Y'know...The Beatles might have been really something without Paul.

Metrodome Collapsing

Koolest thing EVER.  The Metrodome roof always looked to me like a giant blanket wrapped round a stadium with a rubber band, so I guess I always figured something like this would happen....I rule!

Just finished watching Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on USA (without commercials btw, when did basic cable start doing that?).  A lot better than you remember.

I get very self-conscious when I find bugs in the shower.

Quote of the Night

 me:  

speaking of which, jordan is in n'awleans right now

he gets n'awleans with his friends, i get state college

 The Manning:  oh my

we all get what we deserve

 me:  indeed

Buttcracker Fail

A shaggy dog joke. Starts out mildly amusing, then get really irritating, then becomes hilarious. h/t CM

All'ungherese

I played second violin for this piece at my first paying musician's gig when I was twelve years old, not that I ever had all that many of them... (an Audobon Society dinner in Montgomery County in case anybody's curious...which I thought was kind of awesome because a year earlier we read The Trumpet of the Swan in school.). I don't remember ever being more excited about a piece of music I was playing, now I can only look back and say: Really Evan? Glazunov? For those who are (again) curious, Glazunov is that historical missing link between Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky that nobody plays anymore and is now most famous for writing enormous amounts of decent music while being three sheets to the wind. But in the middle of all that generic stuff, he did occasionally write some really wonderful music. Here's another sample of the top shelf:

50 Cent Twitter Page h/t The Tabak.

I once calculated it while living in London. If 50 Cent were English in Summer 2004 his name would be 27.7 Pence.

Quote of the Day

Der Fersko: Y'all laughed
When I filed that injunction
That said Kenneth Branagh couldn't make another Shakespeare film

Idea for Flashmob...

Igor Stravinsky's Les Noces at an actual Wedding. With different singing characters mingling with the guests, the band doing the piano/percussion parts, insisting that guests get up out of their seats to dance with the ballet troupe. In & out, the whole thing takes 25 minutes tops.



Anybody getting married soon?

The Real O Holy Night Guy!

has revealed himself. I know I shouldn't be amazed that he revealed himself as not only ironic but having intelligence too. But it's a credit to just how awesomely this guy pulled it off that it barely crossed my mind that he could be anything but one of those (all too common) singers with sad yet hilarious self overestimations.



Unfortunately I can only find the audio of the life-changing, unforgettable original. Instead here it is grafted onto a Mormon movie about Jesus's birth.

Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson is a fantastic little book. Perhaps more on it later...

For Evan's current blogging about Voices of Washington, go to www.voicesofwashington.org/serendipity