Jul. 30th, 2009

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Second encounter with a nonwhite since April: A male swallowtail.
Third encounter: A black butterfly with orange and eyespots. It wasn't a buckeye, I can tell. Whatever it is, I can't find it. It's late. Gleesh. I wrote that last night, not this night. Two days before, since it's 12:02.

I dreamt of a Sigur Ros song.

Wednesday: Oh, it was worth walking 7 km (incude an excursion to get a sandwich and a key lime tart). What I learned from this experience is that people in the Virgin Islands hang fishing wire to stop birds (I think Jordan Hall had it as support) and that if you have to pee while walking 7 km, you sort of forget about it.
Bernstein - Overture

Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto - He has a recognizable style. He's also really good, despite Rizzo The Rat (I'd ask you to buy something for someone but you don't know her name if I don't know her name, unless you do, and you probably don't) and Ayn Rand liking him. See the burning question.
Improvization: The pianist said she could play anything she recognized from the audience singing. Someone seated behind me burst out with just about the crappiest version of The Hills Are Alive.

New World Symphony - You know something, go check Pluvia, even if it doesn't have my thoughts on this. This for some reason felt shorter, as if they were playing in such a way to make Speedy Gonzales look like Regular Gonzales. Or maybe I'm thinking of a certain other Bohemian.

Preamble: In Odyssey: The Legend of Nemesis, there's one island that has three people remaining after an attack by monsters. One of them is Karl Marx. One a pacificistic poor man who lives in a hut after building a fort named after his dead wife to protect the three of them from monsters and was forced out by the third man because he felt he owed him about a million gold pieces (including his wife's jewels - you can give the third man the jewels but you probably can't give him the ten million; it would go over the item limit). One is a formerly powerful man who won't let go of his power. Upon coming to the island, your goal is to move the second man into the fort without killing the third man; only stripping him of his power.

The island is called McTeague, for the literary minded amongst you.

On this island, Sergei Rachmaninov's Prelude in F-sharp minor, Opus 23, no. 1 plays.
Burning Question: Was this done to cheese the Ayn Rand Institute?

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