Oh what a beautiful morning!
I just woke up to the most lovely piece of music! I keep my alarm set for 8:30 because every day at that time the local classical station has Keith Lockhart (current conductor of the BSO and Boston Pops) on. He picks some random piece, talks about it a bit, and then they play it. Today's piece was by Yo-Yo Ma and I missed the name of the second performer, but it was probably the percussionist. It was from The Silk Road Project. Having just woken up, I need to do a bit of Googling to figure out what the name of the piece was. Something about grasslands or meadows. It was the same basic style of music as Memoirs of a Geisha, which I first heard at a John Williams Boston Pops concert a few years ago. (John Williams was the conductor, and Yo-Yo Ma was also performing. It was awesome.) I hadn't seen the movie yet, but I had to own the soundtrack, because it was amazing. Lately I've been sleeping right through my alarm, but today it woke me up and put me in a lovely mood! Ah ha! It was Distant Green Valley by Zhao Jiping & Zhao Lin. Too bad the Silk Road Project website isn't quickly telling me who performed and where I can find a recording. Let's try Amazon. Here we go! It's track three on Silk Road Journeys: Behind the Horizon. It doesn't list a second artist though, just The Silk Road Ensemble, which could be what he said on the radio for all I know. There's a link on the Keith Lockhart page I linked to above to listen to several episodes (From Nov-Apr) via OnDemand at WCRB.com, but unfortunately, today's is not listed. (And WCRB's recent play list conveniently fails to mention what they played at 8:30.)
It is also beautiful today, sunny, high of 80 with, and I quote Laura Carlisle, "no humidity to speak of what-so-ever!"
Wow, it's 9:20 already? Looking that up and typing this up took longer than I expected! No wonder my stomach is growling at me. I should feed it or something.
In other recent media news, Sajuka bought the Witchblade Compendium Volume 2 for me last week - they'd stopped printing it, but now they're printing it again! They've changed the cover, so the two don't match, but I don't care. Unfortunately - or not so much, actually - I'd forgotten a lot of the details from the first volume (Issues 1 - 50), so I spent a few days rereading all of Volume 1. So far I'm through Issue 61 in Volume 2 I think. I love it. So awesome! My only complaint is that Top Cow has a fondness for crossovers (most notably between Witchblade, The Darkness, and Tomb Raider), but when the follow up parts of the crossover were published as the other title, my Compendium doesn't include them. Fortunately, we found a bit torrent feed a while ago, and that included most of the crossovers, so I've been able to read those on the computer. It's hard to read a comic book on a tiny little Macbook screen, but it's better than having to actually try and find the comic at one of those comic conventions we occasionally troop at, heh. (Maybe I'll think about it next time though, so I'll have paper copies the next time I want to read through the series!)
All right. Time to break my fast!
It is also beautiful today, sunny, high of 80 with, and I quote Laura Carlisle, "no humidity to speak of what-so-ever!"
Wow, it's 9:20 already? Looking that up and typing this up took longer than I expected! No wonder my stomach is growling at me. I should feed it or something.
In other recent media news, Sajuka bought the Witchblade Compendium Volume 2 for me last week - they'd stopped printing it, but now they're printing it again! They've changed the cover, so the two don't match, but I don't care. Unfortunately - or not so much, actually - I'd forgotten a lot of the details from the first volume (Issues 1 - 50), so I spent a few days rereading all of Volume 1. So far I'm through Issue 61 in Volume 2 I think. I love it. So awesome! My only complaint is that Top Cow has a fondness for crossovers (most notably between Witchblade, The Darkness, and Tomb Raider), but when the follow up parts of the crossover were published as the other title, my Compendium doesn't include them. Fortunately, we found a bit torrent feed a while ago, and that included most of the crossovers, so I've been able to read those on the computer. It's hard to read a comic book on a tiny little Macbook screen, but it's better than having to actually try and find the comic at one of those comic conventions we occasionally troop at, heh. (Maybe I'll think about it next time though, so I'll have paper copies the next time I want to read through the series!)
All right. Time to break my fast!