Official Great Works Draft (6 Viewers)

[Big Rocks]

 

[Uncle Humuna]

Wasn't this taken along time ago?

Didn't someone mention that this was taken along time ago, a long time again?

 

[rodg12]

:blowsout:

35.07 (687th pick) - Kanon und Gigue in D-Dur für drei Violinen und Basso Continuo - Composition

aka Canon and Gigue in D major for three Violins and Basso Continuo

Johann Pachelbel

 

[Abrantes]

I actually meant to ask about concert films like The Last Waltz earlier, actually. Are they eligible as documentaries?

Yes.

Well, in that case...35.06 Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense (Documentary)

Fafafafafa fafafafafa

This ain't no party

As far as I'm concerned, it's neck-and-neck with The Last Waltz for the title of best concert film of all time (although an argument could be made for a couple others as well). The Talking Heads at their peak, putting together a masterful production directed by John Demme. It doesn't get much better than this. The way each song flows into the next is incredible, and the relentless forward momentum of this method is awesome. Essential viewing for pretty much everyone.

 

[timschochet]

I have to leave. I will come to update later. One comment before I go:

While there have been many steals in the draft, none in my opinion come close to Doug B's selection of Pygmalion. As far as I am concerned, Shaw's tale of Henry Higgins, Eliza Doolittle, and upper class Victorian morality is the #1 greatest play of the 20th century, better than Waiting For Godot, better than anything by Miller, Williams, or O' Neil. I'm not sure yet if it will be a 20 simply because of the Bard and classical plays, but I guarantee it will be way, way, up there.

I saw Pygmalion on Broadway last year staring Claire Danes and Jefferson Mays. Outstanding acting by both and the rest of the cast, but it is the script, not the acting, that really blows me away. The dialogue is among the most crisp in any form of literature that I have ever read. The subject matter is universal.

So you're probably wondering, if I think so highly of this work, why didn't I select it myself much earlier? The answer is, I've been meaning to, and meaning to, and meaning to, and...you know how it is. Now it's too late.

 

[Fennis]

I actually meant to ask about concert films like The Last Waltz earlier, actually. Are they eligible as documentaries?

Yes.

Well, in that case...35.06 Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense (Documentary)

I love this pick. Great film.

 

[BobbyLayne]

35.5: The Last Waltz, Documentary [1]

Surprised this one lasted so long.Was my backup if someone had sniped koyaanetc

A lifetime ago I spent 8 months on a Mediterranean-Indian Ocean cruise. I had just gotten promoted to E-6, which got me into a private mess hall on board the ship (First Class Petty Officer lounge). Yeah, WTF cares...anyway, somebody got a copy of the Country Music Awards sent from home, and on the same day my sister sent me The Last Waltz. Every other day we would rotate. We would play different movies, football games, whatever new taped VHS shows we had received from home - but without fail, everyday, half the guys wanted to see the CMA music show, and my boys wanted to see Paul Butterfield, Joni Mitchell, Ronnie Hawkins, Neil Young, Dylan, et al. Jeebus, even the Neil Diamond (homage to the tin pan alley songwriters) segment rocked.Marty killed that one. Great back story about the Thanksgiving Dinner as well (the concert was shot on Thanksgiving Night, 1976).

 

[Doug B]

Are these all good repicks?

23.5 : Book of the Dead, Non Fiction Book [5]

25.5 : Don Juan (Lord Byron), Poem [2]

28.16 : The Longest Day, Movie [4]

29.5 : Glengarry Glen Ross, Play [5]

33.5 : Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (Ray Charles), Album [3]

 

[Uncle Humuna]

I actually meant to ask about concert films like The Last Waltz earlier, actually. Are they eligible as documentaries?

Yes.

Well, in that case...35.06 Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense (Documentary)

Fafafafafa fafafafafa

I haven't seen that clip (Naive Melody) in probably 25 years.Freakin' awesome!!!

Thanks dude.

 

[BobbyLayne]

You folks will be happy to know that I just realized O Fortuna is the opening/closing segments from Carmina Burana.

Skip to TidesofWar, please.

Wait, think he is out...OK, whoever...no doubt if I tried to look it up I would post the wrong one.

 

[rodg12]

Are these all good repicks?

23.5 : Book of the Dead, Non Fiction Book [5]

25.5 : Don Juan (Lord Byron), Poem [2]

28.16 : The Longest Day, Movie [4]

29.5 : Glengarry Glen Ross, Play [5]

33.5 : Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (Ray Charles), Album [3]

Just need to repick that one.

 

[timschochet]

Are these all good repicks?

23.5 : Book of the Dead, Non Fiction Book [5]

25.5 : Don Juan (Lord Byron), Poem [2]

28.16 : The Longest Day, Movie [4]

29.5 : Glengarry Glen Ross, Play [5]

33.5 : Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (Ray Charles), Album [3]

I think they're all good except Glengarry. And you can't have Don Juan, because I had that slated next on my list. I don't believe I'm very fond of you.

 

[Abrantes]

I actually meant to ask about concert films like The Last Waltz earlier, actually. Are they eligible as documentaries?

Yes.

Well, in that case...35.06 Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense (Documentary)

Fafafafafa fafafafafa

Glad to help. It's so freakin' good.

 

[Doug B]

29.5 : Glengarry Glen Ross, Play [5]

Just need to repick that one.

Taken as a play or a movie? Either way, pretty nice pick by whoever made it.If it was taken as a movie, can I still keep it as a play?

 

[krista4]

29.5 : Glengarry Glen Ross, Play [5]

Just need to repick that one.

Taken as a play or a movie? Either way, pretty nice pick by whoever made it.If it was taken as a movie, can I still keep it as a play?

It was taken as a play, by the captain of Team Fennis. Get your paws off our play!

 

[Big Rocks]

Pick coming shortly...

 

[ScottNorwood]

:blowsout:

Abrantes timed out one minute ago.

All you angry drafters need this one. Click link, close eyes, mellow out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZHw9uyj81g&NR=1

35.07 (687th pick) - Kanon und Gigue in D-Dur für drei Violinen und Basso Continuo - Composition

aka Canon and Gigue in D major for three Violins and Basso Continuo

Johann Pachelbel

Wasn't this taken already?

I took it.

*ahem*

 

[Fennis]

29.5 : Glengarry Glen Ross, Play [5]

Just need to repick that one.

Taken as a play or a movie? Either way, pretty nice pick by whoever made it.If it was taken as a movie, can I still keep it as a play?

It was taken as a play, by the captain of Team Fennis. Get your paws off our play!

DougB tried to take 3 picks that belong to Team Fennis. Stellar draft Team Fennis!

 

[BobbyLayne]

Anybody take "the Mozart of the Champs-Élysées" yet?

I'll take Offenbach's Orphee aux Enfers (the first operetta evah).

- the HP fans will recognize it.35.07 - will finish the writeup later. Gonna go have a good cry now.

FML

 

[Uncle Humuna]

35.5: The Last Waltz, Documentary [1]

Surprised this one lasted so long.Was my backup if someone had sniped koyaanetc

A lifetime ago I spent 8 months on a Mediterranean-Indian Ocean cruise. I had just gotten promoted to E-6, which got me into a private mess hall on board the ship (First Class Petty Officer lounge). Yeah, WTF cares...anyway, somebody got a copy of the Country Music Awards sent from home, and on the same day my sister sent me The Last Waltz. Every other day we would rotate. We would play different movies, football games, whatever new taped VHS shows we had received from home - but without fail, everyday, half the guys wanted to see the CMA music show, and my boys wanted to see Paul Butterfield, Joni Mitchell, Ronnie Hawkins, Neil Young, Dylan, et al. Jeebus, even the Neil Diamond (homage to the tin pan alley songwriters) segment rocked.Marty killed that one. Great back story about the Thanksgiving Dinner as well (the concert was shot on Thanksgiving Night, 1976).

Cool story.

 

[Big Rocks]

The home and workplace of the U.S. President:



35.09 The White House, Building

Wiki link:

The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late Georgian style and has been the executive residence of every U.S. President since John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the home in 1801, he (with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades which were meant to conceal stables and storage.[1]

In 1814, during the War of 1812, the mansion was set ablaze by the British Army in the Burning of Washington, destroying the interior and charring much of the exterior. Reconstruction began almost immediately, and President James Monroe moved into the partially reconstructed house in October 1817. Construction continued with the addition of the South Portico in 1824 and the North in 1829. Due to crowding within the executive mansion itself, President Theodore Roosevelt had nearly all work offices relocated to the newly-constructed West Wing in 1901. Eight years later, President William Howard Taft expanded the West Wing and created the first Oval Office which was eventually moved as the section was expanded. The third-floor attic was converted to living quarters in 1927 by augmenting the existing hip roof with long shed dormers. A newly constructed East Wing was used as a reception area for social events; both new wings were connected by Jefferson's colonnades. East Wing alterations were completed in 1946 creating additional office space. By 1948, the house's load-bearing exterior walls and internal wood beams were found to be close to failure. Under Harry S. Truman, the interior rooms were completely dismantled, resulting in the construction of a new internal load-bearing steel framework and the reassembly of the interior rooms.

Today, the White House Complex includes the Executive Residence (in which the First Family resides), the West Wing (the location of the Oval Office, Cabinet Room, and Roosevelt Room), and the East Wing (the location of the office of the First Lady and White House Social Secretary), as well as the Old Executive Office Building, which houses the executive offices of the President and Vice President.

The White House is made up of six stories—the Ground Floor, State Floor, Second Floor, and Third Floor, as well as a two-story basement. The term White House is regularly used as a metonym for the Executive Office of the President of the United States and for the president's administration and advisors in general. The property is owned by the National Park Service and is part of the President's Park. In 2007, it was ranked second on the American Institute of Architects's List of America's Favorite Architecture.

 

[DCThunder]

Tim I was just reviewing the first page master list and you're missing two picks of mine:

The Battle Hymn of the Rpublic as a Song and Poor Richard's Almanack as a Non-fiction selection.

TIA.

 

[rodg12]

The home and workplace of the U.S. President:



35.09 The White House, Building

Wiki link:

The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late Georgian style and has been the executive residence of every U.S. President since John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the home in 1801, he (with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades which were meant to conceal stables and storage.[1]

In 1814, during the War of 1812, the mansion was set ablaze by the British Army in the Burning of Washington, destroying the interior and charring much of the exterior. Reconstruction began almost immediately, and President James Monroe moved into the partially reconstructed house in October 1817. Construction continued with the addition of the South Portico in 1824 and the North in 1829. Due to crowding within the executive mansion itself, President Theodore Roosevelt had nearly all work offices relocated to the newly-constructed West Wing in 1901. Eight years later, President William Howard Taft expanded the West Wing and created the first Oval Office which was eventually moved as the section was expanded. The third-floor attic was converted to living quarters in 1927 by augmenting the existing hip roof with long shed dormers. A newly constructed East Wing was used as a reception area for social events; both new wings were connected by Jefferson's colonnades. East Wing alterations were completed in 1946 creating additional office space. By 1948, the house's load-bearing exterior walls and internal wood beams were found to be close to failure. Under Harry S. Truman, the interior rooms were completely dismantled, resulting in the construction of a new internal load-bearing steel framework and the reassembly of the interior rooms.

Today, the White House Complex includes the Executive Residence (in which the First Family resides), the West Wing (the location of the Oval Office, Cabinet Room, and Roosevelt Room), and the East Wing (the location of the office of the First Lady and White House Social Secretary), as well as the Old Executive Office Building, which houses the executive offices of the President and Vice President.

The White House is made up of six stories—the Ground Floor, State Floor, Second Floor, and Third Floor, as well as a two-story basement. The term White House is regularly used as a metonym for the Executive Office of the President of the United States and for the president's administration and advisors in general. The property is owned by the National Park Service and is part of the President's Park. In 2007, it was ranked second on the American Institute of Architects's List of America's Favorite Architecture.

Considering his theme, really, really, really suprised Yankee didn't lock this puppy up rounds ago.

 

[rodg12]

SKIPPED

28.11 - Thatguy (autoskip)

29.05 - Doug B (autoskip)

29.10 - thatguy (autoskip)

30.11 - thatguy (autoskip until further notice)

31.10 - Thatguy (autoskip)

32.11 - Thatguy (autoskip)

33.10 - Thatguy (autoskip)

34.11 - Thatguy (autoskip)

35.08 - Tides of War (autoskip)

35.10 - Thatguy (autoskip)

35.11 - El Floppo (autoskip if not here in first 15)

35.12 - Team CIA (autoskip)



Doug B down to just one owed!! Now, just need to get thatguy caught up.

35.13 - Uncle Humuna - OTC until :31

35.14 - MisfitBlondes - On Deck

35.15 - Bob Lee Swagger - In The Hole

35.16 - Scott Norwood

35.17 - DC Thunder

35.18 - Genedoc/Bonzai

35.19 - Tirnan (autoskip if not around)

35.20 - Yankee23Fan

 

[krista4]

29.5 : Glengarry Glen Ross, Play [5]

Just need to repick that one.

Taken as a play or a movie? Either way, pretty nice pick by whoever made it.If it was taken as a movie, can I still keep it as a play?

It was taken as a play, by the captain of Team Fennis. Get your paws off our play!

DougB tried to take 3 picks that belong to Team Fennis. Stellar draft Team Fennis!

And we all know DougB is a stellar drafter, as the consensus best team of the WGD (though he was upset in a final that rivaled NC State over Houston).

 

[rodg12]

DougB tried to take 3 picks that belong to Team Fennis. Stellar draft Team Fennis!

And we all know DougB is a stellar drafter, as the consensus best team of the WGD (though he was upset in a final that rivaled NC State over Houston, if NC State would have been allowed to play the second half with 6 guys.).

Fixed.

 

[Doug B]

Last re-pick ... don't see this one in the OP:

29.5 - : Driving Miss Daisy, Play [5]

 

[Uncle Humuna]

35.13 Dustin Hoffman as Raymond Babbitt in Rain Man (Acting Performance)

'Course, three minutes to Wapner.

 

[Doug B]

DougB tried to take 3 picks that belong to Team Fennis. Stellar draft Team Fennis!

And we all know DougB is a stellar drafter, as the consensus best team of the WGD (though he was upset in a final that rivaled NC State over Houston, if NC State would have been allowed to play the second half with 6 guys.).

Fixed.

Is that confirmation?

 

[rodg12]

Last re-pick ... don't see this one in the OP:

29.5 - : Driving Miss Daisy, Play [5]

And with that, Doug B is caught up. I think that deserves a .

 

[Uncle Humuna]

Last re-pick ... don't see this one in the OP:

29.5 - : Driving Miss Daisy, Play [5]

And with that, Doug B is caught up. I think that deserves a .

 

[rodg12]

DougB tried to take 3 picks that belong to Team Fennis. Stellar draft Team Fennis!

And we all know DougB is a stellar drafter, as the consensus best team of the WGD (though he was upset in a final that rivaled NC State over Houston, if NC State would have been allowed to play the second half with 6 guys.).

Fixed.

Is that confirmation?

Unable to confirm, but all signs pointed to this being the case.

 

[krista4]

Last re-pick ... don't see this one in the OP:

29.5 - : Driving Miss Daisy, Play [5]

And with that, Doug B is caught up. I think that deserves a .

That was fun.

 

[Doug B]

DougB tried to take 3 picks that belong to Team Fennis. Stellar draft Team Fennis!

And we all know DougB is a stellar drafter, as the consensus best team of the WGD (though he was upset in a final that rivaled NC State over Houston, if NC State would have been allowed to play the second half with 6 guys.).

Fixed.

Is that confirmation?

Unable to confirm, but all signs pointed to this being the case.

The :E: Street Band was having fun with us ... wasn't personal against me. They like to poke fun at our "seriousness" by vaulting the losing team ahead at the last minute in these iDraft polls.

 

[BobbyLayne]

35.07 (687th pick) - Orphee aux Enfers - Composition

aka Orpheus in the Underworld

Jacques Offenbach

 

[Doug B]

BTW, I'm still on auto-skip at all times. I will try my best to pick at least around the time of my selections. Since I'm kinda close to a turn, I'll probably do a lot of double-picking on my xx.05 picks, letting the xx.16 pick get skipped to aid time management.

If I intend to do otherwise, I'll make a post asking the draft to temporarily suspend my auto-skip. But if I'm not around to say otherwise, just keep skipping me.

 

[Fennis]

The :E: Street Band was having fun with us ... wasn't personal against me. They like to poke fun at our "seriousness" by vaulting the losing team ahead at the last minute in these iDraft polls.

But not... of course.... in the GAD. That was legit.

 

[BobbyLayne]

The :E: Street Band was having fun with us ... wasn't personal against me. They like to poke fun at our "seriousness" by vaulting the losing team ahead at the last minute in these iDraft polls.

But not... of course.... in the GAD. That was legit.

Wait Apathy

 

[Doug B]

Last re-pick ... don't see this one in the OP:

29.5 - : Driving Miss Daisy, Play [5]

And with that, Doug B is caught up. I think that deserves a .

Serious question -- how close was I to getting tossed out? No need to name names, and no hard feelings ... I'd have deserved the boot.

 

[krista4]

Last re-pick ... don't see this one in the OP:

29.5 - : Driving Miss Daisy, Play [5]

And with that, Doug B is caught up. I think that deserves a .

Serious question -- how close was I to getting tossed out? No need to name names, and no hard feelings ... I'd have deserved the boot.

Not close. tim posed the question a day or two ago, and only one team voted to replace you.

 

[Postradamus]

Last re-pick ... don't see this one in the OP:

29.5 - : Driving Miss Daisy, Play [5]

And with that, Doug B is caught up. I think that deserves a .

Serious question -- how close was I to getting tossed out? No need to name names, and no hard feelings ... I'd have deserved the boot.

Serious answer -- you're still pushing it buddy.

 

[BobbyLayne]

We took a vote Doug B, it's back several pages...within a few minutes a half dozen people had said "Wait for him, if he doesn't come back, don't replace, go with 19" (even though we had vultures circling who wanted in).

I believe a couple folks posted you would be back fo sure. Wouldn't be the same without you - having a voice of sanity is greatly appreciated by all.

 

[DCThunder]

Last re-pick ... don't see this one in the OP:

29.5 - : Driving Miss Daisy, Play [5]

And with that, Doug B is caught up. I think that deserves a .

Serious question -- how close was I to getting tossed out? No need to name names, and no hard feelings ... I'd have deserved the boot.

IMHO, not very close.

 

[DCThunder]

I'll be AFK between about 1:30-3:15 EDT today, so skip me if my picks come up.

 

[anborn]

:blowsout:

Abrantes timed out one minute ago.

All you angry drafters need this one. Click link, close eyes, mellow out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZHw9uyj81g&NR=1

35.07 (687th pick) - Kanon und Gigue in D-Dur für drei Violinen und Basso Continuo - Composition

aka Canon and Gigue in D major for three Violins and Basso Continuo

Johann Pachelbel

Wasn't this taken already?

I took it.

*ahem*

norwood took it. i pm'ed it as a suggestion earlier. no idea if he took it from his own suggestion or mine. I was just trying to take a little credit. feel free to lambast norwood for the pick though.

 

[krista4]

Last re-pick ... don't see this one in the OP:

29.5 - : Driving Miss Daisy, Play [5]

And with that, Doug B is caught up. I think that deserves a .

Serious question -- how close was I to getting tossed out? No need to name names, and no hard feelings ... I'd have deserved the boot.

Not close. tim posed the question a day or two ago, and only one team voted to replace you.

Was it my team that voted to replace him?

We're not naming names!

 

[anborn]

35.13 Dustin Hoffman as Raymond Babbitt in Rain Man (Acting Performance)

'Course, three minutes to Wapner.

Excellent pick here. sad to say it was off my radar. very solid.

 

[BobbyLayne]

OK, this is two weeks out, but I have decided when I am in Vienna I will go on autoskip (June 18-21). I'll be in Bucharest June 22-23 and will try to catch up then, but worst case, for sure when I'm back in NYC on June 24.

I held the draft up 30+ hours using a proxy twice before; won't be repeating that error.

 

[Chiwawa]

MisfitBlondes' Pick

35.14 Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country For Old Men (Acting Performance)

Bardem is absolutely terrifying as the cold-hearted, indestructible, almost apparition like Chigurh. He floats through the film like a phantom, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. The movie itself is great, very edge-of-the-seat. And yes, I am one of the people who loves the ending, it perfectly sums up the themes of the film, and in my opinion it couldn't have ended any other way. Bardem is a great actor, every movie I've seen him in he has been excellent but I think this one is his best, it is a tour-de-force.

Definitive Moment: The gas station scene where he has what is possibly the most intense conversation ever filmed with the gas station attendant.

 

[Fennis]

OK, this is two weeks out, but I have decided when I am in Vienna I will go on autoskip (June 18-21). I'll be in Bucharest June 22-23 and will try to catch up then, but worst case, for sure when I'm back in NYC on June 24.I held the draft up 30+ hours using a proxy twice before; won't be repeating that error.

Vienna and Bucharest... pfffft.I'm going to Phoenix this weekend.