Two Nerds in Conversation: Which Requiem is Most *Optimistic*?

Nerd A: Mozart's Requiem rocks my world.

Nerd B: Not Verdi's?

Nerd A: Yeah, Verdi's Requiem rocks my world too but in a very "I just saw a scary movie after having been jumpy all day," you know? It scares the bejeebees out of me already.

Nerd A: Mozart's Requiem rocks my world because it's so much more optimistic than Verdi's, you know?"

Nerd B: Optimistic? Hmm. Optimistic. On any other day you wouldn't catch me saying optimistic and Requiem with the same breath, but I see your point.

Nerd A: 'Confutatis maledictis
Flammis acribus addictis,
Voca me cum benedictis...'

Nerd B: It'd be funny if Jay Z or Busta Rhymes or some such musician used this in a 'song.' Confutati, yea, yea, yeah. Maledicti, say what, what, what?'


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Imogen Heap, Twitter, and Emily

I first learned of Imogen Heap's music back in 2004 via the release of Zach Braff's film Garden State. What I like about Heap's style is that evokes images and sensations of times past. I find her very a-la-English-Romantics-think-Emily Dickinson, if you catch my drift.

Having said that, I found this hypermodern picture of her, in all of her "times-past-hairstyle" glory promoting twitter, very, very funny.

Ah, Twitter. You truly democratic tool of humanity that's connecting ever-so-coherently the past to the modernity.

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