I love Weird Al.
Do you have something you’d like to share? A link? A joke? Some words of wisdom? A topic to discuss? It’s Friday Night Open Thread.
What’s on your mind?
I love Weird Al.
Do you have something you’d like to share? A link? A joke? Some words of wisdom? A topic to discuss? It’s Friday Night Open Thread.
What’s on your mind?
Have you posted “Good Enough for Now”? It may be among the greatest country songs every written, along with “The King Is Gone (and So Are You)” and, of course, “You Never Even Called Me By My Name.”
Well, ha ha ha . . .
hee hee hee
Sounds like yang money to me.
Yawn:
Yawn.
Are they going to the old “gender reverse” for them? Seems to be the trend these days.
They’re going to reboot “Hawaii 5-0” while the reboot is still running, I’ll bet.
Would that be Hawaii 5.0?
Hollywood ran out of ideas around 1989
What ever California can screw up…California will screw up (part two). Now they’ve screwed up your morning cup of Joe if you want to drink it with a plastic straw.……………………….
http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/25/california-bill-would-criminalize-restau
Today, all right-thinking people celebrate the birthday of Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, better known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the greatest composer who has ever lived, and possibly the greatest genius of any type ever to live (that’s him in the upper-left-hand corner of this post). In the course of less than thirty-six years on this earth, he composed more than seven-hundred pieces, including twenty-two operas, approximately sixty symphonies, twenty seven piano concertos, and twenty-three string quartets. Here is Samuel Ramey singing “Fin ch’han dal vino” (as long as there is wine), from Don Giovanni:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgZFYA2d78Y
Since you seem to know a bit about him, did you think the Tom Hulce movie portrayal was realistic or not? Always been curious.
The bit about Salieri killing him is sheer hokum, introduced by some Russian novelist or other decades after Mozart was born. It’s likely that he died from kidney failure, perhaps brought on by lead poisoning from improperly glazed crockery.
Tom Hulce’s portrayal, though, is very much in accord with descriptions of Mozart and his behavior from contemporaries. He displayed symptoms of what may have been Tourette’s syndrome, he did play billiards quite a bit, and he had a fondness for scatological humor. He was probably not as arrogant as he’s shown in the movie (and perhaps in the play on which it’s based); he and Papa Haydn admired each other’s music greatly, and weren’t bashful about displaying that admiration.
Thank you! This will add greatly to my enjoyment next time I watch the movie.
(And I noticed your homage to Woodhouse in the phrase “all right-thinking people.”
Being the preux chevalier that I am, I am deeply bucked that you noticed.
Get yourself outside of some b. and e.
Mozart FTW
Who is this Mo Zart guy anyway?
He was one of the three stooges, along with “Hi” Den and Leon Cavallo,
Any connection to that guy Flistz?
Mo Zart was one of the founders of Pep Boys Auto Parts…Manny, Mo, and Jack, remember?