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Sunday Burst of Weird and Awesome

Oddities and Awesome abound! Even if I almost forget to do the post. Sorry…. :: This one is…well, I’m not really sure if it’s awesome or not. It’s a video of a tarantula crawling along the ground someplace. Trust me, … Continue reading

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Note to self:

Revise the ‘100 Things About Me’ thing. It’s almost nine years old, and is therefore really out of date on many a particular.

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Carmine Infantino

Comics artist Carmine Infantino died the other day. I primarily remember his work on the Marvel Star Wars series, which he drew during a hefty chunk of the period between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, which was actually a … Continue reading

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A to Z: Finzi

I haven’t heard a great deal of the music of Gerald Finzi, but what I have heard is always pleasurable, lyrical, and restrained, in the great tradition of the British composers who came to the fore after the Romantic period … Continue reading

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Fixing the Prequels: Revenge of the Sith (part seven)

previously: six five four three two one Diving right back in with both lightsaber blades ignited…or something like that. Anyway, when last we left, Palpatine had engineered Anakin Skywalker’s elevation to the Jedi Council, but the Council, angered at Palpatine’s … Continue reading

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O tempora! O mores!

Dear baseball players of the world: You are ruining everything! So some dope interrupted the Murdoch family’s stammering and mumbling today by “throwing a pie” at Rupert Murdoch, which actually meant waving a styrofoam plate in Murdoch’s direction as some … Continue reading

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Film Quote Friday: Casablanca

In honor of Roger Ebert…. Rick: Last night we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I’ve done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up … Continue reading

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A to Z: Enescu

Form in music is a tricky thing. There are many forms, and they all determine how the melodic material is treated. Sonata form, passacaglias, toccatas, canons, fugues, double fugues, waltzes, theme-and-variations – lots and lots of forms, and studying nothing … Continue reading

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A to Z: Dvorak

Antonin Dvorak is often cited as Czechoslovakia’s greatest composer. His music is melodic and emotional, without being overly cloying; his orchestrations are always marked by clarity and deftness. He’s not the most profound composer around, but I’ve never yet heard … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

I’ve come to like the band The Killers a lot, and this song, even with its oddly incomprehensible lyrics, makes me happy as a lark. Here are The Killers, with “Human”.

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