Food Inc

I watched this documentary about a month ago, very interesting.
Personally, I'm not a very big 'GO GREEN/ORGANIC!' fan. Any activism for me is a little too extreme. I think that they are right in some of what they are saying, and their thoughts' nice. But.... sometimes, their methods, the way they just force their ideology onto yours.... they almost act like what they're fighting against, just the other way around.
But anyway, it's an incredibly informative movie to watch. It has around 10 parts I believe, so it may take a while.



Speaking of chickens (featured throughout the film). We had 'free-ranged' (or w/e you call it) chicken the other day. Personally, I think it does taste better. The texture of the meat, composition of the chicken overall, is quite different.

To go along with this video, is an episode from the radio program Ideas, by CBC radio
http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2010/05/17/have-your-meat-and-eat-it-too-part-1-2-listen/
The three segments of ~52min episodes explores the western culture of meat, arguments from both sides, etc. Again, really interesting.
If there's something to be taken out of these episodes:
1. Reduce your meat intake.
2. be very careful when making food choices for your baby/toddler/kid - too much is not good, but vegeterianism isn't the best way either, they still need all those nutrients to grow, people!
3. Eat everything! Do what Asians/natives/probably all cultures but the North Americans do, eat every part of the animal! (On a side note, pig ears = <3)


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BB: Jean Picard, Henri Victor Regnault, Ernest Hemingway

Carnival of Venice

To be honest, I don't know anything about this song; have not studied it in any sense, etc. But, it is one of those tunes that everyone just knows.
Carnival of Venice
On youtube, there are many, many, many different version of it. The one that it is apparently originally made for, is for the solo trumpet.

Solo trumpet - Maurice André
(his version is quite stunning, but, a little hard to recognize due to the virtuostic components. Should start getting familiar at around 1:23)


Flute version - Viviana Guzman


Tuba version! He looks like he's having a LOT of fun play it =)

Summer - Piano to do List

NTS: (properly learn to play these)

All your ARCT songs:
1. Bach english suite
2. Beethoven sonata
3. Brahms ballade
4. Debussy
5. Diabolical Suggestions (maybe)
6. Revolutionary Etude

Also:
1. Etude op10. no3
2. All those Chopin nocturnes you've started
3. Scriabin left handed prelude and nocturne
4. Flight of the bumblebee
5. Requiem for a Dream (touch up on it)
6. Go find one or two other show pieces (i.e. Etude op10, no13)

Visual Orgasms

*NWS*

THE WALTZ from Chad Michael Ward on Vimeo.



Subliminal from Damir Doma on Vimeo.

Il pleure dans mon coeur

Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville;
Quelle est cette langueur
Qui pénètre mon coeur?

Ô bruit doux de la pluie
Par terre et sur les toits!
Pour un coeur qui s'ennuie,
Ô le chant de la pluie!

Il pleure sans raison
Dans ce coeur qui s'écoeure.
Quoi! nulle trahison?...
Ce deuil est sans raison.

C'est bien la pire peine
De ne savoir pourquoi
Sans amour et sans haine
Mon coeur a tant de peine!

~Paul Verlaine

Claude Debussy (1862-1918): "Il pleure dans mon coeur"


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Bloody Thursday