Disney gave it a sequel and a TV series, I haven't seen either nor do I plan to, but they at least tried to latch on whatever momentum was starting.
But it's not only the funniest Disney movie, it's one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, and I feel everyone on this website who very rightly praises Happy Endings for…

"It is no concern of mine whether or not your family has… What was it again?"
"um… Food…"
"Ha! You really should have thought of that before you became peasants! Next!"

Sobbing "Poor kid, he never really had a chance"
"Well, he ain't getting any deader, back to work!"

"Tell us where the talking lama is and we'll burn your house to the ground"
"Don't you mean or?"

"I've been turned into a cow, can I go home?"

Very conveniently recently reissued in a Solti Wagner set, one can get all the canon for cheaper than the Ring only would have been just six months ago.

That's another reason why I would recommend going to concerts first, the programme will give you short notes about the works and the life of the composers and should be all the contect you need for the performance. I ended up reading a few books (history more than theory), but by then, I knew I was interested enough…

I fully second Douay-Rheims-Challoner's recommendations, but I'd also add Mozart, his piano music is often unfairly neglected: http://www.youtube.com/watc…
Mendelssohn also doesn't get enough love, often for being too "pop"

Yes, it's just music, it has melody, harmony, rythm, people used to dance to it. It can be dissonant, quiet, agressive, joyous, melancolic, it can even swing: http://www.youtube.com/watc…, I still remember the shock the first time I heard that one.
I agree that it would be nice to have classical music coverage and one…

Yay for Strauss junior (and lieder), that's as close as pop to it gets.
And I second that musical knowledge isn't required, I have none and it doesn't stop me from enjoying

If you can, go to concerts. This is still how it's meant to be experienced and the recession means no one is adventurous with the programming these days. You're bound to hear something that's rather crowd-pleasing, you'll probably already know one bit of the programme.
I don't really have any reason ot knock cello…

Classical music can seem intimidating, it also depends what styles you want to cover (stricly speaking classical, romantic, baroque, contemporary?), you would quickly realise you prefer some to others, and it drastically reduces the field.

The MBV discography is only two albums and a collection of EP (very conveniently recently reissued), and most people gushing about them only really mean Loveless anyway (not that I am criticising, although it's been my favourite album for the past 10 years, I just got around to buying the rest)

If you don't love it, you'll notice very early in, and there won't be much point pursuing. And my point of view with this (as well as other massive tomes from the 19th century) is that if people who read it when it was initially published had to wait seven years between the first and last volume, there's nothing wrong…

My first Sonic Youth was Murray Street, and it would be a shame to miss it. For someone who might be scared away by the harsher side of the band (in case that mighr be the case of the OP) it's an easy way in.

I can never say no to Tatanka (I didn't know the name, thank you, my Polish friend only refers to it as apple cake). Has anyone around these parts tried Zoldkowa Gorzka vodka?

I haven't seen enough of his movies to know if it's one of the funnier ones, but I only saw it in a packed theatre and the audience was laughing out loud throughout, so you're not alone.
I had the same experience with Godard's La Chinoise, it certainly colours the subsequent forays into their works.

I haven't seen enough of his movies to know if it's one of the funnier ones, but I only saw it in a packed theatre and the audience was laughing out loud throughout, so you're not alone.
I had the same experience with Godard's La Chinoise, it certainly colours the subsequent forays into their works.

Yep, snobbery is an issue; for a laugh, you should check http://boulezian.blogspot.c… or http://boulezian.blogspot.c…, the comments on the audience are borderline scary

I can't argue with that this isn't an issue (but then it always was to an extent, Schubert or Mahler being two of the most notable examples, and some Beethoven being considered unplayable experimental scriblings), but this is again the problem of giving the audience what it wants (the hits), the new music is there if…