Hundred Dollar Bill

I study art on a high school level (so nothing serious), but i made this one in school, not my best or the most time consuming but I like it!
 

Then this one over my mirror (sorry couldnt find a better pic)

I've been thinking about this for a long time, and I think she has the perfect voice to sing White Christmas. I'd also like to hear her sing Blue Christmas similar to Elvis' version.

I don't have stories to share, but god, I'd love it if one day a guy poured chocolate syrup on me (you know the places ) and licked it off. Honey, too. Whipped cream.. Akbshdlahshsatagshjdlsksdh.

Quality. Tee hee. What is and isn’t quality? What criteria do we use to measure this? And why that criteria? Says who? Toward the end of his life Bach, considered today to be the most important composer in all of music history, was pretty much cast aside because his style of composing was falling out of favor with the general public.
 
Quality ultimately amounts to nothing more than “good” and “bad,” and no one can conclusively make that determination in any meaningful way other than stating their opinion. Is the goal of music to, say, perfectly reproduce objective reality, like Realism aimed to do with painting? Does it have a concrete objective like that? Or is it simply to move someone, whether emotionally or physically? Unlike, say, architecture, which, amongst other things, aims to be functionally and structurally sound, or literature whose goal is to translate a narrative to its reader, music (with some exceptions) doesn’t have a goal beyond simply being “good” (and sometimes purposely bad!) If “good” = “quality,” again, how do we measure this? What, how unique a chord progression is? How “memorable” a melody is? How many notes the melody has? How complex the structure is? Whether it has key changes? What scale it's in? A particular instrumentation, key, or time signature? How “good” of a performance it is? How “catchy” the end result is? Why? What if we say (totally arbitrarily) that a criterion is that the melody should have "a lot" of notes? Well, what if they're all shitty notes? What then?
 
As much as i spout off my opinions on the quality of music, sometimes in an overzealous manner, i will go to my grave arguing that no one can prove to the kid hanging out at the mall food court drinking a giant sized coke and stuffing greasy pizza in their face that Bach is better than Avril Lavigne. Do i think it’s insane that some people may not recognize a difference in “quality” between the two? Absolutely. But nothing that i or anybody uses to arrive at this conclusion is substantial or meaningful. Music resonates with everyone differently, and for totally different (and mysterious!) reasons.
 
This is one of the beautiful things about music--with its unique, unprecedented language and its inexplicable power, so long as the LYRICS aren’t blatantly espousing a certain ideology, music can transcend the ugly side of its creator, of human beings--the racism, the misogyny, the homophobia, bigotry, hate, greed, etc. Wagner did what no one before him had done, completely changing the face of music forever--even today people are still trying to take the next logical step--and he was a raging anti-semite. Does that take away from his musical accomplishments? Does that change a single bar, even a single note, of Tristan and Isolde?
 
But maybe Maru was just talking about one's obviously subjective view of what quality means.

My point wasn't about liking/listening someone's music, it's about recognizing quality, regardless of outside factors. You can recognize the quality of an artist's work, but not necessarily like the artist or the actual work itself.

New emoticons
 
:brit: :ben:

Some Britney-inspired lyrics right there.

i will fight u.

BECAUSE LANA'S MUSIC IS A SECRET CLUB AND OTHER PEOPLE LIKING HER RUINS MY INDIE STREET CRED

FUCK I WAS RIGHT!!!!!!!!!

LOL Actually I'm the flop, Up & Down is newer so I assume you were talking about it, so maybe this could be her first Britney-inspired lyrics song
 

 
Kill the lights!
I feel you watching me, watching you
Kill the lights!
You can't handle the truth, what happened to 'em?

Some Britney-inspired lyrics right there.

A lot of people have unleaked songs. Just because he had it and made a video for it doesn't mean he leaked it.

Stop ignoring me!






 

Kill Kill 19
Queen of the Gas Station 20
For K Part 2 40
Jump 5
Mermaid Motel 38
Raise Me Up (Mississippi South) 16
Put Me In A Movie 25
Yayo 30

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It did not!!!! It wasn't there when I started typing, and when I finished, there it was.
 
As revenge, I will wreak havoc on the colour scheme. >:C
 
Kill Kill 19
Queen of the Gas Station 20
For K Part 2 40
Jump 7
Mermaid Motel 38
Raise Me Up (Mississippi South) 14
Put Me In A Movie 25
Yayo 30

I love this thread. It's helping me emotionally prepare for the fact pitchfork is going to pan the fuck out of Lana again. I don't know why I even read the reviews anymore tbh.

That's exactly why I stopped playing these games. What the fuck is the point of playing if only one person sits there and pumps their fav every time? No offense to you, Matt, I just think it's stupid and it defeats the purpose. If we had a lot of active members it wouldn't be a problem but it annoys the shit out of me now.

That's exactly why I stopped playing these games. What the fuck is the point of playing if only one person sits there and pumps their fav every time? No offense to you, Matt, I just think it's stupid and it defeats the purpose. If we had a lot of active members it wouldn't be a problem but it annoys the shit out of me now.

Screw everyone for letting "Without You" die!!!!!


 

I'm gonna make my own version of this idiot "Survivor" game, but this time, I'll be playing by myself.

Fucking shit just go away Matt
Carmen sucks agh
This thread was supposed to be more democratic jesus christ I am so annoyed
 
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you guys literally live in this thread
 
 
well matt

While the front cover is alright (I'll chalk it up as yet another Lana Quirks in Decision Making), the back cover is indeed delightful. I wonder who decided to use that Jan Brueghel Sr.'s Temptation in The Garden of Eden painting.
 
 
But then, I really thought that it could use Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delight. It's all kinds of twisted, disturbing, beauty, light & dark, and dork and phantasmagorical depiction of Heaven and Hell, of monsters and sinful pleasures (with enough nudity for the fan of male and female form); but Savage Garden already got that one and even got the noir, dualism, b/w photography down pat x]
 
 
These Dutch painters.. let's forget the 50s-60s for a while, who wants to transport me to 14th-15th century Europe?
Anyways, any info or HQs on the floral and sunrise/sunset pic?

No.

no