bride of minutaie (or yet more little tidbits from the muffin man)

[thoreau]

Tuesday's 'Supersculpt' class KICKED MY ASS! It included one rep of excercises - quick lunges off a three-high step platform with 10 pound weights in each hand. Yesterday I was really very sore - and I thought - perhaps a nice long walk last night with Miss Kate would let me legs know I cared; by not jumping back into the gym last night. I was sooooo wrong. I got up this morning and nearly fell when I put weight on my legs. They are very upset with me. Particularly my inner thighs are very tight - and very sore this morning. I'm walking - but slowly. I overdid it - just a bit methinks.

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The fog gave way this morning to an absolutely amazing day outside today - I'm going to go find lunch outside somewhere. Maybe my favorite spot - the Yurba Buena Park. What's cool about it? Sitting up on the patio - you can see several different decades of architecture and it's raised garden and waterfall is very peaceful.

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My mom recently returned from her spring trip (Croatia, Turkey, and Egypt) - and we've been trading real solid dialogue on several issues including Obama choosing the next supreme court justice and civil unions vs. gay marriage. I have never experience a time in my life where I felt closer to my Mom - even as a child. My perspective of my childhood was that my parents were eager to get us out of the house so they could travel. So it is very rewarding to get to a place where she and I really look forward to our discussions.

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The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus heads for Sacramento on Saturday - my first bus trip with the chorus. We're performing Saturday night with the Sacramento at Westminster Presbyterian Church (1300 N Street, Sacramento, CA 95814). The concert is at 7pm - and if you are in ze'valley tickets are available here. (*coughing* coryblank *coughing*)

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Worked late last night on the new writing - I'm on such a roll! - restructuring existing writing in chapter 2 - and working in the indian legend behind Tahquitz Canyon in Palm Springs. (without repeating House of Wolves style themes or useage) I also rough outlined chapters 3 and 4 in greater detail than the 30,000 foot view. I'm using several charts and organizational tools this go-round to avoid some of the giant sized continuity rewrites I had in the first novel. So it feels like a more organized, albeit still creative, writing process. and yes I know - that having a cover idea before the rough draft is finished makes no sense somehow - but it helps me visualize and work towards that finished product. I'm very visually oriented.

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Last night - I went back through my blog to recover some photos I lost when my external hard drive went missing last winter. It was lovely to go back through and remember special moments - and I went back as far as a few months before I met Dave. I loved reliving our first year of adventures and sugary romance. I am more in love with my boyfriend every day.

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KDFC is presenting our 2nd Annual "KDFC CLASSICAL STAR SEARCH FINALS EVENT" Monday at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. The contest began back in March when we received several hundred two-minute audition videos - we named 20 semifinalists - which listeners helped us narrow down to the eight finalists who will perform Monday night. If you are in San Francisco, the show is at 8pm. Tickets for purchase here. If you are not in San Francisco - it's worth checking out the videos of the eight finalists including five of the most talented youth musicians I've ever encountered. Monday's program should be something else.

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and if outdoors on a beautiful spring day is more your style - join KDFC for 'Classical at The Cove,' a FREE concert with Quartet San Francisco, this Friday, May 8th, at 5:30pm at Alameda’s Crown Beach and Crab Cove Visitor Center. Come early, bring a blanket, your family and friends and enjoy a free, after work concert! Experience Quartet San Francisco’s Grammy nominated music and their virtuosic playing!

The location is close to parking and public transportation. So, kick off your shoes and kick off your weekend with KDFC and Quartet San Francisco this Friday. Presented by the East Bay Regional Park District and the West Alameda Business Association.

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Comments

[elfkat.livejournal.com]

So are you going to use Tahquitz's blue light? WHen I worked up at Tahquitz Meadows we used to scare the crap out of kids with a blue flashlight. We were evil.

Blessings

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

i'm not entirely sure - more the fall from grace angle. How a place that was the prison of a spirit that had been banished - has become a place where people go to find peace. The contrast that the legend vs. the place has. as the visitors center describes it "a place of ancient and a place of the new". My main character and his new friend - go there to meditate and begin the journey that is the center of the new work.

[elfkat.livejournal.com]

Sounds very cool. I spent 2 1/2 years lving up on the mountain and it is a wonderful and sacred piece of land. and the only place I've ever seen a UFO. ;)

[neild.livejournal.com]

I'm a chorine also :-)

Yes, we're doing an 80's show! But instead of Styx, we're doing INXS (close, huh?)

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

ah :) we haven't done the 80s McMaddux set yet. I did this same 60s set with Seattle in 1994 (Feelin' Groovy!). This is my fourth GALA chorus - and since I am in a very different place in my life - my participation has been very different. Membership in the Vancouver Men's Chorus and Seattle Men's Chorus helped define being gay for me back when I was a baby-gay back in the late 80s. But now that I'm a 41 year old ubergay - I have less to learn to define and so I find myself struggling with the gya choral movement.

I worry that gay choruses are resorting to sugary assimilationist anthems. I took the pride concert off - because it's all that same "we're reinventing gay pride and music and singing for our legacy" patting-yourself-on-the-back inspite of breaking your arm sort of stuff that choruses fall back on. One piece talks about the "leather daddies" and "drag queens" paying lip service to make them sound like good christian queers with wedding rings and purchased chinese gaybies who just happen to wear funny clothes. Not the radical experiments in alternative social structures that were (are?) the heart of the gay liberation movement.

but I don't have any issue or feelings. nope. issue free.

[neild.livejournal.com]

Well, I joined the BGMC in January 2008, so this is all new stuff to me. I haven't encountered any assimilationist anthems yet, unless you count that "Legacy of Our Lives" toe-tapper.

I like the way our director mixes crowd-pleasers with more challenging fare, it keeps everybody happy. So I'm enjoying my experience with the chorus so far.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

sorry I got up on my highhorse. :) singing in gay choruses has brought me to places all over the world - and introduced me to some amazing music!

[neild.livejournal.com]

I pardon you!