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  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    That's because Cocaine_Nosejob's wasn't a sonnet :)
    way to kick MY arse. <shrinking away> :o

    You Londoners are wicked smart.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • Cocaine_Nosejob
    Cocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    AmentsChick wrote:
    way to kick MY arse. <shrinking away> :o

    You Londoners are wicked smart.

    Haha...is it sad that I totally heard Casey Affleck in my head when you said that?
    When you wrote that?
    Uhhh...when I read that? Yeah...that one. That's the one that made sense.
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

    "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    AmentsChick wrote:
    way to kick MY arse. <shrinking away> :o

    You Londoners are wicked smart.
    Nahhh, if I was that smart I'd have read Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene in preparation for my Renaissance Lit class tomorrow, and I most certainly have not :p I also probably wouldn't be on here at 3:20am :o

    But the trick, by the way, is knowing that a sonnet has 14 lines usually and, in English sonnets, ends with a rhyming couplet. If I recall correctly, the passage Cocaine posted is from The Tempest.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Cocaine_Nosejob wrote:
    Haha...is it sad that I totally heard Casey Affleck in my head when you said that?
    When you wrote that?
    Uhhh...when I read that? Yeah...that one. That's the one that made sense.

    That was the point. Those Bostoners have some wicked accents.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • Cocaine_Nosejob
    Cocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    I'll sonnet you *shakes fist*

    As a decrepit father takes delight
    To see his active child do deeds of youth,
    So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite,
    Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
    For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,
    Or any of these all, or all, or more,
    Entitled in thy parts do crowned sit,
    I make my love engrafted to this store:
    So then I am not lame, poor, nor despised,
    Whilst that this shadow doth such substance give
    That I in thy abundance am sufficed
    And by a part of all thy glory live.
    Look, what is best, that best I wish in thee:
    This wish I have; then ten times happy me!
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

    "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Well allow me to retort.

    There is no joy like this, dear heart,
    for kingdoms a trade would not be fair.
    Ne'er did one feel the lover's dart
    so deeply, nor with heart so bare
    as mine, in youth a sad sung tale
    and sorely shamed, but for a kiss
    This ungenuous fool will wear no veil
    for never was such love as this,
    And if she grants but one request,
    I ask my subject, true and fine
    (For if she loves and vows to this
    To her, by hand, my heart I sign):
    "Would your song and splendid beauty pray
    take me from the dead loathsomeness of these ways?"

    :cool:
    :o
    :eek:

    I can barely believe I posted that here. How bold.

    Oh yeah, this is getting way off subject. Good call on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ms Nosejob.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Cocaine_Nosejob
    Cocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Well allow me to retort.

    There is no joy like this, dear heart,
    for kingdoms a trade would not be fair.
    Ne'er did one feel the lover's dart
    so deeply, nor with heart so bare
    as mine, in youth a sad sung tale
    and sorely shamed, but for a kiss
    This ungenuous fool will wear no veil
    for never was such love as this,
    And if she grants but one request,
    I ask my subject, true and fine
    (For if she loves and vows to this
    To her, by hand, my heart I sign):
    "Would your song and splendid beauty pray
    take me from the dead loathsomeness of these ways?"

    :cool:
    :o
    :eek:

    I can barely believe I posted that here. How bold.

    Oh yeah, this is getting way off subject.

    It's official. I am faaaar too immersed in pop culture, cuz I heard Samuel L. Jackson in my head that time. *sigh*
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

    "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Cocaine_Nosejob wrote:
    It's official. I am faaaar too immersed in pop culture, cuz I heard Samuel L. Jackson in my head that time. *sigh*
    For a minute there I thought you meant when you read the poem and I was like :eek: not the intended reaction. But then I got what you meant :p and you were supposed to :D I was quoting him.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czb4jn5y94g

    I totally thought you were talking about this :o My second stupid misunderstanding of the day.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    AmentsChick wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czb4jn5y94g

    I totally thought you were talking about this :o My second stupid misunderstanding of the day.
    We WERE talking about that :) When I said "Well allow me to retort", I was referencing that scene.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • PJ212
    PJ212 Posts: 827
    I love that this thread turned into a Shakespeare lovefest and that Pearl Jam fans on this board can quote Shakespeare.

    You guys are awesome.
    2000: CLT, Greensboro, 2003: MSG 1 & 2, 2008: MSG 1 & 2, 2009: LA 2 & 3, 2011: Vancouver, 2012: Missoula, 2013: Wrigley, Brooklyn 1 & 2, Voodoo, SD, LA 1 & 2, OAK, PDX, Vancouver, SEA, 2014: Cincy, ACL1, Tulsa, Lincoln, Memphis, Moline, St. Paul, MKE, DEN, Bridge 1 & 2, 2015: GCF, Mexico City, 2016: FLL, MIA, TPA, Greenville, Hampton, Columbia, MSG 1 & 2, Bonnaroo, Telluride, Fenway 1 & 2, Wrigley 1 & 2, 2017: ROHF, 2018: Padova, Rome, Prague, Seattle 1 & 2, Missoula, Wrigley 1 2021: SHN, Ohana 2 & 3, 2022: LA 1 & 2, PHX, OAK 1 & 2, Fresno, MSG, BNA, B&B, STL, OKC, DEN, 2023: MSP 1 & 2, CHI 1 & 2, DFW 2, AUS 1 & 2, 2024: Vancouver 1 & 2, LV 1 & 2, SEA 1 & 2
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    PJ212 wrote:
    I love that this thread turned into a Shakespeare lovefest and that Pearl Jam fans on this board can quote Shakespeare.

    You guys are awesome.
    We are, aren't we? :)
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Cocaine_Nosejob
    Cocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    PJ212 wrote:
    I love that this thread turned into a Shakespeare lovefest and that Pearl Jam fans on this board can quote Shakespeare.

    You guys are awesome.

    Isn't is fantastic?
    No one I actually know is as cool as half the people here.
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

    "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    PJ212 wrote:
    I love that this thread turned into a Shakespeare lovefest and that Pearl Jam fans on this board can quote Shakespeare.

    You guys are awesome.

    are you nypj,,,
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • redmosquito10
    redmosquito10 Posts: 568
    my list changes constantly, at the moment it's a bit dominated by Kerouac, so I'll limit him to 2 of the spots, and I'm aware that a lot of people hate him, I think I've taken shit for liking him on this board already. That being said, in no particular order:

    The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
    On the Road - Jack Kerouac
    The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
    For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
    Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
    The Last Hurrah - Edwin O'Connor
    The Mind's I - Douglas Hofstadter
    Walden - Henry Thoreau
    God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
    Kafka On the Shore - Haruki Murakami
    "Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH..."
  • PJ212
    PJ212 Posts: 827
    AmentsChick wrote:
    are you nypj,,,

    I do live in NY, but I haven't been known as anything else except PJ212 on this board.

    Do you guys go see theatre a lot? I think I saw one of the best productions of Macbeth last year I'll probably ever see. Patrick Stewart played Macbeth
    2000: CLT, Greensboro, 2003: MSG 1 & 2, 2008: MSG 1 & 2, 2009: LA 2 & 3, 2011: Vancouver, 2012: Missoula, 2013: Wrigley, Brooklyn 1 & 2, Voodoo, SD, LA 1 & 2, OAK, PDX, Vancouver, SEA, 2014: Cincy, ACL1, Tulsa, Lincoln, Memphis, Moline, St. Paul, MKE, DEN, Bridge 1 & 2, 2015: GCF, Mexico City, 2016: FLL, MIA, TPA, Greenville, Hampton, Columbia, MSG 1 & 2, Bonnaroo, Telluride, Fenway 1 & 2, Wrigley 1 & 2, 2017: ROHF, 2018: Padova, Rome, Prague, Seattle 1 & 2, Missoula, Wrigley 1 2021: SHN, Ohana 2 & 3, 2022: LA 1 & 2, PHX, OAK 1 & 2, Fresno, MSG, BNA, B&B, STL, OKC, DEN, 2023: MSP 1 & 2, CHI 1 & 2, DFW 2, AUS 1 & 2, 2024: Vancouver 1 & 2, LV 1 & 2, SEA 1 & 2
  • Cocaine_Nosejob
    Cocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    PJ212 wrote:
    I do live in NY, but I haven't been known as anything else except PJ212 on this board.

    Do you guys go see theatre a lot? I think I saw one of the best productions of Macbeth last year I'll probably ever see. Patrick Stewart played Macbeth

    I'm lucky to live only about an hour away from Stratford, ON, which holds a highly regarded annual Shakespeare Festival.
    I've seen some amazing performances.
    Last year, or maybe the year before I saw Much Ado About Nothing, and half the crowd was stone-faced throughout. I thought it was fucking hilarious, I laughed my ass off! I couldn't tell if the people didn't understand what was going on (as happens a lot at the Stratford Festival, a lot of people go so they can say they went), or if they actually live their lives without cracking a smile.
    I couldn't afford to attend any performances this year, much to my chagrin...they were showing R&J, Hamlet, and The Taming of the Shrew ....clearly not the year to miss it. :(

    I did however see an outdoor performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream locally this summer, performed by a youth theatre group, and they did so well! It was awesome!

    This isn't Shakespeare, but last year at the Stratford Festival I saw a performance of To Kill A Mockingbird, and it was so amazing. Amazing doesn't do it justice really. It moved me to tears.
    The woman who was sitting next to me cried the whole time, she could hardly contain herself, and at the end, she immediately jumped up and started clapping and cheering, then she looks at me and apologized.
    Apparently her son was the kid playing Dill and it was the first show he'd ever been in. It was so cute, she was so proud!
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

    "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

  • Cocaine_Nosejob
    Cocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    AmentsChick wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czb4jn5y94g

    I totally thought you were talking about this :o My second stupid misunderstanding of the day.


    That's honestly the only passage of the buy-bull I'm able to recite.
    How do I love thee, Samuel L. Jackson? Let me count the ways... :)
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

    "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

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