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I entered the other day looking for something, I saw all these threads, laughed and left.

It's weird. After first having to suffer from over-moderating, of which making a separate forum for JW topics is the worst example, it seems like out beloved Leaders have totally given up on maintaining any kind of control by allowing the continued existence of (currently) 463 threads about quotes from various movies. people who complained about there being too many Tolkien related threads are now contributing to this insanity! I know this place is fucking boring right now, with not a single score of interest being released (fuck you Zimmer's Spiderman II and Henry Hackman's Captain America II). But this is simply excruciating!

We would get a cracking album, though! Karol

I think I actually prefer the brass there (from the original) first since the choir follows suit almost immediately anyways. And yes, that track has already secured its place as one of my favourites.

Sigh...

Yeah, ever since these quote threads popped up, this place has gotten boring. Discussion has been replaced with pointless post-count padding, and what little discussion being attempted is drowned out by hundreds of these pointless threads. The quoting was funny when they popped up naturally while derailing a topic. But a thread full of compiled, often random quotes, is just no fun. I don't understand how people went crazy over the Hobbit threads (which weren't that many, especially compared to this nonsense), so much so that JW had to be removed from the equation, but all this is encouraged. Is the Other Topics section the only safe place left in JWFan? Call me back when all this blows over please.

It's really the opposite of that I think. There's a great lecture somewhere on YouTube where he explains the genesis of his "ambient" philosophy and while the idea is on the intellectual side, the result is music that is just... there, and which you *don't* have to think about. Quality choice. That's classic nighttime-sneak-around-campus music.

@filmmusic: More films about the relationship between humans and animals: Unknown to the public at large but really worth checking out. Like Siskel & Ebert said, two thumbs up, way up! Alex

Dr. Ian Malcolm: If I may... Um, I'll tell you the problem with the quotational power that you're using here, it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're quoting it, you wanna quote it...well John Hammond: I don't think you're giving us our due credit. Our posters have done things which nobody's ever done before... Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, yeah, but your posters were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.

Quotes! We've got quotes here! See? Nobody cares.

And to think people were bitching about too many Tolkien threads ... I suggest "You talk and talk, but you have no point". Now that would be apt for this board.

"Who are you?"

I decided that the Constitution gives me war powers, but no one knows just exactly what those powers are. Some say they don't exist. I don't know. I decided I needed them to exist to uphold my oath to protect the Constitution, which I decided meant that I could take the rebel's slaves from them as property confiscated in war. That might recommend to suspicion that I agree with the rebs that their slaves are property in the first place. Of course I don't, never have, I'm glad to see any man free, and if calling a man property, or war contraband, does the trick... Why I caught at the opportunity. Now here's where it gets truly slippery. I use the law allowing for the seizure of property in a war knowing it applies only to the property of governments and citizens of belligerent nations. But the South ain't a nation, that's why I can't negotiate with'em. If in fact the Negroes are property according to law, have I the right to take the rebels' property from 'em, if I insist they're rebels only, and not citizens of a belligerent country? And slipperier still: I maintain it ain't our actual Southern states in rebellion but only the rebels living in those states, the laws of which states remain in force. The laws of which states remain in force. That means, that since it's states' laws that determine whether Negroes can be sold as slaves, as property - the Federal government doesn't have a say in that, least not yet then Negroes in those states are slaves, hence property, hence my war powers allow me to confiscate'em as such. So I confiscated 'em. But if I'm a respecter of states' laws, how then can I legally free'em with my Proclamation, as I done, unless I'm cancelling states' laws? I felt the war demanded it; my oath demanded it; I felt right with myself; and I hoped it was legal to do it, I'm hoping still. Two years ago I proclaimed these people emancipated - "then, hence forward and forever free."But let's say the courts decide I had no authority to do it. They might well decide that. Say there's no amendment abolishing slavery. Say it's after the war, and I can no longer use my war powers to just ignore the courts' decisions, like I sometimes felt I had to do. Might those people I freed be ordered back into slavery? That's why I'd like to get the Thirteenth Amendment through the House, and on its way to ratification by the states, wrap the whole slavery thing up, forever and aye. As soon as I'm able. Now. End of this month. And I'd like you to stand behind me. Like my cabinet's most always done.

Barryyyy! BARREEEEYYYYYY!

Gerhardt's Empire Strikes Back album is certainly one of the greatest audio recordings in the history of the human race. If our civilization ended and an alien race exploring the ruins of our world had to uncover only one thing to represent our history...I would be okay with it being the Gerhardt Empire Strikes Back album.

You made a quote ... out of a DELOREAN?!?

He probaby thought it would be a fun Saturday afternoon movie for kids.