Showing posts with label mariachi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mariachi. Show all posts

Sunday, October 2, 2011

What, Me Wordy?

My brother says my posts are too long.  This may or may not be the first time I have been accused of being verbose.  Indeed, I endured a long period of adjustment in a college journalism class; why say it in five words if I could say it one hundred?  Why answer the five W's in a succinct manner when it is so easy to meander into a well-intentioned treatise on mariachi music?

Well, to prove to my brother, myself, and the world, that brevity is truly the soul of my wit, I just want to share some photo-booth photos taken at a friend's recent wedding.  Firstly, they are the only pictures of me taken in the last 20 years that I actually like.  Secondly, from here on out I'm not sure that couples will be allowed to refer to their nuptials as a "wedding" unless a mariachi band is involved.  I LOVE mariachi music and the aforementioned wedding was underscored by one of the best mariachi bands I have ever heard.  The trumpeter/vocalist had a voice worthy of La Scala.  The echo of the string instruments across the traditional, stained glass-laden, heavily-mosaicked Catholic church gave me goosebumps.  The combination of religious and secular music - including a cover of Perry Como's "It's Impossible" - truly knocked my socks off.  Oh, right...brevity....


The funniest part of these photos came when we took them to our table and compared them with the photos of other guests; their photos appeared to be in full color while ours appeared slightly-aged and barely tinted.  I was convinced that the photographer saw us and immediately switched the dial to the "old-timey" setting.  As it turns out that was not the case.  Apparently, our faces are so big, so white, and so close to the flash that the color got washed out!  Nevertheless, I actually like the way they turned out.  Note to self: get a tan.


Cheers!

Mr. Tiny