"Since they're part of the Rewards Network, I figured I'd pay them a visit. Similar to Farmer Boys if you've been there - in other words, a combination of fast food and a restaurant. Good bacon…"
- Ontario Emperor
P.D.Q. Bach [pseudonym of Peter Schickele] – Toot Suite for calliope 4-hands, S212§, (O. K Chorale) - http://www.last.fm/music...
This piece consists of an Aria, a Recitative, a Ground, another Recitative, and another Aria. I can truly say that the Ground ("Dying, and yet in death alive") is one of my favorite pieces of music. Not just the cello or the singing, but also the double reeds - Schickele notes that many composers wrote for double reeds, but only PDQ Bach wrote for double reeds without using an oboe or bassoon....
- Ontario Emperor
For once, I'm actually listening to music from CDs that I own, rather than just streaming from last.fm randomly. This is from "The Wurst of PDQ Bach," which also includes the oratorio "The Seasonings" ("Bide thy thyme" et al), and the excellent New Horizons in Music Appreciation, a play by play of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
- Ontario Emperor
And if V sees this, yes it's a Vanguard album.
- Ontario Emperor
I believe that's the one that features the BargainCounterTenor.
- m9m
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mwm... "When PDQ Bach started doing public concerts in 1965, I got together with Russell Oberlin but he was just starting a year off that turned out to be his retirement. I'm sorry that I never got to work with him, but on the other hand it led to my finding John Ferrante, another countertenor with a woderful robust sound, with whom I worked for a...
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- Ontario Emperor
37 songs on my last.fm playlist are no longer available, including Devo's "C'mon," Dilba's "Miracles," and Jerry Harrison's "Man With a Gun." Disappointed.
I think it's Warner Bros. that pulled their licenses last week from Last.FM because they could get a better deal with MySpace Music. Very disappointing.
- Dana Franks
via twhirl
Hmm...Talking Heads' "Born Under Punches" and Madonna's "Like a Prayer" still played for me this morning. Interesting...
- Ontario Emperor
Hm. I must use last.fm in some oddball way; I've never played songs from the site. I just use iTunes, find last.fm interesting to view my listening habits.
- Phil Crissman
I'm probably the oddball. I've never installed any of last.fm's software. I just select items I like, add them to the playlist, and listen away.
- Ontario Emperor
I scrobble from iTunes, Pandora and I use the last.fm software to listen
- Jeff Quinton
I don't usually play songs on the site unless someone wants me to hear something i don't have and lst.fm has the whole song.
- edythe
On May 17, 2009, the Dilba song came up in my last.fm. I'll re-check "C'mon" and "Man With a Gun."
- John E. Bredehoft
Neither "C'mon" nor "Man With a Gun" are available. But at least we have Dilba.
- John E. Bredehoft
They change periodically without logic. Also, check for variant names. Sometimes the (album version) or a subtitled track will be streamable.
- Michael W. May
I was wondering why this didn't appear in my Empoprises feed. i forgot that my last.fm journal is a blog feed, not a last.fm feed.
- John E. Bredehoft
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Empoprise-BI: This blog gets personal again - the sale of Motorolas biometric software business to Safran is complete - http://empoprise-bi.blogspot.com/2009...
Well, THIS was a surprise, to say the least...
- Ontario Emperor
And it took over 5 1/2 months to get the necessary government approvals, but they are now done http://www.motorola.com/busines... "Motorola Has Sold its Printrak Biometrics Software Business to Sagem Sécurité, a Division of Paris-based SAFRAN"
- John E. Bredehoft
Wow, there are still people who are new followers to ontarioemperor even with the lack of activity (except for the StumbleUpons in the wrong account). I have moved to empoprises. - http://friendfeed.com/empopri...
GRRRRR...Thank you for the new name. I've been looking for it for 2 days now.
- Anika Malone
holy crap, you have a real name? I thought you legally changed it... ;)
- Michael W. May
Tina, I follow both of me too. :) Actually, I am retaining the ontarioemperor accounts, primarily because I have a couple of non-transferable services that are tied to it.
- John E. Bredehoft
wow, there are still people who are new followers to @oemperor even with the lack of activity. i have moved to @empoprises
"...figure skating is, to put it mildly, a bit more complex. I suspect that I'll understand the offsides rule in soccer (football) before I understand a triple whatever vs. a double whatever. Which is why I'm confining myself to talking about the music."
- Ontario Emperor
Technically, this is not a FeedBurner issue. I checked a blog that uses the old FeedBurner, and its feed appears to be fine. But is is a FeedProxy issue?
- Ontario Emperor
Ah, might as well bump this. Oddly enough, I haven't found any mrontemp-only things to write about in the last few days. Even the politics stuff and the religion stuff has had a business bent to it...so far.
- John E. Bredehoft
Part of Duncan Riley's piece, if you haven't read it: "140 of Britain’s biggest rock and pop stars have joined to form the Featured Artists Coalition, a group that aims to speak collectively on behalf of musicians, instead of the music industry."
- Ontario Emperor
ontarioemperor is personal, and the name that I've used online since 1998. empoprises is my series of vertical-topic blogs, including a music blog.
- Ontario Emperor
Ever since Shey asked his "Why 2 accounts?" question on Friday, I haven't been able to get it out of my head. Shey unknowingly touched on some issues that I've been ruminating about, in some cases for years. More later, but the fact that I retrieved the Empoprises FriendFeed remote key (so that I could log in to fftogo) may indicate my possible change of emphasis.
- John E. Bredehoft
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