People's Artist
Jul. 25th, 2013 12:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaToday was fucking exciting. Probably so exciting that I'm going to take at least an hour to describe anything and it won't be "today" unless you live in Tahiti. Which I know you don't, otherwise, I'd ask you to look at my last.fm page.
My only gripe is I had to find a new sub place to go to. Also, I sat on a slice of watermelon and my ass was wet from it.
There was a man with a tattoo of a purple cat being pierced with a hail of arrows, pawing at a can of tuna.
***
Here is why this entry is called People's Artist and not Air. Her name is Emma and she supports the arts and arts funding is awesome and we should all be able to enjoy free concerts and free Shakespeare fifties style with musical numbers and references to the Godfather and spaghetti westerns with Batman wandering the Common and free pie and free umbrellas. Beats killing brown people. Also, for some bizarre reason, I think that Air is more suited to the end of summer.
http://emmaleavittarts.tumblr.com
We talked about our art. I didn't tell her her art was awesome because I remain blissfully unaware of the existence or nonexistence of wifi on the Esplanade, but she did say my art was awesome, especially the three collages, and watercolor pencils are magical and baby raccoons are adorable and it's totally fine that everything is out of order, not that the order really matters to her when it comes to artwork, it's just really nice to have it for animals, so all the raccoons are grouped with the other raccoons and not interrupted by random pictures of Spyro and the boa going fishing.
But it is awesome, and you can learn a Malagasy phrase from one of her sketchbooks: Bory bory ny tany.
It means the world is round and fate may bring us together again. Pronounce it as it looks. Maybe.
http://emmaleavittarts.tumblr.com/post/45101923145/2013
This is a map of Madagascar, with all its wonderfully long place names.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HLqMfXo-QY
This is what Malagasy sounds like sung. Malagasy is more related to Indonesian and Marshallese and Cham and Maori than to kiSwahili or isiXhosa or Somali.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPHkuqHfxW0
This is a love song in Maori.
I think I'm going to paint something on Thursday and Friday. And sleep until noon. Ok, maybe not the last thing; it's summer. Dawn is early and I tend to wake up at 7 thinking it's actually 9. Or I get lovesick or anxious and wake up at 5:59 AM.
***
The people at the Cantata Singers loved the battle between the tyrannosaurus with a top hat and angry eyebrows riding an old fashioned bike and a pteranodon with angry eyebrows and a top hat. And she thought of a stegosaurus when she hears the word dinosaur but also t-rex and totally didn't know that brontosauruses never existed, it's just some bones getting mixed up and everyone thought sticking with apatosaurus was a good idea. And also they laughed at the Fast Supper.
***
I got a cool pin from Artists For Humanity. That's kind of like The People's Artists. It's a dog. I'll take a picture of it later.
***
Two people burst out into laughter at my shirt. For the record, my shirt says this:
the Planets
Mars - Venus - Mercury - Jupiter
Saturn - Uranus - Neptune
holst was right
***
I talked about 6LA8 and //orangenoise and the Arab Spring and fucking Assad ruining it may all the dictators attain that which is their due with the American Islamic Congress.
***
1. Perpetuum mobile goes on forever, a repeating melody with little variations. Until they choose to end it.
2. Lord of the Rings Symphonic suite didn't quite work, and I'll tell you why: Because the soundtrack had plenty of unconventional instruments thrown in there, like duduk and cimbalom and sarangi and rhaita and tingshas and dilruba. Tell me if you've heard of those. So it sounded off.
3. Gandolfi's the Queen and the Conjurer was a new piece inspired by a poem about the tarot cards and it's really quite beautiful. If you want to hear it, you might have to wait until it propagates.
4. Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra is a Purcell piece broken down into its constituent parts.
5. Brahms' Symphony no. 1 was beautiful and Beethovenesque. I made up that word.
***
I was talking about books with somebody (I think her name was Kelsey. Not Miki, I can tell you that.). She was reading a book about people with gambling problems who end up in Vegas, but not people who let escaped killers into the house because they were dressed like Santa Claus. I was reading a book about 2010 and it's weird reading about the far flung future of 1989. She said they should move it up to 2110. But it's prophetic, even if those 7 billion people aren't quite distributed the same way they are now. As for what to read next, I'm torn between Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas; The Songs of Distant Earth; and Downward To The Earth.
***
There was a man and a woman dancing on the platform at Charles/MGH. Not a need-to-pee dance or a giddy dance you do without quite realizing it, more like an elegant dance, suited for a romance in a mechanical dancehall. Since we had these neon orange wristbands, we could tell that we went to the concerts!
***
Burning Question: What if you went to the beach and there was a sharknado?
My only gripe is I had to find a new sub place to go to. Also, I sat on a slice of watermelon and my ass was wet from it.
There was a man with a tattoo of a purple cat being pierced with a hail of arrows, pawing at a can of tuna.
***
Here is why this entry is called People's Artist and not Air. Her name is Emma and she supports the arts and arts funding is awesome and we should all be able to enjoy free concerts and free Shakespeare fifties style with musical numbers and references to the Godfather and spaghetti westerns with Batman wandering the Common and free pie and free umbrellas. Beats killing brown people. Also, for some bizarre reason, I think that Air is more suited to the end of summer.
http://emmaleavittarts.tumblr.com
We talked about our art. I didn't tell her her art was awesome because I remain blissfully unaware of the existence or nonexistence of wifi on the Esplanade, but she did say my art was awesome, especially the three collages, and watercolor pencils are magical and baby raccoons are adorable and it's totally fine that everything is out of order, not that the order really matters to her when it comes to artwork, it's just really nice to have it for animals, so all the raccoons are grouped with the other raccoons and not interrupted by random pictures of Spyro and the boa going fishing.
But it is awesome, and you can learn a Malagasy phrase from one of her sketchbooks: Bory bory ny tany.
It means the world is round and fate may bring us together again. Pronounce it as it looks. Maybe.
http://emmaleavittarts.tumblr.com/post/45101923145/2013
This is a map of Madagascar, with all its wonderfully long place names.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HLqMfXo-QY
This is what Malagasy sounds like sung. Malagasy is more related to Indonesian and Marshallese and Cham and Maori than to kiSwahili or isiXhosa or Somali.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPHkuqHfxW0
This is a love song in Maori.
I think I'm going to paint something on Thursday and Friday. And sleep until noon. Ok, maybe not the last thing; it's summer. Dawn is early and I tend to wake up at 7 thinking it's actually 9. Or I get lovesick or anxious and wake up at 5:59 AM.
***
The people at the Cantata Singers loved the battle between the tyrannosaurus with a top hat and angry eyebrows riding an old fashioned bike and a pteranodon with angry eyebrows and a top hat. And she thought of a stegosaurus when she hears the word dinosaur but also t-rex and totally didn't know that brontosauruses never existed, it's just some bones getting mixed up and everyone thought sticking with apatosaurus was a good idea. And also they laughed at the Fast Supper.
***
I got a cool pin from Artists For Humanity. That's kind of like The People's Artists. It's a dog. I'll take a picture of it later.
***
Two people burst out into laughter at my shirt. For the record, my shirt says this:
the Planets
Mars - Venus - Mercury - Jupiter
Saturn - Uranus - Neptune
holst was right
***
I talked about 6LA8 and //orangenoise and the Arab Spring and fucking Assad ruining it may all the dictators attain that which is their due with the American Islamic Congress.
***
1. Perpetuum mobile goes on forever, a repeating melody with little variations. Until they choose to end it.
2. Lord of the Rings Symphonic suite didn't quite work, and I'll tell you why: Because the soundtrack had plenty of unconventional instruments thrown in there, like duduk and cimbalom and sarangi and rhaita and tingshas and dilruba. Tell me if you've heard of those. So it sounded off.
3. Gandolfi's the Queen and the Conjurer was a new piece inspired by a poem about the tarot cards and it's really quite beautiful. If you want to hear it, you might have to wait until it propagates.
4. Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra is a Purcell piece broken down into its constituent parts.
5. Brahms' Symphony no. 1 was beautiful and Beethovenesque. I made up that word.
***
I was talking about books with somebody (I think her name was Kelsey. Not Miki, I can tell you that.). She was reading a book about people with gambling problems who end up in Vegas, but not people who let escaped killers into the house because they were dressed like Santa Claus. I was reading a book about 2010 and it's weird reading about the far flung future of 1989. She said they should move it up to 2110. But it's prophetic, even if those 7 billion people aren't quite distributed the same way they are now. As for what to read next, I'm torn between Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas; The Songs of Distant Earth; and Downward To The Earth.
***
There was a man and a woman dancing on the platform at Charles/MGH. Not a need-to-pee dance or a giddy dance you do without quite realizing it, more like an elegant dance, suited for a romance in a mechanical dancehall. Since we had these neon orange wristbands, we could tell that we went to the concerts!
***
Burning Question: What if you went to the beach and there was a sharknado?
