February 2011
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Classical Corner →
String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Movement 2 Allegro Molto ~ Dimitri Shostakovich
I’ve been wanting to do something like this for a while now because I feel like there is a whole different perspective to classical music that can’t be captured in pop stuff. So anyway, this is my first pick since it was the first piece I really liked and opened up the world of classical music to me....
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Today
I dislike this literacy week nonsense and I hope everyone who was at the symphony rehearsal realizes how lucky they are to have a competent director. It was truly painful after Davis left. The worst part is some of the orchestra kids thought it was an “amazing” rehearsal and that we sound “amazing”. If they only knew the half of it…
Song suggestion for the day: Hotel...
To Do List
Play all of the Segovia scales from memory perfectly
Read all Hemingway, Palahniuk, and Vonnegut novels
Finish uploading my Mahler cd’s
Watch all seasons of The Tudors
Finish the Prince’s Suite, all seven movements
School, homework, college, blah, blah, blah, forever and ever amen.
AND DRINK MORE BUTTERBEER!
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember...”
– ~Chuck Palahniuk in Diary
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JEW
Going to the Jimmy Eat World concert with my cousin who I never get to see anymore and Shannon who I never get to see anyway lol. And the opening act, David Bazan & Band, are awesome because he’s the guy from Pedro the Lion. Hooray for things happening.
Side note, I have a terrible headache from band practice and I need to do Euro but I doubt it’ll happen.
Further note, Shannon...
Ouch Charlie!
That really hurt. My finger that is, it got pinched by the xylophone.
All-County tomorrow and I’ve only looked at the music once. Oh well, that’s what sitting in the back makes you do.
Final note, Regina Spektor and her kooky accent FTW!
Curses you evil Florida weather!!!
In lieu of going to Disney (dumb tornado warnings!) I get to work on this essay for Stetson. I loath writing essays about myself because no matter what you do, you’re going to sound like an arrogant brat. Wishing I had kept all of those essays I had to write for NHS because I know that I’ve written an essay on what “leadership means to me.” I do not have a type-A...
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places....”
– A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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Regret
I regret not asking for a kindle for Christmas. This blows.
Oh, and of course the wife dies because Hemingway cannot let me be happy. But A Farewell to Arms was a very good book.
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Decisions
I hate college music auditions.
Is it better to play two completely contrasting pieces and only play the fast one okay with a slower tempo than I would like it, OR do I play two “modern” pieces (they’re completely different spectrums of the modern music world) well? I know I’m going to play a mazurka by Tarrega because I do it well but the tempo is really slow. The...
Black Swan →
Yes, I read a movie review on Sparknotes for I am a nerd. If you’ve seen the movie you’ll find the review hilarious, but I think the movie is better than the reviewer does.
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“Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is,...”
– Slaughterhouse-Five
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New Tunes
People are making my head explode with all this stuff. Found out about Local Natives and then Menomena a few moments ago and they’re pretty amazing. I could only find female fronted groups like them (Feist & Bjork - okay, not really true but whatever). They’re more like Fleet Foxes, Deer Hunter, and even the tiniest bit of Eye Alska (well the harmonies at least).
i’ve been...
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to...”
– Slaughterhouse-Five
Dreaming of Lions
Just finished The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway and I’m too tired to really think about any of the symbolism except for lions because they’re such an awesome little paradox. All I could think about while I was reading it was that I would never be able to battle a 1500 pound Marlin for three days with only a little bottle of water and raw fish to eat. Oh, and not to mention all the...