....I would like to tell everyone how I met Richard Sherman....I have never met Richard Sherman, but this seems like an appropriate time to hijack these here notes and talk about myself.....yes myself, such an interesting person - and though no one asked....I am sure you are all curious about....well....ME....and what ME has to say about what is happening today....and how I feel about it....and well....ME!!!
Too bad the show wasn't recorded like the various S.T.A.G.E concerts were over the years.
MEGA SURGERY VIBES FOR THE NIECE OF DR TCB!
Show vibes for ChasSmith and company.
Vibes for Elmore.
....I would like to tell everyone how I met Richard Sherman....I have never met Richard Sherman, but this seems like an appropriate time to hijack these here notes and talk about myself.....yes myself, such an interesting person - and though no one asked....I am sure you are all curious about....well....ME....and what ME has to say about what is happening today....and how I feel about it....and well....ME!!!
The internet said FIVE DECADES!!!!
I once wrote a lengthy article about MY perspective on why even people who say "Why do you make it all about YOU?" are indeed asking that very question from their own perspective!
I did not sleep well. Too many anxiety attacks. The tsuris will continue through tomorrow, possibly longer.
Thanks, DR Jane! There is photographic evidence coming, I hope. A photographer took a photo of BK and me and also Sami and me. BK says she will be sending the photos to him.
DR Kevin I enjoyed reading your posts regarding your show experience, and am very pleased you had a ticket.
Too bad the show wasn't recorded like the various S.T.A.G.E concerts were over the years.
Anti-anxiety vibes to Larry!
....I would like to tell everyone how I met Richard Sherman....I have never met Richard Sherman, but this seems like an appropriate time to hijack these here notes and talk about myself.....yes myself, such an interesting person - and though no one asked....I am sure you are all curious about....well....ME....and what ME has to say about what is happening today....and how I feel about it....and well....ME!!!
Surprised me but good. In spite of the very subtle clues (which I was never really sure about), I never dreamed the troublemaker would turn out to have been the music director.
OMG. Seriously. WTF?
MEGA SURGERY VIBES FOR THE NIECE OF DR TCB!
Show vibes for ChasSmith and company.
MEGA SURGERY VIBES FOR THE NIECE OF DR TCB!
~~~MEGA DITTO!!~~~
I once wrote a lengthy article about MY perspective on why even people who say "Why do you make it all about YOU?" are indeed asking that very question from their own perspective!
This is the article, which I wrote in 2013. I think I meant it with some humor? (although the thing where people thank God for their getting the acting award (imagining God took time off from world hunger to make sure Carlotta Gump gets her Tony) has become a pet peeve
Can someone explain what feels like a 2010s trend, people saying "Why do
you make everything about YOU?"
It just seems knee-jerk, and it begs the question: Who else's reaction
to something should I be having other than my own? I go through
umpteen years of school to better MYSELF, don't I? I work to support
MYSELF and MY family, don't I? I do what I can to help MY friends and
family because I care about them, and I actively help charities or
causes or politicians I MYSELF support because I care about them.
When people stop being MY friends, they probably don’t want me to continue caring
and asking after them. Indeed, it might be considered rude and
intrusive. (As someone said when I casually asked how a former mutual
friend was doing, “Why do you want to know, are you writing a book?”)
When I leave a job, no one complains if I stop caring about how that
company is doing, even though its success was crucial to me before. The only
reason I cared before was because it affected ME and MY family and MY
finances and MY survival. No one questions that as correct, do they?
So is it a film, a book, a clergyman, what, that has given rise to this
catch-phrase? Where did this sudden "why do you make
everything about you" reaction come from, seemingly directed at
everyone these days? Really, it‘s not just directed at ME, let ME
assure you.
Take the awards season that we’re in now for theater, where people seem
to thank a higher power a bit, as if that detracts from the award quest
being about themselves. But when you thank the Lord for your statue, aren’t you
saying that YOU are somehow more worthy of attention than not only (of course)
the other four nominees, but also pesky matters like world hunger,
global warming. How is it not being about ME, ME, ME, to imagine a
higher power saying :”Let’s take five on fixing that [fill in natural
disaster] to make sure so-and-so gets his or her Lucille Lortel Award.”
My point is not that it’s wrong to look at the world from your own
perspective. It’s just that to call other people on it all the time,
as we seem to be doing right now, is denying that making ourselves
better through the best aspects of our self-interest, and meeting our
own potential, may be the best way for everyone to add to the world, which is getting
smaller every year due to the net.. Maybe embrace that
you’re indeed here for you and yours, and the good feeling it gives YOU
to help others, the joy it brings YOU to make change.
Sometimes these days, I’d just hope for people who simply don’t abuse
other people in arriving at their own personal goals.
I’d love for those people to just be about themselves and not hurt others
maliciously or even recklessly.
Why is it necessarily a bad thing, then? Isn’t it what you do with what
you’re given? I’d imagine even Mother Theresa did what she did for the good
feeling it gave HER to do it.
Anti-anxiety vibes to Larry!
~~~Super Ditto!!~~~
I once wrote a lengthy article about MY perspective on why even people who say "Why do you make it all about YOU?" are indeed asking that very question from their own perspective!
This is the article, which I wrote in 2013. I think I meant it with some humor? (although the thing where people thank God for their getting the acting award (imagining God took time off from world hunger to make sure Carlotta Gump gets her Tony) has become a pet peeve
I agree completely. I always thought that phrase was stupid. I'm glad I don't hear people say it much anymore.
Maybe somebody has to say "go" so they all start at the same time....but do musicians suddenly forget when it's their turn to play or how loud or low to play when confronted by an audience?
A director doesn't stand in the middle of a play pointing at people so they know when to say their lines
Maybe somebody has to say "go" so they all start at the same time....but do musicians suddenly forget when it's their turn to play or how loud or low to play when confronted by an audience?
An old joke:
Once a music teacher took her class to their first grand opera. The lights began to dim, the conductor began waving his baton, and the soprano started singing. After a while, one of the students asked the teacher, "Why does the conductor keep waving his stick at the woman? What has she done? So the teacher said, "Oh, don't worry. It's just the way it is. He won't hit her! Don't worry. And so the student asked, "Then why is she screaming like that?"
source: http://www.smchbooks.com/new-eng/book-e/joke-1/135/jk2.htm
To be clear, ChasSmith - not OUR musical director, but the orchestra conductor - the orchestra, about which I will say nothing, had sixteen minutes of the show (add two for the impromptu yakking at the top of act two) - the wasn't about them and yet you would have never known that. It was a struggle straight down the line but in the end we had a great show and that's all I cared about.
Maybe somebody has to say "go" so they all start at the same time....but do musicians suddenly forget when it's their turn to play or how loud or low to play when confronted by an audience?
An old joke:
Once a music teacher took her class to their first grand opera. The lights began to dim, the conductor began waving his baton, and the soprano started singing. After a while, one of the students asked the teacher, "Why does the conductor keep waving his stick at the woman? What has she done? So the teacher said, "Oh, don't worry. It's just the way it is. He won't hit her! Don't worry. And so the student asked, "Then why is she screaming like that?"
source: http://www.smchbooks.com/new-eng/book-e/joke-1/135/jk2.htm
At the end of my introductory remarks I really let the audience know what was what by saying that 90% of the show was singing - highlighting the SONGWRITER we were feting and then I called out our quintet and introduced Richard Allen as Richard Sherman's favorite musical director.
Of course - he did Levi and L.A. Now and Then and has probably done more Kritzerlands than anyone.
Did DR Kevin have to fly back today?
KevinH, the people who'd gotten into the building to be first in line (and were told do so so) were orchestra members (not our band). You see the problem, I'm sure.
Today is Vixdad's birthday
Just 4 more work days and then we are off to Florida
MEGA SURGERY VIBES FOR THE NIECE OF DR TCB!
MEGA SURGERY VIBES FOR THE NIECE OF DR TCB!
And another dose
MEGA SURGERY VIBES FOR THE NIECE OF DR TCB!
~~~MEGA DITTO!!~~~
MEGA SURGERY VIBES FOR THE NIECE OF DR TCB!
~~~MEGA DITTO!!~~~
Mega tritto!
I have very little to say tonight.