Stephen Fine

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Classical Music - Books - Teaching BM-Rice (‘06), MM-SFCM (‘08) I did some mining of academian ore, but Lord Chaos held something else in store; I was vomited from a beast’s belly onto the shore. But this is no firmament. Where am I?

Pic of the menu with Pastrami poutine for sale.
John Wick pointing a gun straight at you, a movie poster for the movie John Wick with a word bubble below.
Mayor Eric Adams in a blue patterned blazer, bright red pocket square, a white button down shirt, an open mouth grin and bright red laser beam eyes.
Rockwell’s Freedom of Speech, a painting of a man rising to speak at a town hall. He is working class, others look on in admiration.
Norman Rockwell’s Freedom of Speech. A man standing up at a town hall to speak while others look on in admiration. He is working class.
Close up of a cute white fluffy dog and a stuffed animal sheep. They are the same color palette.
Shot of the moon rising above a field with a persimmon tree in the foreground. The moon is rising in what should be a very dramatic place, like an ornament on a large sycamore in the background, but instead it’s lame.
Two braided but unbaked loaves of challah sit on a silpat mat. One is six strands braided neatly, the other is four braided rustically.
Screenshot from the shingles vaccine website of the most common side effects: pain, redness, and swelling at the injection site, muscle pain, tiredness, headache, shivering, fever, upset stomach
Southern New Mexican desert. Some of the most beautiful country on earth. Clear blue skies over the Mogollon Mountains with dozens of plant species in the frame.
Twin Peaks title card, Pacific Northwest Highway shot, evergreens, mountains with some snow, telephone poles and wires. But instead of Twin Peaks, the text says Der Schwanendreher.
Woodcut print in black and white of a knight fighting a skeleton on a battlefield. The text above reads: What are the four character classes. Wrong answers only.
דּוֹרֵ֣שׁ מִמְּךָ֗ כִּ֣י אִם־עֲשׂ֤וֹת מִשְׁפָּט֙ וְאַ֣הֲבַת חֶ֔סֶד וְהַצְנֵ֥עַ לֶ֖כֶת עִם־אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃
Black and white photo of Jascha Heifetz in tennis whites serving.
The front cover of the Bärenreiter collection of Beethoven’s Late String quartets, op. 127, 130-133, and 135
A large painting hangs on a white wall. Two hands engulfed in flames hold up a Torah scroll, burning, but as the scroll burns, Hebrew calligraphy emerges from the smoke in burning letters. In front of the painting is the artist, a small white haired woman laughing, talking to admirers.
A photo of a woman and a man in church garb in front of a white clapboard church. The man is a young Keanu Reaves, star of The Devil’s Advocate, wearing an oversized sports coat over a white t-shirt. The scene is from the opening of the movie, in Gainesville, Florida.
The cover to Neutral Milk Hotel’s 1998 album, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, a painting of a woman and boy at the ocean. The woman is in a red dress spangled with gold stars, her arm is raised in a wave or salute, instead of a head she has a tambourine. The boy is behind her, looking at her, calling to her, also with his hand up, in an old style striped bathing costume. More figures are in the water behind them, in the distance a sailboat and a steamer ship.
On a granite countertop sit a lulav and an etrog. The etrog appears as a large lumpy lemon with a tip instead of a rounded bottom. The lulav is a closed Date palm frond, three Myrtle branches, and two Willow branches all bound together in a braided holster.
Screen shot of a group text: RO says so would a Keurig Dr Pepper be like a coffee flavored like Dr Pepper or a Keurig machine dispensing Dr Pepper? Both sound amazing. I reply: I think it’s a pod of Dr Pepper that you can upload through the new AI enhanced Pete’s coffee app you can download for your Meta smart glasses (by Oakley). It’s part of the Doctorate offered in Pepper by Keurig University online. Three pods per semester.
A painting in white black and red in a red flowerpot full of tall flowers with long skinny petals. Most of the flowers are white, some are red. The textures of the flowers are very realistic the pot is matte and the background is abstract black and white.
Two astronauts meme: first astronaut looking at the earth says wait it’s all human nature perverted by power structures and the second astronaut behind her with a gun aimed at her says always has been.
Two astronauts in space float looking at the earth. The one in the mid ground says “Wait it’s all Christianity?” and the one in the foreground holding a gun pointed at the first astronaut (who doesn’t see the gun) says, “Always has been”
Two unbaked loaves of challah on a cookie sheet. One is braided in 4 strands, one is braided in 6 strands.
An armadillo in the center of the frame amongst greenery. If you zoom in you can see the pebbled texture of its armor. A snout longer than a pig but shorter than an anteater.
A square piece of cake on a round ceramic plate. Yellow cake with white frosting, topped with so many berries: blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, and strawberries.
VJ Day in Times Square - a sailor dips and kisses a white high-heeled nurse in the middle of a crowd. A famous photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt
A brown Labrador retriever sleeps on a cushion, her head lit by a sunbeam. In the foreground a brown pair of boots. Behind her, a brown cabinet set up against yellow walls.
A headline from a Washington post column: In Middle East, Trump marginalizes Israel without helping Gaza. Below, a young boy with a head bandage weeps at a funeral.
Detail from a photographic portrait of Andreesen featuring his bald extremely egg-shaped head. He is wearing a white collared shirt beneath a dark sweater, his [probably dyed] brown beard is manicured, a medium length. He isn’t quite smiling.
Navy blue car on a highway driving with a double bass strapped to the roof. Driving north of San Francisco.
The sculpture “Alachua” on the campus of the University of Florida. In the courtyard between two modern brick buildings are two stacks of large yellow metal beams arranged into spikes or perhaps two crowns. The sculpture is also called more popularly, French Fries.
A group of 11 middle aged and older white actors posed in front of a black curtain. (It’s most of the cast of the comedy movie, Best in Show)
The illumination is divided into six colorful bands, framed top and bottom by the words every breath of life and will bless your name. Each band depicts, the abundance, natural world, although the limited human features appear in bold Hebrew letters: the word, “finu”, our mouths sails on an aqua sea; “l’shoneinu” our tongues plays among the waves; “eineinu” (our eyes) basks in the light of the sun of the moon; “yadeinu” our hands reaches the wings of soaring eagle and “ragleinu”, our legs prances in the fields with graceful gazelle’s
A page from Foer’s New American Haggadah with Hebrew calligraphy running along the bottom of the page in a scribbly style maybe meant to evoke smoke as it’s on a page of the Haggadah describing the miracle of the Pillar of Smoke, blood, and fire.
Detail from Foer’s New American Haggadah. A page with the blessing over the third cup of wine in Hebrew and English with large almost industrial purplish blocky Hebrew calligraphy falling in a clump in the middle of the page
A chocolate lab posed open-mouthed in front of a bright pink azalea bush on a sunny blue sky day.
Complicated Diagram of Sonata Form by the musicologists Darcy and Hepokoski. 3 parts: exposition, development, recapitulation broken down into component parts and descriptions including standard characteristics and key areas.
Two men are seated at a long wooden table laid out with an astonishing presentation of donuts stacked in twos. Glazed, cinnamon, powdered sugar, and chocolate covered. There are also carafes of coffee, styrofoam cups and a phone. A scene from Twin Peaks.
Decorated envelope in blue ink stamps of Parisian rooftops. Multicolored swirls in the sky with a flock of birds. Prehistoric cave painted animals decorate the roofs.
A photograph of a bowl of camellia‘s sitting on a wooden tray on a round marble table. The 9 camellia’s are various shades of pink from light pink to very nearly red.
Detail from original poster’s graphic showing a map of Texas divided into several separate states with abbreviations: EP, AU, CH, RG, WT
The first page of Gorey’s Gastlycrumb Tinies. Little blond Amy is falling down a large staircase headfirst.