My Personality

Neuroticism

50
Extraversion

48
Openness to Experience

67
Agreeableness

50
Conscientiousness

18
You very rarely feel depressed and are usually in a good frame of mind, however you feel strong cravings and urges that you have difficulty resisting. You tend to prefer short-term pleasures and rewards over long-term consequences. You tend to feel ( Read more... )

Well, it's been a while, and since then, I have read, actually, a ton of books, watched a ton of movies (for me, anyway) and listened to a ton of music. I have even *gasp* played a video game all the way through for the first time in, oh, 13 or 14 years now. Since it's hard to make up such a backlog, I won't try. But I will put up a few of each ( Read more... )

After finishing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last in the 7-book series of JK Rowling, I feel that I must be alone in thinking, after reading so many rave reviews, "This is it ( Read more... )

Bizet's "Carmen" (Tennessee Theater, Knoxville, May 4, 2007 ( Read more... )

Puccini's "Il Trittico" (The Triptych - The Met, April 28, 2007 ( Read more... )

Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana" (Rustic Chivalry, 1998 ( Read more... )

So, lately, I have been immersed not only in the world of opera, but also historical naval fiction- yeah, I know, what exciting interests I have. It all started when I accidentally downloaded a Hornblower audiobook a couple of years ago, and decided to put it on my ipod for my trip to South Carolina. I was a little lost for a while, but I enjoyed ( Read more... )

So, I finally get to write in here of the live performances I've seen in the past month ( Read more... )

Okay, so after my marathon week of watching a bunch of operas which I had rented from the library, I'm going to review the operas I watched ( Read more... )

Okay, so, we FINALLY finished Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (Commonly known as The Ring Cycle)- 4 operas on 7 dvds; this was a video-recording of The Met's 1990 production. This will be a critique on both the production as well as the opera itself; might as well combine them ( Read more... )