- Over the weekend I caught the HD broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera playing at the Opry Mills theater; they did an outstanding performance of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. Though as I told Cory this morning, I will forever read that title as “Eugene OneMoGin“.
- Word has it councilman Eric Crafton will be pushing through a proposal to overturn those Pan’s Labyrinth Oscars. We Nashvillians give our Academy Awards in English, damnit.
- My only other Oscar prediction was that without Jon Stewart hosting I would have little desire to watch. I was correct.
- FREEEDOMMM!!!!!! — OK I probably shouldn’t admit this in public. But somehow I got hooked on that Fox show “The OC”. I think mostly it was some combination of finding Mischa Barton hot while identifying with Seth’s dorkiness. Anyway Fox was kind enough to release us, putting out the final episode last week and giving me back my Thursday nights. Now Prison Break is the only thing standing between me and general TV liberation.
- Following my quest to learn how to make actual food for myself (and find a way to use those tasty Plumgood veggies), last night I made my first attempt at soup. It came out pretty good! Granted most of the ‘flavor’ came from the Ramen Noodle package I put in at the end, but still that only accounted for two of the 8 to 10 or so total cups that I made. I eat soup most every day, so maybe if I get to where I can do this pretty well then I can stop forking over my fortune to Progresso.
- Saturday night I took my sister out for a birthday dinner at Amerigo’s, which means I finally got to use that gift certificate we got for the Hands on Nashville Day. We promised a plug, so here it is. It’s a good place. Not quite Sole Mio, but a nice step up from the Olive Garden.
- Jello did a bit in last week’s show about junk mail, making fun particularly of some of the political solicitations he’s received; one section was about an “urgent message”! — “registered documents”! from the “Friends of Hillary” — I actually got the same one in the mail a day or two later. Heh. EDIT: It has occurred to me there’s a Terry Frank joke in there somewhere…
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I listen to the Metropolitan Opera as often as I can. This is the first I heard about it at Opry Mills. How much were tickets? Tell me more about it if you like.
I may have to make it out for the March 24 performance.
I actually got free passes from a giveaway that NPR did via their email announcements list, but normally I think the tickets are $18.
Here’s the Met’s page about the series:
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/broadcast/hd_events.aspx
The 12:30 showtime is a little hard for me to do most weeks since I get out of yoga right about 12, but yeah I may have to come out for ‘Barber’ as well, that’s one I would definitely like to see.
[...] mushin no shin: Word has it councilman Eric Crofton will be pushing through a proposal to overturn those Pan’s Labyrinth Oscars. We Nashvillians give our Academy Awards in English, damnit. [...]
You should succumb to the TV shackles of Battlestar Galactica….;)
NoNoNoNoNoNoNo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m almost free of the chattering beast, I’ll not be led back into temptation!! : )