Pt 1 Wednesday, October 22.

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I know, I've been M.I.A for about a week now, but with good reason.

Let me preface this post by telling people that I have been excited about seeing Stevie Wonder in concert since we heard he was touring. My friend John-Paul bought our tickets on his credit card and offered to hold onto them until the concert in October.

I checked the date of the show so Barry could swap shifts because he works until 11pm. I confirmed with Mama Synesthesia as well - Thursday, October 23, 8pm.

Imagine my surprise, then, when on WEDNESDAY night, October 22, at 8pm, I got a call from John-Paul asking where we were... He said that he was waiting out the front of the Stevie Wonder concert, with our tickets!

All right. My bad. When I confirmed the date, the website was advertising the second show - and we had tickets to the first. :(

But I digress. When I got the call from JP, I was in my PJs settled for a night of TV-watching. Barry was at work. Mama Synesthesia was at home cooking fish for her brother.

I. Am. A. Virgo. I cannot handle surprises, things that are unplanned, randomness of any kind.

Without going into too much more detail, here's a brief rundown of events between 8:00 and 8:40pm:

* I threw on a pair of jeans and a T-shirt - no shower, no make-up, and I collected some of Barry's clothes.
* My mum threw down her cooking utensils and picked me up from home.
* We drove to Barry's work. I ran in and made up a terrible excuse to get him out of his shift. (I apologise to his colleagues but it was a worthy cause!)
* We drove to ACER Arena, found a very lucky parking spot and arrived at the front desk to find our 3 tickets waiting at the door.

From then on, it was magical. We had the BEST time of our lives. Stevie Wonder is an amazing musician and a true musical genius.

The concert was worth all the stress and anxiety we went through to get there, plus more... Which is probably why my mum and I decided to go the next night as well... :)

Please enjoy some of the video footage I took, and remember to press pause on the playlist at the bottom of my page.

'Part-Time Lover'



'Lately'

Dance Like No One's Watching

Deaf Music - A DAGger's Dream

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This is the new song from an Australian singer called Sia, who was the vocalist for Zero7 (if anyone remembers them). I'd never heard her solo work until this afternoon when I was checking my favourite gossip blog, Oh No They Didn't, where the video had been posted.

Not only is it a beautiful song, but the clip is amazing. It incorporates Auslan, shadow puppets and moving colour - a DAGger's dream.

I hope you enjoy it - whether you're listening or watching, or both.

xx



Speaking of shadow puppets, check out the video submitted by Smoke & Mirrors for the launch of DAG on 08.08.08.

Danced Like a True DAG

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We had a really fun day today at 888HQ. It was my first official DAG Day and I finally got to link with some of the other bloggers. It was great to be able to put a face to what has, up until now, been words on a screen.

I have a new camera in my hot little hands as well, ready for action. I know it will be put to good use! SydHappyGuy said it well - "If you're lying in bed, too sick to film... film it."

Needless to say I got some great footage today. We donned some of PommyGran8's fantastic costumes and danced like no one was watching :o)

It was a menagerie of dancing bloggers! We had 2 bunnies (Mrs AvNGav and myself), 2 cats (Feelion and EyeoftheLeOpard), a K9 and even a Big Bad Wolf!

Don'tMessWithMum, TomDiggleHarry, Mstr. T and the Funky Spunky Princess epitomised my idea of Deaf Music today - they all got Soul!

And last but not least, iamatreeagain showed us how to work it!

Now I know you wanna see how it all went down...

I'll show you... soon. You know where to find it, you just don't know when, so be on the lookout :o)

xx

From Big Sister Synesthesia...

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"Your blog has me thinking..and feeling..and dancing..and listening..and watching. Take a look at the clips for Bjork's Pagan Poetry and Unravel and read the lyrics. These two clips illustrate how music can speak to you on so many more levels - a delight for the senses!"

Thank you, Big Sister, for keeping the conversation going.


For your sensory pleasure, I present 'Unravel'.



Lyrics

While you are away my heart comes undone.
Slowly unravels in a ball of yarn
The devil collects it with a grin, our love, in a ball of yarn.
He'll never return it,
so when you come back we'll have to make new love.
He'll never return it.
When you come back we'll have to make new love.
While you are away my heart comes undone,
Slowly unravels in a ball of yarn.
The devil collects it with a grin, our love, our love, in a ball of yarn.
He'll never return it.
When you come back we'll have to make new love.
He'll never return it.
When you come back we'll have to make new love.
He'll never return it.
When you come back we'll have to make new love.

Pearl Jam - 'Given to Fly' interpreted in sign

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Just one more reason to love Eddie Vedder :)

iPod Ad in Sign

Just some of my captioning handiwork.

The video below is the first Web/YouTube video I ever captioned.

Then came SydHappyGuy's 'Building Trust - One Conversation At a Time'.

Synesthesia

Synesthesia (SIN-ess-THEE-zha) - also spelled synæsthesia or synaesthesia.

From the Ancient Greek σύν (syn), meaning "with," and αiσθησις (aisthēsis), meaning "sensation" — is a neurologically-based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.



Some of us can hear the music.

Some of us can see it.

Everyone can feel it.

All you need is soul