A Weekend of Hobbits
Spent Friday and Saturday Morning working at the “day job” – keeping busy.
Saturday afternoon was occupied with meeting up with Anna, running home, cooking, then heading over to Radio City Music Hall for the Lord of the Rings orchestra/choir performance. Hobbits!
Epic moments were punctuated by an entire choir standing in unison, and laughs at watching the children’s choir try not to look bored. The show was great, with my only major critique being their sound balancing. See, they showed the movie WITH SFX and dialogue, with the track stripped out and performed instead by the live orchestra. This was a surprise to me already, but their pre-recorded audio was just a hair too loud for the first half of the movie. Thankfully they adjusted for this after the intermission, just in time to hit some of the really epic scenes.
The solo vocalists raised eyebrows, they were excellent. Afterwards, Howard Shore was signing autographs but only for box sets of 60 or 100 dollars each. Seeing the hour long line, we decided to take some photos and hit the road. Went to Roxy’s, where I had a sammich as large as my head.
Sunday was a mostly lazy day filled with Futurama. Went back to Chinatown, saw her off, and rushing home to now work on “real life” work again.
Would gladly repeat weekend, wish it wasn’t abbreviated, and its back to work on Monday. 
