hello pom, which album covers and titles do you find most compelling?
― ogmor, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 22:13 (five years ago) link
do you prefer songs or albums
― gabbnebulous (darraghmac), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
I like it when songs are part of an album.
As for album covers, I am a visually challenged iconoclast. I also hate words and hence titles.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
do u feel more romanian or canadian or something else
― imago, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 22:29 (five years ago) link
On second thought, I am sensitive to cheesy, punny classical album covers, such as this one:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71jawUSkFcL._SY355_.jpg
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link
lol
― imago, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 22:33 (five years ago) link
Which currently active composers are you into?
― Driving Drone for Christmas (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 22:33 (five years ago) link
Hmm. I am generally at a slight remove from whatever culture I am currently engaged in. Which ultimately feels Canadian more than anything.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
I've listened to very little classical music this year because metal is a harsh taskmistress. But in recent years, I've favoured Helena Tulve, Alberto Posadas and Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir. Off the top of my head.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 22:35 (five years ago) link
You were able to recommend 27 new classical music albums in a year when you "listened to very little classical music"!
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
To ask something, what is it that brought you to the UK? If school, what are you studying?
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link
some fearsome answers. what are your favourite bits of choral music? particularly interested in any old favs you might have like brumel's earthquake mass or leonin & perotin
― ogmor, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
True enough lol. I guess for a binge-listener like myself (and 95% of ILXors) it doesn't feel like much, all the more so since I dedicated the previous six or seven years of listening to classical music almost exclusively.
As for what brought me to the UK, I finished my PhD (in French literature) last year and got a postdoctoral scholarship to stave off perpetual unemployment for another two years. One of the French writers I'm working on happens to be more popular in the UK than in North America (even France, to some extent, although that's debatable) so it was easier to find someone to work with across the pond. I'm also accessorily interested in his influence on contemporary British literature, so it made for an easier sell.
xp
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link
oh cool, where are you studying?
― imago, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link
Awesome question, ogmor. I absolutely love Victoria's 1605 Requiem, especially as performed by The Sixteen. And yes, Pérotin remains a stalwart favourite, although I'm slightly less taken with Léonin. For less conventional choral sounds from the pre-classical period, Marcel Pérès's and the Ensemble Organum's series for Harmonia Mundi is a bottomless well of unorthodox (to modern ears, at least) takes on the European tradition, and I'm immediately sold on any disc featuring works by Ars nova composers.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 23:28 (five years ago) link
I'm at that classist stronghold they call Oxford. As someone whose knowledge of British culture is frankly limited, or unconventional at best, it does have a way of making me feel remarkably inadequate, especially since I suffer from a severe case of impostor syndrome (like most would-be academics, no doubt).
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 23:30 (five years ago) link
[calzino] you're doubtless increasing the average intelligence of that open latrine by a factor of three! [/calzino]
let's talk metal. what are you looking for when you press play on a black metal album
― imago, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 23:33 (five years ago) link
xp like very few oxbridgians tho
― gabbnebulous (darraghmac), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link
Pomenitul/ogmor, I assume you both enjoy Machaut's Messe de Notre dame ~~
― glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
It really depends, imago. As a general rule, I like to be consumed by a seething vortex of inverted stars, so anything that approximates that effect is bound to catch my interest. Some amount of melodic and harmonic variation is necessary, however, otherwise I quickly get bored. But I'm also into Emperor and Dissection worship, as long as it manages to shake up the formula somewhat or beat them at their own game (which has yet to occur, in my experience). Experimentalism or whatever you wish to call it is not something I seek for its own sake but I have very little patience for Transilvanian Hunger soundalikes especially.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 23:41 (five years ago) link
Yes, the Messe de Notre Dame is definitely up there for me. And Pérès and the Ensemble Organum have incidentally provided us with a deliciously idiosyncratic recording of it (but aren't they all?).
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link
darragh, the word that always springs to mind when I meet genuine Oxbridgians (aside from the professors themselves, who have been incredibly nice and welcoming thus far, mostly giving the lie to my fears) is 'serenity'. They are utterly serene in their expectation that life will turn out exactly as it should, and they're probably, depressingly correct in their assessment.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
ppl from camford are presumably resigned to their lot
― gabbnebulous (darraghmac), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 23:48 (five years ago) link
pomenitul you haven’t heard Setherial Nord or Sacramentum Far Away From The Sun?
― Siegbran, Thursday, 27 December 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
I have (thanks to you, incidentally) and I love them both, but neither tops In the Nightside Eclipse as far as I'm concerned. To be fair, it's the first BM album that thoroughly clicked for me, so it holds a special place in my personal pantheon. Maybe I'll change my mind in a few years.
Speaking of which, have you heard Vargrav's Netherstorm? I've only listened to it once but it struck me as a solid approximation.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 27 December 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
pomenitul will liverpool win the league
― gabbnebulous (darraghmac), Thursday, 27 December 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
Yes, Shaqiri willing.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 27 December 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
pomenitul: what is the thread where people complained about air pods and called them “douchey”? I got a pair for christmas and I’m in love. They sync so easily to my iphone and sound, seemingly, better than earbuds though obviously not as good as my high end headphones. I want to yell at the people who say air pods are bad.
― 💫 (Trϵϵship), Thursday, 27 December 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link
Here you go. As a side note, I've been known to describe them as douchey irl myself, but deep down my envy knows no bounds.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 27 December 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
😎👍
― 💫 (Trϵϵship), Thursday, 27 December 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
E cineva acolo?
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
Doar până la un punct (am întâmpinat Anul Nou cu febră și frisoane).
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link
O, îmi pare rău.
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link
'Rău!' she said, shouting, pointing at my phone and then at the grave. 'Rău, rău, rău!'
― imago, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 21:59 (four years ago) link
Avea dreptate baba!
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 22:02 (four years ago) link
Dear pom,Have you seen Infinite Football? Also do you mind answering beginner Romanian questions, should they arise, from language study dilettantes?Sincerely,JR&tBs
― Disco Cladistic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 January 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
Dear James,
I haven't seen it yet, no, but I'm generally a fan of Porumboiu's stuff. As for questions about the Romanian language, be my guest, I'll help however I can.
Best wishes,
pom
― pomenitul, Saturday, 18 January 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
I haven’t bothered checking if your views have changed since but otm re AirPods. Which language(s) do you think and/or dream in? Does it depend where you are or is it tied to memory?
― steer karma (gyac), Saturday, 18 January 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
My perception of AirPods hasn't changed, although now that the iPhone 6 is no longer supported I'm more envious of people who have iOS 13.
As for dreams… I guess it depends on the context but it usually feels like some kind of amorphous, pre-linguistic cipher is guiding me in my sleep, so it doesn't necessarily manifest itself in French or English or Romanian or whatever. The exception is when I'm going through an especially tense period, in which case my dreams tend to be a really obvious, almost 1 to 1 reflection of whatever severe worries I'm struggling to keep at bay. It's a little simplistic, maybe, but the more conscious and/or lucid the dream the likelier it is to be unfolding in a given known language. I much prefer the other kind tbh.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 18 January 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
Sorry, I forgot to answer the part about thinking. When I'm contemplating something unbeknownst to myself – which happens all the time – it's usually a weird mix of whatever language is foremost in my mind at that point in time, usually for contextual reasons, and that pre-linguistic, possibly fictive construct that more readily takes over when I'm dreaming. If I'm specifically thinking about other people, though, it will always be in their language.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 18 January 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
Historic, high-value paintings stolen from Oxford college gallery
Decided to take some souvenirs with you, eh?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 16 March 2020 08:40 (four years ago) link
It was the right time, what with Interpol being banned from trans-Atlantic flights and all.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Monday, 16 March 2020 12:21 (four years ago) link
And after the cases of wine too? Incorrigible.
― Sund4r, Monday, 16 March 2020 12:36 (four years ago) link
how about a nice side hustle exporting papyri from the classics/Egyptology library?
(lol at the picture further down with artefacts being kept in cardboard boxes advertising cat food, etc)
(that was a lol-but-not-surprised lol, but I appreciate that that may be just fine, and even if not ideal there will be a skilled conservation team who sometimes just have to shrug at the odd decisions of the past and say "well, it's already there, so it may as well stay there for now")
Hope you made it home OK and found somewhere to stay if required, pom.
― a passing spacecadet, Monday, 16 March 2020 12:47 (four years ago) link
Thanks, aps! We are now across the pond and are currently at my parents' place, as my dad got some comforting news regarding his health on Friday, which means there's far less of a risk than I initially feared. Quebec is in a state of partial lockdown at the moment and I have no idea when it will be lifted – all I know is that we made it back in the nick of time.
I hope you and yours are safe, by the way. Johnson's crisis management skills have got me worried, and the University's relative laissez-faire approach seems irresponsible in light of the 7 cases that have been recorded so far on campus.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Monday, 16 March 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link
Good to hear Pom! Sounds like the best possible outcome for you, and good news for your dad to boot.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 16 March 2020 13:10 (four years ago) link
we never did pom fap
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Monday, 16 March 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link
I suppose we'll have to come to Canada now
Well, not now
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Monday, 16 March 2020 13:14 (four years ago) link
Sounds like a plan imo
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 16 March 2020 13:15 (four years ago) link
:)
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 02:00 (three years ago) link
hi pom,
are you Billy Joel?
― XVI Pedicabo eam (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 02:41 (three years ago) link
Hi Neanderthal,
Nay, I am not Guillaume Martin Joël.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 02:50 (three years ago) link
pom, what’s the best recording of Brahms’ op. 10 4 ballades
― mozzy star (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 02:50 (three years ago) link
Can't go wrong with Michelangeli. I'd also recommend Kovacevich and Angelich (in that order).
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 02:54 (three years ago) link
nice, heard the former, will check the latter two (and maybe ill finish learning #4 past the first two pages)
― mozzy star (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 03:31 (three years ago) link
Why do you troll so much?
― caută tu singur (gyac), Thursday, 13 August 2020 20:05 (three years ago) link
Experientially seeking an answer to the age-old question:
""trolling""- has the meaning changed?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
A true academic approach.
― caută tu singur (gyac), Thursday, 13 August 2020 20:08 (three years ago) link
Beyond that, the real answer to every ILX-related question is and always has been 'procrastination'.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 20:08 (three years ago) link
What’s an interesting word in Romanian for a specific term or concept that doesn’t translate into English?
― caută tu singur (gyac), Thursday, 13 August 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
I've seen claims that it's 'dor', but I don't buy that in the least. 'Yearning' and 'longing' work just as well.
Maybe 'trăire'? It means something like a particularly intense lived and/or spiritual experience.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
pom, how do speak to non-ILX people about ILX ? do you tell them at all ? if you read a funny joke here, or come across an interesting point that you'd then like to share IRL, how does that normally go for you ?
― budo jeru, Thursday, 13 August 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
I show my wife specific posts she's likely to find amusing. Maybe she'd join us if French was ILX's default language but even then I kinda doubt it.
I do mention it to friends on occasion and they just chalk it up to my unhealthy obsession with music.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
Best Picture in 1985 was Amadeus. Have you seen Amadeus, did you like it, and did you sympathise with Salieri?
― caută tu singur (gyac), Thursday, 13 August 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
Yes on all three counts.
I'm not a huge Mozart fan, but I'll rep for the Requiem till I die. Most of his minor key works rule, actually.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
Would you describe yourself as a wife guy
― caută tu singur (gyac), Thursday, 13 August 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
You tell me.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
I refer you to the first four words my last post. I obviously have an opinion.
― caută tu singur (gyac), Thursday, 13 August 2020 20:30 (three years ago) link
Insofar as less than 1% of my all too numerous posts on this here board are about my wife, I'mma venture a 'no'. Or maybe I'm blind to my own persistent wife-posting?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 20:33 (three years ago) link
Got my answer. Thanks!
― caută tu singur (gyac), Thursday, 13 August 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
all the ilxors say he's pretty fly for a wife guy
― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 August 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, cinco, seis
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link
without disclosing your given name, can you tell is if it's easily frenchified ? do you do a john >> jean type situation or something different ?
― budo jeru, Thursday, 13 August 2020 23:40 (three years ago) link
jarman's caravaggio and that daft mozart movie were big influences on teenage me and boorman's excalibur. did you like any of those as well, pom?
― calzino, Thursday, 13 August 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
can you tell is if it's easily frenchified ?
It is, actually, but the result is a bit esoteric in French (and English, for that matter), whereas in Romanian it's just banal, especially for dudes of my generation. I use my given name at all times, though, and devilishly derive pleasure from correcting those who mangle it.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link
I assumed upon moving to Québec I would become "roe-bear" but that did not happen
― rob, Thursday, 13 August 2020 23:46 (three years ago) link
I should probably amend that to "upon moving to Montreal"
btw pom I am up for un FAP d'ici in 2021 or whenever lol/:(
― rob, Thursday, 13 August 2020 23:47 (three years ago) link
I have not seen Caravaggio, which I'd venture to say is less well-known on this side of the pond? (I'm sure our resident film buffs can tell us more.) I did very much enjoy Excalibur, however, and am tempted to watch it again some time soon now that you've brought it up!
xps
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 23:47 (three years ago) link
Awesome, rob. Potential FAPpers from the other provinces would be most welcome as well!
― pomenitul, Thursday, 13 August 2020 23:49 (three years ago) link
Can’t quite figure out the right way to phrase this is as a question, but how do you feel about your mother tongue? To me it’s fascinating, further out in left field than any other Romance language I have encountered.
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 December 2020 02:08 (three years ago) link
Hope that doesn’t sound patronizing
― Whamagideon Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 December 2020 02:30 (three years ago) link
Because not trolling, it’s the most interesting Romance Language for me on Duolingo, the one where I can guess the least easily.
― And Then There’s Maudit (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 December 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
Hmm… I honestly don't have much of an answer to that question, which I'd never really thought about. To me, it just… is? Approaching the matter from an external perspective is harder than I expected. But I'll mull it over.
― pomenitul, Friday, 25 December 2020 00:35 (three years ago) link
La mulți ani!
― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 January 2021 04:47 (three years ago) link
Multă sănătate. Noroc.
― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 January 2021 21:54 (three years ago) link
Is fíor é? Breithlá shona duit! Ceannóidh mé taoschnó* subh duit má bhuailiamid an bhliain seo.*i had to look up this word and wow, it’s a new one to me although it makes total sense!
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Sunday, 3 January 2021 22:36 (three years ago) link
Vorbești irlandeză, pom?
― Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 January 2021 23:02 (three years ago) link
Google Translate delivers. :)
'La mulți ani!' ('to many more years (to come)') is a confusing one because we use it for almost everything. But no, I'm not quite there yet, although I appreciate the thought!
'Un an nou fericit!' would be the more formal and less ambiguous variant in this particular instance.
(That Irish language blog looks amazing btw.)
xp n-am asemenea pretenții.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 3 January 2021 23:08 (three years ago) link
Treating this thread momentarily as a pom batsignal tbf, but have you seen this? Thought you'd might enjoy this, thin story but I love the photos:
Photos of 70s Romanian Rock Bands Defying Communist Rule
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 19 February 2021 16:30 (three years ago) link
I didn't seen this, no, so thanks for the heads up! I'll forward it to my dad as well.
― pomenitul, Friday, 19 February 2021 16:31 (three years ago) link
I quite like Phoenix (aka Transsylvania Phoenix outside of Romania), who probably did the most to bridge the gap between rock and Romanian folk music. Negură Bunget owes a great deal to their aesthetic.
― pomenitul, Friday, 19 February 2021 16:34 (three years ago) link
Are there anthologies of 60s, 70s Romanian rock/psych/folk? I might need to check that out.
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 19 February 2021 16:36 (three years ago) link
Just ran a quick search and there's this. I have no idea how you would go about acquiring it, though:
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Cenzurat-Cântece-Interzise-/release/2131097
It's an LP by a single band, but Phoenix's Cantofabule is very much worth checking out, if you're curious.
― pomenitul, Friday, 19 February 2021 16:39 (three years ago) link
(Gotta copy/paste that link.)
― pomenitul, Friday, 19 February 2021 16:40 (three years ago) link
Thank you, I am!
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 19 February 2021 16:42 (three years ago) link
Do you ever use this dictionary? https://dexonline.ro/definitie/m%C3%A2nca/sinteza
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 16:10 (two years ago) link
Ce doriţi? Poate doriţi un ceai.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 June 2021 13:56 (two years ago) link
It's the gold standard, yeah.
xp doar o cafea deocamdată.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:36 (two years ago) link