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Henri didn’t get as powerful as expected, he dwindled away as expected, and I was far enough north and east of landfall that I was spared the worst of it, as expected.
I saw seals in the ocean the day of the storm and a coyote trotting by the day before.
There was a man with a koi tattoo on his arm playing what sounded like the original Super Mario Bros, although I could not make out the music, only the jumping sounds and the coin sounds.
I found three dollar coins in the CharlieCard machine. One of these days, I'll have a complete collection of Mediocre Presidents. I just have Hayes and Tyler.
I did get Phaid the Gambler and Citizen Phaid at Brattle Books for 4 bucks each, On Wings of Song from a Little Free Library (some of the books were in Russian), and Synners (a signed copy of Synners!) for one dollar (!). The cover of Phaid the Gambler features a sandcrawler, an open-cockpit AT-ST, and a guy dressed as a glam rock version of Han Solo.
For dinner, I got a shawarma sub. That is to say, it's a sub roll with seasoned chicken, diced cucumbers, onions, green olives, tzadziki and tahini and hot sauce.
I met a husky named Reptar. His way of saying "Halt, I am Reptar" was not letting me move while he was licking my hand.
Holst - Second Suite For Military Band - an arrangement of multiple folksongs. Holst and his compatriot Vaughan Williams were the first to arrange for concert band (that is to say, an orchestra minus the strings. Add saxophone and a few extra tubas for good measure. Keep the harp.) music for the common people. Before then, it was music meant for officers and diplomats.
For those of you wondering “why isn’t the saxophone used in classical music,” it is. You just don’t notice it when it shows up.
Steven Stucky - Funeral Music for Queen Mary. Originally written by Henry Purcell, and arranged for concert band with 21st and 20th century ideas. That’s Mary of William and Mary, the husband and wife and also first cousins dual monarchs of the late 17th century, by the way, not Bloody Mary. And definitely not Mary, Turkmenistan.
Omar Thomas - Come Sunday - An ode to the Hammond Organ with echoes of swing, blues, and R&B. R&B? That’s just a catch-all term for music played by black people. The term was coined in the late 1940s, disappeared in the late 60s, and then was revived in 1990. The less polite term was race music. There were probably even less polite terms. The first part depicts the congregation coming together, the second divine rapture. I get my divine rapture from Prokofievesque Latin cacophony. Or maybe King Roger. But you do you, as long as you’re not hurting anyone.
He did a composition that we may hear next year based on the soundtracks of 60s blaxploitation films.
Ralph Vaughan Williams - English Folk Song Suite
Rossini - Overture to La Gazza Ladra. It’s an opera. About a kleptomaniac magpie. That’s a redundant redudancy. There’s an actual magpie in the opera who steals some silver spoons and a coin. In high school, I was friends with someone whose name was thrush and someone whose name was magpie. I use the word friend very loosely for the latter because she disappeared into a land of harpies, of buddha-toads, of centaur-angels, of whirlwind-women. In between the time I wrote this, I had a dream about someone entirely different I knew in high school. We were emphatically not friends.
William Grant Still - Animato: Humor from Afro-American Symphony - A bat flew above us.
Unfortunately, people aren’t hearing about William Grant Still and Florence Price from me, they’re hearing about them from Heather MacDonald.
I’m not asking you to listen to me about the coronavirus but you know, don’t do what Donny Don’t does, and by that, I mean, get vaccinated, wear a mask, keep your distance but don’t look like you’re trying to keep your distance, don’t lick doorknobs.
Amazing Grace - arranged by Frank Ticheli. The vocal part is performed instead by an oboe.
The Free Lance - from an operetta by Sousa
Semper Fidelis
I was hoping they’d play the Liberty Bell March as an overture but that might be far too silly.
The moon was low and sap brown.
burning question: how hard can it be to vaccinate the entire population of the Pitcairn Islands? There’s only 47 people there (approximately 38 are vaccinated, going by the chart). Also, it’s good to know that all your secret illegal accounts in the Cayman Islands are in good hands.
I saw seals in the ocean the day of the storm and a coyote trotting by the day before.
There was a man with a koi tattoo on his arm playing what sounded like the original Super Mario Bros, although I could not make out the music, only the jumping sounds and the coin sounds.
I found three dollar coins in the CharlieCard machine. One of these days, I'll have a complete collection of Mediocre Presidents. I just have Hayes and Tyler.
I did get Phaid the Gambler and Citizen Phaid at Brattle Books for 4 bucks each, On Wings of Song from a Little Free Library (some of the books were in Russian), and Synners (a signed copy of Synners!) for one dollar (!). The cover of Phaid the Gambler features a sandcrawler, an open-cockpit AT-ST, and a guy dressed as a glam rock version of Han Solo.
For dinner, I got a shawarma sub. That is to say, it's a sub roll with seasoned chicken, diced cucumbers, onions, green olives, tzadziki and tahini and hot sauce.
I met a husky named Reptar. His way of saying "Halt, I am Reptar" was not letting me move while he was licking my hand.
Holst - Second Suite For Military Band - an arrangement of multiple folksongs. Holst and his compatriot Vaughan Williams were the first to arrange for concert band (that is to say, an orchestra minus the strings. Add saxophone and a few extra tubas for good measure. Keep the harp.) music for the common people. Before then, it was music meant for officers and diplomats.
For those of you wondering “why isn’t the saxophone used in classical music,” it is. You just don’t notice it when it shows up.
Steven Stucky - Funeral Music for Queen Mary. Originally written by Henry Purcell, and arranged for concert band with 21st and 20th century ideas. That’s Mary of William and Mary, the husband and wife and also first cousins dual monarchs of the late 17th century, by the way, not Bloody Mary. And definitely not Mary, Turkmenistan.
Omar Thomas - Come Sunday - An ode to the Hammond Organ with echoes of swing, blues, and R&B. R&B? That’s just a catch-all term for music played by black people. The term was coined in the late 1940s, disappeared in the late 60s, and then was revived in 1990. The less polite term was race music. There were probably even less polite terms. The first part depicts the congregation coming together, the second divine rapture. I get my divine rapture from Prokofievesque Latin cacophony. Or maybe King Roger. But you do you, as long as you’re not hurting anyone.
He did a composition that we may hear next year based on the soundtracks of 60s blaxploitation films.
Ralph Vaughan Williams - English Folk Song Suite
Rossini - Overture to La Gazza Ladra. It’s an opera. About a kleptomaniac magpie. That’s a redundant redudancy. There’s an actual magpie in the opera who steals some silver spoons and a coin. In high school, I was friends with someone whose name was thrush and someone whose name was magpie. I use the word friend very loosely for the latter because she disappeared into a land of harpies, of buddha-toads, of centaur-angels, of whirlwind-women. In between the time I wrote this, I had a dream about someone entirely different I knew in high school. We were emphatically not friends.
William Grant Still - Animato: Humor from Afro-American Symphony - A bat flew above us.
Unfortunately, people aren’t hearing about William Grant Still and Florence Price from me, they’re hearing about them from Heather MacDonald.
I’m not asking you to listen to me about the coronavirus but you know, don’t do what Donny Don’t does, and by that, I mean, get vaccinated, wear a mask, keep your distance but don’t look like you’re trying to keep your distance, don’t lick doorknobs.
Amazing Grace - arranged by Frank Ticheli. The vocal part is performed instead by an oboe.
The Free Lance - from an operetta by Sousa
Semper Fidelis
I was hoping they’d play the Liberty Bell March as an overture but that might be far too silly.
The moon was low and sap brown.
burning question: how hard can it be to vaccinate the entire population of the Pitcairn Islands? There’s only 47 people there (approximately 38 are vaccinated, going by the chart). Also, it’s good to know that all your secret illegal accounts in the Cayman Islands are in good hands.
