circumvolutions
Aug. 23rd, 2012 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaI know what a rush is. I know that it's an occupational surname as well. But Rush-That-Speaks reminds me of Jabba the Rush. And for that I am sorry.
I really like his take on the months. If it's September 20 and it feels like November 1st, it's November 1st.
This guy had the most bewildering and/or awesomest and/or bewilderingly awesome and/or awesomely bewildering outfit: cotton candy blue hair, 3D glasses with a red and blue lens (which he didn't wear most of the time, since I'd imagine he'd get a headache after a while and get dizzy and maybe fall down the stairs at some point), a paisley shirt, a fuzzy vest, striped pants that were designed at the Tetsuya Nomura School of Fashion, and combat boots.
The Concertstück for Four Horns was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for them. Horn virtuosity is less obvious than guitar virtuosity
Sinfonia Concertante didn't really stand out to me in any way. It's a pretty cool concept, though.
I know the Italian Symphony. I wasn't so sure it was Mendelssohn, though. It was in one of the many overplayed episodes of the Simpsons, and I really thought it was Beethoven.
I don't know the wedding song's context in Midsummer Night's Dream, honestly. I do know that Wagner despised Mendelssohn, and using the two pieces in a wedding is like putting something I wrote in an anthology with Dan Simmons (you should be able to tell I'm comparing myself to Mendelssohn here) (ok, fine, Dan Simmons probably doesn't even know I exist) and Ayn Rand. Still better than Man! I Feel Like A Woman! But then again, most things are.
***
Ok, I found someone listing his books, and, well, here are a few thoughts:
1. I'm surprised he can touch a Robert Silverberg novel without his hand burning. Or Sucharitkul or Delany.
2. He has The Books of the Black Current, Otherwise by Crowley, The Summer Queen by Vinge, some Volsky books,
2.718281828459045: Well, I have some obscure books you don't have, like Star of the Unborn Capella's Golden Eyes, the Dominions of Irth, and Coelestis, so ha.
2.9: There's an easy way to remember that. 2.7 Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson Isosceles Right Triangle.
3. I don't even think he's read a tenth of his list. Or a fiftieth.
3.14159. As much as I want to take these off his hands for him, we thankfully don't live in the same states and I know I'd be funding his survivalist codswallop.
3.15149. There's no easy way to remember pi, unless you're Apu.
3.5 Maybe ZOG will grant me spoils of war when they descend upon his compound in black helicopters.
3.55. Too bad that's not a real thing.
He also wrote a story, except it's not so much a story as it is a vaguely fictionalized manifesto. (this is past me speaking) But first I need to finish Engine Summer. I vowed to complete it before Isaac or Joyce cuts me off from the world of pdfs, but I don't think that's going to happen. I love it I love it I love it. I'm wondering if there's any books about alien fungus taking over the earth, without any sort of violence from the fungus, just a symbiosis if even that.
It's from the perspective of an 11 year old girl with a 180+ IQ and the same interests and politics as the author, and since it's politically incorrect, it will attract readers who don't care about quality prose (and trust me on this, give me five minutes and something to describe and I can write a better paragraph than anything in that screed not even disguised as a story) or characterization or plot or anything. And I don't care about the orbital dynamics stuff in there. It's completely irrelevant to the story, and if I wanted to read about it, I'd pick up a textbook. I'm pretty sure he's just quoting it directly anyway. I'd call it Simmons without the good, but I don't see any Muslim-bashing. There is a conversation about school lunches that makes me want to read Kibology instead.
That's my thoughts for the first few chapters. It soon degenerates into batshittery. The premise is that there were gods about 20000 years ago, they diluted their blood, Hitler tried to bring back the god genes, blah blah blah, and he ends it there, with a comment about how she'll meet a Russian athlete who also has superhuman strength and intelligence and is politically incorrect and she rescues him from prison and uses the power of google translator to say something in German and turn everyone away from their obviously-Jewish government and towards her and that Russian guy and they go to the moon and fall in love and fight moon monsters and black people.
Yeah. I have better things to read.
I don't even think Stop The GR Bullies can defend this guy.
Burning question: What's the silliest instance of censorship you've encountered?
I really like his take on the months. If it's September 20 and it feels like November 1st, it's November 1st.
This guy had the most bewildering and/or awesomest and/or bewilderingly awesome and/or awesomely bewildering outfit: cotton candy blue hair, 3D glasses with a red and blue lens (which he didn't wear most of the time, since I'd imagine he'd get a headache after a while and get dizzy and maybe fall down the stairs at some point), a paisley shirt, a fuzzy vest, striped pants that were designed at the Tetsuya Nomura School of Fashion, and combat boots.
The Concertstück for Four Horns was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for them. Horn virtuosity is less obvious than guitar virtuosity
Sinfonia Concertante didn't really stand out to me in any way. It's a pretty cool concept, though.
I know the Italian Symphony. I wasn't so sure it was Mendelssohn, though. It was in one of the many overplayed episodes of the Simpsons, and I really thought it was Beethoven.
I don't know the wedding song's context in Midsummer Night's Dream, honestly. I do know that Wagner despised Mendelssohn, and using the two pieces in a wedding is like putting something I wrote in an anthology with Dan Simmons (you should be able to tell I'm comparing myself to Mendelssohn here) (ok, fine, Dan Simmons probably doesn't even know I exist) and Ayn Rand. Still better than Man! I Feel Like A Woman! But then again, most things are.
***
Ok, I found someone listing his books, and, well, here are a few thoughts:
1. I'm surprised he can touch a Robert Silverberg novel without his hand burning. Or Sucharitkul or Delany.
2. He has The Books of the Black Current, Otherwise by Crowley, The Summer Queen by Vinge, some Volsky books,
2.718281828459045: Well, I have some obscure books you don't have, like Star of the Unborn Capella's Golden Eyes, the Dominions of Irth, and Coelestis, so ha.
2.9: There's an easy way to remember that. 2.7 Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson Isosceles Right Triangle.
3. I don't even think he's read a tenth of his list. Or a fiftieth.
3.14159. As much as I want to take these off his hands for him, we thankfully don't live in the same states and I know I'd be funding his survivalist codswallop.
3.15149. There's no easy way to remember pi, unless you're Apu.
3.5 Maybe ZOG will grant me spoils of war when they descend upon his compound in black helicopters.
3.55. Too bad that's not a real thing.
He also wrote a story, except it's not so much a story as it is a vaguely fictionalized manifesto. (this is past me speaking) But first I need to finish Engine Summer. I vowed to complete it before Isaac or Joyce cuts me off from the world of pdfs, but I don't think that's going to happen. I love it I love it I love it. I'm wondering if there's any books about alien fungus taking over the earth, without any sort of violence from the fungus, just a symbiosis if even that.
It's from the perspective of an 11 year old girl with a 180+ IQ and the same interests and politics as the author, and since it's politically incorrect, it will attract readers who don't care about quality prose (and trust me on this, give me five minutes and something to describe and I can write a better paragraph than anything in that screed not even disguised as a story) or characterization or plot or anything. And I don't care about the orbital dynamics stuff in there. It's completely irrelevant to the story, and if I wanted to read about it, I'd pick up a textbook. I'm pretty sure he's just quoting it directly anyway. I'd call it Simmons without the good, but I don't see any Muslim-bashing. There is a conversation about school lunches that makes me want to read Kibology instead.
That's my thoughts for the first few chapters. It soon degenerates into batshittery. The premise is that there were gods about 20000 years ago, they diluted their blood, Hitler tried to bring back the god genes, blah blah blah, and he ends it there, with a comment about how she'll meet a Russian athlete who also has superhuman strength and intelligence and is politically incorrect and she rescues him from prison and uses the power of google translator to say something in German and turn everyone away from their obviously-Jewish government and towards her and that Russian guy and they go to the moon and fall in love and fight moon monsters and black people.
Yeah. I have better things to read.
I don't even think Stop The GR Bullies can defend this guy.
Burning question: What's the silliest instance of censorship you've encountered?
