To prove to edoraslass that I really have been working...

I've been on this since last April. Unfortunately it's turned out rather more epic than I first realised. (I thought the dead body would help- it was always going to happen, honest. It didn't.) But I am still in a state of writing it- but it's so tangled I'm not going to risk posting until I've had ( Read more... )

You know, I usually am not the least amused by jokey 'arrangements' (or as they usually call them, 'versions') of classical pieces on wacky instruments- you know, Eroica played by animal noises, etc- but this guy....! (I think it's because it actually shows a lot of skill and he clearly likes the music for itself, to be fair).

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I'm not sure why I've ( Read more... )

 This was actually on TV about 10 years ago (OMG TEN YEARS!!!!). It's one of the things that I've started to find funnier as I grew up.

Obviously it's the first one where... yeah, seems fitting. (Not the second. No, never. Shut up.)

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 ...as well as Natalie Dessay being wonderfully silly. And wonderful. (Mostly for elendiari22 , but others can enjoy.)

So, the story so far, for those of you who don't know... Dr Marvelio has a habit of making amazing wind-up dolls that sing and dance. His latest effort, called Olympia in this version of the story, is especially convincing because Dr Copalious ( Read more... )

 Please accept a song that was topical six months ago instead! It's pretty funny.

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(Actually I rec most of Mitch Benn's parodies, and spent a very enjoyable evening trying to find all of them on YouTube... but I dare say this is the best one to get your attention!)

 So:

Happy Birthday elendiari22 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So what little I can do........

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I've been delighted to find a Tom Lehrer song recently that I did not know about, seeing as it wasn't on the cassette that my Gran gave to me when I was about 13, possibly because at the time... well, I don't know. I thought my friends would appreciate it; he introduces it thus on TW3 (the ellipsis aren't missing words, they're just where he tails ( Read more... )

 I've always loved this one, but this woman makes what I was listening to before look............ omg she's amazing!

The plot is... ridiculously convoluted, but all you need to know is that the wife of the man who's keeping Semele as his mistress gives Semele a magic mirror in which she appears to be supernaturally beautiful (in order to make her so ( Read more... )

A contralto doing men's things in a manly fashion....

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I haven't got done all that I wanted to, but I am feeling much better.
As I couldn't find you a film of Will Towers as Orlando, here instead is Andreas Scholl keeping an unbelievably straight face:

"The cunning hunter moves silently and stealthily
when he is eager for prey.
And he who is disposed to evil
Does not wish the deceitfulness
Of his heart to ( Read more... )