Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Ha! Amazingly enough, I have a cousin in the Navy. But I have never quizzed him about modern rank. (And until two years ago, he did not work on a ship anyway, just fixed things right next to the ocean.)
See, sadly, my brother is in port at the moment, so if I make the mistake of being in the same room as him, everything is "blah blah blah boat, blah blah blah captain, blah blah blah boatswain, blah blah blah stupid asshole head engineer, blah blah blah whatever."
stupid asshole head engineer
I'm pretty sure I don't remember this one from any nostalgic seafaring yarns I've read. Are you sure he's really in the Navy?
May I still join the We Hate Pizzicato! club?
But yes. You may, so long as you have been a second violin.
In England, yes. The Tems. In CT? Thhhhhhhhames.
The main drag in Newport is pronounced Thhhhhhhhames Street, too, so not just a Connecticut thing.
Fritters are nasty and who thought it would be a good idea to put cooked corn into a doughnut in the first place?
I stand in kernel-free (as opposed to colonel-free) solidarity with Nutty on this.
and a Buena Vista ("BYOO-na". I shit you not)
There's a Buena-pronounced-BYOO-en-uh right down the road from me too. (Also back in NY a Berlin pronounced BER-lin, just to be difficult.)
Alibelle, you can totally join the We Hate Pizzicato Club. I bitched about boring parts, but honestly I didn't envy the melody people most of the time. That stuff looked hard.
And my irritating song is Canon in D
Oh, I liked Canon in D--yeah, yeah, I'm a plebeian--but the cellists all hated practicing it. Poor cellists. It was like they wanted to change notes every now and then or something.
Fritters are nasty and who thought it would be a good idea to put cooked corn into a doughnut in the first place?
I stand in kernel-free (as opposed to colonel-free) solidarity with Nutty on this.
I have to agree.
Fritters are nasty and who thought it would be a good idea to put cooked corn into a doughnut in the first place?
I would never put corn into a doughnut. Apple fritters, however, are nummy goodness.
Stravinsky's "Firebird"
God, but what a gorgeous piece. Particularly the finale.
God, but what a gorgeous piece. Particularly the finale.
Isn't it amazing? Playing it was such an incredible rush. I absolutely adored performing it.
Playing it was such an incredible rush.
I can believe that, considering that just *listening* to it makes me feel like I'm soaring.