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

[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...)