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June 8

Who is the actress...

Who plays in that Chase credit card commercial with the theme to Mary Tyler Moore being used? I tried a few Google searches but wasn't able to find out. I just watched the Movie Teeth (film) and I could have sworn it's the same actress (Jess Weixler), but my friend says it definitely isn't. That actresses profile on imdb, as well as her article here doesn't say anything about the commercial. That doesn't bode well for me but it's not definitive—absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.... Anyway, identifying who is in the commercial will settle this. Thank you.--70.107.9.159 (talk) 03:10, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Piece by chopin???

I would like to know the name of this piece (perhaps by chopin). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6nTwgcKT1M&feature=related —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.52.45.251 (talk) 05:19, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

It's definitely not by Chopin, but I don't recognise it. It sounds like something that perhaps Li Yundi composed himself, but that's just a guess. -- JackofOz (talk) 07:38, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

How sure are you that it's not by Chopin? I was also thinking that it may be a piece by Liszt. I'm pretty sure it isn't one of his compositions, as I have never read anything to suggest that he composed at all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.52.45.251 (talk) 00:54, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Chopin had a very distinct playing style. Very fast alternating notes towards the beginning etc... (Look at one minute waltz) This isn't Chopin. It just might be Yundi but I can't really tell. Undeath (talk) 05:03, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm 1,000,000,000,000,000,000% sure it isn't by Chopin. It sounds like nothing he ever wrote; in fact, he'd be ashamed to have his name associated with it. As for Liszt, he wrote a HUGE amount of music. So much so that we need 2 articles just to list them all - here and here. Leslie Howard has recently finished recording Liszt's entire piano works, and they take up 96 CDs (yes, 96), with a 97th in the works. And that's just the piano works. But this piece is just as definitely not by Liszt. It has none of the hallmarks of the 19th century, and it has none of the hallmarks of any composer I know, from any era. Which is why I wondered whether it was something the pianist wrote himself. Whoever wrote it, it was probably specially written for the commercial, but I'd bet money it was written in the last 10 years. -- JackofOz (talk) 13:02, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

But are you really sure, or are you just hopin it's not Chopin? Clarityfiend (talk) 03:20, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Actually, on second thoughts ..... no, only joking. I'll grant that the fast section sounds like it might have been inspired (but only inspired) by Chopin's Etude Op. 25, No. 12, sometimes called the "Ocean Study" – here’s how it goes. Which would make sense with the ocean in the background of the commercial. But anyone could have come up with that, 100 years ago or as recently as yesterday. If it's been published at all (which I doubt), it's certainly not anything that's in the standard repertoire. I could be wrong though; it's happened before. -- JackofOz (talk) 04:29, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes I quite thought that the beginning was odd for chopin, but the middle section I found to be similar to chopin's other works (Op. 25 no. 12 for example). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.52.45.251 (talk) 05:04, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

European Band w. Music Video on Couch Masturbating

I apologize for anyone who finds this offensive, and please do not assume this is a prank of some kind because it isn't. There is some kind of a European band (or possibly Czech or Russian...) and they have a music video which is literally of four guys sitting on a couch masturbating. Yes, it is sexually explicit. There is also a girl on the couch "pretending" to masturbate with a dildo. They are all wearing fake beards and unless I misremember also hats. I believe the people on the couch are NOT the band members though it was implied that they were. I read an article about this band on Wikipedia but I have tried any and every search I can think of that would bring up the article on the band with just this information and had no luck. I've also googled my brains out. I really just want to know the name of the band and the song. TheGoonSquad (talk) 10:21, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Problems with up and download speeds.

I'm running HP Windows 2000, and I've installed "A not free torrent" also Easy Movie Access. Should this slow me down to were I have NO in or out speeds in this torrent? 'Easy Movie Access dumps into this torrent As it should. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hinka3 (talk • contribs) 21:13, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

I am not sure what you mean by "a not free torrent", "Easy Movie Access" and "dumps into this torrent". You might want to make your question a bit clearer. However, in my experience successful torrenting is a lot to do with getting a good client like Azureus. Of course, you won't get any downloading or uploading if you are not connected to any peers, so you might want to check both the number of peers in the swarm and whether you have any connectability problems yourself (are you behind a firewall, for example). --Richardrj ^{talk email} 09:19, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer- Carlisle Cullen

I was recently introduced to this series, but while reading it, I couldn't figure out how to pronounce this certain character's name. It's spelled "Carlisle" but I don't know how to pronounce it. Thank you in advance for your help. --Ninjawolf (talk) 22:44, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

P.S.- I have difficulty finding my questions after a post them, if it's not too much trouble, please post your answers on my "my talk" page, thank you.

Pr: for dummies (me) is Kar-lyle (as in clock dial, crocodile). Popup says: kärˈlīl; ˈkärˌlīl|. Some stress the first syllable, others the second. Julia Rossi (talk) 04:56, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Arena Football

If the Orlando Predators lose their last game of the season, will the New York Dragons clinch a playoff spot? Here is the current playoff situation. If both teams lose their remaining games, they'd both be 8-8, so there would need to be a tiebreaker. They've never played each other, so it would have to go to record against common opponents. I'm unsure of the answer I got, so I'm asking you guys. Here's the Dragons schedule, and here's the Predators schedule (assume both teams lose their remaining games). ~EdGl (talk) 23:39, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

• The Dragons would clinch the spot. The dragons beat New Orleans which Orlando lost to. Undeath (talk) 05:00, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Interesting, is it really that simple? What about the rest of their schedules? They've had other common opponents too.. ~EdGl (talk) 14:20, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

But their other opponents resulted in the same either loss or victory. Undeath (talk) 06:39, 10 June 2008 (UTC)