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Milton Friedman may be a good economist - ie working with models, but he is a lousy historian. No historian would ever say anything in history was "crystal clear". It is a messy business full of complexity and subjectivity which goes beyond what a model can comprehend or should try to comprehend....

You should not say "especially for parents of a gay son". It is not about that. That does not do justice to this film. That is too narrow. It is about accepting people with differences, not straightjacketing them and listening to them. This is not just about gay people. It is about all people wh...

@50sKingJet No I don't think so. It is just that we are going to have to wait until things get as bad as the Great Depression before someone is going to come up with something radically new. The 1920s and the years leading up to it were a very complex and messy time indeed - ask any historian. S...

Very nice. This is such a classy song with great chords - and your arrangement is great!

Great stuff!

Nice!!

@rbsvy91368 For sure and although millions of people watch these things and they certainly can be fun (often for the wrong reasons), awards shows like this are really just part of the absurdity of our times. Its about showing off, egos, and pretty clothes. It has very little to do with music and ...

I like the clarity and sonority of this vocal line. It is refreshing and actually very musical.

Max Hastings comments are some degree of pertinence. With respect to the first world, he is right. The period since WWII is unusually benevolent in world history -However, people such as him continually forget about how a large chunk of the planet live. Look at the effects of capitalist exploitat...

You know I have been to many classical performances by "great" pianists - you know the type the chattering classes and newspaper commentators like. But this guy is a real performer. He never once allows the audience to get bored. The modern equivalent of Liszt or Pagannini. A showman, sure. But s...

Very classy indeed. I like the way she can ornament melodies and not make them sound ugly like Mariah Carey.

Thanks for the download, interesting. I dont think this arrangement though is particularly good. Have you heard Harald Winkler's?

It think it is rare that film music gets as classy as this. Stanley Myers was an English composer. This piece follows very classical rules of harmony and counterpoint. Yet, it sounds very much at home in the late 1970s.

Any more of this stuff captain pic. This is brilliant string writing.

Pity about part 9 - the best part of the film.

ALways loved this song, and the singer.

I agree with Katter about the concentration of wealth - and it takes a geographical dimension. There are record world food prices and shortages in the world right now, but lack of infrastructural investment in rural areas has meant Australia cant supply this. Katter though needs to square his vie...

This was one of the slickest movie themes I know.