07. Frank O'Hara: Having A Coke With You; 08. Louise Glück: Anniversary

[dorkorific]

I'm singing at a wedding today. It's two of my best friends, and I can't tell if I'm going to cry or vomit or, like, vomit through my tears, because I love them so much. ahahhaha. MY FEELINGS. and it's just, like, I didn't think it would be that big a deal, because they've been together since college? so like, at this point who cares. AND YET HERE

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[anna_unfolding]

You sing? What are you singing today? I sang at my sister's wedding/commitment ceremony, and the first dance song forever chokes me up. The only time, all rehearsals included, that I did it without crying, as at the first dance itself. Go figure. The ceremony song was pretty too, but Gulf Coast Highway is like stroking over an ancient raw place for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY2gNbJFKn8

Enjoy a lovely day and evening.

[anna_unfolding]

Yeah, it's the sentiments of nostalgia for a time that was lived and felt: happiness and hardship and all, without sentimentality or gratuitous heart-string pulling. It's elegant and simple, and folk music at its best, which is why you and I feel moved by it, even though we don't live there and don't have that particular life. It still connects us to our own places and moments of truly living.

That Dave sings it, completely in awe of getting to sing with Emmylou makes it that much better. She's such a folk music hero. They're both great!!!

[dorkorific]

hjgdfhk you are more woman than I. I fuckin cried. Luckily, the thing I've learned about singing at friends' weddings is that no one is paying any attention to you because everyone is too busy crying and/or staring at the pretty dresses, so as long as you don't actively throw up, you're fine.

ahaha njkg I meant to tell you in response to your email -- I was trying to think of what you might ask for, based on what I know of your fandoms, and I was like MAYBE SHE'LL WANT A QUIDDITCH FOOTBALL AU WHERE STEVIE & XABS ARE ON GRYFFINDOR AND RAVENCLAW RESPECTIVELY, AND NATASHA KAI IS THE BADASS CAPTAIN OF GRYFFINDOR and then I started laughing aloud. basically, your winning that auction brought me joy before you even told me what was up.

omg one more time.

[anna_unfolding]

wtf is wrong with me? Your prediction of my wishes = better than my own wishes?? Football, baseball, Quidditch (brill) I don't care. w/e w/e, as you would say. But the hotshot being traded to the rival team A MUST, and now, Natasha Kai having a cameo+ a must. If you gave her a partially off screen love affair that ruffles her normally kick ass feathers that would be awesome but I know you don't write f/f slash, so it can be alluded to, how 'bout. All I rly know about her is the bad ass-ness, and that she is playful and pranky. And from Hawaii and totally delicious in every way, tattoos or not #butilovetheink #justsoyouknow

And Xabs or Stevie or Chris involved in main pairing ALL FINE BY ME.

Also? I request some sort of use of texting or twitter. After A Passage That Sings, characters texting became my non-sexual fic!kink.

I AM DONE.