Danny Elfman = Musical Genius

I wish I owned this software!

Looks like a lot of fun but a bit pricey and I just don't have the time to toy with it now....but maybe someday......

One of my favorite animated films

I'm looking forward to the live-action films based on this animated classic.

Who cares?

I keep reading about how the little Chinese girl who 'sang' at the Olympic Opening Ceremony was just lip-synching like 'Milli Vanilli' to which I reply, WHO CARES?

So, what if she was lip-synching? What does that matter? Is that somehow against the rules or 'integrity' of the Olympics?

This is one issue where I'm going to side with China.

Also, from my experience here, this is common to a lot of Chinese entertainment/media.

I have seen a lot of Chinese TV shows and movies where the actors' real voices are dubbed over by different people because one person has the proper 'look' and the other has the proper 'voice' so that's just how it's done here.

Anything wrong with that?

Absolutely not.

I love Steinberger

I just love them for the design and not much else. I prefer playing on a musicman stingray or warwick but steinbergers are fun just because they seem so 'post-modern' to me.

Parmenides

Parmenides of Elea (Greek: Παρμενίδης ο Ἐλεάτης, early 5th century BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast of Italy. He was the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy, his only known work is a poem which has survived only in fragmentary form. In it, Parmenides describes two views of reality. In the Way of Truth, he explained how reality is one; change is impossible; and existence is timeless, uniform, and unchanging. In the Way of Opinion, he explained the world of appearances, which is false and deceitful. These thoughts strongly influenced Plato, and through him, the whole of western philosophy.

Walter Kaufman partial bibliography

Original works
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
From Shakespeare to Existentialism
Critique of Religion and Philosophy
Tragedy and Philosophy
Hegel: A Reinterpretation
The Faith of a Heretic
Without Guilt and Justice
Cain and Other Poems
Existentialism, Religion, and Death: Thirteen Essays
The Future of the Humanities
Religions in Four Dimensions
Discovering the Mind, a trilogy consisting of
Goethe, Kant, and Hegel
Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Buber
Freud Versus Adler and Jung
Man's Lot: A Trilogy, consisting of
Life at the Limits
Time is an Artist
What is Man?