[NON BLOG] Recent Events
Oct. 23rd, 2004 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldYesterday afternoon, I went again to the North York IKEA where I bought the ROBIN work station. I opted for home delivery, since hauling it home on the subway would be impossible from multiple perspectives.
From North York, I took the subway to meet up with A. and S. from Queen's for the fado concert held at the Portuguese Arts show Friday night, part of the free Friday nights program at Royal Ontario Museum. The ROM describes fado as essentially a vernacular popular music:
I enjoyed the concert greatly, with Sonia Tavares' strong sweet singing voice coming particularly to mind. I found it amusing that a popular music form essentially demotic, something favoured by the lower classes of urban Portugal, had been re-presented to a relatively old and relatively prosperous audience in Canada at one of Toronto's most prestigious cultural fora.
Afterwards, we three met up with N. at the St. George station and went to A.'s place with watch Napoleon Dynamite. It's a remarkable film, not least for the way that it manages to be painfully awkward for most of its length while remaining entertaining.
Today, my ROBIN desk was delivered at a bit past 11 o'clock. It's been said by multiple people that the acquisition of one's first piece of IKEA furniture represents a sort of crucial stage, one's emergence as an adult, as a responsible professional. This might explain why so far I've found the whole experience confusing and frustrating, and surprisingly stressful. Tonight is going to be fun.
From North York, I took the subway to meet up with A. and S. from Queen's for the fado concert held at the Portuguese Arts show Friday night, part of the free Friday nights program at Royal Ontario Museum. The ROM describes fado as essentially a vernacular popular music:
Fado music is the heart of the Portuguese soul and is the oldest urban folk music known worldwide. Fado is normally sung by men or women and accompanied by Portuguese and classical guitar. By the early twentieth century fado had become a musical staple in the streets of Lisbon. The themes are constant: destiny, betrayal in love, death and despair. It is said that a fado performance is not successful unless the audience is moved to tears due to its beautiful sound and passionate nature.
I enjoyed the concert greatly, with Sonia Tavares' strong sweet singing voice coming particularly to mind. I found it amusing that a popular music form essentially demotic, something favoured by the lower classes of urban Portugal, had been re-presented to a relatively old and relatively prosperous audience in Canada at one of Toronto's most prestigious cultural fora.
Afterwards, we three met up with N. at the St. George station and went to A.'s place with watch Napoleon Dynamite. It's a remarkable film, not least for the way that it manages to be painfully awkward for most of its length while remaining entertaining.
Today, my ROBIN desk was delivered at a bit past 11 o'clock. It's been said by multiple people that the acquisition of one's first piece of IKEA furniture represents a sort of crucial stage, one's emergence as an adult, as a responsible professional. This might explain why so far I've found the whole experience confusing and frustrating, and surprisingly stressful. Tonight is going to be fun.
