This is my dating post for the Fediverse. I will start with what I want, in order not to waste anyone's time.
I am seeking a man, preferably over sixty, who dresses well (or at least appreciates fine clothing), and who is well-educated, well-spoken, confident, and witty, or at least, not offended easily. You can be either straight or bisexual. You should enjoy the finer things in life, but you need not be rich. I have no interest in bdsm, role-playing, etc. I simply adore seniors and soft members. I would prefer you to either live in or near New Jersey, or to be able to visit me relatively frequently, but I am willing to start online and see where it goes if you're not local but meet my requirements. In either case, I must get to know you first. No one-night stands, parents or men who want children, caregivers, workaholics, or recreational drug users. I would also prefer someone who is not political and doesn't involve himself inworld affairs or the drama of others. I am open to both friendship with fun and no strings attached, and a committed relationship.
A shortened version of my profile is below.
I live in New Jersey and am forty-one years old. Some of my interests include studying dandyism, nineteenth-century grammar, Upper Received Pronunciation, British history, and the Regency. I like coffee, tea, wine, cooking, reading British literature, nature and historical documentaries, hot weather, playing cards and dice, and cats. Musically, I enjoy Baroque through a bit of early Romantic, with Classical being my favourite. I love English and Viennese operettas. I am starting to learn about opera, focusing on singers from the 1940's and earlier, due to their style. I prefer antique menswear and accessories, and I would love to own an Edwardian suit. I love wit, wordplay, and dry humour without vulgarity. My parents are lesbians, and I am a gay rights supporter. I have been totally blind since I was two months old, due to Retinopathy of Prematurity. I am happily childfree and am not religious.
A much longer dating post can be found here, but it can easily be ignored, as the essentials have already been mentioned.
https://dandylover1.dreamwidth.org/2263.html
#dandies #dating #HighCulture #NewJersey #NewYork #OlderMen #partners #seniors #singles
#HighCulture
Hello. Georgiana Brummell is not my legal name, but it is what I prefer to be called. I chose it in honour of Beau Brummell. I joined Friendica in October of 2024, after Facebook closed their Basic Mobile site (not app), since their main page is barely accessible with a screen readr. However, I noticed many accessibility issues there as well, and they will take quite awhile to be resolve. I have, therefore, chosen to switch to the Blob.cat instance of Akkoma, though I do not intend to delete my Friendica account.
I live in New Jersey and am forty-one years old. Some of my interests include studying dandyism, nineteenth-century grammar, Upper Received Pronunciation, British history, and the Regency. I like coffee, tea, wine, nasal snuff, cooking, hot baths, reading British literature, nature and historical documentaries, old BBC radio shows, gardening, hot weather, and playing cards and dice. I also love cats. In classical music, I enjoy Baroque through a bit of early Romantic, with Classical being my favourite, while in popular (listen to rarely), I usually prefer 1950's through 1970's, and some acoustic recordings. I love theatre (especially English and Viennese operettas, Edwardian musical comedies), and some Regency/Georgian plays. I am starting to learn about opera, with my main focus being singers from the 1940's and earlier, due to the change in singing style that began roughly in the 1950's. I prefer antique menswear and accessories. It's my dream to either buy a genuine Edwardian suit or have one commissioned. I love wit, wordplay, and dry humour without vulgarity. My parents are lesbians, and I am a gay rights supporter. I have been totally blind since I was two months old, due to Retinopathy of Prematurity. I am happily childfree and am not religious. My main goal in life is simply to enjoy it, and have fun learning new things along the way. I am also single and searching. If you are or know a genuine dandy, or at least, a single, childfree, intelligent, well-dressed man, preferably over sixty, please tell him about me.
Please note. I don't write about American politics, race, anticapitalism, or world affairs (wars, poverty, oppression, etc.), and will not add those who do, as I don't want it filling my timelines. While I am interested in technology to an extent (particularly website accessibility), I am not a programmer or gamer, do not use Linux,and don't care what social network you use. I tend to get along better with people much older than I, but I will accept friends twenty-one and over. I have no understanding of chronic illness, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, lack of confidence, loneliness, etc. so if you need help with that, I'm not the one to ask. I enjoy hearing about cats, cooking or gardening adventures, animals and nature, antiques, and interesting facts and life stories.
This is my journal. Anyone can read or comment, whether or not he is a member.
http://www.dreamwidth.org
#19thCentury #accessibility #animals #BeauBrummell #BelCanto #books #blind #cats #ChildFree #ClassicalMusic #coffee #cooking #crafts #dandyism #documentaries #Dreamwidth #Edwardian #Facebook #Friendica #gardening #grammar #HighCulture #introduction #monarchy #NasalSnuff #nature #nobility #NoPolitics #NVDA #operettas #plants #reading #Regency #seniors #singing #tea #theater #theatre #TWBlue #TweeseCake #UpperReceivedPronunciation #wine
I live in New Jersey and am forty-one years old. Some of my interests include studying dandyism, nineteenth-century grammar, Upper Received Pronunciation, British history, and the Regency. I like coffee, tea, wine, nasal snuff, cooking, hot baths, reading British literature, nature and historical documentaries, old BBC radio shows, gardening, hot weather, and playing cards and dice. I also love cats. In classical music, I enjoy Baroque through a bit of early Romantic, with Classical being my favourite, while in popular (listen to rarely), I usually prefer 1950's through 1970's, and some acoustic recordings. I love theatre (especially English and Viennese operettas, Edwardian musical comedies), and some Regency/Georgian plays. I am starting to learn about opera, with my main focus being singers from the 1940's and earlier, due to the change in singing style that began roughly in the 1950's. I prefer antique menswear and accessories. It's my dream to either buy a genuine Edwardian suit or have one commissioned. I love wit, wordplay, and dry humour without vulgarity. My parents are lesbians, and I am a gay rights supporter. I have been totally blind since I was two months old, due to Retinopathy of Prematurity. I am happily childfree and am not religious. My main goal in life is simply to enjoy it, and have fun learning new things along the way. I am also single and searching. If you are or know a genuine dandy, or at least, a single, childfree, intelligent, well-dressed man, preferably over sixty, please tell him about me.
Please note. I don't write about American politics, race, anticapitalism, or world affairs (wars, poverty, oppression, etc.), and will not add those who do, as I don't want it filling my timelines. While I am interested in technology to an extent (particularly website accessibility), I am not a programmer or gamer, do not use Linux,and don't care what social network you use. I tend to get along better with people much older than I, but I will accept friends twenty-one and over. I have no understanding of chronic illness, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, lack of confidence, loneliness, etc. so if you need help with that, I'm not the one to ask. I enjoy hearing about cats, cooking or gardening adventures, animals and nature, antiques, and interesting facts and life stories.
This is my journal. Anyone can read or comment, whether or not he is a member.
http://www.dreamwidth.org
#19thCentury #accessibility #animals #BeauBrummell #BelCanto #books #blind #cats #ChildFree #ClassicalMusic #coffee #cooking #crafts #dandyism #documentaries #Dreamwidth #Edwardian #Facebook #Friendica #gardening #grammar #HighCulture #introduction #monarchy #NasalSnuff #nature #nobility #NoPolitics #NVDA #operettas #plants #reading #Regency #seniors #singing #tea #theater #theatre #TWBlue #TweeseCake #UpperReceivedPronunciation #wine
High culture (elite, lofty, self-important) is dead.
Not dying, not circling the drain. Dead. It lacks fruit, relevance, or even the staying power to haunt us like a proper ghost.
The so-called "low" genres, the trashy entertainment of the masses, are the ones that will outlive us all, strutting their unwashed faces into eternity while high culture gets buried in its gold-plated coffin.
Why? Because today's high culture was yesterday's gutter entertainment.
#highculture
*Updated.*
Hello. I joined Friendica in October of 2024, after Facebook closed their Basic Mobile site (not app). I live in New Jersey and am forty-one years old. Some of my interests include studying dandyism, nineteenth-century grammar, Upper Received Pronunciation, British history, and the Regency. I like coffee, tea, wine, nasal snuff, cooking, hot baths, reading British literature, watching nature and historical documentaries, gardening, hot weather, and playing cards and dice. I also love cats. In classical music, I enjoy Baroque through a bit of early Romantic, while in popular, I usually prefer 1950's through 1970's. I love theatre (especially English and Viennese operettas, Edwardian musical comedies), and some Regency/Georgian plays. I prefer antique menswear and accessories. It's my dream to either buy a genuine Edwardian suit or have one commissioned. I love wit, wordplay, and dry humour without vulgarity. My parents are lesbians, and I am a huge gay rights supporter, but I stop short of using singular they and promoting the idea of more than two sexes, though you can certainly lean more towards one while being the other (as I do being a masculine woman), or change from one to the other via hormones, surgery etc. I have been totally blind since I was two months old, due to Retinopathy of Prematurity.
I am happily childfree and am not religious. I hardly ever write about politics. I tend to get along better with people older than I, but I will accept friends twenty-one and over. I have no understanding of chronic illness, anxiety, depression, loneliness, etc. I enjoy hearing about cats, cooking or gardening adventures, antiques, and interesting life stories.
This is my journal. Anyone can read or comment, whether or not he is a member.
dandylover1.dreamwidth.org
#antipolitics #antiquemensware #antiques #BBC #blind #blindness #books #British #Britishliterature #BeauBrummell #cards #cats #childfree #coffee #cooking #classicalmusic #crafts #dandies #dandyism #ClaraNovelloDavies #dice #dinnerparties #documentaries #Dreamwidth #Edwardian #England #English #Eton #Facebook #fashion #food #Friendica #friends #friendship #gayrights #gardening #grammar #highculture #humor #humour #introduction #LordAlvanley #men #MS-DOS #nasalsnuff #nature #NewJersey #NewYork #IvorNovello #oldermen #omnivores #operettas #reading #ReceivedPronunciation #Regency #relationships #seniors #silverfork #singing #singles #tea #theater #theatre #UnitedKingdom #Wales #Windows #writing
Interesting claims by the Honest Broker:
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/in-2024-the-tension-between-macroculture
It compliments my old Substack post on High Culture as Dead Culture. I argued that what we now consider to be high culture was once mass culture (e.g., Shakespeare's plays were originally meant for the masses, but later canonized). High culture is becoming marginal, and artistic achievement always needs the mass audience for creative reinterpretation & distribution.
> ... quite relevant to today’s problems was the sharp decline in what we call “high culture,” reading of classics and contemporary literature by the people who were called the factory girls in Lowell and by craftsmen and other workers. #Craftsmen would hire somebody to read to them while they were working because they were interested and had libraries... “Those who work in the mills ought to own them,” not have the status of machines
#Chomsky and#Ware on the #LaborPress #HighCulture
Cyberpunk in particular played itself out long ago, but the more general theme of a peer-to-peer-networked digitized society is at least as relevant as it ever was, the possibilities for artistic inspiration in the classical Western tradition at least as ripe even now.
Image is Charles Edward Perugini's "Pandora's Box".
#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #opera #music #culture #thoughts #highculture #history #future #futurism #technology #aesthetics
If that whole ecosystem hadn't gotten into the modernist anti-timeless-beauty funk where nobody likes any of the new stuff, leading to e.g. the opera canon becoming frozen in time, we would have seen e.g. a profusion of really popular cyberpunk operas in the 1980s.
Image is of Wagner's Sieglinde; change a few accessories and she wouldn't look out of place in a cyberpunk city.
#art #traditionalart #illustration #opera #music #culture #thoughts #highculture #history #alternatehistory #aesthetics
I wonder why digitality didn't serve as an inspiration in the late 20th century for a full-classical-orchestra musical movement, e.g. notes evoking 0s and 1s, sounds evoking moving through vast networked webs. At least none nearly as prominent as e.g. the romantic movement. 🤔🎶
Image is a pixelated version of "Treble clef nebula purple posterized" by yours truly.
#art #MastoArt #digitalart #painting #digitalpainting #spaceart #nebula #nebulae #music #thoughts #culture #history #highculture
I'm actually optimistic about civilization's revival later in the 21st century and beyond; we're in the earliest stages now. But like classical antiquity before it the Long 19th Century stands as the high-water mark, daring its successors to widen their horizons and go further.
Image is "Siegfried leaves Brünnhilde in search of adventure" by Arthur Rackham (1911).
#art #traditionalart #illustration #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #opera #highculture #culture #history #thoughts
Rather freakishly, this high-water mark is also near the high-water mark of innovation and economic growth rates, and though past peak liberalism was still going strong. Hot take: Western civilization peaked on the evening of August 17, 1876.
Image is "Brünnhilde on Grane leaps onto the funeral pyre of Siegfried", page 180 from Arthur Rackham's "Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods" (1911).
#art #traditionalart #illustration #opera #highculture #culture #history #thoughts
If "Der Ring des Nibelungen" is the high-water mark of opera (which it is) and opera is the high-water mark of Western art (which, per Gesamtkunstwerk, it is), then Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle stands as the high-water mark of Western art as such.
Image is a photograph of the Rhinemaidens from the Bayreuth premiere in 1876.
I'm giving a listen today to Carl Orff's magnificent "Carmina Burana". "O Fortuna" is the most famous and fulminating part of it, but the whole thing is great from start to finish!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEllLECo4OM
#art #music #classicalmusic #culture #highculture #beautiful
Because there's no such thing as too much beautiful music, too much lovely concert pianists, or too much Anna Federova, here's her great performance of Scriabin's Sonata-Fantasy.
#art #music #classicalmusic #AnnaFederova #culture #highculture #beautiful
If you want to add some beauty to your day in a most pleasant way, I invite you to watch and listen to the adorable and very talented Anna Federova performing Chopin.
https://youtu.be/r5HBECcWzEM
#art #music #classicalmusic #AnnaFederova #culture #highculture #beautiful
Gustave Jean Jacquet's "The Cello Player" is not only lovely but also shares themes with my next novel's leading girl Calypso, though she plays a big bass and is less robust. Luckily for her she's in a space-age future!
#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #writing #writer #worldbuilding #music #thearts #artist #culture #highculture #classicalmusic #cello #bass #doublebass
Marcel Pouret's "The Pianist" shows a fair maiden airing out her beautiful body and getting in the flow of playing some music on her piano, a lovely thing for a girl to do with her day.
#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #music #thearts #artist #culture #highculture #classicalmusic #piano
Giovanni Boldini's "The Mondona Singer" is a vivid painting of a pretty girl in a very bold yet gorgeous outfit, enjoying her youth by showing off her beauty and immersing her soul in the arts.
#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #artist #culture #highculture #classicalmusic #thearts #music #feminine #fashion
George Sheridan Knowles's "The Duet" shows a fair girl in a vivid feminine red dress enjoying herself at the piano, showing just how fulfilling and alluring being an artistic girl can be.
#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #dress #feminine #music #thearts #artist #culture #highculture #classicalmusic #piano
The amazing sight and sound of Anna Federova playing Rachmaninoff is soothing to the soul. The way she expressively moves not just her hands but her whole body is at once striking and adorable.
#art #artist #thearts #culture #highculture #music #classicalmusic #piano #concert #concertpianist #AnnaFedorova #beautifulmusic #beautifulgirl #beautifulwoman #feminine #dress
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