Finding Friends

I like to think that I made that guy look like Weird Al and not David Koresh. Next to him was a guy speaking in a language that I am pretty sure was some sort of Afro-Asiatic. Brenna has a pineapple earring that was too small to depict.
I met a lab, a cavalier King Charles spaniel, and a beagle.

I got papaya salad from Kala Thai and I'm not sure if it's a coincidence but a bee was harassing me while I was trying to eat it.

The pre-concert concert included a merengue and something else.

Louis Moreau Gottschalk arr. David Kempers - Bamboula
I think I've heard this one before. No?

Antonio Vivaldi - “Spring” and “Summer” from The Four Seasons
The day before reached 99. The day of the concert was officially 90 but humid as fuck. The next day was 84 at midnight and kept going down.


Benjamin Britten - Soirées Musicales
It's based on some works by Rossini: the soldiers' march from William Tell; a canzonetta, rather gentle and undulating madrigal; the Tirolese, a peasant song from the Alps; a bolero; a Tarantella.

Fritz Kreisler - Liebesleid and Marche Miniature Viennois
Liebesleid means love-sorrow and it’s paired with something called Liebesfreude, which means lovejoy. No, not that Lovejoy. Along with something else called Schön Rosmarin. If it sounds like fin de seicle Vienna, that's because it actually was written before 1905.

Sergei Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf
He was comissioned to write a musical work for children cum communist allegory. It never really comes up in the actual music but Peter is a member of the Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization.
Each character is represented by a different motif on a different instrument. The narrator points this out. The bird is played by the flute. The duck is the oboe. The cat is the clarinet. Obviously the duck isn’t dying (that’s how Zofia once described her clarinet playing for you newcomers). The bassoon is the grandfather, the wolf is a trio of French horns, the strings are Peter, the hunters are the trumpet and their shotguns or blunderbusses or whatever are the kettle drums. Prokofiev did use real machine guns in the Cantata for the October Revolution, along with Lenin on a megaphone.
They had some kids pantomiming. Peter wore a football jersey, the bird wore a sequined blue vest and a sky blue cape, the duck wore a yellow hat and a yellow feathered cape, the cat had a black dress, a tail, and a headband, the wolf had a wolf hood and a tail.
And the hunters had khaki clothing, hats, and blue lightsabers. Well, I don't know what their clothing was actually made from because it was rather dark by the time they showed up to hunt the wolf and march him around the lawn along with a whole bunch of kids armed with glowsticks. On the train ride home, I had Peter's theme stuck in my head. It's also used as Santa's Little Helper's music in an episode of the Simpsons.

Let’s see what Everything2 has to say.
Gateway Time-Out? Oh, fuck off, AI bots. Makes me want a cantata about the Butlerian Jihad.
The AI bots have also been scraping Gamingforce since June. While I’m not sad that Gamingforce’s servers are collapsing under the strain, now we’re going to have AI that communicates in college freshman edgelord who just discovered UrbanDictionary, know-nothing know-it-all, or overly florid wankery that just reeks of effort.

burning question: I had this thought related to the culture war and Somerville’s lack of participation thereof. Does anyone else think the liberal democratic punditocracy (read liberal as the Evolution Is True crowd who are all like ‘everything’s getting expensive because of tariffs and our passport is not as good as it was but hey at least olympic athletes will have to compete alongside their assigned sex at birth') is intentionally sabotaging things in favor of the Republicans? I mean James Carville is married to a Republican consultant, for fuck's sake.