ides for the ides

New song!  Ides ~ Four Months

My ides has been rather musical. The car radio sucked me into the end of an opera, and I wound up skipping lunch to drive further & listen to more of it. Stopped by a little nursery that is not on the internet maps. Their arrangement of plants was rather topsy turvy, but I enjoyed my visit and made a small purchase. As I drove back, the radio was playing the Swan Lake finale (I recognized that one.) At home, I was shown the video discussed in this article: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/03/what-j-los-naked-men-reveal-about-pop-musics-naked-women/284431/   which inspired me to rewatch the Blurred Lines parody. I revisited http://piecesofmargo.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-tale-of-two-sissies.html and then, thinking of distant kin, http://mistressalexnyc.com/mistress-seamstress/. The opera, I found out, was Werther, and it was broadcast live. Although I don't find the wikipedia synopsis to be especially moving, it was oddly transfixing to hear it on the radio, and the audience was clearly into it. Perhaps I miss going to the opera...