Voting, Tesla, MySpace

[featherynscale]

Ahem. Vote, you bastards.

I did already this morning. triadruid and I went early early, to experience the joy of the confused elderly poll workers, avoid the touchscreen voting machine, and generally participate in the civic process in our usual rowdy but good-natured manner.

He sits down next to me at the table. I'm already filling out my ScanTron ballot. "What's the answer to Number 3?", he stage-whispers.
"Democrat," I hiss back. "Oh wait," I say, "I'm not supposed to say that, am I?".
"Stop intimidating other voters," he says.
"Are you intimidated by me?"
"Ummm... Yes!"

Also, we harrassed someone who was handing out No on 2 pamphlets too close to the door (in our estimation). So that's fun.

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And then, I come home, and I find that there's an opera about Nikola Tesla. How cool is that?
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And then, I'm looking for information on a DJ whose mix brandy22kc loaned me. He has a MySpace page. It is useless and poorly designed. I look at a few other MySpace pages, linked from his. They are useless, and also uniformly eye-searing. I'm messaging with Dan, Abbot of Lesbians, and I say "Breathes there a thing on this earth more useless than MySpace?" Almost immediately, he messages back, "Nope. I checked with Hampsterdance. They said MySpace blows." Soda, meet keyboard. Oh, you've met.

And now, to work!

Comments

[sepiachord.livejournal.com]

I hope that Violet Fire is performed in more places, or that they release a cast recording.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I wonder what it takes to get backing for that sort of production. I mean, not only is there a general disinterest in opera, but also, it's probably the sort of thing that fire marshalls get nervous about, and then, you have to factor in that it features an ongoing dialogue between Tesla and a pigeon.

I'm figuring the odds that I'll get to see this show are pretty low, actually, but the fact that it exists at all is pretty nifty. I would probably buy a cast recording though. More shows about science, please!

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

I wish that Opera was bigger, I might get to sing more.

I have tried to sing folk, I have tried to sing rock, I refuse to sing country. I have an operatic voice (so I have found/been told) and I don't get to sing that way often.

I only get to sing choir and that is not place for an operatic voice... Even though half the time I get so nervous singing solo that I get totally off key and fuck it up anyway... (Is my low self esteem showing?)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I'm for that, myself. I have a regrettable tendency to like opera, and I can manage the voice for it, provided you have a tenor role that it's okay for someone of my shape to sing. That doesn't happen really often, though.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

I love opera. I don't get to see it live often enough. (I went to some Mozart at the Lyric last year with D. It was *GREAT* although the translations were crap).

I have pondered writing some orchestral peices in the past, perhaps I should add opera to that... hummmm...

This is again why I am jelous of that wonderful music program that kittenpants has on her laptop. I so need to get that program (or one like it).

(It also donned on me that I have no real music icon. I need to get me one of those too. The dance is ok but, well...)

That is rather cool

[lilia-blackbear.livejournal.com]

Although not surprising... I mean, his life inspired a hair band to make decent music, and if you can inspire hair bands to do anything worthwhile, your life must have been something.

By the way, have you ever seen Coffee and Cigarettes? A series of vignettes, quite hilarious if you ask me, but I'm not entirely sure what type of movies you like. But anyhoo, one vignette is Jack and Meg White playing with a Tesla coil...

Re: That is rather cool

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Never heard of it, actually. I do like short films, though, and I like Jarmusch, and hell, it's got Iggy Pop and Tom Waits in. I'm putting it on the to-watch list. :)

Re: That is rather cool

[lilia-blackbear.livejournal.com]

It is definitely worth the time. I rented it once on a Steve Buscemi marathon night. Was glad I picked it up because his movies are just great or completely suck; I got lucky. The first vignette is a conversation between the hyper Roberto Benigni and sedate Stephen Wright. It is fabulous. Just seeing their names together makes me giggle every time...

[chronarchy.livejournal.com]

Thank you for voting, even if you did cheat on the test :)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Hi. Have you met me? I cheat when I think the rules are stupid. :)

the answer to number 3

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

After I voted I picked up my lunch from a local restaurant. The guy who handed me my food asked if I'd voted yet, then said "So how'd you do?"

Um.... I almost wanted to tell him I wasn't sure if I got number 3 right.

Re: the answer to number 3

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

That would have been too funny...

[opaljax.livejournal.com]

I voted. And I took the Boy with me so that he could see how it was done. (and to let the elderly women gush over him) He even got a sticker. He was so proud. I would have taken the Girl as well, but she had to be at school.

[infintysquared.livejournal.com]

If you think THAT was cool, you should check out Moran's The Manson Family: an Opera. He's a student of Philip Glass, but I promise this is nothing like Einstein on the Beach.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I love that no matter how many times I look at that comment, it still says the same thing. Manson Family opera is so.... unlikely. And you know how I like the unlikely.

[infintysquared.livejournal.com]

It even has Iggy Pop as the voice of the judge!

I had a copy of it on MP3, but lost it in a hard drive crash. I should be able to find it again in the next couple weeks, and will gleefully share it. You must experience this utter wrongness. :-D

[brandy22kc.livejournal.com]

what dj????? which one ?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Timid. I'm trying to find out the names of the 2 tracks we used in the ritual on Sunday, so that we can get an accurate list out.

[brandy22kc.livejournal.com]

breathe by storm and euphony is the one that had ...a different boy a different girl.....

what cd and track was the other one and i can find it for you

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Most excellent. The other one is the one that has "take all you need, and we'll be strong together" in it.

Here is your ninjitsu comment

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

Saw The Prestige the other night with wildnsquirrelly. David Bowie was da Shit as Tesla. I'm just sayin'.