Getting jiggy with ancient music
Friday night, I accompanied the mommy-llama and the Josh-llama to a performance of the Brandenberg Concertos by the Academy of Ancient Music. I was pretty much blown away by the experience, which was awesome! The Academy of Ancient Music performed the pieces using Baroque instruments including a huge lute and the cello-like viola de gamba and a harpsichord. You can check out their CD (with video clips, we esp. the liked the cutie virtuouso cellist!) here. (NB: I've also become a AAM fan on facebook, b/c I couldn't resist.)
I often get the Brandenburg Concento No. 5 mixed up the Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major, Bourree by Handel, aka the Frugal Gourmet Theme.
M. and I saw the "Watchmen" last Saturday night on an actual date. I loved the book, so I thought it was great. They did a very good job of making it visually true to the original graphic design. OTOH, M. wanted 3 hours of his life back.
I've actually started studying for the KS Bar. I reviewed Con Law yesterday (hope to get more in today) have had very strange dreams about federal and state court jurisdiction. ("No, you have the file that in Federal court, which has original jurisdiction over cases & controversies in which a State is a party!"
I woke up early with M. to rent a U-Haul pickup today, and we then rented a tiller from Home Depot. M. has turned up the sod in the backyard and spread grass seed. In the process, he kind of turned into a mud monster, but I have to give him mad homeownership brownie points. (Like the bugs that lived in the blue glass bottle in the Edward Gorey story "the Bug Book", he is very house-proud.) I merely stood aside and shouted helpful tips. Waiting for M. to recuperate so we can take the machines back to their respective homes.
Good books read recently:
(I have had a few duds, in which got through the first few pages and then gave up. Or I read the book, but have retained no memory of the details. These are the ones that held my interest.)
The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes- Washed up magician Edward Moon and his associate, the mysterious Somnabulist, investigate a series a bizarre murders in Turn of the 20th c. London. Really enjoyable characters, extremely creepy, well paced. Sort of like mutant hybrid of Susannah Clarke's "Jonathan Strange" crossed with Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere."
"Chaos" Trilogy by John C. Wright: Orphans of Chaos, Fugitives of Chaos, Titans of Chaos. Five children, the only residents in a very strange British boarding school, discover they are not really human teenagers after all, but transformed hostages being held in a conflict between the Gods of Olympos and the overthrown Titans. The trilogy details the story of how their keepers attempted to keep them from discovering their true identities (squashed into the bodies and minds of human children as part of truce brokerage between Olympos and the Titans), the kids' escape from the school and mastery of their newfound powers (each expressed within a different paradigm of reality.) Except they are still human teenagers, with human teenage problems, even if they aren't exactly homo sapiens
I often get the Brandenburg Concento No. 5 mixed up the Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major, Bourree by Handel, aka the Frugal Gourmet Theme.
M. and I saw the "Watchmen" last Saturday night on an actual date. I loved the book, so I thought it was great. They did a very good job of making it visually true to the original graphic design. OTOH, M. wanted 3 hours of his life back.
I've actually started studying for the KS Bar. I reviewed Con Law yesterday (hope to get more in today) have had very strange dreams about federal and state court jurisdiction. ("No, you have the file that in Federal court, which has original jurisdiction over cases & controversies in which a State is a party!"
I woke up early with M. to rent a U-Haul pickup today, and we then rented a tiller from Home Depot. M. has turned up the sod in the backyard and spread grass seed. In the process, he kind of turned into a mud monster, but I have to give him mad homeownership brownie points. (Like the bugs that lived in the blue glass bottle in the Edward Gorey story "the Bug Book", he is very house-proud.) I merely stood aside and shouted helpful tips. Waiting for M. to recuperate so we can take the machines back to their respective homes.
Good books read recently:
(I have had a few duds, in which got through the first few pages and then gave up. Or I read the book, but have retained no memory of the details. These are the ones that held my interest.)
The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes- Washed up magician Edward Moon and his associate, the mysterious Somnabulist, investigate a series a bizarre murders in Turn of the 20th c. London. Really enjoyable characters, extremely creepy, well paced. Sort of like mutant hybrid of Susannah Clarke's "Jonathan Strange" crossed with Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere."
"Chaos" Trilogy by John C. Wright: Orphans of Chaos, Fugitives of Chaos, Titans of Chaos. Five children, the only residents in a very strange British boarding school, discover they are not really human teenagers after all, but transformed hostages being held in a conflict between the Gods of Olympos and the overthrown Titans. The trilogy details the story of how their keepers attempted to keep them from discovering their true identities (squashed into the bodies and minds of human children as part of truce brokerage between Olympos and the Titans), the kids' escape from the school and mastery of their newfound powers (each expressed within a different paradigm of reality.) Except they are still human teenagers, with human teenage problems, even if they aren't exactly homo sapiens