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Day 778: Light My Candle
Jun. 21st, 2009 12:02 amOh no, the song titles are back again!
Today was a pretty awesome day. It started off bright and early and, oh yeah, I was feeling the aftereffects of ninjitsu class, but I went down to the temple anyway. It was good to be there. I saw Kent's wife, a guy who ditched law school after first semester (and his wife; I'm friends with her brother, vaguely), and even Kara. It was pretty awesome. Although no one can say my last name. Seriously. It's comprised of two banal words smushed together, but no one can say it, no matter how properly I enunciate it. And then I have to spell it.
After the temple I hit the stores in search of a new jar of Tiger Balm, so I went for it. I came home, took a real shower, and then rubbed down with Tiger Balm (not nearly as effective as a post-kungfu rubdown, since my own limited mobility made it hard to reach the genuinely sore spots). I sat around and watched an entire disk of PMK to air out, as well as eating food and hitting the drums.
And then Angela and I hit the pawn shops in search of a bass guitar for her. Between the two of us, we only knew the location of two pawn shops, so we did the best we could, and we found one, a nice electric four-string Ibanez. It does not yet have a name. The guy gave her a discount, we discovered, and so she picked up a strap for the thing (that may need to be fixed with duct tape) and then we came back to my place and I showed her how to read bass taps. We picked two songs for her to learn (Come As You Are by Nirvana and Brainstew by Green Day), and so I'm going to learn the drum parts for those songs, and when Will comes back we will be prepared. Or at least able to play together.
After bass lessons, Angela and I hit the grocery store to get food for Shakespeare on the Green. We were a little nervous, but ended up following signs and what ho! But Jenny was already there with a spot staked out. When Dan arrived with blankets (Angela is allergic to grass and cannot sit on random patches of grass) we sat down and divvied up the food. Jenny is allergic to gluten and was awesome about sharing her gluten-free food. We sat around and talked, played cards, played the Evidence Game (which was us reviewing evidence flashcards), and chatted with the people around us. There was a choir and bagpipes before the show started, and then the play itself.
It wasn't the best production of MacBeth I've seen, but then it was free. Lady MacBeth was totally like coming home, like USF actors I'm used to seeing (and I may have even seen her at USF in the past). MacBeth himself sort of disappointed me for the get-go, since he botched most of my favorite soliloquys, but near the end, he sort of pulled it together. MacDuff was good times, but I didn't much like Banquo. I was sort of disappointed in the witches, too, although Jenny and Dan kept joking one of them should wear one of the witches' costumes to the evidence final as a method of psychological warfare so as to drop the curve. I liked, thematically, what the director did with the witches. They were directing the battle at the beginning, and they were there for the final battle, and they had their silent claws on the new king as well. I appreciated the sense of completion that came with it.
I came home - Angela dropped me off and retrieved her unnamed bass guitar - and talked to my mom and dad online, which was awesome (it's father's day were Dad is) and now I shall do my writing and go to bed.
Also, Justin picked up a gold at the Utah Summer Games. So...go Justin!
ETA: why the song title? For the famous MacBeth speech "out, out brief candle"...my candle was brief and out pretty quick.
Today was a pretty awesome day. It started off bright and early and, oh yeah, I was feeling the aftereffects of ninjitsu class, but I went down to the temple anyway. It was good to be there. I saw Kent's wife, a guy who ditched law school after first semester (and his wife; I'm friends with her brother, vaguely), and even Kara. It was pretty awesome. Although no one can say my last name. Seriously. It's comprised of two banal words smushed together, but no one can say it, no matter how properly I enunciate it. And then I have to spell it.
After the temple I hit the stores in search of a new jar of Tiger Balm, so I went for it. I came home, took a real shower, and then rubbed down with Tiger Balm (not nearly as effective as a post-kungfu rubdown, since my own limited mobility made it hard to reach the genuinely sore spots). I sat around and watched an entire disk of PMK to air out, as well as eating food and hitting the drums.
And then Angela and I hit the pawn shops in search of a bass guitar for her. Between the two of us, we only knew the location of two pawn shops, so we did the best we could, and we found one, a nice electric four-string Ibanez. It does not yet have a name. The guy gave her a discount, we discovered, and so she picked up a strap for the thing (that may need to be fixed with duct tape) and then we came back to my place and I showed her how to read bass taps. We picked two songs for her to learn (Come As You Are by Nirvana and Brainstew by Green Day), and so I'm going to learn the drum parts for those songs, and when Will comes back we will be prepared. Or at least able to play together.
After bass lessons, Angela and I hit the grocery store to get food for Shakespeare on the Green. We were a little nervous, but ended up following signs and what ho! But Jenny was already there with a spot staked out. When Dan arrived with blankets (Angela is allergic to grass and cannot sit on random patches of grass) we sat down and divvied up the food. Jenny is allergic to gluten and was awesome about sharing her gluten-free food. We sat around and talked, played cards, played the Evidence Game (which was us reviewing evidence flashcards), and chatted with the people around us. There was a choir and bagpipes before the show started, and then the play itself.
It wasn't the best production of MacBeth I've seen, but then it was free. Lady MacBeth was totally like coming home, like USF actors I'm used to seeing (and I may have even seen her at USF in the past). MacBeth himself sort of disappointed me for the get-go, since he botched most of my favorite soliloquys, but near the end, he sort of pulled it together. MacDuff was good times, but I didn't much like Banquo. I was sort of disappointed in the witches, too, although Jenny and Dan kept joking one of them should wear one of the witches' costumes to the evidence final as a method of psychological warfare so as to drop the curve. I liked, thematically, what the director did with the witches. They were directing the battle at the beginning, and they were there for the final battle, and they had their silent claws on the new king as well. I appreciated the sense of completion that came with it.
I came home - Angela dropped me off and retrieved her unnamed bass guitar - and talked to my mom and dad online, which was awesome (it's father's day were Dad is) and now I shall do my writing and go to bed.
Also, Justin picked up a gold at the Utah Summer Games. So...go Justin!
ETA: why the song title? For the famous MacBeth speech "out, out brief candle"...my candle was brief and out pretty quick.
