Last post wins!!!!!

[j_tour]

I win!

4 second response time. Dang it.

Wow.  You're realling pegging the meter there, boy.

The lucky little lady must be so proud.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Well, you're the first one to notice, and not the last to respond. 

It sure looks like I'm the last to respond, considering that there isn't a post below this one (at time of this writing).

[perfect_pitch]

"My" "work" indeed!  Only you have the finely tuned ears at your disposal, to make what is drudgery for we mere mortals into child's play.

You almost had me... but then you had to go and say this...

You must prove yourself, boy!  By doing my bidding

I think I'll let you slave away in the drudgery... Maybe it might keep you busy for a few days while I continue winning this thread.

[ravelfan07]

It sure looks like I'm the last to respond, considering that there isn't a post below this one (at time of this writing).

Now I’m the last!

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Now I’m the last!

You keep saying that and it's never correct.

[j_tour]

I win!

4 second response time. Dang it.

Wow.  That's pretty sweet, dude.

You do realize we're measuring time at a much larger scale, right?

A decade might be significant, for example.

A "blahblah seconds" is but a worm's feed.

I think I'll let you slave away in the drudgery... Maybe it might keep you busy for a few days while I continue winning this thread.

No it doesn't.

For have you not heard of what a marvelous, eccentric, unique gift you have, and what deprivation you will unto we merely humble musicians?

You must perform this task, for only you can, and the treasure you possess is enormous.

[perfect_pitch]

For have you not heard of what a marvelous, eccentric, unique gift you have, and what deprivation you will unto we merely humble musicians?

You must perform this task, for only you can, and the treasure you possess is enormous.

I've heard multiple times what a marvellous gift I have. Frankly I've stopped caring, and I don't need people to feed my ego.

...but I don't have to prove anything to you. I've proven my skills over and over again, and I've got dozens of arrangements published.

This may be a chance for you to enhance your skills.   

[j_tour]

This may be a chance for you to enhance your skills.   

Haven't got many  Outplay you anyday, though, huevón. 

You may have the tools of a young man, ready to beat the world, but it is not certain that you have the stamina.

[ravelfan07]

You keep saying that and it's never correct.

One day it shall be

[liszt-and-the-galops]

One day it shall be

Nope. Never will be.

[gasplamey]

Nope. Never will be.

Be nice...
He's probabaly only 8 or something.

[j_tour]

Be nice...
He's probabaly only 8 or something.

Yeah, you are.

[gasplamey]

Yeah, you are.

I was reffering to ravel-fan being about 8.
And I'm certainly much more of an adult than most of the people on this thread.

[perfect_pitch]

You may have the tools of a young man, ready to beat the world, but it is not certain that you have the stamina.

I've easily kept up with you in this thread that has gone for over 11 years...

I have almost infinite stamina... You ain't going to beat me.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

And I'm certainly much more of an adult than most of the people on this thread.

Really? You're either someone's alt or pretending to be someone's alt, and you still think that you're the most mature one here?

[perfect_pitch]

Really? You're either someone's alt or pretending to be someone's alt, and you still think that you're the most mature one here?

Exactly... we all know Gasplamey isn't the most mature one here... it's clearly J_Tour...

...since he's in his 70's or possibly 80's. All his references to 1950's black & white movies and TV shows clearly show off his very mature age.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

I wonder what happened to LIIW...
They've been gone for quite a while now.

[perfect_pitch]

Could just be on holiday... I mean, it's been known to happen. You get stressed, you need a break - plane ticket later, winning this forum is the last thing on your mind.

[lostinidlewonder]

I wonder what happened to LIIW...
They've been gone for quite a while now.

They have been hiding in the shadows watching you through your windows.... omg what did we just see??

[liszt-and-the-galops]

They have been hiding in the shadows watching you through your windows.... omg what did we just see??

Seriously? You too?

[perfect_pitch]

Seriously? You too?

Hey - I have a job - I don't have time to be peering at people from the darkness. Plus, I'm Scottish - the only way I'd be able to hide is in a snowstorm.

I'd stand out like a torch light in the darkness.

[j_tour]

I was reffering to ravel-fan being about 8.

Yes, you were.

And I was referring to you.

Everyone knows Ravel fans are stunted in growth

Exactly... we all know Gasplamey isn't the most mature one here... it's clearly J_Tour...

Ninety-seven years young and feeling spry as ever.  Except for my sciatica, but that's been a problem since I was a young man thirty or forty years ago.

The ladies really enjoy it when I take my teeth out and get a groove going on the jew's harp while playing my washtub bass. 

[perfect_pitch]

The ladies really enjoy it when I take my teeth out and get a groove going on the jew's harp while playing my washtub bass

No one on the planet finds the washtub bass interesting or groovy... Maybe those who make their bathtub moonshine and shoot those who don't look redneck enough... but no one will genuinely admit that they like the washtub bass.

No one in their right mind...

[j_tour]

No one on the planet finds the washtub bass interesting or groovy... Maybe those who make their bathtub moonshine and shoot those who don't look redneck enough... but no one will genuinely admit that they like the washtub bass.

No one in their right mind...

Uh huh.  Yep.  Another thrilling battle of wits conceded to Perfect Snatch or Pitch or Patch or whatever his name is.

[perfect_pitch]

Uh huh.  Yep.  Another thrilling battle of wits conceded to Perfect Snatch or Pitch or Patch or whatever his name is.

Is it too hard to remember my name??? Are you going senile??? Maybe let those lovely men in the white coats take you away to somewhere that is warm & nice... and padded.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Perfect Snatch or Pitch or Patch or whatever his name is.

I think it's Perfect Pint. As in, "a pint of beer."

[perfect_pitch]

There is no such thing as the perfect pint... just lots to choose from and appreciate.   

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Australia famously lost a war to birds. So did China, though people don't focus on that.

[perfect_pitch]

We lost a war to the sharks, the spiders and pretty much every animal trying to *** kill us.

Now we just try not to piss off our animal overlords.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

The US also went to war with birds.
And they won, too.

Now to be fair, albatross are much easier to eliminate than emus and sparrows.

[gasplamey]

The US also went to war with birds.

Hasn't the US lost wars to concepts and inanimate objects?

[perfect_pitch]

Hasn't the US lost wars to concepts and inanimate objects?

I suspect if Trump gets the Presidency again, America's going to be tearing itself from the inside out simply due to tension, racism and pure ego.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Hasn't the US lost wars to concepts and inanimate objects?

I assume you mean the "war on terror" and the "war on drugs."

Blame that on the Bush family. No one really liked them then, and no one really likes them now.

[j_tour]

You people best shut your goddamned pie holes about those insane cretins known as failed fascist right-wingers in the U.S.

Those a-holes don't deserve the credit of being referred to as humans with such privileges as proper names.  A glutinous mass of spackled organic tissue, indifferentiable one from the next, and worthy of as much respect.

See, even Prefect Satch can agree with that.

And you best believe I have a Concealed Handgun License in my state.  There are a metric buttload of dangerous nutters out there:  I'm merely a high functioning sociopath with correct leftist leanings and the benefit of a classical education.  No, I don't regularly carry, but I do have a nice little spot in the car in case some bogan with roo bars and knobby tires aims to start Thunderdome against some humble musician merely abiding.

Yes, I am judging all of you.  The wisest course of action is to pretend these out of control manic dullards don't exist, but be ready to pretend to protest and pretend one won't be massacred by civilian law enforcement.

[perfect_pitch]

See, even Prefect Satch can agree with that.

I'll agree with that... only when you get my *** name right.

The wisest course of action is to pretend these out of control manic dullards don't exist

You can try that all you want... you can stick your fingers in your ear and go 'tra la la, I'm not listening, I'm not listening' for the next 5 months, but one of this bloody pillocks is going to be in the oval office (apparently); that is if Biden can even remember where the White House is located, and Trump hasn't tried to knock the building down and replace it with another Trump Tower.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

See, even Prefect Satch can agree with that.

I'm not 100% sure about that...
He was spamming their leader's name earlier.

Also, the republicans weren't always fascists. That only really started with trump.
Crazy to think that they were, at one point, the only party in the US that actually opposed slavery.

[j_tour]

All you people are certifiable.  Preturb Patch the most of all if he thinks a Biden term is going to be remotely comparable to allowing a convicted felon, a disgraced failure of a businessman, a confirmed and unapologetic perpetrator of rape by instrumentation (at the least), likely a broker of classified documents to enemy states, an illiterate rube, and a friend to failed states like Russia and North Korea to pretend to "serve" while looking at picture books some lackey drew for him and golfing and primarily residing at some private residence which he does not, nor will ever, nor ever has owned as a private individual.



Anyway.  Just how big a repertoire did Pollini have, anyway?  I just recently heard a recording of him doing the Prokofiev 7th (piano) Sonata, which is still busting my balls....yes, even the first movement, which I used to dismiss as pretty trivial (technically) to play....well, I suppose it still is, but it's not just the notes.  Still can't rattle off the two-bar beat from the precipitato either...and it's been years...maybe I'll make a recording of it and play it while I sleep.

I predict chronic insomnia.   

I always supposed Maury had a fantastic memory, you know....having serial compositions in one's head at all times is not that easy, for me, anyway.

This is a good opportunity to explore his œuvre, I find.  Previously, I really only knew and admired his Schönberg recordings.

[perfect_pitch]

To answer your post:

1) Biden apparently trailed off being unable to answer a simple question, yet you think he can run the country?

2) Trump is... well, everything you said. I didn't say he was better. I just said you've got a fuckwit on one side, and a forgetful twat on the other... and apparently one of them has to run your country.

3) Pollini was a god. I've just listened to his Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto dozens of times, and he played it was bravura and just ease (the video should be online somewhere). His Petrushka recordings still haven't been matched by anyone today (in my opinion).

4) I'm finally on holidays, so I'll be able to stay on top of this thread more often. Watch me continue to win this thread.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

This is a throwaway post. I don't care if someone beats this post.

[j_tour]

4) I'm finally on holidays, so I'll be able to stay on top of this thread more often. Watch me continue to win this thread.

I'm so grateful that your contributions will be uninterrupted.  Your next syllable will be a joy to behold.

This is a throwaway post. I don't care if someone beats this post.

You are valued for your discretion, honesty, and forthright manner. 

I never have believed what they've said about you. 

[perfect_pitch]

This is a throwaway post. I don't care if someone beats this post.

Nobody cares if they beat your post... in fact they're all determined to beat your post. Not that you're a threat or a worry to us.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

I'm so grateful that your contributions will be uninterrupted.  Your next syllable will be a joy to behold.

p_p said something about kidnapping Chuck Norris at the start of this thread. Glad to know he's still safe.

[perfect_pitch]

He's not worth my time - he's old now so it would be like beating up a kid. It wouldn't be fair.

[j_tour]

You people sure talk a lot about "beating," and with the implication that one be "beating" oneself or others nearby.

Is this a meat-related fetish, or is this some kind of dark cabal, of the sort one stumbles upon now and then?

I must say, I've been playing more organ lately than I have in the past few years, but my touch suffers when stroking the pianoforte's more firm keys.  (Yes, I'll be serious for once and confirm that most of Bach's keyboard works translate pretty much 1:1 to the organ, with only that one has the option to introduce different registrations and assign different parts to different limbs...not dissimilar to, say, a double-manual harpsichord with pedals, or stacked clavichords.)

Feet are strong, though, happy to say.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

I already revealed a small amount of the true power of Liszt... where do you think that 2 second response time came from?

[perfect_pitch]

You people sure talk a lot about "beating," and with the implication that one be "beating" oneself or others nearby.

One, there's a difference between beating up someone and beating them off... we're not fluffers.

Two, is there other things apart from the piano keys you like stroking???   

[j_tour]

One, there's a difference between beating up someone and beating them off... we're not fluffers.

Two, is there other things apart from the piano keys you like stroking???   

I quite enjoy stroking Batman. 

Also, I'm becoming fairly adept at the organ...two manuals and a proper pedal board, hinged from under the bench, not those little stabby front-loaded ones.

It keeps my hand busy changing registrations and a number of other settings.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

Only just decided to read that post and found this...

Preturb Patch

While we're on the topic, I think I was wrong before. It's think it's actually perverted_pitch.
Bet I know what p_p's response is going to be...

[j_tour]

Only just decided to read that post and found this... While we're on the topic, I think I was wrong before. It's think it's actually perverted_pitch.
Bet I know what p_p's response is going to be...

No, I don't believe you exist.

Go play with yourself, you small child.

[liszt-and-the-galops]

No, I don't believe you exist.

Too bad. I'm right here and responded within 1.5 minutes.

Also, no image?