get ready for mozart's 250th

january 27, 2006, marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of boy genius composer wolfgang amadeus mozart. while i suffer from an aversion to german opera (result of early exposure to the works of strauss and wagner at pain-threshold volume via my old man), still dig mozart's, esp. the magic flute (which i fucked up and missed when the dallas opera performed it a coupla yrs ago). will have to find a copy of amadeus, the movie that did for mozart what barfly did for bukowski, to screen in honor of his day.