I'm not sure words can adequately express my response to the Jordi Savall concert tonight.

I am tired and don't want to go to work tomorrow, but what're you gonna do. I've been so busy with work and gigs and Other Job lately that I haven't been updating much, but things are good. I am sloooowly trying to turn my place into something humans can live in rather than a pit of ick (hello grad school!), and it's going sloooowly, but I'm trying ( Read more... )

Vancouver Opera's current production of Rigoletto is kind of like a cross between Julie Taymor's Titus and a book of nursery rhymes, with a little added Cell Block Tango. I'm honestly not sure how I feel about that.

Um. Thesis. Yes.

Bard on the Beach lineup for 2009:

The Comedy of Errors
Othello
All's Well that Ends Well
Richard II

Wow. I am... slightly afraid.

And now I am actually going to go to bed.

Ballet BC lays off all dancers

Well, I could probably have told them that having their season consist entirely of programs they've done in the last five years was a bad idea, but they didn't ask. Tsk.

I like Ballet BC, though. This is sad.

Argh, stupid Pliny essay. *stab*

So. The other day I saw a review of Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia somewhere online. I think it was Bookslut. Anyhow, I immediately knew I had to go and buy it even though I had no money, if only because I could chalk it up to a professional expense (which happens less often in Classics than it could. All that focus on old stuff). Admittedly, no one ( Read more... )

The fact that I've been doing Greek for so short a time means that I'm still getting used to being able to translate things like significant names in Homer for myself, and every time I get reminded (by, say, marking papers argh) I get all surprised and excited, which is fun ( Read more... )

From a news article entitled Quebec viola player wins 'Stanley Cup of classical music':

Toronto businessman Seymour Schulich is to present the award, officially called the Golden Violin, to Quebec viola player Lambert Chen.

Does anybody but me see some major irony going on here? (Hint: look for the bolded words.)

Okay, so in the EXTREMELY OVERLY HIP restaurant that kurrs and I went to after Hey Girl! (= brain-explodingly weird theatre WITH LASERS) last night, we were in the middle of a nicely articulate debate on free speech when I heard someone say "... Genevieve ( Read more... )

So I've been reading a lot of Georgette Heyer, um, Regency romances lately, mostly because my mother is a terrible influence. And while some of them are good, and most of them are amusing, and it's a holiday and I feel no real need to do any serious reading, I do take exception to her endings. They're invariably abrupt, generally coming to a halt ( Read more... )