Since it was free, I decided to attempt to navigate the Financial District (evil named non-numbered streets!) to see Neil Gaiman (one of my favorite authors ever!) do a reading of Peter and the Wolf, with the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra. First event I’d gone to with him there, and I figured I could use a little bit more of the fine arts in my life. Went with a new friend, and was even more doubly excited since the general outpouring of Twitter love for him and Amanda Palmer (one of my favorite musicians) getting engaged yesterday was rather overwhelming.
In short, he brought a certain something to the classic tale. Also, I had no clue lasso was pronounced ‘lassoo’. 
Must be a British thing. Or a Neil thing. Either way, highly amusing, and most of the small children in the audience (I mean, Peter and the Wolf!!) seemed as captivated as we were. They played a festivus piece (I forget the full name, and am rapidly fading, so too lazy to look it up) before Neil. And two pieces afterwards… the 3rd was something about eternal strings, and a trumpet player in the balcony — which was absolutely riveting. And the last piece was a very very long thing, complete with a tenor, singing the praises of Henry Hudson exploring the NY/Manhattan area. It was rather long for my tastes, and I soon found myself squirming and getting restless… It’s not that I don’t appreciate a good orchestra, and the whole thing was amazing… but hm. Actually, that wasn’t the last piece. The last piece, the conductor invited us to get up and dance a la a Russian ballroom. And that’s when we saw her. Miss Amanda Palmer dancing gaily near the stage, first with an unidentified man, then to our viewing pleasure, her new fiancee. Geez, I just sounded like a complete voyeur there.
Gotta say, that brought smiles to our faces. Hooray for joy and love and happy! (And trust me, I haven’t been feeling a lot of any of those things lately, but that no longer matters)
It reminded both my friend and I that it’s good to be on our own and single, and that we’ll be okay. It was a rather excellent night… filled with aforementioned joy and happy, adventure (we walked around several blocks in a complete circle trying to find the dang subway — curse you extraneous construction and roadblocks!), and awesome Japanese food.
I also need to learn names of places to foursquare properly. (Yes. I just used ‘foursquare’ as a verb. Watch it catch on now.)
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Peter and the Wolf and some short thoughts before bed
Since it was free, I decided to attempt to navigate the Financial District (evil named non-numbered streets!) to see Neil Gaiman (one of my favorite authors ever!) do a reading of Peter and the Wolf, with the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra. First event I’d gone to with him there, and I figured I could use a little bit more of the fine arts in my life. Went with a new friend, and was even more doubly excited since the general outpouring of Twitter love for him and Amanda Palmer (one of my favorite musicians) getting engaged yesterday was rather overwhelming.
In short, he brought a certain something to the classic tale. Also, I had no clue lasso was pronounced ‘lassoo’.
Must be a British thing. Or a Neil thing. Either way, highly amusing, and most of the small children in the audience (I mean, Peter and the Wolf!!) seemed as captivated as we were. They played a festivus piece (I forget the full name, and am rapidly fading, so too lazy to look it up) before Neil. And two pieces afterwards… the 3rd was something about eternal strings, and a trumpet player in the balcony — which was absolutely riveting. And the last piece was a very very long thing, complete with a tenor, singing the praises of Henry Hudson exploring the NY/Manhattan area. It was rather long for my tastes, and I soon found myself squirming and getting restless… It’s not that I don’t appreciate a good orchestra, and the whole thing was amazing… but hm. Actually, that wasn’t the last piece. The last piece, the conductor invited us to get up and dance a la a Russian ballroom. And that’s when we saw her. Miss Amanda Palmer dancing gaily near the stage, first with an unidentified man, then to our viewing pleasure, her new fiancee. Geez, I just sounded like a complete voyeur there.
Gotta say, that brought smiles to our faces. Hooray for joy and love and happy! (And trust me, I haven’t been feeling a lot of any of those things lately, but that no longer matters)
It reminded both my friend and I that it’s good to be on our own and single, and that we’ll be okay. It was a rather excellent night… filled with aforementioned joy and happy, adventure (we walked around several blocks in a complete circle trying to find the dang subway — curse you extraneous construction and roadblocks!), and awesome Japanese food.
I also need to learn names of places to foursquare properly. (Yes. I just used ‘foursquare’ as a verb. Watch it catch on now.)