George Szell’s recordings are so special. A hair-trigger precision accompanied by beauty and transparent textures that make any warhorse sound like an event.

In English, adjectives seem to follow a specific order: opinion - size - age - shape - color - origin - material - purpose - noun We’re steeped in the pattern from birth, and apply it effortlessly.

there is a post from the US gov 'department of war' on here that includes video of them actually murdering people and threatening to murder more people & it's been up since november

I was listening to Handel’s opera Rodelinda and it made me realize just how thin-skinned we have become about this stuff. Rodelinda had some WORDS for Grimoaldo

Hiring - en mask! @theonion.com

This place really does feel like 2018 Twitter at times.

Just as his parents described him.

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch "Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it."

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.

It’s difficult to process a man getting murdered by ICE in one of my favorite places in Minneapolis to chill.

it's just remarkable to remember that a whole ass constitutional crisis is being forced because a weird old wealthy dowager queen has no idea how the country he was elected to lead for 4 years works, and a bunch of wormtongues are trying to make cool tough guy videos for him and his fans

there is going to be -- there absolutely must be --- hell to pay

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

Wonderful new discovery for me, Chausson’s only opera, Le Roi Arthus, a dream-like meditation on the Arthurian legend. Chausson is inspired by Wagner, but this is very much a French opera. The metaphorical death of Arthur with invisible chorus at the end is more moving than any Wagner is to me, wow.

This week, we talked with Maryam Mohamad about the murder of Renee Good, the siege of Minneapolis, and the good people of Minnesota resisting the Fourth Reich. Minneapolis has a right to defend itself! soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-h...

Call me a character from an 18th century opera seria the way I’m languishing.

This is musicology.

My 14yo tells me kids who use ChatGPT are referred to as "third-party thinkers"

Welcome to Minnesota

I’m your lawyer. Do you trust me?

Chausson's music is beguiling to me. Take his gorgeous symphonic poem Viviane, depicting the Arthurian woman's romance with Merlin. The erotic twists of the melody exist in a palette that simultaneously evokes the Broncéliande forest. Normally a 12-minute quiet piece doesn't thrill me so. Incredible

My scheming vizier when I start to cough after taking a swig of wine from my goblet

The bubonic plague

Dear Democrats, this is why everyone hates you

You know shit is getting real when my centrist representative is getting mad.

every once in a while i remember this door

While the left might screech about dismantling the giant robot we’ve built to shred immigrants, I am both proud of the improvements my fellow centrists and I have made to its immigrant-shredding capabilities and secure in the knowledge that nobody will ever flip the big switch that lets it shred me

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

At the restaurant "Žirmūnai", Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, 1971. Photo by M.Baranauskas.

me rn

If you use Discord, please take a minute to fill out their survey re: the potential addition of AI features. Companies, stop shoving these rubbish 'upgrades' down our throats! 👎🏻 discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Chausson's music is beguiling to me. Take his gorgeous symphonic poem Viviane, depicting the Arthurian woman's romance with Merlin. The erotic twists of the melody exist in a palette that simultaneously evokes the Broncéliande forest. Normally a 12-minute quiet piece doesn't thrill me so. Incredible

the ICE officer calling a woman he just murdered a “fucking bitch” is visceral, but imo the most material new information in the latest video is that she very clearly turns the wheel away from the officer right before it happens

Music is one of the most human things imaginable. I want music recommendations from humans who understand how special it is. Even advertising agents at Deutsche Grammaphon would be preferable to an algorithm or AI

I can return to this classic LP recorded in 1958 again and again. Stokowski, here on his best behavior, whips up more excitement than just about anyone in both Francesca & Hamlet. He lays out an ironclad line through both works that makes you hear them in a fresh light.

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

This is wisdom

NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do." “We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...

It has been an obvious, sometimes even almost stated project of Trump 2.0 to engineer a redo of the post George Floyd protests of 2020, this time with much more state violence. And now a federal agent has shot and killed a woman in a car at point blank range a mile from where Floyd was murdered.

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

I love how my 2024 Windows work laptop is slower and less reliable than my cheaper 2021 Macbook Air that draws half as much power 🙌

Speech has never been freer! Not performing for the president is now illegal.

Can we PLEASE try to effect socialism without inconveniencing me for the good of other people

☝️reminder to cut off family that hit you with reality checks instead of supporting your delusions

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

I feel like my next year has been blessed by the ancient cat spirits after seeing this.