To find there but the road back home again

[sovay]

And then last night I slept ten hours. I hope I haven't broken something. Have some links.

1. Courtesy of a friend who is not on Dreamwidth: Unleash the Archers, "Northwest Passage." Otherwise known as a female-led power metal cover of Canada's unofficial national anthem, wherein Stan Rogers is surprisingly well served by blast beats. I kind of want to hear them take on "Barrett's Privateers." I like the many-worlds band-tour video, too.

2. I knew of several female scientists of the Manhattan Project, but somehow I had missed Elizabeth Rona until her insistence on buying her own PPE—and surviving more than one radioactive laboratory explosion because of it—came up relevantly elsenet. I'd love to get hold of her professional memoir, but I suspect that was a project for the days when I had access to academic libraries.

3. Courtesy of moon_custafer: an important PSA about left-wing anti-intellectualism. Includes a nice recommendation for an Egyptology blog.

4. To be honest, since he had been involved in the premieres of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960) and War Requiem (1961), I had no idea until his obituary that harpist Osian Ellis had still been around, but I was absolutely delighted to learn he had also played for The Goon Show (1951–60).

5. Courtesy of spatch: regarding the death of Rush Limbaugh, it's time once again for these valuable words.

Comments

[selkie]

I am here to also recommend Peter Grimes, the only Britten I know besides some liturgical stuff and the War Requiem. I am honor bound to tell you Menotti is creepy as shit hell fuck and goddamn, and entirely the reason I thought S was not of the living for the first two weeks or so of our acquaintance.

[sovay]

I am honor bound to tell you Menotti is creepy as shit hell fuck and goddamn, and entirely the reason I thought S was not of the living for the first two weeks or so of our acquaintance.

I can't believe I don't have a recording of myself singing "The Black Swan." This would be the perfect conversation to drop it into and innocently walk away.

[selkie]

Gyargh.

I should clarify, that's not a critique of the performance. I just haven't heard you sound so like a residual haunting looped into itself since then. I can't say whether one ought to blame the industrial plumbing or the score.

Edit: I couldn't sniff it out, either! I was starting to doubt myself! A residual haunting in a collective living space within a hundred-eighty feet of me! The shame.

[ashlyme]

*Menotti is creepy as shit hell fuck and goddamn, and entirely the reason I thought S was not of the living for the first two weeks or so of our acquaintance.*

You do know you're both selling this to me right? My own theory is that Sovay is a sea-fae.

*I can't believe I don't have a recording of myself singing "The Black Swan." This would be the perfect conversation to drop it into and innocently walk away.*

Damn! I've heard you read, but never sing. Are there any recordings of you performing that you can point me at?

[selkie]

I don't say a damn thing, but they are 98% human by my rough calculation. Possibly it teeters around 97% in immediate proximity to saltwater. Nope. I don't say a thing.