Gilbert & Sullivan is good times.
Marco: Do we look reasonable to you? Mal: Well. Looks can be deceiving. Jayne: Not as deceiving as a low down dirty... deceiver.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
-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
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.
Theodosia - Apr 27, 2013 12:56:38 pm PDT #20820 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Puppies are rarely not Yay-worthy.
I really liked Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute if you're looking for a good film adaptation of an opera. Sometimes it seems like it's just a filmed stage production except when you seamlessly realize that it's not.
Mostly though with opera I'm in the "too many notes" camp -- I can for sure see (and HEAR) that it's highly trained musicians performing flawlessly complicated music, but I just can't keep up.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 27, 2013 1:59:46 pm PDT #20821 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Ah, Coca-Cola, the duct tape of sodas. I've just used a bottle to clean some persistent stains in my bathroom sink and toilet bowl, and it did a much better job than Comet or Scrub-free.
In other news, I'm not drinking Coca-Cola anymore.