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Did anyone tape "Bye Bye Pluto" on SBS
For some reason I thought this doco was on Wednesday night (i.e. tonight). In fact, it went to air on Sunday night. Did anyone watch it, and if so, was it worthwhile?
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A meta-blogular comment masquerading as a blog entry?
Instead of blogging myself very often - I've been incredibly remiss with this journal, to the point where I received a "nudge" to remind me that I hadn't posted in 51 weeks - of late I've taken to reading other people's blogs. In practice I've had so many projects on the boil that not much time has been at leisure to contemplatively record my ( Read more... ) -
Monday Morning Grrrrrrrrrrrr
The alleged choir that I occasionally wave my hands in front of (conduct seems a misleading term, given the typical level of response to my ministrations) is allegedly participating in a "Friday the 13th" concert in a little over a week from now, as well as contributing a disappointingly small number of singers to the full-on Carmina Burana with ( Read more... ) -
Various mumblings and vagaries
daharja and dragon_winikoff dropped in today, which brightened me up from the funk I've been in for the recent past ( Read more... ) -
Grrrrrrrr...
The good:
Went clothes shopping with daharja, winikoff, and dragon_winikoffEmma cooked a fantastic risotto tonight, which of course meant opening a bottle of wine for the recipe ( Read more... ) -
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Thanks guys for the positive comments (you know who you are ( Read more... ) -
Long overdue update
Looking at the recent entries for lj/~phi1ip, it appears I've neglected writing here for some seven relatively eventful months. What to say? Well, I went past 12,175 days in age (that's 33 1/3 RPM^H^H^H years). ( IV, work, etc. ) -
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Rather tired after returning from a long weekend in Tasmania. Rehearsal last night, for two out of four concerts in the next month; I will be singing with Gloriana in a free concert at St Michael's (Collins Street, Melbourne) this Saturday, of Cipriano de Rore's Missa Præter rerum seriem ( Read more... ) -
Memey thing
The instructions for this meme are as follows, but somehow, I don't think they're really meant for my type of music collection...
1. Put your playlist on shuffle ( Read more... ) -
Om mane padme hum
ༀམཎཔདཧ
Boy, isn't Unicode fun! Unfortunately, I can't put in the vowel modifiers without breaking things:
ༀམཎིཔདྨེཧུཾ
Hummmmm.