gonna have eric hansen movie night

[Ben Daswani]

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[Steve Karpik]

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I might regret asking, but I will anyway. Who is Eric Hansen? Checking with my friends Google and Wikipedia, I get the following choices:

1. Eric Hansen (sportswriter), American sportswriter
2. Eric Hansen (travel writer), American author
3. Eric Hansen (wrestler), Danish wrestler
4. Eric Hansen (singer), Solo Contemporary Folk Singer-Singwriter

Given the eclectic nature of your previous posts to ChessTalk, I'm guessing #4 because of the fact he has written whimsical songs about frogs :). Ben, either I'm clueless (quite possible as my parent's often accused me of being so) or you've raised the art of making obscure posts to Chesstalk to a new level.

[Fred McKim]

Re: gonna have eric hansen movie night

5. Eric Hansen (Chess player), Canadian International Chess Master

:-)

That would be my guess

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: gonna have eric hansen movie night

Google and Wikipedia, I get the following choices

check youtube videos for (of) Eric Hansen :D

[Eric Hansen]

Re: gonna have eric hansen movie night

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????!!!!

[Ben Daswani]

Re: gonna have eric hansen movie night

5. Eric Hansen (Chess player), Canadian International Chess Master

:-)

That would be my guess

you guessed correctly, good sir!

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????!!!!

it is a movie night based on you. this is the kind of thing that goes well on your resume

[Ben Daswani]

Re: gonna have eric hansen movie night

hi gang i just got back from a lengthy meeting with the other members of the organising committee

we have all decided that eric hansen movie night should be transformed into a full-fledged eric hansen day

appropriate meals and movies for such a day have been decided but we need help on the specifics. costumes, speech (what are some fun applicable catch phrases to throw in each others' gullets ***MUST BE FAMILY-APPROPRIATE AS SEVERAL YOUNG CHILDREN WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE***), decorations, party favours???? maybe some quick games to play in between flicks. such as "pin the tail on the hansen" but that's stupid, we need ideas that are not stupid. ANY AND ALL SUGGESTIONS ARE APPRECIATED (but try your best to be less stupid than the hansen-tail idea)

[Neil Sullivan]

Re: gonna have eric hansen movie night

... ANY AND ALL SUGGESTIONS ARE APPRECIATED (but try your best to be less stupid than the hansen-tail idea)

I'm drawing a blank on games, but please tell me you're having Hansen-themed cupcakes. For crying out loud - you gotta have cupcakes!

[David Ottosen]

Re: gonna have eric hansen movie night

I suggest a full fledged Eric Hansen Festival

[Neil Sullivan]

Re: gonna have eric hansen movie night

I suggest a full fledged Eric Hansen Festival

I'm sure Ben has already got a graphic artist working on designing the official Hansenpalooza t-shirt.

[Tom O'Donnell]

Re: gonna have eric hansen movie night

Theme music suggestion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMMBop

[Erik Malmsten]

Re: gonna have eric hansen movie night

Theme music suggestion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMMBop

I'm sure Ben can suggest some chess related hip hop as background music between films. Here's what we came up to play before the rounds at the Canadian Open:

CHESS ROCK
Streetheart - Here Comes The Night
Yes - I've Seen All Good People
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
Max Webster - Check
Kottonmouth Kings - Checkmate
Crystal Castles - Chess Mess
Queen - Killer Queen
Billy Haley and his Comets - Rock Around The Clock

CHESS MELLOW
Queen - Play The Game
Chess (Musical) - Anthem
Chess (Musical) - One Night in Bangkok
Elton John - The King Must Die
Bob Seger - Night Moves
Dire Straits - Telegraph Road

CHESS SOUL
Van Morrison and Them - Here Comes The Night
Sonny Charles and the Checkmates - Black Pearl
The Checkmates - Love Is All I Have To Give
Aretha Franklin - Think
Etta James - Loser's Weepers
Blues Brothers - Peter Gunn Theme
R.E.M. - Endgame

Couldn't find an MP3 of, or didn't fit in musically:
Suzanne Vegas - Knight Moves
Weezer - Chess
Pink Floyd - Country Song (on movie soundtrack Zabriskie Point, 1970)
Moxy Fruvous - Kasparov vs Deep Blue
Chumbawamba - Spassky Fischer
Annihilator - Knight Jumps Queen
Half Man Half Biscuit - Bad Losers On Yahoo Chess

Didn't make a classical disc, pieces too long.

Didn't make a hip-hop disk, lots of swearing. It might include:
Hip Hop Chess Nation (advice for youth)
http://hiphopchess.blogspot.com/2009...abac-reds.html
Jay-Z - This Life Forever
Papoose - Chess
DJ Muggs & the GZA - General Principles
GZA - Queen's Gambit

Rejected as not chess enough:
Prince - Snowman
Bob Segar - Still the Same
Bob Dylan - Only A Pawn In Their Game
John Mayer - My Stupid Mouth
"played a quick game of chess with the salt and pepper"
Bananarama - It Ain't What You Do
Dr. Feelgood - Suzie Q

Lots of songs with chess in the lyrics found at song lyric sites:
Duncan Sheik - Mr. Chess
Our Lady Peace - Ray Kurzweil 1949-97
InMe - Papillon's Stalemate
Nada Surf - Stalemate
"stalemate jump out of a cake"
Smash Mouth - Padrino
"you can be the rook or pawn"
They Might be Giants - Chess Piece Face

"Chess, like love, like music, has the powers to make men happy." Siegbert Tarrasch

[Michael von Keitz]

Re: gonna have eric hansen movie night

I seem to remember there being a song called Deeper Blues, that ChessBase mentioned on their site a long time ago. Do you recall that one, or am I just crazy? I think the lyrics went something like:

The champion's fallen and Deeper Blue is king
I said, the champion's fallen and Deeper Blue is king
There ain't no point to playin' chess no more
Cause it don't mean a thing

[Ben Daswani]

Re: gonna have eric hansen movie night

Jay-Z - This Life Forever
Papoose - Chess
DJ Muggs & the GZA - General Principles
GZA - Queen's Gambit

bam, jay-z is overrated and that song's not about chess anyway. papoose aight but he has way doper songs

gza/muggs have an entire album together (grandmasters), those are 2 songs off it. gza's 2nd solo (liquid swords) also has a chessboard on the cover 0__o

BEST CHESS RAP SONG: WU-TANG CLAN - DA MYSTERY OF CHESSBOXIN'

another chess song: jus allah - chess king <--- kinda the beginning of jus allah's demise, he hit puberty and his voice got too deep ): ): ):

can't think of any others off the top. lots have made chess references (even a savage caucasoid such as necro has), but very few have chess in the title ): >.< O:

but it's all cool dude, we don't really need chess music, the event is not about hansen as a chess player but hansen as a biological entity 0___0 O:

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L" keke

[Nic Haynes]

Re: gonna have eric hansen movie night

I always liked this line in Ready or Not by The Fugees:

I play my enemies like a game of chess, where I rest,
No stress
If you don't smoke sess, lest.
I must confess, my destiny's manifest
In some Goretex and sweats I make treks like I'm homeless
Rap orgies with Porgy and Bess,
Capture your bounty like Elliot Ness, YES
Bless you if you represent the Fu
But I'll hex you with some witch's brew if you're Doo Doo
Voo Doo,
I can do what you do, easy, BELIEVE ME
Frontin' niggas give me hee-bee-gee-bees
So while you're imitating Al Capone
I'll be Nina Simone
And defacating on your microphone.