| Pendulum update |
[21 Mar 2010|03:38pm] |
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Chapter 3 of my MoB story Pendulum is up and available here.
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| Crossposted for Charmian, mostly |
[19 Mar 2010|04:11pm] |
Arnaldur Indridason, Voices: bought this while browsing used book stores in the free hours between work and radio, looking for something to occupy me as I ate. ( When your country is small enough even grim police procedurals take on the characteristics of cosies )
Steven Brust, Issola: darn, I shouldn't have skipped this. XD;; Not only does it infodump re: the worldbuilding (which is now Clear As Mud), but there's more characterization as well; the variety of stuff that, as I once complained to Charmian, Vlad either doesn't know about his friends and doesn't care to know, or knows and doesn't care to think about. ( More on this with plot spoilers obv, not that ppl care at this point. )
G gave me the Forgotten Realms Dark Elf Trilogy for my birthday and I still haven't gotten around to it - it makes me think of those SSBB stories, yanno. XD;; I've a couple more books to order (Novik is like Pratchett, once one falls behind one may well never catch up) and then maybe I'll have the courage to eyeball my manga backlog. Steel Ball Run isn't over yet! But they seem to have made it to New Jersey, so the end is in sight.
Easter Sunday: Classic Flavour Easter is the same as Regular Flavour Easter this year. May be able to get hold of the new Doctor Who ep on Saturday night, assuming the usual Internet Jolly Rogers,* but if not it'll accompany the lamb-and-retsina mayhem. Until then this establishment is back to .**
* Apologies to those of you paying the fee ahaha; ironically I wasn't watching during the years it was co-produced by the Ceeb.
** Insert own Jesus Lives joke.
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| MOB |
[17 Mar 2010|10:23pm] |
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Has anyone been to hulu? I think only U.S can go there. But I found MOB on there the other night.
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| St. Paddy's Day Podcastin' |
[17 Mar 2010|08:06pm] |
102.3FM Radio Centre-Ville Chinese-language music show: name TBD (Tu 10:30-11:30PM)
Episode 8: March 16 - I can too play Donnacha Costello for Saint Patrick's Day if I want
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Since Simon was clearly going to go the Celtic/new-age/folk route (his part comes before mine, there was Clannad somewhere in there) I figured I'd go the artists-from-Ireland route. But none of the Big Five. *g*
Next week there will be a tribute to Jean Ferrat? Not gonna lie, idk a thing about Ferrat. Maybe I will play the Internationale in French and Chinese instead.
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| This week's podcastin' |
[12 Mar 2010|08:59pm] |
102.3FM Radio Centre-Ville Chinese-language music show: name TBD (Tu 10:30-11:30PM)
Episode 7: March 9 - poetry set to music, in memoriam
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In order (funny how the adaptation always changes the title):
W.B. Yeats, "The Song of Wandering Aengus"
苏轼, 《水调歌头》(the late, the great Teresa Teng, the only 20th-century singer to cover both Su Dongpo and the Fugees - although I wouldn't be surprised if Nana Mouskouri has done something similar)
Fernando Pessoa, "Do vale à montanha"
Constantine P. Cavafy, "The God Abandons Antony"
Would have had to plunk down $$$ for Leo Ferré, so... didn't. XD; I could do a whole episode on Ferré (-Aragon, -Rimbaud, -Apollinaire), though.
Then Doris had a pre-recorded bit for the anniversary of the Madrid train bombings, and Simon had a piece about a Chinese indie rocker who died abroad iirc. So he played some fuzzy scream-y guitar stuff, and I played some slow strings-filled ballads! Opposite Week evidently. While Simon was on I went through the massive stash of 80s Cantopop vinyl in the Chinese radio team's cabinet and found the first Paradox album, though I haven't had time to listen to it yet.
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