January 31, 2005

  • Looking forward to things is really a positive perspective to take.  I am looking forward to singing with the California Department of Education Gospel Choir this February to celebrate Black History Month.  The whole department is throwing a few events each Thursday, addressing an overall theme of contributions.  On February 3, 2005, a display will cover the contributions of Blacks in society, on the 10th, the contributions of Blacks in gospel music, on the 17th, the contributions of Blacks in daily life, and then the 24th will be Soul Food Tasting Day.


    I am also looking forward to performing in "Pacific Overtures," a musical by Stephen Sondheim.and John Weidman.  This is a real stretch for me, especially since Dennis Yep, our director, put me in a role that has more singing than I expected.  I'll do my best, as usual.  I just hope that my best is up to par.


    If, theoretically, you had fifty days to live, what would you do with the rest of your days?  Would you say goodbye to folks?  Whom would you say goodbye too?  Would you go adventuring?  Would you spend all your money recklessly?  Would you live recklessly?  I distinctly remember in the move "Armageddon," Rockhound, played by Steve Buschemi, went and got a humongous loan from a loan shark and went on a spendfest at a strip club with some of his cohorts.  Is that your style?  I don't really think that is for me, but at the end of the movie, there are hints of Rockhound and one of the strippers getting together and living, as the cliche goes, "happily ever after."