Hello and welcome back to the Texapolitan Opera Roadshow. If you’re a regular listener to the show, you know that for the past month or show I’ve been off the air. Unfortunately the display on my trusty dusty 6 year old MacBook pro finally bit the dust and after trying to replace, cracking another $300 dollar replacement screen , I am finally back up and running with a new MacBook, at great personal expense, so you all know how truly dedicated I am to the Roadshow.
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This week, we have another 2 parter with my buddy, John Moore and special guest Taylor Stayton. I took to calling John the Shaman, simply because he’s one of those guys who just floats through space, and seems to understand something essential about the universe that people around him just don’t see. We had many deep existental conversations this summer, and there was much music sharing and philosophizing to be had~ so sit back and enjoy this little insight into John, and our pard, Taylor Stayton.
Feeding your spirit
Domestic life vs Traveling life
Getting to the adult place with your parents
Financial Freedom gives you choices
All I need is a TeePee and a Flintstones Car
John with Tiff vs John the Singer
Living in the Present
Crossing the streams is a very bad thing
You’re in the Opera of Life and you’re an Opera Singer
Opera is our God
Living in a state of suspended animation
The ritual of receiving compliments from patrons
Look people in the eye and be cool
Being a singer is like being a politician
Am I putting this on, or is this really me?
Turning the contrast way up on the public and private persona
Disassociation with self, ego or persona or both?
Its a way to exist in the world without feeling constantly vulnerable
I can do everything I’ve ever wanted to do on stage
The joy of small form art
Singing opera is like playing football without pads
drawing from your life shelf
The Colors
HEY LET ME LOOK BEHIND THAT CURTAIN AGAIN
everyone in here is asleep!
The condensation of the “When I was your age” cliche
Metaphorical lightening strikes
Fast friends can whack you out so fast
Opera is a camp that adults go to for 30 or 40 years of their life
A furious discovery of other people
The impulse to overshare
Thankful for new people because it shuts me up
Bringing people out of the texture of a 2D world
Taylor Stayton pays us a visit
Taylor mops out the space
Huge Headed old man baby
Chris Hanson~ BUSTED
Chris Hanson, Prison Boss
ICQ?!?!?!
Lisa Mayes Owens has tagged 73 pictures of you
Going off the grid
Information DT’s
I’ll get back to you in 2 weeks
I’ll send my reply via carrier pigeon
COMPLETE INTEGRATION
Teepee, wood stove, bow and arrow vs I WANT THE NEW IPHONE
Cesar Milan techniques on people
2 weeks in the backcountry of Alaska vs A New Computer
Seeing the world thru a screen is bad for you
Seeing in three dimensions
Activating the set pieces in your life and on the stage
Inexperience is seeing through a squint
Finding your balls… in the literal sense
Dribbling and the stages of learning a craft
Thanks Michael!