maleficent_liz

maleficent_liz @ 2009-10-05T23:05:00

2009-10-06T03:14:59Z

It has been months since I've posted anything other than self-promotion, it seems. I haven't been up to much of anything - at least not on the surface...
My *one* class this semester hasn't been too desperately taxing. I start rehearsals with my chamber partner tomorrow, and I'll be accompanying a few ladies starting tomorrow as well...and two extracurricular choirs, one of which is paid!
The opera is over, and it went well. I got sick a few weeks back, and have been under-par vocally ever since. I haven't had this kind of extended crap before, and it is SO. FRUSTRATING. to not have my voice be normal....grrr. But there was cool costumes and lovely lovely colleagues and conductor and director, so I loved the show. Now, it's get-back-to-good, audition like a fool, and figure out my next year. I want to research. I want to be Dr. Liz....so, more school. But where? Here? Probably...I'll never leave this place. Meh.
This life is such a change from last year, when I was busy from 7am-11pm, and THEN got to come home and do homework. Dropping the ed major makes my life almost boring...but I do have time to think about music more often, and that's refreshing. I have about 5 recital plans...all of which make me soo happy. Woo, music.
I have too much free time...must find things to do!

Sorry, shameless self-promotion ahoy

2009-09-24T02:46:13Z

I'M IN AN OPERA!!!!!

L'italiana in Algeri - a dramma giocoso by Rossini
8pm, Musical Arts Center, IU Bloomington

General admission tickets $20 for non-students, $12 w/student ID

I have a wicked amount of coinage on my "Algerian" costume...I love it!
Come see the talented cast!!

maleficent_liz @ 2009-08-11T16:42:00

2009-08-11T20:46:02Z

Hi, folks! In case you're not a friend on das FaceBuch, here's an invite to my recital!

LIZ'S RECITAL 5PM WEDNESDAY
FORD HALL, IU School of Music

Pieces by Handel, Chausson, Dvorak, Strauss, Mozart

Please come!!

maleficent_liz @ 2009-06-14T13:16:00

2009-06-14T17:34:16Z

So, I managed to save some money and get a fabulously trashy dress anyway. Let's see if I can find the Deb...confection...I found for $30 yesterday.

Here it is! Oh, dear lord...it's the "orange"...but it's more of a ketchup.

They had it in plus and non-plus at the store...I am so proud of Deb for supporting younger fashion for girls who aren't twiggish. And the dress is stretchy, so it feels amazing. And it doesn't give me armpit cleavage. Hoo raah.

Except that the cheapo fabric pulls and runs a little, it's ideal for the scene I needed. The length helps so one of my fellow actors doesn't have to hump my leg without the safety curtain of fabric : P

Speaking of...you should come to see my opera workshop.

IT'S FREE!

IU Summer Opera Workshop I 2009
4-5:15pm, Sunday June 21
Musical Arts Center 301
(enter through the rear doors. Yeah, that's what I said)

I'm in four scenes, due to the illness of another girl. Scenes from Falstaff, Magic Flute, She Loves Me, and Madame Butterfly featuring friends and me, and scenes from Dido and Aeneas, La Forza del Destino, Don Pasquale, Martha, and La Matrimonio Segreto featuring friends without me! It'll be a BLAST, come see it.

maleficent_liz @ 2009-06-13T01:23:00

2009-06-13T05:24:15Z

So, I need to find a fabulously hot red dress for a scene I'm doing next...Sunday. Anyone have votes/other suggestions?

Dear lord, I love this company...
http://daddyos.com/retro/jan28.html
http://daddyos.com/retro/stps2.html

cheapo option
http://www.chicstar.com/storefront/listproducts.aspx?idProduct=4538&source=froogle_chic&keyword=33444

I own this one in turquoise? [i think this is my favorite option]
http://www.pinupgirlclothing.com/wiggledress.html

There are also these.
http://www.pinupgirlclothing.com/red-vintage-wiggle-dress.html
http://www.pinupgirlclothing.com/holiday-dress-vintage-satin.html

Ooh! Suppose I should mention

2009-04-29T02:40:28Z

So, this SUNDAY at 8pm in the Whittenberger Auditorium at the Indiana Memorial Union (bloomington), I will be performing a chamber work with six friends:

Pierrot Lunaire
8pm, Sunday May 3
Whittenberger Auditorium
IMU

We've been working on this since September, and the players are all kickass. I'm a little kickass, too. . .Come see us!

maleficent_liz @ 2009-04-13T00:28:00

2009-04-13T04:28:43Z

Short thoughts!

I like being overbooked.
I get to learn the guitar part to "Every Breath You Take" now. . .good thing there's a website explaining how to de-tune the strings.
Two comp recitals learned, two more to go.
Two more movements of Pierrot down, two to go (We now have #13, Enthauptung, and #14, Die Kreuze, under our belts...rusty, but there)
I may be on WFIU tomorrow, helping Jonn Sokol promote his piece as part of "Hammer and Nail" next weekend.
I have one more of my projects done, one all but written, one more on its way.
I am trying to get back into a good jogging habit. . .my average is 5 miles jogging/meandering at a stretch.
This, however, might be stymied by some sort of mysterious pain cropping up in my left leg/ankle area. It doesn't feel like muscle or sprain-type pain. Maybe it's a stress fracture (lol). That'd be great.

Oh, and my brother is amazing. He played an INCREDIBLE bit of recital yesterday for a grad sax student. . . GO, BOY!

Now, 'tis time to sleep before a good long day tomorrow. Yaa-aaa-aay!

OMG I'm dumb

2009-03-07T14:46:31Z

This performance will be in:

AUER HALL (3rd and jordan, north end of the Bess Meshulam Simon building, 2nd floor) at 8pm TONIGHT!

Dear folks,

I'm singing in a really cool performance tomorrow night with the IU New Music Ensemble. The run-down:

Steven Stucky, Guest Composer
Michael Lowenstern, Guest Bass Clarinetist

Iannis Xenakis ~ Echange (featuring the guest start)
Adam Haws ~ azman-khez (featuring the lovely Arwen Myers on soprano)
Steven Stucky ~ To Whom I said Farewell (featuring the me on "mezzo-soprano")
Jerome Kitzke ~ Mad Coyote Madly Sings (featuring cool folks)

There's a reception? Food 'n stuff?

If you show up, I'll cry with delight. After my piece. Which is about death. Gothy beautiful death.

COME SEE

2009-03-07T01:12:18Z

maleficent_liz @ 2009-01-17T15:31:00

2009-01-17T20:44:14Z

I finally finished skirt-fixing for Ms Stiles - hooray! I managed to work it into my "Listen to the Met broadcast" afternoon plan, now that I don't have to work on Saturday. Ballin'. I also made soup, straightened out more things, and shopped at Aldi. I rule! Let's see. . what have we been up to?

First week of school! I like my classes a lot, I like the day-layout, everything's good so far. I didn't like having to cram in listening/reading libretto/reading 60 pages of article/analyzing key areas of THE ENTIRETY OF ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO into a 1-day project among rehearsals and other, but whatever. It got done, and I am pretty sure I got my participation points from Dr. Melamed for the day. I rule.

Work schedule change! I didn't understand it would be -all the time- instead of -just last week-, but switching from Saturday to Sunday is actually pretty sweet. I get both weekend days to sleep in a bit, and I still get some work. AND I can go to the farmer's market now. Huzzah!

I've re-started working out. I want to be a buff army captain for Hypermnestra. . .lol.

Oh! And Gary found a cool thing for Metropolitan Opera things - for a subscription, one can see ~150 shows streamed to the computer (from the 30s through HD) - f'in sweet! So, I decided to canvass some friends regarding coming to the house to see it on our TV-turned-monitor "big" screen (complete with Gary's studio monitor speakers. ."they're for my schoolwork!" he says...) Response has been overwhelming! I'm thinking Sunday evenings or something. . .once we buy the subscription-thingie. If you want to come, let me know. Our house is small, but I can figure something out : )

Otherwise, singing's going well - except for a short-lived cold I currently am killing off.
And, I'm glad for my current land-people. They rule. Saga o' yesterday:
-Wake up, go to shower, the water doesn't turn on. Shit! Pipes frozen!
-Go to school with toiletries/clothes in tow, shower in basement of MAC (there are showers there!)
-Have no meeting with teacher who forgot we were going to meet, so I had rushed for naught : (
-Do my other school stuff, rush home to see if there's any improvement in water (nope), landlord has opened crawlspace and put in the space heater
-Go back to class, play with computery things and children's games, fret
-Come home, move around space heater, find out what the underside of my house looks like (two feet of airspace, then dirt...no wonder the floor's been so cold!)
-Call landlord and plumber, set up 10pm appt (it's 5pm now)
-Hear what sounds like the shower turned back on, find out it's actually a BURST PIPE! Water breaks copper...awesome.
-Call the landlord more frantically, she sends over her "guy" and her husband
-They turn off the water at the street level (illegal tools FTW), the pond under the house drains, they fix the pipe with a new bit o' copper pipe and some compression fittings
-They turn on the water, and everything begins to work, except the bathroom faucet. Some banging on the pipes, and the ice-loosened-goo comes forth and all is well again.
-LIZ AND GARY LOVE THE PEOPLE FROM WHOM WE RENT. Especially the husband in the weed-pattern-knit-hat.

Now all is better.

Bwahahaha!

2008-12-07T01:37:57Z

I had a car accident (car's busted, but I'm not) - this is how I feel.

2008-11-13T14:11:14Z

marriedtothesea.com

maleficent_liz @ 2008-11-04T00:09:00

2008-11-04T05:09:04Z

Delilah's pet shop burned down. Several animals, and the entire aquarium department, perished.

This sounds silly, but I will really miss getting to carry Bagel around when I'm supposed to be buying hay...poor kitty.

maleficent_liz @ 2008-11-02T23:33:00

2008-11-03T04:33:49Z

Look look look!

That's our Halloween costumes!

maleficent_liz @ 2008-10-27T20:08:00

2008-10-28T00:13:17Z

So, the last few days have been fun.
Saturday - work, spent time with Brian D, Charis, Moises, Leila(sp?), and of course, my lovely Gary.
Sunday - went to the winery with Brian, ate at Dats, baked AMAZINGcookies. Here's how they went down:

1.5 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
.6 cups cane sugar (not too refined)
.6 cups wildflower honey
.9 cups mostly-melted butter
2 eggs
1 tbsp vanilla
1 tsp garam masala
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 cup pecan pieces
.5 cups walnut pieces

Make as for chocolate chip cookies, chill dough in fridge. Bake tablespoon-chunks on a lightly greased pan for 10 min in a 375* oven.
I now live for these cookies.

Oh, and I finally found the blender/food chipper thing I wanted. . .on discount!
And then Gary had sound recordings to make. This meant Liz handled oatmeal and raw meat (together, even!), made slurpy noises, and took a stick-blender to a steak. OMGZ that was icky. I think the kitchen will someday recover.

Today was and will continue to be busy. Yay, class!

mreah.

maleficent_liz @ 2008-10-16T23:32:00

2008-10-17T03:35:49Z

OMfnfsm. I apologize for bunny-fu.

OUR BUNNIES ROCK. Bunny, the shy-conservative/reserved one, just ran 3 circles in a tear around the living room. And Gus looked on in disbelief. They're happy today! I think it's 'cause we got them different greens and the botanical hay. . .and I rearranged the room so that they can run around in our bedroom without fear of getting stuck behind the "armoire"! We're trying to let them run around more freely.

CUUUUUUUUTE! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE.

Again, I apologize.

Libby's my beeeeeest friend!

2008-09-22T03:48:58Z

carpe_jugulum made me look preeeeetty.

Look!

maleficent_liz @ 2008-09-19T17:17:00

2008-09-19T21:18:48Z

This reminded me of friends : )

Oh, my flying spaghetti monster.

2008-09-03T03:28:24Z

WANT!

Pets on acid!

Gary needs new checks - so we were searching for the goofiest-assed possible patterns.
Too bad L.F. doesn't have 'em. . .

maleficent_liz @ 2008-08-26T17:10:00

2008-08-26T21:11:40Z

Alright! My schedule has been revamped this semester, and it's lookin' awesome.

E518 - Foundations of Music Ed (will kill me with readings)
E502 - Classroom teaching or something like that
F415 - Dalcroze, Orff, Kodaly
F540 - Posture class!
E290 - Yoga II!
Voice lessons
Choir
AI - M323 Teaching music in elementary schools
AI - Undergrad wind conducting (heck yeah!)

So excited!

maleficent_liz @ 2008-08-20T23:17:00

2008-08-21T03:21:06Z

Holy crap, our bunnies are happy! They do these things: Not -the- best representation of awesome bunny behavior, but it's a Chemical Brothers track. . so it wins.

maleficent_liz @ 2008-08-02T12:55:00

2008-08-02T17:03:36Z

How did this happen?

You all know I worked for a social service agency. . .and more often than not I got to assist the most extraordinary families. Even the one guy whose dad was raising him alone - basically in poverty - it was obvious his dad did everything in his power to make sure his boy was safe, cared for, and healthy.
I don't have a child with a disability - so I don't know exactly how it feels to have that sort of responsibility. But I simply cannot even fathom WILLING my child to die. The inhumanity of the conditions that led to her death - the conditions she couldn't escape - allowed by those who should have been supporting her (social workers, aides, AND HER PARENTS AND SIBLINGS).
I may go weep.

maleficent_liz @ 2008-07-09T15:08:00

2008-07-09T19:12:41Z

Okay, so, we didn't pick up the bunny today.

'Cause we changed our minds....

We'll have to wait for Bettie Page to be spayed before bringing her home with Gus.

: ) : ) =:3 !!!zob

2008-07-05T20:10:33Z

We're officially adopting Gustav Holstein!!

Enclosure purchasing shall happen tonight. . .bumming a nice used one off the chick at Petco who offered : )

maleficent_liz @ 2008-07-03T20:19:00

2008-07-04T00:33:29Z

Perhaps the tone of my last message was less than clear.
Though I do appreciate input, it would have been so-freakin'-nice to receive any modicum of support in our idea. Gary and I had already done our research (regarding food/care/housing/personality traits/problem behaviors) and chose "rabbit" over other species for our rescue-pet. Ferrets and hedgehogs are lovely I'm sure, but aren't legal in the county, I've been told. Rats (as several friends have testified) are dandy pets as well...but we chose bunny.

Anyway.

We will be adopting the bunny in the very near future! This black-and-white spotted Rex wonder, should our application to adopt be accepted, will be dubbed Gustav Holstein....Gus. Other pet-savvy friends (a vet tech and a cat-owning college student) have been very encouraging, and one got to meet him with me today : ) Now that I know the one behavior, I managed to get out of the place without Gus humping my arm. Apparently, Gus likes me. I'm thrilled to be giving a shelter pet a loving and safe home.
That, and I think he will be a good reminder that time spent at home is good for me...instead of living in the music library. Gary and I are gleefully taking on this substantial responsibility.

Thank you.