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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Culture on Mar 8th, 2010
The Wife, and the Sister-in-Law, and I went to see the Marinsky Opera’s version of Prokofiev’s operatic adaptation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace yesterday at the government-run Kennedy Center yesterday.
It was very good. The staging was marvelous, the music was wonderful (I like Prokofiev, evidently), and it was cool to hear so much Russian — [...]
Posted in Music on Feb 28th, 2010
On Communion Sundays we at our church seem to frequently sing “Put Peace Into Each Other’s Hands.”
The melody/arrangement is gorgeous, but the lyrics are hysterical.
For instance, in the third verse, everyone sings dramatically:
Look people warmly in the eye
Really?
“Look people warmly in the eye?”
Okay . . . .
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But the last verse is the kicker. Here’s how [...]
You may know that I periodically get on Drudge’s case for the fact that the adverts on his site often don’t display correctly (which leads me to wonder why companies pay him to advertise on his site).
Today, I found the following juxtaposition of headlines ironic:
The links are to the following stories: Alabama shooting / Palin [...]
Posted in Literature, Philosophy on Dec 14th, 2009
I was talking to one of my students today, and the topic of existential crises (i.e., the experience of meaninglessness, [see Ecclesiastes 1, for example, or any play by Samuel Beckett, or Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl]) came up.
I thought my student was having one, you see. And I proceeded to explain Camus’ [...]
Posted in Culture, Literature on Dec 9th, 2009
Dr. Currid is now transitioning from the Historical Books to the Poetical Books.
He began with an attempt to define poetry.
Which gives me an excuse to discuss my own theory of poetry.
Definition:
A linguistic piece is poetic when its words are connected in ways other than those needed to convey information.
Corollary 1:
A work becomes more poetic the [...]
Posted in Culture, Ethics (Philosophy), TV on Nov 25th, 2009
So, I had to take the car in to get one of her rims replaced. (Her name is Kimono, and yes, she’s a she.)
The dealer’s waiting room had Dr. Phil on.
Dr. Phil was doing a show called “Inside Infidelity.”
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While Dr. Phil is, from what I’ve seen, on a level of discourse above most other daytime [...]
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Ultimate joy. That is it. Utter glory.
I love it.
(This is an old one, but a great one.)
Posted in Literature, Music, Religion on Nov 1st, 2009
It’s the hardcore genre of praise-n-worship, as opposed to the girly-man guitar-pop one normally gets in praise-n-worship.
Actually, I’m just kidding.
(Anybody remember ’80s praise-n-worship, back before the girly-man guitar-pop days? Like “Awesome God” and “El-Shaddai,” and “Sing Your Praise to the Lord.” Okay, it looks like what I mean is, “Anyone remember when praise-n-worship was written [...]
Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Culture on Oct 28th, 2009
The Wife and I went to see Verdi’s Falstaff last night, performed by the Washington National Opera.
It was a highly educational and culturing experience. I can now say that I’ve seen two operas — both by Verdi (see here for my review of the first) — and one was marvelous, while the other was atrocious.
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Falstaff [...]
[Spoiler Warning: Torchwood -- Children of Earth]
The world has Russell T. Davies to thank for bringing back Dr. Who, and in marvelous fashion.
The world also has Russel T. Davies to be angry at for creating Torchwood, and then using it a vehicle for taking out his own existential angst on its fans.
What he did [...]
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