Apparently the same folks (maybe) who did the revoting on Wonders of the World a few years back are trying the same thing with the Seven Wonders of Nature. The Greek press is all agog because Mount Olympus made it past the first stage of voting. Glancing at the official list, others which might be considered of interest to readers of rogueclassicism would include Mount Vesuvius in the volcano category, and the Rock of Aphrodite (Cyprus) in the rock formation category.
Day: January 16, 2009
Classical Shipping
I’ve often toyed with the idea of putting together a ‘Classical Stock Portfolio’ because the business pages regularly turn up in my scans with stuff that is clearly Classically-inspired. The latest is a piece on Genco Shipping, which includes a list of its ships:
Interesting ‘imperial’ bent to those recently-named members of the fleet. Interesting that Maximus and Commodus come online in 2009 and not a few years ago when Gladiator was the big thing (maybe that’s when they started building them).
- Genco Shipping: A New Bubble in the Making? (Seeking Alpha)
Matters Theatrical
For some reason over the past week or so there has been a spate of reviewish sorts of things of plays etc. with a Classical focus … here are the links in no particular order:
- Pencil This In (Gothamist on The Judgment of Paris; includes a link to a video preview)
- Euripides’ ‘Medea’ reborn at Birdcage, but falls short of accomplishment (Chico Enterprise Record)
- Trojan Source Drama of war’s aftermath modernizes ancient Greek classic (Las Vegas Review Journal on Trojan Women 2.0)
- Kick-start this cracking idea (Bexley Times on the Bacchae)
- An eloquent dance to the death (Financial Times … the same production)
- In Blood: The Bacchae (The Stage … definitely the same production as the previous)
- In Blood: The Bacchae (Guardian … ditto)
- Finding sympathy for McKenna’s murdering Medea (Globe and Mail)
- The timeless allure of sad, bad and mad (Globe and Mail with another review of the same production?)
- McKenna rises above tragedy (The Star weighs in too)
- Mirvish Presents ‘Medea’ for a Limited Run at Canon (as does Broadway World)
- Medea: A Bliss For Cuban Theater (Cuba News)
- Review: ‘You, Nero’ at South Coast Repertory (LA Times)
… and we’ll close from a review in Variety of a new production of Rich and Famous, which includes a character described thusly:
There’s the randy, famous older composer (Stephen DeRosa, resourcefully amusing as a harsh caricature of Leonard Bernstein) who’s agreed to write music for Bing’s forced Greek-mythic marriage of “Odyssey” and “Iliad” entitled “The Odiad.”
Say What?
A piece in the Guardian, lamenting passed sportscasters mentions, inter alia:
Not only did he, just before his death, criticise the BBC’s plan to phase out commentator Clive Everton in favour of brasher celebrity names, back in 1998 he stormed off the set of Channel 4’s Under The Moon after host Danny Kelly suggested the game had gone to pot ever since its stars had knocked their Homeric jazz salt odysseys on the head.
To paraphrase Lisa Simpson from the Bart vs Australia episode (on seeing a Yahoo Serious sign), I know those words, but that [sentence] makes no sense.
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