Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader sees that Rachel is going to check out the other recording of Tristan und Isolde. She’s a sucker for Deitrich, your Maximum Leader for Kirsten. Ah the joys of loving classical music…

Does anyone out there (excepting Rachel) even know the Liebestod from Tristan? The “Love-Death” as it were? It is a great peice of music. For those of you who are visually stimulated, yet do not care to watch the whole opera to get to the Liebestod, rent the film Aria and watch the Liebestod segment. You’ll get the jist of the piece.

Speaking of Aria. Your Maximum Leader didn’t care for it too much the first time he saw it. But a second viewing improved the effect for him. (Except in that one segment with all of the bodybuilders.) He figured that people who might not like opera could be moved to learn more about the operas from which the various segments were taken. And that isn’t all that bad.

Carry on.