It's that time of the year again...
Christmas songs are playing in the mall (and since I work almost every day I HEAR THEM ALL THE TIME!) and snow is falling... except in Ontario where it's like 15 degrees celsius... and it also means 1st term of school is coming to an end and the crunch time is here.
I litterally have been going insane all last week. I have a workshop rehearsal this Saturday for the 1st three scenes of my opera and unfortunately had only two scenes done last week. So there was that to do.. when I finally finish scene 3 last night I had to make a piano reduction so that there was something to work with next Saturday. Finished that ridiculously late at night, printed over 100 pages of score and photocopied about 300 pages today in the office to make enough copies for all the profs, and singers coming out on Saturday.
Meanwhile plans for Victoria are driving me crazy. Flight times, and organization is less then desirable and as I leave on Sunday I still have no hotel or flights booked.
As for Eddie Bauer, it's getting crazy busy. But for some reason, things aren't selling. People are in the browsing mood and its making my sales low and making the manager's really edgy... really really edgy.
But on the plus side, I had a great time with on Wed-Fri in Waterloo and Ian Green was up visiting this weekend. Myself, Ian and Ilena had a mini Queen's reunion and drank 4 bottles of wine between the 3 of us in about 4 hours... needless to say work on Sunday was painful.
Victoria plans to follow in the next post (possibly really soon if I ever get a real person on the phone (been on hold for 20 minutes now)...
November 27, 2006
November 15, 2006
Victoria Bound!
Exciting News!
I just found a mere few hours ago that I've been chosen as 1 of 3 composers to be accepted to the Pacific Opera of Victoria's Composer/Librettist workshop. It's an intensive 1 week program in which we'll be paired with a librettist(a writer) to compose short new opera works that are performed at the end of the week.
It'll be a great experience to meet some librettists and some professional artists and will hopefully lead to contacts out West and here in Ontario to start getting my work out. Does this mean a job in composition is a possibility?
I'm ecstatic and I can't wait to go. Plus how can I say no to a trip to Victoria? Anybody out there on the West Coast, who wants to come visit me (Catherine and Ming???) I'll be posting my travel details shortly. The program runs from December 4th to 9th so I hope to be there from the 3rd to the 10th of December. Hopefully you can come visit me out on the Island! I'll of course have my trusty Powerbook and Cell Phone with me.
Now I just have to figure out how to pay for it. Canada Council for the Arts and UWO are my first two targets...
To check out more about the program or to check out the Pacific Opera of Victoria visit their site at: www.pov.bc.ca
I just found a mere few hours ago that I've been chosen as 1 of 3 composers to be accepted to the Pacific Opera of Victoria's Composer/Librettist workshop. It's an intensive 1 week program in which we'll be paired with a librettist(a writer) to compose short new opera works that are performed at the end of the week.
It'll be a great experience to meet some librettists and some professional artists and will hopefully lead to contacts out West and here in Ontario to start getting my work out. Does this mean a job in composition is a possibility?
I'm ecstatic and I can't wait to go. Plus how can I say no to a trip to Victoria? Anybody out there on the West Coast, who wants to come visit me (Catherine and Ming???) I'll be posting my travel details shortly. The program runs from December 4th to 9th so I hope to be there from the 3rd to the 10th of December. Hopefully you can come visit me out on the Island! I'll of course have my trusty Powerbook and Cell Phone with me.
Now I just have to figure out how to pay for it. Canada Council for the Arts and UWO are my first two targets...
To check out more about the program or to check out the Pacific Opera of Victoria visit their site at: www.pov.bc.ca
November 07, 2006
So I got Facebook.
It's a gigantic waste of time.... Yet somehow It's consuming hours left, right, and centre... With virtually no known benefit.
yay internet!
It's a gigantic waste of time.... Yet somehow It's consuming hours left, right, and centre... With virtually no known benefit.
yay internet!
November 06, 2006
Mickey Rooney
So...
I was watching the new Family Guy episode tonight and as expected, it wasn't very good. Family Guy hasn't been very good in a long time. It seems the wit that the show had in its first few seasons has left it and instead it relies on cut scenes and randomness to create the humour and to hopefully hide the apparent lack of plot. I suppose it was like when the Simpsons started getting lousy, except in that case, the humour got transferred to Futurama. Sadly, this is not the case.
There was one particular moment in the show that had me rolling on my couch. They had a cut scene involving childhood actor Mickey Rooney and alledged that he was insane: Stating that he yelled at mice with his shirt off among other things. IS Mickey Rooney insane?
No. But something interesting trivia regarding Mickey Rooney is given to me by Wikipedia:
"In the Animaniacs song "Yakko's Universe", Yakko makes a comment that Mickey is small."
As well did you know Mickey Rooney can also be used as an adjective:
""Mickey Rooney" is also used as an adjective meaning inferior or of extremely high quality. eg. The Mickey Rooney chair re assembled itself every time I sit in it."
Thanks Wikipedia! And thanks for actually making me laugh Family Guy. Even if it was totally irrelevant to the show. Don't get me started on the lack of quality in this year's Treehouse of Horror... sigh....why are they making a movie...?
sigh.
I was watching the new Family Guy episode tonight and as expected, it wasn't very good. Family Guy hasn't been very good in a long time. It seems the wit that the show had in its first few seasons has left it and instead it relies on cut scenes and randomness to create the humour and to hopefully hide the apparent lack of plot. I suppose it was like when the Simpsons started getting lousy, except in that case, the humour got transferred to Futurama. Sadly, this is not the case.
There was one particular moment in the show that had me rolling on my couch. They had a cut scene involving childhood actor Mickey Rooney and alledged that he was insane: Stating that he yelled at mice with his shirt off among other things. IS Mickey Rooney insane?
No. But something interesting trivia regarding Mickey Rooney is given to me by Wikipedia:
"In the Animaniacs song "Yakko's Universe", Yakko makes a comment that Mickey is small."
As well did you know Mickey Rooney can also be used as an adjective:
""Mickey Rooney" is also used as an adjective meaning inferior or of extremely high quality. eg. The Mickey Rooney chair re assembled itself every time I sit in it."
Thanks Wikipedia! And thanks for actually making me laugh Family Guy. Even if it was totally irrelevant to the show. Don't get me started on the lack of quality in this year's Treehouse of Horror... sigh....why are they making a movie...?
sigh.
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