There are things I do inside of Hill Auditorium and there are things I do not.<\/p>\n
I do:<\/p>\n
1) Look like #college\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhy walk into one of the best performance halls looking like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m an adult? Bust out the sweats, baseball cap, and leggings\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwho are we kidding? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like I wanted anything else besides extra credit. Tchaikovsky does not equal an A or warrant actual pants.<\/p>\n
2) Eat yogurt with the metal lid, not with a spoon\u00e2\u20ac\u201deveryone knows concerts happen at dinner time, so why should I be punished for my ingenuity for not even using a spoon? I mean, concert etiquette aside, this gurl gots to eat; I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care if the band is playing at pianissimo, my stomach is at fortissimo.<\/p>\n
3) Clap like my life depends on it\u00e2\u20ac\u201dif I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, people might think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m disengaged, right? Also if I clap last, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an automatic win\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6so \u00e2\u20ac\u0153oh well\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that the band started playing something new.<\/p>\n
4) Talk obnoxiously\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care if I just got off stage, from playing, to sit in a seat or if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m already there, concerts are just fancy TV\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m here for my own \u00e2\u20ac\u0153entertainment\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and no one else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s.<\/p>\n
I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t:<\/p>\n
1) Do anything else. My rules (above) are law. I eat copious amounts of yogurt in public, dress like it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a post-Saturday Sunday everyday, clap like no one is watching, and talk like you actually care.<\/p>\n
I think that most times I go to any type of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153classier\u00e2\u20ac\u009d event (where classy means anything else besides a football game most days) that these rules apply to everyone<\/em>. I admit that there is a time and a place for no pants, for slopping on goopy foods, playing the stupid clap-last game, and talking so loud that people think you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re furious but really just happy.<\/p>\n But Hill Auditorium is never the place.<\/p>\n My carceral-stystem-self-fully-indoctrinated-by-the-system-of-normalization-that-Foucault-describes-aka-my-being demands some type of behavioral rules to live by. That and my gay sensibility for acting just so<\/em> at such<\/em> events. Either way, I feel like such \u00e2\u20ac\u0153audience participators\u00e2\u20ac\u009d should all be either A) drawn and quartered, or B) put in a room together to see how long they would last\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s be real, not long.<\/p>\n However, being with such people can further provide entertainment. Think of yourself in a Kierkegaardian way where anything that happens\u00e2\u20ac\u201dgood or bad\u00e2\u20ac\u201das something to entertain your dreadful, angst-ridden existence that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going along only further into the nothingness of life. While the concert occurs on stage you can enjoy that for it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own sake: ambitious program wonderfully selected, decent musicianship, good conducting, perfect concert hall. You can also enjoy the audience constantly making a fool of themselves: picking their noises at the rhythm of notes played with pizzicato, eating foodstuffs during every first movement, and violently sneezing on fermatas.<\/p>\n All in all, going to a concert isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just going to a concert. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s entering a space where the possibilities for entertainment are endless. The stage, the seats, the people, all have a potential to keep you going for hours upon hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are things I do inside of Hill Auditorium and there are things I do not. I do: 1) Look like #college\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhy walk into one of the best performance halls looking like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m an adult? Bust out the sweats, baseball cap, and leggings\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwho are we kidding? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like I wanted anything else besides extra […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2610,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/2610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}