This is one of Bach's secular cantatas, the title of which in English is roughly "Aeolus Appeased".  It was written for the birthday celebration of a Dr. August Müller.  My crude, modern plot synopsis is:

Aeolus: Summer's over, time for me to go nuts and fuck shit up.
Zephyr, Pomona and Pallas: C'mon, it's this dude's birthday, don't be a dick.
Aeolus: Oh, alright, FINE.

Amazing. Bach had a sense of humor.

Anyway, I feel like we might be tempting fate by doing this near the beginning of October, but what will be will be.  And we get the lovely choral experience of getting to sing "Zerreißet, zersprenget, zertümmert..." several times, with the odd melisma thrown in for fun.  The other, much bigger work on the program is BWV 225 (sorry to throw these numbers at you, but it's easier to remember those than the actual German titles), which is fifteen minutes of non-stop double chorus motet fun.  I'm trying to learn both by osmosis, listening to recordings on an endless loop while at work.

Five minutes after seeing the news about the iPhone price drop, I got an invitation to join a F8 group called "Steve Jobs Personally Pwn3d Me", created by my friend Ames who had just bought an iPhone last week.  That sucks, dude, but there's a reason why you wait to buy these things until a year after they come out.

By the time my current phone contract runs out, they might be cheap enough to think about getting one.  If only they were 3G and not Edge...

Update [2007-9-7 7:29:45 by riceowlguy]: I know it's the nature of the web, but I'm amused that all the comments on this diary were about my offhand iPhone reference and not my long, detailed story about my musical endeavors.