City of New Orleans

19/03/2012

I was a child when this song came out. Now I have found it because I searched “Rampart and Dumaine” on the theory that I would pedantically explain to you that that is the address of Congo Square. However, this is what I got; apparently the Beatles stand at that corner as well. Ciudad de … More City of New Orleans

At Claiborne and LaSalle…

18/03/2012

…today, in New Orleans, I took these pictures, among others. I should crop and center them, I know. Many of the pictures I took are even less professional than this because with the glare, I really couldn’t see through the lens and was just clicking randomly. Axé.

Wislawa Szymborska

17/03/2012

Hunger Camp at Jasło Write it. Write. In ordinary ink on ordinary paper: they were given no food, they all died of hunger. “All. How many? It’s a big meadow. How much grass for each one?” Write: I don’t know. History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as … More Wislawa Szymborska

Sergei Lemeshev

16/03/2012

This is another famous aria from Sadko. By the time most of Lemeshev’s recordings were made, he had only one fully functioning lung. Do not count the diamonds in caves of stone. Do not count the pearls in the southern sea, of distant India so full of wonders. There is a wondrous stone, a ruby … More Sergei Lemeshev

Viking Guest

15/03/2012

There is Sadko in the underwater kingdom. Now he is receiving a Viking guest. I do not really know a great deal about opera, and I did not know this opera, but listen to the song of the Viking Guest! The sea waves rage against the rocks but broken they retreat in a cloud of … More Viking Guest