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Gunther Goth is a pre-made, playable Sim in The Sims that premiered in the Unleashed expansion pack with his wife, Cornelia Goth, and their two cats, Hecuba and Menelaus. He is the patriarch of the Goth Family and Pleasantview.
In The Sims 2, Gunther is one of the pre-created, yet unplayable Sims featured as ancestors of playable, pre-created Sims. Though deceased when the game begins, the player can see him in the relationship tree of playable Sim Mortimer Goth, who is his son, as well as those of his grandchildren, Cassandra Goth and Alexander Goth.
Gunther was born in the Old Country, and then he moved to (and founded) Pleasantview. He is the father of Mortimer Goth, husband to the now famous Bella Goth. Gunther was the husband of Cornelia Goth, and the son of Victor Goth and Gretle Goth, both of Pleasantview; he has one sibling, Frida Goth.
Life Leading up to The Sims 3Edit
Gunther lives with his family, Cornelia and Mortimer Goth, in a large house located by the graveyard. There is no specific mention of him being the founding father of the neighborhood, but he has many good friends and on the Goth Manor is described as the first house built in town. Instead of the Goths being 'heads' of the town, the Landgraab and Alto families seem to have more control over the town, though Goths appear to have been influential in creating the town's ethics.
Gunther has long brown hair, and wears a flamboyant top hat. He is a CEO in the Business career track, and although married to Cornelia, he does not have an outstanding relationship with her (they do not want to WooHoo with each other and they must increase their relationship level to accept WooHoo with each other). Also, it appears that he has never even met Cornelia's sister Agnes Crumplebottom, even though Agnes is Cornelia's best friend. He likes to swing and read.
Life leading up to The Sims Edit
Gunther and his wife Cornelia Goth, along with their two cats, Hecuba and Menelaus, first appeared in The Sims: Unleashed. He is the founding father of the neighborhood, which made him very rich indeed. His hair is grey or white around the edges, and black on top, which is a bit odd since his hair in The Sims 3 is brown. He wears a phantom-like dark gray tux with tails and a light grey bow tie. He is a Dean in the Education career track, in contrast to his CEO job in The Sims 3. The reason for this is left to the imaginations of individual players. His relationship with his wife appears to have improved greatly and scores a 98/100.
When first played in Neighborhood 1, he will have no relationships with Mortimer, Bella, and Cassandra.
Life leading up to The Sims 2 Edit
In The Sims 2, Gunther and Cornelia had lost their lives in two separate fires. He died when his second grandchild, Alexander, was born. His wife died a bit later, just before their son, Mortimer, retired. He is buried in the new Goth home with Cornelia, his parents, father in-law and sister in-law. His hairline has receded since The Sims, and his hair has gone completely grey. He wears a black suit with a striped blue tie.
- The Sims
Image | Skill | Level |
Cooking | ||
Charisma | ||
Logic | ||
Creativity |
- The Sims 3
Image | Skill | Level |
Charisma | ||
Painting | ||
Writing |
- The Sims
Image | Name | Relationship score | Relationship level |
Cornelia Goth | 98/100 | Love | |
Hecuba Goth | 74/74 | Friend | |
Menelaus Goth | 73/73 | Friend |
- The Sims 3
Image | Name | Relationship level |
Mortimer Goth | Good Friend | |
Vita Alto | Friend | |
Boyd Wainwright | Friend | |
Cornelia Goth | Spouse | |
Malcolm Landgraab | Acquaintance | |
Nick Alto | Acquaintance | |
Nancy Landgraab | Acquaintance | |
Geoffrey Landgraab | Acquaintance | |
Agnes Crumplebottom | Acquaintance |
Homes Edit
In The Sims Unleashed, Gunther lived with Cornelia and their cats Hecuba and Menelaus in a large mansion at 77 Maple Street of Old Town, a little further from Sim Lane. The home has a small graveyard (like all Goth homes) but there are no ghosts so it is not known who is buried there. Perhaps, Gunther died in a fire in the mansion, then Cornelia died in the Goth home, which then was re-constructed into a new and improved house for Mortimer, Cassandra and Alexander Goth in The Sims 2. In The Sims 3 Gunther, his wife Cornelia and son Mortimer live in a big house by the cemetery.
Trivia Edit
- A highway was named after Gunther, which was called the Gunther Goth Highway.
- In The Sims his hair is black with gray at the sides, but it is auburn in The Sims 3.
- Gunther's career track being changed from Education in The Sims to Business in The Sims 3 may be because the Education track is not present in The Sims 3 base game.
- Interestingly, in the The Sims, a Minister of Education will eventually switch careers and become a President in the Business track. Gunther's switch from Business to Education mirrors that.
- In The Sims 2, he has an unused thumbnail. If player resurrects him and changes his appearance with the mirror, his thumbnail will change.
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Other LanguagesEdit
Language | The Sims: Unleashed | The Sims 2 | The Sims 3 |
English | Gunther Goth Sr | Gunther Goth | Gunther Goth |
Brazilian Portuguese | Igor Caixão | Gusmão Caixão | Gusmão Caixão |
Chinese (Simplified) | 冈瑟 高斯 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) | 岡瑟 高斯 | 岡瑟 高斯 | |
Czech | Gunther Goth | ||
Danish | Günther Spøgh | Gunther Spøgh | |
Dutch | Karel v/d Kerkhof sr. | Gustaaf van de Kerkhof | Gustaaf Van de Kerkhof |
European Portuguese | Gunther Goth | Gunther Goth | |
Finnish | Günther Goottila | Günther Goottila | |
French | Gontran Gothik | Gunther Gothik | Gunther Gothik |
German | Roger Biergans | Gunther Grusel | Gunther Grusel |
Hebrew | גונת'ר גות' | גונת'ר גות' | גונת'ר גות' |
Italian | Gunther Alberghini | ||
Japanese | グンター ゴス | ||
Korean | 염 경태 | 군터 고트 | 군터 고트 |
Norwegian | Günther Goth Senior | Gustav Goth | Gustav Goth |
Polish | Gunther Gotyccy | Gwidon Ćwir | Gwidon Ćwir |
Russian | Гюнтер Гот | Гюнтер Гот | Гюнтер Гот |
Spanish | Gúnter Lápida | Gúnter Lápida | |
Swedish | Günther Spökh d.ä | Günther Spökh | Günther Spökh |
Thai | กุนเธอร์ โกธ | กุนเธอร์ โกธ |
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The North Vancouver City Library contest, themed "Colour it...North Shore," was open to teenagers in grades 6 to 12. Twenty entries were short listed last week and the winners were announced on Saturday, May 28 at the library.
"We were very impressed," says Cara Pryor, the library's head of youth services. "We had a lot of nature photos this year."
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First place in the grade 10 to 12 category went to Jonathan Valdes for "All of the Lights," a photo of vehicle lights on Lions Gate Bridge, while first place in the grades 6 to 9 category went to Jillian Gale's photo — "Two Sides to Every Story" — of a girl holding flowers in front of a graffitied wall.
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Exactly. There is and always will be that in Chi-town!
I am terribly sorry about your hometown. I believe Chicago is just a pilot of more cities to be exactly like this.
So sorry.
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"Fox News Sunday" is heading to Louisville, Ky. Jack Conway, Kentucky's attorney general and the Democratic candidate for Senate , and Rand Paul, the Republican nominee and son of Representative Ron Paul, Republican of Texas, have agreed to a live debate on "Fox News Sunday" on Oct.3 at 9 a.m. (Eastern time).
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Judged: 2 1 1 Jay I am terribly sorry about your hometown. I believe Chicago is just a pilot of more cities to be exactly like this. So sorry. |
Judged: 2 2 1 Whose fault is this? Every person in America has the same opportunity as anyone else. People need to stop playing victims and become responsible adults. If one job doesn't suffice, get a second one...I did. Please donot bring up race, ethnic beliefs, etc, you do see what is in the White House---a half black/half white muslim dictator. .....and someone says we don't have the opportunities. |
Judged: 2 2 1 Is this the only vocabulary mommy has taught you while in your basement of unknown (and don't want to know) horrors? Requires a yes or no answer. |
Judged: 2 1 1 I didn't watch the Address, no need, I knew exactly what Obama was going to say....lies and more lies. Anyway, CNN and MSNBC went beserk over Rubio taking a drink of water, especially Wolfe Blitzer and some professor (don't know name). Stating "will drinking a glass of water break Rubio's political career?" This is my answer I obtained from another post: "Only in America is a man scrutinized for taking a drink of water after a Communist takes the stage for over an hour to destroy the Constitution." |
Judged: 1 1 1 Then tell them to get the hell out of there the trouble makers. |
Judged: 1 1 1 Yes or No. lmao |
Judged: 2 1 1 Now that was severely ignorant on your part. |
Judged: 2 2 1 Wasn't it Obama who stated we need to send Drones to murder Americans suspected of aiding and abetting terrorist? We had a real full pledged domestic American terrorist in California who was killing Americans...but no Drones, no Janet Napolitano and of course missing in action Killary/Obama duo.... The Second Benghazi happened and again, the silence of the White House. What will it take to impeach this man? |
Judged: 1 1 1 You sully little pos, grow up. |
Judged: 2 2 1 Rubio had to reach for the water bottle.Also,he was sweating from the heat of the lights.This was due to someone not being far thinking and that is all.He gave one of of his usually great declarations of what Obama`s not doing and where this Country should be working towards.He will get better as he practices.Right now,he is right it is great to have he and Rand Paul tell it as it should be! |
Judged: 2 1 1 STUDENTS TOLD TO STOP 'USA' CHANT, TAKE OFF AMERICAN FLAG BANDANAS Four California high-school students were reportedly SUSPENDED for chanting USA, USA and wearing American flag bandanas during basketball game... Is this still America????? This is very, very sad!!!!! |
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Judged: 3 3 2 "Missouri Democrats Introduce Legislation to Confiscate Firearms Gives Gun Owners 90 Days to Turn in Weapons" Where are the DUMB@$$3$ who said there is no attempt by Democrats to confiscate our guns? http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/02/misso... Perhaps its time to show them WHY our founding fathers penned the 2nd amendment? |
Judged: 1 1 1 They are not the trouble makers.They are receiving it from the ones that would be shooting shells in our direction if they could.That is why I said they are acting as a buffer for all this crap coming from the Muslims.They are entitled to their religion,same as all peoples are.This has been their Country since even the Romans time,and was taken from them til WW2 when all the allied got together and gave it back.The bad guys now are the ones surrounding them. |
Judged: 1 1 1 Its the only way to speak to some people on here. You had no problem reading it. |
Judged: 1 1 1 So many voted for Obama, today DON'T like his policies, but, still like him personally ... Z~~~~~O~~~~~M~~~~~B~~~~~~I~~~~ ~~E~~~~~~S |
Judged: 1 1 1 Thank you Whitehair for being a supporter of Rubio, we need more people like you in this crazy world. |
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Judged: 2 2 2 The nations hate us because of Israel. I want all you Repubs to answer what the US would do if Canada moved across the border, took over land here, ran citizens off and built 70,000 new homes and called it theirs? That is exactly what Israel has done in the middle east for the past 40 years with the help of the US. You people act like Israel has been on that land forever. It had not been theirs for 2000 years. The only reason they were put back there is after WWII no country wanted the Jews including the US. |
Judged: 1 1 1 I agree. Most of them don't even take time to know his policies. |
Judged: 2 2 1 It is not only the Democrats but many Repubs as well.What can be done about it?Many are now just taking Martin Luther`s way of civil disobedience. This is the only way to not get into trouble,but is the way to avoid registering guns,etc.but when the Medical Obama Care and such kick in ,what can anyone do?Just vote them out as fast as possible.!!! As in the movie,The Patriot,I will not vote for war except as a last resort.Then fight like hell!!! |
Judged: 1 1 1 Blah blah blah blah blah same old Repub BS. |
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — On the eve of the 2012 elections, The Associated Press interviewed dozens of Americans to try to gauge the economic mood of the nation. People were asked about jobs, housing, gas prices, retirement and other issues. Among them were Amanda Folk and her husband, Chris, both 33, of Billings, Mont. The Folks have endured financial blows since the housing bubble burst five years ago. She's back in school. He's earning less money. They worry that their ability to regain financial security is blocked by corporations and their allies in Washington.
A home in foreclosure. Damaged credit. Vanished savings.
This isn't exactly how the Folks envisioned life would be like in 2012.
Until about five years ago, the Folks were living comfortably with their two children, now 6 and 9, outside Boise, Idaho. They owned a home. Chris made a good living as a self-employed flooring installer. Weekend trips out of town were a pleasurable routine.
Once Boise-area home prices collapsed, though, the Folks' lifestyle did, too. Work dried up for Chris. Amanda quit college. And they moved to Montana to be closer to her family.
An oil boom was boosting the eastern Montana economy, and Chris slowly rebuilt his flooring business. Amanda took a job as a nurse's assistant.
But during the transition, the family's income sank. They could no longer keep up with mortgage payments on their Idaho home. So for the past three years, the house has languished in foreclosure.
The family's credit is shot. They blew through nearly $30,000 in savings, mainly on mortgage payments. Attorneys tell them their only way out is bankruptcy protection.
"Everything I worked so hard for is just slipping away," Chris Folk says. "It just feels so far away to get back to where we were."
The Folks can't afford to save for retirement. They struggle to cover $1,280 in monthly rent. Gasoline expenses sometimes hit $600 a month to fuel Chris' van, so he can reach out-of-town flooring jobs.
They say the economy seems tilted: Big banks wield power. Legislators bow to corporate interests. The rich get richer while the working class fall further behind.
They're voting for President Barack Obama with no enthusiasm. Yet they say their discontent with his handling of the economy is outweighed by Mitt Romney's corporate ties.
Amanda Folk is pursuing a communications degree at Montana State University, Billings. She's "scared to death" she won't find a job in public relations or a related field after graduation to repay $25,000 in student loans.
She hasn't returned to their Idaho house in two years; she can't bear it. Vandals have broken in. A former neighbor has taken to mowing the lawn. The couple is reluctant to rent the house for fear that their lender would end up with whatever money they collected.
They've cancelled their home phone and Internet service. Amanda Folk no longer shops at an organic food co-op.
They're seeking a smaller place to rent. But they don't want to move far. Their daughter has cycled through four elementary schools in the past few years.
"The hardest part is the psychological part of it," Amanda Folk says. "Our kids don't have any sense of security. My daughter still asks, 'Are we going to be here next year?'"
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Churchill, Edward VIII, and 'Arms and the Covenant'
Christopher Hitchens doesn't like The King's Speech. Not because of its cinematic qualities, which he appreciates, but because of its political ones. According to him, the movie is a "a gross falsification of history" because it shows Churchill as "generally in favor of a statesmanlike solution to the crisis of the abdication" and because it neglects to portray Edward VIII as "a firm admirer of the Third Reich" and George VI as an appeaser and anti-Churchill.
When I first read Hitchens's piece, my mind flashed back to an article Hitchens contributed to the Atlantic in July/August 2002, an article that, as the subtitle puts it, "takes the Great Man down a peg or two." It occasioned a characteristically understated and effective response from my adviser Paul Kennedy, who pointed out the "misinformation" that Hitchens appeared to be circulating. Not at all abashed, Hitchens continues to regret that "it seems we shall never reach a time when the Churchill cult is open for honest inspection."
It's curious that Hitchens both criticizes the "Churchill cult" for supporting the Great Man, and George VI for supposedly failing to do so. But Hitchens is shooting at several targets simultaneously: Churchill for being a monarchist, and the monarchy for existing. When coupled with his opposition to appeasement, the result is not always convincing.
Of Edward VIII, let us say little. Hitchens may be putting it too strongly when he characterizes him as firmly committed to the Third Reich — Edward was too self-centered and witless to be firmly committed to anything but his own desires, which was why he didn't last long on the throne — but there's no doubt he was an embarrassment and a liability. Fortunately, his ability to do mischief was seriously limited by the fact that he was a constitutional monarch. And, regrettably, his opinions were far from unique: in mid-1930s Britain, they were held by many people whose views mattered a good deal more than his.
George VI deserved better than he gets from Hitchens, who believes that the monarch's supposedly shabby history "can easily be known by anybody willing to do some elementary research." Yes, George supported Chamberlain and initially distrusted Churchill. In this, he was sadly far from unusual. What Hitchens doesn't point out is that, once Churchill was in charge, George gave him — in the words of David Cannadine, a far from friendly historian — "loyal and increasingly admiring support throughout the war." If Hitchens wants to call out the monarchy's errors before May 1940, that's fine; but there's no "post-fabricated myth of its participation in 'Britain's finest hour.'" The participation was real, and if George had a bad peace, he had a good war. The same can be said of many others. Read More
A Bad Christmas Card, and in Retrospect, Even Worse
I don't spend a lot of time hanging out on British Liberal Democrat message boards. But a friend has pointed out a wonderful post — I hesitate to say it's really in the spirit of the season, for reasons that will soon be obvious — by Stephen Tall on LibDemVoice, reproducing a Christmas card contained in the Conservative Party Archive and sent in 1938 by R.J. Rosie, a prominent physician, to Percy Cohen, a Jewish Conservative and then a member of the Conservative Research Department.
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The year is 1938, and you're looking for a suitably seasonal picture for the front of your Christmas cards. A festive image which will convey seasonal goodwill to all humanity. What could better symbolise those eternal truths than an international peace treaty signed by the two major European powers which had once been at war?
And so Rosie's card for the year featured Neville Chamberlain shaking hands with Adolf Hitler, complete with swastika armband, and included an insert with the infamous "peace in our time" pledge. Really not a good choice, and an object lesson in the dangers of making political points with Christmas cards. As an alternative, Tall links to one of Clementine and Winston Churchill's Christmas cards that — though not very seasonal — does feature a beautiful summer-time view of the Weald of Kent from Chartwell, painted by Churchill himself.
Dershowitz Throws Down the Gauntlet to Obama
Let's give credit where it's due. In the past, I've written about Alan Dershowitz's defense of the Obama administration (here and here) as well as about his recent attack on J Street.
Despite Dershowitz's outstanding pro-Israel record, I've taken him to task for his loyalty to Obama and refusal to call the president out for his decision to downgrade the alliance with Israel. But it looks as if the Harvard Law professor is finally starting to lose patience with the man whose candidacy for the presidency he supported so enthusiastically. In today's Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Dershowitz stops short of condemning the administration, but he delivered as stark a challenge to the president as one could imagine regarding Iran.
Pulling no punches, Dershowitz instructs Obama that no one remembers that Neville Chamberlain was a successful reformer who not only helped restore Great Britain's financial stability during the Depression but also passed landmark legislation on unemployment and retirement benefits. Instead, all history remembers is Chamberlain's "failure to confront Hitler." It is, he writes pointedly, "Chamberlain's enduring legacy." And if Obama does not act to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, anything he achieves on health care or the economy will count for nothing when compared to the impact of a failure on Iran.
"History will not treat kindly any leader who allows so much power to be accumulated by the world's first suicide nation," Dershowitz writes. Like Chamberlain with Hitler, "Mr. Obama will come to symbolize the failure of the West if Iran acquires nuclear weapons on his watch."
Dershowitz is right, both about the nature of the threat from Iran and about Obama's place in history if he allows Tehran to obtain nuclear weapons. But does Obama take the threat as seriously as Dershowitz? Everything the president has done since he took office leads us to believe the answer is no. A year of feckless engagement and weak diplomacy has led the Iranians to believe Obama is a weakling who will do nothing but appease and talk. The threat of force has been taken off the table, and only recently has the administration begun to speak seriously about sanctions on Iran — but even then, the measures considered aren't tough enough and lack the support of China and Russia. Beyond wrongly blaming Israel for his failure to rally the world to America's position, Obama has done little to indicate he cares deeply about the threat.
Thus, while we applaud Dershowitz for throwing down the gauntlet to Obama, we have to wonder how long will he wait before he concedes that the man in the White House is more of a Chamberlain than the Winston Churchill that the West needs so badly today.
Getting It Straight
Maybe the Obama-inspired tremor that began in Chris Matthews' leg has traveled up to his head and done some damage.
Last night on Hardball, Matthews was discussing–what else?–President Bush's unconscionable Obama attack in the Knesset. The conversation with conservative radio host Kevin James wended round to the career of Neville Chamberlain, and Matthews began to excoriate James for being ignorant of history. Things got very heated, and James fired back, recounting recent historical examples of America's failure to counter terrorist acts against the U.S. When James mentioned Bill Clinton's lackadaisical response to the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, Matthews's chimed in:
Wasn't the USS Cole under Bush? . . . Kevin, when you're trying to make a historic reference, get it straight.
Of course, the USS Cole was not attacked during George Bush's presidency, but during Bill Clinton's. However, the mistake is understandable. While the attack occurred during the Clinton administration, it was under George Bush (in 2002) that the U.S. fired a missile on Yemeni soil and took out the attack's planner Abu Ali al-Harithi. I'm sure that's what Matthews was referring to. . .
Brown Comes A Cropper
On Friday, the Daily Telegraph reported results "among the most devastating for any government in the history of opinion polling": the proportion of voters satisfied with Gordon Brown as prime minister has fallen to 23 percent. As the New York Times put it yesterday, this is a complete "reversal of fortune" from Brown's summer dominance. His only consolation is that he has time to recover before he has to call an election in May 2010.
We have seen this movie before. In April 1955, Anthony Eden, the prime minister in waiting since 1951, took over Number 10 from Winston Churchill. Eden won a general election in May 1955, but by January 1957, destroyed by the Suez Crisis, he was out of office, replaced by Harold Macmillan.
Brown's error was to fail to do the one thing Eden did right: hold (and win) an election soon after coming to power. Tony Blair tripped Brown up by leaving in June: Brown could not have gone to the polls until early October. But Brown made matters worse first by dithering, and then by announcing on October 6 that he had decided against calling an
election. By late September, the Tories were making up ground; since then, they have sprinted ahead.
The parallel is not just between Eden and Brown. The Marquess of Salisbury was followed in 1902 by Arthur Balfour, who lasted only three years. Stanley Baldwin was replaced by Neville Chamberlain in 1937, who left in May 1940. Winston Churchill was followed by Eden, gone in 1957. Harold Macmillan's successor was Alec Douglas-Home, who survived only a year. Harold Wilson made room in 1976 for James Callaghan, who lost to Thatcher in 1979. Margaret Thatcher dominated the 1980's, but her heir John Major, though he won victory against the odds in 1992, was routed by Blair in 1997. And now Blair's heir has run onto the rocks six months after ousting his former leader.
Mattel in Hell
On Friday, the world's largest toymaker humbled itself before the world's most populous communist state, a move that Kitty Pilgrim called "an unbelievable act of appeasement." While Thomas Debrowski's apology to Beijing may not have the same significance as Neville Chamberlain's deal in Munich, the CNN anchor certainly had a point.
"Mattel takes full responsibility for these recalls and apologizes personally to you, the Chinese people and all of our customers who received the toys," said Debrowski, Mattel's executive vice president for worldwide operations, to Li Changjiang, the head of China's product-safety agency. The California-based toymaker can't be sorry enough when it comes to consumers, but the kowtow to Li and the Chinese people was a bit much. "It's like a bank robber apologizing to his accomplice," noted Senator Charles Schumer.
Riding Hurd
Last year we had to endure James Baker, one of the chief culprits for the genocide in Bosnia, lecturing the Bush administration about Iraq. Now Douglas Hurd, his British counterpart in the early 1990′s, calls for a British equivalent of the Baker-Hamilton report—an inquiry that would ask the question: "How did we [the British] follow the Americans in this gross miscalculation of what would happen after the fall of Saddam Hussein?" Hurd insists that "this would not be a 'trial of Tony Blair,'" but his denial rings hollow. "Under our next prime minister we have to learn again what we have forgotten: the art of working with the United States as an effective junior partner capable of independent thought, and of ensuring that reasonable advice is listened to, and that eventual questions are answered."


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Upper west side restaurants
We are heading to NYC in a week and are staying at the Excellsior Hotel on W.81st street. Looking for recommendations for dinner for our first night. Not to pricy because we will be a little tired from our trip.
I had a pretty good meal recently at Vai wine bar on 77th...a lot of options-salad, cheeses, pasta, etc - and a pretty nice wine by the glass selection, too-
my buddy is a fireman up in that area and just recommened isabellas. he has been there many times its nice, food very good, and not to pricy
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Also Isabella's sister restaurant, Ocean Grill, up a couple of blocks on Columbus (directly in back of Natural History and about a block from your hotel). I particularly love their very reasonable brunches for which you can and must reserve, can't reserve for brunch at Isabella's.
You have pricey right in your hotel w/ Eighty-One.
Some options:
Shake Shack - fantastic burgers/shakes - 77th/Columbus - can always take it out and bring it right back to your roomBarbao - vietnamese-ish. Can always nibble in the lounge 82nd/Columbus
Celeste - Italian - good and cheap/cramped and crowded - 83rd/Amsterdam - cash only
Pinch/s'mac - pizza by the inch and macaroni and cheese - 83rd/Columbus
others will chime in...
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i second Bar Bao...
but my first rec is Cafe Ronda -- Argentinian tapas on Columbus betw 71/72...very reasonably priced food&wine, rustic, comfy, nice staff....the abondigas (lamb meat balls in tomato sauce) are awesome...having this lived on the UWS for 7 months now, this is only restaurant that i can truly recommend in the area...


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Mad World
"Mad World" | ||||||||
Single by Tears for Fears | ||||||||
from the album The Hurting | ||||||||
B-side | "Ideas as Opiates" "Saxophones as Opiates" (12") |
Released | 20 September 1982 | |||||||
Format | 7", 12" | |||||||
Recorded | 1982 | |||||||
Genre | Synthpop, new wave, post-punk | |||||||
Length | 3:32 | |||||||
Label | Phonogram, Mercury | |||||||
Writer(s) | Roland Orzabal | |||||||
Producer(s) | Chris Hughes Ross Cullum |
Tears for Fears singles chronology | ||||||||
"Mad World" is a song by the British band Tears for Fears. Written by Roland Orzabal and sung by bassist Curt Smith, it was the band's third single release and first chart hit, reaching #3 on the UK Singles Chart in November 1982. Both "Mad World" and its B-side, "Ideas as Opiates", appeared on the band's debut LP The Hurting the following year. The song eventually became Tears for Fears' first international hit, reaching the Top 40 in several countries in 1982 and 1983, peaking notably at #2 in South Africa.[1]
Two decades later, the song made a popular resurgence when it was covered in a much slower, minimalist style by composers Michael Andrews and Gary Jules for the soundtrack to the movie Donnie Darko in 2001. This version reached #1 in the UK in December 2003, and also became an international hit.
"Mad World" was originally written on acoustic guitar when Orzabal was 19, it was a deliberate attempt to write something in the vein of Duran Duran's "Girls on Film". After a few false starts with Orzabal on vocals, Smith took over and "suddenly it sounded fabulous".[2]
It began life intended to be the b-side for the band's second single "Pale Shelter (You Don't Give Me Love)". At Polygram's insistence, the band instead decided it may be something people would like to hear on the radio and held back its release, waiting to issue the song as a single in its own right after re-recording it with producer Chris Hughes, a former drummer with Adam and the Ants.[3]
That came when I lived above a pizza restaurant in Bath and I could look out onto the centre of the city. Not that Bath is very mad – I should have called it "Bourgeois World"![4]
—Roland Orzabal
"Mad World" was the first single off the finished album. The intention was to gain attention from it and we'd hopefully build up a little following. We had no idea that it would become a hit. Nor did the record company.[4]
—Curt Smith
Curt Smith's ad lib in the song's final chorus resulted in a mondegreen. Smith clarified the actual lyric in 2010:
With Mad World's again-resurgent popularity, I'm getting asked more frequently about the last line on the album version from The Hurting, a line which I occasionally also sing in concert. The actual line is: "Halargian world." (Not "illogical world", "raunchy young world"(!), "enlarging your world", or a number of other interesting if not amusing guesses.) The real story: Halarge was an imaginary planet invented by either Chris Hughes or Ross Cullum during the recording of The Hurting. I added it as a joke during the lead vocal session, and we kept it. And there you have it.[5]
—Curt Smith
[3] The song was influenced by the theories of Arthur Janov, author of The Primal Scream.[citation needed] The lyric "the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had" suggests that dreams of intense experiences such as death will be the best at releasing tension.[6]
Lyrically the song is pretty loose. It throws together a lot of different images to paint a picture without saying anything specific about the world.[4]
—Roland Orzabal
It's very much a voyeur's song. It's looking out at a mad world from the eyes of a teenager.[4]
—Curt Smith
Song versions[edit]
The 7" version of "Mad World" is the same mix of the song found on The Hurting. The song had only one remix on its initial release, the World Remix that was featured on a 7" double-single. This mix is very similar to the album version, with the most notable differences being the additional echo added to the intro and middle sections and the subtraction of a subtle keyboard part from the bridge. A later remix by noted British music producer Afterlife was featured on the 2005 reissue of the Tears for Fears greatest hits collection Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92).
"Ideas as Opiates" is a song that originally served as the B-side to the "Mad World" single. It was later re-recorded for inclusion on The Hurting. The song takes its name from a chapter title in Arthur Janov's book Prisoners of Pain and features lyrics related to the concept of primal therapy. The song is musically sparse, featuring just a piano, drum machine, and saxophone. An alternative version of this song titled "Saxophones as Opiates" was included as a B-side on the 12" single and is mostly instrumental.
That's the chapter from Janov, and it's really a reference to people's mindsets, the way that the ego can suppress so much nasty information about oneself – the gentle way that the mind can fool oneself into thinking everything is great.[4]
—Roland Orzabal
It really was all about that kind of thing – the psychological answer to religion being the opiate of the masses, whereas we thought ideas were, more than anything else.[4]
—Curt Smith
Music video[edit]
The promotional clip for "Mad World", filmed in late summer 1982, was Tears for Fears' first music video. It features a gloomy looking Curt Smith staring out of a window while Roland Orzabal performs a bizarre dance outside on a lakeside jetty. A brief party scene in the video features friends and family of the band, including Smith's then-wife Lynn.
According to Curt Smith, "When we made the video in a country estate on the cheap, we bussed all our friends and family up from Bath and had a fun day. The woman who's having the birthday party in the video is my mum."[2]
The music video was directed by Clive Richardson who was notable for his work at that time with Depeche Mode.
Track listings[edit]
- 7": Mercury / IDEA3 (United Kingdom) / 812 213-7 (United States)
- "Mad World" – 3:32
- "Ideas as Opiates" – 3:54
- 7": Mercury / IDEA3 (Ireland) / 6059 568 (Australia, Europe) / TOS 1411 (South Africa)
- "Mad World" (World Remix) – 3:30
- "Ideas as Opiates" – 3:54
- 7" double pack: Mercury / IDEA33 (United Kingdom)
- "Mad World" – 3:32
- "Mad World" (World Remix) – 3:30
- "Suffer the Children" (Remix) – 4:15
- "Ideas as Opiates" – 3:54
- 12": Mercury / IDEA312 (United Kingdom) / 6400 677 (Europe)
- "Mad World" – 3:32
- "Ideas as Opiates" – 3:54
- "Saxophones as Opiates" – 3:54
Chart positions[edit]
Year | Chart | Position |
1982 | UK Singles Chart | 3 |
1983 | Australian Singles Chart | 12 |
1983 | German Singles Chart | 21 |
1982 | Irish Singles Chart | 6 |
1983 | New Zealand Singles Chart[7] | 25 |
1983 | South African Singles Chart | 2 |
1983 | Swiss Singles Chart | 10 |
Michael Andrews and Gary Jules version[edit]
"Mad World" | |
Single by Michael Andrews featuring Gary Jules | |
from the album Donnie Darko (Original Soundtrack) and Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets | |
B-side | "No Poetry" |
Released | 2001 15 December 2003 |
Format | CD |
Recorded | 2000 |
Genre | Piano rock |
Length | 3:06 |
Label | Sanctuary |
"Mad World" achieved a second round of success almost twenty years later after it was covered by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules for the film Donnie Darko (2001). While the Tears for Fears version featured synthesizers and heavy percussion, the Andrews/Jules version was stripped down; instead of a full musical backing, it used only a set of piano chords, a cello, and modest use of a vocoder on the chorus. Their version was originally released on CD in 2002 on the film's soundtrack, but an increasing cult-following spawned by the movie's DVD release finally prompted Jules and Andrews to issue the song as a proper single. The release was a success in late 2003, becoming the Number One single over the Christmas holiday in the UK, a feat that Tears for Fears themselves did not accomplish.
The music video was directed by Michel Gondry. The song's success in the United Kingdom however did not translate to the United States, where it reached number 30 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. Gary Jules performed "Mad World" with Mylène Farmer on her Timeless 2013 Tour.[8] Later in 2006, the song was included in the commercial to the videogame Gears of War,[9] which helped moved it up the chart.[10] A performance on the eighth season of American Idol by Adam Lambert also briefly increased its sales and interest in the song.[11][12] The song reached No. 11 on the Rock Digital Songs chart.
Track listings[edit]
- CD1: Sanctuary / SANXD250 (United Kingdom)
- "Mad World" – 3:06
- "No Poetry" – 3:59
- "Mad World" (alternate version) – 3:37
- CD2: Sanctuary / SANXD250X (United Kingdom)
- "Mad World" (Grayed Out Mix) – 6:45
- "The Artifact & Living" – 2:26
- "Mad World" (video) – 3:20
Chart positions[edit]
Chart (2003/2004/2007/2009/2010) | Peak position |
UK Singles Chart | 1 |
US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks | 30 |
Australian Singles Chart | 28 |
Austrian Singles Chart | 13 |
Belgium Flanders Singles Chart | 23 |
Canadian Digital Singles Chart | 1 |
Danish Singles Chart | 6 |
Dutch Singles Chart | 4 |
French Digital Singles Chart[13] | 11 |
German Singles Chart | 3 |
Irish Singles Chart | 2 |
Portuguese Singles Chart[14] | 1 |
Swedish Singles Chart | 10 |
Swiss Singles Chart | 53 |
New Zealand Singles Chart | 37 |
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (2004) | Position |
German Singles Chart[15] | 14 |
Chart (2000–2009) | Peak position |
UK Top 100 Songs of the Decade | 53[16] |
Region | Certification | Sales/shipments |
Germany (BVMI)[17] | Gold | 250,000^ |
Italy (FIMI)[18] | Gold | 25,000* |
United Kingdom (BPI)[19] | Platinum | 600,000^ |
*sales figures based on certification alone |
Chart positions for Adam Lambert's version[edit]
Chart (2009) | Peak position |
Canadian Hot 100 | 10 |
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 19 |
U.S. Billboard Pop 100 | 30 |
Popular culture[edit]
- In 2011, the song was covered in the TV reality show The Glee Project.
- In late 2006, a condensed version of the Andrews/Jules cover of "Mad World" was featured in the award-winning commercial for the video game Gears of War.[10]
- In addition to its usage in numerous advertisements and fan-made YouTube videos, the Andrews/Jules cover has also become a popular choice for background music in television dramas, having appeared in the following series among others: Being Human (U.S.), Brothers & Sisters, Cold Case, CSI, Dead Like Me, Smallville, The Cleveland Show, The OC, Jericho, The Mentalist and Helix. The Lambert version has appeared in ER, FlashForward and General Hospital. Curt Smith sang this song on the television show Psych.
- It is used on Broadway as the closing number in Butley starring Nathan Lane (2006).
- The Andrews/Jules version was used in the 28 July 2010, episode of So You Think You Can Dance by choreographer Stacey Tookey in a routine about homelessness, performed by Billy Bell and Ade Obayomi.
- The 2011 game Gears of War 3 contains a distinct instrumental cover of Gary Jules' version that plays when Dom saves Delta Squad by sacrificing himself to destroy the Locust and Lambent attacking them.
- UFC fighter Chris Leben used the Gary Jules version as his walkout theme at UFC 138.
- An instrumental cover of the Andrews/Jules version was used in one of the scenes of the 2011 Philippine film Manila Kingpin: The Asiong Salonga Story.
- Cleveland from the animated Fox television program The Cleveland Show sang "Mad World" for the first 2 minutes of the show that aired 1 April 2012.
- In the web-based parody of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series, "Mad World" is adopted as the theme for Noah Kaiba.
- A commercial for the video game Battlefield: Bad Company titled "Mad World" uses the chorus, sung by Sweetwater. It is used as he and Haggard run through a destroyed street. Haggard is annoyed and questions the meaning of the line "the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had." He then proposes the song "Shortnin' Bread".
- The Gary Jules version was used in an advertisement for Underground: The Julian Assange Story, which was shown on Network Ten in Australia in 2012.
- The Gary Jules version is also used in the credits of the movie Donnie Darko.
Other versions and covers[edit]
In addition to the Andrews/Jules version, "Mad World" has been recorded over the years by the following artists:
- French artist Nicola Sirkis, frontman of the new wave band Indochine, on his solo album Dans La Lune... (1992)
- Italian eurodance project Firemaster, on the single "Mad World" (1996)
- American industrial rock band Kill Switch...Klick, on the Cleopatra Records compilation New Wave Goes to Hell (1998)
- German DJ Pulsedriver's popular remix of Nu Romantix's cover, on the compilation album Dos or Die Fresh Cuts (2001)
- American alternative rock band Finch, on their EP Rolling Stone Acoustic Session (2002)
- British singer-songwriter Alex Parks, on her debut album, Introduction (2003)
- American industrial act Brainclaw, (2004)
- American metalcore band Evergreen Terrace, on their album Writer's Block (2004)
- German punk rock band Die Toten Hosen, on their live DVD Rock am Ring 2004 (2004)
- Polish gothic rock band Closterkeller, on their EP Reghina (2004)
- Australian art rock band The Red Paintings, on their EP Walls (2005)
- German DJ Jan Wayne, on his single "Mad World" (2005)
- American singer-songwriter Sara Hickman, on her double album Motherlode (2006)
- Canadian rock bassist Ken Tizzard, on his album Quiet Storey House... An Introduction (2006)
- Canadian ska band The Makeshift Heroes of Toronto, Ontario (no longer together), on their EP Last Call (2006)
- German a cappella group Wise Guys, on their album Radio (2006)
- Australian Idol (season 5) contestant Ben McKenzie (2007)
- American dark cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls featuring Trash McSweeney, on their live DVD Live at the Roundhouse (2007)
- Canadian folk-singer Tara MacLean, on her EP Signs of Life (2007) and her album Wake (2008)
- German vocal band Gregorian, on their album Masters of Chant Chapter VI (2007)
- Italian dark wave band SPECTRA*paris, a side project of Kirlian Camera, on their album Dead Models Society (2007)
- Estonian singer, Sandra Nurmsalu, in the Estonian gameshow Kaks Takti Ette. (2007)
- Israeli actress/singer Melanie Peres, on the soundtrack to the movie Lost Islands (2008)
- Norwegian singer Erlend Bratland, on his debut album True Colors (2008)
- Swedish blackened death metal band Zonaria, on their second album The Cancer Empire (2008)
- Australian Idol (season 7) contestant Nathan Brake (2009)
- Italian singer-songwriter Elisa, on her sixth album Heart (2009)
- Adam Lambert (as a contestant) during American Idol in 2009 and an acoustic rendition on his Acoustic Live! EP. A recording of this performance was subsequently released as a digital single and reached the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 in 2009.
- German House duo Heiko & Maiko released a club mix of "Mad World" as a single
- British DJ Andy Hunter released a remix of "Mad World" as a single
- American operatic soprano Renée Fleming, on her 2010 album Dark Hope
- 2010 UK X Factor contestant Aiden Grimshaw during the first live show.
- Danish producer Michael Parsberg featuring Safri Duo and Isam B (2010)
- German indie rock band Blackmail, released as a free download on their website in 2006.
- Italian singer Marco Mengoni, on his live album Re matto live (2010)
- Managing editor of Boing Boing, Rob Beschizza, along with Heather Beschizza, created a chiptune version in the 2011 Classic Arcade Game Deaths.
- American pianist Louis Durra, in an instrumental trio version released on Mad World EP and Arrogant Doormats (2011).
- Contestants from The Glee Project, a musical reality show, performed "Mad World" in the third episode (2011).
- The late Taiwanese singer Ah Sang covered the song in Mandarin on her second album Loneliness in Singing (2005).
- Some time in 2010, Absolution Project recorded an epic version of "Mad World".
- Susan Boyle covered the song on her third studio album Someone to Watch Over Me, released in 2011.
- Ida Long did the song for Swedish promotion of the TV series Mad Men in 2011.
- German jazz/funk band Hartmut Hillmann Band covered "Mad World" on their album Point of View in 2011.
- Spanish singer-songwriter Priscilla Hernandez arranged a tribute version in 2013 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Hurting album release
- British rappers Doc Brown and Lowkey covered the song on Doc Brown's 2004 album, Citizen Smith: Volume One.
- French singer, Sophie-Tith, for The gameshow Nouvelle Star in 2013.
- Aiden Grimshaw, 2010 X Factor UK, Week 4 – Halloween
- Benn Slack/Down covered Mad World for his album "Zombies", changing some of the lyrics to better suit the theme of the album.
- Danish Trance and House producer covered this song together with Outlandish's leadsinger Isam Bachari and Danish Electronic Percussion group Safri Duo
Samples and quotations[edit]
- Wale (rapper) samples a version of the song on his track "Vanity" on his album The Gifted.
- Prozak samples the song on the track "American Princess", from the Strange Music compilation Strictly Strange 08 (2008).
- British dubstep artist The Bug, with vocalist Warrior Queen, included the song "Insane" on the album London Zoo (2008). The song ends with a quote from "Mad World".
- Orbital sampled the song on "The Moebius", the first song on their debut album.
- ^ Brian Currin. "South African Rock Lists Website - SA Charts 1969 - 1989 Acts (T)". Rock.co.za. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
- ^ a b Interviews by Dave Simpson. "Tears For Fears: how we made Mad World | Music". The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
- ^ "Mad World by Tears for Fears Songfacts". Songfacts.com. 2005-09-29. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
- ^ a b c d e f Cranna, Ian (1999). In The Hurting: Remastered & Expanded [CD booklet]. London: Mercury Records.
- ^ Curt Smith. "It's a Mad Halargian World." Curt Smith: The Official Site. October 11, 2010.
- ^ Toby Creswell (2007), 1001 Songs, Hardie Grant Publishing, pp. 87–88, ISBN 978-1-74066-458-5
- ^ Steffen Hung. "Tears For Fears - Mad World". charts.org.nz. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
- ^ Julien AUTIER, Philippe LEZE, Guillaume DATEZ & Sarah HOFER. "Mylène Farmer - Infos sur le premier concert Timeless 2013 à Bercy". Mylene.Net. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
- ^ "Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter - Tom Bissell - Google Boeken". Books.google.com. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
- ^ a b Miller, Ross (2006-11-27). "Mad World: Gears ad propels song to #1 on iTunes". Joystiq. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
- ^ "More American Idol-related sales numbers!". Content.usatoday.com. 2009-05-29. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
- ^ Kaufman, Gil (2009-04-08). "Adam Lambert's 'Mad World': The Story Behind The Cover". MTV.com. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
- ^ Steffen Hung. "Les charts français". lescharts.com. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
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- ^ Radio 1 Official Chart of the Decade, as broadcast on BBC Radio 1 on Tuesday 29 December 2009, presented by Nihal
- ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Michael Andrews featuting Gary Jules; 'Mad World')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.
- ^ "Italian single certifications – Michael Andrews feat. Gary Jules – Mad World" (in Italian). Federation of the Italian Music Industry. Select Online in the field Scegli la sezione. Select Week -- and Year ----. Enter Michael Andrews feat. Gary Jules in the field Artista. Click Avvia la ricerca
- ^ "British single certifications – Michael Andrews ft Gary Jules – Mad World". British Phonographic Industry. Enter Mad World in the field Search. Select Title in the field Search by. Select single in the field By Format. Click Go
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Preceded by "Changes" by Ozzy Osbourne & Kelly Osbourne |
UK Singles Chart number-one single (Andrews/Jules version) 21 December 2003 – 10 January 2004 |
Succeeded by "All This Time" by Michelle McManus |
Preceded by "Sound of the Underground" by Girls Aloud |
UK Christmas number-one 2003 |
Succeeded by "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Band Aid 20 |
- Singles certified gold by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie
- Singles certified gold by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry
- Singles certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry
- Christmas number-one singles in the United Kingdom
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- 2003 singles
- UK Singles Chart number-one singles
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- Songs written by Roland Orzabal


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Whittard Damson Plum Tea
Date: 19/01/12
Advantages: lovely taste, unique
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I got a beautiful set of teas for Christmas and it makes a change that they were fruit teas as I always just drink regular english breakfast tea. The set included some flavours that I wouldn't normally pick or hadn't tried before and amongst those was this flavour Damson Plum. Plum is one of those flavours where I thought it might be a bit sour in a tea and so was a bit apprehensive, but it actually turned out to be a lot nicer than I thought which is no shock really as everything that comes out of the Whittard shop is usually amazing.
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Damson Plum tea smells really sweet to begin with when you sniff inside the tub, it is definitely faintly of plum but sweetness overpowers this. Sometimes the teas smell sickeningly sweet but when you look into the tub, the tea is odd to look at as it is small granules almost like how coffee looks but they are a dusty pink colour which looks nice as they look like little crystals, not the typical appearance for fruit tea but maybe this is why it works as they dissolve very well when water is added.
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