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GREGORIAN CHANTING in GOTHIC CATHEDRAL! yay! That was fun. Later I heard that the Cardinal came. o.O;; Cardinal, attending a 16th century Spanish mass in non-denominational church sponsored by robber-baron? Yes. Chanting was v.v. nice. The whole ethereal thing. Two conflicting thoughts of: "Light! Air! Heaven! God! Beauty!" and "Wow, this whole setup is so manipulative. Encourages the poor peasants to work harder by giving them the prospect of happiness after life, ascending to heaven, etc." Yes, very inspirational music, and the high vaulted ceilings and large stained-glass windows didn't hurt either.
And now the dorky part of the concert: half the time I was thinking about Duo's spiritual transcendence upon hearing this (Nicole: v. good mood music for writing Duo pursuing spiritualism), and then of course there's Escaflowne gregorian chanting, with giant mecha with flowing capes, and then it was listening to the words and trying to identify Latin words by the English translation provided, and some quick Spanish syntax. Soon realized that Domino is Lord, Dei (or something of the sort) is God, Fili (or something) is Son, and of course, Christo was Christ. Used those as place-markers to follow along with the sung sermon (easy), and the discanted chants (harder)
Overall, 2 hours well-spent. I figure this is as close to Europe as I'm gonna get.

Duuuude, Wu Hung needs to update his Chinese map. It's still got a shrunken Inner Mongolia on it. And he doesn't get me. Good thing I've got office hours with him tomorrow. ^_~

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I *know*! Jeez, especially since blowing up and occupying impoverished and defenseless nations are what the US is best at!

hee.

well, more defenseless than N. Korea and several other nuke-carrying actually threatening countries....

Yeah, one of those cities that don't matter that much, pssh. Who needs New York? The New Year's Eve ball drop thing is *so* lame. Welp, As long as it's not to good old CA, eh?

haha.

That's why we're attacking them I suppose... because Saddam doesn't have nukes yet. Get him before he gets nukes

Can't hit N. Korea, they'd blow South Korea and Japan to hell.

Can't hit France either... as rude, elitist and generally french as they are... But too many nukes.

Who's bright idea was it to give the French nukes anyway?

Probably something out of the Cold War, that's where all the world's problems come from. Oh, the french are against communist Russia, it's okay if they have nuclear weapons. AND LOOK WHERE WE ARE NOW!

Kicking ourselves because we can't invade france and get them out of the security council so we can get down to business in Iraq.

What a mess foreign policy is... it used to be that you could just go around fighting commies... now, it's not so simple...

WAIT NO! We can go around killing terrorists now, no, even better than that, we can go around killing terrorism.

Yeah, what's with all these stubborn upstarts with nukes? There shouldn't be any impulsive violent countries with nukes except for us!

Crazy French and their bread fetish.

I like France. :( It may not be the most successful, but it's possibly the most idealistic and thus most romantic country there is. As for New York, don't joke about New York. 9-11 was quite enough.

Eh heh. Sorry about that. ::shrug:: I guess we on the west coast get more of a media oversaturation attack than anything else. Makes me all jaded. Especially since now one can't say "September" without the ominous chords in the background. Yes, 9-11 was horrible, but that doesn't mean I should automatically approve of the current measures we're taking. (And even though I've lived here for 13 years, I still can't technically say "we"). I guess it's the same as if I say the "dot-coms". I don't think you'd have the same reaction as I would. NJ != Silicon Valley, but in a different way, it's our "New York". Y'know, if people would just accept 9/11 instead of letting it loom eternally over their heads, things would work a lot better.

God, I sound so callous. >_<;;

Anyway, the original comment was in a jokish tone, so we just continued that. Sorry, mousie. Sushu-humor is *weird*. (And I suppose callous and insensitive.)

(hey, I like France, too! I wanna go there some day, and get lost in a castle. ^_^v)