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yamamanamaThere was busing so the time displays were all wonky. When I saw Gabriella at the theater, she told me about the time jumping around and there being police action or medical activity at Broadway. She had a velvet jacket and a scarf that looked like it was made from spiderwebs, a jeweled flower necklace and a hair decoration that looked a bit like a starfish that her friend got while in Ecuador.
It didn't take 20+ minutes for a train to arrive but I had time to draw Kate.
Kristin says that her own art rivals that of a five year old or Homer Simpson.
Molly had some really cool jeweled rings. Her father looked a bit like Ernest Hemingway from Hemingway Comics, ecept he's actually wearing a high-necked sweater and not a scarf. He's been drawn before and someone yesterday said he looked like Moses.
He said his name was Ernest but I don't believe him.
Sardou's play goes into detail about Tosca's backstory while the opera doesn't. In the opera, Tosca is a cantata singer and that's it. In the play, Tosca is a goatherd who joined a convent as a teenager. Scarpia is an outsider and his policemen are in fact, criminals and wanderers granted titles because nobody learned anything from history, and so they are dressed in ragged greatcoats.
It's set on June 7, 1800 (they mention a full moon and I looked it up on a table of the phases of the moon for the 18th century. Sardou, however, dates it on June 17 and June 18th. He wrote Tosca in 1887 and may or may not mention the full moon and if he did, he probably didn't have access to lunar charts from almost a century ago. I think I mentioned a story called Amsterdam 2012 and the lunar phase being wrong, amongst everything else, like how the closest thing to a Muslim takeover of Amsterdam is a falafel shop in Somerville. If I did, Google doesn't mention it but I found that The Wise Vivi asked if anyone remembers the good old days of Yamamanama, which was controversy at its finest, whatever that means. The context of it is it's 2009 and Rockgamer is lamenting the quality of the members and I really have no idea) and the political prisoner Angelotti has absconded and is seeking refuge in the Cathedral of St. Andrea, which the painter Mario Cavaradossi (I'm only going to type this once) has used as a makeshift studio, where he's painting a blonde woman with blue eyes, and his lover Tosca is a dark-eyed brunette, and she hears the rustling of a dress and thinks that Mario is cheating on her, but it turns out Angelotti is disguising himself as a woman in order to escape. Scarpia shows up with his men Spoletta and Sciarrone, searching for Angelotti, and finds his sister's fan, and so tries to convince her that Mario is cheating on her.
Scarpia sings about his plans to use Tosca's insecurity to lead him to Mario and Angelotti and how much he doesn't care for romantic love, he just wants to rape women. From elsewhere, a cantata is heard.
Yeah, I think Scarpia might be evil.
Angelotti kills himself and Scarpia orders his corpse hung from the gallows as an example anyway and Scarpia's guys drag in Mario and then tortures him until Tosca agrees to have sex with him. If she does so, he agrees to a mock execution, as they did with Count Palmieri, after which Mario will be released and they can flee Rome.
"This is the kiss of Tosca," she exclaims, and then stabs Scarpia.
A shepherdess played by a soprano (alternatively a shepherd boy played by an alto) walks by singing a love song. It's a lovely song. Meanwhile, Mario is awaiting his execution. Tosca shows up and they imagine their life after the execution and instructs him how to be convincing. He is convincing, as his executioners used real bullets. Scarpia just didn't plan on dying before he could have his way with Tosca.
Spoletta finds Scarpia's body. It ends slightly differently: (spoilers) with Tosca shooting herself instead of jumping into the river. Probably for pragmatic purposes. The plot summary doesn't point this out.
The stage is set up so there's a platform where the orchestra plays behind some columns in the first two acts and a screen with images of Rome printed on it in the third. This was done because there wasn't enough space in the orchestra pit. It worked really well.
Tosca is played by a Russian woman named Elena Stikhina, which, to me, doesn't sound at all Russian. In fact, it sounds very American. A stikini is a vampiric owl spirit from southeast Native American folklore.
Everyone booed Scarpia at the end. To call him an asshole is an understatement. People booed the villain in the 19th century, says Gabriella.
One of the ushers had a tattoo that said "beautiful chaos" in a typewriter font and one of them had a tattoo of a crescent moon with a face.
A woman there had a spiral pendant and a woman there had blue hair.
Gabriella said that Puccini had an argument with the Pope about the use of the Te Deum mass. I can't find anything about this, or perhaps I misheard and it was a different composer.
She was in London once, fifteen years ago.
Her first opera was Don Carlo by Verdi.
It was a warm day and some hydrangeas and yellow roses were in bloom on the Greenway.
I had swordfish with some kind of orange sauce and pickled vegetables.
Speaking of Muslim takeovers of Europe, one of the women at Modern Pastry had hadeopelagic black hair and one of the women was wearing a headscarf.
A man was playing Funiculi, Funicula on an accordion. The lights on a nearby building were changing from green to blue and I only just noticed that, or maybe I noticed it before and then promptly forgot that.
I tried to draw a couple, a woman with lots of jewelry and short hair and a plaid shirt and a woman with green hair in a ponytail, but they got off at South Station.
On the train we didn't get on, there was a woman with radiantly purple hair.
There was a woman on the train with a dress and a crown of flowers in her purple and brunette hair, and she had a tattoo of three diamonds on her leg. She got off too quickly to be drawn.
A man on the train, Zack I believe, was digitally editing his friend's drawing of a raccoon.
burning question: someone on the Mad Genius Club asks this: who would you trust more, someone who is loyal to their country despite the Nazis running things or someone who is disloyal because the Nazis ran things? I'd say the latter but I don't think that was his intent. I'm not quite sure what they were saying because they learned everything they need to know about being persuasive from the guide on How To Be Persuasive on Rinkworks.
It didn't take 20+ minutes for a train to arrive but I had time to draw Kate.
Kristin says that her own art rivals that of a five year old or Homer Simpson.
Molly had some really cool jeweled rings. Her father looked a bit like Ernest Hemingway from Hemingway Comics, ecept he's actually wearing a high-necked sweater and not a scarf. He's been drawn before and someone yesterday said he looked like Moses.
He said his name was Ernest but I don't believe him.
Sardou's play goes into detail about Tosca's backstory while the opera doesn't. In the opera, Tosca is a cantata singer and that's it. In the play, Tosca is a goatherd who joined a convent as a teenager. Scarpia is an outsider and his policemen are in fact, criminals and wanderers granted titles because nobody learned anything from history, and so they are dressed in ragged greatcoats.
It's set on June 7, 1800 (they mention a full moon and I looked it up on a table of the phases of the moon for the 18th century. Sardou, however, dates it on June 17 and June 18th. He wrote Tosca in 1887 and may or may not mention the full moon and if he did, he probably didn't have access to lunar charts from almost a century ago. I think I mentioned a story called Amsterdam 2012 and the lunar phase being wrong, amongst everything else, like how the closest thing to a Muslim takeover of Amsterdam is a falafel shop in Somerville. If I did, Google doesn't mention it but I found that The Wise Vivi asked if anyone remembers the good old days of Yamamanama, which was controversy at its finest, whatever that means. The context of it is it's 2009 and Rockgamer is lamenting the quality of the members and I really have no idea) and the political prisoner Angelotti has absconded and is seeking refuge in the Cathedral of St. Andrea, which the painter Mario Cavaradossi (I'm only going to type this once) has used as a makeshift studio, where he's painting a blonde woman with blue eyes, and his lover Tosca is a dark-eyed brunette, and she hears the rustling of a dress and thinks that Mario is cheating on her, but it turns out Angelotti is disguising himself as a woman in order to escape. Scarpia shows up with his men Spoletta and Sciarrone, searching for Angelotti, and finds his sister's fan, and so tries to convince her that Mario is cheating on her.
Scarpia sings about his plans to use Tosca's insecurity to lead him to Mario and Angelotti and how much he doesn't care for romantic love, he just wants to rape women. From elsewhere, a cantata is heard.
Yeah, I think Scarpia might be evil.
Angelotti kills himself and Scarpia orders his corpse hung from the gallows as an example anyway and Scarpia's guys drag in Mario and then tortures him until Tosca agrees to have sex with him. If she does so, he agrees to a mock execution, as they did with Count Palmieri, after which Mario will be released and they can flee Rome.
"This is the kiss of Tosca," she exclaims, and then stabs Scarpia.
A shepherdess played by a soprano (alternatively a shepherd boy played by an alto) walks by singing a love song. It's a lovely song. Meanwhile, Mario is awaiting his execution. Tosca shows up and they imagine their life after the execution and instructs him how to be convincing. He is convincing, as his executioners used real bullets. Scarpia just didn't plan on dying before he could have his way with Tosca.
Spoletta finds Scarpia's body. It ends slightly differently: (spoilers) with Tosca shooting herself instead of jumping into the river. Probably for pragmatic purposes. The plot summary doesn't point this out.
The stage is set up so there's a platform where the orchestra plays behind some columns in the first two acts and a screen with images of Rome printed on it in the third. This was done because there wasn't enough space in the orchestra pit. It worked really well.
Tosca is played by a Russian woman named Elena Stikhina, which, to me, doesn't sound at all Russian. In fact, it sounds very American. A stikini is a vampiric owl spirit from southeast Native American folklore.
Everyone booed Scarpia at the end. To call him an asshole is an understatement. People booed the villain in the 19th century, says Gabriella.
One of the ushers had a tattoo that said "beautiful chaos" in a typewriter font and one of them had a tattoo of a crescent moon with a face.
A woman there had a spiral pendant and a woman there had blue hair.
Gabriella said that Puccini had an argument with the Pope about the use of the Te Deum mass. I can't find anything about this, or perhaps I misheard and it was a different composer.
She was in London once, fifteen years ago.
Her first opera was Don Carlo by Verdi.
It was a warm day and some hydrangeas and yellow roses were in bloom on the Greenway.
I had swordfish with some kind of orange sauce and pickled vegetables.
Speaking of Muslim takeovers of Europe, one of the women at Modern Pastry had hadeopelagic black hair and one of the women was wearing a headscarf.
A man was playing Funiculi, Funicula on an accordion. The lights on a nearby building were changing from green to blue and I only just noticed that, or maybe I noticed it before and then promptly forgot that.
I tried to draw a couple, a woman with lots of jewelry and short hair and a plaid shirt and a woman with green hair in a ponytail, but they got off at South Station.
On the train we didn't get on, there was a woman with radiantly purple hair.
There was a woman on the train with a dress and a crown of flowers in her purple and brunette hair, and she had a tattoo of three diamonds on her leg. She got off too quickly to be drawn.
A man on the train, Zack I believe, was digitally editing his friend's drawing of a raccoon.
burning question: someone on the Mad Genius Club asks this: who would you trust more, someone who is loyal to their country despite the Nazis running things or someone who is disloyal because the Nazis ran things? I'd say the latter but I don't think that was his intent. I'm not quite sure what they were saying because they learned everything they need to know about being persuasive from the guide on How To Be Persuasive on Rinkworks.
