Comments by dgiaimo

Lol. Isn't the music scene just as good around NYC?

That's probably because Clarke isn't a "nome" it's a "cognome".

Don Mclean's "American Pie" and Guns N' Roses' "November Rain" both have that effect on me.

Of course, you have to realize that one of the reasons they seem cliched now is that so much of modern theater and movies derives from Shakespeare. Also, I think it is more impressive when you act...

I don't know about that. I don't think the ending to most Mets games comes as a surprise. :) In fact, the Mets record and the Yankees record were pretty much the same last year. Well, as long ...

I'm jealous. :) I wish I lived close enough to New York to go to a Yankees game.

In San Francisco there is, but I live in Danville, which is about an hour's drive from there.

I haven't read nearly enough Shakespeare, but we read Julius Caesar in 10th grade, so I remembered that. I find it really amazing how many of the sayings we still use even now originated with Shak...

My major as an undergraduate at UCSD was Mathematics, and I'm now in the Mathematics PhD program at UCB.

Ramona is a town about 45 miles northeast of San Diego. There are two congregations there, one English and one Spanish. At least one brother from each congregation has lost their home in the fire...

At first I tried to find someone to continue my lessons with, but (a) I really wanted to take lessons from a sister or brother, and I couldn't find any in my new area that did that and (b) I really...

I wish I could play a harpsichord. I started taking piano lessons from an older sister in my previous congregation about 4 years ago, but I stopped soon after since I had to move to the bay area. ...

Yeah. He's the one who was responsible for the massacre at the Alamo.

There're several theories as to why they are called what they are. Some people believe that they are called the Santa Ana winds because of the Santa Ana canyon in orange county. Some people, who ...

Do you know which Kingdom Hall it was? I used to go to the Ramona congregation, and I know that a few friends there have lost their homes, but I haven't heard about any Kingdom Halls burning down.

I'm not really partial to one time period, though I have been listening to a lot of Baroque stuff recently.

Vivaldi - Late Violin Concertos Am I the only classical music geek here?

"Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show...

Not really, he's a major character in William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar". Then again, I'm not sure if that's still required reading in high school, so maybe you wouldn't know about him.

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man" - Mark Twain

"Now in darkness, world stops turning As the war machine keeps burning No more war pigs of the power Hand of God has struck the hour" And when you're really depressed: "O Fortuna velut lu...

The victory song has to be one of my facorite of all the Kingdom songs. I just love minor keys.

Well, George Washington wasn't alive when Dante wrote. (He's about two hundred years later.) And while there are several popes serving their time in Dante's Hell, they are not being personally to...

I know that this thread has been dormant for a couple of months, but in case anyone is wondering, the other two were Brutus and Cassius, two of the men who organized the assassination of Julius Cae...