Rowing machine!

Grane obeying Brunnhilde and riding her into the pyre?

Only if you set up a book club and I’m invited.

Claude is Fafnir’s blood, Siegfried can code so gud now

Siegfried in a vc fleece vest

Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad Amazon.com: Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad: 9780763668181: Anderson, M. T.: Books

Not to switch your grads on you, but this is an incredible account of the siege of Leningrad and the perseverance of art in absolutely inhumane conditions. Audiobook version also is great: a.co/d/38CbjwU

How are you feeling about the “promised” AI-assisted projections?

Looking forward to it all, and hoping you get to Beyreuth. Do you have a connect to Alex Ross?

McJagger’s

I found it necessary to make this at one point.

Whoa! Makes sense. Spicy Pony Head is like a proto-Fleming premise.

Chris Fleming Chris Fleming

He’s coming your way: chrisflemingfleming.com About - Chris Fleming

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
- Mark Twain

Privacy concerns are paramount, but the methodology is also flawed. It’s only showing where people with similar DNA live TODAY. If you are 100% “German” but your great grandfather left behind a brother who then moved to Finland, you are going to be “Finnish” if his great grandkids still live there.

The Last Hour (2024 Remaster) YouTube video by Elliott Smith - Topic

Once a year I have to dig through it all again and this was a good reminder. That he was stripping it all back down to this at the end - unfathomably sad to think what might have come next: youtu.be/Rr8JKr4e0S8?...

Would love to read you on Mahler generally but specifically his refusal to write an opera - the biographical explanation (Wagner was his day job) is unsatisfying. Did he know in that moment it could only be vapid (Strauss)? Would living to see Wozzeck have changed his mind?

Mindless Child of Motherhood (Stereo Mix) YouTube video by The Kinks - Topic

Always thought this record must have been on heavy rotation in the Pollard household.

youtu.be/ZgfsXqAfTs4?...

Fair - I guess you can only use each technology once? I’ll leave it to the boys to fine-tune the lists as well as the rules (always their strong suit).

Riffing on the “movie plots cell phones would have ruined” meme, select from a list (e.g., antibiotics, sous vide, rockets, wheelie bags) the technology that would have most disrupted the plots of certain movies (e.g., Bringing Up Baby, Come and See, Ben Hur, Great Muppet Caper).

Wildly changing and contradicting his position depending on who he spoke to last (Fricka, Brunnhilde, Loge, etc.) (art of the deal)

They are so messy - when I see this I know there’s going to be a pile of seed on the ground. Finches and sparrows are so demure.

And How Are You, Dr. Sacks? The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patient"[An] engrossing biographical memoir. This is Sacks at full blast: on endless ward rounds,...

If you’re in the Sacks orbit this is just phenomenal:

us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

pssst: 👀 archive.org/search?query...

So much attitude

It takes a bit, but once word gets out…here’s my view when I forget to fill mine…WTF

Welcome to the obsession. Tubas and Sousaphones have the bass line, reeds and winds the arpeggios, bones and horns the melody. The glockenspiel is already there. Muted cymbals and snare through first verse and chorus, full percussion joins on second. Brass trade off vamps on the synth line outro.

Truly inexplicable. My only controversial Squeeze-related opinion is that “Goodbye Girl” would be an *excellent* marching band song.

The webcam feeder we got for Christmas has my household enthralled. “New species alert!”

You’ve got Bartok at the CSO this week and Sibelius/Schoenberg/Wagner next?

Available online perchance?