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Here we are again, January ends. Febrrrruary is usually the worst of the winter for us, so let’s see what happens around here.

‘Merica.

Rock Around the Croc: How to Listen to a Symphony

The title is wrong, of course. There’s no one right way to listen to a symphony. More importantly, the symphonies change so much over the decades and centuries that it’s hard to even think about a “symphony” as just one thing. It’s like saying “here’s how to listen to rock n’ roll,” and ignoring the fact that Elvis Pressley and KISS both play rock n’ roll. With that in mind, I picked the earliest guy, the “father of the symphony,” Josef Haydn, as the focus for today’s post. The easiest way to understand what’s going on is to recognize that Haydn took pre-existing, Baroque-era forms, combined them into this new form called the symphony, that form was refined throughout the Classical era by composer such as Mozart and Beethoven, and then Beethoven so thoroughly transformed the symphony that he effectively ended the Classical era and ushered in the Romantic. So I start with Haydn, recognizing that he established the pattern that later composers would fiddle with and make their own.

Saturday funnies 01-29-22

Let’s see what’s in the funneh folder for today.

BBF

Hello, and welcome to Big Boob Friday.

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Your model for today was born March 10th, 1964 in Ogden, UT. She stands 5′ 10″ and measures 36 – 24 – 36 and 126 lbs. Please fetch spectacles for Miss Cynthia Brimhall.

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Crytidz – a Message from the Good Doctor

Because I post stupid shit that doesn’t even make sense to me most of the time, one of our brothers here at hostageland sent me a link for this little beastie:

HHD 1-26-22

Good morning, and welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day.
Let’s get started. Sobek could give a lesson about the Child Ballads, the collection of traditional English and Scottish songs published by Frances James Child in 1860. (Joan Baez, Lorenna McKinnitt, and even Led Zeppelin have covered some of these.) This version is shorter and leaves out the Fairy Queen and the sacrifice on Halloween, but I like it for her voice and the guitars.

Now for the hunks. Yesterday’s birthday boy John Terry (Felix Leiter in one of the Bond films).

Can’t Meme Loose

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And so begins the last week of January, AD 2022.

Not sure what’s being depicted here in terms of narrative. Ideas?

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