Captives of Terpsichore

Inspiration for ballet, circus and movement.

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Mine eyes have seen the glory of The coming of the Lord above He’s got some grapes of wrath He’s gonna brew ya He’s loosed the fateful lightning stored Within his terrible swift sword Truth’s marching, glory glory hallelujah! Hallelujah, hallelujah Hallelujah, hallelu..uu uu uu…ujah

I’ve seen Him in a hundred camps They’ve built an altar in the damps And where the chill of evening passes through ya I’ve read his righteous sentence in The lights that flare both bright and dim His day comes, glory glory hallelujah! Hallelujah, hallelujah Hallelujah, hallelu..uu uu uu…ujah

I read a Gospel writ in steel God sees how you with sinners deal And as you do to them, His grace will do ya Let hero born of woman crush The serpent hidden in the brush God’s marching, glory glory hallelujah! Hallelujah, hallelujah Hallelujah, hallelu..uu uu uu…ujah

He’s sounded forth the trumpet call That never knows retreat at all And from His judgment seat He’s gonna view ya Be swift my soul his call to meet Be jubilant, my legs and feet God’s marching, glory glory hallelujah! Hallelujah, hallelujah Hallelujah, hallelu..uu uu uu…ujah

Beside the lilies, Christ was born Amidst the beauty of the morn With glory in His bosom to renew ya And as He died in saving me So I will die to make men free God’s marching, glory glory hallelujah! Hallelujah, hallelujah Hallelujah, hallelu..uu uu uu…ujah

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I heard there was a secret chord that David used to play But you don’t really care for anything I have to say It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, and so on in this way He just kept playing on!

The baffled king composing Hallelujah! The baffled king composing Hallelujah! The baffled king composing Hallelujah! He just kept playing on!

Your faith in God was strong and yet you felt you needed proof You saw the moonbeams dancing as she bathed upon the roof She tied you to a kitchen chair, she cut your hair, and - oof! She drew it from your lips!

From your lips the Hallelujah! From your lips the Hallelujah! From your lips the Hallelujah! She drew it from your lips!

You say that I have tried to take the Name of God in vain But really to be honest I don’t even know the Name A blaze of light in every word, I guess they’re all the same. It doesn’t matter which!

The holy or the broken Hallelujah! The holy or the broken Hallelujah! The holy or the broken Hallelujah! It doesn’t matter which!

It might not have been much, but still I tried to do my best And even though it all went wrong, I feel that I’ve been blessed And if I meet the Lord of Song when I am laid to rest That’s all I’ll have to say!

I will tell Him Hallelujah! I will tell Him Hallelujah! I will tell Him Hallelujah! That’s all I’ll have to say!

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To do

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Mine eyes have seen the glory of The coming of the Lord above He’s got some grapes of wrath He’s gonna brew ya He’s loosed the fateful lightning stored Within his terrible swift sword Truth’s marching, glory glory hallelujah! Hallelujah, hallelujah Hallelujah, hallelu..uu uu uu…ujah

I’ve seen Him in a hundred camps They’ve built an altar in the damps And where the chill of evening passes through ya I’ve read his righteous sentence in The lights that flare both bright and dim His day comes, glory glory hallelujah! Hallelujah, hallelujah Hallelujah, hallelu..uu uu uu…ujah

I read a Gospel writ in steel God sees how you with sinners deal And as you do to them, His grace will do ya Let hero born of woman crush The serpent hidden in the brush God’s marching, glory glory hallelujah! Hallelujah, hallelujah Hallelujah, hallelu..uu uu uu…ujah

He’s sounded forth the trumpet call That never knows retreat at all And from His judgment seat He’s gonna view ya Be swift my soul his call to meet Be jubilant, my legs and feet God’s marching, glory glory hallelujah! Hallelujah, hallelujah Hallelujah, hallelu..uu uu uu…ujah

Beside the lilies, Christ was born Amidst the beauty of the morn With glory in His bosom to renew ya And as He died in saving me So I will die to make men free God’s marching, glory glory hallelujah! Hallelujah, hallelujah Hallelujah, hallelu..uu uu uu…ujah

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To do

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According to this Vox article:

- Mic.com sold for less than $5 million last year - Mashable sold for less than $50 million in 2017 - The whole Gawker network (plus some other stuff including The Onion) sold for $50 million in 2016. - There are hints that Vox itself might not be worth that much more.

This seems really undervalued to me. To put this in perspective, there are 540 billionaires in America. Many of these people could buy Mic, Mashable, Gawker, the Onion, and Vox, with enough cash left over to buy the Washington Post (which sold for $250 million in 2013).

So…why don’t they? People always talk about how billionaires have a lot of “power”. But what exactly is the money:power exchange rate? You can always lobby. But that gets diminishing returns pretty quickly. If you were someone like Peter Thiel, George Soros, or the Koch Brothers, who wanted to shape the conversation in a really long-term way, surely this would be one of your best bets.

Or maybe this wouldn’t work. Maybe it would be hard to get good writers who would carry out your agenda. Or maybe if a site deviated from maximally clickbaitty, in any direction, people would stop reading it. Or maybe there’s a fixed amount of liberal and conservative media attention, and if a liberal site makes any step towards conservative (or vice versa) then a proportional amount of liberal readers will abandon it, and conservative readers just spread themselves more thinly, without any meaningful change in who reads liberal or conservative news (but what if you cared about something specific, not just liberal vs. conservative?)

The Open Philanthropy Project has something like $10 billion they don’t know what to do with. Buying out all of print media would be, if nothing else, pretty interesting.

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Pretty as a picture.

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Treasured possessions.

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Rachael Walsh, in a promtional picture for Queensland Ballet's 2013 season.

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Take me to grand allegro!

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Take me there.  Picture from Ballerina Project

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Meet me at the barre.

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Nota Bene!

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Queensland Ballet principal dancer Rachael Walsh

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Amanda Gomes in rehearsal

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Sissone Saturday!

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Promotional photo for Natalie Weir's When Time Stops by Expressions Dance Company.  Check out a time lapse of the underwater shoot here.

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Promotional photo for the 1994 production of Stanton Welch's Divergence by The Australian Ballet, with Damien Welch (centre) and Justine Summers (left)