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Nov. 9th, 2023 09:12 pmWhile working on editing my novel, started listening to some Metallica. See weirdly eclectic taste in music. It's why I can't do music memes - such as list all the albums that influenced you. We'd be here for years.
There's very little in music that I don't like - and I'm absurdly curious about cultural things. I like trying new songs, and new types of music. And tend to change my mind constantly.
Today, I listened to :
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And that was just a few of them on the way home. I listen to music all day long. It keeps me calm and centered. Put on the noise-cancelling earphones and I'm ready to roll.
Working Class Hero is a rather haunting song...though. I honestly think it may be Lennon's best work.
I'm flirting with the Met's presentation of X : The Life and Times of Malcolm X. Porgy & Bess - is among the few I've seen in person, well outside of three different presentations of Carmen. I'm not a huge opera fan. I don't like the high soprano or Italian operas. I do like Operettas - I've seen all of Gilbert & Sullivan (on film) and took a class on it once. Went to law school with a former Opera Singer - who told me a lot about it, also went to undergrad with a former Ballerina from the NY Ballet who told me all about that too.
Both are impossible careers to make a living in or succeed in - too much competition. I prefer Ballet to Opera. (More of a visual person, I tend to get bored watching people sing. I need some movement involved.)
There is a film version of the opera that my church is going to - at BAM. But I honestly would rather see the opera, if I see it at all. TDF appears to have tickets at $59.
Also flirting with a trip to Spain for my birthday. My niece loved Spain.
And the people photo-bombing me with their European Vacations on FB - have the best ones of Spain. (Italy is not that appealing - either they are horrible at taking pictures, or it's a disappointment. My brother and his family were not fans of it.) There's a trip for Solo Travelers that's run out of Boston by EF Solo Trips - for about 9-11 days in Spain in March.
It starts in Barcelona, you take a train to Madrid, and end in Seville - with potential excursions to Toledo, and also an extension to Granada.
I want to go to Seville - because I have a novel that was working on that took place in Seville, and had Flamenco dancing. So I want to see Flamenco dancing.
We'll see. I need to ask for the time, and see if I can afford it. All of my traveling the last five or six years has been to see relatives, and friends. I'm sick of visiting people. People are hard to visit or so I've discovered. Not helped by the fact - that you can't really visit me - I don't have anywhere to put you up. So no quid pro quo. That said, it is very cheap visiting people. All I had to really pay for was airfare and food (and not much on that score), everything else was free. It's partly why I'd been doing it. I've got family pretty much everywhere in the US - so it's not hard to do.
EF does look like a possibility though - it's cheaper than the other trips, and has trips for just single travelers. The problem with a lot of excursions or group travel - is you get stuck with couples. Couples are annoying to travel with. It's like constantly being a third wheel. I don't know why they bother with group travel. Some are better than others.
***
Chidi rec'd a book to me, The Birthday Party.
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Also at work today, edited an addendum sent to me by adorable lawyer, then I had to send it to her boss, less adorable lawyer. I thought I caught everything, apparently not.
Boss Lawyer: I fixed a few minor things - please be sure to catch these in the future.
I look at the addendum, and his fixes are:
* Delete section xx inits their entirety and replace it them with...
[So apparently a section has a gender pronoun now? ]
*Patch Patching, repair repairing, and paint painting..
[How am I supposed to remember to catch this? It's a preference. There's nothing grammatically correct or legal about it. You can go either way. I. mentioned it to a colleague who agreed with me - it's a preference.]
Sigh, lawyers.
I tell this to mother over the phone.
Mother: So, I take it lawyers aren't necessarily very good writers?
ME: Often the worst writers on the planet. They have all these bad habits, and huge egos.
AD had also called me to ask what to put in a write up she was working on. Apparently BYT had edited the hell out of it.
( Read more... )
Sigh, so many bad writers in the world. But shhh...don't tell them.
There's very little in music that I don't like - and I'm absurdly curious about cultural things. I like trying new songs, and new types of music. And tend to change my mind constantly.
Today, I listened to :
( Read more... )
And that was just a few of them on the way home. I listen to music all day long. It keeps me calm and centered. Put on the noise-cancelling earphones and I'm ready to roll.
Working Class Hero is a rather haunting song...though. I honestly think it may be Lennon's best work.
I'm flirting with the Met's presentation of X : The Life and Times of Malcolm X. Porgy & Bess - is among the few I've seen in person, well outside of three different presentations of Carmen. I'm not a huge opera fan. I don't like the high soprano or Italian operas. I do like Operettas - I've seen all of Gilbert & Sullivan (on film) and took a class on it once. Went to law school with a former Opera Singer - who told me a lot about it, also went to undergrad with a former Ballerina from the NY Ballet who told me all about that too.
Both are impossible careers to make a living in or succeed in - too much competition. I prefer Ballet to Opera. (More of a visual person, I tend to get bored watching people sing. I need some movement involved.)
There is a film version of the opera that my church is going to - at BAM. But I honestly would rather see the opera, if I see it at all. TDF appears to have tickets at $59.
Also flirting with a trip to Spain for my birthday. My niece loved Spain.
And the people photo-bombing me with their European Vacations on FB - have the best ones of Spain. (Italy is not that appealing - either they are horrible at taking pictures, or it's a disappointment. My brother and his family were not fans of it.) There's a trip for Solo Travelers that's run out of Boston by EF Solo Trips - for about 9-11 days in Spain in March.
It starts in Barcelona, you take a train to Madrid, and end in Seville - with potential excursions to Toledo, and also an extension to Granada.
I want to go to Seville - because I have a novel that was working on that took place in Seville, and had Flamenco dancing. So I want to see Flamenco dancing.
We'll see. I need to ask for the time, and see if I can afford it. All of my traveling the last five or six years has been to see relatives, and friends. I'm sick of visiting people. People are hard to visit or so I've discovered. Not helped by the fact - that you can't really visit me - I don't have anywhere to put you up. So no quid pro quo. That said, it is very cheap visiting people. All I had to really pay for was airfare and food (and not much on that score), everything else was free. It's partly why I'd been doing it. I've got family pretty much everywhere in the US - so it's not hard to do.
EF does look like a possibility though - it's cheaper than the other trips, and has trips for just single travelers. The problem with a lot of excursions or group travel - is you get stuck with couples. Couples are annoying to travel with. It's like constantly being a third wheel. I don't know why they bother with group travel. Some are better than others.
***
Chidi rec'd a book to me, The Birthday Party.
( Read more... )
Also at work today, edited an addendum sent to me by adorable lawyer, then I had to send it to her boss, less adorable lawyer. I thought I caught everything, apparently not.
Boss Lawyer: I fixed a few minor things - please be sure to catch these in the future.
I look at the addendum, and his fixes are:
* Delete section xx in
[So apparently a section has a gender pronoun now? ]
*
[How am I supposed to remember to catch this? It's a preference. There's nothing grammatically correct or legal about it. You can go either way. I. mentioned it to a colleague who agreed with me - it's a preference.]
Sigh, lawyers.
I tell this to mother over the phone.
Mother: So, I take it lawyers aren't necessarily very good writers?
ME: Often the worst writers on the planet. They have all these bad habits, and huge egos.
AD had also called me to ask what to put in a write up she was working on. Apparently BYT had edited the hell out of it.
( Read more... )
Sigh, so many bad writers in the world. But shhh...don't tell them.