Listening to: Meat Loaf- Greatest Hits
Reading: The Reef Nora Roberts
Weather: 58, sunny
Trivia: Why are the portraits on coins always in profile while those on paper money are full face?
Chalk it up to the limitations of the medium. The relief on modern mass circulation coins is a low sixteen-thousandths of an inch. With this small amount of space for detail, designers tend to go for profiles which can give a better likeness with less detail (profiles can be recognizable in only silhouette form). However, portraitists prefer using full face images whenever possible, so that the subject is looking out at the viewer. Consequently, on printed matter such as bills, the full face image is used. Full face portraits are sometimes used on commemorative coins, which are more carefully struck with higher reliefs.
Cool word:gimcrackery (JIM-crack-ur-ee), noun - An object (or objects) that has no real value except for the purpose of show. "Everyone in the office agreed that the posters around the office pronouncing 'quality' were just so much gimcrackery."
Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
Got back from Meat Loaf just after midnight.
My assessment of the concert is that it was too talky and too loud. I was seventh row center, and my ears were ringing when I left. I'm afraid this indicates that my age is showing.
At one point I had my fingers covering my ears in an attempt to block out the sound overload and listen to the song, and I had this flashback to my mother at the Monkees concert in 1967. She sat with her ears covered the entire time. Does this mean that I’ve turned into my mother???? She was exactly the age I am now when she took me to that concert.
What a scary thought!!
As I said before, I've loved Meat Loaf's songs since Bat Out of Hell, and was really looking forward to this. When he played and sang it was great, but he tried to make it an audience interactive kind of show, and I found that I was getting quite bored. He wanted people to tell stories of what the songs meant to them, and what part they played in their lives.
I really wasn't interested in how some stud from Southie got his girl pregnant while listening to "Paradise By the Dashboard light".
But when he sang the old favorites…it was just great. He did manage to sing most of the songs that I wanted to hear, with the exception of "A Kiss is a Terrible Thing to Waste". The audience knew every lyric of every song, and were especially happy with "Bat Out of Hell", "Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth", and "Paradise By the Dashboard Light".
My personal favorite has always been "Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad" (hence today’s title). The audience knew every word, and at one point Meat Loaf stopped singing and just had the audience do the lines. It was very cool. It made me quite happy.
The best surprise of the night was, believe it or not, the opening number. He’s recorded "No Matter What", my obsession song! That’s the one I’ve been wearing out since march and is from "Whistle Down the Wind" the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical. I LOVE that song, and Meat Loaf’s version is more than just swell. So, of course I had to stop to buy the CD on the way home. (Tower Records is open till midnight).
That song makes me so happy.
So now I am too wound up to sleep, but dreading the thoughts of getting up to go to work in the morning. I need to try to get some shut eye.
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