" The most dangerous person to play games with is someone who is emotionally intelligent, has zero desire to be seen or validated, and isn't afraid of being disliked.
Miz: Words and pictures
Musings in a mad world.
Monday, 2 November 2026
Just before the midterms: Has the reno-monster dog-fiend neighbour gone unemployed again to finish the house?
Tuesday, 20 October 2026
A long walk on the 20th: I require movement.
Famous Great Composers Who Died Childless
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Had no children (though he fought a bitter legal battle for custody of his nephew, Karl).
- Johannes Brahms: Never married and had no children.
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Died childless.
- Maurice Ravel: Never married and died without children.
- Antonio Vivaldi: Priests in holy orders, had no children.
- George Frideric Handel: Never married and had no children.
- Franz Schubert: Never married and had no children.
- Frédéric Chopin: Had no children (though he had a long-term relationship with
- L'Orfeo (1607) – Claudio Monteverdi
- Dido and Aeneas (1689) – Henry Purcell
- Giulio Cesare (1724) – George Frideric Handel
- Serse (1738) – George Frideric Handel
- Orfeo ed Euridice (1762) – Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Idomeneo (1781) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) (1786) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Don Giovanni (1787) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Così fan tutte (1790) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) (1791) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Fidelio (1805) – Ludwig van Beethoven
- The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia) (1816) – Gioachino Rossini
- Der Freischütz (1821) – Carl Maria von Weber
- Norma (1831) – Vincenzo Bellini
- L'elisir d'amore (1832) – Gaetano Donizetti
- Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) – Gaetano Donizetti
- The Bartered Bride (1866) – Bedřich Smetana
- Les Troyens (1863) – Hector Berlioz
- Boris Godunov (1874) – Modest Mussorgsky
- Carmen (1875) – Georges Bizet
- Eugene Onegin (1879) – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- The Queen of Spades (1890) – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Rigoletto (1851) – Giuseppe Verdi
- Il trovatore (1853) – Giuseppe Verdi
- La traviata (1853) – Giuseppe Verdi
- Don Carlos (1867) – Giuseppe Verdi
- Aida (1871) – Giuseppe Verdi
- Otello (1887) – Giuseppe Verdi
- Falstaff (1893) – Giuseppe Verdi
- La bohème (1896) – Giacomo Puccini
- Tosca (1900) – Giacomo Puccini
- Madama Butterfly (1904) – Giacomo Puccini
- Turandot (1926) – Giacomo Puccini
- Lohengrin (1850) – Richard Wagner
- Tristan und Isolde (1865) – Richard Wagner
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1868) – Richard Wagner
- The Ring Cycle (Der Ring des Nibelungen) (1876) – Richard Wagner
- Parsifal (1882) – Richard Wagner
- Salome (1905) – Richard Strauss
- Elektra (1909) – Richard Strauss
- Der Rosenkavalier (1911) – Richard Strauss
- Pagliacci (1892) – Ruggero Leoncavallo
- Pelléas et Mélisande (1902) – Claude Debussy
- Jenůfa (1904) – Leoš Janáček
- Bluebeard's Castle (1918) – Béla Bartók
- Wozzeck (1925) – Alban Berg
- Porgy and Bess (1935) – George Gershwin
- Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1934) – Dmitri Shostakovich
- Peter Grimes (1945) – Benjamin Britten
- The Rake's Progress (1951) – Igor Stravinsky
Tuesday, 13 October 2026
Monday, 5 October 2026
Saturday, 3 October 2026
Law Roach and weekend storms. Venus in scorpio retrograde relationship reviewing.
" If you give everything, how can people grow?.. I mean how can they get things for themselves" Naila Opiangah
Friday, 2 October 2026
All scenes to be inserted, have been inserted.
grok interpret this dream: Being chased through a variety of building, gardens, places, natural settings by a mad assasin/assailant. At one point almost get away, with my friend, who stops to order a pizza, we cant wait for the order, as the assailant, is following us again, we dive through a window, to run, and almost get away, until I decide I have had enough, I get angry, turn and charge towards to the assailant, who when I get close enough, I find has tranformed beyond whatever is afflicting him, and is now just a normal guy who has been chasing us, because he wants to join our group.
- Frustration with people (or parts of yourself) who do not share the same urgency.
- The way ordinary needs or social rituals can feel like liabilities when stress is high.
- A mild irritation that even allies can slow escape.
- Something (or someone) you have been treating as a threat, stressor, or antagonist may actually be seeking affiliation, understanding, or a place in your circle. The fear may be disproportionate to the actual intention.
- An internal conflict or rejected part of yourself (the “shadow” in Jungian language) that has been hounding you wants integration rather than destruction. Once faced, it becomes ordinary and usable.
- You may be ready to stop running from a pressure (deadline, conversation, decision, emotion) that feels relentless. Confronting it could reframe it from enemy to something that can be brought inside the group (accepted, negotiated with, or even collaborated with).
- Mild irritation with friends or companions who “stop for pizza” while you feel urgency—suggesting a need for clearer shared priorities or for accepting that not everyone operates at the same intensity.
Tuesday, 22 September 2026
Scene addition/insertions week: slow boil
If you are not sufficiently aggressive, you will be treated like shit. Different contexts and domains dress up that aggression differently. It can be raw displays of physical violence, wittiness and humour, formal intellectual domination - any number of things - but the theme is always clear regardless of culture, class and context. Are you strong? How does it look when you bear your teeth? Can you inspire fear in the hearts of others? Can you make the tough decisions under pressure when the situation calls for it? What is the essence of the stuff you are made from? Will you crumble, or push through? What strength do you possess that means when I look at you I should respect you? Show me your force of being, your intensity, your soul - wear your darkness - show me your power.
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