Matt Welch | November 2, 2004
The great debate where I'm watching the election: Were the Framers into Game Theory? Early returns are inconclusive....
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|11.2.04 @ 9:26PM|#
was game theory even a formal "theory" then?
|11.2.04 @ 9:30PM|#
I feel like I'm in a Prisoner's Dilemma!
|11.2.04 @ 9:43PM|#
Answer: Yes, but they didn't know it.
|11.2.04 @ 10:07PM|#
yahoo lead me to this HISTORY OF GAME THEORY
http://william-king.www.drexel.edu/top/class/histf.html
s.m. koppelman|11.2.04 @ 10:22PM|#
Their records haven't held up that well. There's maybe two or three songs on each album I think I'd still enjoy, but those flashy key changes and Scott Miller's wispy vocals mostly just grate on me at this point.
I suppose I could listen to "She'll Be a Verb", "The Waist and the Knees" and "Erica's Word" forever, but I can't sit through any of the full LPs.
My feeling on the New Pornographers, who are about as high-profile as the bands they've influenced get, is that the less they sound like Game Theory, the better they are.
Don't even bring up the Loud Family. A half dozen or so records and not a hook to be found.
|11.2.04 @ 10:33PM|#
What the hell are you talking about?
|11.2.04 @ 10:47PM|#
damn! There's a band named (fill in the blank)! Who would have thunk it?