I am the song of the rose-owl flying ( Read more... )

10. Two Counting Crows concerts in two days, both with Jeanne (who is one of my favorite concert buddies, as she gets just as dig-in-your-heels serious about what's going on as I do), both with 'Rain King' as the closing number. How can I complain about something so flat-out wonderful? Sure, I'm a little short of sleep, but sometimes you have to ( Read more... )

So porpentine and I were coming out of the Toys R Us Saturday morning when my phone rang. It was it_aint_easy, wanting to know whether I was free to come over and start rehearsing for OVFF. Chris and I conferred for a moment, then agreed that sure, we could come over; we'd be there around six, and we'd bring dinner, thus pacifying artbeco and preventing her from killing and ( Read more... )

Yesterday was supposed to be the last full-scale Lady Mondegreen rehearsal of the season; however, due to lack of Alyssa (we lost her in the blackout), it was reduced to core-group-only. We agreed to meet at Columbia University at noon ( Read more... )

Friday was day one of the Lady Mondegreen rehearsal weekend. In attendence (as LMG) were me, ladymondegreen (Merav), batyatoon (Batya) and storychaser (Allyssa), making us officially the largest LMG rehearsal pretty much ever. In attendence but not LMG were akawil (Jon) and sdelmonte (Alex), the group SOs. Later in the weekend we would be joined by camwyn (Jess), vicious knitter of socks ( Read more... )

Checkin' in from the Lady Mondegreen rehearsal, while the other Ladies Mondegreen battle harmonic arrangement. Jess is being astonishingly tolerant, and knitting a sock ( Read more... )

So we have had our first 'Once More, With Feeling' rehearsal. And it didn't suck ( Read more... )