Gab: Fighting for America
Rather than going directly to bed last night following a late evening of T.V.-watching with my younger brother, I paid homage to depravity. In fact, I do not know when I did go to bed.
Today has been oppressive with self-loathing and a longing to be free of familial economic responsibility so that I can bring an eternal end to myself. It seems what God is pointing me towards, for there is no sure hope nor encouragement from that direction that I can recognize.
In other matters, early last evening I watched something quite different for me: Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Opera Film (1947).
The Barber of Seville (Italian: Il barbiere di Siviglia) is a 1947 Italian opera film directed by Mario Costa and starring Ferruccio Tagliavini, Tito Gobbi and Nelly Corradi. It is an adaptation of Gioachino Rossini's 1816 opera The Barber of Seville.
The Barber of Seville, or The Futile Precaution (Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione) is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's comedy Le Barbier de Séville (1775), which was originally an opéra comique, or a mixture of spoken play with music. The première (under the title Almaviva, or the Futile Precaution) took place on 20 February 1816, at the Teatro Argentina, Rome.
Rossini's Barber has proven to be one of the greatest masterpieces of comedy within music, and has been described as the opera buffa of all opere buffe; even after two hundred years, its popularity on the modern opera stage attests to that greatness.
Rossini's opera recounts the events of the first of the three plays by French playwright Pierre Beaumarchais that revolve around the clever and enterprising character named Figaro, the barber of the title. Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro, composed 30 years earlier in 1786, is based on the second part of the Beaumarchais trilogy.
I know virtually nothing of opera, and quite expected that I would be watching the 1½-hour (1:28:16) production in at least two sittings, but I made it all the way through last evening.
Initially my thoughts strayed far off during the opening courtyard scene until one character is left by himself and he soon begins to sing the only melody of the opera that I am familiar with ─ I never read up on the opera plot, nor did I know what was supposed to be happening. I just had that decades-long familiarity with the probable aria I have always supposed is likely known as "Figaro".
I see that it may have been the character Figaro himself who actually sings that aria, but I honestly do not recall that as being so. It was the singing of the first solitary character Lindoro (Count Almaviva) that first grabbed my attention, for his voice was startlingly powerful.
Actually, there were at least a couple of times where he actually sounded like he was making the famous Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan yodel ─ he sounded almost exactly the same to me. However, now that I re-hear the original Weissmuller Tarzan yell (try this), tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini may have applied far more modulation.
I found Nelly Corradi's voice to be wonderfully powerful, and I also felt that she was remarkably beautiful. How odd that so little about her is available by way of biography ─ specifically, why did she die at the too-young age of 53?
I fully expect that my two stepsons were unappreciative of the volume in which I had the opera playing, but neither of them was home when I first tuned in the programme.
I am glad that I watched it ─ quite likely I will sample other operas in time.
After my brother was home after mid-evening, still employing our Android TV Box, I tuned in an episode each of The Outpost, Z-Cars on YouTube ("Two in the Bush"), and Australian Ninja Warrior.
In that latter case, it was the dramatic final episode nine of season six.
Over the evening I consumed two cans of the strong (8% alcohol) malt that I seek to keep in stock, as well as a half-litre can of equally strong Danish Faxe Royal Strong beer. The Faxe beer was one of two cans that I found while having an early a.m. walk yesterday.
I will likely drink the second can of Faxe tomorrow evening.
Such a shame about my conduct later last night.
Notwithstanding, this morning when my brother and I got together for some T.V., I put our Android TV Box into action again and led us off with Monday's livestream addition to Rumble's A Warrior Calls channel: RISE PEOPLE OF CANADA TIME TO ARREST THEM ALL.
Due to how low I was feeling, Christopher James' unrealistic positivism was so hard for me to bear that I almost cancelled out of the episode at least a couple of times.
After it, I tuned in two videos from Rumble's PAlexanderPhD (Dr. Paul Alexander) channel.
The 38-minute Makis and Alexander: pilots collapsing, high school students getting heart attacks post COVID shot was posted this past Monday, and yesterday's 26-minute Malhotra and Alexander: South Africa advocacy against COVID shot, spike protein risk to heart.
Those were followed by what I believe was an addition yesterday to Rumble's Children's Health Defense Canada channel, but the video is now absent. It featured Amanda Forbes interviewing Rocco Galati.
The last show we were to watch was a ludicrous episode of The Conners in which the cast and producers made it starkly clear that they are wholly anti-gun ownership.
Thereafter my brother sought his bed rest before he left for the day while I was in bed seeking my usual afternoon nap to both get some additional needed sleep and to escape my crushing depression and despondence.
There had been some rain this morning, and the day was primarily overcast. However, during the latter afternoon it rained very hard for quite some while. I would hate to have to be confronted with anything like that when I rise at 2 a.m. overnight to ready for my five-mile (minimum) walk.
I wish to conclude this post with five photos that my wife posted to her Facebook account this morning at 7:24 a.m. Pacific Time Zone. Since she happens to be in Rome (Italy) visiting a sister of hers who lives there, local Rome time was 3:24 p.m.
As for location in Rome, I think that the five photos were taken by or very near to Aarun Thai Massage ─ her terse description or comment was "🌺อากาศดี๊ๆ เริ่มจะร้อนแหละ 💐🌸🥂".
As said already, I want to get up at 2 a.m. for a walk, so I am not going to be sitting up late watching any T.V., and to that end I will be avoiding my brother whenever it is that he shows up later this evening.
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