In an effort to prove my actions wrong, as well as to get an injection of the arts into me, Thursday I will be attending a wind concert at the U of M, in which Ann (and her roommate Lauren) will be playing in. It's not so much that I don't like the arts (even for as much as I make fun of them), but that my disposable income hasn't made it yet to be disposed of at art institutes, or orchestras, etc. It has never been my fortay, music, for instance....
I was in band during 4th grade, and I had missed a concert because of baseball, as did some of the other kids. The conductor/instructor/whatever you'd like to call him chewed us out, and said, "You have to make a commitment. With only 4 concerts a year, you have to change your schedules to conitnue on in music." After that "lesson" I learned that baseball was/IS my schedule, and I never went to another lesson- I quit.
Ever since, minus the special trips to an art museum and other museums I have faltered in appreciating art, but isn't that the great thing about art- that it will always be there? It could be a weekend seeing the Bears in the Super Bowl and then going to see the Mona Lisa because it's not like she's going anywhere, right? If I croak tomorrow, then sure, I'll be kicking myself for not seeing the sights to be seen, but little by little things like Thursday night (and maybe Saturday) are helping me to get into that stuff.
Yep- here's a baseball note- the Cubs are .500 after winning the series from Pittsburgh. Maddox like I said he would have to do pitched an effective game, and Derek Lee collected a couple of RBIs to total 14 for the season. This week Wood, Prior, and Zambrano will pitch back-to-back-to-back, as the Cubbies play two at Cincinnati, and 2 at St. Louis, before returning to the North Side to play Pittsburgh. It would be nice if they could win 3 of the 4, but they are the Cubs, so we'll see. It was nice to see Nomar get a key hit in that important 8th inning surge.
Take care- it's time for an overnight shift at the ol' tow yard.
Sunday, April 17, 2005
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a little culture never hurts...
and....
I'm sure the University has budget-minded cultural events for the fiscally-challenged students there.
Sports is a wonderful thing..for sport's sake...and i know youll kick me for sayin this...
It is still a bunch of adults getting overpaid to play kid's games....
Enrich your life...break out of the steroetypical "OMG NOT THE OPERA!!!!" mold.
I'm running outta space here.....you need bigger reply windows....
Part two....
and you arent going to die anytime soon.....
but, as I have found....there is a little bit of heaven for everyone within that broad catagory known as "the arts"
Enjoy the concert...wear clean socks and a clean shirt
enjoy the company...and inhale, breathe in the experience...
there will always be another game to watch..and they have these nifty little things called recorders..tape it!!
peace....UG
Both events are on campus, and they are both free. The one on Wednesday from what I remember is an actual concert (wind instruments), Saturday's deal looks is a recital, which I'm assuming if I remember how the term goes, it would be just Ann. Since I know nothing about music performance, don't quote me.
Sports (in the pros) are an art unto itself. It just happens to be an art for those like me who are left brained instead of creative.
I know I'm not going to die soon, and I'm not worried about that, it was just something else to add. I'm trying to be cultured, and gettin' learned...Billy Crystal's character in "Analyze This" said it best...."I'm grieving, it's a process."
Only I'm not grieving, I'm getting schooled.
somehow i can.t get the picture of ann "preparing her reeds" out of my head...and you didn.t enjoy that? :D
culture is crap but music...c.mon - you like music.
give her a flower...yellow (= friendship) - it would be a nice gesture.
Kristi- I don't get the euphamism, so I'll wait until class to get that from you.
I was going to disagree with you that culture is crap, but I can't. I like music and I don't mind art, but it's the culture that makes people like me not want to enjoy these things, because I can't possibly enjoy these pieces for what they are about....well maybe those snoody people are right, I'll just be the speical kid in the back yelling, "Play Marry Had A Little Lamb!!"
If I show up to her recietal, maybe flowers, but 1)money is tight, and 2)I haven't had luck when I make the effort to get flowers.
so no flower - but maybe you could make a card :). that.s "art"...right?
re: reeds :)...don.t wind instrument people have to slobber all over their reeds and lick them and what not? i just picture it and laugh...that.s all.
Re: reeds- I thought that too, but apperantly from what I was told if you have the pre-made ones, then you have to slobber on it and all of that. However she had "professional" ones or something of that nature.
She soaked them, then formed them with wiring and a few other tools. I like baseball stuff...I form my glove one, maybe I'll retape my bats this season, but that's about it...consistantcy. What happens if you fall in love with a reed? Do you just toss it out?
The "arts"- teaching humans to throw away friends since the renassiance :)
Don't confuse having some sense of culture (or even to some degree "being cultured") as the same thing as being a snob (snobbishness for the sake of snobbishness...pretentious is perhaps closer to the truth for those poor folks). If you are not "into" the opera, so what? That is not as much a lack of culture as it is a choice in ones personal tastes. Cultured is more an appreciation for the beauty and genuinely decent things your civilization (culture) has given to mankind at large. Nothing more, nothing less.
I hear that. I can't listen to soprano opera (or lower-range opera for that matter)...just can't do it. Anything else musically it fluctuates from stuff I love to stuff I'll at least listen to.
Interesting that of all the things to have a continued discussion on it was art.
Perhaps your Uncle, mother, and or I, should get you half lit and take you to a Wagner opera. (half lit being the best way to partake in any Wagnerian opus) But only if you don't start singing "Kill the wabbit...kill the wabbit!!"
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