pot pourri of car, choir, boys, adr, sleep
Jan. 7th, 2004 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciroccoj- Took my car in. It has new brakes and a new battery, and I'm $500 poorer. Ah, the joy of car ownership. And we still don't have a radio/tape player. I may have to take up part-time prostitution to pay for that.
- Went to choir. Mark Sirrett is indeed a god. He almost (I said almost) makes up for the general crappiness of other Canadian choral composers. Which is quite a feat, as I truly do believe that the quality of Canadian composers of choral music is a way for God to balance out the scales - you know, Canada gets gorgeous vistas, relatively wealthy lifestyle, good hockey players, etc... but we have to put up with unsingable s***.
Anyway, we sang through one of his songs for the first time, sang all the way through it sightreading, and as soon as we finished there was a general burble of almost every choir member turning to say to their neighbours, "Oh my god, that's beautiful!!" I'll have to see if I can find a sound file. *
The rest... meh. It's Songs of Luuve, for a Valentine's Day concert.
::gag::
Some are pretty good, like the Sirrett one and a Billy Joel piece (And So It Goes), but as for the rest... overall, meh. - Boys come back tomorrow. I miss them. I want hugs and cuddles, and I want to watch them sleeping again. It's been wonderful having this break from motherhood, but it's been long enough.
- Finished my work with my ADR git-partner. Went OK. Not worth writing about.
- Going to bed now.
* Later Edit: which may prove harder than I thought, since the song (at least, the words) have been around since at least the 1880's, but made into at least 400 different versions. Somehow I doubt Mark Sirrett's version will be among the online recordings.
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Date: 2004-01-07 08:13 pm (UTC)Not that this has much to do with anything you were talking about, but I might be going to Canada with my friend over the summer! I've never been so I'm pretty excited that I might get to go! (As you're sitting there wondering why I'm telling you this!)
Hope you had an otherwise good day (besides the 'meh's mentioned above!)
:)
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Date: 2004-01-08 11:18 am (UTC)Oh, cool! What part of Canada?
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Date: 2004-01-08 03:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-07 08:18 pm (UTC)But...is it just that you guys are overlooked, or do you really just...not produce a lot of artists? I always assumed you were overlooked. I mean, you've got the loud, partier neighbors to the south who hog all the attention...
What you said about choral music makes me wonder. I'm really fascinated by Canada, I must admit.
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Date: 2004-01-07 08:22 pm (UTC)Which I actually don't like. Their art is supposed to show a uniquely Canadian approach to landscape and nature and blah blah, and I'm sure if I knew anything at all about True Art, I could extoll their virtues ad nauseum. But, my gut reaction?
"Um... yeah. Fingerpaint much?"
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Date: 2004-01-07 08:51 pm (UTC)Now I need to go look up The Group of Seven. hee.
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Date: 2004-01-07 09:37 pm (UTC)What more do you want?
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Date: 2004-01-08 11:27 am (UTC)"Well, Mulder didn't say it was Alex Trebek, just somebody who looked like Alex Trebek."
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Date: 2004-01-07 09:48 pm (UTC)It was on Bif Naked's (also Canadian) spoken word album from forever ago. Spelling mistakes are not mine ;)
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Date: 2004-01-08 11:25 am (UTC)Art in general, I don't know. I know we've produced a disproportionate number of comedians, but don't know about the other arts.
The thing is, though, for many of 'our' artists (singers, actors, etc), it's hard to tell they're from Canada if they're anglo. Unless they're huge and have made a big deal out of it (eg Shania Twain or kd lang), there's no reason anybody would know they were Canadian. Besides, most of them move down south anyway, since LA and New York tend to be bigger hotbeds of artistic ferment than, say, Kamloops.
Or maybe it's just too damn cold here for people to be artistic - who can be creative when they spend half the year digging their car out from under the ice?
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Date: 2004-01-07 09:43 pm (UTC)What about Emily Carr? Mary Pratt? Robert Bateman? William Kurelek (he was crazy, but that counts!)... Paul Peel... ohhh Ken Danby, he did that cool goalie painting.
I think my geek is showing.
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Date: 2004-01-07 08:33 pm (UTC)I can see the headlines now--
"Woman turns tricks for music."
;-) Isn't car ownership fun?
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Date: 2004-01-07 08:35 pm (UTC)::gag::
i so know what you mean.
as regards the prostitution: don't take to the streets. see what you can work out with the mechanic.
glad your boys will be back tomorrow. should be a happy reunion for all.
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Date: 2004-01-08 11:30 am (UTC)LOL!!!
Like a barter system :D :D :D
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Date: 2004-01-08 08:47 am (UTC)And I, personally, sometimes have dreams that Canada decided to take Minnesota in as the 11th province. (I've been in love with Canada ever since I read Anne of Green Gables for the first time when I was ten. No one I know can understand it, but I don't care!)
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Date: 2004-01-08 11:39 am (UTC)LOL!!
I read a book once, based about 200 years in the future, where the Dominion of Canada was the oldest country on earth. It had changed a bit, though - first Quebec had separated, then BC became part of the "Norman lands", Ontario became a separate nation, the Maritimes were swallowed up by New England states, and the prairies were owned by Nabisco or something. All that was left were the northern territories, with Yellowknife as the capital. Pretty funny image.