Well, not just me. 🙂 The Augustana Chamber Choir, directed by Dick Larson, along with the Augustana Chancel Choir and the Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra, will perform the Mozart Requiem this Sunday, All Saints Day. I recently joined the choir (I sing tenor), largely for the opportunity to sing this very piece of music. If you’re in the area, please… Read more »
I was going to tweet this thought, but it ended up being 620 characters long, so I guess I’ll just blog it: I think it’s silly to call David Letterman is a hypocrite because he made jokes about people’s sex lives while having sexual peccadilloes of his own. Are we demanding complete purity and righteousness from… our COMEDIANS now? Really?!… Read more »
Two years ago today, the great Tommy Makem, the Irish folk singer whose voice has a place of high honor on the soundtrack of my life to date, died at age 74. In Tommy’s honor, I thought I’d post a few videos of his live performances over the years decades. The first clip above is of “Brennan on the Moor,”… Read more »
I’m in Steamboat Springs for the weekend, at a legal education conference thingy. The drive up here was, as you’d expect, gorgeous. I captured a bit of it by putting my digital camera on the dashboard and just letting it sit there, and shoot video, while I drove. The result turned out pretty well, I think. The “soundtrack” is provided… Read more »
As a Tolkien nut, but a relative non-“purist” when it comes to Peter Jackson’s brilliant movies, I’ve always felt that The Fellowship of the Ring is the best adaptation out of the three films, whereas The Return of the King is the best movie on its own merits. And to that I hold. But, re-watching the first half of Fellowship… Read more »
Al Sharpton, to Michael Jackson’s kids: “There wasn’t nothing strange about your daddy.” Joe Mama, in comments: “It’s these kinds of reckless statements that risk tearing the very fabric of the space-time continuum, trapping all light and heat, and sucking a good part of Los Angeles into another dimension.” Heh. (Actually, if we take Sharpton’s use of the double-negative literally,… Read more »
In the wake of yesterday’s shocking events, most people seem, unsurprisingly and perhaps even understandably, to be primarily eulogizing Michael Jackson, pop icon and troubled genius, rather than Michael Jackson, accused child molester and all-around weirdo. This reminds me a bit of Richard Nixon’s death, when there was a tendency, at least in the initial days after he died, to… Read more »
Per TMZ. Also per @BreakingNews, which states: “FLASH — LOS ANGELES — “KING OF POP” MICHAEL JACKSON HAS DIED.” He was 50. UPDATE: The L.A. Times confirms. After the jump, I’ve posted a screenshot of the Times‘s homepage right now. Top story: Michael Jackson dies. Second story: Farrah Fawcett dies. Third story: the fiscal crisis that is about to cause… Read more »
