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Meta Armchair Director post status; Pre-review

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2013.12.12

Having been heavily drugged since 9am this morning I am slowly regaining my faculties. I have transcribed my notes from Vocal Rush, Home Free, Voice Play and am in progress on SCR from last night.

Fortunately, tonight is a short episode with only 4 groups (I am assuming) So I should be able to get caught up by the end of tomorrow. Such is what happens when you slam 7-8 episodes into a two week period.

I’m curious what might make the reviews better. More detail, more background, more comparisons, or just leave it like it is.

Drop you opinions, we’ll go from there.

In the meantime I plan to stop funding air so fascinating by 8pm to take notes again.

Here’s the pre-review

In Your Eyes – Intro Production number

It’s really hard to mess up this 80s classic. I expect it to be full of love and tears.

 

Ten – Chain of Fools

Ten last episode took a step towards what they an do. This will assure us if they are on the path. A good choice for their style.

 

acoUstiKats – Amazed

This group has two speeds. Frat choir and new evolution in Acadameia a cappella.  Let’s hope that yesterday’s USO reminded them we’d like more of the latter.

 

SCR – Forget You

I am especially surprised when they take modern music and attach it to their style. This could be a strong entry for them. Or likewise may show us that they are a one niche wonder.

 

The Filharmonic – One More Night

I’m going to assume Maroon 5 and not Phil Collins here. Once again, Filharmonic deep in the heart of their style. It was made clear that Stockman is watching for missing notes; so now they have got to get the technical as tight as the performance.

Thanks for keeping up. See you soon

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The Armchair Director – The Sing Off (Note)

Filed Under: About Me, Directing, Health, Hobbies, Life, Meta by Lord Andrei — Leave a comment
2011.10.26

Just a short note; the next two parts (Groups 3&2 and Group 1) are written, they just need to be edited and annotated. Sadly, today at work my energy from my precious two weeks gave out and I haven’t really had the energy to finish them. Hopefully, I will have them up tomorrow and then the follow up posting on Monday’s episode 6 later in the week.

I hope readers are enjoying them. I’d love feedback, agreements, disagreements, suggestions. You know the usual waste of time.

Thanks

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New Years Eve, Not Freeple Style, but still Freeplish

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2008.12.28

We’re not holding the ‘party’ per se.

But if friends want to drop by and spend the evening (some crash space available) please drop a comment here.

Feel free to pass the message around.

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What have I been up to?

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2008.09.28

Well, not so much.

Last week my laptop decided to eat my internal hard drive. This is, of course, “Not a good thing”™

Fortunately,at the first sign of danger I stepped up my backups. Granted, the amount of space to store back ups and run from those is a bit limited. Add to that the lack of time I have at home to do computer work… and you get the idea.

But… It’s been busy. Work has me on a very complicated and involved project. The nifty thing is that the end user really won’t see the result of my work in the next release even if this project is entirely successful. I’ll see how much I can blog about the specifics, but my guess is (obviously) very little.

On the weekends we try to be far more active with him. Yesterday for example we went to Oloteas. This actually yielded an amazing ‘Aiden milestone.’ There is a nice heated pool at the facilities. The pool area has a load of floatation ‘noodles’. Basically long rolls of foam stuff that float. We were able to put one under each of Aiden’s arms. He was floating on them with his head over water and started kicking his legs. I started to release my hold on him and he continued to balance his floating. I let go and he managed to kick his legs to propel himself towards H. So unassisted (except by a floatation device) he kept his head above water, kicked to propel and was untouched by either of us.

In home life, it’s fairly quiet in the evenings. Dinner and putting Aiden down at night. Granted… since ‘out’ isn’t really part of the answer right now, I have to find online or television diversions. My latest has been Wikipedia. I am a registered editor. I’d been spending some time just messing with wiki editing by working on a user page. Other people also afflicted with the WikiEditor gene are welcomed to comment on my talk page as I’m keeping a list of WikiEditors that I know personally. (I currently list 2)

Recently, I started editing some of the few pages I feel competent to work on. I promptly discovered the joy that is a Wikipedia Edit War. So as to try to prevent the page I wanted to edit from crashing and burning; I started to learn a whole bucket full of Wikipedia Policy. I think I did a good job because I seem to have resolved the situation in just a few days.

So, I don’t really get out much at all. Of course next weekend I will be in “NEW JERSEY” for the Crucible conference as a speaker. I do strongly invite anyone who can make it out to this to come join in the experience. H and A will be at home helping our new boarder move in. (Details on that are in locked non-public postings)

My mood is at about a B-. I’m having some back issues that I associate with that mystic number 40. Work and home are a strain, but there has been unending support. (Huge blessings upon shimmeringjemmy and faerievixen2)

More soon; but the couch is vaguely uncomfortable.

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On and off line.. health

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2008.08.29

I have been online only a little since we got Aiden out of the hospital.

Unfortunately, in the hospital I wasn’t getting any sleep. Aiden was in due to soemthing viral that set off what may be a fairly severe case of asthma. By the time he was ready to check out.. I was getting ready to check in.

Yesterday was the worst of it for me. I went to the doctor and he gave me a WHOLE bucket of drugs. Including Vicodin to make me get some sleep. He also told me expressly not to consider returning to work until Tuesday.

So… Sidhehaven this weekend is a bust. Between my health and Heather’s back (the gory reality exposed in her recent post) there’s no way the two of us can manage Aiden there without clear support.

I’m praying that Bumbershoot isn’t killed for me as well. Hopefully I’m up on my feet by mid weekend. But time and drugs will tell.

In the mean time the second insurance company is also lowballing us on the value of our car.

August is not merely fired… I’m hoping security will rough it up on the way out of the building.

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