BSB and Atlantis

[erilyn]

So no one else on my friendslist is going to Challenge? *g*

Boston pics
> http://community.webshots.com/album/305146916WYUCJY

> raynedanser has posted some fun details from a friend who went to the Boston show.

> Cute comments on the Scranton show.

+ Everybody - 48 meg, complete song, pretty good quality.
http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=05LTG37PF81DT3BTJ69WFQ9MSJ
http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0YF1QNVJDQPL435SPV2BTZXI34 (additional link in case the first one expires)
credit: AC.is.perfection at LD, from the Boston show.

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Guess not watching the last 2-3 seasons of Stargate really does affect your ability to understand the beginning of Stargate: Atlantis. I really felt like I'd come in half or three-quarters of the way through something. I was surprised when the Scottish guy didn't make a McCoy "I'm a doctor not a..." joke. Jack and Daniel still amuse me though. It hasn't kept my attention tonight, but I'm taping it, so I might give it another try.

Comments

[chrismm.livejournal.com]

Vicariously! That's the word. Man, brain fade is the worst.

And yeah, we do the full cycle, three times, plus umpty lectures and other events--it really is like a festival. Each cycle takes up about a week, with the operas and the lectures and stuff, and people come from all over the world for the chance to get immersed in Wagner and the Ring for a week. All the behind the scenes stuff started over a year ago--for instance, they fly the Rhine Maidens so it looks like they're really swimming. It takes a while to teach opera singers how to sing whilst being swung gently about in mid-air, hanging from harnesses *grins*

And then during the actual month of the shows, all the fundraising and marketing people are busy, like, 12 hours a day, keeping people happy and making sure everyone's having fun and getting what they want, so they'll come back from overseas or where-ever four years from now.

As I'm the computer geek, I don't have to do all that--but I have to make sure everyone's stuff is working no matter what, and I have to be all brightshinychipperhelpful, even while people are cranky from lack of sleep and overwork. And since we cut the IT staff, I have to be available.

It's cool--I mean, I love that what I do is related to something I can fully support, and not something that makes me un-proud of what I do for a living, you know? So it's worth a few sacrifices.

http://seattleopera.org/ (pimping--we have a really nice website, which I have nothing to do with, but it's still cool)

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

What an enormous production! And no wonder you wouldn't be able to get time off easily, especially with reduced IT staff.

It takes a while to teach opera singers how to sing whilst being swung gently about in mid-air, hanging from harnesses *grins*

I'm sure if popstars do it, it can't be that hard for opera singers. Not that I'd say that in their hearing ;)

It is cool when you genuinely believe in what your place of employment does.

[chrismm.livejournal.com]

I'm sure if popstars do it, it can't be that hard for opera singers.

Hee. shhhhh! *looks around nervously* Though opera stars don't have backing tracks waiting in case they mess up, so it is a little bit different. But yes. It's not like it can't be done, it's just the training thing...

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

I kid, I kid (mostly *g*). Ha, someone should write an Opera!AU, where Justin could get to be a real Diva ;)