FAVORITE PERSONAL AD OF THE DAY:

Artsy, most assuredly, not Fartsy m4w 51

A review I wrote says something about the reviewer: "...The allusion of its title to the well-known marriage vow, the composer's own references to the inevitable vicissitudes of two people over the course of a long marriage, its haunting opening, and its sustained, deep sense of longing, make it difficult to resist its invitation to muse about the joys, and even more so the sorrows, of romantic love. As the music begins, we are greeted by an opening of extraordinarily hollow and sensual beauty. There is the uncanny perception that we've engaged the work at some point beyond the real beginning (This recalls the famous example of Beethoven's First Symphony, whose opening has been declared by some analysts to be a cadence -- a transitional passage in tonal music which ordinarily serves to connect parts of a composition to other parts). In poetic terms, the opening ...suggests that the uninvited listener has opened a chamber door to reveal two lovers in the midst of an earnest conversation, haunted by deeply troubling issues, and clinging to each other's words. These are words of devotion and sorrow, words struggling to analyze and solve the problems, words intended to deal with the mysteries of human nature.


"The violin and piano ...[continue caressing] one another, and even in those passages which might be described as representative of conflict (the composer himself writes that the two instruments can be viewed as "interacting perhaps as a couple over the course of a long marriage, full of harmony as well as conflicts"), the bonds remain fixed and well articulated. Through the giant cascades of sound, the very loud and technically difficult keyboard-spanning rolling figurations for the pianist, the large interval leaps and biting multiple-stops by the violinist, there survives an indestructible sweetness in the harmonic relationship and a richly woven network of interlocking rhythmic fibers. One cannot escape the notion that loyalty and devotion are still present amidst the conflict and torrents of sound.


"As ...[the music] goes on in search of its final resolution, about the musical attainment of which the pen of the composer is deliciously ambiguous, the two characters draw closer together. They have not resolved all of their issues, but they've grown tired of analyzing their relationship and the conundrums it poses. Slowly and tenderly the two lovers fall back into one another's arms, and, once there, they become oblivious to everything, except for the sounds of their own breathing."

Huh? Definitely fartsy.
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FAVORITE MISSED CONNECTION OF THE DAY:

i look like your boyfriend - m4w

you were so cute looking over from your book and laughing to yourself before asking if you could take a picture.
after getting off i thought that i should have said something lame like "hey, if you break up, come find me and you can just start back where you left off". hmmm... maybe not. i just wish i'd made more of an effort to flirt, but you do have a boyfriend
:(

She was flirty... probably not a sign of a serious relationship.