May 18, 2011
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1 Where we headed? Which way? Where to? A-h-h-h-h-h-h-h!!!! Who will show up?
2 Whew.
3 Glad that's outta me.
4 Whew.
5 It's the time of the year for "Whew."
6 Just is. Go Sharks. You have to play the WHOLE game. Keep your legs. You have all of us completely out of sorts. Your job is to kick some major butt tonight. Please accommodate.
7 So...Harmon Killebrew walks into a bar...
8 He hit over 40 home runs in eight separate years at the peak of his baseball career. At one point in his career he was asked, "Harmon, what do you like to do for fun?"
9 His answer: "Well, I like to wash dishes, I guess."
10 How do you not love a guy like that?
11 Anyway, we lost another one.
12 Heaven, or whatever you think Heaven is, now has yet another amazing person.
13 You will be missed, lad.
14 Moving on, Part the First: How do I begin to explain to people why I volunteer to do lights and sound for our Performing Arts Department at EV?
15 Is it because I miss the sound and the fury of live performance?
16 Well...
17 Yeah.
18 Last night I did sound and lights for our final Choir performance, and as always, I got lost in the music, and the mirror.
19 It always brings back the memories of Shawna Fleming and our wonderful Choir concerts over the years. I don't know if there is anything more pure and beautiful than students bringing their love of song to the general public.
20 Every single time, I find moments so touching and wonderful that hey are beyond words, and certainly beyond my diminishing ability to spell.
21 Students know how to sing with passion and meaning. They know that what they sing can move audiences.
22 After the Show last night, one girl asked how I thought they did.
23 My response was this: you made me cry.
24 You would have thought that I bought her and all her friends the world's yummiest pizza.
25 I was geniune about it too.
26 These are moments that nobody will ever get.
27 These are moments that make me feel that I have the best job in the world.
28 These are moments.
29 At one point they segued from a song about a "Good-bye" to the song "Goodnight" by the Beatles, a rare gem on the white album. This brilliant girl named Sara played our grand piano so beautifully that I thought some stars in the night sky might tingle and fall to the ground. The entire place stood amazed at all of it.
30 I was in the booth doing lights and sound. I got locked in, and all was music, music, music.
31 The entire evening moved me and touched all our hearts.
32 I miss that.
33 It made for a rather late night, but it also made for a cleansing at a time in the year when we all could use a good cleansing. Even the rain felt cleansing.
34 The last song of the evening was a beautifully arranged version of Disney's When You Wish Upon a Star. And yes, they played a lot of interesting music from all sorts of people over the ages.
35 But that song has always been a lovely one. I once had Nhat put it on one of my Toons For theT000000NDRA CD's. What was fun was that it accidentally cut off and went immediately to the Indiana Jones' theme. It worked better than a Disney ride. I've since lost that CD, which is a shame, because it just worked. The T000000NDRA can go from Indiana Jones to a peaceful ride up a mountain at the touch of a button. It is the ultimate transformer because it has that Disneyesque thing goin' on.
36 Music. When you wish upon a star...what a sweet song.
37 Well, that's about it for this morning. Late night. DN gets short shrift. Yesterday I sent the DN out sort of late, so it landed on people's porches a bit drenched and filled with spelling gaffes. Just sloppy stuff. I've always been a pretty good speller, even won a spelling bee in sixth grade. It wasn't a class one, it was the entire school one.
38 I was a hero for around twelve seconds, and then just as quickly became one of the squares in an eternal round of four-square, just like the next guy. But for twelve seconds... <music up>
39 Okay, so that's my brag for the day. Like everybody else, I need these useless affirmations.
40 Have a well-writ day. Enjoy music.
41 And please.
42 Go Sharks.
43 Peace.
~H~
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