Firstly, for lovers of classical music: after having done pop playlist for good old Frederick the Ambiguously Great, friends and foes, we now present the operatic and symphonic version. It's basically "Fritz: The Opera" with stolen tunes in best operatic tradition. We tried to find (English) subtitled versions, which wasn't always possible, but ( Read more... )

First, re: yesterdays ships-as-emoticons meme, the two which no one has identified were Quark/Dax from Star Trek: DS9, and, as the bonus ship, from Penny Dreadful, Vanessa Ives (refered to as "my little scorpion" by Joan the witch all through her flashbacks) and Malcom Murray (deconstructed Victorian explorer, hence the map ( Read more... )

One more Beatles-related post, and then I'll shut up on the subject again for a while. But YouTube is a treasure dome with some amazing footage, both of the originals and cover versions. So, I present:

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