Fly, thought, on golden wings
Aug. 5th, 2015 11:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaI achieved my goal for today, which was to make it through intact.
I had loftier goals, once, but that was a long time ago, when I wasn't feeling like complete shit. Perhaps, in a week, maybe the world won't be a better place than it is today, but maybe, just maybe, I can finally achieve my lofty goals.
Her face looks mashed in and I apologized for it but she actually really liked her portrait.
She used to know what her pendant signified but she doesn't anymore.
I spent a lot of work on the guy with the Clockwork Orange shirt and you can tell.
One of the people at the snack bar had a folio with a butterfly as the open page, and also bright red hair.
I want to say that they were a. speaking Portuguese or Spanish or possibly even Romanian but I doubt that, and b. what they said translated to "hello, hookworms, get in my feet." Because some kind of worms will go in their feet. I drew them.
It was hard to find somewhere to sit that wasn't covered in goose poop. And, yes, I know I've done their laundry, but still. I don't go to concerts to deal with goose poop.
Pagliacci is about a troupe of comedians. Someone jokingly suggests Tonio is in love with Nedda, Canio's wife. He finds out that she really is unfaithful, with a villager named Silvio (who is most emphatically not a corporal in an alternate universe Roumania), and heartbroken, he plays a clown in a play in which Columbine cheats on Pagliacci to be with Arlecchino, and the play hits a bit too close for him. Canio stabs Nedda and Silvio. La commedia e finito.
Cavalleria Rusticana's Regina coeli, is an Easter hymn and a villager Santuzza lamenting her boyfriend cheating on her and that she'll be excommunicated from the church because of her affair with her. See, contrast.
Otello is obviously an opera based on the Shakespeare play Othello. Instead of making a literal transcription, he went with the emotions of the play. Boito wrote an evil credo called Credo in un Dio crudel for Iago, and this is followed by Dove guardi, in which children sing and offer flowers to Desdemona in praise of her beauty.
It would be a great name for a black and white cat, if you ask me.
The finale to act 1 of Tosca goes from wonderfully giddy to wonderfully chilling, all set against the backdrop of a Catholic mass. And, yes, there are cannons (or at least, recordings of cannons) when Scarpia gives his grand finale.
La Strada is a suite from the score to the 1954 Fellini film of the same name, and mashes up jazz, cabaret, Italian folk music, Italian art music, Stravinsky, and Dvorak.
Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate (Fly, Thought, On Golden Wings) is from the chorus of slaves in Nabucco, and like the narrative of Exodus for African-American slaves, was used as a rallying call for the unification and independence of the Italian peninsula.
Aïda's Triumphal March was performed not only by the orchestra but by the HONK! DisOrchestra Magnifico, which includes things like sousaphones, accordions, saxophones, drums, xylophones, and a melodica, which I think Teddy said sounds like an accordion but worse. Nobody used a keyboard to make fart sounds, though. All of their instruments were wrapped in Christmas lights or glo-stik, and they were all wearing outrageous clothing, and then they came onstage for Rock Around The Clock; When The Saints Go Over There; Funiculì, Funiculà; and something klezmer-ish, all in reverse order, which makes sense because there were Jews in Italy for a long time. Alexander (yes, that Alexander*) even rescued them from Ferdinand and Isabella and allowed them to live in Rome.
The first line is Glory to Egypt and Isis, so of course I have to make a bunch of Archer references. The burning question has fuck all to do with Archer, though. I picked that for today for entirely different reasons.
In conclusion, Italy is a land of contrasts, just like Libya.
*No, not that that Alexander, you idiot. He isn't even from Italy. He's from Russia, a place as white as the moon and colder than a thousand graves. I wish I could say I wrote that line. It's from The Etched City.
Anyway, see the next burning question I ask in like a week or so.
Her face was a palimpsest and I didn't get to do much work on it because she was getting off at the next station but she likes it anyway.
He was totally right because I had the Triumphal March stuck in my head when writing this.
burning question: how Mongo get air?
I had loftier goals, once, but that was a long time ago, when I wasn't feeling like complete shit. Perhaps, in a week, maybe the world won't be a better place than it is today, but maybe, just maybe, I can finally achieve my lofty goals.
Her face looks mashed in and I apologized for it but she actually really liked her portrait.
She used to know what her pendant signified but she doesn't anymore.
I spent a lot of work on the guy with the Clockwork Orange shirt and you can tell.
One of the people at the snack bar had a folio with a butterfly as the open page, and also bright red hair.
I want to say that they were a. speaking Portuguese or Spanish or possibly even Romanian but I doubt that, and b. what they said translated to "hello, hookworms, get in my feet." Because some kind of worms will go in their feet. I drew them.
It was hard to find somewhere to sit that wasn't covered in goose poop. And, yes, I know I've done their laundry, but still. I don't go to concerts to deal with goose poop.
Pagliacci is about a troupe of comedians. Someone jokingly suggests Tonio is in love with Nedda, Canio's wife. He finds out that she really is unfaithful, with a villager named Silvio (who is most emphatically not a corporal in an alternate universe Roumania), and heartbroken, he plays a clown in a play in which Columbine cheats on Pagliacci to be with Arlecchino, and the play hits a bit too close for him. Canio stabs Nedda and Silvio. La commedia e finito.
Cavalleria Rusticana's Regina coeli, is an Easter hymn and a villager Santuzza lamenting her boyfriend cheating on her and that she'll be excommunicated from the church because of her affair with her. See, contrast.
Otello is obviously an opera based on the Shakespeare play Othello. Instead of making a literal transcription, he went with the emotions of the play. Boito wrote an evil credo called Credo in un Dio crudel for Iago, and this is followed by Dove guardi, in which children sing and offer flowers to Desdemona in praise of her beauty.
It would be a great name for a black and white cat, if you ask me.
The finale to act 1 of Tosca goes from wonderfully giddy to wonderfully chilling, all set against the backdrop of a Catholic mass. And, yes, there are cannons (or at least, recordings of cannons) when Scarpia gives his grand finale.
La Strada is a suite from the score to the 1954 Fellini film of the same name, and mashes up jazz, cabaret, Italian folk music, Italian art music, Stravinsky, and Dvorak.
Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate (Fly, Thought, On Golden Wings) is from the chorus of slaves in Nabucco, and like the narrative of Exodus for African-American slaves, was used as a rallying call for the unification and independence of the Italian peninsula.
Aïda's Triumphal March was performed not only by the orchestra but by the HONK! DisOrchestra Magnifico, which includes things like sousaphones, accordions, saxophones, drums, xylophones, and a melodica, which I think Teddy said sounds like an accordion but worse. Nobody used a keyboard to make fart sounds, though. All of their instruments were wrapped in Christmas lights or glo-stik, and they were all wearing outrageous clothing, and then they came onstage for Rock Around The Clock; When The Saints Go Over There; Funiculì, Funiculà; and something klezmer-ish, all in reverse order, which makes sense because there were Jews in Italy for a long time. Alexander (yes, that Alexander*) even rescued them from Ferdinand and Isabella and allowed them to live in Rome.
The first line is Glory to Egypt and Isis, so of course I have to make a bunch of Archer references. The burning question has fuck all to do with Archer, though. I picked that for today for entirely different reasons.
In conclusion, Italy is a land of contrasts, just like Libya.
*No, not that that Alexander, you idiot. He isn't even from Italy. He's from Russia, a place as white as the moon and colder than a thousand graves. I wish I could say I wrote that line. It's from The Etched City.
Anyway, see the next burning question I ask in like a week or so.
Her face was a palimpsest and I didn't get to do much work on it because she was getting off at the next station but she likes it anyway.
He was totally right because I had the Triumphal March stuck in my head when writing this.
burning question: how Mongo get air?
