Si. Mi chiamano Zimomomimi.

Sometimes, to demonstrate the melodic content of rapping, I like to bust out a famous chorus with the pitches inverted:

It’s like a jungle sometimes?
It makes me wonder
How I keep from goin’ under?

I was thinking if opening-night flops that went on to be huge, like La Traviata and Madam Butterfly, but also Carmen, which - like Chess - has had its libretto revised many times, and still has no definitive version.

We fans of musicals should pay more attention to the history of several operas.

I never understood what killed her character in Independence Day. Expedience?

Are you revisiting her in Donnie Darko?

Yes! Likewise the “man some”/“handsome” in “Someone to Watch Over Me”.

I first heard it while gardening, and it’s a good thing I was already kneeling.

Seconding London Road. If that came to Australia, there’d be a rapt audience of three.

Beneficial.

“This next song is two minutes long, but we’ll need ten minutes to tune.”

No, I don’t have a stacker, and I probably wouldn’t use it if I did. I love pausing to change sides these days.