Spoontaker!

[shadydave]

So, just got back from rehearsal with the Williamsburg Choral Guild and the Kwah. 2.5 hour rehearsals = sucks out louds. We, however, did not suck out loud. "Crying for My Dignity a Dream" remains the cheesiest set of songs ever. Furthermore, I have come up with another quibble with it. I assume the concert kind of has a Thanksgiving-y theme, what with "The Promise of Living" and all the Yay America! type songs and whatnot. So why are we singing a piece about the Lakota Sioux? Undoubtably they are just as cool as all the other American Indians, but 1) they live in Dakota territory, far away from the original colonies, and 2) of the many encounters with the American government, most were along the lines of the Battle of Little Bighorn. So yeah, not exactly a Yay America! association with the fighting and land-snatching and all. I'm annoyed that whoever picked this piece probably didn't bother to think beyond "Hey, Indians go with Thanksgiving!" and didn't bother to find any Wampanoag songs or anything. It's like singing in Spanish instead of Polish, cause hey, they're both in Europe.

Also, I will never be able to take it seriously. There is meaningful narration and multiple rainsticks. The people who wrote Pocahontas would go "Say, this is a bit much".

In other news, I made more SPooN icons!

The quotes from the first six are from MST 3K: Soultaker, because "In My Time of Dying" is essentially the same, except good.





And two more especially for the Kirstin:

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Yay! You made me iconses! And they are MADE OF AWESOME!!!

(unlike my spelling tonight, which is made of awful)

[failing-light.livejournal.com]

Also, I have been thinking about this, and maybe John's plans aren't just incredibly stupid. Maybe John's plans are SO cunning, that they come back around the continuum of cunning the other way and are incredibly stupid. Like Rincewind. Or, conversely, perhaps they are so incredibly stupid that they come back around and are cunning.

Hmm. I think I should go to bed.

[shadydave.livejournal.com]

Maybe the reasoning behind them is extremely cunning, but when he actually puts them into practice, they are dumb. Kind of like how you think you have a brilliant idea until you tell someone about it, and then it sounds stupid, except with guns and machetes and stuff.