In Which I Answer Your Questions About Music and Me
Friday, October 23, 2009 I had you ask me questions on Sunday, and so far I've answered questions about place and questions about the Palinode and I. Today, I am tackling what you wanted to know about me music-wise.
Anna asked:
What band would you like to be the lead singer of?
I really thought long and hard about his question, because as much as it seems easy to answer, it isn't, because there is no one band that I would want to be the lead singer of, but there are several lead singers that I wouldn't mind having aspects of. For instance, I grew up idolizing Robert Smith of The Cure and Morrisey of The Smiths, and I wouldn't mind being Mobert Smorrisey for a little while. I also have a strange affection for Courtney Love and a mad crush on Scout Niblett, so being a Scourtney Lovlett wouldn't be too bad for a day or two until the cops caught up with me.
Joy! asked:
You've said that you still love the Doxology. I wonder if you've ever sung with a choir and if you still like to sing. What kind of music do you enjoy singing? Alternatively, if you were to put together a band or musical group, what would be your ideal contribution?
I do love to sing and sang in choirs for more than 15 years, including a choir that toured western Canada. For the last 15 years, though, I have mostly sung around the house, torturing the cats with my tremulous fake opera voice, although I did have a brief stint in 2005 in which I practiced a couple of times with a branch of the Sweet Adelines, and, yes, it involved jazz hands.
I have a confession to make: I love jazz hands. And spirit fingers. And that open-mouthed lean-in with the exaggerated wink. I sometimes like to pull those moves out when I'm cooking or cleaning the bathtub. This sauce is sizzling *JAZZ HANDS*. Look at my bathtub sparkle and shine *SPIRIT FINGERS*. Yes, your life can be your own personal glee club. IT'S TRUE.
My main experience with public singing is religious and barbershop, but I like to sing just about anything. Just yesterday I was belting out some Electric Light Orchestra, but I have also been known to sing things along the lines of Peter, Paul & Mary and Regina Spektor. If I can hit the notes, I'm up for it.
As far as putting my own musical group together, I think that I would want my contribution to be as Lord and Master. That way no one would have the right to complain if I demanded MORE TAMBOURINE! or yelled WHERE THE HELL IS A HANDBELL CHOIR WHEN YOU NEED ONE?! My insistence on high levels of cheez would have to go unquestioned.
I have to admit that I'm a little shocked at my answer to that last question. I was raised a pacifist. I took an entire university class on Gandhian nonviolence. I guess my dedication to cheez is far more serious than I had previously thought.
Next up: I will answer your questions about blogging. *BIG WINK* Cha cha cha.
Reader Comments (9)
Who DOESN'T love jazz hands?
What part in chorus? I can hear your voice and imagine you killing the alto/melody parts.
I meant killing=rockin' it, and gooood.
Are you kidding? handbells and jazz hands=awesomesauce!
Boo-urns on changing your feed again to only give me a snipit in my google reader.
May I please have some clarification on the difference between *jazz hands* and *spirit fingers*?
Thank you.
The 10% for Kiva thing is fantastic. I will happily click to your site any time if it ultimately means more money for them. And then I will do jazz hands, which will be less pragmatic and more of an "art for art's sake" thing.
Dawn (elfini), my understanding is that jazz hands happen when hands with spread fingers are waved back and forth at the wrist and that spirit fingers involve fluttering of the fingers. I may be wrong.
Lord and Master - Somehow I knew that! heehee!
Love those dramatic gestures spicing things up.