America
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 14, 2012 4:55 AM EST
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PrintJack the America of your dreams is gone
Gone the brownstone tenements of the night
Gone the empty coffee houses of lonely evenings and silence
Gone the boxcars and hoboes and prayers to St Teresa
Gone the warmth of a blazing fire on a winter night.
Jack the America you loved has become
the America of senseless noise
the America of arrogant impositions
the America of threat and aggression
the America of brutality
the America of broken hearts and broken promises.
An insect feeding on the world
suckling greedily demanding more
deaf to the voice of reason and temperance.
Jack come back
bring back with you the America even outsiders loved
the America of open highways
the America of boundless forests
the America of sunsets by the river-pier
an America generous of spirit.
The planet needs this America.
Jack bring back your magic
and banish our nightmares.
Bring back your gentleness
and teach America how to be free.
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When I start training again, I will
Too busy with school right now.. hopefully this summer I’ll be back in the gym, though!
There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 14, 2012 6:26 AM EST up reply actions
WAIT I WATCHED THE VID, WHY DONT I SEE THAT GIRL IN YOUR AVATAR!?
by Anton Tabuena on Feb 14, 2012 7:40 AM EST up reply actions 7 recs
Because she was at my house
on the receiving end of a severe pounding.
I'm gonna give you three seconds; exactly three-fucking-seconds to wipe that stupid looking grin off your face or I will gouge out your eyeballs and skull-fuck you!
by attgnp on Feb 14, 2012 4:26 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
For the right price, I wouldn't be surprised
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by ElliotMatheny on Feb 14, 2012 6:39 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah I made her pay me $500
I'm gonna give you three seconds; exactly three-fucking-seconds to wipe that stupid looking grin off your face or I will gouge out your eyeballs and skull-fuck you!
by attgnp on Feb 14, 2012 7:01 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I've had Master of the House
from Les Mis stuck in my head all day. I’m not sure Elliot, but I’m somehow sure this is your fault.
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-Aristotle
Have you ever taken any fights or do you just trane UFC?
I can’t remember.
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by Zachary Kater on Feb 14, 2012 12:18 PM EST up reply actions
I've never had a fight,
and don’t really intend to. But yeah, I trane UFC bro
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by ElliotMatheny on Feb 14, 2012 3:31 PM EST up reply actions
Alternatively, change your name to Earl Montclaire
"A belt only covers two inches of your ****and the rest you need to back up on your own." Royce Gracie (allegedly...I just read it somewhere and thought it was cool for my sig!)
seriously this is why I love BE
so many backgrounds and different talents.
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That's why I hate it.
All you people make me feel like I’m wasting my life.
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by Zachary Kater on Feb 14, 2012 11:38 AM EST up reply actions
don't worry about it
the more interesting we seem, the broker we are
To have a Cannae you must have a Varo
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"The complete man must work, study and wrestle."
-Aristotle
unfortunately for me, the reverse is not also true
This is an oule.
by some schmuck in texas on Feb 14, 2012 2:05 PM EST up reply actions
thanks for sharing sir.
does your school have a religious affiliation or was that just a random piece?
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Yeah, it's a Jesuit school.
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by ElliotMatheny on Feb 14, 2012 3:32 PM EST up reply actions
Go. Gonzaga.
G-O-N-Z-A-G-A
"It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco.
It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world" - Oscar Wylde
by SanFranpsycho on Feb 14, 2012 4:55 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah buddy!
Didn’t you go to GU for a few years? In the music department? I vaguely remember us talking about this
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by ElliotMatheny on Feb 14, 2012 6:40 PM EST up reply actions
Compliment sandwich time
You sing really well man, amazing stuff.
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Great job, you must be knee deep (figuratively speaking, I hope) in choirgirls every night.
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by IKilledOO7 on Feb 14, 2012 10:22 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
this is alright elliott
but what im really looking forward to is your ‘face the pain’ cover.
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by gspmademegay on Feb 14, 2012 9:13 AM EST reply actions 5 recs
Damn you, that was not how you were supposed to look like, at least according to the little images that I have assigned to BE members in my head.
Great voice though
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might be time for a (cough, cough) mania-style 'BE members unmasked' fanpost
between this and all the avatar/handle changes, it might be time.
or not.
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by gspmademegay on Feb 14, 2012 9:16 AM EST up reply actions
Nah, MDH already ruined my image of him when he changed to his real name, I’m no longer interested in people’s IRL form.
by BeefSupreme on Feb 14, 2012 11:28 AM EST up reply actions
I'd participate if someone else started it.
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by Zachary Kater on Feb 14, 2012 11:39 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Same
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by wonderfulspam on Feb 14, 2012 11:53 AM EST up reply actions
Let it be known that I strongly oppose this idea. If you are wise, you’ll heed my advice and abandon these thoughts at once!
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by Horselover Fat on Feb 14, 2012 11:55 AM EST up reply actions
Horselover must be a ginger...
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by Zachary Kater on Feb 14, 2012 11:59 AM EST up reply actions
A horseloving, fat ginger
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by wonderfulspam on Feb 14, 2012 11:59 AM EST up reply actions
Sounds like a charming woman.
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by SanFranpsycho on Feb 14, 2012 12:03 PM EST up reply actions
ill start one but i dont know how to get one of my pics online. any ideas?
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by gspmademegay on Feb 14, 2012 12:04 PM EST up reply actions
Upload it to a site like Photobucket or something.
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by Zachary Kater on Feb 14, 2012 12:07 PM EST up reply actions
Imgur and Tinypic are the simplest ones, I think. No need to register.
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by wonderfulspam on Feb 14, 2012 12:13 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, I was gonna list those too...
But I couldn’t remember whether they recycle links or not. I thought one of those sites does, but after Googling I think I’m wrong. Imgur would probably be best then.
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by Zachary Kater on Feb 14, 2012 12:16 PM EST up reply actions
I think tinypic recycles links but only after a while. I’m not sure that’s actually a problem unless you want your picture on BE forever.
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by wonderfulspam on Feb 14, 2012 12:22 PM EST up reply actions
You have to call your grandson
He’s “good with computers”
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by menckenstein on Feb 14, 2012 1:55 PM EST up reply actions
I’m putting this on my iPod.
INEPT coming for the season 2 BECW title.
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That's cool and all but..
I’mma make an official BE Dubstep remix to attract the younger demographics.
I like the idea disco
But dubstep attracts no one
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Fuck. BE members are real, flesh-and-blood people?
Everything looks so different now.
That aside: Solid stuff, sir. Good job.
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by T.C. Engel on Feb 14, 2012 9:56 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Nick Thomas was.
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by Zachary Kater on Feb 14, 2012 11:43 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
WOW
Thank you for sharing. Your voice is amazing.
Cut the wisps off your head, hippy. ;)
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by gspmademegay on Feb 14, 2012 11:07 AM EST up reply actions
Nice voice!
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by Sweet Scientist on Feb 14, 2012 11:30 AM EST reply actions
How many voice students does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
1. You just hold the bulb up to the socket and you wait for the world to revolve around them.
I’ll be honest, my vocal skill ends at sight singing through the Ottman, but it seems like a really solid performance. What do you think about it, personally?
Also, you’re singing in ENGLISH? What are you, a FARMER?
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Well, I still have the longest hair of anyone on BE it seems.
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HAIR CHALLENGE
Mine goes down to my lower back.
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It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world" - Oscar Wylde
by SanFranpsycho on Feb 14, 2012 12:01 PM EST up reply actions
Well, I lose already.
Mine’s down to my shoulder blades, longest by far that it’s ever been. Crazy thing is it’s been a year and a half since I cut it. Shit takes too long.
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by Zachary Kater on Feb 14, 2012 12:04 PM EST up reply actions
Today's actually my 5 year dreadlock anniversary.
\m/
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by SanFranpsycho on Feb 14, 2012 12:16 PM EST up reply actions
on valentines, no less!
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by gspmademegay on Feb 14, 2012 2:43 PM EST up reply actions
Also, 11 years of guitar playing!
Big day for me.
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by SanFranpsycho on Feb 14, 2012 3:17 PM EST up reply actions
mine does too
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by mollcutpurse on Feb 14, 2012 1:46 PM EST up reply actions
If I posted something here that said "watch me sing"
it would be interpreted as a threat. Great voice man.
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Very enjoyable stuff, Elliot
I’m liking what I’m hearing. I have a real hard time listening to opera and choral music in English, though; for some reason I’ve always thought that opera should be sung in German, Russian or if all else fails Italian or French but I realise I’m probably in a minority on that one.
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I understand. Maybe some languages are more suitable than others. I’m fluent in french and just can’t stand the way it sounds in academic music.
by king of the dogs on Feb 14, 2012 2:49 PM EST up reply actions
Italian is generally the easiest to sing in,
very few grammatical exceptions in their language, and the purest vowels. I haven’t done anything in Russian outside of a Choral piece here and there, but I’ve been working on my German and French as well. The challenge of German is achieving the correct mixed vowels, and spitting out all the consonants in short burst; French also has many mixed vowels that English speakers aren’t used to, and the pronunciation rules are hard for us to grasp, and it is a much more fluid, legato language.
This particular piece is in English because Vaughan Williams is a British late 19’th/ early 20’th century composer.
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by ElliotMatheny on Feb 14, 2012 3:39 PM EST up reply actions
I can imagine Italian being the easiest
Opera-esque in its style is Italian, Joe. French sounds so much different in song (both opera and pop) compared to the way I was taught in school whereas German singing is relatively close to the spoken language. I wouldn’t know about Russian; I know the Cyrillic alphabet and 20 words but that’s about it.
Which mixed vowels are causing you problems? Having gone to school with people from Brazil, Russia, China, Vietnam, etc. it was fun noticing how everyone had something they just couldn’t pronounce no matter how hard they tried. And yes, the Brazilian dude was almost incapable of pronouncing the letter R.
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by wonderfulspam on Feb 14, 2012 6:20 PM EST up reply actions
Sung French has way more Schwa's (normally an "e" on the end of a word in French)
whereas the schwa is unaccented, and sometimes nonexistent in spoken French. The challenge with singing in french is to keep your diction sharp and intelligible, yet keep the fluid legato of the language.
The mixed vowels that give me the biggest trouble are [Ø] and [oe] in German. They’re very close, but have to sound distinct from eachother.
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by ElliotMatheny on Feb 14, 2012 6:47 PM EST up reply actions
Great performace. I bet most people in the live audience probably couldn’t tell you were thinking about Saunders in the clinch the whole time.
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by Hardy's in your face on Feb 14, 2012 12:34 PM EST reply actions
Before I clicked on the post I thought I was gonna see some shitty kareoke video
Singing either Face The Pain or anything Huey lewis
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i was actually hoping for that
but still enjoyed the vid.
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by gspmademegay on Feb 14, 2012 2:43 PM EST up reply actions
Very good. How about some baroque music next time?
by king of the dogs on Feb 14, 2012 2:50 PM EST reply actions
Here's me singing the "Te Deum" from Charpentier's Te Deum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAOP5fnCGNA&list=FLP35w741Cf7pQj9w8-wbMUA&index=1&feature=plpp_video
Starts at 4:40.
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by ElliotMatheny on Feb 14, 2012 3:43 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Muchas gracias! What was your e-mail again? I would love to ask you a couple of things, I need some advice.
by king of the dogs on Feb 14, 2012 10:15 PM EST up reply actions
elliotmatheny@yahoo.com
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by ElliotMatheny on Feb 15, 2012 2:08 AM EST up reply actions
This is pretty fucking great Eliot!
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by Kwisatz Haderach on Feb 14, 2012 4:48 PM EST reply actions
This is not at all what I imagined you'd look like.
Takes huge cohones to put yourself out there like this, so power to you man.
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Great job dude
Mad respect for posting this video and what an amazing voice you have. I’ve always envied people who can sing opera.
Anyhow, thought I’d share a clip of me singing as well. It’s more of a spoof version of Whitney’s classic (RIP) but me singing nonetheless.
by KenCanFightBear on Feb 15, 2012 11:48 AM EST reply actions
You have a nice pop voice.
One of the things that Whitney did well, was that she figured out that she could take the [u] (oooh) vowel very high.
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by ElliotMatheny on Feb 15, 2012 2:23 PM EST up reply actions
UFC ON FUEL CIVIL WAR PICKS
wonderful singing eliot!
since i was not home to submit picks i gonna shame myself here:
Lightweight bout: Nate Diaz vs. Jim Miller – Jim Miller via unanimous decision
Welterweight bout:Josh Koscheck vs. Johny Hendricks – Johny Hendricks TKO R2
Middleweight bout: Alan Belcher vs. Rousimar Palhares – Belcher via unanimous decision
Heavyweight bout: Pat Barry vs. Lavar Johnson – Pat Barry via 2nd rd TKO
Lightweight bout: Tony Ferguson vs. Dennis Hallman – Fergusion via 2nd rd TKO
Flyweight bout: John Dodson vs. Darren Uyenoyama – Dodson via TKO rd 3
Welterweight bout: John Hathaway vs. Pascal Krauss – Hataway via TKO 2nd round
Lightweight bout: Danny Castillo vs. John Cholish – Castillio via unanimous decision
Middleweight bout: Mike Massenzio vs. Karlos Vemola – Mike Massenzio via unanimous decision
Flyweight bout: Louis Gaudinot vs. John Lineker – Lineker via unanimous decision
i hope this will be counted towards my team.
TY!
Thank you
You have a beautiful voice. I studied operatic singing three years ago for like a year and a half at a fine arts school here in México, everyone thought I had so much talent except for my empty pockets. I had to work to feed my family and wasn’t ready for live as a musician so I just dropped it. Of course I still exercise my voice but I was kinda forgetting the whole thing. This reminded me the beauty in singing with a choir and also that if I stop singing I may just die sooner than expected.
Good work.
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