Trippy Things and Dramatic Sings

^I tried.

I watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show. My reaction to The Rocky Horror Picture Show: "Um....what?"

That movie felt like an acid trip. I was physically ill after watching it. Tim Curry has nice legs though. I'm jealous. I'm starting to think you have to be on drugs, really drunk, really tired, or all three in order to fully enjoy that movie though.

My reaction to the song called Chant for Great Compassion: "Um....what?"

So nobody knows what this song is except the choir I'm in. Let me try to explain this trippy song to you. So we're all humming at the beginning and there is text being read that is all "I left....and now return...." and cheesy sounding stuff like that. Then we start singing in Chinese and the altos start chanting things like "We will risk this blood that flows! from one hundred thousand skulls! and thus exert the strength to turn! the cosmos back in place!!!". Then a bunch of clashing notes ensue and we have no idea what we are doing. Basically, pick a note and you'll be ok. None of us know what's going on in that song.

aha! an mp3! http://www.abbiebetinis.com/sound/betinis--chant_for_great_compassion.mp3

Like it sounds cool sometimes....but it's mostly impossible to learn how to sing.

Then there's this overly dramatic song we're singing called Joy. My reaction to this song: "Oh, so they made a musical out of Lifetime?"

Ok...so here how this song goes:

I am wild!
I will sing to the trees I will sing to the stars in the skyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
I will sing!
I am wild!
I will sing! I will sing!
I am loved, he is mine.....Noooow at last I can die!
(violin plays a lot of stuff)
I am wild!
I am sandaled with wind and flame.
I am wild! (ugh we get it already!)
I have heart-fire and singing to give (what?) I can tread on the graaaaass or the staaaaarrrrs
I am wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiild!
Now at last I can (overly dramatic pause) LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!

Yep.

~AM