A Pet Peeve and Some Great Music

Ladies, please stop wearing those yoga pants like they are an outfit. you know the ones I mean. Stretchy around the waist, maybe the waistband folds down, looking like a cummerbund, fitted through the thigh and then billowing out, trying to look vaguely like a skirt. These pants are an anathema to me. If you have gone to yoga and then have to run errands, then I guess it's (marginally) okay. but they are NOT to be worn while you're going to work or out on the town. no matter how good you think they look or how comfortable you think they are-they look awful. I've seen skinny girls wear them and I've seen overweight girls wear them and they look equally bad on everyone-the madness has to stop. That being said, why would you wear a perfectly nice Indian print skirt in brown and white, a nice brown jacket that also looked nice-with a tomato red t-shirt? Honestly, she could have worn almost anything else with it and might have been okay, but the red was far too orange and it just looked bad. It was disheartening, considering the rest of the outfit. And you-girl with the orange sweater and black pants-I know it's chilly out but it is NOT October. Please save that color combination for later in the year.
And here's a conversation I had with my friend M Last night...those of you who know us (and especially me) will find this funny. keep in mind I've known him for close to 20 years...
After the initial part of the discussion of "how are you" and "how was your day"..

M: I'm going to sit in my chair and read my book.
Me: Good for you
M: I really enjoy doing that-how come you never told me how great it was to just sit down and read a good book?
Me at this point speechless...finally..."I'm sorry, I thought the way I lived my life was an example of the joy of reading a good book
M: You KNOW I don't learn by example
Me Yeah, I did know that.
This reminded me of our conversation in which he told me he only wanted history books that had a pop-culture feel and i told him there were so many things wrong with that statement that I didn't know where to start.

I'm reading Spin State right now-it's quite good. I haven't decided what to read next. I may tackle Light (again) or I may read Dick Francis or Neil Gaiman. I also bought Les Miserables-I don't know if I'm up for that quite yet.

But you have to see this guy on YouTube-he's cellphone salesman in Wales. He looks like a lump, with bad teeth, not a great haircut and a shapeless suit and he says it's his dream to sing opera. You can see the looks of dismay and skepticism on the judges faces...and then he starts to sing. He may be a ringer, because you don't just start singing bel canto-it's something that truly has to be taught. But there are so may cool things about this: his shy and downtrodden demeanor, the reaction of the judges when they find out he's going to sing opera and then as he actually sings, the reaction of the crowd as he hits every note and has great control over his breathing (this is the part that has to be taught) and the end with the judges decision.

Here's the link and it's well worth watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oxTy7KIAaA&eurl=