Bloody mess and Mozart

[jpinard]

Right disease, wrong movie. There’s a scene in Immortal Beloved where Ludwig van Beethoven confronts his brother Caspar Carl van Beethoven. Carl collapses on the floor and begins coughing up blood, at which point Ludwig realises that his brother is dying of “consumption” or TB.

There are scenes in Amadeus that are similar to what you describe, in which Mozart is struggling to perform Die Zauberflaute or to compose the Requiem while suffering from a raging fever. However, there is no blood or sputum in any of those scenes.

Thanks! I wish my memory was that good. That was all just kida lumped together in my mind, and I couldn’t understand why I kept seeing pasty-white Mozart with a bloody mess.

[Destarius]

I have Shodan on my desktop. So far she’s just taunting me … with no help in sight of becoming a cool borg-like monstrosity. errr literally she is! my desktop (below)… the Win XP system sounds I have assigned (give each one ~ 15 seconds to loadup):

I forgot how creepy Shodan was. That was a game with atmosphere.

[mlatin]

You should see my start>programs list. It’s freakin insane. I’d spend all day scrolling… and that’s with all my games subcategorized.

If it doesn’t fit on my QuickLaunch bar, I probably don’t need it on the computer(s). 'course, my desktop runs at 1600x1200, so it’s an awfully large QuickLaunch bar…

[Robert_Sharp]

Immortal Beloved is one of my favorite movies, actually. Anyway, ignore the critics, Jpinard. Some of us actually do sympathize with your disease. I love how everyone BUT you can come on and talk about problems they are having without being called attention whores. Whatever. Bitch all you want here. There will be people who listen.

[Morkilus]

Thanks! I wish my memory was that good. That was all just kida lumped together in my mind, and I couldn’t understand why I kept seeing pasty-white Mozart with a bloody mess.

At the very beginning, Salieri (Mozart’s “nemesis” in the play) had just stabbed himself, and it’s pretty bloody.