but i wasn't listening

I had a fun show covering Divaville yesterday. As usual I forgot to announce it in advance. I figure as long as I don't forget to show up, the rest can take care of itself.

The playlist is here for anyone who's interested. Particularly fun for me was Tallulah Bankhead and Danny Kaye singing "How Could You Believe Me," a funny song I knew from the movie Royal Wedding. Bankhead's voice is amazing, and she sang the "male" part, the "baby leave us not forget that I'm a heel" part. Great song. (I don't think she says "Stop bending the suit!" like Fred does in Royal Wedding, alas.) I also played a song from the Bring Crosby/Fred Astaire movie Blue Skies, which was playing on TCM last night, and made sure to announce the movie. (And coincidentally, I'm watching it now!)

The schedule changed, and the show before Divaville is now a bunch of high school kids talking and reading poetry and such. Which was the cause of a bit of embarrassment for me, because I didn't know about the schedule change, and the doorbell is broken, and I didn't have a card key (I always borrow Georg's and he was out of town). So I stood below the MCR window and threw pebbles and yelled "AYDA!" at the top of my lungs, thinking Ayda was there and would let me in, but it was the high school kids instead. Oops!

There were so many of them I had to wait in the next room, and I overheard a hilarious conversation between the one who seemed to be in charge, and the one who seemed to be her main assistant:

"Now I did want to mention a couple of things ... when I asked you to backsell, I didn't mean the whole hour, just the couple of songs since our last talkset."
"How was I supposed to know that?"
"We just did training a few days ago, remember?"
"But I wasn't listening!"

Sometimes honesty is so refreshing.