Comments on: Death metal from the Skies! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/10/28/death-metal-from-the-skies/ Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:12:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Jack Hagerty http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/10/28/death-metal-from-the-skies/#comment-202703 Jack Hagerty Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:36:42 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=6636#comment-202703 27. Angela Duryea Says: "Jack, you may like to know that the Keeping Score episodes are being streamed by PBS Video at http://video.pbs.org/searchForm/?q=Keeping+Score. Hopefully, the Shostakovitch will be among them." Thank you. I've been watching them live (well, broadcast), and I usually get a copy of the DVD from my B-i-L as a Xmas present (it's cool to have connections!). - Jack 27. Angela Duryea Says: “Jack, you may like to know that the Keeping Score episodes are being streamed by PBS Video at http://video.pbs.org/searchForm/?q=Keeping+Score. Hopefully, the Shostakovitch will be among them.”

Thank you. I’ve been watching them live (well, broadcast), and I usually get a copy of the DVD from my B-i-L as a Xmas present (it’s cool to have connections!).

- Jack

]]> By: Jack Hagerty http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/10/28/death-metal-from-the-skies/#comment-202702 Jack Hagerty Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:33:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=6636#comment-202702 26. Petrolonfire Says: "@ 16. Kevin Says: 'ABBA and Shostakovitch… intriguing combination there.' I hate to tell you but I don’t think they ever have or ever will play together in combo somehow!" Depends on who the conductor is. The San Francisco Symphony and Metallica did a joint concert a few years ago that was sold out and got new crossover fans for both genres. - Jack 26. Petrolonfire Says: “@ 16. Kevin Says: ‘ABBA and Shostakovitch… intriguing combination there.’ I hate to tell you but I don’t think they ever have or ever will play together in combo somehow!”

Depends on who the conductor is. The San Francisco Symphony and Metallica did a joint concert a few years ago that was sold out and got new crossover fans for both genres.

- Jack

]]> By: Jack Hagerty http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/10/28/death-metal-from-the-skies/#comment-202701 Jack Hagerty Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:31:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=6636#comment-202701 25. Petrolonfire Says: "I always figured you for a Gustav Holst fan. Ever heard The Planets suite?" Would it destroy your world view if I told you that Holst was a fan of astrology, not astronomy, and that he wrote "The Planets" according to their astrological "personalities"? - Jack 25. Petrolonfire Says: “I always figured you for a Gustav Holst fan. Ever heard The Planets suite?”

Would it destroy your world view if I told you that Holst was a fan of astrology, not astronomy, and that he wrote “The Planets” according to their astrological “personalities”?

- Jack

]]> By: TGAP Dad http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/10/28/death-metal-from-the-skies/#comment-202700 TGAP Dad Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:08:38 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=6636#comment-202700 Re: Abba and Shostakovick I've got to applaud you for showing that kind of range. The analogous movie taste would be teeny-bopper (Twilight) and David Lynch films. Re: Abba and Shostakovick

I’ve got to applaud you for showing that kind of range. The analogous movie taste would be teeny-bopper (Twilight) and David Lynch films.

]]> By: Angela Duryea http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/10/28/death-metal-from-the-skies/#comment-202699 Angela Duryea Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:33:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=6636#comment-202699 This is a reply to Jack Haggerty. Jack, you may like to know that the Keeping Score episodes are being streamed by PBS Video at http://video.pbs.org/searchForm/?q=Keeping+Score. Hopefully, the Shostakovich will be among them. This is a reply to Jack Haggerty.

Jack, you may like to know that the Keeping Score episodes are being streamed by PBS Video at http://video.pbs.org/searchForm/?q=Keeping+Score. Hopefully, the Shostakovich will be among them.

]]> By: Petrolonfire http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/10/28/death-metal-from-the-skies/#comment-202698 Petrolonfire Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:29:04 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=6636#comment-202698 @ 16. Kevin Says: <i>ABBA and Shostakovich… intriguing combination there.</i> I hate to tell you but I don't think they ever have or ever will play together in combo somehow! ;-) @ 16. Kevin Says:

ABBA and Shostakovich… intriguing combination there.

I hate to tell you but I don’t think they ever have or ever will play together in combo somehow! ;-)

]]> By: Petrolonfire http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/10/28/death-metal-from-the-skies/#comment-202697 Petrolonfire Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:21:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=6636#comment-202697 @20 Some Canadian Skeptic : Yeah, quick! Redress the balance - tell the world you're a Wagner fan! ;-) (Hmm .. the Jews here may not like that 'un. Hitler's fave composer, works banned in Israel & all. Oh well.) PS. Actually, I always figured you for a Gustav Holst fan. Ever heard <i>The Planets</i> suite? ;-) PPS. Like what the right wingers "think" matters? Nah it doesn't. :-P @20 Some Canadian Skeptic :

Yeah, quick! Redress the balance – tell the world you’re a Wagner fan! ;-)

(Hmm .. the Jews here may not like that ‘un. Hitler’s fave composer, works banned in Israel & all. Oh well.)

PS. Actually, I always figured you for a Gustav Holst fan. Ever heard The Planets suite? ;-)

PPS. Like what the right wingers “think” matters? Nah it doesn’t. :-P

]]> By: Some Canadian Skeptic http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/10/28/death-metal-from-the-skies/#comment-202696 Some Canadian Skeptic Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:16:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=6636#comment-202696 Shostakovitch! Man alive, Phil! The right-wingers already think you're a pinko-commie enough as it is! ;) Shostakovitch! Man alive, Phil! The right-wingers already think you’re a pinko-commie enough as it is! ;)

]]> By: Flying sardines http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/10/28/death-metal-from-the-skies/#comment-202695 Flying sardines Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:41:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=6636#comment-202695 Same as I do now. ;-) I don't have twitter &, frankly, I'm have no intention of getting it. I waste too much time on utterly inconsequential stuff as it is. ;-) @ 18 MarkH - I agree. There are lots of better ways to get news than twitter. Same as I do now. ;-)

I don’t have twitter &, frankly, I’m have no intention of getting it.

I waste too much time on utterly inconsequential stuff as it is. ;-)

@ 18 MarkH – I agree. There are lots of better ways to get news than twitter.

]]> By: Boris "Nomæd" http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/10/28/death-metal-from-the-skies/#comment-202694 Boris "Nomæd" Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:20:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=6636#comment-202694 As a proud metalhead, I must say that the song is really awful ;) Sounds like someone bored was having time with his guitar and microphone at home... But it's nice to see that someone wrote a song based on the book! As a proud metalhead, I must say that the song is really awful ;)
Sounds like someone bored was having time with his guitar and microphone at home…

But it’s nice to see that someone wrote a song based on the book!

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