Archive for December 22nd, 2008

I’ve been threatening for a while now…and I’m finally making good on it, thanks in very large part to my friend @zeichner, who knows absolutely more about more music than anyone I know.

Thank you, @zeichner! =)

After clearly not following the fairly simple directions on my iTunes gift certificate, I finally pulled myself together and bought one primer of operatic music: “Opera Women,” which seems to be a good overview of exactly what the album title promises (it’s labeled as an iTunes Essential) and also “My Puccini” by Angela Gheorghiu. I looked for the Flicka (Fredericka von Stade) album @zeichner recommended, but couldn’t find it on iTunes, so I’ll have to search that out using other avenues.

I’ve been to the opera, believe it or not. Moshing is simply not encouraged, but the leather biker jacket and combat boots got some admiring looks thrown my way. The (wo) gave me two tickets last year for “Samson and Delilah” for which she had seats and couldn’t attend. Her grandmother was an opera singer, although I couldn’t tell you now what her name was. Hell, I couldn’t even have told you five minutes after I’d been told.

And of course, this grand flirtation I’ve had going on with the music of Sarah Brightman for a few years now has only intensified it, although I’m honestly clueless enough about opera to even know if she’s ever performed any proper operas. All I do know – and this has nothing to do with opera, says the clueless one – is that her rendtions of “Ave Maria” and “Pie Jesu” are perfect. So is “Fleurs Du Mal” and “Chase the Morning.”

But because it was Sarah Brightman who started me on this path, and despite my ignorance of the larger genre, I’m putting a picture of her with this post.

Did I mention she’s goregous, too? Oh, my…is it getting hot in here or what?

Two quotes

22 Dec 08

Sure to rankle those to whom Voltaire and Heston refer.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

–Voltaire

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners.

–Charlton Heston

Flickr stats

22 Dec 08

Select statistics, at any rate. strange cousin susan experienced quite a spike from stumbleupon before, the day I added the homepage to it. But this newest spike is totally not my doing. I don’t even bother with su any longer (not that I ever did much except add scs that one time).

The hits from frothersunite.com have something to do with my collection of screencaps from at least “Pyramid of Mars;” I’m not sure if that’s the only reason, but that’s the only one I’ve investigated.

and from the sister:

I haven’t opened up the box you sent and put the presents under the tree because someone isn’t present under the tree certified yet. There’s only one gift out so far and it’s green, so it blends in with the green of the tree. It’s camouflaged, if you will and hasn’t been noticed.

Are you sure you didn’t send any candy to the girls this year? Now is the time to tell me, Mick so I can make sure that’s not the first effin’ present that gets opened this year. Remember last year? Star Tattoo Girl had marshmallows for breakfast because of you. It was six in the morning and she was already wound up enough because of Christmas and then you…you and your damnable marshmallows!

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