My Glasses

leftish:

Witness the power of the Military Industrial Complex…

(via stfuconservatives)

One of the lesser-known works of a well-known composer. A knock-your-socks-off cadenza near the end of the first movement.

leadingtone:

Tchaikovsky - Concert Fantasy in G for piano and orchestra, Op. 56
I. Quasi rondo - Andante mosso
II. Contrastes

Mikhail Pletnev, piano
Moscow Radio Symphony Orch.
Vladimir Fedoseyev, cond.

More please!

(via ocheretynka)

leadingtone:

Pärt - Für Alina (1976)
Alexei Lubimov, piano

This haunting piano piece is a prime example of Pärt’s signature method of tintinnabuli, that is, harmonizing a melody with arpeggiated triad tones which closely follow the contour of the tune. 
 

Bruce Braley’s Plain Regulations Act: Can the Iowa Democrat force the government to write in clear English? - Slate Magazine

When businesspeople complain about regulations, you should generally be skeptical. The regulations, after all, are there precisely because some businesses can make more money by despoiling the environment, endangering public health and safety, and threatening the financial system. A regulation that’s not annoying someone by wrecking his money-making scheme would be completely pointless. But there is one category of complaints about regulations that should earn your sympathy: the complaints that too many government regulations are unreadable.

rabbit-light:

—not pen. It’s got

that same silken
dust about it, doesn’t it,

that same sense of
having been roughed

onto paper even 
as it was planned.

It had to be a labor
of love. It must’ve

taken its author some
time, some shove.

I’ll bet it felt good
in the hand—the o

of the ocean, and
the and and the and

of the land.

 Todd Boss

(via journalofanobody)