I'm going to the opera tonight .
Opera Verdi Europa is doing Giuseppe Verdi's Aida , with full orchestration
under the baton of Italian maestro Luciano di Martino.
The wife bought the tickets for the Radford show.
My name is Kirk
and I'm addicted to public radio.

Me too but I listen to the jazz.

Public radio is a beautiful thing. I've never been to the opera, and have been thinking about seeing La Boheme at The Metropolitan Opera. Orchestra seats start at $95 (yikes!)...

this is really catchy...

*caution - this could be in smutty's section*

Aida Was great , only $12 too!
Full orchestration , The costumes and set (one changeable set) were lavish , but no live elephants and camels .
I think it was subsidized with funds from the university.
Go hear live music whenever you can.

unless it's rush or yoko ono.

i mean, that's a given, but....

there's special people round these parts.

I hear that, Mr Short Bus.

The 6ths, Aging Spinsters. Merritt delivers again.

Street Dogs

"Rock Your Baby" - George McCrae, on the oldies station. I love this fucking song.

my life going down the shitter.

Don't forget to wash your hands.

with tears.

I don't think those are anti-bacterial. You could still transfer microscopic bits of feces to other patrons.

yes, i know.

You have dark motives.

i have dark votives too.

they bring the right ambience to the shitter.

You're off your crapper.

One great performance by "Little" Jimmy Scott comes at the end of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.
Frickin' perfect atmosphere, man

i like to pull out my pubic hair with a staple remover.

Under the Sycamore Trees.

are you stalking me?

Are you talking to me?

I named my staple remover "Cynthia".
She's Dreamy.....

not at the moment.

i'm masturbating to your words.


but if you give me your phone number, your voice will make me come quicker.

I'm speechless.

these guys rock

These guys rock.

Listening to their Bartok quartets at the moment. Playing no.1 in 2 weeks. One of the best chamber music experiences I've been a part of.

This might be slightly less gay than chamber music, Hand Rue Tea.

I finally picked that up.
Fucking fantastic.

Most music is gay anyways. Pretty much all of the famous American composers were gay (and wrote crappy music).

Bernstein was bi.
Sondheim, librettist for West Side Story, and author of various other musicals, was gay.
Copland was gay.
Samuel Barber was gay (famous for the sad music that appears on Platoon, The Elephant Man, and the hypothetical death scene on Amelie)
Gian Carlo Menotti was gay (writer of Amahl and the Night Visiters, the first opera intended for TV) and was Barber's boyfriend.
John Cage, who has yet to be outdone in the area of avant garde music, was gay.

Gershwin never married and lived most of his adult life with is brother. You decide.

On the international side:
Tchaikovsky was forced to commit suicide over his homosexuality.
Ravel was gay.
Saint-Saëns was gay.
Handel may have been gay.
Schubert may have been gay.
Beethoven had bisexual tendencies.

Bach, on the other hand, was married twice and had over 20 children. Fucking queer.

And Jack's just jealous because I have more talent than him and Richard Simmons combined

Does that mean you're gay?

No, I means I'm as good as Bach. Keep in mind that you didn't hear me play when I was sober. Which I'm not now, thank god.

no shit.

and if god didn't hate me and give somebody in social distortion an illness, i would've seen both bands last saturday in niagra falls.

That would have been a geat show.
They were here on Tuesday night but I was stuck working
the 2nd job that and couldn't go.

never heard of calling in sick?!?!

i was superfuckingpissed. i had prepaid on a hotel that was non-refundable by the time i found out that the show was cancelled. we would've just gone anyway and stumbled around niagra falls, but we were supposed to get a big storm (that didn't come until late sunday).

so the friend i was going to go with just stayed here in town and bar hopped from 1:30PM to 2 AM.

it was fun, onacuz i hadn't been out bar-hopping in a long ass time, but i'd much rather have seen the show.

I was the only one working that night,
boss was out of town, I had to open at 4 and close up around 10.
If'n I called in sick that night
I wouldn't have a 2nd job to worry about.
Though that does sound like a good idea.

I'm sure I'll get another chance soon to see the Street Dogs,
they are from here.

i hate you.

but you knew that.

Hoodoo Gurus , Blow Your Cool!

blow me, i'm cool.

Sinéad O'Connor - Sean-Nós Nua

You just like her on a cuz she's bald. If she had orange pubes, you'd like her even more. Admit it.

So modest.

how dare you say that.


now how the fuck am i supposed to walk across the room with this 4 inch hardon!!!

If you crawl, they won't be able to see the boner.

if i crawl, they won't be able to see the floor.

Smell your harmonica, son!

eye once knew a harmonica

blow the man down, she did.

yarr!