Appropriazione = appropriation

[pizzazzle]

This is my latest YouTube revelation:

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It's kind of amazing. Her ear for harmony is awesome and they're right, that progression in the chorus is something else. The singer only has about five notes -- boring ones, do-re-mi-fa-sol, but the bass line is from another planet, chromatic and menacing, and when it suddenly evaporates it's like the sun

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[driftingquill]

I was similarly entranced by the video-- though I did appreciate her skipping the bridge. My least favorite part of the original song, for sure. But I can see your reasoning.

The Philadelphia organ master sounds like a book character. I hope he was wearing a cravat with a wig askew, just for poetic purposes. Similar thoughts for the candlelit yoga. Does one have to finish the session before the candle burns down? Anyone ever accidentally do a downward-facing dog into a pile of wax? Is it obvious that I've never yoga-ed in my life?

Re: books. You recommended To Say Nothing of the Dog which is apparently an homage to Three Men in a Boat, so of course I ran out and picked up the original first. Oh man. Though it was very funny in a surprisingly 1880s kind of way, it was originally conceived as a travelogue and those bits were DULL. Look forward to reading your rec now that I've had the background.

I wonder if you've read/heard of Lev Grossman's The Magicians, which is this weird Harry Potter/Narnia/Disaffected Youth mashup

[pizzazzle]

He was wearing, if not a cravat, at at least a tie and shirtsleeves. But your suggestion is making my memory retroactively add a twinkly smile and an endearing stoop that I don't think he actually had. Am impressed with myself for having inadvertently boxed this man up with my other stock characters with the phrase "kindly old gentleman."

Have never read any Lev Grossman! Will send out my virtual feelers to make the NYPL gnomes put it on a shelf for me somewhere.

It is looking increasingly likely that I will have to work on Thanksgiving, but incoming news reports seem to confirm rumors that I will be around for Christmas Eve in New Boston, and probably a few days beforehand.

[driftingquill]

Trust the news reports... trust the news reports...

Huzzah!