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Aug. 5th, 2024 06:30 pmTina has faded cornflower blue long on one side and short dark brown on the other. She had no visible tattoos but a lot of freckles.
Charlie has tattoos of a cat with its dark spots made of rats, of a fiddler crab, of a shadowy figure, a skelerman with the words "like gold", of a fox face, of the word eternity framed in flowers, a rectangle, the words "no more shame, no more fear, no more dread." One color tattoo amongst grayscale. She paints and she performs music under the name "CJ Honey."
For dinner I had massaman curry (that is to say, a coconut milk based curry with influences from Iran and the Malay Peninsula that uses spices otherwise not found in Thai cooking like anise, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, mace, cumin. The word means Muslim) with onions, carrots, potatoes, toasted peanuts. I’d probably have got something else had I known it would be a lot more liquid.
The theme of the concert is "songs without words."
Johannes Brahms - Academic Festival Overture
The University of Breslau (now Wrocław) awarded Brahms an honorary doctorate. This was his thank you. It's his take on German drinking songs.
Hugo Alfvén - Midsummer Vigil (Swedish Rhapsody No. 1)
Depicts a summer day, a storm of leaves, a wistful shepherd's song, and a peasant wedding dance.
Joel Hoffman - Self-Portrait with Gebirtig
Based on Yiddish folk songs written by Mordechai Gebirtig, athough they’re not his most famous. He was killed on Bloody Thursday.
At times it reminds me of Ernest Bloch. At times melancholy and at times jaunty with the clarinet providing a countermelody in klezmer.
The cellist's family escaped the Nazis and brought Yiddish with them when they ended up in Costa Rica.
Julia Perry - Three Spirituals
This was written in 1960, it just wasn’t premiered until this concert.
Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 8 - I have heard this one before. It's kind of like the 8th in that it's based on folk songs but it's all Czech instead of a mashup of Czech and American. A sonata, a scene in the country, a melancholy waltz with a sweet tune from the flute and oboe, a rousing finale.
Ava and friends (well, Ava specifically wasn’t talking about this, this was someone else who may or may not be named Audrey or maybe Lauren) were talking about jumping off the bridge. In low tide, you’d just go “splat.” It wouldn’t hurt much but you’ll probably feel gross afterwards.
It’s a tidal river, she says. She’s seen it really high and really low. Apparently it maxes out at 15 feet or so. Not quite deep enough to get raptured.
I swear I don’t see the name Ava often considering how common it it. It’s common. It’s the shipboard computer in Final Space. It’s found in words like avatar, lava, and upheaval. I can’t find its Old Persian equivalent but I can understand why its Middle Persian ancestor “āwāg” never took off.
I didn’t see Gabriella at the concert but I did run into her and also Lisa at Trader Joe’s of all places. She has two new cats, a white cat named Veronica and a gray cat named Sambucina or something like that. They were about 10 months old when she got them.
burning question: why can’t I hold r to get ř? I can do it for č and ń and ś and ł but for whatever reason not ą but I can get the much more obscure į which shows up in not Polish but Lithuanian and also in some Native American languages.
Charlie has tattoos of a cat with its dark spots made of rats, of a fiddler crab, of a shadowy figure, a skelerman with the words "like gold", of a fox face, of the word eternity framed in flowers, a rectangle, the words "no more shame, no more fear, no more dread." One color tattoo amongst grayscale. She paints and she performs music under the name "CJ Honey."
For dinner I had massaman curry (that is to say, a coconut milk based curry with influences from Iran and the Malay Peninsula that uses spices otherwise not found in Thai cooking like anise, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, mace, cumin. The word means Muslim) with onions, carrots, potatoes, toasted peanuts. I’d probably have got something else had I known it would be a lot more liquid.
The theme of the concert is "songs without words."
Johannes Brahms - Academic Festival Overture
The University of Breslau (now Wrocław) awarded Brahms an honorary doctorate. This was his thank you. It's his take on German drinking songs.
Hugo Alfvén - Midsummer Vigil (Swedish Rhapsody No. 1)
Depicts a summer day, a storm of leaves, a wistful shepherd's song, and a peasant wedding dance.
Joel Hoffman - Self-Portrait with Gebirtig
Based on Yiddish folk songs written by Mordechai Gebirtig, athough they’re not his most famous. He was killed on Bloody Thursday.
At times it reminds me of Ernest Bloch. At times melancholy and at times jaunty with the clarinet providing a countermelody in klezmer.
The cellist's family escaped the Nazis and brought Yiddish with them when they ended up in Costa Rica.
Julia Perry - Three Spirituals
This was written in 1960, it just wasn’t premiered until this concert.
Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 8 - I have heard this one before. It's kind of like the 8th in that it's based on folk songs but it's all Czech instead of a mashup of Czech and American. A sonata, a scene in the country, a melancholy waltz with a sweet tune from the flute and oboe, a rousing finale.
Ava and friends (well, Ava specifically wasn’t talking about this, this was someone else who may or may not be named Audrey or maybe Lauren) were talking about jumping off the bridge. In low tide, you’d just go “splat.” It wouldn’t hurt much but you’ll probably feel gross afterwards.
It’s a tidal river, she says. She’s seen it really high and really low. Apparently it maxes out at 15 feet or so. Not quite deep enough to get raptured.
I swear I don’t see the name Ava often considering how common it it. It’s common. It’s the shipboard computer in Final Space. It’s found in words like avatar, lava, and upheaval. I can’t find its Old Persian equivalent but I can understand why its Middle Persian ancestor “āwāg” never took off.
I didn’t see Gabriella at the concert but I did run into her and also Lisa at Trader Joe’s of all places. She has two new cats, a white cat named Veronica and a gray cat named Sambucina or something like that. They were about 10 months old when she got them.
burning question: why can’t I hold r to get ř? I can do it for č and ń and ś and ł but for whatever reason not ą but I can get the much more obscure į which shows up in not Polish but Lithuanian and also in some Native American languages.
