June 15, 2007
FOUR FOR FRIDAY
Q1 - Music: A friend of mine has just over 1,500 songs on his computer that he listens to throughout the workday. Over time, he has become of tired of hearing the same music over and over again. His question is thisÖ how do you branch out and find new music that you'll like?
Q2 - Church: The Church of England believes its Manchester Cathedral is no place for a gun battle, much less a gory one that can be viewed in any living room. Sony's PlayStation 3 release "Resistance: Fall of Man" features a battle among British and American soldiers and aliens inside the cathedral. The Anglicans are demanding an apology and a contribution to the Church's antiviolence education campaign using the game's profits. Sony maintains that it will not alter the game. Do you think the Church is owed an apology and payout?
Q3 - Take it With You: There's an old saying that goes something like this: You can't take it with you when you die! If you had to choose three items to be buried with, what would you choose?
Q4 - Hotels: When you stay at a hotel, do you take the free toiletries home at the end of your stay?
Posted by Mikal at June 15, 2007 12:01 AM
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1. I have a wide spectrum of friends and take hints from them. I may not like all of what they listen to, but I can generally find something that strikes my fancy.
2. Definitely not. Regardless of it's religious significance, it's also essentially a public place and a national monument. No ruckus was raised when Parliament was blown up at the end of V for Vendetta. If the Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't like it, he's welcome to close that cathedral and others to non-believers.
As to monetary damages? that simply tells me that it's not the 'disgrace' to the cathedral for the lawsuit, but the promise of a multimillion dollar settlement that's behind it.
3. Nothing. I intend to donate my body to science.
4. The ones that I use, I don't want to take home. The ones that I don't use? It depends on the toiletries offered. Hotels should offer liquid soap/conditioner dispensers instead.
1. I like accuradio.com as they tend to always have a few sub channels that have bands I've never heard of. I also have a brother who plays guitar in the indie scene, so he can usually provide me with something new to listen to, even if one listen is all some of it deserves.
2. I think the church is owed nothing, and somehow, I think a video game company paying into an antiviolence campaign is a lot like tobacco companies paying into quit smoking programs or alcohol companies sponsoring MADD, all laudable, but all ultimately nothing more than the old Catholic Indulgences.
3. My wedding ring, a pair of pants (though I think having people come to my viewing and seeing my maked corpse would be a riot on the other side), and being several years older than my wife and therefore being likely to die first, my wife at a later date.
4. I have been known to snag a few items. At a previous job, I traveled just enough to never need to buy shampoo, conditioner, and soap. Just dump the whole pile into my bag every morning and get another set when the room is cleaned.
1. Your friend could ask others what kind of music they listen to or recommend. Or just go to the store and cruise the CDs...listen to some you haven't heard of and see if you like the songs. The radio tends to play the same music over and over, so it's hard to get a fresh tunes perspective. I have the same problem, but I have nowhere near 1,500 songs.
2. I'm not sure they deserve a payout, but why even use the church in a video game? Just create one of your own? Better yet, don't even use a church...make a totally mythical building. The controversy is just another way for S0ny to sell more PlayStations.
3. Pictures of my family and close friends; my favorite book; something symbolic of who I am.
4. I don't usually take home the free toiletries because I'd never use them, but I do take the showercap, if they give me one.
1. MUSIC - If your friend has music on his computer, then he can do an internet search by group, artist, era, and genre. This shouldn't be that hard to do, I think.
2. CHURCH - The Anglicans aren't owed an apology or a payout. The video game's setting may be offensive and impolite, but places, especially historic ones, do not have a copyright on or domain rights to the use of their locations, especially in fictionalized manifestations.
3. TAKE IT WITH YOU - *If* I had to choose 3 things to be buried with, I'd have 2 responses: a. Justin Timberlake and Elijah Wood, without clothes (becuase the beliblog censor won't allow n-ude or n-aked!!) in the hopes that we were buried alive while engaging in a 3-some (wow!); b. the Library of Congress on DVD/CD, my boyfriend/partner, and a box of cash. I realize my burial site would be a bit larger than normal, but . . . I'm OK with that.
4. HOTELS - Yes, I usually take the free toiletries home with me. I usually give them away to friends/family who travel or I give them to the Jr. Chamber for its personal care item donation to the local Economic Security Corp for its mock interview and job skills program, which has a personal care component.
Q1: Pandora! (www.pandora.com/)
Q2: I prefer the Nintendo DS
Q3: hmm... i would take sneakers - just in case.
Q4: hell yeah!
1. Music: I guess I just don't listen to nearly as much music as other folks. I've got about 600 songs currently, and it suits me okay. But what I do when looking for new stuff is peruse the top 100 lists of various English-speaking countries.
2. Church: In general agreement with Mike and Lee. It's public and therefore free game.
3. Take it With You: Well, I intend to be cremated and flushed down the toilet, or something else equally bland. But if I had to choose, I'd take a bag of flesh eating worms and whoever my greatest enemy was that is still living.
4. Hotels: Oh yeah. Just like Greg I usually grab everything on check in, and when housekeeping replaces it all, I grab all of that stuff too. I even have a few shower caps; something that I'll never ever use. But the box designs look cool.
1.If you live in a cool city...check out the indie record shops...or just record shops in general...they are always a hotbed for kick ass musicÖ*Disclaimer* if you like countryÖyou have no optionsÖjust listen to CashÖand be ok with thatÖ
2.Does anybody think it's a little weird that the Church of EnglandÖwhich owned a huge number of slaves more than two decades after the slave trade was ended by England, which has molested more boys that Michael Jackson, and committed other crimes against humanityÖis criticizing a violent game maker not so much for the violence, but for using pictures of the churches paid for by slavery and in which unknown numbers of said molestations likely occurredÖThe church was built on very real violence and as such is in no position to be criticizing pretend violenceÖ
3.I just want to be a scarecrowÖ
4.When I leave nothing is left in the mini barÖdoes that count?
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