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Title: Does this face look like anybody you know?
Post by: buffcoat on May 22, 2011, 08:42:28 PM: (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NAj7NBA9vVw/Tc54yxT7b_I/AAAAAAAABW8/8qQOKWAaHJE/s1600/491px-Johann_Christian_Bach_by_Thomas_Gainsborough%2B%2B2.jpg)

Just sayin'. The painting is of Bach.
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Post by: Hugman 3.0 on May 22, 2011, 08:58:26 PM: haha! I had to google that. I was sure you were up to some photoshoppery.
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Post by: Jason from Huntsville, AL on May 22, 2011, 09:01:44 PM: This is so striking I, too, Googled until I found the same painting on another site. I was ready to call shenanigans, but it appears to be legit.

Weird.

Vampire? Time-traveler? Highlander?
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Post by: buffcoat on May 22, 2011, 09:09:48 PM: To me the resemblance is a bit nuts. I know Mr. Scharpling has a strong aversion to "you know who you look like...", but at least Bach is universally celebrated. Albeit not as a runway model.

Hey, I was once accosted in the Eiffel Tower* and asked if I was Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings, so I know what it's like to be told I looked like a person who is successful for reasons other than looks.

* The Eiffel Tower in Paris Las Vegas. I have been to all three Eiffel Towers, including the one in King's Dominion.
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Post by: NJL on May 22, 2011, 09:18:57 PM: That's really great, but to be clear I wikied the name that came with the picture and I believe that is Johann Christian Bach, youngest son of the more famous J.S. Bach but still a composer in his own right.
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Post by: dave from knoxville on May 22, 2011, 09:41:08 PM: Dear God, that's like a photograph from next year's marathon.
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Post by: Denim Gremlin on May 22, 2011, 10:11:53 PM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christian_Bach (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christian_Bach)

Seems like it's legit. NJL is right, it's Johann Christian Bach.

but it's not that it's famous composer that's the crazy thing, it's that this was painted in 17 fucking 76!
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Post by: Jason from Huntsville, AL on May 22, 2011, 10:36:28 PM: This is like one of those pictures a character in a movie runs across that proves that something is up with one of the other characters.

Buffcoat, you may be in a movie. I hope Tom turns out to be an ageless good guy instead of some kind of monster, for your sake.
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Post by: cavorting with nudists on May 22, 2011, 10:38:54 PM: I'm thinking the final shot of The Shining.
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Post by: Denim Gremlin on May 22, 2011, 10:47:31 PM: Quote from: Jason from Huntsville, AL on May 22, 2011, 10:36:28 PM
This is like one of those pictures a character in a movie runs across that proves that something is up with one of the other characters.

Buffcoat, you may be in a movie. I hope Tom turns out to be an ageless good guy instead of some kind of monster, for your sake.

I bet Tom has the original of this is hidden somewhere, aging horribly, like in The Picture of Dorian Grey.
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Post by: Hugman 3.0 on May 22, 2011, 11:02:26 PM: Yea, Bach Sr. was kind of a fat blob.
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Post by: wood and iron on May 22, 2011, 11:49:27 PM: I believe I saw this painting in an episode of Scooby Doo with eye holes cut into it.
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Post by: buffcoat on May 23, 2011, 02:09:06 AM: I always kind of assume I'm in a movie, J-Hunt.
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Post by: daveB from Oakland on May 23, 2011, 02:14:13 AM: Quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christian_Bach
Concert halls today are frequently filled with the music of Haydn, and comparatively rarely with that of J. C. Bach. But J. C. Bach's music is more and more being recognized for its high quality and significance ...

Quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christian_Bach
Mozart esteemed J.C. Bach's music highly and arranged three sonatas from the latter's Op. 5 into keyboard concertos ...

Under-appreciated in his time. Kind of like Big Star ...
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Post by: JBillington on May 23, 2011, 05:38:39 AM: If there was a remake of Vertigo, where the James Stewart character was following Tom, that would be the picture that Tom went to the gallery to stare at.
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Post by: Pregnant Pause on May 23, 2011, 08:08:43 AM: Quote from: Jason from Huntsville, AL on May 22, 2011, 10:36:28 PM
This is like one of those pictures a character in a movie runs across that proves that something is up with one of the other characters.

Tom Scharpling in M. Night Shyamalan's Bach to the Future: No Refunds
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Post by: Paul DeLouisiana on May 23, 2011, 11:07:06 AM: Quote from: Pregnant Pause on May 23, 2011, 08:08:43 AM
Quote from: Jason from Huntsville, AL on May 22, 2011, 10:36:28 PM
This is like one of those pictures a character in a movie runs across that proves that something is up with one of the other characters.

Tom Scharpling in M. Night Shyamalan's Bach to the Future: No Refunds

"Don't you dare try to get your money Bach!"
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Post by: Big Plastic Head on May 23, 2011, 01:28:40 PM: You know, Tom would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids!

(...and the Harlem Globetrotters.)
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Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on May 23, 2011, 08:30:58 PM: Get off my harpsichord!
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Post by: JonFromMaplewood on May 23, 2011, 08:51:22 PM: Scharpling / Bach

Face / Off
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Post by: Trembling Eagle on May 24, 2011, 08:14:39 PM: Quote from: Pregnant Pause on May 23, 2011, 08:08:43 AM
Quote from: Jason from Huntsville, AL on May 22, 2011, 10:36:28 PM
This is like one of those pictures a character in a movie runs across that proves that something is up with one of the other characters.

Tom Scharpling in M. Night Shyamalan's Bach to the Future: No Refunds

I could imagine a movie where the vampire/Candyman falls in love with a character because he's the descendant/reincarnation of the old flame.
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Post by: Emily on May 27, 2011, 12:03:27 AM: are those pledges he's holding in his hand?
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Post by: Jason from Huntsville, AL on May 27, 2011, 08:05:36 AM: Quote from: Emily on May 27, 2011, 12:03:27 AM
are those pledges he's holding in his hand?

I think it's the sheet music for "Rock 'n' Roll Dreams will Come Through."
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Post by: daveB from Oakland on November 15, 2013, 02:28:34 AM: BUMP. I just posted the JC Bach image to twitter, so you can blame me for that. Now that I've done it, I realize that it ties in real well with the recent sound collage (http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,9371.210.html) phenomenon.