Reading Frenzy

I must be starving for words, because there’s a reading frenzy going on in my home. Books were quietly piling up and now I can Not Stop Reading. (Not that this is a bad thing, but it’s kinda hilarious to have four books going at once and a stack waiting, albeit many of the books [...]

The Most Magnificent Madrigal: Zefiro torna (Monteverdi)

Notes on Zerfiro Torna, the most stunning piece by Monteverdi This post is dedicated to my Step-Mutterlein Sarahchen Davies, PhD-writer extraordinaire, who introduced me to Monteverdi and much more and deserves a gold star every minute. -Here’s a beautiful version by the astounding William Christie and his Les Arts Florissants, but my favorite is by the early [...]

Things I Like, part 2

Craig recently turned me on to Nerdcore and I can stop listening to MC Lars. I’m listening to my fav track on This Gigantic Robot Kills (2009) right now, called 35 Laurel Drive about MC Lars’ drummer’s messy house. He’s telling his drummer to Clean Up his House. It’s hilarious and the music has great [...]

A Few Fab TV, Film, and Music Video links

Some of the best music videos and tv shows are coming my way via various sources. -Via Facebook Deidre linked to PEEP SHOW on Hulu. It’s crazy funny, see embedded episode below in separate post. -Steve Lawrence of Link TV-http://www.linktv.org/- introduced me to their amazing content. –I’m loving LinkTV’s World Music page at the moment: [...]

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