly know who he is, much less be influenced by his very un-jazzy music. Anyway.

Yourself?
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Re: From Amsterdam to Paris to GeekForum
« Reply #26 on: February 26, 2009, 07:02:46 PM »
Quote from: LuciferSam on February 26, 2009, 05:12:17 PM
Exquisite. I've spent the better part of the year down at the palm springs place, doing just about zero work. Went to Ghana for two weeks with an old drummer, came back, and I found someone here in Oregon who wanted to pay me to sit around a university for a term and write songs "at my pleasure" for their jazz studies program. So, I'm in the life of Riley until I pack up for Seattle again when the rain is gone. Although, the rain is here as well.

The only issue I'm having is a proclivity to unintentionally steal Billy Corgan riffs on a peice that I'm working on right now. I'm much too old to responsibly know who he is, much less be influenced by his very un-jazzy music. Anyway.

Yourself?

Compared to you?

So-so.

But healthy, happy and employed, at least!

In re: pilfering BC riffs, I bet you can get away with it. The genre translation may mask it, and maybe your target audience is unfamilliar with his work.
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Re: From Amsterdam to Paris to GeekForum
« Reply #27 on: February 27, 2009, 04:42:39 AM »
Don't hack the newbie intro thread Old Man!

I think Issei is in prison DC, don't scare the girl :slap
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Re: From Amsterdam to Paris to GeekForum
« Reply #28 on: February 27, 2009, 05:30:10 AM »
Quote from: jeee on February 27, 2009, 04:42:39 AM
I think Issei is in prison DC, don't scare the girl

 Nope. 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issei_Sagawa
 
 "...French psychologists found him legally insane and unfit to stand trial. He was deported back to Japan, where he was put in a mental institution. The deportation order did not specify how long Sagawa must remain in the institution, and Japanese authorities were refused the necessary paperwork from French justice officials. As a result, fifteen months later, Sagawa checked himself out, and he has been a free man ever since.

Post-release

Sagawa now lives in Tokyo and is a minor celebrity in Japan. He is often invited as a guest speaker and commentator. He also writes restaurant reviews. In 1992, he appeared in Hisayasu Sato's film Sisenjiyou no Aria (The Bedroom) as a sadosexual voyeur."


  Holy crap. He writes restaurant reviews? ? ?   :|





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Re: From Amsterdam to Paris to GeekForum
« Reply #29 on: February 27, 2009, 07:18:38 AM »
Yes, he spent less than 18 months incarcerated for the murder and snack combined, and now he's a mid level celebrity - that's why it's always fascinated me.

Also, the stranglers song about it.

Il etait une fois un etudiant / Qui voulait fort, comme en literature
Sa copine, elle etait si douce
Qu'il pouvait presque, en la management
Rejeter tous les vices / Repousser tou les mals
Detruire toutes beautes
Qui par ailleurs, n'avait jamais ete ses complices
Parces qu'il avait la folie, oui, c'est la folie

Have to give the japanese some regards, since killing and eating someone is still more impressive in terms of life work than whatever Paris Hilton has managed to do.
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Re: From Amsterdam to Paris to GeekForum
« Reply #30 on: February 27, 2009, 10:30:49 AM »
Awesome story... and dude, he looks scary...

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Re: From Amsterdam to Paris to GeekForum
« Reply #31 on: February 27, 2009, 11:44:01 AM »
If by scary, you mean erudite. He's quite the computer wizard as well - look at that machine behind him. Thoroughly modern - looks just like mine.
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Re: From Amsterdam to Paris to GeekForum
« Reply #32 on: February 27, 2009, 03:30:37 PM »
Welcome back Luci, I smited you just to bring you back into balance.
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Re: From Amsterdam to Paris to GeekForum
« Reply #33 on: February 28, 2009, 01:27:06 PM »
You are a scholar and a gentleman.
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