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Oct. 14th, 2010 08:47 amYankees took a division series from the Twins! Again! Go Yankees! You're next, Rangers! (I have to admit, it's looking like a Yankees-Phillies rematch is fairly likely. You're going down, jerks from Philly!)
A Polish funk album arrived in the mail! Explanation: So back in the days of Napster, I went hunting for music by the Midwest a cappella group The Blenders and turned up music by the Polish funk group The Blenders. And discovered I didn't like the a cappella group, but apparently whimsical Polish funk turned my wheel.
Recently, I was trying to put together a playlist from my music library with songs in as many languages as possible and realized that my Polish funk had disappeared during one of my many transfers of music from computer to computer. So I went on Amazon and found one of their albums (The one whose opening track translates to "Cybernetic Wanderer") and had it shipped over here. See? Piracy leads to more sales. I don't understand most of their music (I'm told that "Pociag of Love" means "Train of Love"), but I pretty much don't care when the music is this fun.
Anyway, expect the aforementioned polyglot playlist to pop up eventually.
Yuletide nominations are open!!!! I'm so excited for Yuletide. So, so excited. My first pass at nominations was
1. Le Nozze di Figaro
2. Les Contes d'Hoffman
3. Norma
4. La Fille du Regiment
5. Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore
6. Um... I don't remember, but it's just filler until I decide if I want to nominate Moses und Aron or Wozzeck.
So yeah, a pile of operas and Six Characters in Search of an Author, a Modernist play that was my first childhood exposure to great metafiction. I'm sort of hoping it can be the If on a winter's night a traveler of this year's Yuletide, a springboard for beautiful metafanfic. This is a predictable assortment of fandoms for me.
People who are reading this, I don't care if you've ever written fanfic in your life before, you should consider trying Yuletide. It's a fabulous experience, full of enthusiastic people who love the same obscure books and movies and operas and TV shows and songs and... as you. Getting a story written personally for you in a fandom you've loved forever is just a bonus. Then sprawling your way through the archive of daring and unexpected stories produced is a delightful way to spend your end of year days off.
A Polish funk album arrived in the mail! Explanation: So back in the days of Napster, I went hunting for music by the Midwest a cappella group The Blenders and turned up music by the Polish funk group The Blenders. And discovered I didn't like the a cappella group, but apparently whimsical Polish funk turned my wheel.
Recently, I was trying to put together a playlist from my music library with songs in as many languages as possible and realized that my Polish funk had disappeared during one of my many transfers of music from computer to computer. So I went on Amazon and found one of their albums (The one whose opening track translates to "Cybernetic Wanderer") and had it shipped over here. See? Piracy leads to more sales. I don't understand most of their music (I'm told that "Pociag of Love" means "Train of Love"), but I pretty much don't care when the music is this fun.
Anyway, expect the aforementioned polyglot playlist to pop up eventually.
Yuletide nominations are open!!!! I'm so excited for Yuletide. So, so excited. My first pass at nominations was
1. Le Nozze di Figaro
2. Les Contes d'Hoffman
3. Norma
4. La Fille du Regiment
5. Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore
6. Um... I don't remember, but it's just filler until I decide if I want to nominate Moses und Aron or Wozzeck.
So yeah, a pile of operas and Six Characters in Search of an Author, a Modernist play that was my first childhood exposure to great metafiction. I'm sort of hoping it can be the If on a winter's night a traveler of this year's Yuletide, a springboard for beautiful metafanfic. This is a predictable assortment of fandoms for me.
People who are reading this, I don't care if you've ever written fanfic in your life before, you should consider trying Yuletide. It's a fabulous experience, full of enthusiastic people who love the same obscure books and movies and operas and TV shows and songs and... as you. Getting a story written personally for you in a fandom you've loved forever is just a bonus. Then sprawling your way through the archive of daring and unexpected stories produced is a delightful way to spend your end of year days off.