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[oakpope]

[STRIKE]Five[/STRIKE] Shichi-go-san ways to my crotch:
a pale and softy *pun* ginger, red or blond with fair eyelashes and a meaty, bubbling ass

a pretty-ish sort of manly rugged face

good manly pecs and shoulders

a fine meaty bubbly manly pair of buttocks

So I have no chance...You made me a sad panda

 

[freefall]

Jos, how about this?

6. Neon Tetra

5. Angelfish

4.African Leaf fish

3.Glass catfish

2.Guppy (Endlers)

1.Betta FTW

 

[freefall]

You can keep it in a separate tank, geez

Or in a separate pond - in case your one-night stand is not eager to leave and you're irritated

 

[belamyi]

Wow, belamo you're straight...

Speaking of moaning...

Are you dyslexic, or short-sighted, or stupid or something?

http://www.coltstudiogroup.com/photoset.php?set_id=1970

 

[oakpope]

1. Raw Carrot

2. Marker

3. Candle

4. Plunger Handle

5. Broom Handle

6. Fingers

that's dangerous

 

[belamyi]

that's dangerous

http://www.proveedoresdevelas.com/images/macro-velas.jpg

 

[Saybrooke]

5.

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Best 60's Spiderman Meme

 

[oakpope]

http://www.proveedoresdevelas.com/images/macro-velas.jpg

That's...adventurous

 

[belamyi]

Favorite museums (I've never visited and more than probably will never visit otherwise than virtually )

Prado

Louvre

Prado

Vatican

Louvre

Prado

Frick Collection

Prado

Metropolitan

Vatican

Prado

Louvre

Prado

Louvre

Hermitage

Prado

Pushkin's last residence (before death )

Prado

Vatican

Louvre

 

[oakpope]

I have had the great luck to visit the Hermitage. This was more than totally worth it. The place itself is beyond words, and the art of course is nothing short of amazing. If you would have to choose between Moscow and St Petersburg to visit, the latter is way more worthwhile in my opinion.

(The Louvre is obviously in a league of its own )

 

[belamyi]

I have had the great luck to visit the Hermitage. This was more than totally worth it. The place itself is beyond words, and the art of course is nothing short of amazing. If you would have to choose between Moscow and St Petersburg to visit, the latter is way more worthwhile in my opinion.

There is no choice in that matter: Saint Petersburg IS the pretty, decadent city to go to SEE and enjoy old, classical stuff in Russia.

The Louvre is THE museum, the Prado is THE collection..: a collection's worth is NOT derived from some general, more or less general concept, like its quanity and/or variety, but from the coherence and degree of completeness in the development of a concept derived from, or present in the items of the collection itself... the Louvre's idea, at least about twenty years ago, was to "have it all"; the Prado's collection cristalized around the royal power in the era of the great European masters and rediscovery of ancient classical art, and if it possessed more Dutch classics, and maybe a couple more old Roman copies now in Rome and Naples, it would be, in terms of art and not just crafts, even above the Louvre, for all the difference in number of items.

 

[zoltanspawn]

1) a box of shavings
2) dented souptins, from which to peol the labels
3) a battered gosling
4) some cellophane wrapped in cellophane
5) perforated beige shelving
6) remnants
7) mosspots
8) rust proufing
9) an ultra-linear narrative
10) aerosolized debrider
11) an abominable magnolia
12) disposable patterns
13) canine handi-wipes
14) chafing proufs
15) calisthenics lessons
16) an irrigating dilaprobe
17) imported hair

 

[Latimer]

There is no choice in that matter: Saint Petersburg IS the pretty, decadent city to go to SEE and enjoy old, classical stuff in Russia.

The Louvre is THE museum, the Prado is THE collection..: a collection's worth is NOT derived from some general, more or less general concept, like its quanity and/or variety, but from the coherence and degree of completeness in the development of a concept derived from, or present in the items of the collection itself... the Louvre's idea, at least about twenty years ago, was to "have it all"; the Prado's collection cristalized around the royal power in the era of the great European masters and rediscovery of ancient classical art, and if it possessed more Dutch classics, and maybe a couple more old Roman copies now in Rome and Naples, it would be, in terms of art and not just crafts, even above the Louvre, for all the difference in number of items.

The ARCHAELOGICAL MUSEUM in Naples, not simply because it contains the most important finds from Pompeii and Herculaneum and is the final repository of the great Farnese collection, but because, unlike the Louvre, the Uffizi, the Capitoline and the Vatican, it hasn't been diminished and vulgarized by modernization and
(particularly in the case of the Vatican) pulverizing and suffocating crowds.

The EGYPTIAN MUSEUM in Cairo. (See last sentence above.)

The GLYPTOTECH in Munich. Small, evocative and very beautiful.

The THORVALDSENS MUSEUM in Copenhagen. Again, small, evocative and beautiful.

 

[oakpope]

unlike the Louvre, the Uffizi, the Capitoline and the Vatican, it hasn't been diminished and vulgarized by modernization and
(particularly in the case of the Vatican) pulverizing and suffocating crowds.

I beg to differ. The genius of the architecture of the Louvre is exactly how the modernization and growth of the original come together flawlessly. To say the Louvre is vulgar is properly to say it is common, whereas it's the opposite, it is unique.

 

[belamyi]

The ARCHAELOGICAL MUSEUM in Naples, not simply because it contains the most important finds from Pompeii and Herculaneum and is the final repository of the great Farnese collection, but because, unlike the Louvre, the Uffizi, the Capitoline and the Vatican, it hasn't been diminished and vulgarized by modernization and
(particularly in the case of the Vatican) pulverizing and suffocating crowds.

The EGYPTIAN MUSEUM in Cairo. (See last sentence above.)

The GLYPTOTECH in Munich. Small, evocative and very beautiful.

The THORVALDSENS MUSEUM in Copenhagen. Again, small, evocative and beautiful.

Thorvaldsen is decadent trash: only Canova is an even worse misconceived VULGARIZATION of the aesthetics of ancient Greco-Roman sculpture.

You make the snobbish mistake of those who assimilate the vulgarization of the GOING to one PLACE to the vulgarity of the WORKS themselves. Art is a language, and just like hearing one doesn't mean you get it, being in a museum doesn't mean to know what's going on in the walls and corridors: appreciating a work of art is not knowing the "right" answer, what it "means", being imposed its sense as a revelation or a dogma... or a revealed dogma, but neither is the opposite reaction which is the one prevailing today, namely, reinventing what you have in front of you ignoring what you actually have in front of you, and ignoring what is relevant or primary and having it substituted by what is easy to grasp.
The people crowding those places can be easily avoided by going in the right season, to wit, when you are better indoors that outside enjoying the life in the city under the sun. But even if you are surrounded by the cattle, they are irrelevant and superfluous in the triangle shaped by the work, your knowledge and the resulting sense of the work that makes it all an indivisibly sign. In any case, in 2012 sometimes you can appreciate better a work of art by the wonders of digital art and internet than by being among a crowd of hungry photographers teeming behind a rail shutting them from a small painting, covered with five centuries of dirt, masked by a glassy screen.

But if you like visiting deserted places just for a snobbish sake, you can go to Barcelona's MNAC, that cruisers still are not able to crowd.


Damn, I can't believe I included the Frick but forgot to mention the Galleria Doria Pamphilj: that's were my Mona Lisa is.

 

[jimm04]

peanuts
walnuts
hazelnuts
macadamia nuts
pine nuts

 

[belamyi]

Oh I forgot to add that the collection of the Uffizi is so terribly disappointing... its "greater" works are the vulgarized colored late medieval drawings of Botticelli or Raphael, and some minor work of Titian, whose work is anyway always more primary than most of what has ever been painted before him or after him up to Velazquez and the Golden Age Dutch
Visiting the Pitti is less "vulgarized" and at least more "impressively impressing".
I could feel so happy to have never been to Florence to discover THAT...

 

[AlmondMilk]

TV Shows that I loved the first season and continued to watch because I hoped they would get better but got disappointed due to repetitiveness or character indecisiveness.

1. Bones
2. Heroes
3. The Walking Dead
4. Weeds
5. Glee
6. 24
7. Real World and The Real World[STRIKE]/ Road Rules[/STRIKE] Challenge
8. American Idol
9. America's Best Dance Crew
10. Dancing With the Stars

and that's all I can think of at the top of my head.

 

[oldchild]

classic meatloaf and mashed potatoes with brown gravy
macaroni and cheese
mallomars
grilled swordfidh
roast chicken and stuffing
pad thai with shrimp
potato pancakes with apple sauce
thin crust pizza
linguine maranara
french baguette and brie

 

[belamyi]

TV Shows that I loved the first season and continued to watch because I hoped they would get better but got disappointed due to repetitiveness or character indecisiveness.

1. Bones
2. Heroes
3. The Walking Dead
4. Weeds
5. Glee
6. 24
7. Real World and The Real World[STRIKE]/ Road Rules[/STRIKE] Challenge
8. American Idol
9. America's Best Dance Crew
10. Dancing With the Stars

and that's all I can think of at the top of my head.

You needed a WHOLE season to realize that?

The case of 24 seems to be different, in that it had not been created to become a long-running show...

Weeds seemed cute, but I never got interested enough even to get bored by it... I am not even interested in borrowing it from by elder brother, who surely will be buying all the seasons, as is his habit, for the sake of watching something to entertain him that can be bought for a reasonable price... after I discovered the show to him.

Heroes was shit from the first episode... same for Bones, Mentalist... that's why they get to run for so long: brains in a rut never get tired of recurring patterns. As for the Walking Heads... I refuse to be judgemental over the mere premise of a show or literary piece, but you can never be judgemental enough with zombie stories... a zombie story is not defined by the appearance of people feeding on brains (if so, anything with a news anchor or "commentator" would be labelled as zombie show), but by the fact of not going beyond playing hide-and-shoot with walking dead people.
It's like with Western movies: the best of them are those which are more comedies/dramedies (Cable Hogue), thrillers or whatever that simply happen to be set in the Ol' West. Conversely, most action movies today are just Western movies set in today's LA or any dirty or slick world city.