Today’s Sketch is another statue from the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s collection of Indian sculpture. This one is of two Buddhist monks and the attendants from the Gandhara region.
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Today’s Rhapsodies is… Okay, I confess it’s more Liszt but hear me out. Generally when everybody says Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies what they mean is Rhapsody # 2 (and to a lesser extent 10) Forgetting that there are 19 of them. So with that being said I thought it would be good to start addressing some of these lesser known pieces.
So how about we start at the beginning with the first Hungarian Rhapsody, also known as Rêves et fantaisies.
http://youtu.be/EU0QysGPMPI
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Well last night the neighborhood had the second power outage in a month. Which made the evening interesting to say the least. The worst thing about them is they seem to know when I’m my zone working on something and haven’t saved for the last ten minutes. So therefore along with the aggravation of knowing you won’t get anything done for the next couple of hours there’s the added aggravation of loosing what you’ve been working on.
The first time it happened It caused a bit of a panic attack since it happened in the middle of the day so all I could see going out was the computer so I briefly worried. If it was technical difficulties. After a couple of minutes I realized it was the whole house and,after talking to some of the neighbors, the surrounding two blocks. (If you want a good laugh at sheer irrationality. This is one of the times I really regret having read the “Emberverse” series. Even if it’s something that occurs to you for a whole five seconds suddenly realizing just how dependent on all of your toys gets you where you live)
Anyway the first time I spent the rest of the day trying to work in the library and after that Barnes & Noble. Thanks to Seattle City Light’s Webpage I was able to keep tabs on the progress of the repair job. So was able to go home when it was done and reset all of the clocks not connected to computers.
When it happened last night it wasn’t quite so bad after all this time I had experience so this time It was mostly a nuisance. (also i was working on an InDesign document which unlike Photoshop makes emergency backups. The main downsides was the outage had taken place much later in the day and on a Sunday so I really didn’t have much hopes of the repairs being done before sunset. So it was a matter of waiting for it to be late enough to go to sleep.
I hope this will be the last time… but since the outage occurred in nearly the exact same place in two weeks I’m not getting my hopes up.
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Today’s Rhapsody is Rhapsody in White by Barry White and the Love Unlimited Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxM__StszE8
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Today’s museum sketch are from two rubbings of a series that were on display at the Seattle Asian Art Museum depicting the Eighteen Arhats (or Lohans) attributed to the monk Guan Xiu. The one on the top is Pantha the Younger (pinyin: Zhùchá Bàntu?ji? Z?nzh?) and the one on the bottom is Kanaka the Vasta (pinyin: Ji?nuòji? Fácu? Z?nzh?)
Regrettably they weren’t there long enough as I was very much taken in by them. The control of the line to create these marvelous grotesques made me think of Guan Xiu as an ancient Chinese version of Basil Wolverton.
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Okay I confess, I’m really stretching it this week. This is Oriental Sky or Scarlet Perception from the official Soundtrack of Scarlet Weather Rhapsody by U2 Akiyama. I’ll be completely honest in admitting I’m not completely sure if it’s actually a Rhapsody or not, but it has something that I like which is the violin being used in pop applications. I don’t know why you don’t hear the violin in rock and roll and similar styles more often. It’s so versatile that what it could do to a bands sound are nearly endless. My personal belief is because it takes so long to get good that by the time they do the artists are taking themselves way too seriously.
http://youtu.be/dMVb81cMcGk
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