talking about love's like dancing about architecture
i feel like i've written something with that title before. i hope it's not on my blog. i first heard it years ago when i watched a movie (kinda cheesy, kinda corny, kinda loved it...) called playing by heart. now that i've done my quota of broken hearts and breaking hearts, and spend a lot of time actually thinking about what's going to come next, the flavor of the metaphor is sinking deep into my gut.
i am surrounded by love these days... even though there is an immediate lack there of. i say it with a bittersweet sentimentality, not with cynicism, although i do feel a bit melancholic. anyway, there was a birth of a beautiful baby to my dear jenn, ibk found a lovely girl to love and to be loved, my adoring gay boys are finally tying the knot while going ahead with an agency to begin foster-to-adopt program, and i learned that internet may perhaps become an integral part of courtship in this day and age. typically, i kind of despise the whole facebook culture. i used to be on it, and my life became miserable for so many different reasons. but i found out that one of my friends met her gorgeous gentleman through "missed connection" on craig's list. she said that she sat across from him on bart and they exchanged smiles, and she just couldn't forget about him so she went to post him on the missed connection, and voila, he beat her to it. the rest is history... so i recently began my quest of the cyber-village of bachelorette-dom. in the begining, not so much. but now, i'm meeting few people, and i'm making friends. i'd say it's a fantastic start. i guess in a way, talking about love has become really dancing - more like cirque de soleil-ing - about architecture. it is now further complicated by the immensity and the mystery of cyberspace. it is going to take some serious technique, luck, artistry, imagination, and choreography to do it right.
speaking of love, i spent past 2 days in a zone, working on music. first i wrote the song that's shown just below this post. the tune has a kind of feist-jose gonzalez feel to it, and i like it. i wanted to move beyond my comfortable sets of chords. i need to practice practice practice. then i stole rik's keyboard and arranged "uninvited" by alanis for rapid transit. ever since i heard BC bostonians sing that song back in early 2000 (i was utterly blown away when i heard it the first time), i've been wanting to arrange it, and do it for a co-ed group. now is my chance. since it's not on the current to-sing list, i'm not sure it's ever going to get used, but i think it turned out pretty awesome. i pray that we get to sing it.
the rest of my labor day weekend was spent beautifully, indigo girls concert and lots of queers, hanging out with colm at radio, bbq with my neighbors and their bohemian friends, drunk darting in the backyard, and another bbq at lake temescal meeting and playing with new friends and going swimming in the sunset with amanda, rachel, and of course, danger the rambunctious pup. life is beautiful.
i am surrounded by love these days... even though there is an immediate lack there of. i say it with a bittersweet sentimentality, not with cynicism, although i do feel a bit melancholic. anyway, there was a birth of a beautiful baby to my dear jenn, ibk found a lovely girl to love and to be loved, my adoring gay boys are finally tying the knot while going ahead with an agency to begin foster-to-adopt program, and i learned that internet may perhaps become an integral part of courtship in this day and age. typically, i kind of despise the whole facebook culture. i used to be on it, and my life became miserable for so many different reasons. but i found out that one of my friends met her gorgeous gentleman through "missed connection" on craig's list. she said that she sat across from him on bart and they exchanged smiles, and she just couldn't forget about him so she went to post him on the missed connection, and voila, he beat her to it. the rest is history... so i recently began my quest of the cyber-village of bachelorette-dom. in the begining, not so much. but now, i'm meeting few people, and i'm making friends. i'd say it's a fantastic start. i guess in a way, talking about love has become really dancing - more like cirque de soleil-ing - about architecture. it is now further complicated by the immensity and the mystery of cyberspace. it is going to take some serious technique, luck, artistry, imagination, and choreography to do it right.
speaking of love, i spent past 2 days in a zone, working on music. first i wrote the song that's shown just below this post. the tune has a kind of feist-jose gonzalez feel to it, and i like it. i wanted to move beyond my comfortable sets of chords. i need to practice practice practice. then i stole rik's keyboard and arranged "uninvited" by alanis for rapid transit. ever since i heard BC bostonians sing that song back in early 2000 (i was utterly blown away when i heard it the first time), i've been wanting to arrange it, and do it for a co-ed group. now is my chance. since it's not on the current to-sing list, i'm not sure it's ever going to get used, but i think it turned out pretty awesome. i pray that we get to sing it.
the rest of my labor day weekend was spent beautifully, indigo girls concert and lots of queers, hanging out with colm at radio, bbq with my neighbors and their bohemian friends, drunk darting in the backyard, and another bbq at lake temescal meeting and playing with new friends and going swimming in the sunset with amanda, rachel, and of course, danger the rambunctious pup. life is beautiful.
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