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		<title>How to be a man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally managed to take a break from clubbing wild beasts and dragging females by the hair - time to chill in my Wi-Fi enabled cave and post some copyright-infringing trifles. There exists a magazine titled Men's Journal. I received a copy (in a philosophy department mailbox) - I have no idea why. It is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://abstruosities.org/?p=166</link>
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		<title>High-end home stereo for cheapos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So audio CDs are pretty much useless by now, except as an initial transaction medium. I'll assume the reader pulls his music from a hard-drive as FLACs (or whatever)—originating from audio CDs or SACDs—and uses Foobar2000. (If you are using iTunes or other anathema, go take an ice-cold shower and flog yourself repeatedly with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://abstruosities.org/?p=139</link>
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		<title>Josef Bulva</title>
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The Czech pianist (b. 1943) made some fantastic recordings (now out of print) before his career was tragically cut short in 1996 by an accident—he slipped on ice, mangling his left hand on broken glass.  According to the Josef Bulva Society, he (at least partly) recovered after 13 years, and gave a handful of concerts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://abstruosities.org/?p=102</link>
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		<title>Kubla Khan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kipling, in his ‘Wireless’, channeled:  “Remember that in all the millions permitted there are no more than five—five little lines—of which one can say: ‘These are the pure Magic. These are the clear Vision. The rest is only poetry’”.

Those five are lines 14-16 of ‘Kubla Khan’ (above) and the following two from Keats' ‘Ode [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://abstruosities.org/?p=69</link>
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		<title>Sokolov plays Rachmaninov 3rd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is Grisha Sokolov, flanked by Gilels' cowlick:

He does not perform with orchestras anymore, as he was never satisfied with the result.  None of his collaborative concerts and only a handful of solo recordings were committed to plastic. The nonesuch from Petersburg, however, performed Rachmaninov's 3rd, rigged, at least thrice: with Ollila (SRSO), Gergiev [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://abstruosities.org/?p=61</link>
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		<title>þe olde Bruckner &amp; Wagner T-shirt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of course you want your own Bruckner-obsequiously-shaking-Wagner's-hand T-shirt.

It is a silhouette by Otto Böhler, taken from Werner Wolff's Anton Bruckner Rustic Genius. To print this, download this TIF, open it in Photoshop/GIMP/whatever, and use the TIF to create a layer with a silhouette of Bruckner &#38; Wagner in your own choice of color. The background [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://abstruosities.org/?p=32</link>
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		<title>Shostakovich 3&#215;3</title>
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And here is Bashmet/Muntian with the Viola Sonata.
From the Grove (in 'Posthumous reputation'):

Unlike that of many composers, Shostakovich's reputation with the musical public has grown steadily since his death, fuelled by post-glasnost' revelations about the society in which he lived. By most conceivable measurements, he has become the most popular composer of serious art music [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://abstruosities.org/?p=7</link>
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