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Originally posted by dolmansaxlil:
What's your Achilles heel?

Intelligent women.

Heh. You're a good man, jon.

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Originally posted by jon-nyc:

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Originally posted by dolmansaxlil:
What's your Achilles heel?

Intelligent women.

i can see that you'd be able to ace just about any job interview with the ability to come up with a "positive negative" like that.

(classic job interview question: what are your weaknesses?)

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Originally posted by jon-nyc:

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Originally posted by markj:
Why do you hate Mozart?

I wouldn't say I hate it, but I find most of his piano music boring, with it's simple major-key melodic figures and naive Alberti bass accompaniment. I find it too Little-Lord-Fauntleroy-ish.

You obviously need to listen to more Mozart. Very few of his piano works have an alberti base or are written in a "simple" major key.

jon, I hear you. A lot of people have similar criticisms of Mozart.

I've heard it described as "too sing songy." I've heard it described in even less flattering terms.

Mozart is far and away my favorite composer and I don't interpret it that way and I don't "hear" it that way.

But I've become convinced over my lifetime that some people do and I've come to the conclusion that it's to be expected because it's a big world with a lot of music in it. I myself don't care very much for Beethoven but it seems that most people love his music. Tastes vary and there's no way we could all like the same music.

Congrats on being named the August WTF-er of the month. Engjoy the grilling honor.

to me, mozart is the sound of love. it is the most sublime music in the world.

very little of it has the alberti bass and the sing-songy thing going on. i find his music to be very human and profound.

tastes change over a lifetime, jon.

are you open to the idea that you might change your opinion of mozart?

I love Mozart, too, but i'm finding that as I get older, I'm less enamored with his music than I once was. I played a lot of Mozart as a child - it was always my first choice if I got a say - and I think between that and how often his work is used in advertisements, etc, I've grown a bit tired of it.

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Originally posted by piqué:
are you open to the idea that you might change your opinion of mozart?

I am, in fact.

What's your favorite dessert?

Favorite composer?

Favorite pianist who is not a WTF member?

Which piece of music that you've tried to learn has challenged your piano skills the most?

Hepburn or Bergman?

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Originally posted by well-tempered gardener:
What's your favorite dessert?

I'm not a dessert person at all, but I'd say a light fruit sorbet for lack of a better answer.

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Originally posted by well-tempered gardener:Favorite composer?

Maurice Ravel. I love every note he wrote.

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Originally posted by well-tempered gardener:Favorite pianist who is not a WTF member?

Probably Krystian Zimerman, though he's such a perfectionist that he lacks the range of others that I like. I also think his politics are naive and bizarre.

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Originally posted by well-tempered gardener:Which piece of music that you've tried to learn has challenged your piano skills the most?

Probably Ravel's Jeux d'Eau.

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Originally posted by well-tempered gardener:Hepburn or Bergman?

Ah, Bergman. But what a choice!

garbo or dietrich?

Wow, that's a toughie, but I gotta go with Garbo. There's just something sexy about her reclusion in later life.

good choice. dietrich was, um, not a good person.

plus i think garbo in "camille" (stupid movie) is such an exquisite vision, no one has ever surpassed her beauty.

so what did you end up doing with the salmon?

I did a version of what Dol and WTG suggested. There are several others I want to try too, but by the time I sorted it out I didn't feel like heading back out so I had to improvise with what I had here.

What do you like least about Brooklyn?
How old were you when you first
Which countries have you visited?
What's your least favorite memory from high school?
Have you ever had a best friend of the opposite sex? (No fair trying to say your wife. I mean in a purely platonic sense.)