Comments:

elgan - 2006-12-06 15:02:20
That last bit about the Sprechstimme made me laugh too. I’ve actually done the first movement of Pierrot, and it’s hard as hell, believe me.

By the way, I am still working on the augmented sixth chord joke. I may have something that I’d like to pass by you for approval before it is unleashed on the unsuspecting world at large.
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Claudia - 2006-12-06 15:03:08
Yay for CD! I play the Ellington Suites a lot in the car when the children need to chill. It usually works. I have always wanted a collection of laminated books for the tub. I'm pretty much a shower person now so a shower stand - similar to one for sheet music - for a laminated book would be nice.
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Tia - 2006-12-06 15:32:12
Actually, there is a form of paper in development that will contain a transmitter so that with each issue of a magazine, it changes. It's one page, and you will be able to read different articles by tapping it, most likely with a pointer like one of those little handheld gizmos. Pay for a subscription, and the company will automatically transmit the latest edition when it comes out. I know people who have seen it and they say it's really neat stuff.
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borogoves - 2006-12-06 17:39:33
"1. Someone needs to invent silent newspaper, suitable for reading in bed without waking up your partner with all that incessant rustling." they did. it's called the internet (on a laptop with wi-fi). ;)
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Dandy - 2006-12-06 22:28:02
I've longed for waterproof books to read in the bath for as long as I can remember. There is actually one book that is made of a waterproof substance, but it's, ah, not really the kind of book I could buy without embarrassment.
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Kelley2 - 2006-12-06 23:02:24
I'll take either if you've no takers for them!! As far as points for laughter.. Absolutely!! Music History with Peter Bloom... final exam with a set of definitions at the front... Me (being the airbrain I am) drew a complete blank on all the meanings and wrote nonsense definitions for them. He (having a much better sense of humor than one would think) gave me a 7 out of 10 for the "funniest answers [he'd] ever gotten". If Peter Bloom can do it, I hereby give you permission to as well. I like the waterproof book idea too...
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Kelley2 - 2006-12-06 23:03:46
Oh... and I forgot to say that, ever since I wrote that paper on Wozzeck, I have NOT felt the same about sprechtimme. Blech.
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Kimmikers - 2006-12-07 02:43:08
Been lurking around, reading your diary for a while. Question about the Holst: who directed/played the recording you have? We played the Planets for a marching band show when I was in high school, and I have loved him ever since...
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Harriet - 2006-12-07 07:34:29
borogoves, I tried the computer thing, but my husband finds the whirring of the fan and the keystroke noises more annoying than the newspaper. I, on the other had, find the newspaper infinitely more disturbing. So we are at an impasse. As for waterproof books, I once expressed my desire for such an item to my mother. "They do have them," she said. "They're called library books."
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teranika - 2006-12-07 12:59:19
Also laughed about the Sprechstimme answer...no partial credit but at least a comment is warranted..incidentally, a friend once gave me a waterproof book of erotica short stories for the bath. Cool idea but I didn't like the stories. Alas.
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