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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging
bainidhe_dub:
I like that! I will try!
Grognard:
so I had one of my pre surgery consults (for carpal tunnel) today.
holy FUCK. I sat there and LET this doctor TAZE me little bit by bit. OOOWWWW.
first it was like "oh, electric cattle fence"
then more. ow.
then more. ow. ow.
then HE turned up the juice and "YEEEE-OW"
and then AGAIN. YEEE-OW!
tthen he xcahnged hands.
same routine, same pain.
and then...
he broke out the acupuncture like needles.
jab! OW!
and then more electricity.. OW!
then.. it got worse.
he hooked electrodes to those needslss in my hands.
TL:DR.
I got electrocutes.
Stabbed with widckd long needles.
:( hard to type. hands still sore tonight. :(
Aimless:
On a chilly northern night, a thousand fools gathered under a starless, moonless sky to watch an open-air performance of Richard Strauss's opera Gundam Wing Elektra, played out on a stage the size of a football-pitch covered with piles of gravel and pools of blood-coloured water gushing out of stacks of shipping containers, with 7-12 metre tall puppets hovering around suspended from cranes and covered by a large troupe of dancers wrigglers clad in skin-coloured wetsuits. I kid you not.
As the last painful, unintelligible bout of shrieking came to a triumphant end and the audience dutifully began a half-hearted round of applause, two conflicting emotions warred within my heart: rage--I cut our stay in sthlm short and paid way, way too much for this??!--and relief--at last it was over and I could go home.
To be fair, the music was good, and the visuals were... cool... and I could see some of the appeal, both of opera as well as of this particular performance... but the overall experience left me so dissatisfied that, had I not been with the woman of my dreams using her nuclear-powered hands to keep mine warm and naughty thoughts to keep me awake, I would have been absolutely fuming. As it is, I've made a solemn vow never to go to any goddamned opera ever again if I can help it. And to bury all memories of this "culture capital" year as soon as I can, because, so far, it's mostly been a buncha garbage for desperate culture-starved northerners with more money than sense.
It's possible I'm just not sophisticated enough a man :o
Redball:
I haven't heard the opera, but it sounds like an over-the-top train wreck to me. I don't know your experience with the art form, but mine has been shaped by the Met Opera in HD streaming-video broadcasts into theaters, in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Akima:
Sometimes the avant garde requires that you be en garde.
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