Blood on the sidewalk

So, Cherubino and I were walking over to the CVS here in Detroit and what do we see but BLOOD ON THE SIDEWALK! It seriously looked as though someone had just been stabbed a few minutes earlier...and we are right in the middle of downtown! Hmmm...perhaps it was just ketchup? Is that how you spell Ketchup? I dont know if I have ever typed out that word before. Anyway, you know what I mean. It freaked us out!!

Other joys of the downtown Detroit area are the dance clubs. Here on the 9th floor I get a wonderful listen to what is being "played" in the discotecs in the immediate surrounding area. Last night it didnt seem to end until 3am? Yeah. I need earplugs!

Another thing that I have noticed as being VERY odd here in Detroit are the dreams that I have been having. I mean VIVID dreams that I still remember 2 and 3 days later. I guess its good to be dreaming...it means that you are really getting good sleep. But, like last night I had a dream that I was in a pretend "war" with people that I knew. It seemed that everyone involved were singers...and that we were all singing with some opera company that was doing 2 shows at once. Hmmm, kinda like now. Anyway, we had these guns that shot out tacks! (like the colored push pins that you stick onto bulletin boards and stuff) - So, we shot at the other show's cast members....and thetn I remember that my Dad was there eating some lunch, so I shot him too. Weird, right?? OOOhhh, I just remembered also that my buddy Larry had me over at his house and pretended to be crazy and scary. Somehow he turned his house in to a haunted house to scare me. NUTS! Then there was the other night with this real fat guy shooting up heroin through his head and stuff....VERY RANDOM!

Ok, now you think I'm a total freak...but, I guess that the mind wonders when we sleep to places that we dont understand. Speaking of things that I dont understand...I need to memorize the rest of Act 3 , as we are plugging along here with rehearsals for Le nozze di Figaro. I think tomorrow we will finish act 3 and then by Tues or Wed we will be done with staging. Tonight we are reviewing Act 1 - lets hope that we all remember what to do! :O)