Just pretend it's yesterday

[montagnarde1793]

So I don't know why I keep doing this, but yesterday was Babeuf's 249th birthday. So, um,

Joyeux anniversaire, Babeuf !

I suppose next year will be more important anyway.

In other news, I was too sick to audition for "Candide" today. I'm rather depressed about it, because I had been working on my audition peace all semester. Oh well. At least this way I'll be able to join one of the Baroque Ensembles. And actually *see* Candide, which I wouldn't be able to do if I had actually gotten into the chorus (there's no way in hell I would have gotten a role, I should point out). I also found out that the reason we don't generally do operas in the Historical Performance department (minimal funding aside) is our lack of a prof for baroque oboe....Which we don't have because our current modern oboe prof has some petty grudge against the most likely candidate. It's all so stupid, I have no words.

I can finally breathe a sigh of relief, however, since I have gotten through my Latin test in one piece (though I don't think I did very well--there were more than 400 lines we had to know and I just couldn't do it) and written the first draft of my next French paper.

This was the prompt:

Comparaison entre l'amour héroïque dans Le Cid et l'amour tragique dans Phèdre - Comparez les effets de l'amour dans ces deux pièces. Explorez un peu la vision du monde qui sous-tend les deux pièces : le volontarisme de Corneille, qui vient de sa formation chez les Jésuites ; le pessimisme de Racine qui résulte de sa formation janséniste.

Pretty annoying, right? Anyway, I'll still have to do quite a bit of revising to integrate that last piece into the paper a bit more, but at least most of the hard work is done.

I'm going to visit relatives in New York for Thanksgiving and then see "Acis and Galatea" in Boston so I may continue to be relatively absent again starting Thursday, but we'll see, I suppose.

Also, if anyone remembers the stupid LRF and Danton fanvids that maelicia found a while back, it seems the person who made them has (mirabile dictu) managed to find a worthwhile use (perhaps the only one) for the two films: parody videos.

Here are a few examples:

Er, one of these days I really will post more excerpts from That Book About Le Bas, I swear.

Comments

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

The first thing I noticed in the first is that something was amiss with the accent.

It's with the second though that I recognised where those things are from: I mean, those fast-fowarded voices, that can only be François Perusse.

Ah haha. I win. >.>;;


Anyway. I still find them atrociously pathetic though. But it may be because I never thought Perusse to be particularly funny.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

That explains why I had to listen to some of them several times to understand them. Some of them are funnier than others, but, of course, parodies are always funnier when they actually have something to do with what they're parodying, which these obviously don't.

Still, I think there's something to be said for making those movies ridiculous in any way possible, since people seem to take them all too seriously...

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

Oh no! I'm sorry about the audition. *hugs* Illness just has to come at the worst possible time, doesn't it?

Have fun in New York!

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

The worst is, the same thing happened last spring for the fall opera audition. *sighs* It's really getting ridiculous.

Thanks! I should, provided my cold clears up a bit. :/