Dreams of Symphonic Rock

I want to hear Floor Jansen, Sharon den Adel, and Charlotte Wessels singing Nightwish's "Bless the Child" (or pretty much any of the Nightwish opus) as a trio.  den Adel as descant/highest treble counterpoint, Jansen as main soprano, Wessels as contralto counterpoint/harmony.  There should be more great music for duets and trios. 

Full choruses, too, while I'm dreaming.  Not just solo + choral backup, which rock has some of, but baroque-type chorus work.  I was listening to the Orchestra of the Antipodes' Messiah recently.  They have a lovely, light touch and great balance between all the voices, and between chorus and orchestra.  More of that type of vocal and instrumental working together, please.

Books I Read in 2015

Warning: Navel-gazing.

In order of reading: 

1. Brandon Sanderson, Way of Kings
2. Barbara Hambly, Blood Maidens
3. Barbara Hambly, Magistrates of Hell
4. Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane 
5. Bizenghast vol 1-8
6. Neil Strauss, The Game
7. Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things
8. James Moore and Charles Rutledge, Congregations of the Dead
9. Stephen Crane, Black Riders
10. Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
11. Mary Roach, Stiff
12. Randall Munroe, What If?
13. Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
14. Neil Patrick Harris, Choose Your Own Autobiography
15. R. A. Lafferty, The Man who Made Models
16. Barbara Hambly, Icefalcon's Quest
17. China Mieville, Unlundun
18. George Orwell, Animal Farm
19. Ian MacDonald, Desolation Road
20. Steven brush, Issola 
21. Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Not so very many books, but it's been a busy year.  

Caturday Post: Scaramouche Investigates a Stalk of Lemongrass

Day Before Caturday Post: In Which Kittens are Good at Christmas

Butterflies Flapping their Wings in Key West Part 2

The butterfly garden had lots of things besides butterflies!

Butterflies Flapping their Wings in Key West, Part 1

In which I am a Pampered Cattle

I just got back from a Caribbean cruise, where manicures are exotic hand rituals and the soap is made in PRC rather than China.

I feel like a cattle who is pampered and badgered to buy all the things.  Pictures of butterflies to follow.