I do not feel a strong sense of voter efficacy, but at least I voted.

There was a sign downtown informing us that the local chorus was performing Bach's St. Matthew Passion, except someone had helpfully vandalized the word "passion."

(On the other hand, that did remind me that Mozart's Leck mich im Arsch is a thing that exists.)

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I am probably the last person in the world to find out about Spotify's Discover Weekly playlists, but if you have not, oh man, they are magic. Lysimache was like, "You have to try them because they are magic. They reach into your brain and recommend you songs," and I was dubious. I tried Spotify a few months ago when I was writing my Cap-IM RBB ( Read more... )

So the other day my RSS feeds brought me a link to this article about frisson, the pleasant chills you get sometimes when you're listening to particular music, or sometimes when someone touches you, that kind of thing. Except apparently not everyone gets this? The article says it's 2/3rds of the population, and when I asked
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If you haven't seen the Genghis Khan music video yet, I highly recommend it; I may have watched it... uh... a lot. (Fandom being fandom, someone has of course already vidded it to Daniel Craig's Bond movies.)

In today's installment of Infrequent Video Game Recs, I would like to recommend Ironcast, whose name I can unfortunately never remember. (My ( Read more... )

Today I met
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Internets! I have three things you should watch and/or listen to:

1. Via
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Way to ship Ragnar and Athelstan, show. Ha. (I mean, sure, the show doesn't actually ship it, but... they care a lot about each other. It's sweet.)

( Spoilers for last season )

For lack of anything better to post about, have another music rec!

Okay, so Tumblr told me about The Mechanisms, but I wanted to do something more substantive than just reblog a post on Tumblr. I am really enjoying listening to them. A lot ( Read more... )

Why is "Mars, Bringer of War" the only movement of Holst's The Planets anyone can name? (I include myself in this ( Read more... )

(Where did all my icons with TMBG lyrics go? I used to have some. Bah.)

I never bought any of the Humble Bundles back when they were games because, well, I suck at computer games, and previously my computer sucked too much to run them. But the current Humble Bundle is music, and I don't suck at listening to music! And better yet, it's nerd music ( Read more... )