Ever get that feeling you may be getting in over your head?
I am a total failure as a nerd. Girl in my photography class couldn't do anything in Photoshop because the scratch disks were full. Like anyone sensible, I F1'd and looked up her error in the help. The help had helpful instructions on how to change your scratch disk, so I changed it to the harddrive on that computer. Upon restarting Photoshop so the changes would take effect, Photoshop proceeded to declare itself a locked file and told me to fix this in Windows Explorer. Not that we can get into the Program Files on the school computers, of course. So for a while there, this girl was getting scratch disk errors on every machine except the one I tried to fix and ended up breaking some more, and couldn't get into Photoshop at all on that one, and - this is the kicker - even the tech guys (yes, our school has full time tech guys) took a few days to fix this one. I am ashamed.
Speaking of nerdiness: What the hell, Taisaru (yes I just went there, Digimon fans) fic? It was really badly timed, too, I started it while I was also trying to write my Latin project. Rule 35 should not override my abyssmal failure at this year. :/ (But Chriiiiis, will you make me an icon? I made a manip and I can't work out what to do with it.)
In other news... Caramelldansen. Look it up on Youtube with the fandom of your choice.
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o/` ooh ooh uwaa uwaa o/`
Uh, I sort of want to see Wild Child. It looks stupid - I mean, not another "rich bitch gets sent to boarding school"/British girls' boarding school film, but Alex Pettyfer is hot. I still need to see Stormbreaker. ;_;
Looks like I'm going to have to resort to acting in my film myself. I think Henjyo's placing a little too much faith in my ability to pull brilliance out of my arse at the last minute; apparently she was flailing about our class a few days ago before turning around and saying she wasn't worried about me. :/
This was my last year performing at the Big Sing, so I didn't really like this year's gala concert system: It was just the choirs who sang on the day, not every choir on one night. So I missed a lot of choirs I really wanted to see - Twilight Tones and Dawn Chorus, SMC, Nga Mokopuna, Newlands, FREAKING CON ANIMA, the big Coll choir, Sacred Heart... And, uh, where the hell was Patchwork this year? I love Patchwork!
Morning session
We were on third, so we missed Chilton's I See Red and HVHS. Meh. We did Catch a Falling Star, The Lark's Grave by Charles Stanford which we learned in a matter of weeks, and Dorothy Buchanan's arrangement of Hine E Hine. I feel we could have been better but we did really well. :)
Marsden's Senior Chamber Choir did Pergolesi's Stabat Mater which we did last year and I feel we did better. I don't know, I think they just took it rather quickly for what's supposed to be a song of mourning. They weren't very legato, kept finishing lines very staccato. It was a bit jarring. Oh, and seeing Mrs. Campbell accompanying them broke my heart. :( What else scared me is that I sort of knew their director. Her composition, Nocturne, was kind of cute.
Scots Chamber Choir had the most adorable trebles, they were just incredibly quiet. This made the octave between them and the tenor a bit jarring in the upper part of Ah Shlosha D'Varim (which, uh, we sang for a concert at Old St. Paul's last year). There is Nothing Like a Dame was fun, though. I love how Scot's always has a song for the lulz.
I don't remember East Small Choir or HVHS Volante because I'm awesome. Oh, I think I remember liking Volante's uniforms but, you know, not the point of Big Sing.
I didn't end up playing for Teal Voices, which was, frankly, a relief. They did well! The clapping and the random looking up and down ended up working for them in Friends (which SMC did last year, harhar). And they walked off with Best Performance of a New Zealand Art Song for In a Glorious Garden Green by David Hamilton, harhar. Chamber choir always gets the prize for an obscure genre.
Chilton's Contempora was adorable. It's this small student-run choir of just juniors, and they actually managed to sound cute which kind of worked for them. One of the directors had a rather amusing conducting style, she just counted straight up and down and I'm sure that song was in 4/4. Their New Zealand song was Stuff and Nonsense. I amazed myself by not crying. \m/ (For those who don't know it, here's the orchestral version, which I've decided is superior to the original.)
Aotea was good as usual but, uh, where was Jared >_>;;, though I kinda feel they weren't as good as last year. Chilton's Seraphim was very pretty, no doubt, but they were boring.
Bishop Viard did Ave Verum Corpus, which, of course, we sang in 2006. It was nice to get the boys in there, so I kind of liked it. I feel Dotti's arrangement of Hine E Hine was better than Roger Stevenson's, though, and Georgia On My Mind bored me. They also had a boys' choir, One Voice, who were pretty good.
Coll Chorale. Oh man. I can't remember their first two songs but Eleni, this traditional Samoan song, was awesome. Katie just stepped back and let the boys handle it, and there was traditional dancing and then OH GOD the random freestyling and krumping in the middle. XXXD The white boys who couldn't dance were hilarious! Even when it was supposed to be silent for recording so many of us actually cracked up when they went at it. XD; We suck.
Rudolf Steiner School entered this year. They sang nicely, but they just didn't seem like a choir because they lacked discipline, it was just their senior classes singing together. Hm.
East Multichoir's gospel medley arranged by the girls seemed a bit pointless, tbh. And their soloist wasn't loud enough. Param was boring. St. Bernard's was a bit meh. East's senior choir had an arrangement of I Say A Little Prayer by the girls that seemed even more pointless - they didn't change anything, I felt.
Anyway, I've decided that Roger Stevenson is the Owen Clarke of choral music: He's everywhere. And it's a pity that Big Sing only happens once a year, because I had all these great ideas for a choral fest drinking game!
One shot for every choir Roger Stevenson is involved in
One shot for each repeated song in the same session
One shot for Minoi, Minoi or Hine, E Hine
One shot if audience cheering forces the emcee to stop talking
One shot for every five "shhh"s to Aotea
Skull if your choir's sung that song before
Any more ideas, guys?
Speaking of nerdiness: What the hell, Taisaru (yes I just went there, Digimon fans) fic? It was really badly timed, too, I started it while I was also trying to write my Latin project. Rule 35 should not override my abyssmal failure at this year. :/ (But Chriiiiis, will you make me an icon? I made a manip and I can't work out what to do with it.)
In other news... Caramelldansen. Look it up on Youtube with the fandom of your choice.
\o\ |o| /o/ \o\ |o| /o/
o/` ooh ooh uwaa uwaa o/`
Uh, I sort of want to see Wild Child. It looks stupid - I mean, not another "rich bitch gets sent to boarding school"/British girls' boarding school film, but Alex Pettyfer is hot. I still need to see Stormbreaker. ;_;
Looks like I'm going to have to resort to acting in my film myself. I think Henjyo's placing a little too much faith in my ability to pull brilliance out of my arse at the last minute; apparently she was flailing about our class a few days ago before turning around and saying she wasn't worried about me. :/
This was my last year performing at the Big Sing, so I didn't really like this year's gala concert system: It was just the choirs who sang on the day, not every choir on one night. So I missed a lot of choirs I really wanted to see - Twilight Tones and Dawn Chorus, SMC, Nga Mokopuna, Newlands, FREAKING CON ANIMA, the big Coll choir, Sacred Heart... And, uh, where the hell was Patchwork this year? I love Patchwork!
Morning session
We were on third, so we missed Chilton's I See Red and HVHS. Meh. We did Catch a Falling Star, The Lark's Grave by Charles Stanford which we learned in a matter of weeks, and Dorothy Buchanan's arrangement of Hine E Hine. I feel we could have been better but we did really well. :)
Marsden's Senior Chamber Choir did Pergolesi's Stabat Mater which we did last year and I feel we did better. I don't know, I think they just took it rather quickly for what's supposed to be a song of mourning. They weren't very legato, kept finishing lines very staccato. It was a bit jarring. Oh, and seeing Mrs. Campbell accompanying them broke my heart. :( What else scared me is that I sort of knew their director. Her composition, Nocturne, was kind of cute.
Scots Chamber Choir had the most adorable trebles, they were just incredibly quiet. This made the octave between them and the tenor a bit jarring in the upper part of Ah Shlosha D'Varim (which, uh, we sang for a concert at Old St. Paul's last year). There is Nothing Like a Dame was fun, though. I love how Scot's always has a song for the lulz.
I don't remember East Small Choir or HVHS Volante because I'm awesome. Oh, I think I remember liking Volante's uniforms but, you know, not the point of Big Sing.
I didn't end up playing for Teal Voices, which was, frankly, a relief. They did well! The clapping and the random looking up and down ended up working for them in Friends (which SMC did last year, harhar). And they walked off with Best Performance of a New Zealand Art Song for In a Glorious Garden Green by David Hamilton, harhar. Chamber choir always gets the prize for an obscure genre.
Chilton's Contempora was adorable. It's this small student-run choir of just juniors, and they actually managed to sound cute which kind of worked for them. One of the directors had a rather amusing conducting style, she just counted straight up and down and I'm sure that song was in 4/4. Their New Zealand song was Stuff and Nonsense. I amazed myself by not crying. \m/ (For those who don't know it, here's the orchestral version, which I've decided is superior to the original.)
Aotea was good as usual but, uh, where was Jared >_>;;, though I kinda feel they weren't as good as last year. Chilton's Seraphim was very pretty, no doubt, but they were boring.
Bishop Viard did Ave Verum Corpus, which, of course, we sang in 2006. It was nice to get the boys in there, so I kind of liked it. I feel Dotti's arrangement of Hine E Hine was better than Roger Stevenson's, though, and Georgia On My Mind bored me. They also had a boys' choir, One Voice, who were pretty good.
Coll Chorale. Oh man. I can't remember their first two songs but Eleni, this traditional Samoan song, was awesome. Katie just stepped back and let the boys handle it, and there was traditional dancing and then OH GOD the random freestyling and krumping in the middle. XXXD The white boys who couldn't dance were hilarious! Even when it was supposed to be silent for recording so many of us actually cracked up when they went at it. XD; We suck.
Rudolf Steiner School entered this year. They sang nicely, but they just didn't seem like a choir because they lacked discipline, it was just their senior classes singing together. Hm.
East Multichoir's gospel medley arranged by the girls seemed a bit pointless, tbh. And their soloist wasn't loud enough. Param was boring. St. Bernard's was a bit meh. East's senior choir had an arrangement of I Say A Little Prayer by the girls that seemed even more pointless - they didn't change anything, I felt.
Anyway, I've decided that Roger Stevenson is the Owen Clarke of choral music: He's everywhere. And it's a pity that Big Sing only happens once a year, because I had all these great ideas for a choral fest drinking game!
Any more ideas, guys?