Here's a non-Shakespeare meme to shake things up a bit! I got this from rysmiel; the instructions are thus:

1. If you'd like to play along, reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter ( Read more... )

The Swinger is a Python hack that works "by taking each beat and time-stretching the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half," according to the blog post I'm linking. And it is SO NEAT ( Read more... )

MUSIC THE CATS I AM LOOKING AFTER LIKE:
- Handel arias
- Schubert lieder

MUSIC THE CATS I AM LOOKING AFTER DO NOT LIKE:
- Songs about cats
- Songs about cats with Bonnie Langford in them

LET US REVIEW:
- YES
- NO
- YES
- NO

It is a source of unending amusement that the cats I am catsitting really like Ian Bostridge.

This is also very useful, because I have a paper to finish tonight and a lecture to write for tomorrow, and they are being furry little attention whores.

So, that "what was the #1 song the day you were born" meme?

I was born in 1979. Thus: the Bee Gees.

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Also I have not slept in 21 hours. Yay insomnia.

So California composer Steven W. Clark has written an opera based on "Amok Time." In his use of the original script as libretto, and in nothing else, it is slightly reminiscent of Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream. ;)

It is AWESOME(ly hilarious). Although I don't think I would have written Spock as a tenor. Or made the episode dialogue audible ( Read more... )

One of those itunes memes, from viorica8957. Because it is nearly 3 am and I haven't really got much else to do. It is weird not having to work on the diss.

( I knows all about folk songs. Hah! You think you're listenin' to a nice song about...about cuckoos and fiddlers and nightingales and whatnot, and then it turns out to be about...about something else entirely. )

17catherines has linked to Gabriel Kahane's Craigslistlieder, a collection of songs with lyrics drawn from...well, Craigslist. Go listen, for it is TRULY WONDROUS. #8 is particularly epic, I think. Although my favorite is probably the third movement ("Half a Box of Condoms").

Which may be because I can vividly imagine Ian Bostridge, with whom I am madly in ( Read more... )

Between choir practice and my recent post on Jubilate Agno, I have Britten on the brain, and now I am contemplating the fabulous imaginary biopic starring Ian McKellen. I am picturing Edward Petherbridge as Peter Pears, but I dunno if he can actually sing.

In other news, lnhammer posted this. WATER ME. WATER ME OR I WILL DIE.

For I bless God in the honey of the sugar-cane and the milk of the cocoa ( Read more... )