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mamagotcha) wrote2008-02-27 01:09 pm
mamagotcha) wrote2008-02-27 01:09 pm
Yay and dang
Yay: I'm registered for WisCon! I'd ask if anyone wants to share a room, but I snore. If someone out there can tolerate snoring (I very well may have a CPAP by then), let me know. Also, I don't mind snoring in others... I have earplugs and I know how to use 'em!
Dang: That Million Fag March is on the same day as one of only two performances of a local gay mens' chorus' concert featuring some new and exciting work. Baaad planning, MFM folks!
Bonus anecdote: Today's Word A Day is Job's Comforter, someone who tries to help but inadvertently makes things worse.
Not too long after Bill and I got together, we were crossing the Bay Bridge. On a whim, I decided to pay for the toll of the person behind us. Bill squirmed around to watch their reaction, as I drove slowly ahead. He looked puzzled, then started laughing. Apparently the folks behind us didn't speak English, but knew they were not allowed to cross without paying. After the toll booth operator tried several times to wave them through, he finally took pity on their anguished efforts to pay and accepted their money. Now we call this kind of event a "tollbooth."
Dang: That Million Fag March is on the same day as one of only two performances of a local gay mens' chorus' concert featuring some new and exciting work. Baaad planning, MFM folks!
Bonus anecdote: Today's Word A Day is Job's Comforter, someone who tries to help but inadvertently makes things worse.
Not too long after Bill and I got together, we were crossing the Bay Bridge. On a whim, I decided to pay for the toll of the person behind us. Bill squirmed around to watch their reaction, as I drove slowly ahead. He looked puzzled, then started laughing. Apparently the folks behind us didn't speak English, but knew they were not allowed to cross without paying. After the toll booth operator tried several times to wave them through, he finally took pity on their anguished efforts to pay and accepted their money. Now we call this kind of event a "tollbooth."
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We'll go to the Friday show, and still try to do Topeka, but man, you'd think they'd've done their homework on this.
This is truly an amazing chorus. I try to go to as many of their shows as possible. I feel very lucky to have found them.
So is there a clip where I CAN hear you?
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Upon looking for your requested audio clips that include me, I have now concluded that the "Who Will Come" clip probably isn't my orchestra after all. We played it with the SFGMC the year before last, but it looks like the SFGMC recorded it in 2000 with some other orchestra, and that's the clip.
You can, however, listen for me in the clips for the "Divas' Revenge" CD (or buy the whole CD!) on the SFGMC website. Go to their audio player page, select the Divas' Revenge CD, which is the one directly below the one in the upper left hand corner (insert caddy web design gripe here). My orchestra is playing in all the operatic tracks - Polovatsian Dances, Toreador's Song, Pilgrims' Chorus, Humming Chorus, and Nessun Dorma. The bonus track - Overture to Nabucco - is just my orchestra without the chorus. While you are there, you should also listen to the clip of "I Know Where I've Been" because that's sung by an awesome SFGMC soloist named Cecil, whose live performance totally knocked my socks off. He's great.
Keep an eye out for the very soon to be released "USS Metaphor" DVD (which reportedly features a clear shot of me in the opening moment of the DVD. It's a really fun adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" - switching a few genders around and creating a a modern social satire about gay marriage and "don't ask don't tell." Last year's performance at Davies was filmed for the DVD. We performed it twice more last weekend for the DVD release, and will be playing it in Miami at the GALA choruses festival, hoping to wow, and thus sell DVDs to, the guys in your gay chorus (among others).