Dear Nicholas Cage,
According to my calculations, every human being on the planet has witnessed you saving the world in at least 6 slightly different scenarios. It’s time to make a new movie now.
I love you, Mr. President, but…
…Rachel Maddow’s “Oval Office” speech was flat out better than yours. Way better. You should take notes. Because although I’ve been a loyal supporter and fan since way before the Presidency, if I have to endure one more speech full of vague concepts and no details, I’m going to ditch you and run for President myself. And truly NONE of us wants that to happen.
After a full day of watching daytime television, I’ve concluded that there ought to be a federal regulatory agency connected to the FCC that keeps lawyers and car salesmen from producing and starring in their own commercials.
I have a creepy sort of crush on Lucille Bluth.
“i don’t understand the question…and i won’t respond to it”.
(via routinemalaise)
My hero!!
The Auditory: Blitzen Trapper: Destroyer of the Void
Blitzen Trapper, a Portland-based experimental rock band, released their newest album, “Destroyer of the Void”, on June 8th. Listening to their previously released tracks, it’s hard to determine exactly what kind of sound the so-called “edgy” band is going for. Their track “Not Your…
In honour of Richard Strauss’s Birthday…
(which was June 11)
…maybe you want to listen to a selection from his Eine Alpensinfonie (Karajan conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1983).
Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), Op. 64, is a tone poem written by Strauss in 1915…
Though labeled as a symphony by the composer, this piece forgoes the conventions of the traditional multi-movement symphony and consists of twenty-two continuous sections of music. The story of An Alpine Symphony depicts the experiences of eleven hours (from eventide just before dawn to the following nightfall) spent climbing an Alpine mountain. An Alpine Symphony is one of Strauss’s largest non-operatic works in terms of performing forces: the score calls for about 125 players in total. A typical performance usually lasts around 50 minutes.
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The piece is popular enough that in 1983 a recording of An Alpine Symphony made with Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic became the first compact disc ever to be pressed.
