Wednesday, February 09, 2005
absent eyes
so, I went to an opera tonight. or better said, I arrived late, stayed for the duration of the first act and left because all those snooty people and my bad eyes were getting to me. but, the music was extraordinary as were the voices (the timbres, textures, control and range was phenomenal) and I absorbed the absurd hybridity of it all (a story taking place in common era Greece, written by a German and taking place in Italian for an American audience). the old man next to me fell asleep and I think someone fell out of their chair--two reasons to go back.
...this is a great reason to buy a lock, go down to your local cinema and sit down, using the doo-hickey to not be able to leave so you are forced to watch the film over and over and understand things that are beyond science and long division. and because Javier Bardem is a better actor than me and you could ever comprehend with calculators.
caution: it will make you want to move to Barcelona. this is a good thing.
