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“Do take care that if the majority of your dancers are young people that your music is modern, catchy and has some zipp to it. Don’t treat modern youth to the style that is more appropriate to elders of the Edwardian age.”
feels like every 10 years people are like: oh wait, john leguizamo can *act* act
My take on the Odyssey is that it’s past time to start thinking of Ludwig Göransson as “the good Hans Zimmer”
I was looking up the etymology of baba ganoush this morning, and man. Totally unprepared. “Flirtatious daddy?” (??) (??????)
A *proper* Scrooge prologue would just be the story of him methodically ripping every tender sentiment out of his still-twitching flesh, and sacrificing the bloody remains on the altar of Capital. It would end with his only friend being dragged off to torment in hell.
Supposing I wanted to learn how to appreciate reality TV: are there particular classic seasons or episodes that I should watch? Stuff that has really stood the test of time? This is partially a question about canon-formation: are there canonical texts in this field? But it’s not only that…
This is pretty unique for an American hard ciders in that, when it describes itself as dry, it is not lying through its teeth
today I learned about Tommy McHugh, a construction worker and sometime petty criminal who, in his early 50s, tried to poop so hard that he gave himself a brain aneurysm, slipped into a coma, and woke up as a gifted cubist painter
shout out to my man S22 for failing both tests with honor and integrity (I’m not joking, I think that’s genuinely admirable)
Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4w agoabsolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers
I cracks me up when people are like "You couldn't make THIS movie or show today because people are so politically correct and sensitive!" Sir. There was an entire board in Hollywood dedicated to sniffing out any onscreen hint of married people having sex. Lucy couldn't say "pregnant." Sit down.
In the parade of horrors issuing from the corrupt conservative majority on the Supreme Court, I’d like to make space for the particular stupidity of Kavanagh’s concurrence. Preface with a grain of salt — I’m not a lawyer, much less a constitutional scholar. But his argument seems to run like this:
when I was writing this rough draft, I apparently thought it would be a good idea to include 21 different examples and diagrams and honestly if that’s the caliber of “good idea” that past me was working with, I have my doubts about the paper’s core thesis
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
The Arnold Schoenberg Center just posted a page from the notes kept by a fellow student, Leonard Stein, which seems to give the specific problem Cage was set. (Complete with C clefs.) "Check possibilities systematically." www.instagram.com/p/DZwo-QJj77k/
Many of you will know this anecdote from Cage's "Silence":
suddenly struck by the realization that Those Who Walk Away From Omelas is just what happens when you DO remove Spiders Georg from the sample
I feel like knowing Wyeth’s other art makes all the difference here. Like why does this piece *and only* this piece feel like a De Chirico?
TCMFanatics@tcmfans.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Homecoming by N.C. Wyeth - A Tribute to Soldiers Returning from World War II
All muppet 4’33” feat. Kermit and Animal
Mr. Plumbean@chrisbrody.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'd probably never be asked to teach Orch because I'm not a composer and have never, to be technical about it, orchestrated anything. Still, I feel I could give some thought-provoking assignments. All-Muppet Beethoven Op. 18 no. 4. All-Muppet Dallapiccola Quaderno. All-Muppet Spem in Alium. All-Mupp
The kids are building a rocket ship out of cardboard boxes and I got to design the control panel
Grades, submitted! To the fainting couch, posthaste! [flop]
Grading a student assignment on “Fly me to the moon,” and having to forcibly remind myself that the actual song has nothing to do with jiu-jitsu.
The Wikipedia page for Wings (1927) has a section that’s like “two people died filming of the aerial stunts — which is really not that bad, if you think about it.”
On the original recording, you can hear Tommy Flanagan try to lift the piano just a couple of times and then give up
Antelope@wovenantelope.bsky.social · 4mo ago