So despite fiddling with it for an embarassingly long time, my Potterwatch bandmates and I finally got our sea shanty to where we wanted it and submitted it for a compliation album, masterminded by wizard rocker Totally Knuts ( Read more... )

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It's Davide Penitente production week, y'all ( Read more... )

Now that the on-the-ground search support is done, it's time to move on to making surveys (blech) and compiling results (double-blech). At least the responses that aren't N/A are somewhat interesting, but it's hard to muster much enthusiasm for copy-pasting stuff from cheap-as-free survey software and formatting it in a word processing program. ( Read more... )

I did some woodshedding on the Bach B Minor Mass last night. I started by fetching my score and singing along with the BBC Proms video from 2012. I was delighted by how much of the Kyrie I remembered as well as the relative easiness of several of the choral movements.

And then I got to the Cum Sancto Spiritu.


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I've been a wee bit blue lately over a growing number of things that I really want to do but can't, primarily due to lack of funds, lack of vacation time, or both ( Read more... )

Did very little this weekend, and it was exactly what I needed ( Read more... )

The director gave us a profuse apology for flipping out last night, which went a long way towards reassuring those of us who dreaded tonight that there would not be more flipping out ( Read more... )

I'm starting to feel like myself again having been laid low by the lurgy. After being nearly adopted by a miniature dachshund named Cocoa at Fiesta Island, I serenaded Mr. 42 and winter712 with selections from my Tom Lehrer songbook, including but not limited to "Fight Fiercely, Harvard!" and "The Masochism Tango" while corn roasted and short ribs ( Read more... )

After a fun (and occasionally silly) voice lesson, Mr. 42 and I made it up to Solana Beach just in time to claim a medium-back spot at the Belly Up, and about twenty minutes later, They Might Be Giants took the stage. At that point, I tried to call Pokey but the phone died. CURSES!

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