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I got my online handle, 10 years ago, from a Tolkien name generator: calenmundoiel. Never spent the time to study any form of Elvish (though Quenya is nearly a requirement for reading the Silmarillion), but look what I just learned!

The name Legolas is a Silvan dialect form of pure Sindarin Laegolas, which means "Greenleaf" [...] It consists of ( Read more... )

While I'm loving on Nino, there's also my beloved performance of どこにでもある唄 from the Beautiful World DVD. I could ramble my way through this too, but maybe another time.

Translation by yarukizero available here.

HEY, LJ. It’s been eight months and I’m only posting here because twitter cannot handle the essay I am about to write about Japanese pop music. What’s up.

( I said 'essay' and I meant 'essay'. )

Just emailed Richard Brook at richard@r-brook.co.uk (subject: I believe in Sherlock Holmes, body: Moriarty was real)... This better be Moffat/Gatiss trolling us; I am clinging to canon.

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The NC Symphony opened their season tonight with the free Pops in the City at the Raleigh Amphitheater. I'm nothing of a music critic, but slvrstarlight17 requested a top-3 highlights. This is more a brief recount of the whole concert, since it wasn't terribly long.

It opened with Strauss' Radetzky March, about which I have nothing to say.
Beethoven's Overture ( Read more... )