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Apr. 19th, 2022 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnozomi・Rereading The Interior Life. This is such a weird book, both in ways the author obviously intended and in ways she probably didn’t; I’m not sure into which category it fits that everything basically goes right for the heroine and everyone in sight gets a happy ending, but as a fan of happy endings I’m not complaining. Now I really want a sequel and/or fic featuring a fantasy adventure for Sue’s kids when they’re a bit older, conformist Kathy and comedian Mike and calm Mark; I also want it to have background long-established Sue/Siobhan/Fred (and I want Sue and Kelly both to get to go to college). This is also the book that introduced me to Osias Beert and his gorgeous paintings of fruit.
・Mahler 2 was on the radio today, which was nice even though it’s one of the few pieces where I feel like no recorded version can match a live performance. There are a lot of things I like about it, especially the tear-inducing “Ich bin von Gott und will wieder zu Gott” moment of affirmation in the fourth movement (no, I am neither Christian nor a particularly devout Jew, why do you ask), but the Ninth-ian crash of sound at the beginning of the fifth movement—I first heard it in rehearsal, in an old-fashioned auditorium with two thousand wooden seats and the acoustics to be expected, when I was the only person in the audience, and it made me want to hide under the seat in sheer delicious terror.
・Because I can’t do running/swimming right now, I have started doing little bits of yoga off YouTube, some with Y and some by myself; I’ve been trying to find Chinese yoga videos for 一石二鸟, not that I know all the relevant vocabulary. Let me know if anyone has any suggestions (Chinese or otherwise!).
・Work stuff, silly and tiresome: I did not actually ask this lady what time she thought a “16:00 AM” deadline was, but I was real tempted. I would have been less irritated if it hadn’t been the last link in a chain of assorted incompetence... Less annoyingly, I had to translate something about auger screws and I kept misspelling it as “augur.” No fortune telling in the combine harvesters please.
・Things I did not actually take photos of, but I wanted to: a boy in a black school uniform (the old-fashioned gakuran jacket with brass buttons up the front and a high collar) and bright red socks; a row of red tulips in a park with a woman kneeling to sketch them in pencil.
・Photos: A cat admiring its reflection, and then turning to look disdainfully at the camera; a tree in shadow form; a big mural under the train tracks, and a nearby magnolia tree with bonus train; a backyard going back to nature.
Be safe and well.
・Mahler 2 was on the radio today, which was nice even though it’s one of the few pieces where I feel like no recorded version can match a live performance. There are a lot of things I like about it, especially the tear-inducing “Ich bin von Gott und will wieder zu Gott” moment of affirmation in the fourth movement (no, I am neither Christian nor a particularly devout Jew, why do you ask), but the Ninth-ian crash of sound at the beginning of the fifth movement—I first heard it in rehearsal, in an old-fashioned auditorium with two thousand wooden seats and the acoustics to be expected, when I was the only person in the audience, and it made me want to hide under the seat in sheer delicious terror.
・Because I can’t do running/swimming right now, I have started doing little bits of yoga off YouTube, some with Y and some by myself; I’ve been trying to find Chinese yoga videos for 一石二鸟, not that I know all the relevant vocabulary. Let me know if anyone has any suggestions (Chinese or otherwise!).
・Work stuff, silly and tiresome: I did not actually ask this lady what time she thought a “16:00 AM” deadline was, but I was real tempted. I would have been less irritated if it hadn’t been the last link in a chain of assorted incompetence... Less annoyingly, I had to translate something about auger screws and I kept misspelling it as “augur.” No fortune telling in the combine harvesters please.
・Things I did not actually take photos of, but I wanted to: a boy in a black school uniform (the old-fashioned gakuran jacket with brass buttons up the front and a high collar) and bright red socks; a row of red tulips in a park with a woman kneeling to sketch them in pencil.
・Photos: A cat admiring its reflection, and then turning to look disdainfully at the camera; a tree in shadow form; a big mural under the train tracks, and a nearby magnolia tree with bonus train; a backyard going back to nature.
Be safe and well.
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Date: 2022-04-19 08:20 pm (UTC)I first heard it in rehearsal, in an old-fashioned auditorium with two thousand wooden seats and the acoustics to be expected, when I was the only person in the audience, and it made me want to hide under the seat in sheer delicious terror.
That sounds amazing, as do the photos you didn't take. :D
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Date: 2022-04-20 11:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-04-20 09:24 pm (UTC)And yes for the cats being fair game ! So many cats and lovely trees around you.
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Date: 2022-04-22 11:53 am (UTC)