Upvote for moby dick. Luv that shit!

Fun stuff!

I started Moby Dick about two years ago; I'm still reading it (halfway done).

"...whenever it's a damp November in my soul...." (one of my favorite lines ever).

In reply to this comment by EndAll:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Orson-Whales

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"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitue for pistol and ball."

Moby Dick, Melville

I'll be with you in spirit.

Bet you this gets hit with takedown notice by Warner Music Group. This is clearly Bonham on 'Moby dick'.

Fair enough, but I hope you at least understand the point I was trying to make.

>> ^rychan:
>> ^thinker247:
It reminds me that I should finish reading Moby Dick. Well, by read, I mean that I should judge the quality of the paper and binding used to make the copy I'm reading. I'll get to the content of the book later.
The texturing is a significant part of the video content. I think your analogy is flawed. Complaining about the paper and binding of Moby Dick would be like complaining about the compression codec or your LCD monitor. Complaining about the texturing and the transitions would be like complaining about the spelling, grammar, clarity, realism or flow of a novel. All valid complaints.

>> ^thinker247:
I know I feel cheapened and humiliated because the pictures in this video are not of the actual stars. How can I even begin to make the comparison of our infinitesimal existence to that of the giant stars in the giant universe, when I am too busy judging the quality of the video posted?
It reminds me that I should finish reading Moby Dick. Well, by read, I mean that I should judge the quality of the paper and binding used to make the copy I'm reading. I'll get to the content of the book later.


Analogy fail.

>> ^thinker247:
It reminds me that I should finish reading Moby Dick. Well, by read, I mean that I should judge the quality of the paper and binding used to make the copy I'm reading. I'll get to the content of the book later.

The texturing is a significant part of the video content. I think your analogy is flawed. Complaining about the paper and binding of Moby Dick would be like complaining about the compression codec or your LCD monitor. Complaining about the texturing and the transitions would be like complaining about the spelling, grammar, clarity, realism or flow of a novel. All valid complaints.

I know I feel cheapened and humiliated because the pictures in this video are not of the actual stars. How can I even begin to make the comparison of our infinitesimal existence to that of the giant stars in the giant universe, when I am too busy judging the quality of the video posted?

It reminds me that I should finish reading Moby Dick. Well, by read, I mean that I should judge the quality of the paper and binding used to make the copy I'm reading. I'll get to the content of the book later.

http://skepdic.com/bibcode.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
http://www.randi.org/jr/091704a.html (2nd from the top)
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mbiblecode.html

And a little quote from BRM's link:
"It has come to my attention that some people have taken this page as claiming that Moby Dick really predicted the assassinations of famous people. Please be assured that none of these patterns happened by other than pure random chance.

No laws of probability are violated here, or even stretched a little. That is also true of Drosnin's book, which is the whole point of this page. Once you learn Drosnin's rules (none) and the method (a bit of messy programming) you can find things like this anywhere. The reason it looks amazing is that the number of possible things to look for, and the number of places to look, is much greater than you imagine."

When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby Dick, I'll believe them.
(Newsweek, Jun 9, 1997)

Assassinations predicted by "Moby Dick":

-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
-President Rene Moawad
-Soviet exile Leon Trotsky
-The Reverend Martin Luther King
-Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss
-The assassin Sirhan Sirhan
-John F. Kennedy
-Abraham Lincoln
-Yitzhak Rabin

And Special Guest star:
Princess Diana
http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/moby.html

Very few of this are riffs and most of them certainly ain't cool.
So here's my list of the coolest guitar riffs.

1. Led Zeppelin - Whole lotta Love (Coolest riff ever, end of story forever and ever amen)

2. Jimi Hendrix - Foxy Lady (just plain damn cool)

3. The Troggs - Wild Thing (The Definition of cool guitar)

4. Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze

5. Metallica - Enter Sandman

6. The Doors - Peace Frog (Rage against the Machine ripped this off for bulls on Parade)

7. The Beatles - Come Together (More a bass guitar riff but still damn cool)

8. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

9. Collective Soul - Where the river flows

10. Cream - Sunshine of your love

11. Creedence Clearwater Revival - I heard it through the grapevine

12. Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well

13. Kasabian - Club Foot

14. Oasis - Wonderwall

15. Queen - Now I'm Here (Who knew Queens could be cool?)

16. Radiohead - Paranoid Android (The best piece of music Radiohead ever made)

17. U2 - One

18. Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick

19. Metallica - Whisky in the Jar (I prefer it to the Thin Lizzy Version)

20. Deep Purple - Smoke on the water

Clearly, Moby Dick is not required reading in Japanese schools. Sperm whales != Your friend.

orson is/was the man- you should check out his moby dick readings... pure awesomeness...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw6v-A7k9ok&mode=related&search=