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The song is called "Good Thing he can't read my mind", and the opera is in one verse.(Other verses talk about skiing and eating sushi)
Love makes you do the wacky.
Willow ,'Beneath You'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
Sheryl - Apr 27, 2013 11:10:52 am PDT #20810 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
§ ita § - Apr 27, 2013 11:12:19 am PDT #20811 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What's an "art song"?
Uh, don't see Pain & Gain. If you thought you liked anyone appearing in it, I'm pretty sure it's not enough. It's a remarkably unengaging movie. Movies about stupid people should feel more intelligent than their subjects, but this was a bit of "wow, aren't they dumb??" and "can you believe this really happened?" without...without anything else. Johnson and Mackie and Harris and Shalhoub--pretty much everyone turns in a good performance, but it doesn't actually make the comedy work sustainably.
I have not been that bored (I debated leaving, but decided to close my eyes instead) in a theatre in a long time. SADFACE. All the comedy in the trailers.
Oh, and it's also remarkably gross. Dwayne Johnson feeds his amputated toe to a chihuahua. Which turns out to be one of the reasons they get caught. It was too big for the poor thing to eat.
-t - Apr 27, 2013 11:15:17 am PDT #20812 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Gilbert & Sullivan is good times.
Connie Neil - Apr 27, 2013 11:18:51 am PDT #20813 of 30001
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I'm not really familiar with art songs, but AFAIK they're standalone songs about love and nature and God and uplifting things like that. Anna Russell was a MidCentury performer who trained for opera and made her living doing comedic send-ups of opera and classical singers and Gilbert & Sullivan, and she talked about German and French art songs. I can't remember which is which, but one has glorious music and insipid lyrics, and the other has wonderful lyrics and boring music.
Anna Russels interpretation of Wagner's Ring Cycle is hilarious and quite informative.
edit: as is her "How to Create a Gilbert & Sullivan Operetta" piece.
Dana - Apr 27, 2013 11:47:52 am PDT #20814 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I'm not a big fan of opera either.
Jesse - Apr 27, 2013 11:54:56 am PDT #20815 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh yeah, I like art songs. When I was studying singing in high school, I did a bunch of them. Some German love songs that of course now I can't remember, but my favorite was this Scarlatti.
aurelia - Apr 27, 2013 12:13:54 pm PDT #20816 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
He is arriving at some point this afternoon.
Hooray!
That almost counts as being in a foreign country for you, r it should...
Ha!
Sophia Brooks - Apr 27, 2013 12:25:28 pm PDT #20817 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I always liked working on opera as a wardrobe person, but didn't care for listening to it. And I find the acting to be appallingly bad. I mean, I worked on student productions, but the school is ranked 2nd in the country for opera/vocal performance, so I am thinking they are actually pretty good!
Sophia Brooks - Apr 27, 2013 12:25:46 pm PDT #20818 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Also, yay puppy!
§ ita § - Apr 27, 2013 12:50:22 pm PDT #20819 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The worst thing I can imagine in Staples just happened--I tested our corporate discount, and it's not consistent, but was more than 20% in this go round.
Wow, Grey's Anatomy feels like it's pulling further and further away. The big decisions they made with this season are blah.