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Hurricane Ian after stomping all over poor Southern Florida (Aunties are okay, however and didn't get any of it - yippee), is headed towards the South Carolina Coastline as a Category 1 Hurricane. But Momma is going to be okay - it's going around her and making landfall in Charleston.
She said that her area is on the outer outer rim of it, and will most likely just get 5-6 inches. So they are not evacuating. (If they were - they'd be in the middle of it any how.)

We are relieved. Also feeling very grateful that this did not happen two weeks ago during the funeral - because if it had, we'd have had to reschedule everything - which would have been a nightmare. The Universe caught us a break on that one. Or maybe my father had a bit of bargaining power.

My Uncle - the Priest - is also okay.

Speaking of my uncle, my mother thinks my father may have had a final say in his funeral after all - and possibly changed his mind regarding having my uncle preside over it.

ME: You think he came to his senses, finally?
Mother: Maybe.
Me: Maybe he saw my uncle's homily and decided - uh, let's not?

I have no idea what was in my uncle's homily - but when he described it to mother, she was kind of leery of it. We never heard it - either way.

Music Meme (Movie Scores continued, and Opera)

Regarding the music meme? I should clarify something? It's not supposed to be your favorites or the best music ever. Just pick some that you listen to and like. I don't believe in putting value judgements on this stuff any longer - because, well, it's subjective and I'm agnostic on my choices. They change with the wind.

Eclectic means non-discriminatory - basically, I really don't have "favorites" per se, I just have songs I like at various points depending on mood. I'm not really critical when it comes to music. I'm critical with enough things already, so there should be a few that I'm not critical with, right?

So these lists are really just whatever songs or albums I happen to remember or can find. (I am not proud of this - but I had to look up the James Bond Movie Theme Songs to come up with five that I liked and wanted to share.) They are by no means my favorite.

At work today, I listened to the scores to Game of Thrones, Arcane, Obi-Wan, and various others on Apple Music.

Without further ado - here's the music lists for tonight.

Meme rules:

Pick a music category, list five songs or albums from different performers in it. Try to provide links if possible (but if you can't, that's okay.) Outside of that, do whatever you want. If you want to pick you favorites or the best ones - go for it. I'm picking whatever I can come up with at the moment.

Movie Scores

1. 2001 : A Space Odyssey Score by Alex North

2. George Gershwin's An American in Paris

3. Lawrence of Arabia by Maurice Jarre

4. Beetlejuice by Danny Elfman

5. Star Wars by John Williams

Oh and... A Clockwork Orange Film Score by Wendy Carlos

Opera, Rock and otherwise

1. The Who's Tommy

2. Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado - I actually worked on the makeup crew when my high school did a presentation of it.

3. Gershwin's Porgy and Bess

4. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar

5. Bizet's Carmen (I've seen three productions of Carmen, one a high school, one in Convent Garden by the Royal Opera Company, one on television.)