days of wonder
Aug. 7th, 2013 11:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaI was hoping that since it was DeviantArt's 13th anniversary, they'd make everyone a premium member for a day and I'd be able to post something and find out just who's viewing it (I think most of them don't have DeviantArt accounts, I also feel like I don't update frequently enough for them to check daily), and being able to have a visitor log would help with that. In another universe, perhaps one where the moon has been settled and the Sea of Serpents is water and not rock, where DeviantArt gave us all premium membership like they did last year, I would have changed the batteries in my camera and posted about three paintings on Deviantart, but in this one, the moon is a gray wasteland with a too-close horizon, the batteries in my camera are dead, and there are not yet any new paintings on my deviantart page.
Steppers Heaven was playing at Downtown Crossing, and this is the first time this year there I got off the Braintree-Alewife train at Downtown Crossing and didn't have to run up the escalator to get on a Oak Grove bound train. They had a new violinist and two very sleepy dogs.
There were five chihuahuas each named after operas. I guessed that one was Aïda and one was Tosca and damned if I know the other ones' names. Four were females, one was male. Go ahead, try to guess their names.
There was a guy with Mayan face paint walking around in stilts in dire need of oiling. I think his name was Sasha. Someone's name was Sasha, and as far as I'm concerned, it was the guy on stilts. Sasha's a male name. You know it, I know it, and Sasha Prochenko knows it.
Because this version of The Magic Flute was Mayan themed, and it's not the most outlandish setting for The Magic Flute, no, that would be space. Also, the trenches of the first world war. According to Everything2, he was attacked by a snake in the original as well. The setting just happened to be the Yucatan.
Norma is an opera about a druid who falls in love with a Roman proconsul, set in either Gaul or Britain. It's in Italian because nobody speaks Gaulish or British now, and is torn between love and duty to her people. In this aria, she's praying to the moon goddess and cutting mistletoe. it's also a constellation just south of Scorpius, depicting a carpenter's square.
Rigoletto is about a jester who plots to assassinate a duke. It sounds like Verdi and it's not a comedy.
Seigfried's Death and Funeral Music isn't what I thought it was, which was the one where he's floating down a river or something and different idee fixes play.
Peter Grimes is about a man who's apprentice dies. The Ladies' Quartet is a lot darker-sounding than I thought it would be.
The Italian Girl in Algiers is about a pasha who is a lot like the duke from Rigoletto and a woman who is shipwrecked.
And back to the Magic Flute, in which Papageno contemplates suicide, dressed in bike shorts, a t-shirt, and a winged helmet. He was in Carmina Burana, see "In the Sway of Desire"
There's an opera about Montezuma II, in Nahuatl. They didn't play that, alas.
Somebody was doing something and it was funny, I guess, but I was laughing at a line from Philip K. Dick is dead, alas. Um, alas. The train ride home was crowded, the train ride there was surprisingly empty.
burning question: According to tunegenie, no songs were played on WAAF between 11 AM and 3:04 PM on the day I wrote this burning question, and it wasn't during the Hill Man Morning Show. What happened, did lightning strike the transmitter?
Steppers Heaven was playing at Downtown Crossing, and this is the first time this year there I got off the Braintree-Alewife train at Downtown Crossing and didn't have to run up the escalator to get on a Oak Grove bound train. They had a new violinist and two very sleepy dogs.
There were five chihuahuas each named after operas. I guessed that one was Aïda and one was Tosca and damned if I know the other ones' names. Four were females, one was male. Go ahead, try to guess their names.
There was a guy with Mayan face paint walking around in stilts in dire need of oiling. I think his name was Sasha. Someone's name was Sasha, and as far as I'm concerned, it was the guy on stilts. Sasha's a male name. You know it, I know it, and Sasha Prochenko knows it.
Because this version of The Magic Flute was Mayan themed, and it's not the most outlandish setting for The Magic Flute, no, that would be space. Also, the trenches of the first world war. According to Everything2, he was attacked by a snake in the original as well. The setting just happened to be the Yucatan.
Norma is an opera about a druid who falls in love with a Roman proconsul, set in either Gaul or Britain. It's in Italian because nobody speaks Gaulish or British now, and is torn between love and duty to her people. In this aria, she's praying to the moon goddess and cutting mistletoe. it's also a constellation just south of Scorpius, depicting a carpenter's square.
Rigoletto is about a jester who plots to assassinate a duke. It sounds like Verdi and it's not a comedy.
Seigfried's Death and Funeral Music isn't what I thought it was, which was the one where he's floating down a river or something and different idee fixes play.
Peter Grimes is about a man who's apprentice dies. The Ladies' Quartet is a lot darker-sounding than I thought it would be.
The Italian Girl in Algiers is about a pasha who is a lot like the duke from Rigoletto and a woman who is shipwrecked.
And back to the Magic Flute, in which Papageno contemplates suicide, dressed in bike shorts, a t-shirt, and a winged helmet. He was in Carmina Burana, see "In the Sway of Desire"
There's an opera about Montezuma II, in Nahuatl. They didn't play that, alas.
Somebody was doing something and it was funny, I guess, but I was laughing at a line from Philip K. Dick is dead, alas. Um, alas. The train ride home was crowded, the train ride there was surprisingly empty.
burning question: According to tunegenie, no songs were played on WAAF between 11 AM and 3:04 PM on the day I wrote this burning question, and it wasn't during the Hill Man Morning Show. What happened, did lightning strike the transmitter?
