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Arab Nights (imported)
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I'll get my son's high school marketing class right on it. Be interesting to see what teenagers would come up with. Probably marginally bad taste but leave me rolliing on the floor laughing.
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Act One of Die Valkyrie-- Opera North, no frills, no horns, no pain...
No frills, no grand production, no horned valkyrie...
Just three singers and the orchestra, subtitles and a few background images.
Act 1 of Die Valkyrie
I know most people consider opera boring but what can I say?
Siegmund and Sieglinde are brother and sister and they end up man and wife. Creepy but never mind, it's opera.
Siegmund was running away from killing an entire saloon filled with a huge wedding party he didn't know but he didn't like that they were marrying a woman off without the woman's consent. Killed them all.
He also lost his sword and shield.
Then there is Sieglinde's husband Hunding who was friends with the wedding party and will give Siegmund one night of hospitality (no Sodom and Gomorrah he) before he slays the weaponless Siegmund. Hunting was "given" Sieglinde without her wanting a marriage.
Now how to solve all this -- "Wolf" or the "Wanderer" has left a sword plunged into an Ash tree waiting for the man with enough strength and power to free it. Did I explain that the tree grows in the middle of Hunding's house... Did I explain the sword is named "Need"? Gene, who would have thought of a name like that?
Well of all that, opera is made.
note: I've been posting this around.
No frills, no grand production, no horned valkyrie...
Just three singers and the orchestra, subtitles and a few background images.
Act 1 of Die Valkyrie
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I know most people consider opera boring but what can I say?
Siegmund and Sieglinde are brother and sister and they end up man and wife. Creepy but never mind, it's opera.
Siegmund was running away from killing an entire saloon filled with a huge wedding party he didn't know but he didn't like that they were marrying a woman off without the woman's consent. Killed them all.
He also lost his sword and shield.
Then there is Sieglinde's husband Hunding who was friends with the wedding party and will give Siegmund one night of hospitality (no Sodom and Gomorrah he) before he slays the weaponless Siegmund. Hunting was "given" Sieglinde without her wanting a marriage.
Now how to solve all this -- "Wolf" or the "Wanderer" has left a sword plunged into an Ash tree waiting for the man with enough strength and power to free it. Did I explain that the tree grows in the middle of Hunding's house... Did I explain the sword is named "Need"? Gene, who would have thought of a name like that?
Well of all that, opera is made.
note: I've been posting this around.
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Arab Nights (imported)
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Arab Nights (imported) wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2017 4:33 am I'll get my son's high school marketing class right on it.
Turns out for a proper marketing study you need to extensively study the product and the response of target study groups to the product....
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SHE has a therapists appointment and HE will be late...
(oh who gives a flying fornication at a rolling donut. I surely don't)
(oh who gives a flying fornication at a rolling donut. I surely don't)
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I just finished reading
"Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire" by Neil Gaiman.
It's a short graphic novella, gothic horror at its most horrific.
Ravens, maidens, locked gates leading to crypts, curses, foils (epee's really), and again, creeping things that go bump in the night.
"Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire" by Neil Gaiman.
It's a short graphic novella, gothic horror at its most horrific.
Ravens, maidens, locked gates leading to crypts, curses, foils (epee's really), and again, creeping things that go bump in the night.
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The symphony today played 4 pieces...
Charles Ives -- The Unanswered Question (no one likes Ives and this was 6 minutes long and was gone before the question was even posed)
Kurt Weill -- Symphony #2
George Gershwin -- Rhapsody in Blue (always a crowd pleaser)
Leonard Bernstein -- Orchestral Suite from West Side Story
A good concert of 20th century music.
Charles Ives -- The Unanswered Question (no one likes Ives and this was 6 minutes long and was gone before the question was even posed)
Kurt Weill -- Symphony #2
George Gershwin -- Rhapsody in Blue (always a crowd pleaser)
Leonard Bernstein -- Orchestral Suite from West Side Story
A good concert of 20th century music.
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Last Night's ACADEMY AWARDS sucked the big, fat hairy weiner.
I only watched from 11pm onward because I watched THE WALKING DEAD and THE TALKING DEAD before it. Apparently, I missed nothing but a few early awards and lots of ignorant and silly program filler.
a) Jimmy Kimmel stunk. His sense of humor sucks. His fight with Matt Damon was overdone and childish. No one enjoys a childish asshole like Kimmel. The humor can be there but make it a little sophisticated and not puerile.
b) I love that Viola Davis won for FENCES (remember, August Wilson wrote about Pittsburgh neighborhoods. That's my home town and I've seen several of August Wilson's cycle of plays that are set in that neighborhood.)
c) I am thrilled that in one year the Academy cured the "Oscars-So-White" and that movie companies made pictures that show the USA as a diverse country.
d) As a scientist, I am thrilled that HIDDEN FIGURES is a real life story about mathematicians (regardless of who they were but the fact that they were African American women make sit even more glories.
(side note: I'm reading Dava Sobel's THE GLASS UNIVERSE about the history of the Harvard Observatory from roughly 1875 and most of their "Mathematicians" or "Computers" as they called them were women.
e) I haven't seen any of the nominated pictures except for DEEPWATER HORIZON (and D.H. was very good).
I only watched from 11pm onward because I watched THE WALKING DEAD and THE TALKING DEAD before it. Apparently, I missed nothing but a few early awards and lots of ignorant and silly program filler.
a) Jimmy Kimmel stunk. His sense of humor sucks. His fight with Matt Damon was overdone and childish. No one enjoys a childish asshole like Kimmel. The humor can be there but make it a little sophisticated and not puerile.
b) I love that Viola Davis won for FENCES (remember, August Wilson wrote about Pittsburgh neighborhoods. That's my home town and I've seen several of August Wilson's cycle of plays that are set in that neighborhood.)
c) I am thrilled that in one year the Academy cured the "Oscars-So-White" and that movie companies made pictures that show the USA as a diverse country.
d) As a scientist, I am thrilled that HIDDEN FIGURES is a real life story about mathematicians (regardless of who they were but the fact that they were African American women make sit even more glories.
(side note: I'm reading Dava Sobel's THE GLASS UNIVERSE about the history of the Harvard Observatory from roughly 1875 and most of their "Mathematicians" or "Computers" as they called them were women.
e) I haven't seen any of the nominated pictures except for DEEPWATER HORIZON (and D.H. was very good).
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Dave (imported) wrote: Tue Feb 28, 2017 11:27 am Last Night's ACADEMY AWARDS sucked the big, fat hairy weiner.
I only watched from 11pm onward because I watched THE WALKING DEAD and THE TALKING DEAD before it. Apparently, I missed nothing but a few early awards and lots of ignorant and silly program filler.
a) Jimmy Kimmel stunk. His sense of humor sucks. His fight with Matt Damon was overdone and childish. No one enjoys a childish asshole like Kimmel. The humor can be there but make it a little sophisticated and not puerile.
b) I love that Viola Davis won for FENCES (remember, August Wilson wrote about Pittsburgh neighborhoods. That's my home town and I've seen several of August Wilson's cycle of plays that are set in that neighborhood.)
c) I am thrilled that in one year the Academy cured the "Oscars-So-White" and that movie companies made pictures that show the USA as a diverse country.
d) As a scientist, I am thrilled that HIDDEN FIGURES is a real life story about mathematicians (regardless of who they were but the fact that they were African American women make sit even more glories.
(side note: I'm reading Dava Sobel's THE GLASS UNIVERSE about the history of the Harvard Observatory from roughly 1875 and most of their "Mathematicians" or "Computers" as they called them were women.
e) I haven't seen any of the nominated pictures except for DEEPWATER HORIZON (and D.H. was very good).
The academy and its' participants have gotten too full of themselves.
It use to only be George Cloony, now it is the whole mob.
Witness "Casablanca" again. It was produced before Pearl Harbor. It did not try lead Americans that they should support the war against Hitler, but certainly dropped enough innuendo.
The idea that these brats of Hollywood believe they know better would be best exemplified by their charity contributions surpassing their financial "ouch" level. Although their personal charity numbers may look big, did it make an "ouch"?
No! But, Bratty Hollywood expects it of normal people.
Now they carry their brattyness into judging excellence in motion picture arts when they place "Black" above excellence.
This is not the Hollywood I grew up with.
Suddenly, they are all part of the Brat Pack
Moi
Child of Hollywood,
just up the hill from Beautiful Downtown Burbank.
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That was not my point.
Movies have always been controversial from Fritz Lange's M, through Orson Welle's Citizen Kane, to Oliver Stone's JFK, to the recent NOAH, and the over-long Hobbit Trilogy. ROSEMARY'S BABY was and still is condemned as sacrilegious. LAST TANGO IN PARIS is still controversial for its rape (butter) scenes.
I once said to a neighbor kid who said he wasn't allowed to see many movies because his evangelical parents forbid it that when he got old enough that he could see any movie he wanted but then he would find that some movies just aren't worth it.
The only award show that I look for and deliberately watch is THE TONY AWARDS. That's because the Broadway Casts perform live and they really put on a performance that is solid and entertaining. They want to do that. The awards program is their national showcase and they are eager to be as good as possible.
I basically only watched the last hour of the ACADEMY AWARDS. It isn't what I think of entertaining for 4½ hours. It hasn't entertained me in many years. I had other stuff to watch for the first three hours.
Eventually, I'll watch all the nominated movies and judge them for myself.
Movies have always been controversial from Fritz Lange's M, through Orson Welle's Citizen Kane, to Oliver Stone's JFK, to the recent NOAH, and the over-long Hobbit Trilogy. ROSEMARY'S BABY was and still is condemned as sacrilegious. LAST TANGO IN PARIS is still controversial for its rape (butter) scenes.
I once said to a neighbor kid who said he wasn't allowed to see many movies because his evangelical parents forbid it that when he got old enough that he could see any movie he wanted but then he would find that some movies just aren't worth it.
The only award show that I look for and deliberately watch is THE TONY AWARDS. That's because the Broadway Casts perform live and they really put on a performance that is solid and entertaining. They want to do that. The awards program is their national showcase and they are eager to be as good as possible.
I basically only watched the last hour of the ACADEMY AWARDS. It isn't what I think of entertaining for 4½ hours. It hasn't entertained me in many years. I had other stuff to watch for the first three hours.
Eventually, I'll watch all the nominated movies and judge them for myself.
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I did not pay much attention to the Oscars, the One movie I wanted to win it's category, Did. Zootopia, a Throwaway movie Disney had made to fill in their popularity gap between Frozen and Jungle Book, Shined like a Diamond, beating out it's competitors like like they were rugs. Hopefully now the Disney Merchandise Machine will take notice of it.