I like Bernadette Peters, but I can see how not everyone would.

I'm also in the liking Bernadette Peters camp. I actually have a solo album she put out at one point and I use her singing Black Bird to test vocal speaker systems quite often. It's recorded almost completely dry and for a good portion of the song it is just solo vocal and then adds an acoustic guitar. It's a great track for sound and for testing female vocals on systems. For male vocals I've been using Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt.

I'm sara when it comes to make decisions about food and take outs. If I'm not coming to an ice cream store with a strong mind about what I want, I can spend 20 minutes there, just choosing flavors.

groups of anarchist

This reminds me. I once ran into a cool guy in CS. We both were hosts for the same girl, and she had to bring him back the keys of his flat, and another CS dude joined us. That ended up with the other CS dude and the girl watching us arguing and debating almost everything on earth, politics, religion, whatever. Anyway, he told me in one of the parts of our "conversation" (more like a spectacle, considering the others' reaction to it) that he lied about some things just to check my reaction to them. That would have annoyed me in 99% of the cases, but having so much fun arguing with the guy and knowing we're not in any sort of relationship and that'll probably the last time I'm about to see him, I didn't care much about it.

But now I'm wondering. He told me about an experiment that's about to (or did) happen. About a bunch of anarchists that's, in order to live in a society they have faith in, gonna live for a few months on an isle close to SF. I pretty much said "good luck with that" and thought about what will happen when someone will murder someone else there. Was this a lie, too? Anyone heard about such a thing?

Drew! Help me out here. How do I answer this guy? [link]

Granted it's not a clear representation of the designs, but USA designers, not my designs, yadda yadda. Plus, it just makes me laugh that he wants to use an image from focus at the Goodman for his community theatre fliers.

I've always wanted to see/direct/stage a version of Evita that had a female Che as an interesting counterpoint for how women could come from the same type of background and then diverge into two different paths.

OMG, Kathy, I've often had the same thought! (Never mind that part of it is due to the fact that I love Che's songs.) But yeah, I think it would be fascinating to see a female Che.

For male vocals I've been using Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt.

I love that cover. Love a lot of tracks on that album actually.

impressive day sarameg!

sorry david's little league team

I might have a brownie for breakfast

Timelies all!

Need caffeine.

sorry david's little league team

1 and 6! Oh well, one of my guys hit his first homerun ever, and another hit his first this season. So that was fun.

In Little League hitting your first home run has a curious rite-of-passage feeling. It's somewhere between a Bar Mitzvah (now you are a man!) and losing your virginity (ditto).

The other weirdly threshold-crossing moment in youth baseball is when pitchers develop a consistent breaking pitch, like a curveball. Every pitcher I've seen who gets his first strikeout on a breaking pitch comes running off the mound grinning from ear to ear.

I remember reading a YA short story about a girl cellist learning to find her vibrato on the instrument. That had a similar element of emphasizing a subtle moment of mastery as a step into maturity. I wonder if every instrument has some kind of transitional moment.

Or as Oz put it: "That's a man's chord. You could lose a finger."

Sarameg, you and your Lisa literally rocked the house. The last thing we had to do here before we moved in was paint the kitchen ceiling. It was at the end of a long day and we were both exhausted. We used the glossy trim paint, and did not find out until we were done. We had to redo the whole thing and I swear, the DH almost cried.