dreams of gold and silver

I defaced a QAnon sticker. Someone probably left it there during last week's rally.

Someone on the train had purple and pale seafoam green hair and pale green eyes. A man had bright red hair.

Karen was manning the Boston Ballet tent until she ran off to get food.
A woman had a line from a Schumann song cycle tattooed on her arm.
James is a dancer. Saoirse, which is an Irish name meaning "freedom" is not. I was like "I know how to spell this." Important things to remember are "which vowels are broad and which are narrow" and "sometimes there are vowels that are just there to change the consonant sound" and "maybe there's some lenition in there."

Gabriella wore a purple dress, socks with pearls on them that she got from a small store in Chinatown, a bracelet of pink glass, and a necklace of pink and pale grey and violet. Her cats have been catching a lot of mice lately.

España - Emmanuel Chabrier
It imitates guitars with plucked strings.

Rites of Tamburo - Robert W. Smith
No, not that Robert Smith.
I feel like I’ve heard this one before but I don’t know where. It’s very vibraphone and chime heavy.

Anke Djé, Anke Bé - Jake Gunnar Walsh and Devin Ferreira
The name is Bamanankan, which is spoken by the Bambara, for something like "everyone gather together in peace."
In four parts, Fankani, a celebratory dance of welcoming, Kassa, a harvest dance, Djansa, a joyous social evening dance, and Ubuntu, which is a Nguni term meaning something like "the essence of humanity" and is often translated as "I am because we are", a message of hope. It features spoken words, and a drumming ensemble as well as traditional orchestra. I think there was a balafon as well.
At times, it reminded me of John Adams, as I had listened to Dharma at Big Sur, and Leonard Bernstein.

This too, alas, fades into darkness.

Leonard Bernstein - Symphonic Dances from West Side Story.
It’s a weird title because there’s nothing actually symphonic about it. West Side Story is a reimagining of Romeo and Juliet, transposed to gang wars in New York. It goes prologue-somewhere-scherzo-mambo-chacha-meetign-fugue-rumble.

Bal masqué - Amy Beach

Impressions of Cheonmachong - Kyle Newmaster (orchestra) and Brooke Jee-in Newmaster (drum and dance routine), stepsiblings. Or something like that.
Concerto for Korean Three Drum Dance
Cheonmachong is a Korean Silla-era tomb with a painting of a Cheonma, a horse with eight legs and wings on its feet, along with gold rings and bracelets and a crown.
The orchestration reminded me of Tán Dùn.
There were five drums arranged in three cubicles for each drummer and it was just as much a dance as a it was drumming.

White Swan pas de deux - Tchaikovsky
In Russia, they perform Swan Lake with a happy ending. Gabriella's sister saw it once and said there was a happy ending, and that might be because they were a Russian troupe.
Going by maps, Swan Lake is filled with whoopers. Maybe mutes.

Gardens to Grow from Candide, Bernstein.
If you’re wondering, Gardens to Grow is the name of the dance, set to the instrumental music from Candide.

Roxanne has bright red and black hair and, on one arm, tattoos of a Metroid larva, the Ocarina of Time with red flowers around it, the Wind Fish which is in fact a whale, Mallow from Super Mario RPG, an impossible triangle tattoo she has because her brother and sister have that same tattoo, on the other arm, a tattoo that had fuck all to do with video games. On her shoulder was the planet from The Little Prince when it became overrun with baobabs. She had space on her arm for another tattoo and she’s thinking of Majora’s Mask and thought of Navi but thought “nah” because she already has the ocarina. She didn’t get very far in Twilight Princess because the Wii controls were awkward, and was bored in Wind Waker until she realized that the ruins were Hyrule after a great flood, and then found it too depressing to continue.
She grew up in Brazil so she got stuck on Booster’s Tower and used a Portuguese-English dictionary.
She thinks the best Batman is the one from the Lego Batman Movie, while Mark Hamill is the best Joker and I immediately thought of him reading Trump’s tweets in a Joker voice and she was about to ask me if I've heard those. Elon Musk reminds her of Lex Luthor.
She has a big orange cat named Boba Fett.

Nightside plays traditional Irish music.
The bus driver said that despite the big letters on the side of the bus, he's a Red Sox fan.

I've been seeing Ashley a lot more than I'd like. I do not know what to say anymore and I am getting nowhere. Well, I'm getting somewhere, but it's not anywhere that I want to be.

burning question: It is true, isn't it, that sheep eat little bushes? Then it follows that they also eat baobabs?