― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huck, Wednesday, 4 August 2004 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link
This made me giggle for some reason.
― Talent Explosion (Talent Explosion), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm glad there has been three threads on this.
― theycallmetator, Wednesday, 4 August 2004 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link
ABBA, am Radio, Bach, Beach Boys, Beatles, Bee Gees, Beethoven, Billy Joel, Burt Bacharach, Chet Baker, Chopin, Dusty Springfield, Fate's Warning, France Gall, Francoise Hardy, Joao Gilberto, Kate Bush, KISS, Metallica, Mozart, Neil Diamond, Nirvana, Oasis, Ozma, Prince, Puccini, Schubert, Schumann's "Dichterliebe", Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, The Cure, Van Morrison
― theycallmetator, Wednesday, 4 August 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Holy Crap! Typhoon is Coming!!! :O (ex machina), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link
In Rivers' defense, he probably just cut-and-pasted a playlist out of a stupid mp3 player that doesn't alphabetize intelligently. Like, I dunno, every single one of them (except for the most recent version(s) of iTunes which are smart enough to disregard articles like "the").
― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Although, for a 34 year old, he seems incredibly immature.
― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link
-- CeCe Peniston (anthonymicci...) (webmail), August 4th, 2004 3:07 PM. (Anthony Miccio) (later) (link)
i don't think i've heard anything aside from "buddy holly" and "the sweater song"--or are those the same song? oh, now i sound like chuck eddy.
― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't agree w/ Ned on the Pinkerton to Catcher in the Rye comparison, though I think I see what he's getting at.
At any rate, Weezer's never been particularly ironic. Not any more than any 30-something who somewhat self-mockingly talks about time spent reading comics, playing D&D or listening to Kiss in the garage when they were young.
― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link
What's next? "I walked by a McDonalds, and from that point on I ate only McNuggets, wore yellow and red, slept by the dumpster..."
― John 2, Thursday, 5 August 2004 03:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― MerkinMuffley (MerkinMuffley), Thursday, 5 August 2004 06:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 August 2004 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link
-- VengaDan Perry (djperr...)
What, is this guy not allowed to be roasted here like every other musician? Or is your Harvard pride rearing its head?
― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Thursday, 5 August 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 August 2004 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― phil d., Friday, 6 August 2004 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm also deeply amused that people think that going to Harvard automatically means you have perfect grammar and are super-eloquent but that's a completely seperate thing.
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 August 2004 01:30 (nineteen years ago) link
"Ooh-eee-ooh, I look just like Krishnamurti..."
― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Friday, 6 August 2004 04:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Friday, 6 August 2004 04:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 August 2004 04:29 (nineteen years ago) link
-- VengaDan Perry (djperr...), August 6th, 2004.
OTM.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 6 August 2004 04:30 (nineteen years ago) link
-- ||amateur!st|| (||...) (webmail), August 6th, 2004 12:28 AM. (amateurist) (later) (link)
There's an interesting chapter on Heidegger's concept of vorhanden followed by a smoking cover of "Proud Mary."
― ||| (amateurist), Friday, 6 August 2004 04:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Friday, 6 August 2004 04:39 (nineteen years ago) link
I mean, fuck.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 6 August 2004 07:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 6 August 2004 07:39 (nineteen years ago) link
1) High test scores & good grades2) A large number of diverse extracurricular activities, particular if you hold leadership positions in them.3) Great rapport with your interviewer.4) Legacy.5) Fame.6) $$$$$.7) Sports recruitment.
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 August 2004 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link
Why bring it up in this thread and not the Black Eyed Peas one, which is just as brutal.
The funny thing is I was about to!
― ||amateur!st|| (amateurist), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― common_person (common_person), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Not knowing... or not caring about something that fucking trivial?
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 6 August 2004 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 6 August 2004 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link
(for real)
(ow)
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 August 2004 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 6 August 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.metalsludge.tv/main/modules/subjects/pages/ExposedWeezer.jpg
for my money, it's all about pre-epiphany cuomo
― chocolatepiekid, Monday, 1 December 2008 12:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Is that really the same essay? Because why would a Harvard application essay be about what he did after he left Harvard?
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Monday, 1 December 2008 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Or rather, was the premise behind this thread completely off from the get-go? (I never read the essay the first time, either.)
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Monday, 1 December 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Did he not go Back to harvard?
― Mark G, Monday, 1 December 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure it's a readmission essay to Harvard. He finished up his degree there just a few years ago. What's confusing is the last line, "I am returning to Harvard in the fall." That's a pretty confident statement, if his admission status was at all in doubt!
― Z S, Monday, 1 December 2008 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i just took it as your typical end-of-essay projection of confidence
― No HOOS need a steen whoppin (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 1 December 2008 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
As far as I know, you typically don't have to do a readmission essay. Once you've been accepted as a student, you can come back and finish your degree pretty much whenever you want to (I know a dude who ended up being 81-95 after dropping out due to horrific grades and building money as a slumlord for 13 years). They might ask you "why do you want to come back?" but I don't think re-admittance hinges on it.
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Monday, 1 December 2008 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I could not tell if my current predicament was just a classic case of an audience lagging behind the development of an artist (as in the case of Bob Dylan when he went electric)
― francisF, Monday, 1 December 2008 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
he's a classic case all right
― francisF, Monday, 1 December 2008 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, "Beverly Hills" was too far ahead of its time for us to fully grasp
― skygreenleopard, Monday, 1 December 2008 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't believe no one caught my hilarious addition to his essay. I guess it's a testament to the absurdity of some of his sentences that the bogus ones don't really stand out that much.
― Z S, Monday, 1 December 2008 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I can see the absurdity and pomposity, but it's basically a noble, honest-seeming essay. He doesn't elevate himself so much as examine the manner in which he knows he elevates himself (while also elevating himself, but that seems inevitable). I find it hard to "create" without struggling with a conflicted sense of my own greatness/failure, so I can accept his descriptions of the process at face value. I guess I only mean that I can relate, though I'm not a Celebrity Rock Artist.
4 sentences, 3 beginning with "I", 6 uses of the word "I".
― contenderizer, Monday, 1 December 2008 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I volunteered six days a week at Project Angel Food in Hollywood, preparing meals for people with HIV.
ive volunteered here, place is dope
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 01:01 (fifteen years ago) link
1P3 volunteering thread
― roxymuzak, Friday, 5 December 2008 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link
ladies and gentlemen...Rivers....ROMO
http://deadspin.com/tony-romo-spawns-future-frontman-of-weezer-cover-band-1547395027
― Little Nicky Pizza loved that rascal Rust (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 23:52 (ten years ago) link
I studied other writers’ methods. I took hundreds of pages of notes on the creative process, mostly from Nietzsche, but also from Goethe and Stravinsky.
Stravinsky influence really shows in "Hash Pipe".
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 20 March 2014 00:05 (ten years ago) link
"Island in the Sun" lyrics could be ripped straight from the pages of "Faust".
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 20 March 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Goethe_%28Stieler_1828%29.jpg/486px-Goethe_%28Stieler_1828%29.jpg
You can't find the words to sayAll the things that come to you
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 20 March 2014 00:07 (ten years ago) link