unrealized excerpt
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yamamanama31 days until the vernal equinox
Abby says she wishes she was an artist. Abby has dark, wild hair and glasses. Attached to her bag are characters from a South Korean band called BTS: RJ, an alpaca with a red scarf which I thought was a happy cloud man, not to be confused with an archon, and a cookie which I thought was a potato. Alpacas are like llamas except they’re smaller and have flatter faces and straight ears rather than banana-shaped ears. Vicuñas are like alpacas, except they’re wild. I shouldn’t ever need to explain the difference between cookies and potatoes. On the other hand, Adrienne has luminously violet and deep indigo hair and plays the upright bass.
Kylie looks like someone I know. Actually, I think she looks like a blend of Magaggie and Sara, who are both of the sign of the Gigas. She is of the sign of the Whisperer and has a pendant with the stars of Sagittarius.
Bruno was extra-impressed by my drawing of him. He’s an actor.
I don’t know what was going on at the MFA but it was free. I even saw Abby there. Erin has half carmine and half magenta to indigo hair.
They had some of the other rooms open for calligraphy demonstrations and instrument playgrounds, so I got to see Symphony Hall’s collection of middle eastern and Asian instruments including a Laotian khaen and a valiha, or tube zither, from Madagascar.
There was an Asian music ensemble. I heard a duet for shēng and suǒnà by a father and son, a demonstration of their percussion, and the cello, which came later and became the bass in the Chinese ensemble, and a work called Blossoms Under the Full Moon. There was also a dragon.
The BSO was planning to go to Shanghai but then the coronavirus hit and they decided to hold a community concert for us instead.
So, we got the Polonaise from Yevgeniy Onegin, which is about a bored dandy who meets Tatyana, who falls in love with him, but Onegin rejects her, and later, he meets Tatyana again, who is married to an aged prince, and Onegin becomes obsessed with winning her back. Tatyana tells him that the time has long since passed. Yeah, we’ve all been there.
The Malambo is from Estancia Dances by Alberto Evaristo Ginastera, who was an Argentine composer. Estancia is about a city boy who is in love with the daughter of the estancia owner, and he wants to prove his worth by dancing. He fares a lot better than Evgeniy Onegin.
Huáng Ruò walked onstage singing a Chinese folk song and had orchestrated four songs from different parts of China. We heard one from Sìchuān, a pastorale, and one from Xīnjiāng, which is evocative of Western music. No, not that kind of western.
George Walker wrote his Lyric for String Orchestra as a lament for his grandmother. Huh. I’ve actually heard that before.
Nobody wants to write a concerto for cello, they all said. Dvořák did it anyway. We heard the finale.
The last was the finale from Brahms' first symphony.
They had cherry vanilla coke at Symphony Market. Sounds good.
I saw Bruno and my next challenge, a guy with long braids and a beard, at the station. I also drew Annika before the train arrived.
Ella is an artist who said that maybe one day, she’ll be drawing me. Ella has short and dark hair.
I ran into Annika at Park Street and was impressed that she made it there on the same train I did because the train was completely packd, which surprised me, as it was Sunday. It was a long wait, which doesn't surprise me, as it was Sunday.
Meg is studying animation and jewelry, an interesting mix. She has a clear crystal pendant and a black choker.
burning question: wait, do TERFs believe that professional wrestling is a real sport? The TERFs are getting mad over innate advantages in a scripted drama with stunt work?
Abby says she wishes she was an artist. Abby has dark, wild hair and glasses. Attached to her bag are characters from a South Korean band called BTS: RJ, an alpaca with a red scarf which I thought was a happy cloud man, not to be confused with an archon, and a cookie which I thought was a potato. Alpacas are like llamas except they’re smaller and have flatter faces and straight ears rather than banana-shaped ears. Vicuñas are like alpacas, except they’re wild. I shouldn’t ever need to explain the difference between cookies and potatoes. On the other hand, Adrienne has luminously violet and deep indigo hair and plays the upright bass.
Kylie looks like someone I know. Actually, I think she looks like a blend of Magaggie and Sara, who are both of the sign of the Gigas. She is of the sign of the Whisperer and has a pendant with the stars of Sagittarius.
Bruno was extra-impressed by my drawing of him. He’s an actor.
I don’t know what was going on at the MFA but it was free. I even saw Abby there. Erin has half carmine and half magenta to indigo hair.
They had some of the other rooms open for calligraphy demonstrations and instrument playgrounds, so I got to see Symphony Hall’s collection of middle eastern and Asian instruments including a Laotian khaen and a valiha, or tube zither, from Madagascar.
There was an Asian music ensemble. I heard a duet for shēng and suǒnà by a father and son, a demonstration of their percussion, and the cello, which came later and became the bass in the Chinese ensemble, and a work called Blossoms Under the Full Moon. There was also a dragon.
The BSO was planning to go to Shanghai but then the coronavirus hit and they decided to hold a community concert for us instead.
So, we got the Polonaise from Yevgeniy Onegin, which is about a bored dandy who meets Tatyana, who falls in love with him, but Onegin rejects her, and later, he meets Tatyana again, who is married to an aged prince, and Onegin becomes obsessed with winning her back. Tatyana tells him that the time has long since passed. Yeah, we’ve all been there.
The Malambo is from Estancia Dances by Alberto Evaristo Ginastera, who was an Argentine composer. Estancia is about a city boy who is in love with the daughter of the estancia owner, and he wants to prove his worth by dancing. He fares a lot better than Evgeniy Onegin.
Huáng Ruò walked onstage singing a Chinese folk song and had orchestrated four songs from different parts of China. We heard one from Sìchuān, a pastorale, and one from Xīnjiāng, which is evocative of Western music. No, not that kind of western.
George Walker wrote his Lyric for String Orchestra as a lament for his grandmother. Huh. I’ve actually heard that before.
Nobody wants to write a concerto for cello, they all said. Dvořák did it anyway. We heard the finale.
The last was the finale from Brahms' first symphony.
They had cherry vanilla coke at Symphony Market. Sounds good.
I saw Bruno and my next challenge, a guy with long braids and a beard, at the station. I also drew Annika before the train arrived.
Ella is an artist who said that maybe one day, she’ll be drawing me. Ella has short and dark hair.
I ran into Annika at Park Street and was impressed that she made it there on the same train I did because the train was completely packd, which surprised me, as it was Sunday. It was a long wait, which doesn't surprise me, as it was Sunday.
Meg is studying animation and jewelry, an interesting mix. She has a clear crystal pendant and a black choker.
burning question: wait, do TERFs believe that professional wrestling is a real sport? The TERFs are getting mad over innate advantages in a scripted drama with stunt work?
