Rebel Prince

It has come to my attention that my URL appears in the liner notes of The Beautiful South’s new CD. Indeed they have a cover of Rufus Wainwright’s “Rebel Prince,” but how and why my site was included is puzzling. Jamie, who commented on it today, helpfully e-mailed me a photo of the relevant pages from the booklet, and one page includes just two lines:

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT
www.rebelprince.com

Whoa. Perhaps whoever wrote the booklet thought this was an official or fan site? While this site and its name were inspired by Rufus, I am not him, and this is not his blog. I’m just saying.

Believe me, I don’t mind publicity per se, but unfortunately, Beautiful South fans who come here looking for insight on “Rebel Prince” or Rufus are going to be disappointed when they instead find the everyday goings-on of some regular guy.

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Today at work I’ve been listening to Mozart’s Requiem on my iPod. Great stuff. (That’s a nice thing about the mostly solitary, library-like nature of my job; I can listen to music while working, provided I use headphones.) I’m reminded of a choral concert earlier this year that Thom and I attended, a sing-along of Mozart’s Requiem at the National Cathedral. Yeah, sing-along Mozart: no easy task. Most of the others in attendance were current members of other choral groups and such. I hadn’t sung in a chorus since college. I was vaguely familiar with a couple of the Mozart Requiem movements, but nothing really beyond that.

It was my first time to the cathedral—an amazing building—so what a neat way to experience it, from the choir section behind the altar. Thom and I situated ourselves between the men’s sections, as I’m a tenor and he’s more of a baritone. Well, this turned out to be less than ideal. Given the angle at which we were facing the choral director, I had all the baritone/bass voices in my ear, while the other tenors were in front, singing away from me. Ah, well. It was pretty fun, making great music in a beautiful setting. (And I remember that the bass soloist was cute. He was kind of short and unassuming, but had a huge, thunderous voice.)

I really should get back into singing, acting, something. Side note, speaking of music choral and classical: in December we’re seeing Chanticleer at George Mason, as we did last year.

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In the couple of months since I made my major Apple purchases (my iBook and iPod, both of which I love, by the way), Apple has introduced some new things (like the iMac G5) that I’ve noted with only passing interest. But the more I read about the new iPod Photo, the more I’m intrigued. I’m successfully resisting… for now. Maybe I’ll visit the Apple store in Clarendon sometime. Just to look.

[Link (28 Oct.): The Times’ David Pogue raves.]

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