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Piano
Posted on January 17, 2013 by David M Willis

167 thoughts on “Piano”

  1. Gnoka

    Where did she find a piano?

    1. Aizat

      Internet.

      1. Chatokun

        And where did you get the internet?

        1. Aizat

          She inherited the Internet?

        2. AckAckAck

          Her dad is Al Gore?

        3. Historyman68

          Her dad is Al Green!

        4. Felix Kütt

          love, sex & soul, yeah!!!

        5. Arkadi

          She left her room, walked the hall, got the elevator, went into the lobby and INVENTED the Internet.

        6. MortartarSaws

          Only the deepest of cuts right here, folks!

        7. fatemaster1

          Her dad is Raz Al Ghoul?

        8. Kitanin

          Clearly, it came pre-installed on the piano.

        9. Archtus

          I think your beard is almost thicker/longer than mine.

        10. Undrave

          Tubes.

        11. Ben

          She left her room, walked down the hall, got in an elevator, went into the lobby, and INVENTED THE INTERNET.

        12. Arkadi

          Damn you. You beat me to it.

        13. Spazman

          The Elders of the Internet.

    2. Mkvenner

      Music/Fine Arts Department.

      1. Yotomoe

        I would live in this room if I went there.

    3. Chronos

      There could be one in their student center. They had one like that where I went to college.

      1. Whittier

        Student Union lounge, Mezzanine floor.

    4. Doctor_Who

      There was one in my dorm. Not a grand one like that, but available for the occasional musically proficient student.

    5. David

      There’s one in the lobby of her residence hall. Don’t believe me, I can offer photographs!

      1. Milosh

        There’s one in the lobby of pretty much every resident hall in my college. Last year, it stood against a wall that also happened to be the wall of my room.

        1. WhiteEyedCat

          There’s a piano in the common room of my college dorm with a note on it that says, “Please don’t play the piano between 9pm and 8am” with the last part crossed out with permanent marker and “EVER” written above it.

        2. TheRealAllPurposeGuru

          In our dorm you had to get a key to open it. The key was in the possession of the hall advisor, who had his room on the other side of the wall from the piano.

          Your ability to get the key was directly related to how much homework the hall advisor had and how good of a player you were.

      2. Gnoka

        It’s okay, I believe you.

        1. Rognik

          Due to syntax, he’s actually ordering you not to believe him so he can wave his pictures around as proof. It parses really weirdly in my head, and yet make perfect syntactical sense.

        2. Felix Kütt

          yeah, same, I was about to quote him to correct him, but then I realized: you don’t correct god. :/ dilemma…

          ah, screw it: ” Don’t believe me, I can offer photographs!” -> ” Don’t believe me? I can offer photographs!” fix’d.

        3. Harvey Squidman

          Thank you Harry Belafonte.

      3. pan_dim_onium

        Now that I think about it, most colleges I’ve been to have a “public” piano in a lobby in at least one building.

      4. Volkai

        I believe you, but I want the photographs anyway.

      5. Dr. T

        IU has a bunch of them on campus. If she did not feel like playing the one in the residence hall, she could have walked a few blocks to get to a number of other ones that she could have played on.

    6. Sarge Abernathy

      In my college every dorm and at least one piano. Along with one lobby room television, one billiards table, one cocacola vending machine, and one functioning kitchen.

    7. Aizat

      Inheritance.

    8. mrlshade

      Why, “The 24-Hour Piano Store”, of course!

    9. Volkai

      IT’s a college campus. Pianos are friggin’ everywhere.

    10. Roborat

      WalMart

  2. David Herbert

    How does she feel about The Land Before Time?

    1. Davidus Rex

      Or ‘The Carnival of the Animals’, for that matter?

      1. Dibullba

        Or the musical scene in Fantasia focusing on dinosaurs?

        1. Undrave

          Or ‘Harry and his Bucket of Dinosaur’?

        2. blackaeon

          She feels Denver the Last Dinosaur is an abomination.

        3. Undrave

          But…but he’s our friend and so much more!!

    2. Kelly

      When I saw that at…7? 8? I felt the names where unacceptable. “Longneck”, really? What, kids can’t figure out “Apatosaurus”?

      1. insomniac

        Talking dinosaurs aren’t going to call each other “apatosaurus.”

        That would just be silly.

        1. Kelly

          If you are going that route they aren’t going to say longneck either. Better call up Tolkien’s ghost and get to work on a dinosaur language.

    3. Absolom

      “We’re Back! A Dinosaur Story” must be like a Hitchcock for her.

    4. Roborat

      Wow, she would probably have an aneurism watching 1,000,000 years B.C.

      1. fogel

        The one with Raquel Welch?

  3. Saucer

    Hi Dina!

  4. NCP19

    That list is probably laminated too.

    1. Resne

      Laminated, annotated, hyphenated, highlightated.

  5. Wack'd

    Why is Sarah surprised?

    1. Aizat

      Why isn’t Sarah surprised?

      1. Rognik

        Because she’s a horribly jaded person. She’s just flabbergasted that she actually listed all the inaccuracies. Thank goodness it was done in text, though, or else we’d need to hear every one of them instead of just perusing.

        1. taekwondogirl

          I’m not sure I understand what you mean by just perusing? Perusing is to read in very thorough detail, and I doubt Sarah’s doing that.

        2. begbert2

          Interestings, according to m-w, ‘peruse’ has the two distinct definitions of essentially, “look at with exacting attention to detail”, and “look at casually with no real attention to detail”, side-by side. (The latter sense is the one I’m more familiar with.) So essentially it’s a long way of saying “look at”.

        3. Makkabee

          But it takes the same time and has exactly the same number of letters! One less space even! I’m using too many exclamation points!

  6. Tobias

    I appreciate how you drew a line of music that actually makes sense instead of random nonsense notes like most artist do.

    1. Random832

      The XKCD guy did that too. http://xkcd.com/389/

  7. Wonder Wig

    Must … draw … Charlie Brown Christmas dancing scene … with … DOA characters.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Walky would make a good Pigpen.

      1. Aizat

        So, who’s going to be Snoopy and Woodstock?

        1. Yotomoe

          I’d say Ethan and Dina.

        2. Historyman68

          Marcie is Woodstock.

        3. Jason

          Marcie is Marcie!!!

        4. TheRealAllPurposeGuru

          Isn’t Marcie actually *based* on Marcie from Peanuts?

        5. David

          oh my god i’ve made sal into peppermint patty

        6. Jason

          I thought Ruth was Pettermint Patty… 🙂

    2. Kernanator

      When I saw that first panel, my mind instantly thought of that.

    3. Rognik

      Does this scene mean that Sarah is Lucy?

  8. Plasma Mongoose

    I’m slightly disappointed that she wasn’t wearing her boner shirt.

    1. Aizat

      Joe’s wearing it.

      1. Undrave

        I totally want her to run into Joe and think he’s also into dinosaurs!

        1. begbert2

          And then he’s like, “What? This shirt’s not about dinosaurs; it’s about sex.” Leading her to great confusion.

  9. Yotomoe

    I love the detail of the notes trailing off for the brief moment she hands sarah the note.

  10. Hopeless Savage

    I love Dina so much. I just felt that needed saying.

    1. otusasio451

      You and me both, man. You and me both.

      1. Aizat

        She’s adorable that’s for sure.

        1. Groove

          Spread the good word man.

  11. ambiguousArsonist

    namely feathers, i mean C’mon how do you miss the feathers!

    1. Indiana Jane

      As an anthropology major, I would like to say unless the feathers left an imprint in the surrounding stone, or less likely were fossilized themselves, no one in the world could possibly know they existed thousands of years ago.

      1. begbert2

        And more importantly, at the time of the movie’s making I don’t believe that any significant evidence of that had turned up yet, putting aside Mr. Archeopteryx. I don’t think that Dina would be as mean to it about things that it couldn’t have known.

        I mean, they’d still be in the list, but phrased politely.

  12. Joe

    As a music major who is easily annoyed by horribly, horribly incorrect depictions of sheet music, I want to personally thank you for taking the time to do it right.

    1. Yotomoe

      Ditto.

    2. David

      Finally, decades later, all those piano lessons paid off.

      1. Aizat

        Way to go above and beyond, Willis.

      2. Bickendan

        I will nitpick, however: You don’t need that ledger line below the G in the first chord of the first measure 😉

      3. AckAckAck

        I think you just secure the loyalty of fans with music abilities now.

        1. Roborat

          Yup, all three of them.

        2. Kernanator

          I’m one of the three.

          Well, I have music training. Music talent is a whole ‘nother can of worms.

        3. Bickendan

          Urge… to… compose… DoA… theme… song… rising…
          (for clarinet and/or sax choir)

    3. Chronos

      + 1

    4. halcyon1234

      … and for not just scanning in the sheetmusic for Never Gonna Give You Up…

  13. otusasio451

    Well, let’s see now. There’s the obvious one, which is that the Velociraptors are FAR too big, and are more the size of Deinonychus (which, to be fair, was once considered a member of the Velociraptor genus). Dilophosaurus definitely did NOT have the colorful neck frill, and there’s no paleontological evidence that they ever produced or spat venom. Tyrannosaurus’s head wasn’t quite so boxy, and no WAY could it run as fast as they depicted in the film (waaaaaaaay too top heavy), not to mention that there’s no evidence that they couldn’t see unless something moved (plus, there’s the fact that they have one of the largest olfactory centers of any large carnivorous dinosaur known, so they could just SMELL you, whether you were moving or not).

    All that’s just off the top of my head. If I was really trying, I could definitely come up with more.

    1. Freezze12

      Ialways hate the way they get the DNA. The blood is fossilised, The mosquito’s DNA would also be present. And you cant “fill the holes” of DNA with DNA from another animal and get the original creature put of it. You’d end up with that walking liver thing from Splice

      1. Heavensrun

        If the blood was fossilized, it wouldn’t be blood. It would be minerals. The point of the mosquitos in amber is that the blood -wasn’t- fossilized, it was contained and preserved. And yes, actually, you can splice genes from one animal into another animal and sometimes end up with an animal very similar to the original. This is because common ancestry means that many organisms (well, all organisms, in fact) have genetic similarities to other organisms at certain points. Although honestly birds would probaly have been a better match, since they’re more closely related.

        But really, the fact that the dinos in JP are genetically engineered explains away all possible paleontological inconsistencies. These -aren’t- original dinosaurs. They’re copies that have been engineered in a lab from incomplete genetic data. If raptors are the wrong size, or T-rexes have a sight defect, or feathers are missing, or whatever, it’s because these aren’t the original animals, they’re just the closest the scientists could come to, honestly, what -they- thought the dinosaurs would be like.

        Hell, it’s entirely possible they worked in some “defects” on purpose to stay closer to the public perception of the things.

    2. Black Bumblebee

      True, but all of that can be fixed by saying that it is explained that they didn’t actually have the full DNA strands… they had to “make up” bits of the DNA they found, replacing it with frog DNA (hence why later they are able to reproduce asexually).

      1. newHelm

        a friend of mine studies genetics, he said that the DNA of all creatures holds all possibilities, like the fact that i have shadow pain in my ‘tail’. Remember that there is a lot of unused strands of DNA. Also, they follow a basic pattern so it would not be hard to compare, guess, cut and past. Lastly, cells tend to replicate, even broken ones, and ‘repair’ themselves.

    3. Buckybone

      All I can think of is the feathers thing, but they didn’t actually know about that at the time.

    4. Andy

      And the fact that the dinosaurs didn’t have feathers. To be fair, though, that’s a somewhat recent discovery.

    5. Kelly

      The JP “raptors” where larger than Deinonychus as well. And conversely, they where a bit small to be Utahraptor.

      1. Bickendan

        Aw, damn. I’d hoped that they’d used Utahraptors as stand-ins for ‘Velociraptors’.

    6. Dierna

      Not to mention the fact that most of the dinosaurs are from the Cretacious era and not from the Jurassic. Altho in the 2nd Jurasic Park film they did acknowledge this somewhat.

      The Velociraptor thing also irritates me. Velociraptors are the size of chickens. It’s Utahraptors that got that big (just watch the pilot ep of Primeval: New World where they acknowledged this and had a pair of them run rampant thru Vancouver! *lol*)

      1. DudeMyDadOwnsADealership

        I don’t know about the book, but I think the Velociraptors from the movie were all Utahraptors. The movie did kind of follow classic images of dinosaurs from our childhood, though…

        1. newHelm

          The book was correct at the time of its making but the thing is, we still know practically squat about dinos but we know more than then. The movie also took creative liberties. So the less knowledgeable could actually watch the movie without crying tears of boardom. Most people could care less except that raptors eat people. Spielberg is more about movie magic than facts any way.

        2. otusasio451

          Hold on a second, Utahraptors were WAY bigger than the raptors depicted in the film. Of course, both Deinonychus and Velociraptor are a lot smaller than those raptors, so…yeah, I guess Utahraptors the closest real-life raptor we got, huh? Also, Velociraptor was a lot bigger than a chicken, but still far smaller than the movie depiction (shoulder height was about 2 feet).

        3. StrawGirl

          Well, considering that Spielberg just wanted to make the “Velociraptors” more intimidating and basically gave science the middle finger to do so, it was actually rather surprising when Utahraptors were discovered because of how similar they were to the raptors depicted in the film.

          You can read more about it in Robert T. Bakker’s book “Raptor Red.” Yes, Bakker is one of the paleontologists that the kid asks Dr. Grant about when he’s talking his ears off.

        4. Kelly

          And the Grant character is basically a mix of Bakker and Horner

      2. Jackson

        Not to mention the fact that most of the dinosaurs are from the Cretacious era and not from the Jurassic

        See, that part actually makes sense to me. There’s no way the park’s marketing team would have gone with naming it “Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Park.”

        1. Kelly

          Were any of the dinos in JP from the Triassic? It was a more limited selection back then, and a lot of them were smaller and lesser known by the public.
          …
          After checking the JP wikia, it seems none of the dinos in the first movie were from the Triassic. The book has Procompsognathus “Compys”, which are Triassic. The book also mentions “giant dragonflies” which sound like Meganeura, which are from the Carboniferous.

    7. Heavensrun

      In the book, the “T-rex only sees movement” thing was something that Grant figured out on the fly, rather than magically knowing it from fossils. The neck frills and venom on Dilophosaurus could easily be explained by a similar fashion (it was something they had that we couldn’t know about from the fossilized skeletal remains we have). It could also be a side effect of splicing in genes from other animals to create a viable genetic code.

  14. derick

    My feelings exactly.

  15. Fiddles

    My girlfriend who does not read comics at all just leant right over my shoulder staring intently at the screen and started humming Jurrasic Park. Nerd Sniped – http://xkcd.com/356/

  16. Dean

    What are the odds that this is the only piece that Dina can play?

    1. Yotomoe

      Equal to the odds that she does not know the score from any other dinosaur themed movie or game.

    2. Dibullba

      She probably could play Denver the Last Dinosaur on piano. Do not ask me how she can, just leave it at if it involves dinosaurs then Dina can do it.

      1. Tenn

        Is he her friend and… “a whole lot more”? B)

    3. TheRealAllPurposeGuru

      Naah. Dina is asian. Of COURSE she plays piano.

      Yeah, it’s a stereotype that asians push their kids into playing piano and violin– but I offer as evidence that my daughter’s Russian piano teacher has NOTHING BUT ASIANS as her students. Well, my daughter is half caucasian, but she’s half asian also.

      1. taekwondogirl

        So because there’s one example of the stereotype being true, it applies to everyone in that stereotype? Word.

        1. begbert2

          Technically he probably has at least four examples, unless that’s a really non-busy piano teacher.

        2. TheRealAllPurposeGuru

          The teacher has had at least 30 students consistently for the last 10 years. (My daughter has been with her for 10 years.) Over that entire period I remember maybe two caucasian students. She doesn’t actively search them out, that just seems to be the group of people that want her services.

          Now, mind, I live in Silicon Valley, where we have a high concentration of Asians and a high concentration of moderately-affluent people so the population is skewed with respect to the rest of the country. (with houses at 1 million for 3 bedrooms I dunno how Walmart employees *survive*.)

        3. TheRealAllPurposeGuru

          Isn’t that the DEFINITION of a stereotype?

        4. Plasma Mongoose

          Even an accurate stereotype isn’t 100% applicable to a group, hell it’s lucky to be even true to more than 40% of a large group, but they can be uhandy as guidelines if used properly.

  17. Uniqueantique

    Not to likely I think. You’d have to have some talent to get that far, and you just sit down and play Jurassic Park…well, who know…Dina may.
    She is just full of surprizes. Cute little rascal.

    1. TheRealAllPurposeGuru

      Best part of DoA is the fact that Sal is mostly undamaged and Dina isn’t blown up. Always liked the little sweetie.

      1. james

        you need to see today’s sp

  18. Mindset

    Have to link to this: http://jurassicparkwtf.ytmnd.com/

  19. Jesse

    I just realized that Dina probably wouldn’t like Turok.

    1. james

      What about Dino Crisis?

      1. Maycroft

        and The Land Before Time?

        1. Jason

          What about Dinobots? Or Dinobot?

        2. begbert2

          ‘In addition to the unclear species and the incorrect distribution of toes, there is the apparent presence of large humanoid legs along its underside, which is not supported by current paleontological findings. On a similar subject, the tyrannosaurus-like creature in the same show appeared to be grossly out of scale.’

        3. Jesse

          I meant how Turok is all about killing dinosaurs. James has a point about Dino Crisis, too.

  20. Ryorin

    And I thought it was impossible for Dina to be even MORE my favorite character.

    1. Cabooceratops

      Couldn’t agree more!

    2. Regalli

      She is the best thing ever.

  21. Kaj

    “Mr. Spielberg, after careful consideration, I’ve decided not to endorse your film.”

    1. Jesse

      Nice.

  22. Tenn

    “Guess you get that question a lot, huh?”

    1. Rognik

      (next page) “Enough to make this note so I don’t have to get distracted from my playing.”

  23. Jimmy

    I’d hate to see her notes on Carnosaur.

  24. narmenduke

    I like how the notes on the treble staff disappear when Dina stops playing with her right hand. That’s a nice touch.

  25. ADHadh

    Everyone together:
    HOLY FUCKING SHIT, IT’S A DINOSAUR!

  26. Bill Murphy

    She has a prepared statement on the piano. Classic! 😀

    1. Creativerealms

      Music from Jurassic Park is probably all she knows how to play so the question probably comes out a lot.

      1. griffinguy24

        More likely it comes up all the time and preparing a statement was easier than having the same conversation a thousand times

  27. Noel Schornhorst

    Dina should play the ‘Dinosaur Train’ theme song if she’s taking requests…

    1. StrawGirl

      And the only other song I know from the show: “Every Dinosaur Poops.” Total classic.

  28. aaron_bourque

    But does she separate them from those that were known at the time of the film’s creation and those that are known now?

    1. N0083rP00F

      It’s Dina so my money is one YES, yes she would. She is adorkable and seems to be fastidious in what she does do.

  29. Arkadi

    Is it wrong if this piano scene reminds me of Utena? It is, isn’t it? :c

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      It might make more sense if Dina had a look-a-like male twin.

      Walky is pretty much the opposite to Miki and Sal’s no Kozue.

      1. Arkadi

        So it’s wrong :c

  30. Makkabee

    I think I just fell a little bit in love with Dina.

  31. p

    Do I have to do everything around here myself?

    My personal favorite Jurassic Park track: http://youtu.be/-w-58hQ9dLk

  32. JA

    Dina’s right; only two of the six major dinosaur species in Jurassic Park were actually Jurassic-era dinosaurs. The other four were Cretaceous.

    Gogo Foxtrot!

  33. Crumplepunch

    Embiggened is a perfectly cromulent word.

  34. aqua

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzSFs-rlc3o

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Jurassic Park Theme on Piano

  35. bunivasal

    “But it’s still your favorite movie, right? It’s not like there’s a better, more paleontologically accurate film that could supersede Jurassic Park? Or, better yet, shut up and move over, I want to play Chopstix for the next eight hours.”

  36. Jen Aside

    I guess I’m the only one who keeps thinking of “Weird” Al’s version instead…

  37. Raen

    It’s Macarthur Park, surely?

  38. swordofdestiny

    Anyone else hearing “Luke, I’m your father, it is useless to resist. Come with me, my son, we will rule. Search your feelings, it is true. So you have a twin sister whom Obi Wan was wise to hide. If you will not turn than perhaps you will give in to your hate. You are mine.”? Long live Moosebutter.

  39. EnosEmurf

    My entire musical career began because of Jurassic Park and a casio keyboard! Yes!

    1. JohnnyO

      The first thing I learned on my Casio keyboard was House of the Rising Sun.

  40. Richard

    Just started reading this, find it amazing. Allthough what really made my night is the fact that it really is the notes to jurassic park, not just random scribbles! 🙂

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