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Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

None but the Brave deserves the Fair.

About Me

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very own MySpace Layouts Christian was born at an early age in his home town. Later, he went to school where he enjoyed his favorite subject. He likes to eat his favorite food, and do his hobbies.Christian strives towards being tall. Despite his impeccable fingernails, he's never had a manicure. He also enjoys when sacred raptures cheer his breast.

My Interests

BELGIAN WAFFLES. after that, healthy living, stile galant, audiophile (classical), posterity, collecting classical recordings, harpsichord and piano performance, performance practice before 1850, Affekt, Empfindsamer Stil (Empfindsamkeit), console/pc games, coffee, pointless research, un-equal temperaments, thrifting, vintage anything, Mannheim Rockets, boats, fine food, wine, and spirits, play gay, Batteries, articulation, the space in between the notes, basso continuo and the realization thereof, choose your own adventure novels, opera seria, Turkish percussion, harmonic suspensions and French cadences

I'd like to meet:

H A I R Y. Stylish adults possessing taste and good humour. People with their shit together, but not so much that they can't party, enjoy themselves, and still maintain a 3.5 GPA. Being able to appreciate the finer things in life with a tongue in cheek is also highly appealing. Someone I can play four-hands with.

Music:

C.P.E. Bach, Zelenka, Hasse, and Chopin especially. Indie, in my spare time, and Dolly Parton. Belle and Sebastian, from top to bottom. JANISSARY MUSIC!

Movies:

Spirited Away, A League of Their Own, Contact, The Piano Teacher, A Little Princess, Mommy Dearest, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Good Bye Lenin!, The Others, Killer Clowns from Outer Space, Le Roi Danse, The Hours, Mars Attacks, Farinelli, Rosemary's Baby, Starship Troopers, The NeverEnding Story, Amadeus, Audition, Happiness, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Serial Mom, Immortal, The Best of Everything

Television:

French and Saunders, FLCL, Inuyasha, anything Williams Street naturally, Especially Sealab, Ali G, Martha Stewart, IRON CHEF, The Kids in the Hall, Alton Brown, infomercials, PBS, CNN Headline, Cooking/Cookery

Books:

D.H. Lawrence, Saint-Exupery, John Kennedy Toole, Leo Tolstoy, most Russian Authors, Moliere (when set to music), Voltaire, Medea, Haruki Murakami, Virginia Woolf, English Literature before 1750, Metastasio, Dave Eggers, Amy or David Sedaris, sci/fi fantasy, computer magazines... incarceration is the only excuse for reading.

Heroes:

Antiquated myths nobody would appreciate... and, of course, your father.

My Blog

please

I need my backyard to look like this again:now......
Posted by Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:31:00 PST

Seasonal Winter Blog

School was cancelled because of this. Unfortunately, nobody informed me. After walking to my 08:00 lecture only to discover it empty, I went back out and took these.This is what I wear on my head when...
Posted by Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:51:00 PST

75 Signs you might be a Theory Geek

You might be a theory geek if . . .   1. you whistle in style brisé. 2. your favorite pickup line is, "What's your favorite augmented sixth chord?" 3. your second favorite pickup line is, "Wo...
Posted by Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:42:00 PST

Halloween Munchies, Jerry Springer

I took the picture above on my way through campus this morning. It was raining and a squirrel was gamboling in the path ahead of me. After skipping breakfast and having a horrible morning at school, I...
Posted by Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:10:00 PST

performance practice?

For those of you who ask what a harpsichordist does, or what I'm studying, or why I chose to study it here, etc. This is a very informative article...An excerpt from Inside Early...
Posted by Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:57:00 PST

The New Clock

The NEW CLOCK...
Posted by Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 03:50:00 PST

MOUSE!

The mouse has a name, and it's Reepicheep. Thank C.S. Lewis. Pusspuss loves him too much to kill him... We had him into my bedroom this morning for tea. Well, cranberry juice and cat food actually. He...
Posted by Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme on Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:52:00 PST

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. . . According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I l...
Posted by Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme on Sat, 03 Sep 2005 12:33:00 PST