Me : Otherland by Tad Williams
MyDarlingWife : Whiteout by Ken Follett
Me : Otherland by Tad Williams
MyDarlingWife : Whiteout by Ken Follett
Something pretty lowbrow.
"I Told You I Wasn't Perfect" by Denny McLain.
It's actually pretty interesting.
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
(The Kindle version, FWIW, which I bring up only because the XYL is reading the same book via the Kindle app on her recently acquired iPad.)
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
I'm reading your posts....
"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop
telling the truth about them." - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
“I’m not liberal/conservative, I’m anti-idiotarian.”
At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich By William L. Shirer. Historical based on files and personal papers confiscated after World War II.
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
--Philip K. Dick
I have that book beside the bed and spot read it from time to time.Originally Posted by N2NH
Music. Playing in a concert tomorrow. :)
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
What are you playing? (music wise)
Here's our repertoire in concert order...
1) Dmitri Shostakovich "Waltz #2"
2) Mozart "Symphony 40, 1st movement"
3) Jay Ungar "Ashokan Farewell"
4) Beethoven "Symphony # 7 2nd movement"
5) Aaron Copland "At the River"
6) Mozart "Die Zauberflote (Magic Flute) Overture"
7) Schubert "Symphony # 8 1st movement"
9) Ravel "Mother Goose parts 1,2,5"
10) Handel "Hallelujah"
All parts as written by the original composers. Should keep the audience entertained for a while at least ;).
I will be playing all pieces 2nd violin section except for Mozart's 40th and Beethoven's 7th where I switch to 1st violin and confuse the heck out of the second violinists sitting next to me. LOL... All in all I think it will be a fun gig. Looking forward to it.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
Wow, that's a lot of charts.
It's all good though. Gotta keep the audience in the game.
I'm kind of partial to Dvorak. His stuff is all pretty cliche and frowned upon by "serious" musicians, but it's fun to play.
I can still do the entire second violin part from New World pretty much by memory.
My favorite is Dvorak's Symphony number 8, especially the third movement. I've played that entire piece a zillion times and I never get sick of it (unlike "Sound of Music" which makes me barf everytime I even see the score),
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