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Re: Edythe

Steve "Random Lunatic" Huff — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:07:32 -0000

Gulp.

Re: Steve Huff's Random Lunatic News

Steve "Random Lunatic" Huff — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:53:57 -0000

That is so unsurprising. It was really over the top.

Re: Steve Huff's Random Lunatic News

Steve "Random Lunatic" Huff — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:55:49 -0000

That made me snort Propel Fitness Water through my nose. Bravo, Miss Grace. Bravo.

Re: Steve Huff's Random Lunatic News

Steve "Random Lunatic" Huff — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:43:50 -0000

Thank you, honey (that's not condescending, y'all, I'm talking to my wife) -- I was reaching for the schoolyard analogy and couldn't quite get it. And you're right, I think Moe does that on a regular basis. I think that in politics, it is valid to answer your opponent's slams as often as possible. In these situations, though, it's precisely what you said.

Re: I Am Not Kidding

Steve "Random Lunatic" Huff — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:46:49 -0000

It just isn't clear. I vaguely remember from one of the music history classes I took in college that the story was that he wasn't supposed to be a castrati, that SOMETHING happened, etc. There's doubt about that, if you look at Wikipedia or find the rare, salacious take on famous singers (usually a very dusty book lurking in some used bookstore in the Northeast somewhere). The spin always was that the Church put the kibosh on the castrati thing BIG TIME by the time Rossini was flourishing, which would have been the early 1800s. Their heyday was Handel's time, about 60 years earlier. But with Moreschi, it could be that his folks got some sort of weird wild hair and decided they wanted to see if you could still preserve that boy soprano sound. Well, hell. Now you've got me curious. Just when I thought I was kind of out of music, the closet scholar in me has begun rearing his scary head again.

Re: mabel moments

Steve "Random Lunatic" Huff — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:42:51 -0000

I aims ta pleeze. Even if the very idea of castrati makes me squeamish.

Re: Steve Huff's Random Lunatic News

Steve "Random Lunatic" Huff — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:26:52 -0000

Bjorling is actually my all-time favorite. But for this aria, and for a lot of Verdi, I want to hear a voice like Giacomini's. But as a tenor, I have tried to emulate Bjorling's sound, which was lyric but heroic, and healthy too. Giacomini was awesome in his prime, but it wasn't really a vocally healthy sound. He almost sounds like a bass who managed to push his voice into the tenor register. I love that, but I know it wasn't good for him.

Re: Steve Huff's Random Lunatic News

Steve "Random Lunatic" Huff — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:40:27 -0000

I should add -- I've realized one thing about this site -- I had to have a place where I didn't feel obligated to write about any one thing or another, and where I could say whatever I wanted and not feel pressed to elaborate. Because my other writing is work, I need a place where I can be elliptical. Where I can throw out a random, goofy thought, no matter if it makes sense or not. That's this site. Hope that explains where I'm coming from a little better.

Re: Steve Huff's Random Lunatic News

Steve "Random Lunatic" Huff — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:35:42 -0000

I'm not getting into it. A fraction of people who read my true crime sites read this one. On my popular sites I sometimes feel constrained to explain some things because I have so many readers. Not here. I'm just not. I'm not going to blog about it, or get into it much, anymore (If you look in my archives, you will find a couple of recent, political posts -- made before I got tired of the subject). Politics bore me, in general.

As a journalist I don't cover politics in general, and I've never signed anything for anyone for whom I've written that constrains me from expressing a view, so I will state who I'm voting for. But I'm really sorry -- I don't feel inclined or obligated to discuss it. I don't like arguing politics and find most political arguments tiresome and irritating.

For the record, though, I've voted Republican over the last 20 years or so much more often than I've voted Democrat. If I were to register, I'd register Independent. And that will never, ever change.

Re: Blogging Via Typewriter. - I must admit to never thinking about the 17 other...

Steve "Random Lunatic" Huff — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:30:00 -0000

Dude. I aims ta please. And edumacate. I think my inner music major has begun lately to rebel against the writerly-ness of my life. This is how he makes himself known.

Re: Steve Huff's Random Lunatic News

Steve "Random Lunatic" Huff — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:19:55 -0000

You know, I bet they're hiding something about this discovery, like he titled it "Essen Meine Scheisse II" or some such thing.

Re: Steve Huff's Random Lunatic News

Steve "Random Lunatic" Huff — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:08:08 -0000

Recommended because I really need to hear the piano with the voice in this piece, and it didn't sound right on the speakers I had. Sounded perfect on headphones, though. Thought the song might have been recorded with rather low levels.

Re: Steve Huff's Random Lunatic News

Steve "Random Lunatic" Huff — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:00:33 -0000

Got much love for my homey, yo.

Re: Steve Huff's Random Lunatic News

Steve "Random Lunatic" Huff — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:49:24 -0000

Yakety sax would have been funny on this video.

Re: Steve Huff's Random Lunatic News

Steve "Random Lunatic" Huff — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:40:46 -0000

Mary, did you selectively misread or just plain old misread what I wrote? The title of the post reads "EMOTIONALLY retarded vulture-like."

I am offended that you jumped in without double-checking yourself on that comment. Saying someone is EMOTIONALLY retarded has no relation to the pejorative use of the word retarded. Mr. Morson demonstrated the emotional retardation native to one too many journalists when he tweeted that funeral. As a journalist myself I understand the need to be objective and not involve yourself in the emotion inherent in a story, but I've seen far too many instances where it looked as though the journalist in question just didn't have the empathy in the first place. To be emotionally retarded is to literally have your emotional development stunted. The literal meaning of the word retarded in this instance has little relation to the uglier meaning of the word.

I have an autistic sister, son, and a daughter with Asperger's Syndrome. I would not, and in this case did not use that word in the sense you implied. Try learning a little about a person before you jump to conclusions. Or better, try just ACTUALLY READING AND UNDERSTANDING ALL THE WORDS THEY WROTE.

Re: RMN ‘Tweets’ the funeral of 3-year old boy

Steve "Random Lunatic" Huff — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:35:17 -0000

Vultures tweet. Who knew?

Re: I'm not voting Republican this year...

Steve "Random Lunatic" Huff — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:09:19 -0000

I think you're right. If his style in those press conferences is any indication, he'll be a formidable opponent for any Dem who faces him in a presidential race in the future. I've grown more liberal as I've aged, but I was impressed.

Re: I'm not voting Republican this year...

Steve "Random Lunatic" Huff — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:09:10 -0000

Re: Steve Huff's Random Lunatic News

Steve "Random Lunatic" Huff — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:50:14 -0000

I was being facetious.

Re: Poor MSNBC

Steve "Random Lunatic" Huff — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:06:31 -0000

Force of habit. I've watched both conventions since 1976. I am usually fairly apolitical, but when it comes time to elect the president, I make it a point to watch the conventions and as much coverage as possible from there on out. Then, after the election, I usually just go back to hating politics again, no matter who wins.

Re: Steve Huff's Random Lunatic News

Steve "Random Lunatic" Huff — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:14:54 -0000

It was Nikola Tesla's death ray, Jenny. That's what it was, I'm tellin' ya. Toss a xanax for me, wouldja?