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[darcydodo]

Deborah remembered the singing lesson this week, so I finally got to have a lesson for the first time since summer began. It's horrible, it's like I've forgotten how to do everything, except technically I do still know how. Just my body won't do it. And I'm picking up bad habits from choir again. Why, oh why, are blending and producing a proper tone incompatible?

Still wishing I could've had a lesson last week; it was on Talk Like A Pirate Day, so I would've brought my score of Pirates. (That's Pirates of Penzance, for you PotC-obsessed people.)

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[whiskeypants.livejournal.com]

I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
I've information vegetable, animal and mineral;
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical,
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical...

*realizes she's singing and shuts up immediately*

[darcydodo]

*grin*

I went around last Friday singing, "Pour oh pour the pirate sherry, fill oh fill the pirate glass" and "For I am a pirate kiiiiiiing!" :) I got lots of strange looks, but this might have been because of the eyepatch. Y'never know.

This is when I wasn't singing "Yo ho, yo ho a pirate's life for me," of course.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I have been known to burst into the Pirate King's song myself. Sometimes I wonder what grudge it was that Gilbert and Sullivan bore against tenors, to make so many of their tenor parts such utter nitwits - Frederick almost an exemplary case in point.

[darcydodo]

Or bastards, like Alexis.

[whiskeypants.livejournal.com]

*GRIN*

i do love the potc song...
pirates have a lot to live up to, you know.
devils and black sheep and really bad eggs...?

[darcydodo]

I was just so happy they included it in the movie. That and the dog+prisoners are my two favorite bits. It's that whole memory-association thing.

*wants to go to Disneyland NOW*

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Mind you, I also rather like John M. Ford's comment to the effect that he is waiting for International Talk Like Dr. Stephen Maturin Day.

[darcydodo]

*looks blank on every account*

Err, and what on earth is your icon? It's hilarious, but what...

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

*looks blank on every account

John M. Ford is a writer, of whose work I am in thoroughgoing awe, whom I have the good fortune to have met a couple of times.

Dr. Stephen Maturin is one of the two main characters of Patrick O'Brian's immensely long series of totally wonderful Napoleonic naval novels, a brilliant, educated and somewhat unworldly ship's doctor and fervent amateur natural scientist, who, like your humble narrator, went to Trinity College, Dublin. So I have the accent right, as well as some of the habits of speech halfway there. John M. Ford, however, looks exactly like Stephen Maturin.

[ Far Side of the World film with Russell Crowe in less than two months. Major yayage. ]

Er, and what on earth is your icon ? It's hilarious, but what..

Would a closer look help ?

[darcydodo]

Would a closer look help ?

Oh wow. Yeah, that helped. Wow. Cool. :)