an orchestra of ghosts
Jul. 29th, 2013 12:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaI woke up at 9:00, exhausted, after a definitely unsettling dream in which I was in a movie or maybe not and we were chasing this guy because he escaped assassination in Paris back in the early 90s, and well, something was transforming us, one of us was this mass of suet in a tub, and this woman was sticking her fingers in my mouth and they were all weirdly jointed, and then I jumped out a window to escape them. . I blame Downward to the Earth. That book is also simultaneously grotesque and beautiful. Fungoid Station (shudder). Oh, and it has luminous trees too. Maybe there should be something like the fungoid sponge thing in Avatar 2.
I got there in time. There was a Jewish music ensemble from the New England Conservatory with a guzheng player and plenty of clarinet and harmonica, there was Professor Paddy-Whack's One Man Junk Band (think Groundskeeper Willie singing Maniac except it's not on his back and he didn't have a Scottish accent and he used a lot of vintage instruments and other relics, including the thing ships used instead of bugles during World War II) and mime, the Boston Conservatory Broadway Revue, Carlos Nuñez was back with the Landmarks Orchestra, they played a Russified Carmen, and he did the Breton finger dance again, and Alison Krauss, a bluegrass/Americana musician, who unfortunately did not do a song with Carlos Nuñez or rap about bananas and polar bears.. The first thing Luminarium Dance did was a little dark and the backing music sounded like Merzbow or Blue Skies and Paign with a tabla, so they decided to lighten it up by dancing with hand mirrors to six kids making sound effects with their mouths and then to something that sounded like the music from Xenosaga III's first dungeon.
A kid from Mauritius thought I was someone she knew. Probably from back home since I obviously wasn't that person.
A woman had So It Goes tattooed on her arm. It's a Kurt Vonnegut reference. Kurt Vonnegut is dead, alas. So it goes.
There was a guy who spoke Hungarian and had a blue and yellow macaw with him.
There was a woman dressed as a doll and had a sign reading "puppet in need. Magic potions too expensive. I want to be a real girl. Please help!"
Professor Paddy-Whack was walking around on stilts.
Burning Question: What's the point of a door that does not open?
I got there in time. There was a Jewish music ensemble from the New England Conservatory with a guzheng player and plenty of clarinet and harmonica, there was Professor Paddy-Whack's One Man Junk Band (think Groundskeeper Willie singing Maniac except it's not on his back and he didn't have a Scottish accent and he used a lot of vintage instruments and other relics, including the thing ships used instead of bugles during World War II) and mime, the Boston Conservatory Broadway Revue, Carlos Nuñez was back with the Landmarks Orchestra, they played a Russified Carmen, and he did the Breton finger dance again, and Alison Krauss, a bluegrass/Americana musician, who unfortunately did not do a song with Carlos Nuñez or rap about bananas and polar bears.. The first thing Luminarium Dance did was a little dark and the backing music sounded like Merzbow or Blue Skies and Paign with a tabla, so they decided to lighten it up by dancing with hand mirrors to six kids making sound effects with their mouths and then to something that sounded like the music from Xenosaga III's first dungeon.
A kid from Mauritius thought I was someone she knew. Probably from back home since I obviously wasn't that person.
A woman had So It Goes tattooed on her arm. It's a Kurt Vonnegut reference. Kurt Vonnegut is dead, alas. So it goes.
There was a guy who spoke Hungarian and had a blue and yellow macaw with him.
There was a woman dressed as a doll and had a sign reading "puppet in need. Magic potions too expensive. I want to be a real girl. Please help!"
Professor Paddy-Whack was walking around on stilts.
Burning Question: What's the point of a door that does not open?
