this is silly and i know it. however, i don't ever remember claiming to be an incredibly rational person.

so, i highly dislike overtures. i enjoy musicals immensely and (as shynie can attest) they help me focus and get work done, so i tend to listen to soundtracks a lot.

so this thought struck me while we sat through the ass-long overture to Orpheus in the Underworld at school. i swear it was like 10 minutes long. woah. i get the idea of overtures and whatever, introducing the show to the audience and whatever, but seriously. thats way too long for me.

maybe it goes to the point that i'm not a huge fan of instrumental only recordings (though this is a general statement, i'm known to listen to some vivaldi on occasion), but i'm just not a fan of overtures. they bore me. perhaps i'm just SO excited to get to the show, that i don't want to sit through extra time of staring at an actorless stage or main drape.

now, i think its genius when the overture starts before the lights go down. now thats a great way to bring people in. music while they are waiting anyway, and for anyone who gets there late, well sucks for them, because thats what happens when you aren't there in time for theater. if you aren't 15 minutes early, you are 10 minutes late.

short, sweet and to the point.

and, as charlie predicted at the beginning of the summer... i AM becoming a sondheim fan.

muahaha!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070712/ap_on_re_us/toddler_booted

yet ANOTHER kid and family kicked off a plane!

for those of you who don't want to read the article, a 19-month-old and his mom got kicked off a plane because he kept saying "bye bye plane." they were flying from atlanta to oklahoma, with a stop in houston, which is where this all happened. apparently they never made it to texas. apparently the flight attendant found 'bye bye plane' objectionable, which honestly i don't blame her for. i guess she implied that drugging the kid would be a good idea (baby benadryl).

now, those of you who know me well enough, will know that i hate screaming children and i hate the ones on planes even more. but, i don't agree with drugging the kid. woah. thats a step to far for me i think. i'm still with the attendant though. 'bye bye plane' in a post 9-11 world should not fly (HA! PUN!). i get that he's a little kid. but whatever. i think that the well being (ie COMFORT) of a whole planeful of people should be put ahead individuals. i'm sure in some cases i think the opposite (i can think of a handful), but seriously, i'm so not about annoying little kids on airplanes.

whats best is that the mom got all weepy about getting kicked off because she didn't 'know what to do.' um, schedule another flight and shut your kid up? apparently she didn't have anything else with her, no extra diapers, juice or milk. what the hell, lady? how ill prepared can you be? anything involving air travel, you need to plan ahead for half-day delays. this is general knowledge. over-prepare when flying. you suck.

yes, i know that i'm judging this lady on what i read from a yahoo article, and without having parenting experience. but, it seems like this is something she's done before (it wasn't mentioned), why wouldn't you have extras? especially diapers? that just seems crazy to me. i'm sure the flight from houston to oklahoma isn't very long, but long enough to warrant, i don't know, three extra diapers.

HOW MANY TIMES MUST I SAY: OVER-PREPARE FOR AIR TRAVEL.