the sound and the fury
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yamamanama13 days until the vernal equinox
I had this thought about Faithful Servants of Christ being gone last time, but I just forgot to post it and didn’t want to ninja edit it. Anyways, I’m not sad to see Faithful Servants of Christ gone but I was morbidly curious about their take on the Ukraine situation, although, really, I think I already know. The neutral evil faction of conservatism is pro-Ukraine and the lawful evil and chaotic evil factions are standing with Putin.
It’s my sincerest hope that post-Putin Russia is much like 1990s Romania, that is to say, a glorious period in which Lifeforce can be shown on network TV. Or maybe Russia already went through that. I might be mistaken but I thought 1990s Russia was pretty libertine in that crapsack cyberpunk setting way. Hell, I’d imagine you can still find places in Russia where Putin’s law can not reach.
I heard a concert by a Celtic musician who usually plays in a band but did this session solo and enjoys the freedom of wingin’ it. He sang a song about a couple who elope and the woman buys a ship from her father disguised as a man and then the father sends the captain to sink their ship, a song he wrote about about holding a wake for someone who is leaving for the new world because they’ll never see them again. He talked about how Irish music is either extremely exuberant and giddy or extremely melancholic.
Music based on weather was a concert the conductor did some 25 years ago and he wanted to do it again and this time he got the local weatherman to announce.
We opened with the national anthem of Ukraine.
Henry Fillmore - Rolling Thunder - a march that includes an elaborate trombone part.
Felix Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto no. 1 in G Minor, movements II and III
Impressively, the soloist was 12 years old.
William Tell Overture
Dawn, a storm, a pastorale that shows up whenever day breaks in cartoons even though that's not really what it's depicting, and the march of the Lone Ranger.
Ludwig van Beethoven, - Symphony no 6, movements IV and V
A thunderstorm, first distant on the low strings with violin passages to imitate light rain, which builds up to timpani and piccolos and swirling strings, which transitions into a celebratory rondo after the storm.
Rimsky-Korskov - Scheherezade - The Sea and Shipwreck
Actually, we got the entire Festival at Baghdad, which isn’t any near the sea but okay.
John Philip Sousa - The Thunderer March
It's one of his more difficult marches and is probably named for the drum and bugle.
Johann Strauss Jr. - Thunder and Lightning Polka
The percussion mimics the sounds of thunder.
And I got a bowl of bibimbap (seasoned carrots, mushrooms, spinach, zucchini, bean sprouts, onions, and an egg over easy, with a side of gochujang sauce) from that Korean place I mentioned last time. And I met a Boston terrier.
burning question: So I had a thought about Sarah Palin and how she’d be the kind of person who’d charge 50 dollars so you can get her covid. And I said that some right wing celebrity would actually do that. Which right-wing celebrity, for some definition of celebrity, do you think would do that? I say Sean Feucht. But not Sarah A. Hoyt, if only because she’s completely delusional in other ways.
I had this thought about Faithful Servants of Christ being gone last time, but I just forgot to post it and didn’t want to ninja edit it. Anyways, I’m not sad to see Faithful Servants of Christ gone but I was morbidly curious about their take on the Ukraine situation, although, really, I think I already know. The neutral evil faction of conservatism is pro-Ukraine and the lawful evil and chaotic evil factions are standing with Putin.
It’s my sincerest hope that post-Putin Russia is much like 1990s Romania, that is to say, a glorious period in which Lifeforce can be shown on network TV. Or maybe Russia already went through that. I might be mistaken but I thought 1990s Russia was pretty libertine in that crapsack cyberpunk setting way. Hell, I’d imagine you can still find places in Russia where Putin’s law can not reach.
I heard a concert by a Celtic musician who usually plays in a band but did this session solo and enjoys the freedom of wingin’ it. He sang a song about a couple who elope and the woman buys a ship from her father disguised as a man and then the father sends the captain to sink their ship, a song he wrote about about holding a wake for someone who is leaving for the new world because they’ll never see them again. He talked about how Irish music is either extremely exuberant and giddy or extremely melancholic.
Music based on weather was a concert the conductor did some 25 years ago and he wanted to do it again and this time he got the local weatherman to announce.
We opened with the national anthem of Ukraine.
Henry Fillmore - Rolling Thunder - a march that includes an elaborate trombone part.
Felix Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto no. 1 in G Minor, movements II and III
Impressively, the soloist was 12 years old.
William Tell Overture
Dawn, a storm, a pastorale that shows up whenever day breaks in cartoons even though that's not really what it's depicting, and the march of the Lone Ranger.
Ludwig van Beethoven, - Symphony no 6, movements IV and V
A thunderstorm, first distant on the low strings with violin passages to imitate light rain, which builds up to timpani and piccolos and swirling strings, which transitions into a celebratory rondo after the storm.
Rimsky-Korskov - Scheherezade - The Sea and Shipwreck
Actually, we got the entire Festival at Baghdad, which isn’t any near the sea but okay.
John Philip Sousa - The Thunderer March
It's one of his more difficult marches and is probably named for the drum and bugle.
Johann Strauss Jr. - Thunder and Lightning Polka
The percussion mimics the sounds of thunder.
And I got a bowl of bibimbap (seasoned carrots, mushrooms, spinach, zucchini, bean sprouts, onions, and an egg over easy, with a side of gochujang sauce) from that Korean place I mentioned last time. And I met a Boston terrier.
burning question: So I had a thought about Sarah Palin and how she’d be the kind of person who’d charge 50 dollars so you can get her covid. And I said that some right wing celebrity would actually do that. Which right-wing celebrity, for some definition of celebrity, do you think would do that? I say Sean Feucht. But not Sarah A. Hoyt, if only because she’s completely delusional in other ways.
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