El Floppo
Footballguy
ditto, except the travelling part. (Champions' League Final!!!!)
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Official Great Works Draft (3 Viewers)
- Thread starter timschochet
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rodg12
Footballguy
Skipped
22.16 - Doug B
22.20 - Krista4 - Goes OTC at the top of the hour
23.01 - Fennis - On Deck
23.02 - Rodg12 - In The Hole
23.03 - Postradamus (autoskip if not here in first 15 min)
23.04 - Timschochet
23.05 - Doug B
23.06 - Abrantes
23.07 - BobbyLayne/Flysack
23.08 - Tides of War (autoskip if not here in first 10 min)
23.09 - Wikkipissah
23.10 - Thatguy
23.11 - El Floppo (autoskip if not here in first 10 min)
22.16 - Doug B
22.20 - Krista4 - Goes OTC at the top of the hour
23.01 - Fennis - On Deck
23.02 - Rodg12 - In The Hole
23.03 - Postradamus (autoskip if not here in first 15 min)
23.04 - Timschochet
23.05 - Doug B
23.06 - Abrantes
23.07 - BobbyLayne/Flysack
23.08 - Tides of War (autoskip if not here in first 10 min)
23.09 - Wikkipissah
23.10 - Thatguy
23.11 - El Floppo (autoskip if not here in first 10 min)
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El Floppo
Footballguy
Who's playing and when does it start?
krista4
Footballguy
mad sweeney
Footballguy
Manchester U vs Barcelona. 11:30am PST on ESPN 1 or 2. Hopefully it;s in actual HD and not letterboxed BS HD
krista4
Footballguy
I came so close to taking something else here, but I'm going to trust Abrantes for a couple more rounds and hope he doesn't snipe me. 
22.20 A Clean, Well-Lighted Place - Ernest Hemingway (Short Story)
James Joyce: "He has reduced the veil between literature and life, which is what every writer strives to do. Have you read 'A Clean Well-Lighted Place'?...It is masterly. Indeed, it is one of the best short stories ever written..."
22.20 A Clean, Well-Lighted Place - Ernest Hemingway (Short Story)
James Joyce: "He has reduced the veil between literature and life, which is what every writer strives to do. Have you read 'A Clean Well-Lighted Place'?...It is masterly. Indeed, it is one of the best short stories ever written..."
Good pick. I was waiting for the Hemingway short stories to start to fall. This one isn't my favorite, but it's a good story. IMHO, Hemingway's short stories were much superior to his novels.I came so close to taking something else here, but I'm going to trust Abrantes for a couple more rounds and hope he doesn't snipe me.
22.20 A Clean, Well-Lighted Place - Ernest Hemingway (Short Story)
James Joyce: "He has reduced the veil between literature and life, which is what every writer strives to do. Have you read 'A Clean Well-Lighted Place'?...It is masterly. Indeed, it is one of the best short stories ever written..."
Abrantes
Footballguy
A fine choice, no doubt.I came so close to taking something else here, but I'm going to trust Abrantes for a couple more rounds and hope he doesn't snipe me.
22.20 A Clean, Well-Lighted Place - Ernest Hemingway (Short Story)
James Joyce: "He has reduced the veil between literature and life, which is what every writer strives to do. Have you read 'A Clean Well-Lighted Place'?...It is masterly. Indeed, it is one of the best short stories ever written..."
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El Floppo
Footballguy
Good bookstore too.Honestly had no idea where the name for the bookstore came from.... sorry- from whence it came (gotta remember the angle of the dangle with those preps in here with all you hoity-toity folk roaming around)A fine choice, no doubt.I came so close to taking something else here, but I'm going to trust Abrantes for a couple more rounds and hope he doesn't snipe me.
22.20 A Clean, Well-Lighted Place - Ernest Hemingway (Short Story)
James Joyce: "He has reduced the veil between literature and life, which is what every writer strives to do. Have you read 'A Clean Well-Lighted Place'?...It is masterly. Indeed, it is one of the best short stories ever written..."
Doug B
Footballguy
Make-up pick:
I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions always called me.
22.16 - Robinson Crusoe, Novel [5]
I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions always called me.
22.16 - Robinson Crusoe, Novel [5]
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Abrantes
Footballguy
Pretty sure that's specific enough. Hell, Genetics was already taken as a whole. Solid pick.
Doug B
Footballguy
Great pick.
rodg12
Footballguy
Debated between this and Kepler with my last pick.
rodg12
Footballguy
Great pick, Doug. Was on my short list of targets.
Postradamus
Footballguy
Damn Doug, taking Crusoe, real cute.
My pick's coming soon to a thread near you.
My pick's coming soon to a thread near you.
Postradamus
Footballguy
23.03 Revolver - the Beatles - Album
Very excited for this pick, a total steal and likely top5 album. This coupled with Thriller is going to be a solid 1-2 punch. My favorite Beatles album, with my favorite Beatles song: Tomorrow Never Knows
Side one
# Title Lead vocals Length
1. "
" LennonCritical Acclaim:
RollingStone (#3)
SoundandVisionMag (#1)
AcclaimedMusic (#2)
Very excited for this pick, a total steal and likely top5 album. This coupled with Thriller is going to be a solid 1-2 punch. My favorite Beatles album, with my favorite Beatles song: Tomorrow Never Knows
Side one
# Title Lead vocals Length
1. "
" LennonCritical Acclaim:
RollingStone (#3)
SoundandVisionMag (#1)
AcclaimedMusic (#2)
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timschochet
Footballguy
Revolver, which should have been selected long ago, is as good an album as Abbey Road, much better (IMO) as Sgt. Pepper and Pet Sounds, and while you could argue that Sgt. Pepper is more influential to the public, Revolver is more influential to other musicians. The Beatles listened very carefully to what Bob Dylan was doing and interpreted it to their own music, changing rock and roll forever. Can't say what WP will do, but for my money Revolver is a clear 20. Given the point it was selected, this is the biggest steal of the draft yet. Well done.
sinatravolta
Footballguy
Postradamus
Footballguy
It's my favorite Beatles album, was confused when I realized it was still out there. This with Thriller is a tough 1-2 combo for album 
Bonzai
Footballguy
It's a great pick, but let's not get carried away here.
timschochet
Footballguy
The film I am choosing with my next selection deserves it's unarguable place as one of the most influential movies ever made, for several reasons: first, because it changed movie-making in a positive way, essentially creating the "family film". Not that there weren't both family and children's films before this one, but this redefined the art. Second, it created a a whole new marketplace for world consumers- and this marketplace and empire that was created upon the foundation of this film owns me today as I speak, just as it owns most of the world's parents. In terms of filmmaking, the movie influenced a host of techniques still used to this very day. Finally, it remains one of the very few films of the 1930's which is still just as popular today, but there is one difference: The Wizard of Oz is still incredibly popular, in part, because for decades it has been shown on national television for year after year for decades. To the best of my knowledge, the movie I am selecting here has NEVER been shown on national television, yet somehow it is even more popular than The Wizard of Oz.
None of this would be enough for me to make this selection, however, if I didn't love this flick. I do. It is not my very favorite, I admit, by the genius who created it and so much more, but it is his first feature length film, and it is simply a magnificent work of art and human acheivement. I give you, from 1937:
23.04 Walt Disney's Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
None of this would be enough for me to make this selection, however, if I didn't love this flick. I do. It is not my very favorite, I admit, by the genius who created it and so much more, but it is his first feature length film, and it is simply a magnificent work of art and human acheivement. I give you, from 1937:
23.04 Walt Disney's Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
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rodg12
Footballguy
Yeah, you're stretching it there Tim.not really
rodg12
Footballguy
Go ahead and shoot it my way. I should be around all day.
B-Deep
Footballguy
that's what she said
sinatravolta
Footballguy
I don't think this is carried away at all. Many think it's the best Beatles album and it's clearly viewed as one of the handful of best albums ever; here are some examples:RollingStone (#3 here)
SoundandVisionMag (#1 here)
AcclaimedMusic (#2 here)
rodg12
Footballguy
22.07 - Misfit Blondes - re-pick or request to move pick to WC needed
Skipped
23.05 - Doug B (requested skip)
23.06 - Abrantes - OTC until :03
23.07 - BobbyLayne/Flysack - On Deck
23.08 - Tides of War (autoskip if not here in first 10 min) - In The Hole
23.09 - Wikkipissah
23.10 - Thatguy
23.11 - El Floppo (autoskip if not here in first 10 min/PMed Pick)
23.12 - Team CIA (autoskip)
23.13 - Uncle Humuna
23.14 - Misfit Blondes
23.15 - Bob Lee Swagger
23.16 - Scott Norwood
23.17 - DC Thunder
23.18 - Genedoc
23.19 - Tirnan (autoskip if not here in first 5)
23.20 - Yankee23Fan
Skipped
23.05 - Doug B (requested skip)
23.06 - Abrantes - OTC until :03
23.07 - BobbyLayne/Flysack - On Deck
23.08 - Tides of War (autoskip if not here in first 10 min) - In The Hole
23.09 - Wikkipissah
23.10 - Thatguy
23.11 - El Floppo (autoskip if not here in first 10 min/PMed Pick)
23.12 - Team CIA (autoskip)
23.13 - Uncle Humuna
23.14 - Misfit Blondes
23.15 - Bob Lee Swagger
23.16 - Scott Norwood
23.17 - DC Thunder
23.18 - Genedoc
23.19 - Tirnan (autoskip if not here in first 5)
23.20 - Yankee23Fan
Postradamus
Footballguy
I'm gonna steal those links and put em in my write-up thanks.
El Floppo
Footballguy
pm sent- thanks!
rodg12
Footballguy
Got it.
Postradamus
Footballguy
I welcome all praise that anyone has to heap upon my team. Keep it coming.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
the 20s in album will depend a lot on my co-judge. Kind of Blue is in, there will be a Beatles album (and one only), the 3rd is yet to be determined. Revolver will score very highly, as it is the most consistent & straight-up of their albums, but it is their musical ambition & thematic sense which keeps them eternal to us & that will be a major factor in determining their #1.
anborn
Footballguy
son-of-a-f'ing-beaaaach.i no longer like you. i've got to be the biggest disney fan in this draft, and was hoping this would fall a couple more rounds.
ScottNorwood
Footballcutie
There are better Disney films out there. Don't sweat it.
Uncle Humuna
Footballguy
Heck of a run of picks.
My short list just got pillaged.
My short list just got pillaged.
northern exposure
Footballguy
So far I've just been an interested observer in this thread. But I have to agree with MisfitBlondes, you do obnoxiously name drop. I remember reading one of your posts in the "Favorite Clint Eastwood Movie, as an actor" thread where you stated:"Voted for GBU. Josey Wales was a close second but nodded towards the better movie. Kelly's Heroes was in the mix but he was overshadowed by Sutherland in his best role ever (a point I argued with his son over drunken arm wrestling one night, can't remember who won)" Please explain how exactly that was germane to the discussion at hand. TIA.I don't have a horse in this race, just thought some facts should be presented.I'm sorry if you're envious of my work. I can't help it if sometimes there is some connection between the people we're discussing and my experiences with them. I'm sure a LOT of people like yourelf are impressed because I worked with Tyson and Levine. I'm sure no one else has ever talked about how their own personal and job experiences have had any insights or influences on anything they write in here, it's just me.MisfitBlondes said:You're a huge mark for yourself, we get it. You name drop any chance you get in hopes that people will think you are awesome. You're quickly moving up my list of iIdols.Being as how it was germane to the conversation, sure thing only it wasn't a joke. I fail to see how talking about the people I work with is being unclassy though.MisfitBlondes said:You did that in the Tyson thread when you felt compelled to mention working on Kimmel. You're a class act, kid.
timschochet
Footballguy
First, I am leaving shortly and will be gone until late this evening. I will update then. If there are any pick disputes or concerns, I will answer them at that time. Misfit Blondes' next pick will go into his 22nd slot- he can make this pick at any time.
Second, I personally don't understand the sniping at Mad Sweeney. I love his name-dropping, if that's what you want to call it, and the stories that go with it. I love it when Wikkidpissah does this as well. I wish I was fortunate as the two of them to have met so many interesting and famous people in my life, and I enjoy hearing about them. I really don't think either one is being particularly boastful and couldn't care less if they were, because I find the stories entertaining and informative.
Second, I personally don't understand the sniping at Mad Sweeney. I love his name-dropping, if that's what you want to call it, and the stories that go with it. I love it when Wikkidpissah does this as well. I wish I was fortunate as the two of them to have met so many interesting and famous people in my life, and I enjoy hearing about them. I really don't think either one is being particularly boastful and couldn't care less if they were, because I find the stories entertaining and informative.
Abrantes
Footballguy
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Although the times have changed, the ominous, apocalyptic undertones of Yeats' poem hold the same power one hundred years later. Hell, one might argue that they're even more relevant nowadays. "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned." JEEZ. What a cheerful fella Yeats must've been. These brief lines still hold some of my favorite imagery in any art form, and I can't think of a more chilling description of impeding doom anywhere else.
23.06 William Butler Yeats' The Second Coming (Poem)
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Although the times have changed, the ominous, apocalyptic undertones of Yeats' poem hold the same power one hundred years later. Hell, one might argue that they're even more relevant nowadays. "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned." JEEZ. What a cheerful fella Yeats must've been. These brief lines still hold some of my favorite imagery in any art form, and I can't think of a more chilling description of impeding doom anywhere else.
23.06 William Butler Yeats' The Second Coming (Poem)
