Trivia that matter
Here are two recordings of the Prelude and Fugue in C minor from Book One of The Well-Tempered Clavier: on harpsichord, played by Malcolm Hamilton; and, on piano, played by Takahiro Sonoda. Which do you prefer?
Piano:
[mp3]http://tancos.net/audio/TS-Prelude 2 in C Minor.mp3[/mp3]
[mp3]http://tancos.net/audio/TS-Fugue 2 in C Minor.mp3[/mp3]
… If I counted correctly, there are three groups subbing Clannad –After Story–, Chaos;Head, Shikabane Hime and Ga-Rei Zero. Four are working on Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka and Tytania, five on Yozokura Quartet, six on Toradora! and eight on Tales of the Abyss. But apparently no one cares about the rest of Macademi Wasshoi.
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Let’s test this new poll thingy WordPress plugin.
“The Crime Wave at Blandings” is the single most satisfying short story in the English language.
On a related note, there is a new poll in the sidebar.
Update: Only two votes so far? Good grief. You all need to do some remedial reading.
Guchuko easily won the plushie poll with forty-three percent of the votes. President Aria was a distant second with sixteen percent. A random mushi and Potemayo got twelve and eleven percent respectively, and none of the remaining candidates got more than seven percent.
There’s a new poll up now. Which show would you most like to see licensed for your region? I started with Steven’s wish list and added several more.
It’s time for a fresh poll. Which creature ((Beelzenef, strictly speaking, isn’t a creature but a hand puppet, but it has more presence than Nekozawa does.)) from recent anime would you most like to see as a plushie? Some of the candidates might be unfamiliar to some visitors here. Paya-tan/Dark Paya (two phases of the same character) is the “crazy and cute” mascot from Dai Mahou Touge, an underappreciated series recommended to those who like their humor black. The mojos are Isako’s helpers in Denno Coil.
As far as I know, none in the poll are yet available in soft and fuzzy form, though there is a President Aria “money box.”
Mojos
Beelzenef
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I lost interest in the anime Spice and Wolf, but I do like the neo-Renaissance soundtrack. Here’s “Mada Minu Machi he.”
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The most impressive magical gift of the sailor senshi is their ability to sprint while wearing high heels. It turns out that some ordinary humans also run in stiletto heels. Why, I don’t know. See also the Ukrainian army.
Visitors here have declared Microsoft to be more evil than Sony, 19 to 14.
There’s a new poll up.
By a vote of eleven to zero, readers here declared Dolores Umbridge to be more loathsome than Bellatrix Lestrange. I have a new poll up in the sidebar now: which is more evil, Microsoft or Sony?
Let’s see if I can make a poll.