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Down and Out in Paris and London
Burmese Days
A Clergyman's Daughter
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
The Road to Wigan Pier
Homage to Catalonia
Coming Up for Air
Inside the Whale and Other Essays
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
Animal Farm
Dickens, Dali and Others
1984
Shooting and Elephant and Other Essays
Such, Such Were the Joys
Have you read "1984"? Good stuff, man.
by The Drafted's guitar player August 14, 2005
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The more money you make, the higher taxes you pay.

Antonym: flat tax
We need to make taxation more progressive and raise taxes on the wealthy.
by The Drafted's guitar player August 14, 2005
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A set of rules, guidelines, and terminology that musicians have come to agree upon over time.

Music theory mostly deals with the earliest music ever written on paper to music written in the late 1800's.
by The Drafted's guitar player April 29, 2005
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The only cool city in Texas, ironically the capitol.
I saw a shirt that said 'Keep Austin Weird'.
by The Drafted's guitar player August 15, 2005
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One who believes one should make as much money as inhumanly possible by any means necessary. Commonly followed by "pig".

Capitolists are not sympathetic to the poor because they believe that because THEY became rich, anyone can. They believe that poor people are just lazy.
That capitolist pig!
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To make something up on the spot.

Improvisation is common in jazz music, when a musician makes up a solo spontaneously, as opposed to playing a written solo.

Sometimes a group of musicians will completely improvise an entire song. This is done almost exclusively by jazz musicians.

All forms of art can be improvised. Art that is improvised may be called "free" or "freestyle", like "free poetry".

A popular form of improvisation is rapping, or flowing.
Miles Davis was a master of improvisation.
by The Drafted's guitar player August 14, 2005
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