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Critical Nonsense: a Live Show!

Scripts and topics and slides and special-guest hunting and suggestion hat signage and crib sheet cards and secret envelopes stuffed with glow sticks and hot take workshops and wax-sealed special thank you gifts and invitations (see cloudful collab below w/ NoraM) and RSVP sheets and ukulele practice and so much more that was the madness of preparing for the Critical Nonsense live show was totally worth it. Feeling gratitude for Sylvain Labs and all the people who pitched in to turn our silly weekly diversion into an event last night. See the video here.

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Mother’s Day tarjeta for Momma.

I’ve pioneered a new technique called watercolour-fingerpainting. It’s truly revolutionary.

Thank Yous & Cups

If you think of time in terms of baking endeavors like I do, I was a whole year younger the last time I created something delicious with my oven.

And surprisingly, I still haven’t. Baked anything, I mean. But I haven’t put creativity on hold by any means. 

Thank you notes are a lost…art? practice? People rarely send them, and they are, in my opinion, hugely underrated.

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Much like regular cards, I rarely buy stationary and never buy stationary with writing inside. The value of a card is not made up of the cost of the paper, stamp and envelope.

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It’s the earnest acknowledgement that someone actually cares enough about you to do something so inane and elaborate.

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It’s like a gift back. Returning the favor [of sorts] in the form of your time.

So to

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it’s the least I can do.

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Cups, by Anna Kendrick was first introduced to me when I watched Pitch Perfect on my laptop one night at school instead of sleeping. It’s a pretty cool audition (it’s her audition song) but maybe that’s because Anna Kendrick is just sort of a bauss and a half.

So I had to teach it to myself (since I like teaching myself songs on the piano…)

…but the biggest challenge at first seemed to be figuring out how to do the rhythm on the cup and sing simultaneously. Because I have that issue often when singing and playing piano. Where I just mess myself up and can’t seem to get notes out of either my fingers or my throat. Like musical dyslexia.

Which is (in the least obnoxious way possible) really abnormal and frustrating for me.

So I sat down and figured it out.

Aaaaand then, in usual me-fashion, I harmonized to it.

I’ll post those after this so you can listen if you want.