09-21-2020, 10:19 AM
This past Saturday, Sept. 19, was our 21st wedding anniversary. To celebrate, we went to someone else's belated birthday party, which had been repeatedly postponed due to bad air. There were masks and distancing, as much as possible at an event involving ingesting and imbibing. We assembled and hung up Chinese lanterns about the yard, and after dinner we played croquet into the night, lit only by the lanterns. My coordination was way off during practice beforehand, but then it all came together when we played, and I won -- though LCF told me afterwards I was supposed to let the birthday lady win. Oh well.
I'm posting this under music for a reason. During the socializing, the subject of mood came up. You know, how people were dealing with this whole coronavirus/election/SCOTUS mess. One lady talked about a singer named Dimash that she had begun following, and how every morning she watched and listened to one of his performances, and just how uplifting it was.
Maybe you all know about him, as he's been around a few years, and I always seem late to the party these days. If you don't know of him, he's apparently very big in China, even though he isn't Chinese; and now I'm thinking of something DM said, on the Ashes of Time thread, about how popular Leslie Cheung was, even though it was common knowledge that he was bi. It seems that pretty boys can do very well in China.
LCF mentioned that the Chinese seem to be fascinated by men with high-pitched voices. I'm guessing it somehow stems from Peking Opera, where historically only men were allowed tp participate, and they used high-pitched voices when playing women.
Anyway, if you haven't heard of him, and are interested, here's a couple of samples:
This next one was a revelation to me, regarding what that alien singer in The Fifth Element was actually doing.
I'm posting this under music for a reason. During the socializing, the subject of mood came up. You know, how people were dealing with this whole coronavirus/election/SCOTUS mess. One lady talked about a singer named Dimash that she had begun following, and how every morning she watched and listened to one of his performances, and just how uplifting it was.
Maybe you all know about him, as he's been around a few years, and I always seem late to the party these days. If you don't know of him, he's apparently very big in China, even though he isn't Chinese; and now I'm thinking of something DM said, on the Ashes of Time thread, about how popular Leslie Cheung was, even though it was common knowledge that he was bi. It seems that pretty boys can do very well in China.
LCF mentioned that the Chinese seem to be fascinated by men with high-pitched voices. I'm guessing it somehow stems from Peking Opera, where historically only men were allowed tp participate, and they used high-pitched voices when playing women.
Anyway, if you haven't heard of him, and are interested, here's a couple of samples:
This next one was a revelation to me, regarding what that alien singer in The Fifth Element was actually doing.
I'm nobody's pony.
