What We're Playing, YouTube Version

Well, Joe beat me to the punch, but yes, those are the pieces I recorded.  If you want direct links to the HQ versions, with MUCH better audio, here they are:

The Girl With The Flaxen Hair

The Graceful Ghost

Polonaise in A Flat

The Stars and Stripes Forever

But the reason I hadn't posted them yet, is that I was working on this, an embeddable custom player of all our music on YouTube, just for F.U. News (you may need to make your browser wider):

Here's a direct link to the playlist that goes into the player, which you can randomize, or copy to your own playlist (if you have a YouTube account, but of course you do so you can vote 5 stars on all our videos).

Jenny, post more piano videos!

UPDATE: Yay, Jenny posted more piano videos!:

Dawn

La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin

Secret Track

What Dave's Playing.

Apparently, Dave uploaded YouTube vids of all the pieces he played in WWP Vol. 1 about a month ago and didn't tell anybody, the jerk. So here I am, linking them because he's too lazy. 

La Fille aux Cheaveux de Lin.

Polonaise in Ab.

Stars and Stripes Forever.

The Graceful Ghost.

Be sure to watch them all in high quality!

Too Inspirational Not to Link.

Midwife at Auschwitz: Stanislawa Leszczynska.

I had never heard this story before. The article mentions "materials are being compiled as evidence for her process of beatification." Does that mean her cause for canonization is open? It seems to me that she would be a particularly good patroness for pregnant and nursing mothers.

Yes, I realize I've been posting an excessive amount of links and videos recently. I'll try to get a content post sometime soon. But don't get your hopes up. It will probably be more Space Pirates.

Our Lady of Lourdes and St. Bernadette Soubirous.

Orate pro nobis.

Too Funny Not to Link.

How Obama Got Elected.

I don't remember why I didn't post this when I first came across it (or where I even came across it), but it's interesting and worth a look. I don't even remember what made me remember it, but I just wanted to mention that the girl wearing the "Obama" shirt reminds me of my coworker, in that she, too, cannot say Palin's name without smirking and rolling her eyes. It's almost Pavlovian in its reflexiveness.

The similarity is uncanny.

Also, someone tell ABC that if they're still looking for someone to replace Peter Jennings they should give this girl a call. Maybe they could put her in a little picture-in-picture box during World News Tonight so she can smirk to let the viewers know when they should disapprove of something.

Charles Gibson: "Millions of delusional people gathered in Washington DC this past week for the annual 'March for Life'."

Girl in box: *smirk*.

Well, What I'm Playing, At Least.

Figured I should post these before I forget them, to prove that, yes I did in fact play them.

Asturias.

Bear Dance.

Polonaise.

The Moldau (Part1) (Part 2).

La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin.

Instead of waiting for that One Perfect Performance™, I just went with what I had, mistakes and all. I've decided I prefer the mistakes, as it makes the performance sound more human, and less like it was played by a robot. Also, it's waaaay to easy to obsess about the mistakes.