as per usual

um… i have nothing exciting to write about [insert title here]

every time i hear the words [insert title here] i laugh cause it reminds me of something Eddie Izzard says.  i can’t remember for the life of me what it is, but its funny all the same.

tomorrow is my appointment with my ENT.  i have a few questions for her… the problem is i don’t know how to go about any of it with her.  she’s not exactly my GN and so asking her about them might be a little silly.  my only reason for possibly bringing them up to her is that i don’t exactly have the resources to go into my GN.  DAMN USA/LACK OF HEALTH CARE!!!!!

i need to move to a socialistic country… one that treats their singers well AND has health care.  i was thinking about signing up for the state run health care (what a joke…)  anyway…

need an exciting topic…  oh! i know one (not really exciting per se, but silly i guess)

the opera we’re preparing right now (MacBeth) has a very modern set.  the entire set is a raked stage (that means its slanted, not level).  there are also 4 traps in the floor and the walls bleed at one point (very cool).

side note: its nice knowing the people that build most of this stuff.  one of my best friends works for the Seattle Opera Scene Shop and helped build this set.  he tells me all about specs and other fun details having to do with the set and then i get to relate them to my fellow singers (as if i know what the hell i’m talking about… lol)  ONWARD!

so, during the last bit of the opera, i come running out of a door in the very back of the stage and run forward!!!  right towards one of the open traps! (traps are holes in the floor that you can have people enter through via a pulley system).  anyway, so i’m running down the stage (yes i knew the trap would be open) and, of course wearing my character shoes (some of the most uncomfortable shoes i’ve ever worn… course it doesn’t help being fat) and what happens?!  yes, my shoes begin to slide down the rake!  lol  granted, i felt them slip before getting close to the trap, but it still kind of freaked me out at first.  course i laughed about it later.

so yeah, fun times!  in this show i: have a sword but never remove it from the scabbard, run around with a gun but never use it, make believe i’m a high up general in MacBeth’s army (and i hate him… lol, yes i added that little bit of character development myself… rofl) [editors note: yes… i am that dorky.  not in the fact that i actually did that bit of development (which i didn’t) but in the fact i thought that was funny… lol], carry a strange box like thing that… well… resembles nothing during a refugee scene, and i have a beard the size of… well… whatever you compare the size of beards too.  i should take a picture of it!  its grizzly!  and the fact that it is red in stark comparison to my brown hair just looks weird.  i can’t wait to cut it all off in 2 weeks for my new headshots.  lol  (too bad i can’t cut off the excess fat as well… *sigh*)

fun stuff!  lol 

actually i am enjoying this opera.  has some fun elements to it (duh, blood dripping down walls, doesn’t get much cooler than that… er…)  good music.  fun to sing.  good lead roles.  so yeah…

and that, is that.  hope all is well with everyone!

– noah