Spiral Cafe

[ltmurnau]

Kiva at the cafe: the place was pretty full and it was a nice evening except for four people at the very back of the cafe who would NOT stop talking at the tops of their voices about their cycling and hiking trips up-island; as Kiva played they would just yell louder. And they kept it up for over two hours. I felt like causing a scene but there's no percentage in that.

I talked to Kiva for a moment about Tyva Kyzy, an all-women throat singing group from Tuva who toured around the Northwest in early 2006. She knew about them and had met them in Finland (for some reason Finland is a magnet for throat-singers, and I don't know why), told me she had written a song about them that was performed there with three other throat-singers and an enthusiastic dog!

In other happenings, I mowed the lawn before the next crop of dandelions went to seed, planted some parsley and radishes where the spinach didn't come up, and stuck in some trellises for the peas. Many of my papaver somniferum, though small, have now bloomed and they are all dark purple, though there has been one pure white one. The red ones bloom later.

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[scuttle.livejournal.com]

I really wanted to see that, but had promised to have dinner with Richard's mum, which includes the 1.5 hour trip to almost-Sooke.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Would have been good if you had been there; could have used your Stiefeln for backup... but then again there's no point in confronting people like that, once it's brought to their attention that they are in fact not the only people in the room (don't they notice that they've been shouting for the last hour to make themselves heard over that mysterious noise?), they get all defensive and pouty.

Apparently Kiva lives in Vancouver now (http://www.kivaweb.com/newscurrent.html), and holds periodic workshops in harmonic overtone singing. She had one on Sunday at the Monterey Centre in town, but I still have too much of a cough to even try that out right now.