I was going to do a post about “Revolution 9″ by the Beatles, but 2008 ends in a few hours, and since this waning year is the centenary of French composer Olivier Messiaen I wanted to get this post in under the wire.
I first heard Messiaen’s most famous work, Quatuor pour la fin du temps (in [...]
Sancto Iohannes Coltranus,
ora pro nobis peccatoribus
nunc et in hora mortis nostræ.
Amen.
… gives me the perfect excuse for making a gay marriage-related post:
“In the twentieth century, many Christians who would rabidly insist on this or that aspect of “moral matrimony” (e.g., procreative purpose in in the view of the Roman Catholic hierarchy–but probably not the average Catholic layperson; sexual fidelity for most Protestants) casually accept the [...]
For the benefit of future employers/students/dates who may visit this site: I don’t smoke pot. For the benefit of my friend Misty (who pretty much smokes my share), here are some photos taken in SF on Haight (naturally):
… and I have no real plans, except to go to the St. John Coltrane Church on Sunday with a couple of friends. Feel free to suggest stuff to do.
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A clarinet quartet playing themes from Super Mario Bros.:
A bassoon quartet playing themes from Super Mario World and Super Mario Bros.:
four-thirty-three went live a couple of days ago.
An explanation: I’ve been sick of the bone for a while. It’s partly for aesthetic reasons; I’ve been blogging there since 2002, last did some tinkering with the design in late 2003 and early 2004… and I don’t really care for the site’s appearance anymore. Because I started [...]
In this corner: Kenneth “Porn” Starr, who contends that roughly 18,000 marriages in the sate of CA should be retroactively nullified.
And in this corner: California AG Jerry “California Über Alles” Brown, who believes that Prop. 8 should be overturned by the courts:
One issue. Two dickheads. I’m not complaining: it’s nice to have an asshole fighting [...]
So, there’s this medieval song called “Sumer is icumen in,” which is the oldest existing example of a round (think “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”). Listen to it here. It’s kind of meh; any awesomeness it has comes from its historical value, the fact that one of the lyrics talks about a stag farting, and [...]