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ciroccojStill high from our first Christmas choir rehearsal, I check my mail and find that Dubya will be infesting invading fouling visiting our fair city on November 30. Talk about bathos (the sudden fall from the sublime to the profane). Eeeyuck. I must remember to stay away from the news that day, or risk puking when I hear Martin kissing Dubya's ass like he wants to marry it spout that "our two nations, two good friends" crap. Which is odd, because I always felt pretty comfortable with Canada's close relationship with the US before Bush. Now, though... if it was up to me, I'd be petitioning for us to join the EU.
So I'm thinking I'm gonna hurl anyway just on principle, and I come across this:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mcee/
Oh yeah, baby. This is why I love my f-list :)
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So, my good cheer restored: choir was amazing. I'd felt such green-eyed jealousy at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snarkhunter, who got to go to a Messiah singalong - and now I don't have to be jealous, 'cause we're doing it too! Parts of it, anyway.
There's nothing quite like singing the Messiah. It's just... ::trying to word it right:: nope, can't describe it. I've been singing it since 1986 (just saw the date on my book and boggled - I was fifteen the first time my choir sang it at the NAC!!) and have never been able to express how it feels.
I've also never gotten tired of the delight that comes every single time a choir rehearses the Hallelujah chorus for the first time, and everybody knows that somebody will be caught on the final "HA!" - and then it happens. And the whole choir laughs. Somehow, like the Messiah itself, that never, ever gets old :)
So I'm thinking I'm gonna hurl anyway just on principle, and I come across this:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mcee/
Oh yeah, baby. This is why I love my f-list :)
So, my good cheer restored: choir was amazing. I'd felt such green-eyed jealousy at
snarkhunter, who got to go to a Messiah singalong - and now I don't have to be jealous, 'cause we're doing it too! Parts of it, anyway.There's nothing quite like singing the Messiah. It's just... ::trying to word it right:: nope, can't describe it. I've been singing it since 1986 (just saw the date on my book and boggled - I was fifteen the first time my choir sang it at the NAC!!) and have never been able to express how it feels.
I've also never gotten tired of the delight that comes every single time a choir rehearses the Hallelujah chorus for the first time, and everybody knows that somebody will be caught on the final "HA!" - and then it happens. And the whole choir laughs. Somehow, like the Messiah itself, that never, ever gets old :)
