Comments on: Glass is Good

By: syzygus

syzygus — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:14:10 +0000

Haaaa! But I was drawing a parallel the other way: Hustler is to Love as Astronomy is to Rockets! All right. The horse is sufficiently beaten. My apols.

I wish my sound card were operational!

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:06:49 +0000

Sy, it’s sounding like an SAT question… hustler is to astronomy as love is to… ___

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:05:57 +0000

Elihu, wow. that’s really something. I don’t know quite what to say about that. Except this: that video is awesome!!!

By: Syzygus

Syzygus — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:18:49 +0000

I realized after I sent it that my Love & Rockets comment was probably the most unintentionally funny thing I’ve said in a long time: hustler, astronomy; Love, Rockets…

By: Elihu

Elihu — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:08:21 +0000

No need to purchase it. Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmSH7BsNSrM

Although now we are really traveling down the road to Dorkville. I can’t take more than 30 seconds of pictures of unicorns.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:06:59 +0000

Well according to Wikipedia:

“The show’s theme song is Isao Tomita’s electronic rendition of Claude Debussy’s Arabesque No. 1, from Tomita’s album Snowflakes Are Dancing.”

And widely available for purchase, I’m sure.

There’s also this:

“From its inception until 1997, the show was named Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler. With the rise of the Internet, however, viewers began reporting that search engines were leading children to the website of the more popular Hustler adult magazine. As a result, the producers quickly renamed the show Star Gazer to avoid the confusion.”

Heh.

By: Elihu

Elihu — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:25:43 +0000

Is it bad that I like that synth intro with the Debussy piece better than the piano version in the Pandora sample?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:45:06 +0000

Good stuff! I’m trying to figure out how to coax my Love & Rockets station to play more Love & Rockets. But I find them to be kind of late-Joy Division-ish. I mean that as a compliment.

By: syzygus

syzygus — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:45:27 +0000

Yes, yes. But what about Love & Rockets, man?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:45:32 +0000

I just looked up “hustler” and you’re right, none of those definitions really work in the astronomy context

By: Elihu

Elihu — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:38:59 +0000

Star hustler? Exactly what definition of “hustler” was this guy going by, and did he not understand the connotations of the word?