The Lists

I work in the box office of a performing arts center in a small Southern town.  A lot of our patrons are average or intelligent, but a lot of them aren't exactly urbane. 

Here are some lists I keep at my work desk to amuse myself:

Names I have been called instead of Angie:
Andy
Amy
Sandy
Mandy
Beck
Carla
Lauren
Tangie
Marci
Alice
Lindsey
Kelly
Aggie
Agnie (Ag-nee)
Tangie
Emma
April
Mangie
Lisa
Anti Christ (this was not an insult, someone gave them my full name, which rhymes, and they became very frightened and said ANTI-CHRIST?!?)

Incorrect names of Broadway plays/touring acts:

The Nutcracker
The International Buttcracker


Dreamgirls
Dreamz Girls
Dream Girl
That Dream Girl Play
The Dreamgirl
Those Colored Girls
Cheaper to Keep Her
Cheapers Keepers
That play

Best Christmas Pageant Ever 
The Best Little Christmas Pageant Ever

Mannheim Steamroller
Mangood Steamroller
Steamheim Manroller
Transiberian Railway
Transiberian Railroad

Irving Berlin's White Christmas
The White Christmas
A White Berlin Christmas


Liza Minelli
Lisa Minelli
Liza Minellia

Emmy Lou Harris
Emily Lou Harris

Mel Brook's Young Frankenstein
Young Einstein
Young Monster
Little Monster
Frankenstein: the Musical

.....and my personal favorite

Mel Gibson's Young Frankenstein

The winner has to be Spring Awakening though.

For months we got a lot of calls from parents wanting to take their kids to see............
Best Musical

I feel like this sometimes

via the sixth land. MIKLOS KISS

The chair is there.  But there is no one to sit in it, because the building is abandoned. And even if they wanted to, they couldn't.

It's silly to explain that. You can tell by looking at it.

What i should explain ,I suppose, is that like many people with artistic leanings, I feel like my thoughts on their own don't matter.

It's not enough to be a chair.  If no one can sit on it, it only looks like a chair.  It's not fulfilling it's purpose.

It's not enough to be able to sing.  If no one hears you, you aren't a singer.

But, are thoughts like that?  Do they have to be shared?  Do other people have to hear them, or see them, or feel what I feel in order for these thoughts and feelings to matter?  If they make an impression, and take them into their memories or minds, will that make them last longer?  Or are the thoughts or the music or the feelings only really there in the exact moment the impression is made?

Maybe that's why many artists are so lousy at being normal people.  They take all the parts of themselves that are worthwhile and put it onstage or on a CD, and give it away.  Maybe it's because they know that's the only way it has a chance to last.

simplicity and color

Church buried in snow

moonlitcorner:darksilenceinsuburbia:
Winter Landscape with Church, 1811 by Caspar David Friedrich

Even when everything is cold, and it's buried in a crust of ice and obscured by mist, it remains. Perhaps it will never go away.

Quote of the day 2/8/11

Chapman, John Jay: "Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

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One of my "things" with religion is that if the religion itself is the cause of goodness, why is it that so many practicing followers of a given religion get so far off the mark, and descend into hypocrisy and hatred? Yet others (sadly, it seems a smaller portion a lot of the time) can be such good, kind people and make a case of the virtue of the same principals?

I think it's because if you want to be a good person, and work hard to be a good person, and choose your actions and words based on this, you will be a good person. It doesn't really matter which religion you choose as your building block, because at bottom all religions have the same basic principals. Christians, Muslims, Buddists, Secular Humanists all basically say "Think about yourself as a small part of a whole, love and forgive your neighbor, and do no harm."

It's about the effort you put into contemplation, and then putting the fruits of that contemplation into practice.  You can't just do without thinking, and you can't just think without doing.  That's what makes you a good person.  Finding the right thing and then doing it.

Prentitious art thing of the day

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I shouldn't like this but i do.

revolution

Protesters in Egypt are smashing priceless relics, and alternately attacking and saving each other.

There is no such thing as a glorious revolution. Just the regular kind where some people do awful or wonderful things. And where other people get hurt.

Photojournalist is Attacked in Egypt. via NPR

NPR Reporter, Other Media Targeted via NPR