the rich drown in wine
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yamamanamaIt's against my policy to ninja edit in a post where someone's commented but since it came up in conversation, it makes a bit more sense to post it here: when Shakespeare put song lyrics in a play, it was meant to be performed to a stock melody, most of which are forever lost to the mists of time.
When I left Braintree, the sky above was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
I met someone named Ashley who had pink hair and someone blue-haired of unknown name (some people wanted to go to North Station but the doors closed before they could get off and we told them to just walk because it's not that far and if you get off at Boylston to change directions, you have to exit and pay again but then when I got off at Arlington, I noticed that one can get to the other direction without exiting (Also, I think I did this same exact thing once when I was trying to get from the Hynes Convention Center to the MFA)) but I wonder if she might be this Rae person who once claimed to be the Queen of All Cats. I think Sara might want a word with her. Two words: Melawan rajah. The solution is obvious: break her up with her boyfriend by writing a fake love letter or something and he'll be so distraught he'll just sit there and take it like Glass Joe and Sara can claim her rightful position as Queen of All Cats.
Someone looked like Sara but she wasn't. Someone wasn't an artist but her sister was so she respects it.
When I arrived at Arlington, the sky above was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. I just love how that sentence meant something entirely different on the day I was born and the day I posted this.
Sophia says the same thing Jack does: Greek is a difficult language. It was the Independence Day Parade and someone there looked and dressed like Gabriella. Sophia says it's gotten smaller but the path is longer but maybe it's because there was a downpour.
Gabriella is Italian and British, though. Her cat was sprawled out near the window, which she left open.
Their version of The Marriage of Figaro is set in a villa in 1950s Italy (Italy became a republic after World War II), and since they like to go for the conceptual rather than the extravagance and grandeur, the set had a floor plan of the villa and a diagonal mirror, inspired by the films Sabrina and Dogville.
Figaro and Susanna are to be married but the Count Almaviva also has a thing for Susanna and Marcellina, Dr. Bartolo's housekeeper wants to marry Figaro, as Figaro is in debt to her and marriage would be so much simpler than having him pay it all off and Bartolo hates him because he wanted to marry Rosina who became Countess instead and the teenaged Cherubino, played by a woman in the original production not as a castrati like I thought and by a woman in this production, is trying to get in the good graces and bed of every woman he meets, and the Count makes him join the army, and to Susanna and the Countess dress him up as a woman and he jumps from the window but the gardner complains because he stomped his flowers, and eventually Marcellina finds out she's Figaro's mother and so the love hypertesseract collapses into a lower order, a pentachoron I guess, and Susanna and the Countess dress as each other but Figaro eventually sees through the deceit after ranting about women and comparing them to malicious doves of all things, and then plays along to further annoy the count, but then the countess shows up. The singers didn't look that much alike but it was by moonlight.
And obviously they knew that because Figaro even says that jumping from things makes him taller. So I feel like the opera is pointing out how ridiculous these disguises are.
The opera is the last of a trilogy of three play adaptations. The Barber of Seville is the first one, which we all know (there's an obscure 1782 opera as well). The Guilty Mother is the second one, which wasn't made into an opera until 1966. I would've thought there's be an opera contemporaneous with the other two. The play was banned in France because it's pretty much a satire of the aristocracy and monarchy.
There's a scene in Bob's Burgers in which Mr. Fischoeder and the guy with the seaplane sing along to Non pìu andrai with the words "Figaro Gigolo."
Someone who spoke Italian said that they took liberties with the translation. For instance, Figaro compares some other characters to the Three Stooges. Unless Operation: Ash Meadow was a success and we've changed the course of history forever, they probably did. I know they did for La boheme.
It's very doubtful. I don't know, introducing the Three Stooges and more importantly, the means to watch the Three Stooges to the late 18th century would cause a lot more divergence.
Speaking of ash meadows, they're putting on the Threepenny Opera and I can't help but think Ashley will be intrigued by this. If the Boston Lyric Opera hasn't made their politics clear in their Carmen booklet, they do now. The Threepenny Opera is a satire of capitalism from a left-wing perspective.
The Nazi regime banned it for multiple reasons.
They're also premiering an opera called The Nefarious, Immoral but Highly Profitable Enterprise of Mr. Burke & Mr. Hare which sounds interesting and is about two serial killers who provided corpses for medical research.
At Park Street, a musician played Mr. Sandman and I am reminded of Back to the Future.
Surprisingly, Gabriella's favorite opera composer is Bellini, not Verdi. Her favorite painters include Van Gogh and some names I can't remember including one Spanish painter. She knows someone who speaks Aramaic because it was the only language his Turkish parent and his Syrian parent had in common. She says that Egypt was very hot but very dry and as you went south towards the Sudan border and that bit of unclaimed land, it becomes more and more religiously conservative. If you want to start The People's Republic of Bir Tawil, just plant a flag there, raise an army, and hope nobody can be fucked to invade you. Which they will, because I don't think it would require giving up more useful land. She described the art museum in Cairo as like the Gardner museum on a massive scale: everything is arranged with only aesthetics in mind. The displays only showed the next Ashmont train. She has never visited Eritrea but has taken the Mattapan-Ashmont line and says that older trains are easier to maintain because all the components are mechanical and there aren't newer electronic parts.
She has a friend from South Korea and after long conversations, will begin to adopt her mannerisms and quirks of speaking.
I find myself doing that or talking with a Scottish accent after watching In The Loop.
She says she sees a lot of monochromatic rainbows above the landfill near the station. I tried to show her my photograph but the wifi from a nearby restaurant was too slow to be of any use and we walked out of range before The Color of the Summer Sky loaded.
I said that I think my sense of time's flow is off.
burning question: what have they done to deserve such advantages?
When I left Braintree, the sky above was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
I met someone named Ashley who had pink hair and someone blue-haired of unknown name (some people wanted to go to North Station but the doors closed before they could get off and we told them to just walk because it's not that far and if you get off at Boylston to change directions, you have to exit and pay again but then when I got off at Arlington, I noticed that one can get to the other direction without exiting (Also, I think I did this same exact thing once when I was trying to get from the Hynes Convention Center to the MFA)) but I wonder if she might be this Rae person who once claimed to be the Queen of All Cats. I think Sara might want a word with her. Two words: Melawan rajah. The solution is obvious: break her up with her boyfriend by writing a fake love letter or something and he'll be so distraught he'll just sit there and take it like Glass Joe and Sara can claim her rightful position as Queen of All Cats.
Someone looked like Sara but she wasn't. Someone wasn't an artist but her sister was so she respects it.
When I arrived at Arlington, the sky above was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. I just love how that sentence meant something entirely different on the day I was born and the day I posted this.
Sophia says the same thing Jack does: Greek is a difficult language. It was the Independence Day Parade and someone there looked and dressed like Gabriella. Sophia says it's gotten smaller but the path is longer but maybe it's because there was a downpour.
Gabriella is Italian and British, though. Her cat was sprawled out near the window, which she left open.
Their version of The Marriage of Figaro is set in a villa in 1950s Italy (Italy became a republic after World War II), and since they like to go for the conceptual rather than the extravagance and grandeur, the set had a floor plan of the villa and a diagonal mirror, inspired by the films Sabrina and Dogville.
Figaro and Susanna are to be married but the Count Almaviva also has a thing for Susanna and Marcellina, Dr. Bartolo's housekeeper wants to marry Figaro, as Figaro is in debt to her and marriage would be so much simpler than having him pay it all off and Bartolo hates him because he wanted to marry Rosina who became Countess instead and the teenaged Cherubino, played by a woman in the original production not as a castrati like I thought and by a woman in this production, is trying to get in the good graces and bed of every woman he meets, and the Count makes him join the army, and to Susanna and the Countess dress him up as a woman and he jumps from the window but the gardner complains because he stomped his flowers, and eventually Marcellina finds out she's Figaro's mother and so the love hypertesseract collapses into a lower order, a pentachoron I guess, and Susanna and the Countess dress as each other but Figaro eventually sees through the deceit after ranting about women and comparing them to malicious doves of all things, and then plays along to further annoy the count, but then the countess shows up. The singers didn't look that much alike but it was by moonlight.
And obviously they knew that because Figaro even says that jumping from things makes him taller. So I feel like the opera is pointing out how ridiculous these disguises are.
The opera is the last of a trilogy of three play adaptations. The Barber of Seville is the first one, which we all know (there's an obscure 1782 opera as well). The Guilty Mother is the second one, which wasn't made into an opera until 1966. I would've thought there's be an opera contemporaneous with the other two. The play was banned in France because it's pretty much a satire of the aristocracy and monarchy.
There's a scene in Bob's Burgers in which Mr. Fischoeder and the guy with the seaplane sing along to Non pìu andrai with the words "Figaro Gigolo."
Someone who spoke Italian said that they took liberties with the translation. For instance, Figaro compares some other characters to the Three Stooges. Unless Operation: Ash Meadow was a success and we've changed the course of history forever, they probably did. I know they did for La boheme.
It's very doubtful. I don't know, introducing the Three Stooges and more importantly, the means to watch the Three Stooges to the late 18th century would cause a lot more divergence.
Speaking of ash meadows, they're putting on the Threepenny Opera and I can't help but think Ashley will be intrigued by this. If the Boston Lyric Opera hasn't made their politics clear in their Carmen booklet, they do now. The Threepenny Opera is a satire of capitalism from a left-wing perspective.
The Nazi regime banned it for multiple reasons.
They're also premiering an opera called The Nefarious, Immoral but Highly Profitable Enterprise of Mr. Burke & Mr. Hare which sounds interesting and is about two serial killers who provided corpses for medical research.
At Park Street, a musician played Mr. Sandman and I am reminded of Back to the Future.
Surprisingly, Gabriella's favorite opera composer is Bellini, not Verdi. Her favorite painters include Van Gogh and some names I can't remember including one Spanish painter. She knows someone who speaks Aramaic because it was the only language his Turkish parent and his Syrian parent had in common. She says that Egypt was very hot but very dry and as you went south towards the Sudan border and that bit of unclaimed land, it becomes more and more religiously conservative. If you want to start The People's Republic of Bir Tawil, just plant a flag there, raise an army, and hope nobody can be fucked to invade you. Which they will, because I don't think it would require giving up more useful land. She described the art museum in Cairo as like the Gardner museum on a massive scale: everything is arranged with only aesthetics in mind. The displays only showed the next Ashmont train. She has never visited Eritrea but has taken the Mattapan-Ashmont line and says that older trains are easier to maintain because all the components are mechanical and there aren't newer electronic parts.
She has a friend from South Korea and after long conversations, will begin to adopt her mannerisms and quirks of speaking.
I find myself doing that or talking with a Scottish accent after watching In The Loop.
She says she sees a lot of monochromatic rainbows above the landfill near the station. I tried to show her my photograph but the wifi from a nearby restaurant was too slow to be of any use and we walked out of range before The Color of the Summer Sky loaded.
I said that I think my sense of time's flow is off.
burning question: what have they done to deserve such advantages?
