Back on the Horse
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talktoolooseThe longer I go without updating, the harder it is for me. This phenomenon exists elsewhere in my life, too. If I've made a commitment, then breaking it leads to feelings of inadequacy, failure and general self-doubt which prevents me from picking up and continuing. This tendency is more of a dull ache from the past now than an acute condition, but it still comes up.
New York was good. The recording session was just about perfect and for that, I am extrememly grateful. I use Logic Audio as my music software and I wanted to record in it down in NY so it would be easier to dive right into mixing back in Toronto. Through the Logic Users Group, I found a great engineer who did the whole session remote at my sister's synagogue. He was so careful, thorough and caring that half of my worries evaporated in the first hour of the session. That was truly a gift.
Thursday night, my sister and I went out to see Take Me Out, winner of the Tony for best play. It was a brilliant and messy piece of work about a top baseball superstar coming out of the closet and the ensuing repercussions. It was one of those entertaining thoughtful plays like Angels in America; the tradition of Jewish, liberal, intellectual, New York plays has now morphed into Jewish, liberal, intellectual, New York, queer plays.
The most fascinating character was the gay superstar's new nelly financial manager who initially knows nothing about baseball but, by the end of the play, becomes a mad fanatic of the game. In one amazing speech he says:
"While conservatives tell you, leave things alone and no one will lose, and liberals tell you, interfere a lot and no one will lose, baseball says: Someone will lose . . . So that baseball achieves the tragic vision that democracy evades."
Did I mention that all the baseball players get and stay naked for long scenes?
Two other big highlights of the trip were time spent at the Neue Gallery where I discovered the disturbing, brilliant work of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele. In the gift shop, I bought a book about him called "Eros and Passion" that was fascinating. These days I seem to either be reading dense intellectual tomes or comic books. Is this the sign of an unbalanced personality?
And on Monday, I took a trip down to TekServe, the big Mac store on W23rd St. and tried out a Wacom Cintiq. *shivers* I can't justify buying it but ooh am I in techlust.
So, what is it about LaGuardia Airport? The smallest cloud in the sky and they close down! In 2001, I had to stay an extra day in NYC because the skies glowered for a second. On Monday, possible storms made them close all but one runway and we sat on the tarmac for more than hour waiting to depart. Safety, schmafety! Get me home!
(hee hee: "schmafety")
New York was good. The recording session was just about perfect and for that, I am extrememly grateful. I use Logic Audio as my music software and I wanted to record in it down in NY so it would be easier to dive right into mixing back in Toronto. Through the Logic Users Group, I found a great engineer who did the whole session remote at my sister's synagogue. He was so careful, thorough and caring that half of my worries evaporated in the first hour of the session. That was truly a gift.
Thursday night, my sister and I went out to see Take Me Out, winner of the Tony for best play. It was a brilliant and messy piece of work about a top baseball superstar coming out of the closet and the ensuing repercussions. It was one of those entertaining thoughtful plays like Angels in America; the tradition of Jewish, liberal, intellectual, New York plays has now morphed into Jewish, liberal, intellectual, New York, queer plays.
The most fascinating character was the gay superstar's new nelly financial manager who initially knows nothing about baseball but, by the end of the play, becomes a mad fanatic of the game. In one amazing speech he says:
"While conservatives tell you, leave things alone and no one will lose, and liberals tell you, interfere a lot and no one will lose, baseball says: Someone will lose . . . So that baseball achieves the tragic vision that democracy evades."
Did I mention that all the baseball players get and stay naked for long scenes?
Two other big highlights of the trip were time spent at the Neue Gallery where I discovered the disturbing, brilliant work of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele. In the gift shop, I bought a book about him called "Eros and Passion" that was fascinating. These days I seem to either be reading dense intellectual tomes or comic books. Is this the sign of an unbalanced personality?
And on Monday, I took a trip down to TekServe, the big Mac store on W23rd St. and tried out a Wacom Cintiq. *shivers* I can't justify buying it but ooh am I in techlust.
So, what is it about LaGuardia Airport? The smallest cloud in the sky and they close down! In 2001, I had to stay an extra day in NYC because the skies glowered for a second. On Monday, possible storms made them close all but one runway and we sat on the tarmac for more than hour waiting to depart. Safety, schmafety! Get me home!
(hee hee: "schmafety")
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