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Aug. 30th, 2004 11:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phineasjonesdude. a quick glance through my shortest short list of ljs of which i must keep track tells me that you guys were out of control with the fic and the recs and all the good stuff while i was off in the lone star state. meep. how will i ever catch up? pimp yourselves, please! i would hate to miss any of the goodness.
it's so hot and humid here, i might die. you'd think it would have been worse in texas and, indeed, perhaps it was, but i'm not really sure since almost the whole time we were there, we were in air conditioned environments. raquel's house, her car, the restaurants, theater, bowling alley, etc. the only outdoor places we went were a swimming area and an outdoor bar - which was cool enough because it was night and in the hills surrounding austin.
texas was nice but it was all about sophia, our five month old un-god-daughter. she is amazing and beautiful and incredibly sweet. and happy. i miss her already. our cats are nice and all but when sophia is displeased, she makes a little unhappy noise, when the cats are displeased, they scratch the hell out of us.
on friday, we went to see garden state and i have some thoughts about that. i really, really liked it. i would like to see it again too. my one criticism is about the ending. i feel like it just all of a sudden turned formulaic and i don't understand why. as soon as i saw them sitting on the stairs at the airport, talking about him going, i could tell myself the rest of the story. it annoyed me. i don't think it had to go that way. the whole movie felt so fresh and new and interesting and then all of a sudden i knew what was going to happen and it lost me.
but also? mark's love for large loomed for me. i tried to tell my little inner slasher to sush early on, when large goes to the party and mark leans in and whispers in his ear. but there was just more and more. and the scene at the dump? when large and sam kiss and mark stands there, looking and looking away and looking again? damn if that isn't some hardcore beautifully unrequited gay love. ::sigh:: possibly i wrote![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
camillafarfalla some textslash about that scene.
so tell me, am i going to be the lone garden state slasher?
oh. and i talked to the guy who left the job for which i'm interviewing tomorrow. he had a lot to say. almost all of it bad. very bad. like, there is no budget for the chorus. none at all. not for music, accompaniment... nothing. there is no established meeting time, they want the director (and singers, apparently) to be flexible and work around everything else going on. there is no practice room. finding one was a continuing hassle for him for his two years there. the boss is from hell. she didn't like this guy and that makes her the only person i've met who's dealt with him at all and doesn't like him. he's really super nice. they owe him money. basically it sounds like the administration screwed him over at every turn. and there is no support for him or for the group but yet they're expected to be good and to perform upon request.
yeah. yikes. also, there is no accompanist so this whole thing might be moot. i'm not good enough on piano to accompany in performance. also, i'm a conductor and conductors conduct, they don't play piano. sounds like they may not understand that there.
this makes me somewhat less nervous about tomorrow. because if i don't get offered the job, i can shrug and say it would have sucked anyway. if they do offer it to me, i may take it knowing all of this, just because it's a college chorus job and that's what i want. and it may help me get other similar (rather, better) jobs in the future. but those are questions i'll answer later, when i know what my choices are. he did also say that the women in the choir were great and he had a good time working with them. and that could be motivation enough, really.
ok. i had coffee at the baltimore airport and that was probably a bad idea. i need to wind down and go to bed. there is that interview tomorrow. eek. happy happy happy to be back though. ::hugs kitties:: ::hugs bed:: ::hugs friends:: ::hugs all of you::
it's so hot and humid here, i might die. you'd think it would have been worse in texas and, indeed, perhaps it was, but i'm not really sure since almost the whole time we were there, we were in air conditioned environments. raquel's house, her car, the restaurants, theater, bowling alley, etc. the only outdoor places we went were a swimming area and an outdoor bar - which was cool enough because it was night and in the hills surrounding austin.
texas was nice but it was all about sophia, our five month old un-god-daughter. she is amazing and beautiful and incredibly sweet. and happy. i miss her already. our cats are nice and all but when sophia is displeased, she makes a little unhappy noise, when the cats are displeased, they scratch the hell out of us.
on friday, we went to see garden state and i have some thoughts about that. i really, really liked it. i would like to see it again too. my one criticism is about the ending. i feel like it just all of a sudden turned formulaic and i don't understand why. as soon as i saw them sitting on the stairs at the airport, talking about him going, i could tell myself the rest of the story. it annoyed me. i don't think it had to go that way. the whole movie felt so fresh and new and interesting and then all of a sudden i knew what was going to happen and it lost me.
but also? mark's love for large loomed for me. i tried to tell my little inner slasher to sush early on, when large goes to the party and mark leans in and whispers in his ear. but there was just more and more. and the scene at the dump? when large and sam kiss and mark stands there, looking and looking away and looking again? damn if that isn't some hardcore beautifully unrequited gay love. ::sigh:: possibly i wrote
camillafarfalla some textslash about that scene.so tell me, am i going to be the lone garden state slasher?
oh. and i talked to the guy who left the job for which i'm interviewing tomorrow. he had a lot to say. almost all of it bad. very bad. like, there is no budget for the chorus. none at all. not for music, accompaniment... nothing. there is no established meeting time, they want the director (and singers, apparently) to be flexible and work around everything else going on. there is no practice room. finding one was a continuing hassle for him for his two years there. the boss is from hell. she didn't like this guy and that makes her the only person i've met who's dealt with him at all and doesn't like him. he's really super nice. they owe him money. basically it sounds like the administration screwed him over at every turn. and there is no support for him or for the group but yet they're expected to be good and to perform upon request.
yeah. yikes. also, there is no accompanist so this whole thing might be moot. i'm not good enough on piano to accompany in performance. also, i'm a conductor and conductors conduct, they don't play piano. sounds like they may not understand that there.
this makes me somewhat less nervous about tomorrow. because if i don't get offered the job, i can shrug and say it would have sucked anyway. if they do offer it to me, i may take it knowing all of this, just because it's a college chorus job and that's what i want. and it may help me get other similar (rather, better) jobs in the future. but those are questions i'll answer later, when i know what my choices are. he did also say that the women in the choir were great and he had a good time working with them. and that could be motivation enough, really.
ok. i had coffee at the baltimore airport and that was probably a bad idea. i need to wind down and go to bed. there is that interview tomorrow. eek. happy happy happy to be back though. ::hugs kitties:: ::hugs bed:: ::hugs friends:: ::hugs all of you::