52/436: Coming to Blows
May. 15th, 2026 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rejectomorphOh, rats! I nodded off and slept through journal posting time again. Not really a big deal, of course, since I had nothing to say anyway. And I still don't. I'll just mention that I made sandwiches for dinner again, and am now at the margin of indigestion. I'm also short of sleep for the third day in a row, which probably accounts for the inopportune nodding off.
We are supposed to get a couple of cooler days, but they will be windy and a fire warning has been issued to be in effect from early today until Monday morning. Then it's going to get hot again, which will displease me, assuming I don't die in a wildfire over the weekend. If I do die I don't know if I'll be displeased by the heat or not, but in the very unlikely event that I end up anywhere else, wherever it is it couldn't be any worse than the valley.
Over the last few days I've come across a few videos of Gabriel Faure's Pavanne, and I've found the solo piano versions too slow. It's the same issue I've had with modern recordings of Debussy's Clair de Lune. So I searched YouTube and found that Faure recorded the piece himself in 1913, on a Welte Mignon reproducing piano, and sure enough it was played faster by the composer, just as Debussy's piece had been. Here's the Faure at the composers pace:
We are supposed to get a couple of cooler days, but they will be windy and a fire warning has been issued to be in effect from early today until Monday morning. Then it's going to get hot again, which will displease me, assuming I don't die in a wildfire over the weekend. If I do die I don't know if I'll be displeased by the heat or not, but in the very unlikely event that I end up anywhere else, wherever it is it couldn't be any worse than the valley.
Over the last few days I've come across a few videos of Gabriel Faure's Pavanne, and I've found the solo piano versions too slow. It's the same issue I've had with modern recordings of Debussy's Clair de Lune. So I searched YouTube and found that Faure recorded the piece himself in 1913, on a Welte Mignon reproducing piano, and sure enough it was played faster by the composer, just as Debussy's piece had been. Here's the Faure at the composers pace:
