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never heard of 'em. who are they?

to Nubian Q, here are the links to Lacuna Coil

Falling Down
http://youtube.com/watch?v=f8BI0y-yzqA

Stars
http://youtube.com/watch?v=E_XWuo4x3C0

It's because they deserve it

yea but they are various kiiiiiinds

Same although I like some country

You are aware that Lacuna Coil is considered "goth rock"m, berra no let your NL husbands hear that you like them

lol only to those tyhat dont know the difference between a prince and a mere common rat.

It's all in the name

ibkaye:
oh not at all, I love their songs, especially 'Heavens a lie', I just meant you were all having a lovely conversation and i just appeared from nowhere

Oh you're allowed to jump in esp since you were pretty much on the same topic

when did you start listening to them

so your amazing comment was false?

lol sorry for what>?

If Nigeria wasnt in a pathetic state, it could have been on the list

I was hoping to attend

Up Chelsea!

_{Btw it's apology}

hardly any difference jakumo

you stole dee's quote from another thread

How can you compare the issue of British Airways with the madness of SA?

Yes!   

I drank your milkshake. I drink it up!

Lol I see you liking TWBB more than NCFOM for some reason

ew Bedsty? why?

waht's wrong with Japan?

Lacuna Coil are Italian. (95% of their songs are in English however)

I can't get too youtube right now else I would have given you the links myself

Lasie, i was pulling your leg 

Nubian, just wanted to say don't let anyone feel bad for what you like esp music wise   No mind Lasie jare!

"Gothic Rock" can be quite lovely

look up Lacuna Coil. Their best songs are "Stars" and "Falling"/ "Fallind Down"

Hopefully you do

Seen TWBB yet?

I hear the in thing is enemas

comb, I hail you cos you tried. Dude's a complete retard. There's nothing more to say about that. Somone that doesnt know the diffrence between a play and a novel.

Btw I love the fact that the slowpoke couldnt even show where I was supposedly getting "tribal", please dont shift your madness on me. Ok? Thanks

razor, where's my NCFOM review

When I used to say this, you all said I was hating on him.

The same dude that blamed the black SAs for that dogfood fiasco. "should have known the whites were just playing a game"

Dude's insane.

D-reloaded was the one who brought the tribal thing up

Where? Dare you to quote me right now

Better don't start something you can't finish.

yea everyone is given prizes for poor popularity

same plays Ghanians, Liberians, Kenyans, etc know about, the same plays known in NIGERIANS schools are "poor" cos OmoIbo himself doesnt know them.

Thanks for speaking on behalf of the average Nigerian

You can go now. E se.

you make the case that more people know Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" than they do Soyinka's plays. let's assume that this is a true statement.

if you use your brain for a minute, do you think that you might be able to figure out WHY this might be so?

do you think that it might have something to do with the fact that most Nigerians don't go to the theater? more people read novels than watch plays, right? so it kind of follows that the average man might be more familiar with a writer of novels than with a playwright, right?

also, more people watch TV than watch plays (or read novels), so considering that "Things Fall Apart" was made into a very popular TV series, it makes sense that more people might know it than Soyinka's "Madmen and Specialists," yes?

(which--if we link it back to the original point--only goes further to invalidate your previous argument that Soyinka is known for writing books)

what bothers me most here is that your argument is not only factually baseless, it seems to be motivated by ETHINIC considerations. you obviously have problems giving a Yoruba writer his props and that is the most ridiculous thing to build an argument on.

First off, I don't even know why you are minding him. Majority of Nigerians KNOW about the Lion And The Jewel. Infact most AFRICANS and onward know about it. He;s just trying to extend his own ignorance over Nigerians. Excuse me sah, let mr and ms average Nigerian speak for themselves

As for the last paragraph, good to know I'm not the only one who noticed, yet I'm the tribalist? Lmao 

My point of even bringing up Achebe in the first place was to prove a point. If Achebe were to decide to make Arrow Of God and his other works into movies, would OmoIbo accept someone saying "He should just stick to novels and leave the movies to the others", wouldnt that be ridiculous? I personally think so.
It was NOT to compare the two men.

all these people looking for sneaky ways to cause hateful arguements instead of leaving constructive criticism

You're not that smart jare. 

combrazor:
correction: he is known to YOU for writing books and not plays . . .  but the fact that YOU are ignorant does not make the truth less so.

as i already mentioned, the Jero plays were for years fundamental, required reading in every literature course in Nigerian schools, as were Soyinka's "The Lion and the Jewel," "Madmen and Specialists" and "Death and the King's Horseman."

i don't know whether you actually went to school or not, but if you did . . . i'm puzzled that you never heard of these plays.

more recently, "The Beatification of Area Boy" was a big hit in the 1990s, with acclaimed productions of the play staged in London, New York and even Kingston, Jamaica.

here is a New York Times review of the New York production:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?html_title=&tols_title=BEATIFICATION%20OF%20AREA%20BOY,%20THE%20(PLAY)&pdate=19961011&byline=By%20BEN%20BRANTLEY&id=1077011432268

in fact, now that i think about it . . .  what you are saying is complete rubbish. Wole Soyinka is actually first and foremost a playwright. he has written only two--yes, TWO--novels: The Interpreters and Season of Anomie.

his plays are much, much, much more famous than his books. in fact, if you look him up in the Encyclopedia Britannica

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9068955/Wole-Soyinka

he is described as a "Nigerian playwright and political activist" . . . not as a "Nigerian author" or even as "Nigerian writer."

"Nigerian playwright." THAT is what he is preeminently known for.

if you are ignorant of his work, maybe you should try to educate yourself rather than pretending that because YOU don't know about it, it doesn't exist.

Thank YOU. Exactly.

All that I've been trying to put across to the doofus, of course I'm not as calm as you are, razor.  .

Buit it irritates me to no end when people just run their mouths on stuff they don't know ESPECIALLY when it comes to topics like this.

God Forbid they actually bother to sit and learn something instead of embarrassing themselves. eg "all he can do is speak big english". Ugh. shameless

You claim to be Nigerian and don't know that Soyinka has written more plays than novels, or perhaps you don't even know the diffrence between the two. 

You nor go fit understand,being faithfull for 3 whole years without touching any other babe just because you have one tear rubber !

why marry someone you'd consider to be "tear rubber", and you wonder why these girls lie

what's with you males and your nasty lingo for the female anatomy btw?

means she was never free with you in the first polace if she felt the need to lie

I suppose you could confront her or not mentioning it sooner but does it really matter?

what wound are you licking?

so cos she's not a virgin, she's not allowed to be celibate?

lucabrasi:
anyone in doubt of the man's ability to undertake the whole thing should see the play kongi harvest or harvest of kongi(not sure which, and you ll see the man's genius,also the mere fact that a noble laureate in literature is directing anf fully involved in a movie is bound to attract a lot of international interests especially from scholars of african studies abroad, i see the film being the next big thing as far as epics go in naij

Exactly. Bitter people refuse to reason cos they have no standards.

Stfu.