2013.04.14 19:00 - Dis Joint

The Guardian for this meeting was Calvino Rabini. The comments are by Calvino Rabeni.

Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Cal!
Aphrodite Macbain: welcome to the northern hemisphere
Calvino Rabeni: hi :)
Calvino Rabeni: hope i am not sitting on anyone
Aphrodite Macbain: How are you?
Aphrodite Macbain: nope. Noone here but us chickens
Aphrodite Macbain: Where are you now?
Calvino Rabeni: reminds me of a louis jordan song, if I remember right
Calvino Rabeni: I'm in old bangkok
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Aphrodite Macbain: but new
Aphrodite Macbain: How was your trip?
Calvino Rabeni: it's Thai national holidays .. the weekend was a city wide water fight that went on for three days
Aphrodite Macbain: using what?
Calvino Rabeni: water pistols, guns, buckets and bowls, hoses, cups, anything handy
Aphrodite Macbain: he he
Aphrodite Macbain: did you ?
Calvino Rabeni: the streets were blocked off in sections, completely full of people all day and the next, all flinging water and painting each other
Calvino Rabeni: and buddha made appearances on bridges to be carefully anointed with water from little cups
--BELL--

Aphrodite Macbain: sounds like something that happens in many parts of the world
Aphrodite Macbain: was it hard to get any sleep?
Korel Laloix: Hyea
Aphrodite Macbain: Hiya Korey
Aphrodite Macbain: How are you
Aphrodite Macbain: Cal was here but now he's back in Bancock
Korel Laloix: Tired... really... going to be d soon.
Korel Laloix: That would be lovely.
Aphrodite Macbain: he is rising out of yr head
Aphrodite Macbain: Cal- Korel is in yr former seat
Korel Laloix: Do I need to move?
Aphrodite Macbain: it might be simpler
Aphrodite Macbain: Thanks!
Aphrodite Macbain: why so tiered?
Aphrodite Macbain: tired
Aphrodite Macbain: wb Cal
Korel Laloix: Very school intensive weekend.
Korel Laloix: No time off really.
Aphrodite Macbain: yr OK Cal you can sit there
Aphrodite Macbain: Korel moved
Calvino Rabeni: hi ty korel, now how does it all look?
Aphrodite Macbain: Cal ok except ypu are sitting in the second row
Aphrodite Macbain: bad reception?
Aphrodite Macbain: goodness now Korel has gone
Aphrodite Macbain: must be windy out there
Aphrodite Macbain: what are r plans Cal? Will you be with us tomorrow at 12:30?
--BELL--

Aphrodite Macbain: Are your plans to stay in Bangkok or go to the beaches?
Calvino Rabeni: I'll staye here .. have a few medical errands .. I think I am getting RSI from the computer, it gets painful
Aphrodite Macbain: :/
Aphrodite Macbain: you've been using it a lot?
Aphrodite Macbain: Then home?
Calvino Rabeni: yes
Aphrodite Macbain: Yo'll be ready for a rest and a place of your own!
Calvino Rabeni: I did get pictures of the Songkran festivals, but the trick is you have to protect the phone from getting soaked
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Calvino Rabeni: I will enjoy that for a while you are right
Aphrodite Macbain: an umbrella
Calvino Rabeni: to the young, you are a target for squirt gun ambushes,
Calvino Rabeni: to the old, they may pour water on your shoulder like they do on the buddhas
Aphrodite Macbain: what does it celebrate? what religion?
Calvino Rabeni: all ages playing together for a week .. it's rather nice to have such a lack of compartmentalization
Calvino Rabeni: by age and activity
Calvino Rabeni: the buddhist thai new year
Aphrodite Macbain: ah
Aphrodite Macbain: very joyful
Aphrodite Macbain: A whole week - wow. and mainly in the public streets I guess
Aphrodite Macbain: sounds a bit like that festival in India where they throw coloured powder at everyone
Aphrodite Macbain: Ho San
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi
Santoshima Resident: hi
Aphrodite Macbain: (cat's on the keuboard
Santoshima Resident: ho
Aphrodite Macbain: ha
Calvino Rabeni: white paint .. getsapplied to faces and taxis and many other objects
Aphrodite Macbain: will u be able to make it tomorrow at 12:30?
Santoshima Resident: who?
Calvino Rabeni: yes, but not sure of the connection quality
Aphrodite Macbain: why white I wonder. does it symbolize anything
Calvino Rabeni: purity i'd guess
Aphrodite Macbain: san will u be able to make it tomorrow at 12:30?
Aphrodite Macbain: or death
Santoshima Resident: do't know yet
Aphrodite Macbain: :/
Calvino Rabeni: I like the all-ages quality of it
Calvino Rabeni: and the zanyness
Aphrodite Macbain: kids up at all hours having a ball?
Calvino Rabeni: mixed with religious ritual
Calvino Rabeni: like they don't come in separate categories
Santoshima Resident: what is the white powder? flour?
Aphrodite Macbain: Cal's talking about Bangkok San
Santoshima Resident: ok
Aphrodite Macbain: lol kok
Calvino Rabeni: its a kind of paint I think .. comes in white balls, mixed with water
Aphrodite Macbain: will you bring some home to throw at unruly neighbours?
--BELL--

Santoshima Resident: hi luci
Aphrodite Macbain: waves at Luci
Lucinda Lavender: hello all
Calvino Rabeni: Hello Cinda :)
Lucinda Lavender: I have a link for you all...
Lucinda Lavender: then i will need to go:)
Lucinda Lavender: http://billmoyers.com/segment/sherman-alexie-on-living-outside-borders/
Lucinda Lavender: just something i finished listening to
Lucinda Lavender: and wanted to share
Aphrodite Macbain: whispers- look froward to watching
Lucinda Lavender: for the record
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Santoshima Resident: ty, luci ~
Lucinda Lavender: do you have a story for us?
Aphrodite Macbain: poo Cal - has unstable connections
Aphrodite Macbain: poor
Lucinda Lavender: thought cal might have one...
Lucinda Lavender: ah:)
Aphrodite Macbain: He's been telling us about a seek long festival in Bankok where people throw water and paint at each other
Aphrodite Macbain: week
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm going t fire my fingers
Aphrodite Macbain: are u off San?
Santoshima Resident: pls excuse me ...yes, bye
Aphrodite Macbain: bye
Lucinda Lavender: bye San
Aphrodite Macbain: iT'S BEEN A STRANGE EVENING- PEOPLE COMING AND GOING
Aphrodite Macbain: oops sorry
Lucinda Lavender: some evenings are like that
Aphrodite Macbain: sunday evenings are odd
Aphrodite Macbain: how is the choir going Cinda?
Lucinda Lavender: well a concert will happen next saturday night
Lucinda Lavender: with Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
Aphrodite Macbain: what are u singing?
Lucinda Lavender: and other stuff by the orchestra as well
Aphrodite Macbain: I dont know it
Lucinda Lavender: that stravinsky piece is for choir and orch.
Aphrodite Macbain: Is it hard to sing?
Lucinda Lavender: I have the whole week off too:)
Aphrodite Macbain: nice
Lucinda Lavender: kind of yes and kind of not
Aphrodite Macbain: why not?
Lucinda Lavender: well it is in latin...that makes it easy to begin with
Aphrodite Macbain: easy?
Lucinda Lavender: and easy notes once it gets in your head
Lucinda Lavender: singing in a new language is harder...new to me
Aphrodite Macbain: is Latin easy to sing?
Lucinda Lavender: and the vowels are pretty open
Aphrodite Macbain: nods
Lucinda Lavender: yes i feel we agree as a choir...when singing in latin
Aphrodite Macbain: interesting
Lucinda Lavender: vowels match
Aphrodite Macbain: a common language
Lucinda Lavender: yes. German is harder
Aphrodite Macbain: ecause of the vowels!
Lucinda Lavender: tho we know it pretty well
Lucinda Lavender: but still has complexity
Aphrodite Macbain: Then there is the music
Aphrodite Macbain: and Stravinsky is complex
Lucinda Lavender: right...and the music is not so hard for a soprano:)
Lucinda Lavender: i feel sorry for the lower parts
Aphrodite Macbain: why?
Aphrodite Macbain: why?
Lucinda Lavender: i cannot sing very loud or very well the harmony notes
Lucinda Lavender: my voice is so high...
Aphrodite Macbain: you are a soprano?
Lucinda Lavender: and little...i can barely hear myself sing low notes sometimes
Lucinda Lavender: yes sop
Aphrodite Macbain: you said it was easier for sopranos to sing it
Lucinda Lavender: because we often have the tune
Aphrodite Macbain: ah
Aphrodite Macbain: ok
Lucinda Lavender: there are lots of soprano jokes...
Lucinda Lavender: like blonde jokes
Aphrodite Macbain: if you can discern a tune wuith Stravinsky!
Lucinda Lavender: ...the tenors came in and it threw me off...etc.
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Aphrodite Macbain: darn tenors
Lucinda Lavender: yes...let me see if I can find a link...
Aphrodite Macbain: to what? the piece?
Aphrodite Macbain: I guess Cal isn't going to bother to return
--BELL--

Aphrodite Macbain: He oly has a minute left
Aphrodite Macbain: only
Lucinda Lavender: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgXrCsi30jQ
Aphrodite Macbain: Bye Cinda
Lucinda Lavender: i was looking for the music link
Aphrodite Macbain: could you IM it to me?
Lucinda Lavender: sure
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm going to eat...!
Aphrodite Macbain: Byee