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Jun. 12th, 2008
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Jun. 12th, 2008 04:06 pmYesterday I was suddenly siezed by the desire to listen to Grieg's Peer Gynt. This was after listening to a new song by Tyr (see yesterday's song of the day post) that borrows the melody from Solveig's Song.
This was also right as I was about to leave for work. Given that my classical music is not in any order whatsoever, I was unable to locate any of the cds I wanted in the two minutes I had before I rushed out the door.
Last night I organized my classical music cds. It's not in perfect order now, but at least all of the Bruchner is in one place, and all of the Dvorak is filed together. I own more Bruchner and Dvorak than anything else, but I really do have a pretty good classical collection that I mostly don't pay attention to.
Unfortunately I failed to find the Greig cds that I wanted. After more searching I located the two Peer Gynt orchestral suites that I own (both of which I bought for cheap at Half Price Books, for $2.50 and $1.98 respectively in fact, so the quality of the performances is suspect). I failed to locate my complete Peer Gynt music 2-disc set, which I've probably lent to somebody a long time ago and may never see again. So... end result is, I don't necessarily have a good recording of anything from Peer Gynt, and I seem to be missing the one complete music cd set that I used to own and which was one of my favorite classical recordings.
This is, however, one of the few classical cds I own that I had already ripped to my hard drive... so all is not completely lost. I can still listen to it.
In the meantime, today I grabbed Borodin's Symphony no. 2 / On The Steppes of Central Asia and Dvorak's 3rd & 7th symphonies and enjoyed listening to them at work.
This was also right as I was about to leave for work. Given that my classical music is not in any order whatsoever, I was unable to locate any of the cds I wanted in the two minutes I had before I rushed out the door.
Last night I organized my classical music cds. It's not in perfect order now, but at least all of the Bruchner is in one place, and all of the Dvorak is filed together. I own more Bruchner and Dvorak than anything else, but I really do have a pretty good classical collection that I mostly don't pay attention to.
Unfortunately I failed to find the Greig cds that I wanted. After more searching I located the two Peer Gynt orchestral suites that I own (both of which I bought for cheap at Half Price Books, for $2.50 and $1.98 respectively in fact, so the quality of the performances is suspect). I failed to locate my complete Peer Gynt music 2-disc set, which I've probably lent to somebody a long time ago and may never see again. So... end result is, I don't necessarily have a good recording of anything from Peer Gynt, and I seem to be missing the one complete music cd set that I used to own and which was one of my favorite classical recordings.
This is, however, one of the few classical cds I own that I had already ripped to my hard drive... so all is not completely lost. I can still listen to it.
In the meantime, today I grabbed Borodin's Symphony no. 2 / On The Steppes of Central Asia and Dvorak's 3rd & 7th symphonies and enjoyed listening to them at work.
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Jun. 12th, 2008 09:19 pmWhat: Kung Fu Panda
Where: Ballard Majestic.
When: Saturday, 7:15 PM. Show up 5:00 PM for dinner beforehand.
Who: Mark, Mike, maybe Gene, and whoever else shows up
Why: Something to do, and it might be mildly amusing
Option to go play Wii instead of movie after if you like, or play Wii after seeing movie too.
This is not a Pixar film. This is a DreamWorks film. Adjust your expectations accordingly.
However, The Seattle Times gave it an ok review. The P-I thought it was pretty good too.
Chuck liked it to. His review matches up with the above two pretty well.
Where: Ballard Majestic.
When: Saturday, 7:15 PM. Show up 5:00 PM for dinner beforehand.
Who: Mark, Mike, maybe Gene, and whoever else shows up
Why: Something to do, and it might be mildly amusing
Option to go play Wii instead of movie after if you like, or play Wii after seeing movie too.
This is not a Pixar film. This is a DreamWorks film. Adjust your expectations accordingly.
However, The Seattle Times gave it an ok review. The P-I thought it was pretty good too.
Chuck liked it to. His review matches up with the above two pretty well.