accompaniment upon the bongos
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incandescensJigsaw progresses apace; laziness progresses apacer; some writing actually got done this evening, when I managed to fling aside the temptations of piracy.
I do not like the soundtrack to the Phantom of the Opera movie. It's not dreadful, but the voices are not the quality I'd expect. (Except perhaps Christine, whose voice is actually quite good.) Was watching Topsy-Turvy on the television earlier, and they managed to cast that movie with a set of good singers, so it can be done. In fact, it is painfully obvious that it can be done, and -- in the case of the Lloyd-Webber movie -- it was not done. Annoying.
Oh well. Must book tickets to The Incredibles for family outing on New Year's Eve. Must arrange Chinese takeaway afterwards. And must take work suit jacket for drycleaning tomorrow -- I keep on forgetting to do that while I'm actually at work in it.
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"Ladies," quoth Mr. Peters from without, and his Voice was now rough with Anger, "I am waiting; and the Captain's Men will break this Door down at once, if you do not open it forthwith."
"Alas, my dear Sir!" cried Seleta, raising her Head from the Album of erotic Postcards in which she had suddenly become absorb'd. "I fear that we lack the Means to grant your polite Request."
"And what, Madame," cried Mr. Peters, "could you possibly lack, in a Bower so luxurious as to make the fam'd Pleasure-Palaces of Khazad-Dûm seem as Mean as a Shepherd's Cot?"
"I refer, Sir," quoth she, "to the Key; for as you surely must recollect, earlier this Evening you lock'd us in our Chambers from the Outside. Thus no matter how greatly we wish to oblige you, we could no more open this Door, than we could adorn one of the Nazgûl's fell Beasts in an evening Gown and Tiara, and train it to recite Free Verse whilst its dark Master accompanied it upon the Bongos."
Frodo Hill
I do not like the soundtrack to the Phantom of the Opera movie. It's not dreadful, but the voices are not the quality I'd expect. (Except perhaps Christine, whose voice is actually quite good.) Was watching Topsy-Turvy on the television earlier, and they managed to cast that movie with a set of good singers, so it can be done. In fact, it is painfully obvious that it can be done, and -- in the case of the Lloyd-Webber movie -- it was not done. Annoying.
Oh well. Must book tickets to The Incredibles for family outing on New Year's Eve. Must arrange Chinese takeaway afterwards. And must take work suit jacket for drycleaning tomorrow -- I keep on forgetting to do that while I'm actually at work in it.
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"Ladies," quoth Mr. Peters from without, and his Voice was now rough with Anger, "I am waiting; and the Captain's Men will break this Door down at once, if you do not open it forthwith."
"Alas, my dear Sir!" cried Seleta, raising her Head from the Album of erotic Postcards in which she had suddenly become absorb'd. "I fear that we lack the Means to grant your polite Request."
"And what, Madame," cried Mr. Peters, "could you possibly lack, in a Bower so luxurious as to make the fam'd Pleasure-Palaces of Khazad-Dûm seem as Mean as a Shepherd's Cot?"
"I refer, Sir," quoth she, "to the Key; for as you surely must recollect, earlier this Evening you lock'd us in our Chambers from the Outside. Thus no matter how greatly we wish to oblige you, we could no more open this Door, than we could adorn one of the Nazgûl's fell Beasts in an evening Gown and Tiara, and train it to recite Free Verse whilst its dark Master accompanied it upon the Bongos."
Frodo Hill
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Re: Frodo Hill
Date: 2004-12-29 03:16 am (UTC)Re: Frodo Hill
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Date: 2004-12-29 06:14 pm (UTC)also re: Frodo Hill
Date: 2004-12-29 12:39 pm (UTC)Re: also re: Frodo Hill
Date: 2004-12-29 06:15 pm (UTC)