Nothing to report. Not much. Idliiing lately. This keyboard is acting up again, spewing repeat letters at its whim. Time to change my hardware. Or maybe just recharge the batteriiiiies.
I spent part of this day leafing through the pages of the Complete Peanuts collections that I have on my shelves. I have fallen woefully behind on my plan to keep up with the releases of these volumes. My collection does not even reach the 1960s, which I think is the period in which Schulz hits his stride.
Today, specifically, my goal was to resume my project of identifying every piece of piiano music Schroeder plays. I got through the first 2 volumes quickly enough, and am starting to think that Schulz used a small handful of scores for the run of Peanuts. I’ve identified Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata, Granados’ 5th Spanish Dance, Moussorgsky’s Gopak dance, and the D Major Allegretto from Mozart’s D Minor Fantasy. And some others. Oh, and Rachmaninoff’s Prelude, Op 23 No. 5. That, trivia hounds, is the first piece Schroeder ever plays in Peanuts.
Charlie Brown himself is a bit of a musical buffoon, plinking at the piano and favoring his cigar box banjo for his musical outlets.
My main gripe with the Complete Peanuts series is that the Sunday strips are not in color. They should be, seeing as some of the content of those strips relies on color for their effect. I saw one today in which Linus turned “three shades of green” in response to some indignity. Guess what? He didn’t turn green at all because there is no color. Instead you get three frames of Linus just kinda sitting there looking at you, followed by Lucy and Charlie Brown remarking that Linus just turned three shades of green, and *then* you get the joke.
And then you laugh and laugh and laugh.
I am at a place where the karaoke is about to start. In the spirit of karaoke I am going to stop thinking, and sign off here.
