March 2009
21 posts
Washington National Opera - Peter Grimes
Source: www.dc-opera.org
From Benjamin Britten, you can always expect his operas to be neither tuneful nor accessible; but there is such profound atmosphere and tone color in this new experience for me that, tonight, my long-running distaste for the composer was ever more eroded (since the revelation when WNO mounted its great Billy Budd production a...
The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish is a 1991 comedy, directed by Ben Lewin, starring Bob Hoskins, Jeff Goldblum and Natasha Richardson. The story, set in Paris, follows the fateful meeting of Louis Aubinar with Sybil, who brings into his life her last unfortunate lover, the Pianist....
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musicthatmakesyoudumb.virgil.gr
Source: musicthatmakesyoudum…
Hopefully poised to inject a little debate against America’s cultural relativism…
The Ring
Source: www.southparkstudios.com
More cutting social commentary from Parker/Stone. And where you may dismiss them as bad-behaving pricks, the irony that emerges is a classical liberal orthodoxy
Photo: Monkeys That Floss With Human Hair Learn From Mom?
Source: news.nationalgeograp…
A female long-tailed macaque seems to be teaching a baby how to floss using a piece of fake human hair supplied by researchers.A March 2009 paper describes how the female monkeys slow down and exaggerate …
So basically even monkeys floss more than I do. Damn.
Google Voice invitation request – Google
Source: services.google.com
Please leave your name and email, and we’ll invite you as soon as Google Voice becomes available. If you left us your email address previously on the GrandCentral site, you don’t need to resubmit it here.
Television - News - Parents complain over ‘Family Guy’ scenes - Digital Spy
Source: www.digitalspy.com
The episode in question aired in the US on March 8 and included bestiality, orgies and babies eating sperm.
Hey Seth, you moron, it’s not punk-rock and it’s not edgy. Got it?
WatchThe quality of this video betrays the rich sonorities of the interactive space
WatchWhile never much liking John Cage (and meaning at first to leave) it was grand.
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Hulu - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Twitter Frenzy
Source: www.hulu.com
Video description: Sam Bee explains the popularity of Twitter to Jon.
Uh Oh, White House Seeks Economic Advice From Twitter
Source: www.businessinsider….
With 6 million members and 700% plus growth, Twitter makes no money in the US.
You gotta love the renegade spirit of the tech sector, who can look into the face of American monarchy and say, “they’re *really* out of ideas.”
Rushdie dubs ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ ridiculous
Source: www.breitbart.com