Apple has a pretty broad definition of the word “classical.”
Gregory Pittman
Welcome! This site is more a hobby than anything else. I like to keep a hand in coding HTML and CSS, so this is my playground. Don't take anything you read here too seriously; it's just my opinion.
- Husband to an amazing choral director
- Dad to 7: 3 bio, 2 step, 2 canine
- High School assistant principal (by way of the choral music classroom for 20 years)
- Professional musician
- Enneagram 1w9 and ISTJ-A
- Hobbies: Reading, television and movies, photography, fountain pens, LEGO®, and weather
Recent Ruminations
This weekend’s College Football Index: 3
COVID and flu vaccines on board. Take that, RFK, Jr.! (Also, I’m surprised South Carolina isn’t one of the states that has pulled the COVID shots.)
Deep Cover - ★★★½
Deep Cover, starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Orlando Bloom, and Nick Mohammed, along with heavyweights Sean Bean, Paddy Considine, and Ian McShane, isn’t the kind of film that will earn a 15-minute standing ovation at Cannes. But it will deliver an hour and a half of lighthearted fun and an easy evening’s watch.
This weekend’s College Football Index: 4
Wife: What time is the game today?
Me: Three o’clock. It’s at Mercedez-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. I hate indoor football.
Wife: Why? Because the lighting’s all wrong?
She really gets me.
Giving Navidrome on PikaPods a try. Music files are on their way upstream. (HT: @cory@follow.coryd.dev)
Discovered Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber’s Missa Salisburgensis à 53 voci this morning. It’s a glorious Baroque composition by a composer with whom I am wholly unfamiliar.
I think I’ve fallen in love with battery-powered lawn equipment. When my gas-powered mower dies in a season or two, I may very well go battery for that, too.
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