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elegy for Lenin
Feb. 4th, 2018 08:17 pm43 days until the vernal equinox
Ashley may be able to hold a grudge forever but Robert Mugabe can't live forever, so if you need someone to blame if Robert Mugabe is dead before St. Iocus' Day, blame Jeff Vogel, as Avernum 3: Ruined World has consumed my life.
Spoilers, if you've never heard of Avernum and it's piqued your interest or if you are somehow one of the few people who have never played Exile 3: Ruined World or vanilla Avernum 3.
Spoilers, if you've never heard of Avernum before I mentioned it and it's piqued your interest or if you are somehow one of the few people who have never played Exile 3: Ruined World or vanilla Avernum 3 and also care about spoilers.
I love how the tutorial area is pretty much "you know how to play Avernum by now. Here are two monsters. Defeat them." And let it be said that you really should keep a backup save. Under Castle Troglo is deceptively easy at level 19. Shamans are glass cannons and khazis spend all their time buffing and are annoying damage sponges. Elhioc is a beefed-up khazi, which means he spends most of his time buffing. The avatars are invincible and have cold-based attacks, and they're the dangerous ones. I lucked out because I had a save right before sanctifying the troglodyte altar so I could see what, if anything, the haakai drops. I really should have something undead in my soul crystal, or summon shade, but I managed with just a spellshard. On the other hand, the Cult of the Sacred Item was way harder than I thought it would be and I got by avoiding outdoor battles and fighting enemies one at a time, including the boss. Also, the stuff they sell in shops throughout Valorim? They're useful now.
Kelly has a pendant, a key with a knotted handle. She really likes dogs and also foxes despite being allergic to not only dogs but pretty much every other animal as well, and she said that chihuahuas are the hardest dogs to draw because they just can't sit still. She always gets Downtown Crossing and Park Street mixed up.
Will wanted to watch me while I drew him which made things a bit difficult, and then showed me a thing he drew, and once he drew his teacher, who looked like the bald guy from Breaking Bad. Will has dark eyes and wears glasses and has facial expressions that are expressive to the point of being caricaturesque, almost like Leah. I wonder. There was an elfin woman and a man who looked like the evil vizier with magick powers because of his beard and because of his clothing, which was the 21st century equivalent of a wizard cloak and robes.
When I was in high school, I had a teacher who looks like Hank Scorpio. He didn't have a flamethrower but Will said that maybe he could buy one from Elon Musk. I have no idea what Elon Musk is doing with flamethrowers.
Bella, despite her name being short for Isabella, has never been to the Gardner Museum. I didn't draw her because she was facing away from me and towards Savannah, whom they call Sav or something, and Abby, who immediately recognized herself, and a guy who wasn't actually part of the group. Savannah was talking about a trip to Africa or something. And I didn't get the chance to draw Sophia. I thought I saw Hungarian Emma but she wasn't.
Emilija does not count as yet another Emily, even if it is a variation. I immediately thought Lithuanian and it exists in Serbia as well as Емилија. But it's not "Iki Aušros." There really isn't any precendent, Samantha and Jessica were both made up by writers. You could write Ешли but I can't imagine that ever happening.
A jazz guitarist from five hours east of Seattle said that if Mahler didn't sell out, they could put the chorus in the upper balconies.
I said "wait a minute, isn't that the ocean… wait, east, not west."
I know it's a gran partita but I wasn't expecting it to be an hour long. It's for a small ensemble: clarinets, basset horns, bassoons, horns, double bass or contrabassoon. A slow opening that builds up, a menuetto, an adagio in which oboe, clarinet, and basset horn enter one by one, another minuet, a romanze, a theme with variations, a rondo as the finale.
Shostakovich's 14th symphony is 11 movements of 11 poems by Lorca (who was executed by a fascist firing squad), Apollinaire (who was wounded in the First World War and succumbed to the Spanish Flu epidemic, which, by the way, killed more people than the war), Küchelbecker (who was exiled to Siberia for (a very very large role) role in the Decembrist Uprising and once wrote a story about a dystopian state on the moon and a journey through a 26th century Europe that had reverted to barbarism), and Rilke, by a soprano and a bass, set to strings and percussion and barely even qualifies as a symphony. In the last movement, the soprano and bass join in a duet. The booklet called it Mahlerian, as not only is it an ode to his upcoming death, but it's all over the place and doesn't follow the symphony format. It began as an oratorio. It had supertitles, which were probably translated from the Russian instead of using lines from the English translations of the poems.
He wrote one more symphony.
Like Andris Nelsons, which, by the way, has no diacritics, he is obsessed with Mahler, and was once offered an opportunity to finish Mahler's 10th symphony. He didn't think he was worthy of it.
Alyssa has never been drawn before and called the drawing of her beautiful. Also, I once again took my time on some drawings assuming that they weren't going to get off at Broadway or Andrew and guess what, they did. Otherwise, the journey home was uneventful and I spent most of it reading A Closed and Common Orbit, which is quite hilarious in parts.
So speaking of Europe reverting to barbarism, a Lega Nord politician with the 2nd SS Panzer Division tattoo above his eye shot at migrants and some people on Democratic Underground are like "I am ok with this."
burning question: what is Elon Musk planning to do with flamethrowers?
Ashley may be able to hold a grudge forever but Robert Mugabe can't live forever, so if you need someone to blame if Robert Mugabe is dead before St. Iocus' Day, blame Jeff Vogel, as Avernum 3: Ruined World has consumed my life.
Spoilers, if you've never heard of Avernum and it's piqued your interest or if you are somehow one of the few people who have never played Exile 3: Ruined World or vanilla Avernum 3.
Spoilers, if you've never heard of Avernum before I mentioned it and it's piqued your interest or if you are somehow one of the few people who have never played Exile 3: Ruined World or vanilla Avernum 3 and also care about spoilers.
Kelly has a pendant, a key with a knotted handle. She really likes dogs and also foxes despite being allergic to not only dogs but pretty much every other animal as well, and she said that chihuahuas are the hardest dogs to draw because they just can't sit still. She always gets Downtown Crossing and Park Street mixed up.
Will wanted to watch me while I drew him which made things a bit difficult, and then showed me a thing he drew, and once he drew his teacher, who looked like the bald guy from Breaking Bad. Will has dark eyes and wears glasses and has facial expressions that are expressive to the point of being caricaturesque, almost like Leah. I wonder. There was an elfin woman and a man who looked like the evil vizier with magick powers because of his beard and because of his clothing, which was the 21st century equivalent of a wizard cloak and robes.
When I was in high school, I had a teacher who looks like Hank Scorpio. He didn't have a flamethrower but Will said that maybe he could buy one from Elon Musk. I have no idea what Elon Musk is doing with flamethrowers.
Bella, despite her name being short for Isabella, has never been to the Gardner Museum. I didn't draw her because she was facing away from me and towards Savannah, whom they call Sav or something, and Abby, who immediately recognized herself, and a guy who wasn't actually part of the group. Savannah was talking about a trip to Africa or something. And I didn't get the chance to draw Sophia. I thought I saw Hungarian Emma but she wasn't.
Emilija does not count as yet another Emily, even if it is a variation. I immediately thought Lithuanian and it exists in Serbia as well as Емилија. But it's not "Iki Aušros." There really isn't any precendent, Samantha and Jessica were both made up by writers. You could write Ешли but I can't imagine that ever happening.
A jazz guitarist from five hours east of Seattle said that if Mahler didn't sell out, they could put the chorus in the upper balconies.
I said "wait a minute, isn't that the ocean… wait, east, not west."
I know it's a gran partita but I wasn't expecting it to be an hour long. It's for a small ensemble: clarinets, basset horns, bassoons, horns, double bass or contrabassoon. A slow opening that builds up, a menuetto, an adagio in which oboe, clarinet, and basset horn enter one by one, another minuet, a romanze, a theme with variations, a rondo as the finale.
Shostakovich's 14th symphony is 11 movements of 11 poems by Lorca (who was executed by a fascist firing squad), Apollinaire (who was wounded in the First World War and succumbed to the Spanish Flu epidemic, which, by the way, killed more people than the war), Küchelbecker (who was exiled to Siberia for (a very very large role) role in the Decembrist Uprising and once wrote a story about a dystopian state on the moon and a journey through a 26th century Europe that had reverted to barbarism), and Rilke, by a soprano and a bass, set to strings and percussion and barely even qualifies as a symphony. In the last movement, the soprano and bass join in a duet. The booklet called it Mahlerian, as not only is it an ode to his upcoming death, but it's all over the place and doesn't follow the symphony format. It began as an oratorio. It had supertitles, which were probably translated from the Russian instead of using lines from the English translations of the poems.
He wrote one more symphony.
Like Andris Nelsons, which, by the way, has no diacritics, he is obsessed with Mahler, and was once offered an opportunity to finish Mahler's 10th symphony. He didn't think he was worthy of it.
Alyssa has never been drawn before and called the drawing of her beautiful. Also, I once again took my time on some drawings assuming that they weren't going to get off at Broadway or Andrew and guess what, they did. Otherwise, the journey home was uneventful and I spent most of it reading A Closed and Common Orbit, which is quite hilarious in parts.
So speaking of Europe reverting to barbarism, a Lega Nord politician with the 2nd SS Panzer Division tattoo above his eye shot at migrants and some people on Democratic Underground are like "I am ok with this."
burning question: what is Elon Musk planning to do with flamethrowers?
