The Quick Brown Silver
So Stephenson's Quicksilver is out and Morris pointed me at a Quicksilver
wiki, which she says she found through metafilter, which reminded me that I didn't have a link to it or even
memepool from here, yet. It's true; I'm a consumer and aggregator of aggregations. The logical culmination of aggressive passive entertain fixations.
Soon, stormagnet will finish the house copy of Quicksilver and I'll get my peepers on it. Until then, I'm trying to avoid spoilers, so I can't even tell you
if that wiki pointed at above is cool or not. I put away the tab as soon as I realized what it was.
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Love is a Gypsy Child
I'm not sure why an opera about a
Gypsy among the Spanish is sung in French,
but I rather liked this version of Carmen.
Of course, I say that having seen no other version.
I say that unable to recall having seen any other opera.
I would not, however, say it's my favorite opera, despite its reputation as such, world-wide, in different languages. It's the story of a Gypsy and what may be
her desire to die in order to atone for the damage she's wrought upon one man's life, or perhaps she's pursuing the freedom to be herself even if it kills her, or
maybe she's a femme fatale, so eager to pull strings without considering the consequences, that her
end is as foreordained as it is irrelevant to her decisions.
In any case, the casting for the title role was great on this version and everyone else was pretty decent. It's a film of a proper opera and so the cameras are
distant from the action and it wasn't always immediately obvious to me where my attention should be. It's subtitled, but only in places where the French becomes
interesting. For phrases the translator presumes everyone knows, no subtitling. That caused some disorientation. But the music is memorable and even familiar,
though the only images I associate with it are Bugs Bunny cartoons of Bugs as a matador. Hardly inexplicable.
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