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aprilstarchildIf the local symphony ever performs the soundtrack to your favorite movie, sell your firstborn to go.
Holy crap, that was cool.
Getting ready was a pain in the ass. I can't remember the last time I actually used a curling iron and hair spray, and I felt like I needed at least a few more hands than I had. I got my hair curled and tied it back parts of it with ribbons and put on my ear points (I had no experience with liquid latex, but I did manage to get the ears on), and pulled a bit of my hair loose on each side to cover up where the points met my actual ear. I already had on my garb--long chemise, underskirt so everything would poof more, green skirt, pink bodice. Then my blue scarf tied around my shoulders.
The next time I need to have hobbit feet, I'm just attaching the fake fur directly to my feet and wearing flip-flops.
Walking to the max was no big whoop. Riding the max was fine until a handful of teenage boys got on at the zoo stop. They were drunk. They enjoyed announcing this. Also, calling each other nasty names and swearing quite a bit, all very loudly. One sat across from me, and the reek of cheap beer was awful. I got off the max at PGE park and called the cops. Drunk people who mind their own business I usually ignore. Drunk teenagers making asses of themselves are a different story. Random side note, it's hard to use a cell phone while wearing pointy ears, and I felt a bit silly using a cell phone in my getup.
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medievallass outside the Schnitz, and we people-watched a bit before finding our seats. We simultaneously spotted a guy a few rows in front of us in a perfect Gandalf the White costume, including staff, and yelled, "Gandalf!" He turned and waved at us and we waved back.
At first it seemed that less people had dressed in costume than we had expected. During intermission and afterwards we saw tons more--most of them were in the cheap seats (we were all the to the right in row W, a bit beneath the balcony, and we still paid $50 each). We still had two of the most elaborate costumes there, holy crap. Most of the people who had dressed up were teenagers or so. I felt quite hobbity until I saw a few 8-year-old boys walk by in fellowship capes, and then I felt gargantuan!
My only real peeve? There were lots of people there, who don't normally attend symphony performances, and hoooboy could you tell. Lots more kids, that's for sure. Lots more whispering (lots), and wiggling in seats, and coughing and sneezing. A girl's cell phone rang in the row in front of us, and someone a few rows back dropped something loud and metallic. Grrr!! Thankfully even the quiet stuff was pretty loud, so it wasn't as irritating as that kind of thing is during actual symphonies.
Okay, so the symphony itself? Kicked ass. Especially when you'd know exactly what was happening during that music--when I knew Merry and Pippin had popped up, I pokedmedievallass, who had quite the grin herself. The Khazud-Dum music (with the men in the symphonic choir doing that "hoo! ha! hu!" thing) freaking rocked. When the Rohan theme started up I poked her again--she was dressed as a Rohirrim. It was just awesome. I haven't sat down to watch the movies, or listened to the soundtracks, in a good long while; so stuff wasn't over-familiar or anything. I could tell when the sound varied a little from the recorded version, and it didn't bother me. It was just a cool reminder that I was seeing it live!
I took some pictures--me in the bathroom mirror after I curled my hair and put the ears on, and a few of me andmedievallass in front of the Schnitz. At some point they'll go online.
Holy crap, that was cool.
Getting ready was a pain in the ass. I can't remember the last time I actually used a curling iron and hair spray, and I felt like I needed at least a few more hands than I had. I got my hair curled and tied it back parts of it with ribbons and put on my ear points (I had no experience with liquid latex, but I did manage to get the ears on), and pulled a bit of my hair loose on each side to cover up where the points met my actual ear. I already had on my garb--long chemise, underskirt so everything would poof more, green skirt, pink bodice. Then my blue scarf tied around my shoulders.
The next time I need to have hobbit feet, I'm just attaching the fake fur directly to my feet and wearing flip-flops.
Walking to the max was no big whoop. Riding the max was fine until a handful of teenage boys got on at the zoo stop. They were drunk. They enjoyed announcing this. Also, calling each other nasty names and swearing quite a bit, all very loudly. One sat across from me, and the reek of cheap beer was awful. I got off the max at PGE park and called the cops. Drunk people who mind their own business I usually ignore. Drunk teenagers making asses of themselves are a different story. Random side note, it's hard to use a cell phone while wearing pointy ears, and I felt a bit silly using a cell phone in my getup.
Met up with
medievallass outside the Schnitz, and we people-watched a bit before finding our seats. We simultaneously spotted a guy a few rows in front of us in a perfect Gandalf the White costume, including staff, and yelled, "Gandalf!" He turned and waved at us and we waved back. At first it seemed that less people had dressed in costume than we had expected. During intermission and afterwards we saw tons more--most of them were in the cheap seats (we were all the to the right in row W, a bit beneath the balcony, and we still paid $50 each). We still had two of the most elaborate costumes there, holy crap. Most of the people who had dressed up were teenagers or so. I felt quite hobbity until I saw a few 8-year-old boys walk by in fellowship capes, and then I felt gargantuan!
My only real peeve? There were lots of people there, who don't normally attend symphony performances, and hoooboy could you tell. Lots more kids, that's for sure. Lots more whispering (lots), and wiggling in seats, and coughing and sneezing. A girl's cell phone rang in the row in front of us, and someone a few rows back dropped something loud and metallic. Grrr!! Thankfully even the quiet stuff was pretty loud, so it wasn't as irritating as that kind of thing is during actual symphonies.
Okay, so the symphony itself? Kicked ass. Especially when you'd know exactly what was happening during that music--when I knew Merry and Pippin had popped up, I poked
medievallass, who had quite the grin herself. The Khazud-Dum music (with the men in the symphonic choir doing that "hoo! ha! hu!" thing) freaking rocked. When the Rohan theme started up I poked her again--she was dressed as a Rohirrim. It was just awesome. I haven't sat down to watch the movies, or listened to the soundtracks, in a good long while; so stuff wasn't over-familiar or anything. I could tell when the sound varied a little from the recorded version, and it didn't bother me. It was just a cool reminder that I was seeing it live! I took some pictures--me in the bathroom mirror after I curled my hair and put the ears on, and a few of me and
medievallass in front of the Schnitz. At some point they'll go online.
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Date: 2005-09-19 08:32 am (UTC)I'm more depressed than ever now! I guess they're not repeating it anytime soon?
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Date: 2005-09-20 01:59 am (UTC)I'm sorry you didn't make it. :^( And I'm sorry about all the ickiness in your current life.
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Date: 2005-09-19 09:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-20 02:12 am (UTC)hobbit on a cellphone! hobbit on a cellphone callin' the po-po on some drunk idiots! i love it!!!!
Date: 2005-09-19 09:46 pm (UTC)i love live performance but the audience is usually a major problem - just got back from ashland where three cell phones went off during richard III, people whispered loudly about what was going on, people laughed at shit that WASN'T FUNNY, etc etc. grrrr! i hate humans.
Re: hobbit on a cellphone! hobbit on a cellphone callin' the po-po on some drunk idiots! i love it
Date: 2005-09-20 02:11 am (UTC)I mean, it's irritating enough in a movie (although I have to admit that if I'm not surrounded by people I'm likely to whisper when I won't be too obvious), but you pay less than ten bucks for a movie, and you can watch it again in the theater or on DVD and it's exactly the same thing you saw in the theater. But in a live performance of any kind? WTF, people! It's insulting to the people performing, if nothing else.
Far less annoying than all that noise, but still irritating: people's clothes. The ad specified "costumes welcome" so me and
Re: hobbit on a cellphone! hobbit on a cellphone callin' the po-po on some drunk idiots! i love it
Date: 2005-09-20 02:12 am (UTC)