So, yesterday night turned out to be a mess of coincidences that have shaped this weekend into quite the looming, amorphous event! I’m shedding money like water doing it, but there’s a great deal going on in town, including the Goldberg Variations on a period harpsichord, the Wisconsin Film Festival, and roleplaying (remember, table-top with dice, you dirty bastards). Orpheus and I are going to make quite the trip through the proverbial artistic underworld of Madison. Underworld only because the weekend is so jam-packed, mind you, but still… Tonight, if O. can get the tickets in time, we’re headed to First Unitarian (for those of you not in Madison, it’s Frank Lloyd Wright’s home church. He designed and paid for the building pretty much himself,) for the Goldberg Variations, probably J.S. Bach’s most interesting work for Keyboard, which is saying a lot.
On harpsichord, this piece loses some of the intimacy, nuance, and playfulness of the Gould recordings, or any modern performance on piano, but gives the listener a great appreciation for why literature written for that now exotic instrument is so intricately figured. Namely, because if it weren’t, you’d be left waiting for dynamic variation only to find that the harpsichord isn’t capable of such in the least. At times, the music can sound like a wall of even-toned grace-notes, impenetrable to any but highly trained ears. Additionally, since these 30 gorgeous variations on a theme were written as the capstone of Bach’s highly demanding “Clavier exercises,” they are, needless to say, highly physically demanding for any keyboard performer. I’m very much looking forward to watching that *bitch sweat tonight. ;-)
On Saturday, we’ll be seeing as many art-house style flicks as we can fit in after I pretend to be a red-headed magical female nympho virgin dwarf for a few hours, and Orpheus works. The most amusing of the things he wants to see is a late show about dork-rappers, featuring M.C. Hawking, my fav. Physics-rapper. On Sunday, after visiting the zoo with Basso (if it’s not raining), we’re going to try to take in a documentary about Mac-heads, and anything else we have time for. Should be bracing!
Anyway, I should also let you know that both O. and I were very satisfied with the way things went last night, even down to the amount of cuddling after the earth-shattering, all-singing, all-dancing sex. The only things I’m a little sad about due to the weekend being so busy are 1) that we probably won’t be doing much doinking, 2) that I haven’t had the will or the time to cook for the last two nights running, and probably won’t for a couple more, and 3) that I don’t have the wherewithal to start an amateur string quartet called ‘The Screaming Orgasms’ that gives impromptu concerts in the park after getting past the awkward stage on a couple concerti.
UPDATE: This is the terrible part about writing these posts while waiting for people to answer the phone… It takes a really, really long time. Since I wrote the above, O. called and let me know that the Friday concert was sold out, so he got tickets to the Sunday afternoon show. Fortunately, we should still be able to squeeze in both the zoo, AND the mac-head movie, but the squeeze, as they say, shall be tight. So, tonight is freed up for walking around in the unexpected sunshine, cooking, and catching a few extra movies at the film festival, if there are tickets. See what I meant earlier about “amorphous?”
* bitch (Aeffchen’s personal definition) – Any PERSON who is flighty and out of control, and annoys the shit out of me, regardless of sex.
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