This post starts with a story and like all good quest stories, I didn’t realize I was in a quest until I was in the midst of it.\u00a0 I should clarify that this doesn’t make this a good story, just that in quests it is often the case that the hero doesn’t realize s\/he’s in a quest until later on.\u00a0 But then sometimes they do…and I could argue myself in circles so on with the questing!<\/p>\n
How did this whole questing thing start?\u00a0 Well, allow me to inform you…<\/p>\n
You see, by the time March rolled around I realized that I had bought tickets for a variety of live events of various (and I mean various!) natures, one per month from January through May.\u00a0 So, says I to myself, why not continue this trend?\u00a0 Why not make 2012 my year of live events?\u00a0 I could steep myself in a variety of different cultural experiences. And have a lot of fun doing it.\u00a0 Last year was the year of staying in (not by choice) so this year is the year of getting out!\u00a0 Throughout and about.*<\/p>\n
I’ve got a plan now that will take me through to August.\u00a0 September through December have no particular plans yet, but it’s still early for that so I’m not worried.\u00a0 And one of those months I’ll hit a jazz club, so really it’s just three months of booking left to do.<\/p>\n
So what started off this year, you ask?\u00a0 What wonderful experience gave balance to the pain of January?\u00a0 Well, something a little bit left of the standard and expected live events.<\/p>\n
I, and about a dozen of my wacky friends, made our way down to the H. R. MacMillan Space Centre<\/a> (i.e. planetarium) to watch the Pink Floyd Laser shows from Roundhouse Productions<\/a>.\u00a0 After 33 years, the planetarium did not renew their contract.\u00a0 January was their final month of performances.\u00a0 A tragic loss from my point of view because there was something fabulous and magical about the experiences they created.<\/p>\n Now you may be thinking that a laser show does not count as live entertainment.\u00a0 Oh contraire, mes amis (pardon my poor spelling of french, it was never my best subject), there has always been a live component to the laser show, some crazy (appearing? lol) dude at a console playing with our minds.\u00a0 Because, as he put it, “there is absolutely zero smoking within the planetarium…you should have done that while you were still in the parking lot”.\u00a0 Yes, smoking, cookies, and other mind-altering foods made an appearance that night and enhanced the experience.<\/p>\n We watched The Wall followed by Dark Side of the Moon. \u00a0I understand that this show has sort of gone on the road.\u00a0 If you get the chance, go see!\u00a0 It really was just a great time.\u00a0 Also fun hanging out with friends.\u00a0 There was a lot of chatting and catching up and just spending time with good people.<\/p>\n And pretty lights and lots of swirling stars and leaning back in seriously reclined seats staring at the sky and multi-coloured laser lights doing funky dances.<\/p>\n There is something deep core satisfying about a great art experience, almost as if some stressed part of me was soothed by the event.\u00a0 I wish I could go again but there I shall not dwell for that road leads to sadness.\u00a0 Instead, I will start planning my tale to you of February which went a completely and utterly different way.<\/p>\n Until next time I shall simply leave you with these short questions: \u00a0What will our intrepid villaness get up to in February? \u00a0Will the different take her to a place that is scary to go? \u00a0Will the dog get the bone?<\/p>\n To passion!<\/p>\n ~the abysmal witch<\/p>\n *Obscure Wiccan reference, special batty points to anyone who gets it.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This post starts with a story and like all good quest stories, I didn’t realize I was in a quest until I was in the midst of it.\u00a0 I should clarify that this doesn’t make this a good story, just that in quests it is often the case that the hero doesn’t realize s\/he’s in … Continue reading Quest 2012: January<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[141,143,200,213,214],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}