I finally received my Dream of the Red Chamber 1987 OST. It's as lovely as I remembered, but I'm having a bit of trouble with some of the song titles. One in particular:

枉凝眉

I often paste something mysterious into google translate, not because google translate is any good (it isn't), but because then I can use the perapera plugin to examine parts of ( Read more... )

This morning I'm listening to Dealan. It's been a awhile. They're sort of energetic Spanish Celtic Mediterranean fusion. I think they sing in Catalan, which is a language I've never actually heard spoken. I picked up the album I have by sending an email to them a long time ago, and bought it from them directly ( Read more... )

iTunes tells me that I've listened to this song 31 times. Now that I think about that, I don't know if that includes ipod and itunes, or just itunes. I feel like I've listened to this a lot more than 31 times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8p-kunAOJw

One melody ("First Love") from the Legend soundtrack was going through my head yesterday, as it sometimes does (just the A part, though). For some reason I pulled out my old ebony flute, which I haven't played in something like a decade. I barely have enough breath these days to play it, and embouchure = sad, but it was kind of fun to try. Then I ( Read more... )