Post something just for the heck of it

[belamyi]

I was "revisiting" some old bills, and I realized I had forgotten I had one more Hotmail account (four, so far)...
Not that many old mails since 2017, only four dozens or so.

 

[belamyi]

Como diría el comentarista medio abecedero: "pero el tuit ese, ¿ha dicho alguna mentira?". Pero no, en este caso, es que toca el "y tú más" porque, a ver, quién va a masacrar más y mejor, una nación asiática (o semiasiática, como Rusia), con o sin el invento del comunismo, o una panda de mediocres medioafricanos al sur de la Europa civilizada, con la absurda excusa que se quiera.

Seguro que hay algún otro "absurdo" por ahí, dispuesto a responder a ese ilustre absurdo con algo así como un "Menos Vascongadas, Caperucita", porque si hay quien desprecia el bombardeo de Guernica como un mito inflado, a propósito de "solo unos pocos cientos de muertos", con esa misma lógica, dónde quedarían esos mismos "pocos cientos de muertos", localizados en un conflicto de pueblo entre gente que se odia en un rincón perdido de España y de Europa, mientras el resto del país, el continente, o la propia región de ese "conflicto" ("guerra" no, por favor), prosperaba hasta niveles nunca antes alcanzados en la historia, comparados con los miles de muertos, miseria, fchas, ratas y cucarachas y ruina y aislamiento de un país entero, por una supuesta guerra, cruzada, rebelión de "liberación", "autodefensa" o "salvación" naTSional.

Dado el nivel que hay, a Reverte hay que casi agradecerle que no monte esperpentos más dignos de Dani Mateo que de un auténtico "patriota español", o lo que quieran pretender ser, como el payaso mamandurrias que se hace fotos con un casco de tercio vestido de sport, pero es realmente patético pretender buscar orgullos donde abundan más las miserias, querer estudiar y aprender la historia solo para acabar montando el discurso que a algunos pobres les hace sentir menos avergonzados, acomplejados y desamparados ante una realidad incómoda, y esconder las propias vergüenzas, para señalar las ajenas, sean las del Imperio Británico o las del terror Khmer, para acomodar la flojedad de tragar con lo que sea, mientras no tengan que cambiar de lengua y nacionalidad. Pobre gntz más esclava de sus ancestros, que dueños de su propio futuro y el legado que puedan dejar.

- - - Updated - - -

Tened el valor de reconocer que el comunismo os importa tan poco como los muertos: solo necesitáis agarrar el clavo ardiendo que os haga sentir más confortablemente calentitos porque, por Dios, para "absurdas afirmaciones", tenemos tomos y tomos de comentarios de los palmeros que aplauden a Reverte por artículos como el cuento ese de Caperucita, pero le ignoran olímpicamente cuando don Arturo apela, por ejemplo, a ser más instruido y menos... carpetovetón.

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[frankfrank]

73! (a few minutes ago...)

 

[Kulindahr]

^
Wow.

Except....

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[johaninsc]

since I'm in a numismatic mood at the moment


my antoninianus of Florian, 276 AD

View attachment 1471650View attachment 1471651

 

[ChristianGianni]

 

[Charon]

 

[belamyi]

"In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside." .- He Ho

 

[belamyi]

^ Guess she meant that big things can crush you and turn you either into a pulp or into a diamond, but the little griefs destroy you inside like a stealthy cancer.

 

[belamyi]

 

[frankfrank]

Turn your...WHAT???...back on Sunday November 1st.

 

[Kyanimal]

^ I have to admit that, yeah, I've tried that. However, mine's not long enough to go in the hole. ( )

 

[ChristianGianni]

 

[ShadowCat]

I was so bored I painted my toenails blue!

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[belamyi]

Faster tempos does not mean "speed metal": the problem is that there is a terribly dull modern understanding of classical, and of art music in general, which finds paces "fine" at slower tempos than those demanded even by musicians, like Rachmaninov, who happened to be alive and have the opportunity of having recorded their own performances of their own compositions.

There is a wide margin of range in all tempo indications (when they are not lacking), and they are anyway a more complex matter than a mere beat mark, even in Beethoven, who actually marked them, all the more so in a composer like Mozart, who often did not care to mark "adagio" or "vivace": the writing itself marks the tempo, because you can not expect to perform Telemann's "Lilliput" piece at a "lento" tempo.

I like performances, what I dislike is the wrong opinions having them pass for what they are not. If you do not like dissenting opinions, you can obviously stick to your own parallel views of the world.

 

[belamyi]

Maybe I dropped too much information all at once: I remarked that staff notation, starting from the note values, but extendig beyond that to the whole texture of the composition, is a surer indication than one's prejudices or "feelings".

The fact that people like Karajan had to suppress reprises in menuet tempos in Mozart showss how dismayingly dragging "common practice" had become, by distorting and imposing a certain wrong view of "the composer's likely intention".

It is a fossilization phaenomenon extending beyond art music: one can see how there are pop covers prefer to go for a different view of old opo classics which academically turn an original tune into a different one with a less upbeat tempo.

What is important is not to mix up one's feelings for a certain score, and intending to make it pass for the "intentions" of the original composer: again the scores are the best recordings we have of their "likely intentions", and people usually take for granted one's ability to actually read the composition beyond basic staff values.

That is why even very authorized and renowned performers and scholars can not discern a composition by Leopold Mozart from one by Wolfgang Mozart judging only by the score, until they find a document labeling them right.

In any case, music can be sedate without being distastefully dragging.

 

[frankfrank]

^ But...nobody else (except maybe those who are also in your household, if you live with anybody) is likely to ever see your toenails, at least until swimming weather returns.

On the other hand, in 2017 (when I became 70 years old), I briefly thought of dyeing my hair green, which of course would have been VERY visible. In the end, I decided against it...because I live in Chicago...and, which I don't know, could be a "gang color" and, therefore dangerous...???