Swill for the Swine in the NSA: Long Conversation with Phil (in Germany) last night....

We were both, Phil and I, similarly appalled and shocked by the fact that the recent interview with Edward Snowden, aired on German television, was virtually ignored and blacked out in the mainstream media in the United States:  Have the Powers of Evil and Darkness so absolute a grip on our very internal communications?  It was (Allah be praised) available on the Internet (Information Clearing House) where I saw it, but to the vast mass of (elderly, reactionary, lumpen) Americans (with no Internet access and no desire of having any) it was as if this extraordinary interview had never happened.  And extraordinary it was:  Snowden was at his most damningly articulate, substantive, persuasive.  His brave, brief account of the death threats he's received from U.S. government officials was, as the French say, tetanizing; while his precise, measured, deliberate revelation of the espionage by the NSA of Germany industry and the aids and functionaries of the Merkel government (not just of Merkel herself) must have blown a lot of Germans' minds.  "But why," I asked Phil, "do you damned dumb Krauts allow your Chancellor, in utter defiance of proper German national self-interest, to proclaim the United States as "Germany's best ally?  What the fuck is the matter with you?"

Heretoforegoing, minus #26 of course, are the rest of the great Mozart piano concertos

One suspects that Mr. Rubinstein, in the cavalier fashion of his generation, didn't think them great enough to record.  Nothing galls like the 19th and 20th centuries' ignorant and captious judgements of Mozart.   Still, piano concerto number 26, in D Major, isn't very good--there's evidence, I think, of it's  being some anonymous hack's reconstruction of an incomplete score--and it serves, at best, to illustrate what the vast mass think Mozart sounds like.  It is, to be sure, Mozartean, but it ain't Mozart.

Mozart-Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat Major KV 595 (Complete)

Mozart - Piano Concerto No 19 in F major, K 459 - Lupu

Sviatoslav Richter - Mozart - Piano Concerto No 18 in B-flat major, K 456

Real Music

The past several entries have been, simply, what I consider music to be, and to be about.  All of it being, so far, composed and first performed in the 18th Century, during an age without sanitation and virtually without hygiene, long before the invention of anesthesia or the very concept of antisepsis, much less antibiotics; but, for all that, seemingly, an age when the finest sensibilities of humankind, as evidenced in its art and music, were cultivated.  The reason, probably, that there have been no more Rutgers harpsichords or Stradivarius violins in the past couple of centuries, is that we have all--even the Dutch and the Italians--lost the ability to hear as acutely as the making of such instruments requires.  Which, when I think about it, is rather horrifying.  What if, for example, children, even babies, have as many nerve endings in their bodies as they will when they mature--and if it were that the reason, that children so dread hypodermic needles and scream in such agony when hypodermic injections are administered to them, is that their nerve-endings, being concentrated in their smaller bodies, are proportionately much more severely damaged than they are in an adult.  Frankly, I don't doubt it--and it would explain why those monsters who find the infliction of pain "interesting," such as Giles de Retz and the CIA in Afghanistan and Iraq, are so fond of torturing children--who respond with maximum intensity to the torments inflicted on them.  As philosophers of BDSM, imagining that they are complimenting themselves, are fond of saying (anent intensity), "For ordinary Vanilla Folk, sex is a pleasure; for connoisseurs of humiliation, degradation and pain, it is extasy."

Haydn op.50 no 6 Der Frosch the frog Leipziger Streichquartett - Leipzig...

Haydn op.50 no 6 Der Frosch the frog Leipziger Streichquartett - Leipzig...

Haydn op.50 no 6 Der Frosch the frog Leipziger Streichquartett - Leipzig...

Haydn op.50 no 6 Der Frosch the frog Leipziger Streichquartett - Leipzig...

Mozart - Così Fan Tutte (2006)

A little love note to the "gay trans men" trying to obtrude themselves on the Chicago Hellfire Club's International Mr. Leather contest

Transsexuals are, by definition, delusional.  That is, the only proof of their being "really" or "mentally" of a different sex from their bodies is their "very strong belief" that that is what they are--despite evidence to the contrary and despite the complete absence of of corroborative evidence.  The "scientific evidence" that trannies are prone to cite--of  "brain gender" and "birth condition"--is, on examination, all bullshit, twaddle, falsehood and fraudulence.  This were well enough if these hysterical, mutilated creatures did not so insistently try to force themselves on the gay community, claiming to offer "support," while obviously, seeking nothing but our hard-won community resources and political gains, and (in the case of FtM "gay trans men") sexual relations with our physical bodies.  The last they hope to gain by the fraudulence of declaring themselves "mentally men too," and their very ghastly, dripping, stinking, bleeding front-holes also, de facto, "male sex organs."  There is no reason that I can think of why cisgender gay men should give credence to the (truthfully, nauseating) delusions of trannies, regarding either their mental or physical states, and considerably less than no reason why we should suffer them to exhibit their vaginas to us, or allow them to enjoy our sexual favors.

Come nave in mezzo all'onde - Simone Kermes

Russell Oberlin sings Handel (vaimusic.com) (+playlist)

Russell Oberlin sings Handel (vaimusic.com) (+playlist)

Vivaldi Griselda Cecilia Bartoli Agitata Da Due Venti

Changing Flounces, Adding Furbelows--Thanks to my Guardian Sylphs and the Refulgent Fairies at YouTube

I've just discovered a couple of YouTube's new features (new to me) that make it it feasible and desirable to add recorded music to this my (shall we say) protean blog:  (1) One thing is it's now possible to post music to the blog--Videos?  Well, we'll see.  (2) People are now, for whatever reason, posting whole catalog sections of the very best music to YouTube--incredibly wonderful stuff.   So for a while, I'm just going to be looting Aladdin's Cave, without much inclination to catalog and itemize these treasures.

Leonardo Vinci - Artaserse I

Szeryng, Haebler Mozart The Violin Sonatas

Rubinstein Mozart Concerto 17, 20, 21, 23 & 24.wmv

Mozart-Divertimento for String Trio in E-Flat Major K. 563 (Complete)