MY NEW BOOK CAME TODAY!!!!!!
Awesomeness, yes? This is now the oldest book I own. Madame Butterfly, by John Luther Long. 1898. Sound familiar? Only to people who listen to opera. Puccini’s Madama Butterfly was based off of this here book. Also, on the book Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti. Just some fun facts that probably no one else will find amusing. I’m happy, because I had a hard time finding this little gem. I ordered a little paperback version from Amazon, but it was shit. Typos and spacing errors up the butt. Anyway, I should go study for my exam tomorrow (and by study I mean do bibliophile creeper things to my book, no shame).
I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.
– Placido Domingo (via thisdeepdream) Via Opera Rocks!
The astonishing time-spanning sequence of Le regard d’Ulysse (Ulysses’ Gaze, Theo Angelopoulos, 1995) with Harvey Keitel
(Source: 27boulevardjourdan)
Even in college I find ways to break the rules…
(I’m a sophomore at the university, and a psychology major, which is important to the story.)
So I’m taking an English class, ENG 457: Victorian Literature and Culture this semester. Seeing as it’s a 400 level class, it’s really meant for fourth year students, which I am not.
It has prerequisites of English 101 and at least 6 credit hours of Literature, which I have not done.
Or I could get permission from the department to take the class, which I also have not done.
I am now three weeks into the course.
I’m like an academic NINJA!!!
