fun times with dead russians and various explosions

awwww. mr. manfre's small child is running around, asking people if he called them by accident. so cute.

yesterday was very exciting, as we went to the mann center with mrs. p to hear/see tchaikovsky and fireworks. sadly, though, the philadelphia orchestra's version of the 1812 overture loses for the synthesized chimes. and although normally i would say that the only way to make tchaikovsky better is to add heavy artillery in the percussion section, in this case, it was rather detrimental. it was, however, amusing:

HOW THE 1812 OVERTURE NORMALLY GOES:

bah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah, dah-dah ::BOOM::, bah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah, dah-dah ::BOOM::, ba dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah daaaaah ::BOOM::, bah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah daaaaah

HOW THE 1812 OVERTURE WENT ON THURSDAY:

bah dah dah dah dah ::BOOM:: dah dah dah, dah-dah, bah ::BOOM:: dah dah dah ::BOOM:: dah dah dah dah, dah-dah, ba dah dah dah dah ::BOOM:: dah dah dah dah dah dah ::BOOM:: daaaaah, bah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah dah daaaaah

...

::BOOM::

the rest of the concert was good though. i never knew tchaikovsky wrote marche slave. i played that in grade school.

also, fireworks are preeeeeeeeetty.