Comments on: How Come Cannibals’ Eyes Are Bigger Than Their Mouths?

By: charles sullivan

charles sullivan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:38:42 +0000

thanks steven. that’s an honest reaction to nico’s fulfilling blog. music to my belly.

By: Sam ZS

Sam ZS — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:23:17 +0000

pahdahubaudie

By: steven

steven — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:05:35 +0000

eh…dr. atomic was only 64% good. music was strong, production strong, vocalists all good – Finley was GREAT.
but the libretto was just a mess. a mess. a messy messy mess. Mark A. was right about ripping it to shreds.

http://www.last.fm/music/Planningtorock/_/I+Wanna+Bite+Ya

By: Rylan

Rylan — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:03:19 +0000

That is disgusting. It makes me hate Leeds even more.

Victor – I saw that article in the Observer today – very interesting, but wholly unsurprising. My mum told me about living as the daughter of a Vietnamese diplomat in the US. She is sure that they were and are watched.

Oh and Nico – interesting thoughts on English boarding schools in the same Observer today…

By: Victor

Victor — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:15:52 +0000

Hey Nico,

Did you read this?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/19/classicalmusicandopera-usnationalsecurity

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:01:28 +0000

I’m puzzled by Mark Adamo’s criticism. As a description it is right enough but he seems to see scraps and ephemera where I feel (and I think Sellars must feel) the intense inner drama both explicated and hidden by the poetry. The triviality of the weight loss conversation was almost unbearable in the light of the moment and what was about to happen. And the confessional character of “Batter My Heart” and the immensity of the musical setting make it a shattering ending to Act I – just as Aschenbach’s almost imperceptible “I love you” is a shattering ending to Act I of Death in Venice.

I will not see the Met production until the repeat simulcast, but the descriptions I have read make it seem, like last season’s Peter Grimes, yet another adaptation of the Laugh-In set. I was taken with the immensity of the desert and the Lucretian scurrying around in the Sellars/Child dvd. I will keep an open mind, though, and am eager for the talk that Nico promises.

By: ben

ben — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:32:18 +0000

Don’t. Eat. Me.

And I agree with Chris. What where these herbs?

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:30:18 +0000

How can they print that… without specifying WHICH “fresh herbs” were used.

By: Habibi

Habibi — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:15:39 +0000

I guess that if they ate the “whole” person they’d be greedy and obese.
Though, if you talk about fillet de garÃ§on it would become something you’d want to have. Thank good I am almost vegetarian, so I must be sure I never go out with an onion!

By: Paula "Mad Angel" Warner

Paula "Mad Angel" Warner — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:41:49 +0000

On the Stones old album, Undercover, there is a song called Too Much Blood in which Mick does a great rap about a cannibalistic murder, and a bit later we get to hear him use the “f” word. [sigh] Maybe it’s juvenile of me, but I do looooove to hear Mick use the “f” word in a song…any song…

What if….Starbuck’s used StarStar for an ad campaign? I mean, they’d have to change it ever so slightly…

“She’s a starbukcer starbucker starbucker starbucker star….”

Probably wouldn’t be the most successful ad campaign, except for women of a Certain Age who would be hearing Mick n their heads, singing it the way it was MEANT to be sung.

Gimme a cappuccino and make it a double. Tee-hee.