(Sorry about the heading.) I have just been reading in the new Private Eye about EMI's latest wheeze to cash in on Fifty Shades of Grey. I have not yet felt the need to read the book but in it apparently the Peter Phillips recording of Spem in Alium is identified as suitable background material for more daring bedroom activity and a compilation CD is to rushed out this month. The Eye points out that the work only last 12 minutes (enough for some maybe) and that the title is not actually connected with ejaculation.
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Can it really be true that, as the Eye claims, Peter Phillips is providing an English translation of the text that gamely mistranslates 'be mindful of our humility' as 'be mindful of our humiliation' ? -
According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.Comment
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I think that gay men have been well aware of the nutritional value for some time.
The Mail is simply a Johnny-come-lately in its discovery.Comment
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... surely Brumel's Earthquake Mass more suitable?
It's what happens for us here...
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At the more extreme end of the market Sheep May Safely Graze, and long may it continue.SteveComment
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Originally posted by jean View Post
Jean, you have a sense of humour! Lovely. As for music to accompany it surely has to be Chopin? The Minute Waltz?
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Well, I do like to think so, but that was PE's joke not mine...Comment
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Oh no, not even as played by Rubenstein. Feldman's SQ2 must surely be the work of choice, and if a recording, preferably that by the Flux Quartet. Though I suppose there might be those who would yearn for a little vibrato.Originally posted by Anna View Post Jean, you have a sense of humour! Lovely. As for music to accompany it surely has to be Chopin? The Minute Waltz?Comment
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I am not even going to answer that Bryn because,Originally posted by Bryn View Post I have censored myself!! Besides, Feldman sounds too tantric for words! How does one have the time to prepare a meal? Is there a loo-break? Give me Chopin any time. It's a lot easier.
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I don't think so; Nicholas Parsons always says that it fades away.Originally posted by Anna View Post Jean, you have a sense of humour! Lovely. As for music to accompany it surely has to be Chopin? The Minute Waltz?
When I saw this thread, I thought that it might be about new ways to propagate garlic. I confess to being a little disappointed.Comment
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Well, some kind of tric(k), anyway...Originally posted by Anna View Post
But what about Sorabji's first numbered symphony for piano solo, the Tantrik? It does at least play for several hours (or will do when someone actually plays it)...Comment
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That reminds one of the similarity of Tantric sex to trying to get the gas man to repair your boiler:Originally posted by ahinton View Post
You stay in all day but nobody comes.
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Don't forget your coat on the way out.Originally posted by Don Petter View PostThat reminds one of the similarity of Tantric sex to trying to get the gas man to repair your boiler:
You stay in all day but nobody comes.Comment
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