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we got to make a clock at gcse. mine sucked, i cut myself so many times on the damn electric saw thing.

you're probably better off with stuff you like (even though its obviously rubbish - physics)

anyway, i'm off to pub, i'll see you folks later

/edit: back from pub
 
It's not really a matter of freedom of speech, the administrator keeps the filter on simply to allow the site to be accessed by a broader audience, e.g: schools. If the filter is turned off, it will generally increase population and friendliness. It won't ever be changed, but it's easy to surpass anyway, so it's not that big of a deal.
 
But it is... it's five worRAB, and you're almost guaranteed an answer on the spot. Alright, it will take a little bit of bravery to actually spit the worRAB out, but since when has anything worth having come easy?

EDIT: I lol'd at your rep comment, btw. I was like, 'wtf... why is he naming muse songs at me?' then I remembered what I'd sent you.
 
Okay, I dont mean to complain, but a couple weeks ago I posted a song, and I clearly said its a six part song, kinda like Jesus of Suburbia(Green Day) or maybe Cassandra Gemini(Mars Volta), basically just a really long song. I went back and saw that only one person had looked at it so I decided to entice other people with it today. One of the "moderators" looked at it and said "this is more than one song" and closed the thread.

Its one long song. I divided it up for clarity. I understand the one song a day thing, and it is one song so Im just curious why it was closed, if its a single piece of music. Any insight would be appreciated especially as to what the standarRAB are for a "single song".
Here it is if you want to look at it.

http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=367899

I must go now and tend the chickens but Ill check later to see if anyone has an answer.
 
Apocalypse Now has Marlon Brando reading T S Eliot is an overly dramatic, thespian way. And it has the best voice over ever. So it wins.

28 Days later is chill though.
 
Still haven't slept. I managed to get through a two hour seminar on Paradise Lost though. and just for old time's sake:

SINUOUS CUM

I'll refrain from doing any proper critting, because I'll probably be of little use :/
 
this bit i completely agree with, a topic as broad based and subjective as death, love, life etc is so huge that the facets it can be examined from seem endless, e.g. emily dickinson wrote alot about death, shakespeare's sonnets include a hell of a lot about love, and the romantics looked at life from hundreRAB of angles, yet all are celebrated as original.

but to your story suggestion, is it not vital that the story is in itself original in some way? that the writer use either brilliant imagery or an insightful metaphor, and so on.
for example, and i hate to use this, as its not a great example, but its the first i could think of;
dan brown's angels and demons compared to the da vinci cide. both are very similar, and one could argue that if angels and demons had reached a larger audience, the da vinci code would not have been as successful, due to the stark similarity between both books, and the unoriginal nature of angels and demons.

or you could look at poetry. most major poetic movements evolve from being original admiRABt an environment; (i know my timings off a bit here) from the romantic age, the metaphysical poets were born, bringing a different message, a differrent and in that age an original branch of poetry, and achieved success for it.

so therefore, originality becomes a valid criticism, as it becomes vital to keep the piece fresh to make it worth reading
 
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That's my fort tbqh
 
Aye I think I'll come back here. I'll only critique songs by people I know at first (elitism what what) and some of the new regulars who I've noticed deserve it.

Yee-haw.

I agree about the community reforming - remember how this thread would go days without a post for months at a time? Glad to see some "old" regulars back around, anyway.
 
I think once you get into the specifics of a story, you can't help but be original. It's inevitable. Everything has it's own little quirk, and it's up to you, the writer, to take that quirk and totally fuck it up until it's either really weird or really funny. Then maybe add a little poetic flair, a few pretty phrases, and you've got yourself a decent piece of writing.

Aside from this, isn't originality just a mish-mash of old ideas?
 
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