My Obsessions

Free up 45 minutes. Go to fox.com and watch Glee. Ignore the last 15 seconds where the teacher says musically stupid things. Pay attention the the Swingle Singers in the score!

I was doing a google search on buffy stuff to see what there was. Who knew? I had no idea there was this huge online community of TV show fans.

CUMBERLAND SINGERS

Accompanist Needed

The Cumberland Singers, a Mechanicsburg-based community choir, is seeking a skilled accompanist to start in September, 2009. Rehearsals take place at the Mechanicsburg Middle School on Tuesday evenings from 7:00 to 9:15 PM.

Requirements include:

·        availability for rehearsals and concerts

·        ability to play four-part open score

·        choral music experience

·        above average sight-reading skills

·        ability to independently run choir sectionals

·        experience and skill playing a variety of musical styles

Please forward inquiries and resumes to cumberlandsingers@gmail.com.

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If anyone happens to know a great pianist/accompanist in the central PA area, please forward this info on. Thanks!

So my boss says: Book me a flight to Cleveland.

And I (almost) say: Are you sure? You know there's a hellmouth there.

Band Candy! I so love this episode. Here's my review of it, including icons, haiku, and randomness.

Sale starts Friday!


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Finished Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress. Wonderful fun.

Watched the last four episodes of Dollhouse, including tonight's. I had lost interest mostly, but was invited to watch the previous three eps with a friend who had them saved, so whatever. And now I'm interested again.

Started watching Weeds - 3 episodes so far. OMG, I so adore Mary Louise Parker.

Now that I'm watching The West Wing in one big binge, I'm realizing how much better the earlier seasons were. Still, the later ones are worth watching. I have serious Toby love.

• The "there must be a creator because things couldn't have randomly evolved" argument: nothing "randomly" evolved. It wasn't random. Or simple. Interesting point.
• Atheists are not necessarily nihilists. Thank you. True.
• Why is religion a topic we are not allowed to call out? You can slam a political party all you want, but call out any particular religion for what it is and you're not respecting people's religious freedom.
• Agnosticism is a cop-out. Had never really thought about that concept. I'm leaning toward agreeing.
• Religion is a negative, not positive, and not even neutral, force in society. I have felt this way since the moment I took time to think about it. I'm in the minority in my social circles for sure. I usually keep my mouth shut.
• The need for religion may be a byproduct of another evolutionary process. Interesting. Too complicated for my feeble brain. Still thinking.

Guy Noir! Well, OK, that's radio, but too bad. Guy Noir. Or Giles, but he's not a detective.

This recipe for kitty litter cake really struck me funny. Yum.

Here are the entries in the very first monthly challenge of the EART etsy team. The theme is spring, and the entries are beautiful. I went with flowers and leaves in yellow and green. Come vote for your favorite at our blog! Thanks.

So is it the feminist thing now to only use the word blond for males and females instead of blonde for females? I'm seeing it everywhere. Is it like the way actresses are now actors? Not judg-y here, just observ-y.

Marmalade is singing tonight at the Ad Lib Cafe in Lancaster. It's sponsored by this group: http://musicforeveryone.net/, which is a group all about supporting music education. I'm a bit chagrined that all five of us are free - wow, we have no life, LOL - but spontaneous gigging might be just the thing to snap us out of the slight doldrums we've been in as of late. Everyone else in the group will suck it up and sing through their exhaustion, and I of course, will just be waking up and getting functional around 8 PM...

I traded justgivemepeace on etsy some polymer clay goodies for this print. Isn't it awesome?

Mostly Filler BtVS episode review of Homecoming is here. Feedback is always appreciated.

  

The waitress where my dad and I just went to lunch told him gleefully that he looks "just like that guy on Harry Potter, you know, Professor Snape, I'm just saying that because I watched the Harry Potter marathon this weekend and there's this other guy who comes in here all the time, and he looks just like the villain from Roger Rabbit, I mean, he has those little glasses and everything, but he's never seen it, but he should rent it because he looks like him, but that guy who plays Snape was in this other movie where he cheated on his wife, so I guess you play a lot of mean parts, huh?"

OMG

I get teary at some point during every single episode of The West Wing. What is up with that? Am I that affected by rhetoric? The scene where Toby's ex-wife refuses to remarry him because she thinks he's sad - I barely survived the watching. I would marry Toby. He might actually be my favorite character ever.