what's with the evil orange is what's on my mind.
Tash, I just noticed your signature. Right under the pic of the Evil Orange (whatever that might be!)you say "for Janice, a different pic whever I remember".
Huh?
I've got this girl I like stuck in my head..... :(
I've got this girl I like stuck in my head..... :(
HOW CUUUUUUTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AWWWWW
::) LOL JK JK..but seriously though..its cute..n stuff
i'm thinkiking what and how many cources should i take on summer semester
and i'm thinking should i take extra load and finish college in 3 & 1/2 years?
because my ONLY friend, which i REALLY REALLY REALLY like, is finnishing in 3 & 1/2 years and i don't want to roat another semester alone in college.
just now a thought of a girl i never saw poped into my head
we just write to each others every day on the college desk ;D, she's on the class right befor mine, we have been writing to each others for like a month, maybe we should meet!
HOW CUUUUUUTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AWWWWW
::) LOL JK JK..but seriously though..its cute..n stuff
I'm hungryMe too, but I'm getting my pizza within 10 minutes :)
The goal in playing the piano (and any instrument for that matter) is not actually about playing the piano. It is about playing pieces/music.
We play the piano to know music.
Math 230 mid term next week. I'm re-taking the course because I'm STUPID. AUGHHHHHHH
a Raider's hat.
Make your user name fit on one line!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111damn straight! cmon stop sh*tting your name all over the forum milkegg
*** straight! cmon stop sh*tting your name all over the forum milkegg
Fine, Almighty DonJuan.
Is that better, Don my pretty?Professor Frink: My sarcasm detector is off the charts!
I'm wondering
- why it's so difficult to be friends with the opposite sex; it always gets messed up
How to kill George W. BushI would be carfull with that one you may have inadvertantly gained the attention of the US millitary
;)
I don't think birth control is a 20th century thing.
I remember seeing a photo of an 18th century condom made out of a sheeps bladder.
Fascinating eh.
i feel like going to sleep and never waking up, dreaming the rest of my life away.
QuoteQuote from: stevie on August 21, 2005, 10:05:31 PM
i feel like going to sleep and never waking up, dreaming the rest of my life away.
haha really? i cant tell if youre being optomistic or pessimistic.
I was refering to the audition repetoire.
I remember telling my teacher " i'm not playing any of that crap"
End of career.
hahahaha, mayla, mildly insane, but sexy.
... and lastly, I wonder how long, exactly, a person could fly ?
I believe it is directly proportional to the height from which they are dropped. 8)
However, I was thinking more in terms of one who jumps voluntarily ;D
Then, of course, the same "height" constraints apply....it all just depends on how badly you want to hurt when you hit the ground. ;)
Well, it seems one would choose a height that causes one to never truly hit the ground, and, they simply fly away.
oh i rememebr that part sorry ???
Hey ! >:( :P
The birdy part is from Forrest Gump, Jenny is repeating this "dear lord..." bit as she is in the field not wanting her father to find her.
10 months now without a smoke.
Put on 3 stone.
I will die from obesity instead of cancer.
what's on your mind right now...
i've made big and tough decision today which can change my life forever. i wonder and hope i made the right one.
haha really? i cant tell if youre being optomistic or pessimistic.
uh.... LOL... you're funny ;D
I vote, NEITHER
Why didn't i take the blue pill ::)
well when you reach some point in your life you have to decide about your career, future, existance...sometimes having good marks and be successful on both sides can make your decision more difficult. i was dealing with my inner fears and doubts about failing as a musician and on other side-with thougts what if i end up doing something i'm not really into. after months of thinking and worrying last sunday it all turned out to me. next day i went i changed school. now i'm just taking exams and no more going to school.just piano. well again,
wish me luck :)
One cannot be a teacher without a student, but,
Can one be a student without a teacher ? :-\
The following haunt my mind :o ;) ;D:
First understand that if the future is predictable, it is also unchangeable. If you can change the future, then you cannot predict it anymore.
Counter example:
"If you don't move that car by the time I count to five, then you're going to lose your head"
Contains both prediction and allows for events to change. Besides, the key thing to predict in the lottery case is what the 6 numbers will be, not who wins, and then buy a ticket with those numbers :)
[oh yeah 1p is more or less 2 cents - especially if you add vat to the former :) ]
:D
Now if you excuse me, I have to check my horoscope for the incoming week. :D
Because, you see, for the christians (include Islam here) believe that god knows all – that is, the future already exists and is predictable (hence the prophecies telling us what will happen no matter what). And yet they insist god gives them free will, which really is only possible if the future does not exist and not even god knows how it will turn up. This is of course heretic, since god is a know-all kind of guy. He is also a mafia don (a wise guy?) who will make you a proposal you cannot refuse (“love me or go to hell”: it is your free will!), and a stalker (“Christianity is not a religion, it is a relationship and Jesus wants a relationship with you! He knows everything you do and all the hairs in your head, and your innermost thoughts, and if they are not about loving him, you go to hell” please, get me an injunction order against this weirdo who will not take no for an answer and is invading my privacy).
This sort of contradiction gets them all agitated and it is not long before the random bible quoting starts. It doesn’t really sort out anything, but makes them feel better.
And let me be clear here to the Christians (include Islam here): this is not a tirade against religion. It is a tirade against the way some people talk about religion and god. Listen to yourselves and consider if you are doing it a service or disservice.
When I was younger and had been reading books by John Dunne and J.B. Priestley about time and dreaming, I kept an extensive dream diary to see if I dreamed of future events. I was amazed to find, like these writers, that my dreams contained an enormous amount of seemingly precognitive detail. For some months I was carried away with all sorts of mystical, semi-religious notions. I now think what happens is akin to the Ramsey effect (Frank Ramsey, early twentieth century mathematician). It's much the same as the apparently astonishing coincidence when two people present at a gathering are found to have the same birthday.
Once data reaches a certain heft, patterns and correlations arise in the nature of things. Add to that the vigilantly active unconscious mind, the natural preference we have for data emotionally significant to ourselves, coupled with the natural desire to feel special, and it would be surprising if any of us had not experienced amazing precognition, at least once or twice.
I still pay attention to dreams, however. Under all their visionary, and thoroughly pleasurable experience there usually exists a quiet and useful suggestion from my unconscious.
I will try to put your mind at rest (at least partially) ;)
..."Surely 100 000 lemings cannot be wrong, right?" ;) ;D
I am wondering what it means to truly think for oneself.. and if it is truly possible ?
Also, I am thinking about a young lady, she was about 8 when I met her, who I met at some kind of concert. For some reason she and I ended up sitting right next to each other. We got to talking and she told me with all self-assurance that she was going to be the president. and I believed her.
believing in evolution is as relgious as not believing in evolution.
believing in philosophy is a religion (if you want to get right down to it). it is trusting in the ultimate knowledge of man (being supposedly far superior) than a Creator who has lived many more years than man.
just like the law of gravity. yoiu can't escape it - even if you wish
- or you say, there is no God. you still can't escape death, ressurrection, and judgement. if you take a VERY SMALL risk now, you have nothing to lose.
Also, these days, I believe in magic ;)
Or do you mean magick? ;)
Where's the iceberg ?
*doesn't see the iceberg*
Famous last words from the "Titanic"'s captain...
(Either that, or Global warming). ;)
What's on your mind right now?
My algebra exam tommorow morning... "And then the roots of the equation were equal to zero and less, exactly equivalent to how much I care for maths and its stupid roots..."
Its complicated. I need to have the right subject combination, to get the right mark etc etc to get into the university here. So, unfortunately without the ridiculous subject, I dont study music. Its only a year left though. I'll survive. :)
Maybe I am glowing like I am pregnant (with music :)).
did you say in a previous post that you were in canada recently? orhave you moved there from cunningham pianos in philadelphia? and, what the heck is your daughter planting ten cent trees, twenty hours away, when she could be borrowing money from you both on mother's day? and, is this wood going to be used to make pianos?
I am just thinking of new ways of upsetting the pregnant dog i work for.What if she kicks you out?
This week it was inviting eveyone to my birthday party and leaving her out on purpose. I told her i would have her thrown out if she turned up.
Next week, i think i will arrange for a wreath to be delivered with her name on it.
What if she kicks you out?
Like the "What are you listening to right now" thread...
What's the most pressing concern on your mind at the moment?
Things you are working on now, things you "must remember to do today or this week," etc. not necessarily piano.
I'm thinking about working up the courage to ask out this girl I'm friends with, and have been for a long time. The thing is, she confessed her love for me last summer, and I pleasantly (atleast I hope it came across pleasantly) turned her down because it just wasn't the right time in my life to be seeing someone, but now I'm starting to like her more and more but I don't know if she still feels the same. Also I don't want to hurt her if it wouldn't work out, as I feel she might get just a little bit too attached....
My mind is wretching with 'do' or 'don't
And I'm also starting to like this other girl too, but I'm thinking that seeing her will upset the first girl, and I really don't want to do that! So it's either her or no one really....
....*** you females :-\
But I can't have 'intimate relations' (atleast not with pain or some discomfort) with a piano, and I can't play Chopin on a girl.
Well, I don't think I can... I've never really tried his 4th prelude on a female, could be fairly interesting, though where would I play.... her teeth maybe?
Women on the other hand are like fine crafted violins; they get better with age.
John
gotta wonder what's the thrill in riding an elephant.
thinking about what the last few years would have been like had I been in a mental institution.
"It's all BS, you just have to find the layer of BS you want to live in".
BS ;D
Offer to make her a cup of coffee - but then *accidentally put salt instead of putting sugar in it.
My mind is all about music theory coz I am having an exam this coming Sat.
Life is complicated! :-\
Stupid Viet Oral Sac thingee tomorrow. I hate sacs; spiteful teacher.
mayla, you changed the whole tone of my message.
sex and money
i was just thinking about bach and why i cannot find the fingering that bach wrote himself for the C major fugue.
It seems like all I do sometimes is just pour and pour and pour and pour and I really haven't got the faintest idea as to where it's all going :-\.
Sunny
It seems like all I do sometimes is just pour and pour and pour and pour
Hic
'gotta get to you and that booty...' or something. then they talk about monkeys.
my children are going to school in 17 hours.And are you planning on focusing your primary attention on this fact during what remains of that 17-hour period?
do it pianowolfi! write that autobiography.
is thalbergmad really in pa. did you know he was coming? how come nobody told me. i'm the last to know these things. now what to do? i suppose he'll have to have rabbit for dinner or something. (*not) truly - i spent the last bit of money on school pics and supplies at staples. we'll have to drink tea and just sit around. although there are many places to see in pa for free. like the audubon trail and park. i suppose thal might like birds. and possibly antique bookstores. flea markets have music, too, sometimes.
ok. here's the itinerary:
piano lesson for 1/2 hour (or 15 minutes if he's ADD)
mow the lawn (this will get done much faster if he does it)
carry assorted large rocks that i've never been able to pick up - out of the backyard and hoist them into a wooded area).
go get a hoagie - check out the antique bookstore
drive to philadelphia (again) - and put him in the franklin museum
not sure i can afford the art museum again (those people are rip-off artists)
if the kids are with me, too - drive to dave and busters and play video games until the wee hours.
Next problem.
ps if it's about the coffee pot - forget it. Coffee is bad for you anyways. Start drinking green tea. Just an idea. Did the coffee pot lead to somekind of kitchen disaster, though. I mean - did it burn and leave a nasty smell all over the house.
It won't go up? I mean - the rocket.
The coffee pot's fault? It's all the coffee pot's fault?
Houston we have a problem ;)And Collegeville?...
Also, I am wondering what danny elfboy is looking at ? huh ?You mean, as in "what's it all about, elfy"?...
I also kind of wonder why he names himself as "elfboy" ... what's the deal with that anyway, elfy ???
You mean, as in "what's it all about, elfy"?...
Best,
Alistair
I am thinking about removing the family of beetles from my piano.
I am thinking about removing the family of beetles from my piano.This is a serious issue, Thal. My best suggestion is that you hit each of them, one by one, with the back of your five-string tenor banjo (I knew that there must be a good use for these instruments and I am delighted that it has been left to a player of them to enlighten me!). An alternative action that you could consider, which would have the added advantage of entailing no potential harm to your banjo, is removing the piano from your home to a landfill or other similar site, beetles and all, soaking it in essence d'Iraq and then setting fire to it.
That is what is on my mind.
Thal
Thal. My best suggestion is that you hit each of them, one by one, with the back of your five-string tenor banjo.
I will enlighten you to the fact that there is no such thing as a 5 string tenor banjo.Thank you - so use the nearest banjo that you have for the purpose, then...
Sorabji would have known this.I somehow doubt it.
I will enlighten you to the fact that there is no such thing as a 5 string tenor banjo.
Use the nearest ukelele. While they make nice sounds for the first few times that you hear them, after 3 months of 4 classmates playing uke every homegroup, it gets old...
What is that Wolfi.
A Sculpture or a wind turbine?
Thal
It's the communication tower by Santiago Calatrava, on Montjuic hill (Olympic City) in Barcelona.
No offense meant but I do wonder sometimes.
and goodbye for now all you others (perhaps we will meet up again someday :) *waves* ).
What did happen to Pianistimo?
Please see below the communication tower in my town. ;D
(https://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z180/shortyshort_bucket/tower.jpg)
(traveling, for example, to the moon, or even better, to "distant" planets), it is still a ways off. And, it will seem to be a revelation as some kind of advanced idea. Similarly to gaining the perspective enough to learn and accept that the Earth is round.
Hope this stimulates your mind ;D
You never heard of Neil Armstrong or Voyager??
The Earth is not perfectly round. Like me it bulges slightly at the Equator.
Hope this stimulates your mind ;D
Thal
Well, theres this thing (too) deep in my nose, and i'm thinking about how i could get my finger there. Thats my main thought at the moment.Ewwww...Gross. :P
Nothing. I don't exist. ;D
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ha ha ... too bad there is not colored text possibilities anymore, as "black" could've come in very handy here for your world's smallest dot.
Good luck with that Geoff. What kind of stuff are you after?Who's Geoff?
Who's Geoff?
This could be really funny... :P
Oh bugger. Guy on another forum who has a display name similar to yours. Sorry Shaun...Geoff? Is that your dancing partner or was it James?
Geoff? Is that your dancing partner or was it James?It could be like one of those major faux pas you hear about where a couple is being intimate *ahem* and one of them calls out the wrong name... lol
It could be like one of those major faux pas you hear about where a couple is being intimate *ahem* and one of them calls out the wrong name... lol
Someone left :-* in my PM this morning! ;) Oh, my! That's what's on my mind.
And a certain member that I need to speak my mind, and the wonderful pieces that I am learning is on my mind, :D and.........a host of other issues is on my mind.... ::)
I am extremely sleepy (and I may erase this sillyness in the Morgen).
Why do people play Chopin who sucks but they do not play Lyapunov who is great?
Why do thousands of people play Schumann but neglect Henselt.
Thal
Why do people live for the beat of rock music but they dont want to or just can't appreciate classical music???
It seems I have no choice but to play the C# with my thumb's knuckle, while the tip is busy playing the D.
hmm that sounds familiar, is this by chance Rach prelude op. 23,4, M. 16? ;D
I felt the chord in my fingers as I read your sig and then I remembered where I had struggled myself with it years ago, first I thought it was the c#minor prelude, but then I looked in the score... :D
I am thinking about how my metronome was broken for maybe 5 years :-[ :-X, but, for a smallish fee, I have very recently adopted a new one from the metronome shelter.
I'm wondering just how hard is college level Algebra? hmmmmmm
Welcome to the new me
Is there anything else on the forum you do not like and want to change??
Thal
Did one of my posts actually get deleted
I don't know if you're as adventurous a listener as I am, but back to what I was saying about others- I've got a comparitively etensive knowledge of the repertoire, and do pretty damn well on 'guess the piece' listening tests.
Of course there has to be a balance between devoting time to pieces you already love and discovering new ones, but in some people I think the balance is way out of whack.
Beyond that, I'm always surprised how PS Forumites rarely discuss chamber music or even more perplexing, vocal music, especially opera. I've tried in the past, but it goes no where. The "What Are You Listening to Now?" thread was/is always very interesting. People talked about music outside of the piano lit. Often fascinating.
I've never known a terrific instrumentalist who didn't love opera. If you don't study great singers and singing, then you're cheating yourself.
Also, equally weird, is how any time I've started a thread to comment on new recordings, it peters out almost instantly. Why don't we review them for one another? Doesn't anyone buy new CDs out there?
Has anyone heard Stephen Hough's new recital album? Does anyone care?
Also, when it comes to listening to recordings, I will be honest and say that I have a very difficult time talking about that, and it's not just because of emotional things. I feel I need more language, and I need more specifics to listen for. To be asked to go listen to something and then give a response, and that's all the more information I get, you are going to have a very difficult time getting me to share my experience. But, if I have some structure around what I am listening for (not that this would be my whole experience), that is very helpful for me. I would guess that there are plenty of people who would like to be able to discuss recordings and artists in a more educated way.
Good idea. Okay, let's take a look at Hough's "In Recital" album. His choice of repertoire is fascinating and rather curious. Maybe we could discuss the cumulative effect of beginning with "Variations Serieuses," then Beethoven Opus. 111," then Weber's "Invitation to the Dance," etc. I mean, two powerful early Romantic masterpieces book-ending Beethoven's mystical (almost modernist) masterpiece. You know, discussions like this. Or not. ;D
I actually emailed Hough about this album and he answered! He thought his programming was off the wall and wondered what listeners would think. I, personally, loved the CD.
Gotta go. Surf's uo. Literally!
Well, sorry, but sometimes it's very difficult for me to take you seriously. I basically consider that you just aimed to show me up or shut me up, and at the very least of it, you apparently think that what I am wanting is something that is stupid to you. That's fine if that's how you would like to live your life, but I didn't gain too much from your response aside from feeling like I shouldn't bother reading you.
I would guess that there are plenty of people who would like to be able to discuss recordings and artists in a more educated way.
Listening to music IS the education, and it's all the education you need.
Bach inventions, sure they're great, and sure Rachmaninov and Beethoven are great, but I was wondering about the lesser known pieces and composers you listen to and have a fondness for.
You talk about an ongoing hunger for information but do you have that hunger for music?
Still, I open up discussions about it and see what other people think, it's actually not that diffeent from performing and exposing one's own playing!
I absolutely *love* some mystery piece that nobody seems to know, which I just by CHANCE got to know through an amazing recording that one of my former teachers made. He is a nearly completely unkown artist, and apparently this piece is extremely unknown, and I would *die* to play it, but for whatever the heck reason, for YEARS, can't figure out what it is.
Also, I have listened now to Alistair Hinton's string quintet about 5 or 6 times in total, full length at once (and then sometimes parts when I don't have the time to listen to the whole thing). Have you heard it even once ? When I first listened to this, I wasn't sure what my reaction was, I mean, I knew what it was, but I wasn't sure why I was having it. So, generally, I like to give myself time and see if for any reason I ever want to return to listening to a piece of music. And, I have. It is a monstrous work.With "monstous" you mean a compliment, I think (hope)? Or just an indication of size?
Can you explicate your first paragraph there? I can't see why anyone would need to do anything more than listen to express their feelings and opinions about pieces of music.
Listening to music IS the education, and it's all the education you need.
Re: legato vs. detached.
There should be very a clear distinction between formal physical legato and mental one, which in a broader understanding is a connection between ideas, rather than notes. It is possible formally connect notes, but they would sound completely disconnected. On the other hand, playing detached can be perfectly organaized and connected into ideas.
A perfect example would be G. Gould. Some say he plays non legato, when in reality it is perfectly connected. It might be sounded paradoxal, but in this sense, non-legato is a highest incarnation of legato.
Best, M
Sure, but I didn't need anyone to tell me that, that's a discussion of semantics and not music.
You've avoided making judgements there ;D but I do know you have stronger opinions which you're not getting into.
Judging from what you know of me, do you think I may ever be a person of great consequence, capable of achieving great or at least unique things?
You've avoided making judgements there ;D but I do know you have stronger opinions which you're not getting into.
Judging from what you know of me, do you think I may ever be a person of great consequence, capable of achieving great or at least unique things?
Oh c'mon cmg, at least it's entertaining. This forum is so boring these days.
Ah, what an interesting dialogue this has become!
As I recall, in the older days -- when "Karli" was "M." -- you two became embroiled in nasty, sexually tinged threads where "M." grew incensed at your provocative language and publicly denounced you for inappropriateness.
And now we have such yearning, searching sallies into deeper, metaphysical explorations of one another's talents? Fascinating and sophomoric.
Could you two give all of us break from this pseudo-cyber-seduction?
Kindly confine your more "intimate" lives to PMs, please.
People are so weird :P. Occasionally there is a moment where I actually like humanity again, and then I become quickly disappointed.
Cheers.
"Cheers," my arse. You don't like any "humanity" except that depraved segment that finds your verbal narcissism similar to their own.
Get over yourself and stop behaving as if you're some victim. You're a classic predator, girl, and you know it.
er ... ??? I guess it's my cue. See ya'all 'round.
Jesus... Pianistimo....Only to disappear again? I wouldn't worry about that if I were you!...
I'm wondering if there's anything to it, that Pianistimo "returns" shortly before Easter. Hmmm.
And what's he doing out in the field with software?
True, quasi. But, both of these posters have been so intolerant of others in the past, I just can't avoid a parting shot.
Karli's a genuine "head case," posing as a feeling intellectual with the most irrational pronouncements on music that I have ever read. No, irrational is a compliment. She's demented and beneath amateurish. Nothing she writes makes sense. Opus is "da original speed freak" from a parallel universe who has irritated and driven away some of the most thoughtful pianists on this forum.
That they united in this unholy dialogue strikes me as the most absurd development here in months. This Forum deserves them.
"Cheers," my arse. You don't like any "humanity" except that depraved segment that finds your verbal narcissism similar to their own.
Get over yourself and stop behaving as if you're some victim. You're a classic predator, girl, and you know it.
Ah, what an interesting dialogue this has become!
As I recall, in the older days -- when "Karli" was "m1469" -- you two became embroiled in nasty, sexually tinged threads where "m1469" grew incensed at your provocative language and publicly denounced you for inappropriateness.
And now we have such yearning, searching sallies into deeper, metaphysical explorations of one another's talents? Fascinating and sophomoric.
Could you two give all of us break from this pseudo-cyber-seduction?
Kindly confine your more "intimate" lives to PMs, please.
This is a warning for everyone out there. Never ever insult Karli, or else deal with my wrath.
you know what's on my mind now?
I have not been happy in PS. I want to leave. A particular member has been making me feel stupid while I was in chat room as I chat with other members, and he interupts by saying something to me about my post on emotions and interpretation.(this has occured in the past ever since I joined PS a few weeks ago) And it was demeaning for him to say I have no idea what is going on, in which was unnecessary for him to do. I told him to quit bugging me. db05 also told him to stop. I am thinking of leaving PS, yes, that is what's on my mind now............And I know, very well, some members here will think, oh, it's only the Internet and deal with it! Well, if you were me, then you may understand and know how I feel.
Well, she has got 2 protecting her now.
Wolfi is correct.
Whoever it is ain't worth leaving over.
Thal
Well, she has got 2 protecting her now.
A cuckoo clock builder and a closet lesbian.
thanks thal and wolfi, I'll just keep that in mind..... ;D see, I am happy already!
I'm no closet lesbian. I'm bi. ;)
Well, she has got 2 protecting her now.
A cuckoo clock builder and a closet lesbian.
God help us.
Oh no she can't. Just got banned again?
Thal
I thought Pianistimo would be busy with Easter.
Indeed, she and her family are re enacting the crucifixion.She'd be cross to hear you write like that...
The last i heard was that her husband went next door to borrow a hammer.
The last i heard was that her husband went next door to borrow a hammer.(Bob refrains from a joke at Pianistimo's expense. :P)
Me too.
I now have both men and women telling me to get lost.
Thal
Me too.Not guilty, Sir Thal; even then, why not consider the possibility that some of them, in so doing, are recommending that you purchase a copy of Richard Barrett's piano piece of that title? (of which, incidentally, I heard a very good live performance by Sarah Nicolls a while ago).
I now have both men and women telling me to get lost.
My muse.
Taking the exams later, unprepared.
A video game.
Copeland - You are My Sunshine.
nothing else...
Edit: wow this CD is so much better than I expected! :o
I can't sleep... :P
oh i know that song...the u r my sunshiuine it goes like...u r my sunshine...my onlee sunshine...u make me happee...when times are blu...u never now deer...how much I luv u...so plz dont take...my sunshine aaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaayyyyyyyy!!!!!! yyyeeeeaaahhhh!!!! wwwwhhhooohhhoooo!!!!!
oh i know that song...the u r my sunshiuine it goes like...u r my sunshine...my onlee sunshine...u make me happee...when times are blu...u never now deer...how much I luv u...so plz dont take...my sunshine aaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaayyyyyyyy!!!!!! yyyeeeeaaahhhh!!!! wwwwhhhooohhhoooo!!!!!
Not only the forums are acting weird these days, the whole world seems to...Guess it's time to get into a distance and just observe until it's over.
What's on my mind right now, hmmmmm... I'm wondering how I will do on :-\my dreaded ACT test's this Fall I don't want to take them!!! but alas I must face my fate anyone have any tips for the stress of it all??? :-\
I hope, Abbey, that your singing is real good, because your spelling needs to be corrected , like "deer" which should be "dear" ;)
For that matter, it wouldn't be that much work to get maybe ten or so 100 ft extension cord and have a desktop computer out in a field. Wireless internet. It could work.
I was gone for only 3 days, and now I come back and ps seems to be even more crazy. Now we have not only a super lucylucy (sophie love, why not sophiesophielovelove ::) ) but also a superduper machine op 10,2 phd doctor professor guy.
Oh well ::) crazier things happened in history ::)
Are you a high school junior too? I wouldn't worry about the ACT's; according to everyone I've spoken to, they're much more straightforward than the SAT's and people tend to do well. I would take them myself, but I already have a decent SAT score and I'm too lazy :P. One good way to avoid stress is to not procrastinate and finish a lab set at 2:30 AM (as I am doing now). Work hard but make sure you reward yourself... etc.
I am also contemplating the garden situation. I have had huge plans in the past, but since doggy dug up all the sprinklers, part of planting a garden would mean getting those put back together ... and that sounds ... difficult ! There are also loads of weeds since we haven't planted there for a couple of years. But, there are *so* many things I want to grow ... *day dreams* ... and today is gorgeous. But, mainly, I am practicing my head off ... hee hee.
Yeah, I like general landscaping, and my mom and brother are actually quite good at it, having done professional work even, and then my folks have moved a lot and needed to plant yards from scratch almost every time. So, I have seen what my mom and brother do, which seriously looks like parks, and I just think ... heh :-X ... about my yards. What I would love to grow is a vegetable garden, I just *love* to do that, and then I would like to plant berry bushes, fruit trees, pumpkins and stuff around the yard as part of the landscaping. I suppose half an hour a day of weeding sounds doable, so long as I can find my gloves !
My banjo is on my mind next week.
It is going in for a minor operation and i am a little worried.
Thal
Hope your operation goes well, Thal, and have a speedy recovery.
It's not him, it's his banjo, poor thing.
(https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png)I wanna see what everyone else thought about it lol
I wonder where musicians fit in here?
(https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png)
I wonder where musicians fit in here?
My mind is on "doctor, doctor, help me to relax please!" my life is so stressful right now, that I can't seem to focus on anything...... :P ??? :-[ :-\ :'( :-XYou seem to be able to focus on writing your posts quite successfully!
Do we really want to know?
I think that ultimately we already do know, it's already within us. And, actually, I think there is not that which is outside of us and then that which is within. In some respect, I think that when we look to the stars, for example, and somehow glimpse an otherworldy view from somewhere else than earth, that we are actually seeing a reflection of what is within us. Our perspective though organizes it in a way that sometimes seems to be spacially outside of our reach.I agree
However, I think that who we are scares us as I believe we are individually infinite and eternal. We look inside of ourselves and there is no bottom, there is no top, there is just space ... and what seems like darkness. It seems like an abyss.
And so our protectors come in and create floors and cielings to give us some kind of feeling of stability, so we can walk around and function in our daily lives. I don't think this is bad, and I don't promote that we dive into ourselves head first without one hand on the sword.
But, I do think that we are forced to break the floors and ceilings, whether we would like to or not.
Most of the people on this earth travel on their own path where ever it may lead them. Yes, I may seem somewhat philosophical now. People may try to reach out and help, but would their *intentions* be sincere or flawed in some way? And also, with this being the Internet, what consistutes a *friend* anyhow. Yes, indeed, that is what is on my mind now......hum...
Well I don't agree about the being forced thing, but I think I get what you mean.
I think I need a break from piano.
I never expected to hear that from you old chap.
Thal
Bloody good idea.
I have always found that physical exhaustion is a good cure for mental exhaustion.
Thal
It is easy for me Wolfi. 50 miles and i am knackered.
I expect you need a fair bit more.
Thal
I know I am not the easiest individual
I actually really DO love the piano forum, and its inhabitants !!! I know I am not the easiest individual, but I am *so* glad this place exists, and that it existed at the time I found it ... and, I am SO grateful to the individuals who have helped me here and beyond, and to those whom have been my friend !!!! Everything else is super stupid, the piano forum and the individuals here are super great ... hee hee ;D
Thank you !!!!
I actually really DO love the piano forum, and its inhabitants !!! I know I am not the easiest individual, but I am *so* glad this place exists, and that it existed at the time I found it ... and, I am SO grateful to the individuals who have helped me here and beyond, and to those whom have been my friend !!!! Everything else is super stupid, the piano forum and the individuals here are super great ... hee hee ;D
Thank you !!!!
(https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png)
I wonder where musicians fit in here?
I am sweating the deadline of having the Ballade #1, Mozart's 576, and the Appassionata all memorized and down pat in time to do a piano festival in Italy in June. OK, so I am not one of the recitalists, but I still have to play them for other pianists, so I don't want to look like twit. I am twitching because I just got asked to do a Piano and 9 other instruments thing in a month. I am trying to figure out how I can do it all. egad!Where in Italy?
I miss a certain person very badly.
I miss one of my dreams. Guess I just let it go. Bye bye dream, have a good time! Probably you have grown up now and don't need your daddy anymore. But promise me something okay? Don't go to these other dreams that have gone to the lake of pain, okay? Good luck!
holy smokes, Wolfi !!! :o
*gets scared*
*shivers in timbers*
To Bob and db,
May I ask, what is it about me that makes you think of m1469? I mean to say, what is going on here anyhow? ??? I don't appreciate being *another m1469* for that matter. >:(
thank you kindly! You two can GO jump in that lake in that other post on backpacking......
m1469 was fun. Intelligent, too. Cheerful student of music and life. It would be an honor to be compared to her.
You know, I do not *know her* like you do, and so I have no idea what to think at the moment.
I had no idea that she was cheerful of music and life...... :-X :-[
(Bob thinks Go kind of sounds like the m1469.)
Gosh these two are soooooo different :P
I'm curious, pianowolfi, in what way?
I didn't realize how much I miss an Internet *friend* and how much of an impact this friend is to me.....
Karli's teacher is Magic... Johnson? Wow.
I'm wondering what makes Karli's teacher magical. I think all my teachers haven't been quite in sync with me. A few jerks. None of them could answers my questions though. I think we were thinking in different directions.
Right now, my mind is a blank page, with nothing written on it, no feelings at all.......it is like
one blank page for nobody to read about my feelings nor anything about me.....not today,
not tomorrow, not ever again.....
And the usual I-wish-I-had-a-real-piano-but-I-don't-have-money type of thinking.
Karli,
Snozberries DON'T taste like chicken.
How do you know, if you have never tasted a chicken before ?
Do you actually LIKE chicken?
I think that is the wrong kind of question (especially considering that I don't want to answer it and/or don't have an actual answer ;) ;D). I think the REAL question here is, what IS chicken ?
Maybe since you're smarter than I am, you know what it is...
Ohh, well, I am much more interested in what a man does with his smarts than I am interested in how big his smarts are ;).That could be taken sooo many ways... :P
That could be taken sooo many ways... :P
Coffee? Now?
Let's celebrate:
*Life has its ups and downs*
*Chris is American Idol(I am happy for him!)*
*Music is wonderful*
*Practicing has been good*
;D
Too happy, we misspelled his name! I thought you were an Adam fan, though?Yes, I do like Adam's voice, oh, well, it was what American voted; both guys were good this past season of American Idol. So, how is *Chris* spelled anyhow?
You want? *offers Bob some coffee*
What if we record a professional practicing? Do a lot of videos like that exist?
I think it's better to just decide not to do things that one would later regret.
That is impossible. How can one know what one would regret at a later date?
I did something recently that i hugely regretted shortly after i did it, but at the time it seemed like a good idea.
Thal
what's on my mind is that no matter how hard I try, it just won't work....even in my mind I thought it would work, but it won't afterall......what a mess I made of things.....=P
Well, it's important to learn as "you" go of course. Sometimes we don't know, but sometimes we actually really do. I actually have often done things that I KNOW I don't actually want to do, but I do them as some kind of way to "fill me up" (and it never works) because I am not willing to grow beyond it (or *maybe* I don't yet know how). But yes, there are some things we just don't know, and of course there will always be regrets. I do realize it's important not to be afraid to do ANYTHING at all, just in case I might regret it later, but I can at least take some footsteps, check in with myself and see if the footsteps have been right, and then either change course or keep going. I just think some people use the motto to not regret anything as a means of doing whatever they want, regardless of mental and physical health for themselves or people around them. And I think that can severely stunt an individual's personal growth (so can being afraid to take *some* kind of action though, too).
For some reason I feel opinionated today !
That is interesting. Very often, if i can visualize & achieve something in my mind, i have a much better chance is doing it in real life.
Thal
I just scored a really hot girl because I was walking around with the sheet music to Sorabji's nocturne "Djami"
Just think what you could have done with the Organ Symphony.
Thal
I just scored a really hot girl because I was walking around with the sheet music to Sorabji's nocturne "Djami"How did you do that? Did you contrive to cut her arm with the edge of one of its pages?
Just think what you could have done with the Organ Symphony.Which one? There are three, after all. The answer would doubtless be "nothing at all" in any case...
I believe in diamonds in the rough ! :D
Why does George Bush want to ban gay marriages so badly?
I strongly believe in banning gay marriages.Do you? :o
I'm wondering if giannalinda won any beauty pagaents lately. Either way, according to Trump, your opinnion is only as important as your looks.
(https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png)
I wonder where musicians fit in here?
Perhaps you meant "mathematics is just applied music"?
Xenakis, Carter etc... would allow the musician to say "mathematics is just applied to music"
Carter never wrote music that was "merely" musically notated mathematical formulae, or pieces that consist wholly of bits of other pieces.Nor will he in the future, I imagine; let's not forget that, unlike Xenakis, he is still very much alive and still composing!..
Hey, anybody feel like funding me for five years so I can actually do these things that are driving me bananas to be doing but not being able to be doing ? hmmmm ? Anybody want to compose the bejeebers outta something I can sing ?? Anybody awesome willing to play for me and with me ? hmm ? Get me outta this place, I say ! Get me out of here !!
Hey, anybody feel like funding me for five years so I can actually do these things that are driving me bananas to be doing but not being able to be doing ?
I would gladly do it for you, milady, but I do not have the skills or resources. If you were willing to teach me those things, it would be possible, and an honor for me.
OK, i give you 5 years worth of bananas.
That any use???
Thal
Thanks, DB and Thal :).
I just don't understand things sometimes and sometimes I don't even know how to take things one day at a time :P. I will probably feel *slightly* differently after today is done and after a couple of weeks have passed. I hope anyway. There is just something inside of me that needs to come out, and sometimes I really don't know how to handle it. I probably feel this way in part because lately I have not had the kind of time I want/need for practicing piano, actually. That seems to create some kind of dire emergency in me :P. So, I am going to try to just chill out :P.
Anybody want to compose the bejeebers outta something I can sing ??Have you not looked at what might already be there for you to try to sing?...
Sometimes I wonder where the lack of humanity is coming from....it behooves me.... ???"Behoves", methinks. Anyway, as long as any such lack of humanity does not come from oneself, I suppose that this is at least something...
Have you not looked at what might already be there for you to try to sing?...
Best,
Alistair
Karli, I don't think there is something written up there that we are "created" to fulfill something. But if you feel this is your life's purpose, then go for it!! Or whatever that means... Hmmm. I think everyone is frustrated, or at least most people are going through challenges. Even (gasp!) you. No it doesn't sound stupid, a lot of people go through that and you actually handle it quite well. If it's any help to rant here, we're all ears. You have a great attitude, and it's enviable that you have this type of problem. Most people never get to be more than beginners at music, or meet great teachers of any pursuit.
I wish you the best of luck in your audition and most importantly, the pursuit of your dreams. If you can't do it, I'm sure I and a lot of others can't...
I am not sure what to make of comments on clothing though at the end of an audition
It means your singing is sh*t, but at least you made the effort to look nice.
Thal
Thanks, Db, actually quite helpful :).
I got the "great dress" comments at the end ... and let's admit here and now, it is a pretty darn spectacular dress !!! There is no way around that one ! And, do you know part of what makes it spectacular ? I have very good taste ! :D ;D ... ha ha ... well, that's actually true ;D, but my REAL point is that it actually looks as though it were *made* for *me* ;D. I am not sure what to make of comments on clothing though at the end of an audition ...
Now, back to the repertoire ... see, the thingio is that much of what I *have* checked out uses parts of my voice well ... I happen to be a somewhat complex character, and I think there are things about that which are reflected in my voice. I don't know that I have ever met a piece that just feels and seems like it was made for me to wear in my voice, you know ? :) 8)
It means your singing is sh*t, but at least you made the effort to look nice.
don't spice me up right now or you are going to get me as a sassy spice (if I feel up to it, that is !).
I'm sure she is gorgeous, dress or no dress.
I am sure she is, but if you are going to an audition, it might be wise to shave off the moustache first.
"Behoves", methinks.
Alistair
By the way, *behoves*, as you spell it, isn't in my New American Webster Dictionary.
I KNOW , it is *behooves.* ;)
Well done girl, you tell old Hinty where to get off.Which presumably is somewhere between these shores in which the OED holds sway as one of the standard works of its kind by which our population (which, I hear, still includes a few British people [not that I'm one of them, as you know]) and those beyond which "go" is domiciled. No criticism is or was intended here, incidentally - merely an observation about a word which, in UK, might be thought to have rather more to do with horses...
It means your singing is sh*t, but at least you made the effort to look nice.It's no wonder that you graduated from that charm school summa cum laude...
Which presumably is somewhere between these shores in which the OED holds sway as one of the standard works of its kind by which our population (which, I hear, still includes a few British people [not that I'm one of them, as you know]) and those beyond which "go" is domiciled. No criticism is or was intended here, incidentally - merely an observation about a word which, in UK, might be thought to have rather more to do with horses...
It's no wonder that you graduated from that charm school summa cum laude...
Best,
Alistair
After having graduated this month with my master's, I'm trying to figure out how to make a living.
She is using the NAWD and you the OED.That looks very much like two words to me , both of which, incidentally, almost certainly appear in both Webster and OED; quite why you adopt the pianistimo-like CAPITALS is less clear, however...
Now a word from the TED (Thals English Dictionary)
BOG OFF
새됐어Well, at least that one is just one word and it does not appear in that form either in Webster or OED...
I want to see Karli's dress and hear her sing or play piano. See if I can catch the fire.
Just make sure that YOU don't burn.....*ouch* :o
By the way, *behoves*, as you spell it, isn't in my New American Webster Dictionary.Behoove, now wouldn't that mean something like "putting hooves on"? As in “behold”, i.e. “putting a hold on”.
I KNOW , it is *behooves.* ;)
best wishes,
go12_3
BOG OFFMeaning SWAMP AWAY? Ye'r writing is a bit murky mate....
Behoove, now wouldn't that mean something like "putting hooves on"? As in “behold”, i.e. “putting a hold on”.
Hey, where did you get that from? *behoove* (with expletive it) be fitting or necessary. This word *behoove* does not have anything to do with putting hooves on a horse. ::)As Thal implied, it's probably no more than a difference of use between American and British English as represented respectively in Webster and OED; in British english, the word (as "gep" indicates he knows even though he is not British and English is not, as he admits, his first language) would indeed be suggestive of the act of putting of hooves on a horse - at least in theory, although it would be hard to imagine how it would be done in practice, since horses already have hooves, whereas the meaning of "behoves" appears to accords to your intended use of "behooves".
best wishes,
go12_3
"gep" (...) admits, English is not his first language
I can see a little sceneDo I take it that you mean that you mean you won't ever again admit to English being other than your first language?(!)...
Judge (in a deep, grave and booming voice): Do you admit that English is not your first language?
Gep (fearfull, softly); y-, y- ,yes, I,I,I, admit it, sire….
Judge (even more grave and deep); Will you never do that again?
Gep: (almost inaudible now): y-, yes, I,I won’t do it again, your sireship..
:D ;D :D and ;)...Well, at least this is not an example of your first language!
Do I take it that you mean that you mean you won't ever again admit to English being other than your first language?(!)...Well, the word "admit" might have some overtones of "confess" or "plead guilty". Surely one's use of English isn't something to 'plead guilty" to, even if the level one has might be a crime.... ;)
Well, the word "admit" might have some overtones of "confess" or "plead guilty". Surely one's use of English isn't something to 'plead guilty" to, even if the level one has might be a crime.... ;)English being what someone once called a repository of contrived obsequiousness, the word "admit" may be used in contexts quite other than confessing or pleding quilty to something; to "admit" something or someone can mean to let that thing or person in, without conveying any necessary sense of accompanying guilt. As someone else said when asked why she had chosen to teach English as a foreign language, "because that's what it is!"...
I was thinking that if Poundstretchers merged with Marks & Spencers, you would have a company called Stretchmarks.Nice one! - and equally appropriate for the new "jokes" thread, perhaps; mind you, I daresay that some people less than familiar with UK company names might think that Poundstretchers is a kind of catch-all descriptor for British banks...
And how Karli's audition results came out.
Maybe she needs an agent/promoter type of person.
Ahhh... what's the next plan? ;D It's really peaceful these few days...
I keep wishing I could quit one instrument and keep trying to talk myself into it (though it's mainly just singing that I wish I could quit), and it just never actually gels.
You can either try to master one instrument or be average on a few.
I chose the latter, but it took a long time to realise that such is the effort required for mastery, one can only really endeavour to master but one instrument.
Thal
You are a complex girl and i cannot help but feel that you spend too much time thinking and perhaps not enough time doing.
If you are not already master of your own self, then who is?
Have a few beers, take the dog for a walk and treat yourself to a few choccies.
Thal
Right on, Thal, cheers to life and being happy about what we do in our lives. Go raises a glass, *cheers* :)
You are a complex girl and i cannot help but feel that you spend too much time thinking and perhaps not enough time doing.
If you are not already master of your own self, then who is?
Have a few beers, take the dog for a walk and treat yourself to a few choccies.
Thal
Woot ! They asked me to "cover" the role of the Countess in the Marriage of Figaro for 2010 ! People are flying in even from other places to cover other roles, so I take it as an honor. Plus, it's the Countess 8).
Cheers !
Have a few beers, take the dog for a walk and treat yourself to a few choccies.Maybe K doesn't drink beer in multiple doses, possess a dog, eat chocolate or any combination of those things (I know that I don't do any of them apart from the very occasional indulgence in a tiny amount of chocolate, but then it's not me that we're talking about here)...
As Hinty would say, "you have encapsulated yourself"I don't recall ever having said that...
Thal, your post made me want to have beer and hot dogs for dinner!It momentarily made me wonder what's so great about a dog's dinner or a dog; I don't need to wonder about having beer, for I know how utterly horrid that is for me, for all that I can admire (at a respectable distance) some of the great "real ales" made in England...
Maybe K doesn't drink beer in multiple doses, possess a dog, eat chocolate or any combination of those things
It momentarily made me wonder what's so great about a dog's dinner or a dog; I don't need to wonder about having beer, for I know how utterly horrid that is for me, for all that I can admire (at a respectable distance) some of the great "real ales" made in England...
A pint of Bishops Tipple would convert you to a "real ale" man.Thanks for the offer, Thal, but it would convert me into a "really ailing" one, I fear; I just cannot abide the stuff (beer in general, that is, not any one in particular) - which is not at all the same as saying that none of it's any good. And what was it that Ogden Nash said? - I think it was something like "dog is man's best friend, but women make better wives"...
I feel bored practicing piano :(
How can I make practice fun?? ::)
I feel bored practicing piano :(
How can I make practice fun?? ::)
last-minute jitters before a recital
Good luck on your recital, db. I know you can do well. ;D
best wishes,
go12_3
I is giving a small recital tomorrow to some friends and i is crappin meself.
Thal
I am playing part of a Sonata by Woelfl and a nocturne by Herz.
Only about 15 minutes worth.
I am playing part of a Sonata by Woelfl and a nocturne by Herz.
Only about 15 minutes worth.
Luv
Thal
mompou. he deserves more recognition.
That's no recital, that's an ancore!
Thinking about finally planting my salad (:-[) this weekend.
( :-[ :-X)
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( ;))
(>:()
( :-*) ( :'()
:)
Ranki Ranki
Ranki Ranki
Ranki Ranki
Ranki Ranki
Ranki Ranki
Ranki Ranki
Ranki Ranki
Ranki Ranki
Ranki Ranki
Hope this helps.
Thal
(What a wonderful genius Haydn was!) :)
It would have been helpful if you had spelled it with an "á"
:'(
;D
It seems like a lot of pianists these days don't like Haydn. Almost every one of them I ask think it is boring.
Well, quite frankly, a lot of pianists need to give him another look, and having just crossed the bicentennial of his death, when's a better time? I know Mozart is delightful, but Haydn is in so many indescribable ways even more fulfilling. In fact I would say in music history, there's hardly a composer as fulfilling as Franz Joseph Haydn.
Thinking about finally planting my salad (:-[) this weekend.
Although you could be planting everything that goes into a salad, but... it's still not planting a salad.
I is giving a small recital tomorrow to some friends and i is crappin meself.
Thal
How dare you speak to the Kountess that way !
Building my audience :
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(This Kountess is a pianist !)
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Anyhow, If you can't figure what this is: It's a guy with glasses ! lol
Mahler's 9th, or Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, or Bach's Komm, süßer Tod!; that's my idea of Heaven.
It hurts, but I still believe in love somehow.Yes, db, read my poem that I just posted....
Yes, db, read my poem that I just posted....
It's good, your best so far.
In the world of the Internet:
*delete* ------------words
*delete*-------------pictures
*delete*-------------feelings
*delete*-------------someone
*delete* *delete* *delete* ----------------to a nothingness-------------
I'm sad.. and ps' dying T_T
some confusion as to why things occur that I have no control of - Be more worried about things that occur that you do have control of
some wondering how things turn out the way they are - because they do
some saddness because things can never be the same like it used to be - life would be boring if things were always the same as they used to be
some depression about things I cannot change. - then change your own outlook
some thoughts that wish would never enter my mind. - if i did half the things that came into my mind, i would be in prison
and right now, I just want to curl up in a corner and cry..........and cry - have a beer instead
because no body cares...........truly cares - I do
See answers above.
Dr Thal
*waters salad garden
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It can be an hour by hour show where we just sit and watch Thal's beard growing back.
I have shaved off my beard.Wondering if what was a good idea? - the beard, shaving it off or both?
Wondering now if it was a good idea.
Thal
I have shaved off my beard.So Teddy Bear is now merely Teddy? (But perhaps not yet tidy?)
Wondering now if it was a good idea.
Thal
I also thought of another gameshow called "Celebrity Blow Your Balls Off", but i am sure you do not want the details.Nah, you'd leave 1/2 of the celebs out of it, and the remainder probably couldn't find them with a map.
Thal
Nah, you'd leave 1/2 of the celebs out of it, and the remainder probably couldn't find them with a map.
I am happy now.....someone special contacted me, =)
(Bob hopes it wasn't Thalbergmad.)
Indeed, but i had forgot to mention my other gameshow idea called "Celebrity Blow Your Tits Off"And what do you propose for the other half of the female celebs?
Cannot tell you.
This is a family forum.
Thal
She has probably blocked me.You seem to have this obsession of thinking me a she which, on last check, I most certainly am not.
Block me then Doris.At least you feel you fit the description...
I have no desire to read your posts either.
At least you feel you fit the description...
um....how to talk with someone who's really sensitive
Go and hug someone.
Always makes you feel better.
Thal
Well, i fell better already ;DDid you "fall" for "go", then? Or did you mean that you "feel" better? - in which case do you feel better because you've been hugged, or because you've by your own admission shaved off your beard, or both?
I decided to lock my heart and throw the key away.......
I am a locksmith, so beware.
Thal
Unlock your heart oh fair maiden ;D
One of me BanjosAny particular one? And only one?...
No woman is worth more than one.Lemme gess, y'ull need da rest of yer banjess te whack of all them odder wimmin trowin' demselfs at ye?
Lemme gess, y'ull need da rest of yer banjess te whack of all them odder wimmin trowin' demselfs at ye?I have to admit to experiencing gteat difficulty in understanding this modern Dutch dialect, but I thini that I can nevertheless graps sufficient of its sense not to need a translation into English...
No woman is worth more than one.But Thal - unless you have met every woman in the world, how can you possibly know that? In any case, valuing a woman in banjo currency is surely a somewhat unreliable method of calculation, wouldn't you say?...
Posted on: Today at 09:52:48 AMPosted by: ahintonDis aint no Dutch, djuz' an approxemasjun of de lingo I heard on sum English TV sait!QuoteQuote from: gep on Today at 07:09:37 AM
Lemme gess, y'ull need da rest of yer banjess te whack of all them odder wimmin trowin' demselfs at ye?
I have to admit to experiencing gteat difficulty in understanding this modern Dutch dialect, but I thini that I can nevertheless graps sufficient of its sense not to need a translation into English...
Best,
Alistair
But Thal - unless you have met every woman in the world, how can you possibly know that? In any case, valuing a woman in banjo currency is surely a somewhat unreliable method of calculation, wouldn't you say?...It is, one has to determine first a) how does the banjo sound and b) how does the woman sound. And you'd have to count the amount of strings attached, of course!
Best,
Alistair
I have to admit to experiencing gteat difficulty in understanding this modern Dutch dialect, but I thini that I can nevertheless graps sufficient of its sense not to need a translation into English...I am mightily relieved to discover that!
Best,
Alistair
Dis aint no Dutch, djuz' an approxemasjun of de lingo I heard on sum English TV sait!
It is, one has to determine first a) how does the banjo sound and b) how does the woman sound. And you'd have to count the amount of strings attached, of course!Perhaps the shape of each might also be a factor...
In any case, valuing a woman in banjo currency is surely a somewhat unreliable method of calculation, wouldn't you say?...
What has this thread come to?! The price of banjos in lieu of women?!Of course it is! Read some of Mozart's letters. Especially those to his niece (das Bäsle)... :o ;)
I'm only hoping this is all some sort of psychologlical outlet for brilliant musicians...
Of course it is! Read some of Mozart's letters. Especially those to his niece (das Bäsle)... :o ;)
A poem by Mozart:
Nun mein Liebster bleib gesund,
Reck dein Arsch bis an den Mund.
Nun mein Liebster gute Nacht,
Scheiss' in's Bett mit Kracht.
No, I'm not going to translate that!
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No, I'm not going to translate that!
Sorry I am just in a really bad mood now. :(
You can make me a bacon buttie if you are that bored.
Thal
According to the news the Archbishop of Canterbury is much in favor of those courts...
Well, the Archbishop of Canterbury is an out of touch tambourine banging twat.I rather doubt that the Archcant of Bishopbury would know quite what to do with a tambourine if anyone were to present him with one, but I do agree that two sets of laws of the kind that you allude to are likely to be about as useful as the time-dishonoured "two sets of accounts"; that said (and I also appreciate your remarks about New Old Half-Baked Labour's purported support for women's rights sitting uncomfortably alongside promotion of the use of Sharia law in UK), I don't think that what you call "the unelected fraudsters in Brussels" are any more adept at breaking or otherwise deliberately misppropriating laws of their or anyone else's creation for their own ends than is anyone here in UK, elected or otherwise, inside or outside of what passes for local or national government and irrespective of who may or may not have made said laws in the first place.
I do not see how in a Country you can have two different types of Law systems in operation, that could produce vastly different judgements when dealing with the same case. If ever there was a barrier to integration, this is it.
Our Muslim loving Labour government is to blame for this stupidity. However, since the Labour Party are supposedly all for equal rights for women, I do not see how they can allow this system to operate.
Anyway, since most of our laws appear to be made by unelected fraudsters in Brussels, there is probably nothing that they can do about it even if they had the will to do so.
To play the violin effectively, you need a good teacher to show the proper way to hold the violin and the bow. It takes time and effort to learn to play violin. Yet, a great instrument to play beautiful pieces.Yes indeed. I prefer playing the CD/LP rather than the violin, for reason that I can do the former, but not the latter...
best wishes,
go12_3
I'm wondering where lucylucy's "FIRST HANGOVER" thread is... :PNils deleted it, of course.
OMG! I JUST DOWNLOADED HALF OF THE MARTH ARGERICH DISCOGRAPHY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Me is happy! :)
i thought you had been rather inactive lately.
Glad you are back and even more so i am glad you are content.
Thal
I can't apoligize though or I will look like a wimp :-[
It takes more of a man to apologise.
Thal
I can't believe how this whole forum has been changing since the end of January this year!
There is an influx of new members and it's interesting to see how the used to be active
members just come and go. I've been inactive but still visit the forum on occasion.
I don't see the usual former members though, like morningstar,tds, shorty-short, peter, pianowolfi and some others that I know of but can't think of at the moment. I suppose the online stuff is similar to real life....things come and go, things always have to change. It sad in a way because how this forum used to be was more fun and the members knew each other better. Oh, well, times a changing and we have to change along with them, I suppose....*sigh*
best wishes,
go12_3
I can't believe how this whole forum has been changing since the end of January this year!
There is an influx of new members and it's interesting to see how the used to be active
members just come and go. I've been inactive but still visit the forum on occasion.
I don't see the usual former members though, like morningstar,tds, shorty-short, peter, pianowolfi and some others that I know of but can't think of at the moment. I suppose the online stuff is similar to real life....things come and go, things always have to change. It sad in a way because how this forum used to be was more fun and the members knew each other better. Oh, well, times a changing and we have to change along with them, I suppose....*sigh*
best wishes,
go12_3
I'm wondering what the Lockerbie bomber is thinking now as he is being released... onto an airplane. He bombed an airplane in the past. Now they release him and say, "Yes, you're free! ...Just step onto this nice, safe airplane and you'll be free! Everything's ok. It's perfectly safe. Step right this way!" Wouldn't that be ironic?I am well aware that what I am about to write represents a controversial issue with views that divide themselves largely into two with an ocean called Atlantic as separator, but your sentence "he bombed an airplane in the past" has to be considered in the context that there are many who believe - and some who have long believed - that this person's conviction was unsound and his guilt questionable; these include a significant number of bereaved people. So - maybe he's thinking "as someone who has served a part of a sentence for bombing an airplane without ever having done so, I wonder what it might feel like to be someone who bombs an airplane and gets away with it". I do not suppose, however, that anyone needs to concern him/herself with what he's thinking any more than he is likely to annouce publicly what he's thinking. What is perhaps a pity is that, in order for his release to happen, he has been obliged to accept advice to abandon his appeal; one reason why I say that this is a pity is that those bereaved people who either believe that he didn't do it or have doubts as to whether he did it will no longer be afforded the possibility of closure.
I am in a nomadic phase, sort of turning up wherever I want whenever I want. It's great ;D
go!!!! *hugs* miss you!!
where have you been?
I am thinking of sleeping for twenty-four hours. In fact, I want to sleep so badly I am thinking if this is a sign of depression not even music can heal. :(
Wondering why Japanese are the best when it comes to art.
Hey, tds is ON MY MIND! I love you! ;D :-* :-* :-*
aww..thank you, luvly go. :-* :-* ;D
here's something for you:
hi go! heheh... ;D ;D :-* i'm fine thank you. how r u doing darl? yeah, its been mm...that! a day! :P :P ;D
*checks for a new youtube link for go*
My world is a spinning with art and music and love.
Listening to Wolfi's Styx program. :)
Still in drifting phase, found something to do job-wise though. Wondering what has happened to PS, usually there would be lots of people in chat about now...
Lucky!
I have an Idea that can make me a composer.
we should rebuild the chat rooms maybe
I hate people who know they are better.
Thal
I think the difficulty of Chopin prelude in G major is overrated, yesterday I sight read it at about 60% speed, perfectly legato, steady rythm and evenly with no wrong notes, if I practiced it I could get it up to speed. This leads me to believe it is not very difficult.
Or, it could be that you are a genius.
Thal
I don't know why you wasted your time on that crap.
A thoroughly boring little ditty.
Thal
I currently have a streak of playing playful music awfully
I think everone plays this awfully. There is not much one can do with it.
It is womens music and it is feeble.
Thal
If you cannot play that poxy little waltz properly, I would not attempt much of Dreyschock's output, although some of his smaller pieces are not tendon tearers.
Thal
That's all right Go. We all think you're sane and yet... we don't exist. We're just a figment of your imagination, but we still think you're sane, so that's ok.
need hardwork on maths to enter the science department!! T_T
bah ... right now I'm kinda struggling with a mildly severe case of piano envy over my friend's Bose.
bah ... right now I'm kinda struggling with a mildly severe case of piano envy over my friend's Bose. Mine seems like a piece of plywood to me right now (sorry senor piano, I'll work it out ! I still love you ... on some level ... haha).Isn't "mildly severe" something of a contradiction in terms? That said (or rather asked), I can well understand what you feel, even without being a pianist myself, although it might be worth adding that piano enny is not one of the more contructive emotions, so maybe the berst solution for you is to get more friendy with your friend to the extent that he/she can no longer resist offering you ample opportunities to practise on it!
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours piano.Did pianistimo tell you that? (although, even if she did, she probably didn't also tell you that, in a context such as this one, "neighbours" should read "neighbour's" - unless, that is, she also sought to persuade you that one should not covet one's neighbours...)
It should be the 11th Commandment.
Isn't "mildly severe" something of a contradiction in terms?
(...)offering you ample opportunities to practise on it!
Yes ! Thanks for noticing ! It's a form of my fabulous sense of humor :-\.Successfully, one hopes! What model Bösendorfer does your friend have?
Already been done ;D.
Successfully, one hopes! What model Bösendorfer does your firend have?
Best,
Alistair
Well, it depends on what "successfully" really means. If you are asking whether or not I will ever take her up on it, that depends entirely on my-need-to-play-that-piano being capable of trumping my constant sense of not wanting to intrude on people's space ! I have a distinct feeling though, that I will, in fact, actually try to work my way over there at some point ... perhaps even quite soon (though, "soon" for me can sometimes mean "sometime within the next 6 months to a year" ... haha).OK and OK. The fact that it may not necessarily be a full concert grand is unlikely to make a whole lot of difference to the sheer pleasure - mental, physical and emotional - that you may well derive from the experience of practising on it when you get to do so - and I'm sorry if that makes you feel even more piano-envious!
I am not sure what model it is. I just don't know enough about Bosendorfers to be able to know without actually asking her. It's not a full grand, I mean, not a 9 footer.
Another 1st place! I think I'm building up a career! :D
bah ... right now I'm kinda struggling with a mildly severe case of piano envy over my friend's Bose. Mine seems like a piece of plywood to me right now (sorry senor piano, I'll work it out ! I still love you ... on some level ... haha).
I'm thinking I've never seen Superman leap a tall building. Never. And if he did, he would probably look a bit silly. You can't really "leap" over a skyscraper.
(...) I'm sorry if that makes you feel even more piano-envious!
Best,
Alistair
Plywood. :D ;D
Does this mean that you are thinking about plywood ?
Another 1st place! I think I'm building up a career! :D
Every year at about this time, hornets infest my room. Before today, I have always been passive about it, but no more! whenever I see a hornet in my room IT WILL DIE!!!!!!
That's so funny! I hope the you get that hornet before it gets you! ;D ;D
There are many more than one, my kill count for yesterday was 5. Hopefully they will disappear by the end of the month.
Red Bull. (Bob plans on buying more)
What the bloody hell does that mean??
my little Swiss cuckoo clock collectorI didn't know that any Swiss cuckoos collected clocks; one learns something new every day on this splendid forum.
Been at the wine a bit early today??What is "early" in this context and why in any case do you ask yourself that?
You should apply for the first manned Mars expedition Bob ;D
Expect some stiff competition.
Thal
You are a very strange womenNo, K is a woman, not "women"; there is but one of her, as I'm sure you'd agree. What she means by post #1080 is, however, a mystery at the very least...
No, K is a woman, not "women"; there is but one of her, as I'm sure you'd agree. What she means by post #1080 is, however, a mystery at the very least...
I typed women to reflect her previous incarnation.If K has a previous incarnation as more than one woman, then so be it; your choice to reflect this is yours alone. There is nevertheless no need for your request to "BOG OFF", since I do not live close enough to a bog of any kind (much as it may sometimes feel otherwise) and I had in any event merely been seeking to point out that there appears to be only one Karli, previous incarnations or no previous incarnations.
It's Monday.... Grr.....
If K has a previous incarnation as more than one woman, then so be it; your choice to reflect this is yours alone. There is nevertheless no need for your request to "BOG OFF", since I do not live close enough to a bog of any kind (much as it may sometimes feel otherwise) and I had in any event merely been seeking to point out that there appears to be only one Karli, previous incarnations or no previous incarnations.
Best,
Alistair
I would like to devour the entire 'you' in one gulp, please ... thank you, hullo, goodbye. *bows*Whoever may be meant by 'you' here, it occurs to me that the fulfilment of the desire that you express is likely to give rise to the most appalling bout of indigestion...
Whoever may be meant by 'you' here, it occurs to me that the fulfilment of the desire that you express is likely to give rise to the most appalling bout of indigestion...
Best,
Alistair
I'm over it.Which? Your desire, the indigestion or both?
Which? Your desire, the indigestion or both?
Best,
Alistair
hmmmm ... good question. Of course, everything I said and meant were metaphoric ( :P) but, don't you think that devouring anybody, even -- or especially -- metaphorically, would cause a bout of "indigestion" ? I mean, everybody's got some "stuff" inside of their souls that is perhaps not going to necessarily be easy for me to digest, especially the type of person I am prone to wanting to devour ... there's going to be a lot in there and it's probably not always going to be easy choking them down ;D ... MUAH HA HA HAAAAK. - I have no idea - largely because I have never sought to "devour" anyone, metaphorically, physically or in any other way (if indeed there are any other such ways); just composing a piece of music is quite difficult enough (a fact that you, who have heard at least one of mine, might well be better placed to appreciate than some others)...
K. - I have no idea - largely because I have never sought to "devour" anyone, metaphorically, physically or in any other way (if indeed there are any other such ways);
just composing a piece of music is quite difficult enough (a fact that you, who have heard at least one of mine, might well be better placed to appreciate than some others)...
Best,
Alistair
I devour people
OK baby, I am 280 pounds of best British beef.Leaving aside the fact that you almost certainly do not know Karli's devouring rate any better than I do, I have to admit that at least 125kg of flesh is quite a lot to get through; how she may (or may not) respond to this particular challenge, be it physical, metaphorical or otherwise remains, of course, to be seen...
It would take you a week for just 1 arm.
Well, I have already devoured very large portions of most people here :), including you, Thal.
Yes, that's right ! It's something like "catch and release" ... I am not only a woman, but I am also a (foxy ;D) lady :). Still though, Thal, just in case you are wondering, I am only one person (sort of ;D). And, btw, I DID eat all those Thalburgers ... I scarfed them right down ! But, seriously, why do you think people like xvimbi and Bernhard don't post anymore ?? Yes, I ate them.I am beginning to worry about not only the state of your digestive tract but also your cholesterol level (HDL, LDL and the balance between the two); Thalburgers in themselves are surely quite dangerous enough on that front, but "scarfing down" other forum members in addition to indulgence therein really puts you at even graver risk, I think. What would a self-confessed "woman" and "foxy lady" be doing getting herself into these appallingly deleterious and profoundly risky dietary situations? one might well wonder...
my universal stomachI'll leave that hopefully unique phenomenon for others to contemplate should they so choose, on the strict understanding that gastroscopies (if, as and when required) are not available free of charge to forum members...
I am beginning to worry about not only the state of your digestive tract but also your cholesterol level (HDL, LDL and the balance betgween the two); Thalburgers in themselves are surely quite dangerous enough on that front, but "scarfing down" other forum members in addition to indulgence therein really puts you at even graver risk, I think. What would a self-confessed "woman" and "foxy lady" be doing getting herself into these appallingly deleterious and profoundly risky dietary situations? one might well wonder...
Take good care of your food intake, K - and, if you find that somewhat difficult because of your apparently inveterate devouring habit, do try to consult a clinical nutritionist for help on this...
Best,
Alistair
I think not.
You could not even manage those thalburgers i sent you years ago.
Thal
since when do you define what it means to be either a woman OR a lady, hmmm ?I'm no more certain that "when" is the appropriate question here than I am that "define" is the relevant parameter in such a question; I wrote
I'm no more certain that "when" is the appropriate question here than I am that "define" is the relevant parameter in such a question; I wrote
"a self-confessed "woman" and "foxy lady""
by which I identified that these are both terms that you have used to describe yourself, so if even you have not seen fit also to define them, there's no obvious reason to assume that I had done or indeed would do so either - so "when" simply doesn't come into it!
Best,
Alistair
Alistair, Alistair, Alistair ... ;DWe've already established that there's only one of you, so let's now confirm that there's only one of me as well...
Here's what's on mi mind : Soon I will out-Porgi Amor everybody in the entire Universe ;D 8)We look forward to the evidence! (and while Figaro's busy figuring out when, whom, how or even if he'll marry, maybe Porgy and Bess too...)
I am the KountessBut which? - the one in Nozze or the one in Capriccio?...
mega erased postWhy? (I mean why erased?); PM if you will...
my piano my piano my piano my piano my piano my piano (i dont have it at home yet, i get it after the holidays) but i was playing on it yesterday and i can not stop thinking about it! i am in love ;D :D :)I remember that feeling very well, enjoy it ;)
I remember that feeling very well, enjoy it ;)
Okay, the clarinet in the Star Wars song DEFINITELY squeaked on purpose.Or maybe it was force-choked by Vader.
Happy Birthday, Go12_3!!!
My Birthday is today~~ woohoo! ;D ;D :) :) ;) :-* 8) 8)
A very happy birthday! :) and not just birthday but the whole year till the next birthday too! :) :)
Bonne anniversaire, go!
Best,
Alistair
Yeh, happy birthday.
Have you got a photo for your bus pass??
Thal
Thanks Thal, :)
A photo to what?
Sorry, I am just being cheeky. In England, you can get a bus pass when you are 60.I am not 60 years of age myself, but I can tell you (as if you needed telling) that having a "free bus pass" at any age is of little value when there are no buses in one's vicinity.
I feel bad now, so I will bake you a 2 foot diameter cake so i can fit on all of the candles.
I am not 60 years of age myself
This year is it not??This year is what not what? - and, more importantly, what does the question or the answer (or lack thereof) thereto have to do with free bus passes, their availability and entitlement thereto? Let's stick to the subject matter that you raise - i.e. people's entitlement to passes to travel free on buses when they (the people, that is - not the buses) attain the age of 60; such passes are of no use, as I mentioned, to people who live in areas where there are no buses on which they could otherwise be used. That's all that I was pointing out - and, it should be remembered, any such "passes" might apply only in UK, not in the many other countries represented by this forum's membership...
Sorry, I am just being cheeky. In England, you can get a bus pass when you are 60.
I feel bad now, so I will bake you a 2 foot diameter cake so i can fit on all of the candles.
Thal
round spherical objectsWell - make up your mind...
Covering up perverse threads with a meaningless comment in another thread.
I'm thinking America isn't pulling its weight when it comes to cheese. Why did we get stuck with "American cheese?" That stuff's not so great.Owned. And, the commercials that advertised American Cheese made fun of Swiss Cheese.
Owned. And, the commercials that advertised American Cheese made fun of Swiss Cheese.Even business are doing better than "American" in general. I'm thinking Velveeta here. But it can be worse than American. Yes... government cheese.
I AM getting a piano tomorrow!!!!!!! At 10 am! :D i cant believe it!!! :) :P :D :) i cant belive it! i cant wait!!!! My piano my piano my piano!!!!!!!! im nervous! i dont know what to do :)
i hope my dad wont be too angry! because he doesnt really know im getting a piano yet.... :-\ when we first talked about it he said what do we need piano for... and we dont have that much money so he'll probably be angry.... my mum says he's probably not gonna talk to us for a while... Well i dont care! im gonna be playing my piano ALL the time anyway so who cares!
My pianoooo!!!! :P :D :) 8)
I remember getting my own piano too, it was such a happy day and I played on it each day! You are lucky to get a piano and do practice each day and work hard on your music. Love and embrace it with all of your heart. I know how you feel :)
MY PIANOOOOO theyre bringing my piano up the stairs right NOW!!!!!!!!!
So good. Now begins a new life :)
I'm wondering what groundhog tastes like.
That is good news old chap.
Hopefully your cycling is not impeded by this.
Thal
Surely you are not going to put them on your drops??
I need no Ulnaris surgery, I don't need it, yipp yipp 8). This thought has scared me for quite a while and now I have been at the neurologist. And he said I don't need surgery. I just mustn't always put my elbow on a hard surface...Im really glad you dont need a surgery! :) (even though i dont really know what kind of surgery that is :) ).
Im really glad you dont need a surgery! :) (even though i dont really know what kind of surgery that is :) ).
But you know you have to be really really very careful if you're riding a bike in the street where there's a lot of cars because its VERY very dangerous! And my best freinds mum died because she got hit by a truck when she was riding a bike and it was really horrible :( And the driver didnt even see her for some time. Because the drivers in those large trucks don't even see you if you're too close to them or somewhere at the side. Am afraid of those huge trucks and Im afraid to drive a bike in the street, but its cool where there are no cars :) 8)
Yes I know, but I have a lot of experience at biking. And I love it. I have been riding twice from here to your country :) And in one summer (I think it was 2004) I made more km in France than the Tour de France 8) But at the moment I'm horribly out of shape :Pwell ok cool 8) but you still have to be really VERY careful! And u should wear a helmet! How long does it take to go with a bike from your country to mine?? And all that time u weren't playing piano at all?? I just don't want to think about when we'll go on holidays and i wont be able to take my piano with me!! :'( But maybe thats just because i only just got it now :-\ :) :P :)
Just found out some news that makes me feel that life is so very precious. It helps me realize how important it is to know what love is, both in accepting it from others and in feeling it and expressing it for others. I just feel very grateful right now for how genuineness can be expressed even through something like an internet forum, and I feel grateful for the friendships I feel I have made here. It's such a strange thing to look out my window and see the amazingly blue sky and the puffy clouds which have that outline of sunshine, and at the same time inwardly know that there are seemingly such deep mysteries to these gifts. Sometimes I just wish I could wrap all of life inside of my arms and cradle humanity.
I hope that each of you are blessed and feel blessed.
Sometimes I just wish I could wrap all of life inside of my arms and cradle humanity.
Very nice, but i doubt if you would get your arms around me.All you have to do is reduce your beer consumption and modify your diet for a short while and all sorts of things that might now seem unlikely might enter the realms of the perfectly possible; I'm not suggesting or even recommending that you do this, but...
Just found out some news that makes me feel that life is so very precious. It helps me realize how important it is to know what love is, both in accepting it from others and in feeling it and expressing it for others. I just feel very grateful right now for how genuineness can be expressed even through something like an internet forum, and I feel grateful for the friendships I feel I have made here. It's such a strange thing to look out my window and see the amazingly blue sky and the puffy clouds which have that outline of sunshine, and at the same time inwardly know that there are seemingly such deep mysteries to these gifts. Sometimes I just wish I could wrap all of life inside of my arms and cradle humanity.I am content simply to be very happy for you in that you have received some news that makes you feel like this!
I hope that each of you are blessed and feel blessed.
All you have to do is reduce your beer consumption
I am, for sure, Karli! :)
Very nice, but i doubt if you would get your arms around me.
Thal
I am content simply to be very happy for you in that you have received some news that makes you feel like this!
Best,
Alistair
I hardly feel 10 pints a week is excessive.Presuming you to be responding to my mention of beer, maybe you don't and maybe (by some standards) it isn't; in the present context, however, much would presumably depend upon the extent to which you feel that the ability of K to embrace you might be of importance to you. That said, 10 millilitres of beer a decade would be well and truly excessive for me...
Man cannot live on bread alone.Indeed not!
much would presumably depend upon the extent to which you feel that the ability of K to embrace you might be of importance to you.
The beer wins, but it is close.Close to what?
I have 666 posts in on the teaching board. Haha.
Going through some conflicts within my mind and heart now~~ :(
Best to keep the two seperate.
Thal
Best to keep the two seperate.Best either to keep the two separate or not to do so - the choice is yours (or anyone else's).
Best either to keep the two separate or not to do so - the choice is yours (or anyone else's).
Back to work - in which trying to "separate" those two things seems to me to be an utter waste of time as well as being creatively counter-productive...
Best,
Alistair
Ultimately, I think there is very little separation between head and heart, actually, or
Back to work
Well, i am expecting loads of letters shortly as it is Valentines day.That was probably because they're so useless at deliverying anything themselves. Anyway, be that as it may, what size truck did you use to do that?
The Post Office made me go and collect them last year.
Thal
Today is my HALF birthday :) :D :) happy half birthday to me :P and i have 111 posts :) well i wont have 111 posts anymore when i post this :) but ill have 112 :) which could be the date that is today :)
and my right eye hurts, dont know why :-\ not all the time just when i look around and move my eye. and i dont see so well on that eye, i see kinda blurry or something. oh well.... its not too bad...
Hope your eye gets better soon ~~ Take care :)
This thing cracks me up.
Don't read anything. Just count how many passes the white team makes.
The future's on my mind.
(Bob puts the future 'near' his mind.)
Well, I am big round and hairy so I think that is a good name. In fact, I think i rather like it.
I do have a small collection of soft toys which includes about half a dozen bears. I still have the bear that was bought for me on my 1st birthday. His name is nostich.
Thal
MY PIANOOOOO theyre bringing my piano up the stairs right NOW!!!!!!!!!
I was thinking about increasing my piano repertoire through a direct cranial surgical implant. (Bob wonders what the best edition is for that.)
The Powell edition should set you on Pace. ;)
(I myself use the Richter scale.)
The Powell edition should set you on Pace. ;)If you publish observations like that, I'm not surprised that you do!
(I myself use the Richter scale.)
Coming back here and thinking,
WHERE IS EVERYONE???
Coming back here and thinking,
WHERE IS EVERYONE???
I'm still here. I miss the old PS times. =(
I'm still here. I miss the old PS times. =(
(Bob still thinks poodles are naturally mean.)
I have dogs on my mind right now.. And I blame all of you for that! Especially No Pie-Bob, for that poodle pic.I cannot quite perceive the connection, so maybe you could enlighten us; thanks.
Oh, and Schumann. Those frigging symphonic etudes..
It's not funny! Why do you say bad things about my doggy?? If you don't like me just say something bad about me! Leave my doggy alone! What did he ever do to you?! you don't know anything about him, you don't know what a great doggy he was! And he sure never humped or ripped anyone's leg or whatever!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ok??
And are you racist??? Saying all poodles are mean it's just like saying all people from one country or of one race are bad and mean!!! That's wrong!!!!!!!!! It's not like you've met all of them!
You made me really sad and you made me cry. And I guess thats what you wanted anyway so you can now go and celebrate and feel really happy and proud cause you did it! I wrote all that about my doggy yesterday not cause I thought it was funny cause I feel like crying when I talk about all that, I just wrote it so you would maybe understand that not all poodles are like that! And why do u then have to start making fun of that?? Well we'll see how you feel when someone you love sooo much dies and then someone says bad things about them! oh or maybe you just don't love anyone that much. lucky you!!!
Oh and you know what? Maybe you should go and ask your aunt why her dog was acting that way! I mean people should teach dogs how to act! You can't really expect doggys to just be born knowing what's right and what's wrong! PEOPLE are supposed to teach them that!! how can u not know that??? Oh or maybe you should just ask yourself too why dogs don't like you! because dogs know very well if someone hates them and if someone is mean!
And how would you feel if you were in that poodles place probably standing there for a whole day with that stupid haircut and everything? You don't think you would look angry?
Maybe I will post my doggy's picture in the pictures thread again. could you please not say bad things about him? You can say bad things about me if you want, I mean I guess it's not really hard to find something to make fun of... I mean I say stupid things all the time and I can't play the piano.... so could you PLEASE just make fun of that? Just say bad things about me! But don't say bad things about my doggy! You don't know him and you don't know anything about him! And you don't know how much I love him and how much he means to me! thanks!
But you know I've met a lot of poodles and most of them were nice... and if dogs are not nice it's usually peoples fault.
I did not get an Easter present from Pianostreets.
Thal :'(
Hmm I think maybe someone should write a piece for piano and a doggy singer :) I think it would be kinda cool :) maybe I will some day :) :P
Oh and I also wanted to say for a long time now that I think it was really cool when we got a present for easter from pianostreet! :) And silver members could choose one gold piece :) it was really cool! well except I just couldn't decide which one for a really long time.... But it was sooo cool cause then we had to click on the easter egg and we got it!! :) 8)
If the ash cloud is so damaging to plane engines -- since it's glass floating around -- isn't that also pretty bad for people to breathe in? I'd be more worried about my lungs than any engines. Why aren't we hearing more about that?
They did make something for a cat.
https://www.catcerto.com/cat_video.htm
Nothing is on my mind. Nothing, nothing, nothing....argh. I can't do it. There's always *something* on my mind. Why can't i have just nothing on it????
Some people say it's easy. But I don't believe it, believe it or not.
I think that it's because the moment you try to have "nothing" on your mind, you have something on your mind. It's impossible, unless your dead.
Nothing is on my mind. Nothing, nothing, nothing....argh. I can't do it. There's always *something* on my mind. Why can't i have just nothing on it????
Some people say it's easy. But I don't believe it, believe it or not.
But nothing is nothing. Not even black, just nothing. No reveries, no window, no cares, just nothing.
It doesn't drive me nuts, but it's a very difficult exercise, to me. :) One I never succeeded in...yet.. ;D
I don't think I understand that about not having anything on your mind :-\ but it just sounds really scarry to me... for some time I was even afraid to go to sleep because it just seemed soooo scarry that for so many hours I won't know anything and won't think about anything and won't remember anything :-\ . well now I'm not afraid anymore it just bothers me sometimes that I have to sleep so much :) I mean if I sleep 8 hours I'm sleepy and tired all day ::) I have to sleep like 9 or 10 hours!!! My friend says that people who are very intelligent need very little sleep (like 4 hours or something) ... so I guess Im just really really stupid... but I don't care!!
What is Maestro's? I would almost think (sarcastically) it was Toscanini's house. ;D
But the last flight I was on, the connecting flight back home, in walked a former teacher of three years. I greeted him in warm excitement and he recognized me as someone he'd seen in the hall, but could not remember who I was...some influence I have! :-[ :)
I want a hug.There must be someone on here with sufficiently long arms who would be only too pleased to oblige!
oh... a hug! :)
(https://i748.photobucket.com/albums/xx127/0annalinda0/kihsejeizgubil_0005.jpg)
(well maybe it's not a whole hug... just a half hug... but it's better in a way because this kind of hug can last longer I think :) )
but maybe if you really need a very huge hug you can get something like this :)
I want a hug.
Thal
I know you already got a hug, but why not two hugs ? *gives Thaly a bone crushing hug* :)
bollox ;DNo,Thal; arms; it's very hard to give anyone a hug using "bollox", however they may be spelt.
Thanks, very kind.There you are! Told you so! You now have a big hug from Karli. If that's not made your day I have less than no idea what would!
The world definately needs more hugs.
Thal
If that's not made your day I have less than no idea what would!
There you are! Told you so! You now have a big hug from Karli. If that's not made your day I have less than no idea what would!
Best,
Alistair
Alistair, if you and Thal hugged, it would usher in world peace. ;DIn principle, one might reasonably assume that this would surely depend on whom I hugged and whom Thal hugged, were it not for the fact that I don't in any case quite see "world peace" being ushered in as a direct and immediate consequence of one person hugging another...
;D ;D ;DI hope that you have a good dentist...
That is a very good drawing and rather moving in a cutish sort of way.
Thal
That drawing is more than just cute. Littletune has been able to create perspective. The viewer is drawn into the picture and focuses on the hug even though that is a very small part of the total. The choice of subject matter is universal.
I hope that you have a good dentist...wheeew, danke... :)
Best,
Alistair
Mr. Optimism
https://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100426/ts_afp/scienceastronomyextraterrestrialhawking
Wonders of technology.
This girl's playing with herself. And a bassoon.
Why do I keep having bad dreams now?? Since that argument with my dad on friday I just keep having bad dreams every night!! that's five nights already! and I don't dream the same thing, I always dream something different... but it's always something scary and weird. And today was the weirdest for sure!!! I dreamt that my grandparents died... (in real life they all died already, one before I was even born, and two a few years ago of cancer and heart attack, and I don't know anything about one). so in my dream two of my grandparents died (don't really know which ones) and they were just there at home... we just left them there (I think for quite a long time).... and meanwhile I had to learn to read something and I had a teacher for that and I had to read outloud and I started reading but I just couldn't, I just couldn't even read one sentence, I read like two words and then I got lost and I didn't know where I was and I just didn't know how to read anymore (which was really scary too because I know how to read since I was 4 and that's one thing I really CAN do). So... after I realized I just couldn't read anymore me and my mum (or at least I thought she was my mum) went out.... and.... "my mum" had this bags in her hands..... and in those bags were dead bodies of my grandparents :o ..... and she was just going to throw the bags in the trash can!!!! :o And she said if I could take the bags and go throw them into the trash can. And when I thought about that I just got shivers and I just said Oh no no no no no no no nooooo I can't do that!!! And so she went to throw them....... And I said I don't think thats allowed and I think she said something like that noone will find out anyway... and so then she said she had to go buy some clothes or something ??? ... and we went to the store and it was closed already but she just went in anyway and by then I already knew she was not my mum... (I thought it was someone from a tv series) and I was looking at her and she took her sunglasses off and....... I realized she didn't even have a face!!!! all she had was something like a little circle with a mouth and nothing else aroud it!! just nothing!!!! and then I think I woke up.... and I just couldn't get the dead bodies and mouth without a face out off my mind.....
so now I wrote that cause I thought maybe that way it would go out off my mind....!
time is the best doctor
Time might be the best doctor, but it also kills *all* of its patients. :)But all doctors' patients die in the end anyway (or at least that has always been the case so far).
Time might be the best doctor, but it also kills *all* of its patients. :)
Now it's what the heck is inside my body as i watched a gory Grey's Anatomy last night and now I'm wondering what is going on inside me. *develops goose bumps* uggghhh.
Men. Why do they make life so complicated? Is it some sort of competition?
So if I declare a winner, they'll start behaving like rational human beings? Or am I being optimistic?
Hi Bob,
Guess where I live? That's right...Nashville, TN. And while I don't like country music (I do like bluegrass quite a bit), I don't think any of what you write about is in good taste, even if you're aiming at good humor (which admittedly you often successfully get.) I've never seen anything like this. I have MANY friends who are DIRECTLY effected by this natural disaster. There is nothing biblical about it...it is a really, really, really bad disaster destroying the lives of thousands of many real people. It's hard to comprehend. I KNOW PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST EVERYTHING. Please show some respect. We're all in deep pain right now in TN.
(You know there's a lot more than country music here, don' you? We have a very good concert hall with a great orchestra which is getting international recognition.)
Dave
All I need is Time
And all I've got is time!
(You know there's a lot more than country music here, don' you? We have a very good concert hall with a great orchestra which is getting international recognition.)
And as soon as I type that the news shows the Schermerhorn too is flooding.
Bob, based on words on a screen, I have always liked you and been entertained by you, and I have no doubt you'll continue to be entertaining...but you're making my angry today! SHOW SOME RESPECT PLEASE!!!! :)
I'm wondering why lots of things in education are always a big crisis and emergency. I think the whole time I've been in it I keep hearing about all the national crises and dire emergencies, yet nothing really seems to change. I don't see any really negative outcomes. Things don't really seem any better or worse.
The future, how much time I left to play in terms of decades, how I really don't like old female singing voices much, how I also don't like bad MIDI accompaniments...
Ugh. I couldn't finish watching that youtube clip.
It's my doggy's birthday today! :D Well he is my angel now... And for more than a week it has been raining every day but today it wasn't and the sun was shining :) that's because it's my doggy's birthday!!!! :) Happy birthday the best doggy in the universe!! :-* :)
Tomorrow I will have a lot of music school! :) First I have my piano lesson and then music theory because we will have it twice a week this month (until the exam).
But perhaps I'm wrong.
I'd never mix up these two, lol ;D They are all but similar. And I like littletune. Well lucy is funny, sorta. Anyway I think lucy is a fake account. She's too much teenie to be real. But perhaps I'm wrong.
Tasty.
Do you take your greasy hamburgers with or without vomit on top?
(https://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100505/capt.b7f318b17221498bb4a150d440c53b40-b7f318b17221498bb4a150d440c53b40-0.jpg?x=400&y=266&q=85&sig=CT9bZNBZDLghKiIOoY5TRw--)
-I need to clean my room... any music you guys suggest I play in the background? It's gonna take a few hours lol!
How about the Sorabji Organ Symphony.Which of the three are you referring to? Presumably not the one to which you have stated that you are planning to travel to Amsterdam to hear four weeks today...
You will be so desperate to switch the music off, your room will be cleaned in record time.
Hi, I am wondering why we have to work so much? I am not a lazy person, but I spend most of my day at work and I don't have enough time and energy for my hobby, the piano, or anything else (reading, listening music, listening to myself... etc.) Sad, isn't it?
And I am also thinking that time seems to runs faster and faster, and I don't know where the days, weeks and months fly...don't you have the same feeling?
And it is sad that I am glad that the weeks working days passed and weekend arrives, because those working days are still MY days of MY life...
Well, this was just a thought, it comes to my mind from time to time, but I try not to think about this too often, it is useless.
I wish you all to have as much time for yourselves as you want! :)
But otherwise, you *have* to work.
i'm so bored.......................................................................................
Indeed Littletune, you are the light of truth.
When I was your age (just after WWII) I was never bored. After some 60 years I can truthfully say that I have never been bored. My mind works the same as yours and I do the same mental things during boring presentations (while the pps slides change on the screen in a darkened room and the presenter drowns on and on in a monotone voice..) as you do.
Have not been on for a while, I have been busy.
You are right, WWII is World War 2. Now that I recheck my numbers, I was 7 on D-day, June 6th, 1944 so I was 8 in 1945 on VE day May 8th.
I don't think I am the oldest one on the this board. Don't worry, the one thing that won't change is your mind, unless you get some mental disease. Otherwise, you will still think in the same patterns you do now.
Today I was playing on a grand piano!!! :P Steinway grand piano!!!! :P :P We were at that school where we'll have exams! It's a really really beautiful school!!!! The school is beautiful and everything around it is beautiful (just trees and grass and everything is green) and it's so peaceful and inside is really cool and it smells really really nice!!!! And all the rooms have two doors :) first you go through one door and then through the second door :) It's like secret doors and rooms! 8) I wish I could be there every day!!!!!!!!!!! Not just for the exams! But better that than nothing! :)
And I wanted to play that piano for a lot longer!!!!!!! It's different! And the pedal sounds funny :) But it's sooooo cool! 8) :P :)
Happy to read this :)
But tell me, has this Steinway 3 Pedals? because if it has three and you accidentally hit the middle one instead of the right one it might sound very strange, of course.
The middle pedal on a Steinway keeps selected Notes. It's supposed to be handled with your left foot. The respective keys need first to be pressed fully down and then kept with the middle Pedal. While you keep those selected notes with the middle pedal you can play normally, using the right pedal. So you can for instance keep long bass notes or pedal points and play connected chord progressions in the treble without blurrying them.
I'm kind of shocked and surprised back into reality about the U.S. "Greatest country on Earth" etc. etc. etc. And the cliche of putting a man on the moon.
... But we can't plug an oil leak?
Can't beat live, human-performance music.was that video game a replay or was mario reacting to the music
I want to change my nationality! Why do people from my country have to post stupid things?! here on piano street?? I mean ok I know I post stupid things a lot of times too :-[ ::) but at least I know I'm stupid... :-[ but some people don't! they just think they're so great and funny and post a billion stupid things in one day ::) ::) ::) ??? :-[ (and they're mean too! at least I am just stupid but I am not mean at all!!)
Don't jump out of the frying pan into the fire. Every nationality has its share of idiots and abusive people.
By the way, congratulations on getting good marks on those exams.
I remember how much I looked forward to vacation when I was in school and spending endless hours floating out beyond the break line on inner tubes with my friends.
Ninja bear...Thanks!!!!!! That made my day!!!
https://www.wimp.com/bearninja/
?some guy composed some really fast piece so fat and difficult that it can only be played in audio files
This thing cracks me up.
Don't read anything. Just count how many passes the white team makes.
Hum....been awhile since I've been here :POne good thing about deciding to Go is the ability to return, which you clearly have. I hope that all Goes well. Welcome back.
One good thing about deciding to Go is the ability to return, which you clearly have. I hope that all Goes well. Welcome back.
Best,
Alistair
It has me old sweetie and indeed you were missed.
Wots goin down???
Thal
I can see by the posts or lack thereof that the weather is very good in Europe.
BTW, Thal how was that sojourn for the concert in A'dam?
I didn't go. In the end I just could not face it.Oh, it finished OK, albeit not until the wee sma' orrs of the day following that on which it started (although it would and should have finished on the same day had its commencement time been more sensibly scheduled). I have indeed heard it and, although the relatively small three manual instrument on which Kevin Bowyer played the monstrously demanding work in question presented quite a series of challenges of its own, no least short compass manuals and pedals, no pistons / sequencers / etc., a flat pedalboard and a very heavy action, it evidently went down so well that Mr Bowyer was invited on the spot to give the Dutch première of Sorabji's Third Organ Symphony in the Holland Festival in 2013 shortly after the work's world première in Glasgow. On balance, you'd have been better off attending the Glasgow performance, where the instrument was largely up to the task, but whether that city would have been capable of providing you with other entertainments to suit you on a Sunday may of course have been debatable...
Have heard no reports from anyone that went, but i guess it might not have finished yet ;D
One of my friends lost her virginity to some *** dude who she broke up with just 2 days ago and now her parents have forced her to move far away from us. Now my two best friends have broken the friendship because of some deep seated problems years in the making and i'm now stuck in the middle of it all with nowhere to go. I feel as if i have to choose between them. Life sucks sometimes doesn't it?
I'm thinking about trampoline... are you more time in the air or on the ground when you're jumping on a trampoline? I think you're a lot more time in the air... so then that's almost like flying :) :P 8)I love this juxtaposition.
And yesterday I discovered you can make your own rainbow!! :) :P you don't have to wait for the rain! you can make it with a water hose! you have to turn it like so that it's sprinkling a lot of little water drops and then if the sun shines on that you have a rainbow!!! :) I think that's sooo cool! 8) 8)
but whether that city would have been capable of providing you with other entertainments to suit you on a Sunday may of course have been debatable...
They just start a little later on a Sunday. 6pm instead of 4pm.It would have had to be the finishing rather than starting time that counted; the Glasgow performance began just after 1.00 p.m. and ended just after 11.30 p.m., whereas the Amsterdam one started at around 2.30 p.m. and concluded just after 1.30 p.m.
Mr Bowyer was invited on the spot to give the Dutch première of Sorabji's Third Organ Symphony in the Holland Festival in 2013* grabs agenda and thick felt pen to write in this *
the Amsterdam one started at around 2.30 p.m. and concluded just after 1.30 p.m.A tiny correction: it started 2.15 P.M. and concluded at about 0.30 A.M.. A wee difference of 13 hours... ;D
A tiny correction: it started 2.15 P.M. and concluded at about 0.30 A.M.. A wee difference of 13 hours... ;DSorry - I thought that it had commenced at what I assumed to have been the advertised time of 2.30 p.m. and my reference to its ending at 1.30 p.m. was a typo for 1.30 a.m.! That said, as the perforamance really did end at 0.30 a.m., did he take rather shorter intervals than the c.35 minutes and c.55 minutes that he took in Glasgow 12 days previously?
Littletune; the trampoline is a great source of video clips for "America's Funniest Home Videos." You should see what happens to people flying through the air..
Sorry - I thought that it had commenced at what I assumed to have been the advertised time of 2.30 p.m. and my reference to its ending at 1.30 p.m. was a typo for 1.30 a.m.! That said, as the perforamance really did end at 0.30 a.m., did he take rather shorter intervals than the c.35 minutes and c.55 minutes that he took in Glasgow 12 days previously?First interval 30mins, second 45mins. And he played both the second and third movements in about 15mins less time than planned, so instad of the expected ent time of 1.05AM the end came at 0.30AM.
Best,
Alistair
Have heard no reports from anyone that wentYou might have a look at the Sorabji Archive website's Forum:
How stupid a pop musician looks onstage when they're clearly lip syncing. Dance around, fake sing.... It looks a bit silly. I wonder what the performer is thinking when they're doing that.Let me just say that in my opinion pop and "classical" are both forms of music in the same sense that soot and diamonds are both forms of carbon.
I wanna know how much out of tune is my piano... I think it's a little less than half tone... but probably I'm wrong :) I tried it like I pressed one key on my piano (a g cause I like singing that one :) ) and then I was singing it like mmm and went to my keyboard and then I pressed a g there and a f# and I tried that a few times and then I kinda thought that my piano is almost half tone out of tune.... but I don't know if I was singing that right all the time because my piano and my keyboard are in different places so i had to breath while I was going from one to another so I had to stop singing and so I'm not sure if I started singing exactly the same again :) :) :) ::) I think I will try again :)What would we do without littletune here at pianostreet.com? :'( ;D
I wanna know how much out of tune is my piano... I think it's a little less than half tone... but probably I'm wrong :) I tried it like I pressed one key on my piano (a g cause I like singing that one :) ) and then I was singing it like mmm and went to my keyboard and then I pressed a g there and a f# and I tried that a few times and then I kinda thought that my piano is almost half tone out of tune.... but I don't know if I was singing that right all the time because my piano and my keyboard are in different places so i had to breath while I was going from one to another so I had to stop singing and so I'm not sure if I started singing exactly the same again :) :) :) ::) I think I will try again :)
Well my best friend was learning to play the violin for 5 or 6 years (from 5 or 6 till 11 years old) but she didn't like it at all, so she stopped :( and I tried to convice her to play so we could someday play together but she doesn't want to... and now she's in London till October :-\Tell me littletune, what kind of piano do you have?
I know my piano HAS to be tuned!! But I'm not sure when exactly... maybe in August or September :-\ we'll see :) i can't wait! :) :)
Tell me littletune, what kind of piano do you have?
I think I'm getting littletune mixed up with someone else again.
I think I'm getting littletune mixed up with someone else again.
Personalities? ::) why do you get personalities mixed up? :) I'm confused now :)
I'm getting littletune mixed up with lucylucy. Never mind. Proceed.
littletune is sweet and nice and it's great to have her around here :) ;D
and she shared us what she's learning on her piano and that neat of her to do that :)
Although I didn't know lucylucy, but read a few of her posts....abit uncomprehensible in my
opinion :P
Thank you!!! :) :) :) well i know I'm sometimes a little weird and stupid and annoying too... but ;D I'm just me :D :P
You really speak a perfect English, littletune!!! I would have sworn you were english because you always say my "mum"! ;D
I'm very glad littletune revealed her country. I thought Poland for the longest time seeing her posts. When she mentioned a National Holiday I'd never heard of I scratched Poland. During the World Cup there were teams from eastern Europe I couldn't place, only guess at where they were. Littletune, could you help me with a little geography? Is there a major river or two running through your country?
Prikazen. :P
https://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_translators.php?from=English&to=Slovenian
My country is very small :) And yes my country was in the World Cup and we were playing against USA and UK :D and we lost ::) not that I care so much :P
Well I think the major rivers in our country are river Sava, river Drava and river Mura. But they're major for our country, I'm not sure if they're major like for the world :) And they probably don't have the same name in other countries :-\ And our neighbour countries are Austria and Italy and Croatia and Hungary. Oh and our country looks kinda like a chicken on the map ;D
here's something about my country in wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia
and about the geography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Slovenia (except I don't know why it says we don't have any water cause we do :-\ oh well :) )
And you can ask if you wanna know something else :)
Thank you! Yes, there are references on the net but it is always better to hear from someone on the ground. Your answer was just perfect for me.
Your team played very well and should be taken seriously. After all it is one of the 32 best teams in the world.
tickbean, horse-bean;D Be careful Bob that someone doesn't eat you by mistake! :o just kidding :D :P :)
Some kind of small bean used to feed livestock. ::)
Thank you too :) I'm really glad if I helped you! :) 8)
;D Be careful Bob that someone doesn't eat you by mistake! :o just kidding :D :P :)
Yes, if I got eaten by a bull, then the result would be about 50% of my posts. Maybe I did get eaten by a bull.
Breakfast.
Really? You were talking about my country? That's cool! 8) :)
The middle section of the octave etude is probably going to make my right hand bigger... Lol! Lots of stretching. (But it's not uncomfortable... I'm doing finger substitutions and weird accommodations like that... but it's working!)
I really wanna know what it's like! Too bad there's nothing on youtube!
Yep, that is right.
It is too bad.
Thal
I say Wolfi where have you been?
Cycle tour????
Thal
Yep, that is right.There's stuff out there somewheres - I think - Amazon or something - only brief extracts from recordings but there...
It is too bad.
Incredible, I remember being tired just driving up the Galibier.
What gearing did you use??
Please don't tell me you only had a double chainset.
Thal
22 kilos is a lot. Huge respect for those climbs with that weight.
On my last cycle ride I had 8 kilos, but ended with only 3 kilos.
Beer weighs a lot, but if you keep drinking, it gets lighter.
Thal
Oh yes, only available from decent stores."What" indeed! Although I have no idea "what", it is surely clear to you that "what" is being referred to here is the kind of CD store that would stock and order a decent variety of "classical" music rather than the kind of outlet that sells either none at all or only a limited amount as a tiny proportion of its overall offerings - and, for the record (sorry!), anyone can go into such stores and purchase them and, since the internet is no respecter of anyone's "riff-raff" or other status, anyone can also purchase these items online. Your (presumably tongue-in-cheek, although perhaps not everyone reading this will recognise it as such) suggestion that certain recorded music is only available to certain people of certain dispositions is therefore rather silly, old chap; on the other hand, when anyone appears to want to know where to find something (as seems to be the case here), it seems entirely reasonable to tell them if one so chooses, would you not agree? After all, you wouldn't go into a pharmacy to purchase banjo strings, would you?!
Not any old riff raff.
what what.
Oh yes, only available from decent stores.Personally, I would not want to have to buy anything from indecent stores... ;)
Not any old riff raff.
what what.
Thal
When I was about your age I loved to put on my bathing suit and play in the rain! ;DYes that's exactly what I was thinking I should do today!!! :D :) 8)
Yes they can generate other sounds too. They can produce frequencies between 9Khz and 200 khz. I also often heard them chirping :)
You have excellent hearing! Even in "bat caves" I can't hear them.
:) well I'll try recording it next time :)
I found a recording:
voice of a Common Pipistrelle Bat.
Thank you Bob for finding those definitions of insidious! :) I think I got it :D
What's " beguiling" ? :D :P :)
I don't remember getting an online cake on my birthday.
I am gonna complain.
Thal >:(
Trying to get more piano students this Fall season.... :P
35 years ago? Well, Rome has changed a lot since then! IV novembre? The quirinale hill.
Rawr.
This just cracks me up. :)
Anyone knows what that was?
Thanks Wolfi! :) My mum got really angry too :)
Do hot air balloons fly at night? (like at about 10 pm i think), and how fast can they fly?
wow that's a lot of videos Bob! :) And these flying things are cool 8) i want one :P
Well I thought what i saw could be toys or something like that too, but I don't know.... :-\ now im really sorry i haven't recorded it!!! I could have! cause I had enough time! but i was just too scared ::) but maybe it wouldn't record it so very well anyway ::) But if I see something like that again I will try to record it! And then if I never come on Pianostret again then you know that aliens got angry at me for recording them and they did something to me :( my friend said they would eat me.... (i don't know why but that kinda seems like something Bob would say :D :P ). Well I don't know :-\ :P
Like the "What are you listening to right now" thread...
What's the most pressing concern on your mind at the moment?
Things you are working on now, things you "must remember to do today or this week," etc. not necessarily piano.
When they come you could just tell them to eat your complaining neighbour instead of you ;D
Maybe they intercepted this poem.Well sugar and spice and all things nice sounds really great and nice :D :) but could I be made a little of those boys things too? it sounds cool 8) specially the snails! :P :D
Snips and Snails, Sugar and spice
Snips and snails,
And puppy dog tails,
That's what little boys are made of.
Sugar and spice,
And all things nice,
That's what little girls are made of.
In that case, the choice is obvious, unless they're weight-conscious and want to avoid calories. Although if they look long enough, they may find one that's artificially sweetened.
It's magnificent and quite amazing what even a small, heartfelt smile will communicate.
Is that you, littletune? We never get a good look at your face! Maybe it will turn out you're really 75 years old and you've been pulling our leg all this time...! ;DYes that's me :P Ok I admit I am really 75 years old :P ;D No actually I am really 112 years old!! :o :P
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There I am. Sort of. I'm the one on the right. ;D
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I feel so computer savvy now! Thanks guys!!
No, I'm the one in the kimono. 8)
I feel so computer savvy now! Thanks guys!!
No, I'm the one in the kimono. 8)
Gilberto has gone pubblic and you can find him under "toys". Before the year is out, I will post some of my playing, I promise! ;DCOOL! :) 8) 8) Thanks Birba!! Gilberto is very cute!! :)
*Bob wonders if K has fleas.* :P
*Bob is cracking up now.* ;D :D ;)
No. Not fleas. Lice. Head lice. Musical head lice. The extreme inner child of my very head has musical head lice. Naturally.
On my mind now is the destruction of Western culture caused by the lack of funding in Holland.Then your thinking may - and hopefully will - be premature. That said, Holland and the Netherlands are not synonymous; if you don't fully understand that (as many don't, through no particularly obvious fault of their own), ask gep; he'll tell you all about it.
For God sake man, go to bed.I think that you mean "God's" - but never mind.
Could be pelt lice too. Or beagle ticks.
No, Bob. No.
*feels crazy*
*Bob ponders whether the M. might have mercury poisoning.... which woudl make her the Mad M.....*
No, I don't have mercury poisoning. suckah.
*m1469 lives* 8)
*stretches m1469 legs*
I'm trying immediately to see what kind of suspicious activity I can do.Mayli and Karla enter into some kind of discussion with one another; hmmm...
*feels very bossy*
I want to see something solid, two legs holding the back part.:o
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I just fell. ::) I don't even know what exactly happened, but it was like I wanted to turn on the light and I couldn't reach it and i put my knee on the chair and then I don't know what happened but the chair moved and I tried to hold on to something and some things fell off and I fell off and now I have red marks on my nose and under the chin and on my knee and on my finger ::) Oh well. Good night! :P
Hope you still can sleep well littletune! And that it doesn't hurt!Thank you Wolfi! :) Well.... I wasn't sleeping very much... because I was crying for a long time because of my fish.... but then I had a really cool dream!!! 8)
I guess this is the best place to post this question. I have wondered and pondered over this for years:
How many times do you see a dead bird, in the street, in the woods, wherever. Maybe a couple times of year? Maybe once a month? Considering all the birds around us, where do they go when they die? And this is a serious question. I can't find an explanation. I live out in the country where there are birds and birds and birds. I have never, I repeat NEVER seen one dead bird. Maybe sometimes they're eaten by feral cats or foxes, etc. But I don't think in direct proportion to the birds that die.
Where do they go? Maybe fly to heaven?
They probably disintegrate quickly. They have hollow bones. I saw one a year or two ago that got flattened in a couple days and was just a greasy spot in a week.YUCK :-X
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I'm thinking if I should post myself singing :-\ :P :)
I'm thinking i should post myself farting.You know what you should do Thal? You should go on Britain's got talent with that! :D :P
I have got some excellent rippers on record.
Thal
Not if they're baby pieces... ;D (Only kidding!)Hmmm well... :-\ I don't think I could sing anything like this:
You know what you should do Thal? You should go on Britain's got talent with that! :D :P
What an excellent idea. I will enter.Great! I will watch you on youtube then! :D :D
Thal
I'm thinking if I should post myself singing :-\ :P :)
sure, why not? :)Hmm I think it would be a little embarrassing :-[ , but I don't know.. I'm still thinking about it :)
I'm thinking if I should post myself singing :- :P :)
What an excellent idea. I will enter.Yes, that's just about the right level for Britain's Got Talent, I'd say - or perhaps you could even start your own series called The F Factor...
Post it! :)Thank you :) Yes maybe I will.... :-[ but I feel kinda bad about my singing :-\ because when I was in third grade I was singing in a school choir and then just before we went to a festival our teacher told some of us that we shouldn't sing and that we should only open our mouth, so since then I felt really bad about my singing and I couldn't even sing anymore when other people were around because I just heard this horrible sound all the time, but now I had to get used to singing again because we have to sing really a lot at music theory.... so that's why I can't decide now :-[ :)
I'm thinking i should post myself farting.
I have got some excellent rippers on record.
Thal
You know what you should do Thal? You should go on Britain's got talent with that! :D :PBetter still, enter politics; these erputions could me rather more entertaining (and rather more intelligent too) than what's there usually. It would give a whole new meaning to the word "rip-deal"!
"F" as in...?See post #1816 although, if that might not pass the censors, the series could perhaps be named Britain's got Thalent, I suppose...
Thank you :) Yes maybe I will.... :-[ but I feel kinda bad about my singing :- because when I was in third grade I was singing in a school choir and then just before we went to a festival our teacher told some of us that we shouldn't sing and that we should only open our mouth, so since then I felt really bad about my singing and I couldn't even sing anymore when other people were around because I just heard this horrible sound all the time, but now I had to get used to singing again because we have to sing really a lot at music theory.... so that's why I can't decide now :-[ :)
Unfortunately, stories like this are not unusual at all. It's amazing how much our voices are affected by those kinds of thoughts and feelings and beliefs, but it's not just singing, either, it's everything we do. Even in my own considerably small experience so far, I have seen plenty of "cases" where a person's voice/singing may seem one way for awhile (for whatever reason), only to recieve the right kind of care and attention and then bloom into something that others (even with "very trained" ears) couldn't seem to possibly imagine before. Strangely, the general idea out there is that singing is something different than playing an instrument and that playing an instrument is something different than singing. I mention that mostly because in my experience so far, I have noticed that when it comes to singing, once a person starts treating it more like an instrument the results are much different (and same with piano playing -- treating it like singing).
The urge that you have to post it though makes me think that somewhere in there you would like to share, and that's a lot in itself! :)
Thank you!! :) :) I'm not even sure why I started thinking about posting it :- I don't really know why I feel like sharing it... :) I mean I do like to sing and I always liked it, just that after that (when my teacher told me not to sing) I always feel like I shouldn't be singing and like I'm going to hurt someones ears :-[ :)
I do understand. Believe me. The reality is that there are going to be people in the world who decide to think one way about something like that for whatever reason. Don't sing for them for now :). (Unfortunately,) My general feeling is that oftentimes people are not looking deeply enough into each other and that there are solvable things that never get solved because it just needed deeper investigation. Did you know that often it is individuals with the biggest voices (and I mean this quite deeply) who have the biggest cases of "ugly duckling" while developing? People with huge amounts to give can often have a huge span of time in feeling like they are still developing, and it's really easy to be critical during that time. It also doesn't help if the only reinforcement is on the seemingly negative side.Thank you for telling me all this m1469! :) And for being so nice :) 8)
I think though that those feelings and concerns are ultimately reversable, but it's only possible through taking more footsteps regardless of discomfort for you during some of that. And, just because something feels uncomfortable (even if it's REALLY uncomfortable) doesn't mean you are doing something wrong. It is important though to find out who you can take risks with and sometimes that's a bit of a process :).
I am not a great singer, but i have been told I do a pretty good Al Jolson impression....on the corner of which particular Gravesend street and who might be the certain or uncertain little lady that goes by? (or shouldn't I ask, even rhetorically?) - OK, sorry, just a wee wind-up, since I know well, of course, that Mr Jolson and the implied Formbanjo person were not one and the same, but the temptation just seemed to be too great to resist, albeit only momentarily and for some unaccountable reason, thank goodness...
...on the corner of which particular Gravesend street and who might be the certain or uncertain little lady that goes by? (or shouldn't I ask, even rhetorically?)...
By the way, did you hear the Bach on BBC R3 the other day played on the banjo accompanied by mandolin and guitar?
Banjo is most suited for Bach.
It does get old after awhile. Sometimes I can't it out of my head though.It is sort of catching, isn't it?
It does get old after awhile. Sometimes I can't it out of my head though.No I can't get it out my head either!!! And everytime I remember I start laughing. That will be great when I'll be on the bus or at school and I'll just start laughing for no reason! ::) :P
No I can't get it out my head either!!! And everytime I remember I start laughing. That will be great when I'll be on the bus or at school and I'll just start laughing for no reason! ::) :P
So I don't know why I have so little time now ::) I always want to post so many things and then I just don't have enough time! ::) I have to post some new pictures of my toys!! And I have to post a picture of me with a moustache... ;D I think on one picture I really look JUST like a guy!! :P And I also really wanted to post a picture of my mum! But I'm not sure if she will let me :-\ because she is always saying that she looks too ugly and fat and old and I don't know what else on pictures! ::) And I mean sure everyone looks weird on some pictures and I took some weird pictures of myself to show her that I look really weird on some pictures too.... but I don't know..... I think she looks really pretty on some pictures that I want to post... but I don't know if she would let me... And I also have to post some cute pictures of my animals... and.... some other things....... just too much!!! ::) And I don't know why I'm writing about all this now ::) I'm just talking too much now... I also just start talking to myself ::) and today I didn't even sleep that much cause I was just talking to myself ::) I guess some people think I'm crazy for talking to myself but I have always been talking to myself. well I mean I just talk in my mind or I'm like whispering :-\ I guess that is why I don't have that much time now! Cause I'm just talking too much !! ::) oh well :)
If I stopped talking to myself I'd never get anything done!
I'm thinking about serendipity at the moment. A chance meeting with an old friend has revealed we're doing some very similar work at the moment, so we are going to get back together to work on it together instead of separately. Sometimes people just appear in your life when you're ready for them.
No. You are not talking too much :)
And talking to yourself doesn't mean you're crazy :) Of course not :)
But if something is too much for you, for yourself, if it's confusing you or if it's hurting you or if it feels like you might get out of balance: Just don't do it!
That's very important!
Oh, and Thal, I noticed on the pictures thread that I took an almost identical picture of the stack out to sea off Esha Ness as you posted, we must have been standing in almost exactly the same place...
How unfortunate for you ;DThen you've presumably not experienced more violent ones elsewhere (although maybe that's just as well, really); a group of thunderstorms contriving to collide in Catalunya a few years a ago was pretty spectacular, although the plane from Manchester to Gerona coming down in it was not at all pleasant.
Nothing more spectacular than a Shetland storm.
Then you've presumably not experienced more violent ones elsewhere
I noticed I'm getting a wider gap between my front teeth! I had it when I first got my second teeth and then it got smaller but now the second tooth moved a little more back so it's a little behind the first tooth and the gap beetwen the first teeth got wider again :-\ I hope that's nothing wrong! :-\ I mean I know I should have teeth braces anyway.
Well I don't know if I'll get braces... they said when I was in first grade that I would maybe have to get them, but then I just got something funny (that I don't even know what's it called) so now I don't know if I'll ever get them or not...
Yes I think I saw that on TV once when two people kissed and then their braces got stuck together! :)
You can hear radio stations?? :o really?? :o that's kinda weird and kinda cool 8) :)
Just got back from a fantastic trip down the East coast of Spain and slept on the Rock of Gibraltar, said hello to the apes and came back via Sevilla. Just a quick week get away.I hope that you enjoyed it but please note that Spain does not have an "east coast"; it has a north and south coast, but its eastern aspect is a border with France.
Why did I always write " tuseday"??? I really thought it's written that way! and just this week I saw that it's really "tuesday"!! :-[ ::) :P
I was just thinking of the nature of these internet forums and lists and how we don't really know each other. Specifically, we care about each others well being, but if one of us were to get ill or die suddenly, we might not ever know about it. How would we? It's a morbid thought, but it's unlikely everyone who has been registered with this site is still living. I was thinking about this because of the disappearance of a solid contributor on a group I belong too. There have been occasions where illness has been made known by a family member, or a case I remember of the death of a man very dear to a certain email list I'm on (such lists are generally more involving as far as personal information)...but the nature of these boards, or at least my approach has been purposefully more hidden. I was even afraid to join and contribute at first because for some reason I was afraid somebody (among the small amount of people I know) would recognize me! Do you ever think these things or am I just in left field?
(Sorry, I know it's thanksgiving...not a thankful subject!)
I think it's great that a beginner's book is preparing you for what you might encounter in the future!Yes it's cool! 8) I hope my teacher will tell me how you're supposed to play that :) but it's at the end of the book so it won't be so soon.
I was just thinking of the nature of these internet forums and lists and how we don't really know each other. Specifically, we care about each others well being, but if one of us were to get ill or die suddenly, we might not ever know about it. How would we? It's a morbid thought, but it's unlikely everyone who has been registered with this site is still living. I was thinking about this because of the disappearance of a solid contributor on a group I belong too. There have been occasions where illness has been made known by a family member, or a case I remember of the death of a man very dear to a certain email list I'm on (such lists are generally more involving as far as personal information)...but the nature of these boards, or at least my approach has been purposefully more hidden. I was even afraid to join and contribute at first because for some reason I was afraid somebody (among the small amount of people I know) would recognize me! Do you ever think these things or am I just in left field?
(Sorry, I know it's thanksgiving...not a thankful subject!)
Yes it's cool! 8) I hope my teacher will tell me how you're supposed to play that :) but it's at the end of the book so it won't be so soon.That reminds me of the time I learned how to play loud with the right hand and soft with the left. It was hard! Like patting your head and rubbing your stomach at the same time! ;D
Yesterday I started practicing one piece first time with a pedal and it was sooo weird! Every time when I lifted my foot to release the pedal I lifted my right hand too :-\ even though I was supposed to hold the note ::) It was like my brain just thought my hand and my foot were the same thing! :o and I was worried I would never learn that.... but today it was A LOT better already :) so I hope it will be ok cause I'm supposed to play that piece for Christmas recital! :) :P :)
Guten Tag! :) Und gute Nacht! :P
I wanna know if you say guten Tag and gute Nacht in Swiss German the same way or is it different :-\ :)
Guete Tag und Guet Nacht.Cool 8) thanks for explaining Wolfi!! :P
Instead of "Guete Tag" we usually and more often say just "Grüezi" (Ich grüße Sie; I greet you)
Ich weiß nicht. Ich bin ein Amerikaner.Bob ne ve. :) On je Američan. :)
Cool 8) thanks for explaining Wolfi!!
And to people with whom we are familiar (on "Du") we say "Sali" or "Hoi"
Hoi Littletune, wie gaht's der? :)
(Hi Littletune, how are you?)
Hoi Wolfi! :) (Sali is like in French). Es gaht mir gut. :) (well i don't know if that would be Swiss German or not) :) Guet Nacht! :)
Ich nur weiß über Lehrbuchdeutsch. Ich soll viel Spanisch lernen.Na ja, Spanisch kann ich nicht sprechen... :-\ :P
Sehr guet! (Es gaht mir guet)Thanks :) It was kinda stupid of me that I didn't know I should say : Es gaht mir guet. :) I mean I wrote Guet Nacht!! but didn't think of writing "guet" instead of "gut" ::) ... but I was hurrying cause it was kinda late already and I just didn't think of that :-[ :P :) but I'll remember for next time 8)
Au dir guet Nacht, chlises Lied :)
Today it's snowing soooo much again!!! Soooo coool! 8) :P :)
Will you need snow shoes to get to school or will you get the days off as a "snow days?"Yes I have snow shoes :) but for now we don't have any days off... but we will have Christmas holidays soon! :) :P I really hope we will still have snow for Christmas!!! :)
Everybody is saying this will be a very cold winter in Europe.
It will be if the Ruskies turn the gas off.
Thal
Hey Bob, what kind of Spanish do you want to learn; Mexican, South American, Spain Spanish? While you're at it you should probably learn the co-official language of the region you plan to visit.
It's probably Mexican Spanish, although I think I'd rather go for Spain Spanish since it's more European. I'm thinking in terms of practiality. I'm not travelling so it's whatever would be practical in the U.S. Probably "textbook" Spanish... which I'm guessing is more Mexican or just "plain" Spanish with some regional things thrown in.
Good to know a little. Good thing to have on the resume.
::)
Ceremonial moving of the bass clef event....
https://tv.yahoo.com/blog/conan-alters-opening-credits-for-obsessive-fan--1917
It could have been correct before. It's just a clef. It points to F. That lower line was F.
What are the Brit students throwing paint at Prince Charles about? Is that something with the three times increase in college tuition?
Oxy's right. I can tell you from experience. I was a participant in the riots of 68 UNTIL I saw at EVERY demonstration, people who instigated the demonstrators passing them bottle molotovs, paint, rocks, etc. etc. and look, oh, gee, I wonder why, their faces covered with scarves and irrecognizable. They are the ones who are rioting for rioting's sake and looking for anarchy.
Hi Birba!!! How are you? I have been thinking about you! :) I hope you're ok!!!Thank you littletune! Yes, it went VERY well. It's just now I'm pretty much layed up at home for a month or two and then 3 or 4 months of crutches. After that I'm hoping I can throw them away forever. YEA!!!!!!!!!!!! There's pain but I have my faithful Oxycontins for that. ;D
Thank you littletune! Yes, it went VERY well. It's just now I'm pretty much layed up at home for a month or two and then 3 or 4 months of crutches. After that I'm hoping I can throw them away forever. YEA!!!!!!!!!!!! There's pain but I have my faithful Oxycontins for that. ;DThat's cool Birba! I'm really glad it went very well!!!!! 8) :) :P
I am slightly worried.So why are you worried about loving a work composed in the year in which both Schönberg and Medtner happened to die? And - far more importantly - what work is this?
I am listening to a piece of music composed in 1951 and I love it.
Snow!!! we have snow again!!! and it's really beautiful and sparkly! :) :) 8)
On my mind? Well... I have to practice. Piano. Piano is on my mind. It is quite heavy.
God I hate these rhythms.
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Why? Why are we always talking about piano in the ANYTHING BUT piano forums?
I love them. I hate the fact that I can't get them. It's like (Prestissimo) Dotted 8th note then two grace sixteenth notes then the dotted eight and I just can't haha.
Hehe yes I see now.
Ooh! Rachmaninoff died 1943... it's 2010...Three more years! only three more years and I can get all his preludes for free! 70 years in 2013.
Teacher? I live less than twenty minutes away from supposedly the best pianist in TN. He taught me for six weeks and my piano playing interest went from 5 hours a day to less than 5 minutes. I do need a teacher.... But not someone who cannot teach me. I went to the UM and the head of music said they were scared to take me on. my potential they said... It was fun but... I am outcasted because of that.
I really hate to be taught unless its something I want to know. Not the fact that there is no F# in C scale. ;)
For the record, I have the ability to read, sight read, and play sheet music. I have an enhanced sense of dynamics. I have the ability to use correct fingering. I know my chords and scales, I have a heightened sense of appreciation for the difficulty of musical pieces. I am a pianist. I don't have to have a teacher to be. (If I had an example of an amazing composer without a teacher, I would give one.)
... There was one woman that wanted to... I taught my friend... My dad asked a FB page for a good teacher, they all said the one that I fired.
For the record, I have the ability to read, sight read, and play sheet music. I have an enhanced sense of dynamics. I have the ability to use correct fingering. I know my chords and scales, I have a heightened sense of appreciation for the difficulty of musical pieces. I am a pianist. I don't have to have a teacher to be. (If I had an example of an amazing composer without a teacher, I would give one.)
I am also sure you have the ability to get on peoples tits by bragging.Just as I am sure that you have the ability to get on other people's other anatomical parts by citing website URLs that do not exist and have no reason so to do.
AgreedWell, that's all right then (and may presumably remain so until you decide that you've had enough of getting on those people's other anatomical parts).
I am also sure you have the ability to get on peoples tits by bragging.
Thal
I was stating reasons (and excuses) that I do not need a teacher.
The problem everyone is missing about music teachers is that they are not you with same goals. In other words, if you are preparing programs on short notice you should have a teacher who is doing just that. Not someone who hasn't performed in public in years.Yes.............ss...s............. I see. And uh... What... what does that haves to do witht those scrumdiddlyumptious
There is always something you can learn from every teacher. The bottom line is that I want to see my teacher play the piece I'm interested in learning.
The problem everyone is missing about music teachers is that they are not you with same goals. In other words, if you are preparing programs on short notice you should have a teacher who is doing just that. Not someone who hasn't performed in public in years.Yes.............ss...s............. I see. And uh... What... what does that haves to do witht those scrumdiddlyumptious shoco ships? I wanna Shee my sheasher shay the shaech shar shoe... HR2... I wanna see my teacher play the HR2... What happened there?
There is always something you can learn from every teacher. The bottom line is that I want to see my teacher play the piece I'm interested in learning.
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This is this cat.Well it took me a few seconds... don't know exactly how many seconds :-\ maybe it was 40 but i don't know :P first I thought why did Bob write this and why is it funny? and then I read it again and then I figured it out :P
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There's nothing quite like eating a sandwich and realizing the bread is molding and you've already eaten most of the sandwich. Too bad it's not like bleu cheese, in that you can still eat it when it's moldy, or eat it safely.:D ;D That's funny Bob just today I was eating molding ravioli... :-X yes well... they weren't all molding yet.... but some of them tasted funny... but most of them were ok... so I guess it wasn't that bad :P
*Bob gives his immune system a workout.*
Can't believe it. even I got it! Does that mean I border on the genius?Birba of course you are a genius!! Why would you even doubt that?? Why do you think so bad about yourself?? :o You are a very great person! AND you play piano well and you're a genius and you're cool!!! 8)
Please tell me it does...
Oh and then I went to my music theory (by bus) and something weird happend... there was a lot of people on the bus and I was standing and then after a while this old lady came and grabbed my arm like she was afraid I was going to faint or something and she said if I would like to sit down... and I was like ??? :o no thanks (well exactly I said: "ne hvala" ... Bob do you understand?? :) ) i mean aren't kids supposed to give the seat to older people? not the other way around? I mean that lady was like 70 or 80 years old! so I was thinking that either I look 80 years old (which I'm pretty sure I don't) or I look really sick (which I am a little sick now but not that much) or it was just because of the way I stand on the bus sometimes like leaning on the pole (or whatever that is called) and I look at the floor (because I don't like it when theres so many people around me) and my hair is hanging over my face (cause I don't feel like getting them off my face all the time) ... so maybe it looked to her like I was going to faint! I don't know.... :-\OMG! The way you describe yourself looking down at the ground with your hair hiding your face, it reminds me of that japanese film, the Ring! I would have turned and fled! Seriously, maybe she thought you were ill. I remember once when I was on the bus, and I wasn't even 40, I don't think, and this kid stood up to give me his seat! I was very offended...
Birba of course you are a genius!! Why would you even doubt that?? Why do you think so bad about yourself?? :o You are a very great person! AND you play piano well and you're a genius and you're cool!!! 8)Thank you littletune. You make the best pubblic around! ;D
I said: "ne hvala" ... Bob do you understand?? :)
Oh and then I went to my music theory (by bus) and something weird happend... there was a lot of people on the bus and I was standing and then after a while this old lady came and grabbed my arm like she was afraid I was going to faint or something and she said if I would like to sit down... and I was like ??? :o no thanks (well exactly I said: "ne hvala" ... Bob do you understand?? :) ) i mean aren't kids supposed to give the seat to older people? not the other way around? I mean that lady was like 70 or 80 years old! so I was thinking that either I look 80 years old (which I'm pretty sure I don't) or I look really sick (which I am a little sick now but not that much) or it was just because of the way I stand on the bus sometimes like leaning on the pole (or whatever that is called) and I look at the floor (because I don't like it when theres so many people around me) and my hair is hanging over my face (cause I don't feel like getting them off my face all the time) ... so maybe it looked to her like I was going to faint! I don't know.... :-
Classic reverse psychology.
OMG! The way you describe yourself looking down at the ground with your hair hiding your face, it reminds me of that japanese film, the Ring! I would have turned and fled! Seriously, maybe she thought you were ill. I remember once when I was on the bus, and I wasn't even 40, I don't think, and this kid stood up to give me his seat! I was very offended...
Some day you will all come to an age where you will happy to give your seat to an older person but nobody older than you ever gets on.Well but that's a good thing if you feel so well that you don't need a seat and you would be happy to stand... I guess you can then still give your seat to someone who needs it more, no matter how old they are. :)
Ah, mmm hmmm. Classic reverse psychology. She's like "hey, there's a perfect opportunity to prove my point! I'm still young enough to stand and how would SHE like it if I offered HER MY seat? hmmmm??"
Personally, I used to think it was the right thing to do, to offer my seat to the wise. But, once I did just that and got a bit snarled at (what? he was like 45!! ... Okay, that's completely a joke!). And, once, when I worked in a grocery store, I walked around the corner and this man had fallen down on the floor and couldn't get up, but he got really very angry with me when I helped him up. Whoops.
Young men (well, boys, really) are starting to call me "Ma'am". Jeez.
Well it is VERY confusing this with giving someone your seat :- That's why I almost never sit on the bus, only if it's really almost empty. Because you NEVER know what to do :- and it scares me! :( because sometimes some old ladies start yelling at you because they want to sit exactly on the seat you're sitting on (even if there are other free seats on the bus) and sometimes they start yelling if you don't get up fast enough, but then there are some who get really angry if you want to give them your seat! so you just never know what to do :- :( so I just stand most of the times on the bus! It's safer that way! :P And I don't mind standing anyway :)
Littletune, I'm gonna level with ya. Are you sitting down? Good. See that world out there? *points out the winder* it's crazy, okay? It's a crazy world out there! But, guess what? There's always the piano ... *ahhhhhh* ... with it's repeating patterns of black and white keys, scales, arpeggios, chords, bass and treble. Now that's some good livin'! *clinks water glasses with Littletune for cheers*
Littletune, I'm gonna level with ya. Are you sitting down? Good. See that world out there? *points out the winder* it's crazy, okay? It's a crazy world out there! But, guess what? There's always the piano ... *ahhhhhh* ... with it's repeating patterns of black and white keys, scales, arpeggios, chords, bass and treble, melody and harmony. Now that's some good livin'! *clinks water glasses with Littletune for cheers*That's really cool!! 8) like from a movie or something :) :)
How did you make that?
Yeah, I thought you put your eye in the background, layered it in or something.:P :) No I didn't do anything at all... it just was that way... (and I didn't even notice that eye until I posted it here on Pianostreet) ... kinda scary :P :) but cool 8)
Well Bob you don't have to worry about it anymore because the video has been removed. ::)
*Bob hopes aliens don't see this and get a bad impression of Earth.* ::)
Don't worry too much about ear training. That stuff ramps up steeply pretty quick. Just revisit it later if you can. I remember even the vocalists who were whizzes with ear training in my classes eventually started struggling at some point when the difficulty kept increasing.
One trick I learned was to use whatever material was being focused on in that section. It's not learning anything, more survival. You don't have to hear it, but you can write something correctly and on topic and get some credit that way.
Not in England it ain't.
We have 11/1/11 ;D
Thal
Don't worry too much about ear training. That stuff ramps up steeply pretty quick. Just revisit it later if you can. I remember even the vocalists who were whizzes with ear training in my classes eventually started struggling at some point when the difficulty kept increasing.Thanks Bob :) Well but I kinda have to worry about it because it's 80% of the grade :-\ so it's really important! I really have to start practicing it somehow!! And then I'll see if I can get any better at it!
One trick I learned was to use whatever material was being focused on in that section. It's not learning anything, more survival. You don't have to hear it, but you can write something correctly and on topic and get some credit that way.
Well... something horrible! I haven't been practicing piano today! AT ALL! :o not even a little! I'm not sure why I just didn't want to! I don't know why! And now it's too late cause I can't play now anymore because of the neighbours! :( I wish I could just play without anyone hearing me play!
I'm thinking about the auction I just went to with my family. One of the dudes there spoke in the key of B major! ._O I was like. Srsly. Need to get a life now. DARNIT ! WHY MUST MUSIC FOLLOW ME EVERYWHERE?! ;D I think his crazy voice is still rambling around inside my head... :P
Now I'm wondering- how on earth do those guys talk so fast? One of life's many mysteries I suppose. ::)
Thanks, oxy60! (By the way, you must explain the origins of that alias)
Biding my time waiting for my bone transplant to grow. Hoping by June to finally throw away these crutches. In the meantime, I have lots of time to practise... A lot of Liszt celebrations coming up!
https://groups.google.com/group/healthrecsport/browse_thread/thread/7a880d34d64054b3?hl=enThat sort of explains why he insisted on having his heart cut out after his death. :o
https://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Liu-Bolin-Disappearing-Act/ss/events/en/020311liubolin#photoViewer=/ydownload/20110203/photos_net_web_en/1296771211wow that's really cool! 8) How does he do that??
Hmmm. I feel bad. I didn't practice at all today. But I got so much other stuff done. It's kind of a reward to have the other stuff done too. Odd feeling.
im with you on that one - just getting over my third "lurgy" of the season and the cough is really persistent. Not good for piano playing, particularly since what I most need to be practiing right now are my songs!
get well soon
Rich
No Littletune, its' not shocking to have your Christmas tree up this late. Several of my neighbors still have their outside Christmas lights on. And just last week another neighbor finally took down the lighted toy soldiers and turned off the music that would come on when someone passed in front of his house!
Strange epiphany today... I realized I could dry the dishes before putting them away.
Haha... Weird realization. ::)
*Bobs adds this to his calendar a few months in the future for the next time he does dishes.* Although that is a lot of extra work... Hmmm....
Next epiphany: you could even wash them before ;D
I played some Schumann tonight. I thought of Thal. Haha.
There is only one thing on Earth worse than Schumann and that is "The Big Bang Theory".While I don't agree with you on the former, I find your latter statement quite worth of pondering...sometimes I think it's just a little boy's theory. Little boys love all that has to do with explosions and bangs ;D. I'll never forget the expression of fascination in the eyes of my 7 year old prospective piano student when we realized that we had used the wrong adapter for his keyboard. The keyboard began to fume and smell, and he shouted "It will blow up, it will blow up!!"
Thal
I was referring to an American "comedy" old chap.
You are lucky if it has not yet reached Switzerland.
Thal
I'll never forget the expression of fascination in the eyes of my 7 year old prospective piano student when we realized that we had used the wrong adapter for his keyboard. The keyboard began to fume and smell, and he shouted "It will blow up, it will blow up!!"Well I don't want to sound like a little boy but... and what happened then?? :o did the keyboard melt? Was it still working after that? was there any "bang" or something like when there's a short circuit? :o Once I was listening to my CD-player before falling asleep... and then all of sudden there was this "bang" and I woke up and opened my eyes and all I saw was this smoke above the CD-player ... and there was no electricity in my room. it reminded me of something from a Harry Potter or something! :D And it happened because the line that goes from the CD-player to the electric thing on the wall (can't remember what that's called) was a little torn...
Hahaha my gosh (https://www.smilies.4-user.de/include/Froehlich/smilie_happy_251.gif)This one is soooo funny and cute!!!!!!!!! :D :D
Well I don't want to sound like a little boy but... and what happened then?? :o did the keyboard melt? Was it still working after that? was there any "bang" or something like when there's a short circuit? :o Once I was listening to my CD-player before falling asleep... and then all of sudden there was this "bang" and I woke up and opened my eyes and all I saw was this smoke above the CD-player ... and there was no electricity in my room. it reminded me of something from a Harry Potter or something! :D And it happened because the line that goes from the CD-player to the electric thing on the wall (can't remember what that's called) was a little torn...
:)This one is soooo funny and cute!!!!!!!!! :D :D
Have any of your Cuckoo Clocks ever caught fire??
Thal
What is on my mind right?
That three people on these forums are actually one person, and they duped us.
And I can't decide if the encouragement I got from their "existence," is real or not.
If I was inspired by a 12, almost 13, year old girl who wanted to be something she wasn't quite yet... and the older woman who was everything the girl wanted to be, but knew it didn't amount to much... and the army guy who found that music can be earned at any age... who all turned out to be not real...
Does that mean what I learned from them, and what I'm aiming for based on them, is now not valid?
I am going to chose to continue to be inspired, and continue to be moved. Because Beckys do exist somewhere, and so do elderly women who have learned that life is more than piano. And so do drill sergeants who find a soft spot for music.
It was a nice ride while it lasted. I don't regret in believing in it.
MAN :o :o :o
Are we in the middle of some profound, absolutely mind-blowingly geniusly profound ... drofound ... impound ... lesson ... or what??!! MAN.
*zero skeleton boneses*
Wow that was weird :o I wonder why Nils is so silent....
Hmm... who hasn't been posting a lot lately? I noticed Alistair hasn't been posting at all for a while! :o (I was starting to get worried already!!) sooo..... Alistair? :P
Haha... It keeps the forum interesting. I have my own idea of who it might be. Someone who hasn't been posting a lot lately -- because they're busy making up all this stuff.
did you post that before or after you read my post? XD
anyway, but I never really doubted them; I even wrote a really really long advice on life in a pm to becky (she pmed me first)
But ironically I've aways doubted emill and whatever his son was called... lol I was like there's no way a kid who started piano at 9 can play fantasie-impromptu in less than a year and la campanella in 2 years. Not possible.
At least it's not possible without him winning Van cliburn and fredyryk chopin international piano competiion by now.
And I'd assume that with such a pushy parent who is so eager to tell everyone about his amazing son that he will be quite well known, at least around youtube.
@emill: sorry for the ad hominem attacks, I'm just jealous, if what you say is true :p
Enzo/emill are extremely well-known on YouTube at least... check the channel blueyoyi. A search of his name turns up piano-related results too. Clearly you are jealous, or haven't actually investigated.
Yeah, I've been following them on youtube before Pianostreet :)
Prodigies do exist. They do things that are unlikely, but not impossible.
But don't worry ongaku_oniko, I'm a bit jealous too ;D. And I mean that as a compliment to Enzo :P If it weren't for all those talented young pianists I know both online and in real life, I wouldn't be the piano freak I am today. (:
Enzo/emill are extremely well-known on YouTube at least... check the channel blueyoyi. A search of his name turns up piano-related results too. Clearly you are jealous, or haven't actually investigated.
I also clearly indicated that I was jealous... Although I still doubt the that he started piano at 9. I know people who can play advanced pieces at a young age, but only because they've been learning the piano for years, since they were 3 or 4. If Enzo really started and 9 and got his fantasie that good in less than a year, he should be international level by now.
Then again, sometimes prodigies lose their geniusness as they grow up, and improve slower and slower.
Whether Enzo really did start the piano at age 9, being able to play fantasieimpromptu at 10 is remarkable, and I'm jealous either way.
Yes, doing acturarial science though. Nothing to do with music.
Yes, doing acturarial science though. Nothing to do with music.
Which country? I'm first year too, and act sci is basically math...
I don't know, I've always thought of myself as mature, but I'm beginning to realize more and more how immature I really am. I guess I can write mature and thoughtful posts, but I don't bother to, since this is... not really that important.
But I do have a ways to go, of course.
back on topic:
I'm sitting here studying for my math exam while listening to the beautiful interpretation of islamey by Nina Vaskova
I downloaded La Campanella and was looking last night for a match on youtube. Found one that was very close, but I don't know...I don't think it's it. But it's a really good interpretation if you're looking for one. :)Nope, that's not it. But I like it better.&list=UL
I think you're being too harsh on enzo's father. Read what he said in the post "If enzo doesn't want to pursue music we aren't going to insist. It has to be HIS choice." (or something like that) I, personally, think it's wonderful that they're supporting his talent. My parents never did, really. He's proud of his son and has reason to be so. But he's also been very supportive of the others who have posted in the audition room. I never got the idea he was thinking his son is better then everyone else.I don't think that means anything. Now, even assuming that what he said was sincere, and that he won't force enzo to play if enzo really didn't want to, that doesn't mean he isn't... Well, a show off.
I don't think that means anything. Now, even assuming that what he said was sincere, and that he won't force enzo to play if enzo really didn't want to, that doesn't mean he isn't... Well, a show off.
I also think it's wonderful that he supports his son's talent. I'm sorry your parents didn't, but I assume they have their reasons. Either way, it's a great thing, and everyone has good points and bad points. This also doesn't take away from my point that he's a show off.
I'm not saying emill is a bad parent, or even a bad person. Just that his main interest here is in showing off his son's talent. That's not the same as supporting his son's talent. Supporting means providing his son with the opportunity to improve and do his best. Going on the internet and posting his son's playin(on other people's thread, andnot as a video to show how to play or help the original poster, either) and telling people how this piece is hard for anyone, but his son learned it in less than a year is just rude, IMO.
Perhaps I'm being too harsh on enzo's father. Certainly I am bitter and jealous. But let me say this:
I wish my musical ability was a fraction of anyone on this fourm. You (Birba), pianist1989, pianowilfi, fleetfingers, bustthewave, just to name a few. I only dream of the day when I can play as well as any of you. But I don't get this annoyance from any of your posts. When you guys compliment, I feel that it's really sincere. As I've said in the scriabin thread, you really motivated me to turn my life around, and I can never thank you enough for that, birba.
It's not so much that I doubt Enzo's talent... It's just that I find it .... annoying when someone keeps pushing at how great his son is, going to a tough academic school while being a musical genius... sticking videos of his son's fantasie and la campanella in other people's threads... I don't know, I just feel slightly annoyed by it. Your son is great, I get it. I know parents want to show of their children, and if I ever have a child that was somewhat successful I would totally boast about it too. But not to the degree of pushing him in the face of anyone I can reach, including those on the internet. I mean in a thread I saw a post that emill made saying something like, "I know how this is such a tough piece, anyone would have trouble playing it. Oh, by the way, my son learned it in less than a year. video link."
Isn't that like rubbing it in their faces that they can't play as well as your son? Frankly a lot of your "nice" comments don't seem very sincere at all. It just seems like the only reason you're here is to show off your awesome son to everyone else.
Again, I'm just totally jealous of Enzo's abilities, so don't mind my bitterness; I just wanted to rant a bit, since this is the internet.
"I know how this is such a tough piece (fantasie impromptu), anyone would have trouble playing it. Oh, by the way, my son learned it in less than a year. video link."
It's not so much that I doubt Enzo's talent... It's just that I find it .... annoying when someone keeps pushing at how great his son is, going to a tough academic school while being a musical genius
Perhaps I'm being too harsh on enzo's father. Certainly I am bitter and jealous.
So I guess my perspective on emill isn't very fair. It's just what I feel based on the very few posts he made that I saw, and if no one else shares this feeling, then more likely than not, I am wrong.
And strangely enough, I can't find the posts I was referring to... perhaps I gone crazy and thought it up all in my mind? o_o
Emill: 15 is a VERY tough age. I'm sure we all remember that. And you sound like the perfect parent. I wish I had had a father half as understanding.
@ongaku
:o :o :o :o :o
@emill
Wow, I'm pretty sure 99.9% of the people here believe you!! Of course, there'll always be doubters, in philosophy class at school we talked about people who even doubt their own existence ::)
Just curious, did Enzo ever want to learn piano before he was 9 1/2? Sounds like he was exposed to a lot of music even before he started lessons. I'm going to confess I had no idea what Liebestraum was until about 3 years ago. ;D
Anyway, those videos are really good! I wish I found them when they were first posted, then even though I didn't/don't have the same amount of talent, at least I would have been inspired to practise hard. :) 2006 was probably the lowest point of my piano life. I left my piano teacher, I refused to practise (maybe partially in rebellion against my parents who compared me to their friends kids (: ), and I just wasn't motivated.
I don't think that's fair at all. Most of Emill's posts of Enzo's videos on this forum are in the Audition Room, asking for constructive criticism. Is that not "supporting" rather than "showing off" talent? And regarding the Campanella thread, I think you misinterpreted Emill's post completely. If I recall correctly, he posted the video to show his son's LIMITATIONS in attempting to learn the piece at a young age, not showing off that he could do it! In fact, he even said that Enzo NOW considers the piece too difficult, because he has higher standards, even though he is now older and more experienced.
Emill! I don't know how Enzo even entered this discussion. I have become a big fan of Enzo in the 6 months I've been here - plus 2 months of lurking - and also a big Emill fan! You have always been kind to listen to others' recordings and offer praise. I enjoyed the background story you shared; Enzo is truly talented and inspiring to the rest of us. I especially loved his Mozart Sonatas that were recently shared (much better than my playing and I'm twice his age). ;D
Hi thinkgreenlovepiano!! :)Thanks for answering! Sounds like Enzo was born to be musical ;D
We did not have any piano at home before he was 9 years old so we never had any inkling. But he liked to sing and practically memorized the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar and Phantom of the opera .... he was 6 or 7 then. When he was still younger about 4-5 years old, he used to gyrate and make faces and did a lot singing of Axle Rose (Guns and Roses) hits in front of a big mirror to the amusement of everyone. We got an old upright piano when he was about 9 1/2 for his older brother ... but it was him that excelled in it. We are sorry about your low point in 2006 .... yes parents may sometimes be careless ..... I sometimes commit such mistakes. so many THANKS AGAIN!!
emill
Anyone with perfect pitch wanna tell me the pitch of the earthquake?It might be my imagination but it sounded like a low c-#. But it was sped up like 14 times so who knows what sound it was. Mamma mia - terrible.
It might be my imagination but it sounded like a low c-#. But it was sped up like 14 times so who knows what sound it was. Mamma mia - terrible.It says 16 times... and it sounds really scary!!! :o Why do low sounds always sound kinda scary? I mean even on the piano. But on the piano it sounds cool scary.
Sound familiar? ::)It's been disactivated!!!!!!!!! :'(
Oh I hate it when people are arguing :(Gee, I wonder who you're talking about. ;D
What's on my mind...When you visit Vancouver, go check out some of my classmates. I think you'll understand the true meaning of procrastination :)
Weekends are too short
:(
And I'm the world's biggest procrastinator... well unless you compare me to my classmates ::)
Oh I hate it when people are arguing :(
Today there's one hour less!! ::) I mean I never have enough time anyway and today when there are only 23 hours it's even worse! Oh well ::)
Haha. I wasn't thinking about that. I didn't know they did that in other countries. The U.S. did that a week or two ago. Guess we're on par now, as opposed to "who's ahead." *Bob is getting confusified.*
I guess we're saving daylight now. Until the fall sometime.
https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-police-want-truck-drivers-to-have-licensed-cab-music-110327/
"Since a truck’s cab is a place of work the drivers are obliged to pay royalty fees, they argue."
Haha. I wasn't thinking about that. I didn't know they did that in other countries. The U.S. did that a week or two ago. Guess we're on par now, as opposed to "who's ahead." *Bob is getting confusified.*Oh :) I thought everyone changed time at the same time! :D :)
Gee, I wonder who you're talking about. ;DYes I'm glad they stopped with that!! Well at least most of them... I guess there are always some people who just keep saying bad things even though others decided to stop arguing ::) And they think how great and smart they are because of that, but it's just the opposite! ::) Oh well... I guess that REALLY high IQ doesn't really do that much! :-\ :P
time to LEARN (read: learn, not study, meaning because I didn't attend lectures or do the psets, I don't know anything at all)
Chapters 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 11 on limits (delta epsilon), derivatives, and integration.
2 weeks until exam!
And the same for eco, except I got to read 25 chapters for eco.
[Or is that a trick question?.... Who wrote it? No one. It doesn't have any words. :P]
Can you believe it? The same thing happened here last week. A father stabbed his 8-year-old daughter and then threw her out of the 5-story window. Then he jumped. what's happening?! I thought these things only happened in Italy.:o Really?? ??? :( :o
could it be? birba is actually littletunes? O_OOh how did you figure it out?? :o Yes sure me and Birba are the same person :P :P
:D ;D ;D
A "few" decades?" I could be her grandfather!
I always complain about getting too little sleep, but it's completely my problem. Why am I procrastinating so much?THIS.
*spent the last half an hour removing this virus called antispyware 2011... IT'S NOT A REAL WINDOWS UPDATE, SO DON'T BE FOOLED BY IT!!!!!!!*
That sounds like one I got and yes I agree that the people who are clever enough to develop such a virus would earn more money honestly.
The virus I had kept telling me that my security had been comromised and every time I logged onto the internet I was directed to a fake Microsoft site selling me a product to clear the virus. It took a system restore and a Malware sweep to get rid of it.
Must be some of the websites I visit.
Cough Cough
Thal
*Bob thinks he doesn't have a "morbid curiousity into the affairs of others."* Where did that come from and why is it 'morbid?'
For age, I think all I've said is that I'm older than college age. Then again, people go to college at any age...
I do need to get out more. But the sun's been hurting my eyes lately.
I'm ageless. I'm like a ghost. Or the wind. I'm everywhere and nowhere.
*Bob returns to his Saturday morning cartoons.*
I love how even though the rest of the world uses celcius, Americans assume that everyone understands ferenheitIt's Celsius and Fahrenheit, actually - but what Americans may assume (if indeed they do) is up to them; Celsius is what's generally used on the European side of the pond.
America should just switch to the normal system already... so much better...If by that you mean Celsius, then - well, it's not for me (as a non-American) to say, but yes, it would surely be a good idea for degrees C to be adopted in America, just as it would make sense for the other strange archaic "imperial" measures to disappear from American life (but that's only my personal opinion, for what it may or may not be worth).
I picturedm1469as a person with long, bright purple hair, huge glasses, tatoos all over with piercings in her nose. :)Really. How sad for you (though not, presumably, for m1469 herself, who probably couldn't care less).
Really. How sad for you (though not, presumably, for m1469 herself, who probably couldn't care less).I'm not quite sure why you feel the need to constantly correct my spelling mistakes.
I'm not quite sure why you feel the need to constantly correct my spelling mistakes.OK, so I'll now correct (or rather draw attention to) your split infinitive instead. I do no such thing "constantly", in any case, as the very fact that I do not even read all of your posts alone must surely demonstrate.
And I'm not sure why that is sad for me at all.No - perhaps you're not. Not my fault or problem, however...
OK, so I'll now correct (or rather draw attention to) your split infinitive instead. I do no such thing "constantly", in any case, as the very fact that I do not even read all of your posts alone must surely demonstrate.What is your problem, exactly? Why do you have to be so unfriendly to me? I am the only person that you are nitpicking, and I'm sure I'm not the only person that does not use correct spelling and grammar 100% of the time.
No - perhaps you're not. Not my fault or problem, however...
I am the only person that you are nitpicking
Nevermind, it's fruitless asking him. Can anyone else, other than dealnja, thal and ahinton explain to me what they have against me, and why are they doing this?
He has been doing it to me for 5 years and inumerable others.Yeah, he's just being himself. LIke you do, I do, we ALL do! ;D
Thal
dealnjaBest,
I have not got anything against you.
If I did, I would not have gone to the trouble of getting my extension cable out, firing up my old hard drive and searching for Schubert transcriptions for you.
I think you are getting a little paranoid. When you have been here long engough to get to know different members styles, you will know if you are being "attacked" or not.
Thal
I soooo love the pieces I'm learning now for my exam!!! :P :P Today I couldn't stop practicing them! :P :) 8) I think maybe I will write in my signature which pieces I'm learning :P (even if people will think they're baby pieces!) :)Please put it in your siggy... I don't know why, but I'm really interested in what pieces other people are working on. Maybe because there is just so much music in this world, and there are so many new pieces to discover :)
Please put it in your siggy... I don't know why, but I'm really interested in what pieces other people are working on. Maybe because there is just so much music in this world, and there are so many new pieces to discover :)
I want to know what these pieces that you love so much are :P
And yes, I am paranoid.OK - well, at least you admit to it.
But I still can't see what point there is to ahinton's posts.Then perhaps you should ask yourself if you might be better off not even bothering to try; be my guest.
I mean if you feel such an urge to correct people's grammar and spelling, go become a teacher, you'll love it.I don't particularly - and, in your case, I've drawn attention to a few things solely in the course of drawing attention to others that are more significant matters of concern. I have not desire to "go become a teacher", thank you; I would not make a good one.
I for one, do not appreciate constantly having my points distorted and my spelling corrected. I don't mind if people disagree with my opinions, but at least argue against my opinions, and not against my wording.When you have points to make expect argument and endorsement in varying measure; when you don't, or when your "points" are obscure or otherwise far less than obvious, expect what you get.
Again, I don't appreciat ahinton's comments, and if he has nothing else to say other than to ridicule my spelling and grammar, I wish that he refrains from responding to my posts in the future.But I do - or at least I have. I have questioned the logic and meaning of some of what you have written - and that has no direct connection with your spelling or grammar.
Then perhaps you should ask yourself if you might be better off not even bothering to tryCan you stop with the attacks? Clearly what I said was an invitation for you to show more clearly what your point is, if they're not to attack me, yet you choose to interpret it in a way such that you can attack my intelligence.
Just one great big happy family ;D
I think you're the only one who doesn't understand what I'm trying to say.Then please think that if it suits you to do so.
You're very welcome to prove otherwise.But I have no interest in so doing, thanks.
But if only a select few people don't understand what I'm trying to say, I think the problem is not with my writing, but with how those few people are trying to purposely distort my writing. I'm not a lawyer, and I'm not going to waste my time perfecting every single sentence I write.I have no idea how many people understand or agree with what you write and I make no claim to do so. I'm not a lawyer either.
But I'm sure most of what I write is easily understandable, since no one else has misunderstood what I wrote (and responded), I think I can safely say that it is you who is purposely distorting my words.I don't distort your words; I leave that to you. I've not suggested whether or not what you write might be generally understandable, merely whether or not all of it has valid points to make.
And this also answers your second point in which you claim to question the logic and meaning of my posts; you did no such thing. You merely distorted what I've written to some obscure meaning and logic yourself. You weren't arguing against me, you're distorting what I say and arguing against that. And I don't appreciate it.When I question something, i do not "claim" to question it; I do question it. I have not distorted what you wrote; I have left it intact. What you may or may not appreciate is up to you.
And to claim that I'm not making a point is ever worse; it's not up to you to decide whether I'm making a point.By which I presume you to mean "even" worse; however, it is up to anyone to question whether you are making a valid point if anyone doubts that you are doing so.
Can you stop with the attacks?Almost everything is an "attack" for you, is it not? But then you did admit to paranoia, so I suppose that you are at least being logical and consistent here.
Clearly what I said was an invitation for you to show more clearly what your point is, if they're not to attack me, yet you choose to interpret it in a way such that you can attack my intelligence."They" (as in "they're")? Who's "they"? Your pronoun use makes your meaning here less than clear. However, for the last time, I am not interested in "attacking" anyone. Got that now?
Then please think that if it suits you to do so.If you cannot understand what I'm referring to when I say "they", then there's no need for you to question anything else, considering you clearly do not have the ability to comprehend my writing.
But I have no interest in so doing, thanks.
I have no idea how many people understand or agree with what you write and I make no claim to do so. I'm not a lawyer either.
I don;t distort your words; I leave that to you. I've not suggested whether or not what you write might be generally understandable, merely whether or not all of it has valid points to make.
When I question something, i do not "claim" to question it; I do question it. I have not distorted what you wrote; I have left it intact. What you may or may not apprecaite is up to you.
By which I presume you to mean "even" worse; however, it is up to anyone to question whether you are making a valid point if anyone doubts that you are doing so.
Almost everything is an "attack" for you, is it not? But then you did admit to paranois, so I suppose that you are at least being logical and consistent here.
"They" (as in "they're")? Who's "they"? You pronoun use makes your meaning here less than clear. However, for the last time, I am not interested in "attacking" anyone. Got that now?
Best,
Alistair
However, for the last time, I am not interested in "attacking" anyone. Got that now?A thief goes to a bank and steals cash. He says "I have not stolen anything. Got that now?"
You pronoun use makes your meaning here less than clear.
If you cannot understand what I'm referring to when I say "they", then there's no need for you to question anything else, considering you clearly do not have the ability to comprehend my writing.You mentioned "they('re)" in the context of my "point"; the former connotes a plural and the latter a singular. This is why I wrote as I did. You have stated (more than once) your apparent opinion that I "clearly do not have the ability to comprehend (your) writing"; whilst you are, of course, entitled to your opinion, I have never shared it, preferring as I have instead to question the validity of points that your purport to make - no more, no less.
However you came up with the notion that "almost everything is an attack to me" is a mystery, since I have never made such a statement.It shouldn't be; it is not my notion but a fact evidenced by your own repeated assertions to that effect (and not only in respose to my own posts either).
I will, however, accept your compliment in that I am logical and consistent.Be my guest - even though, in retrospect, I might have been somewhat over-generous with the "logical" bit...
A thief goes to a bank and steals cash. He says "I have not stolen anything. Got that now?"There are numerous possibilities here, including but by no means limited to
How would you respond to this thief?
By the way, I am not a pronoun.Never mind - you can't be everything.
Furthermore, I must question the validity of the arguments posed by someone who thinks that a pronoun has the ability to type.You may pose suchever questions as you choose but, when doing so, do bear in mind that a pronoun has at least as much ability to type as I do and, while congratulating yourself (if indeed you are so doing) on your powers of observation in noticing one example of typographical error in my previous posts, you may at the same time ponder on such lack of them as let you miss three others therein (all of which have since been corrected).
Handbags at dawn... ::)Only one handbag, I think, since one poster at most might be prepared to do battle (and, as I've made clear already, it ain't me); furthermore, the logistics might be a tad problematic even were this not the case, since dawn in Japan and ditto in Britain by no means coincide...
Lawrence Logic strikes again.I'm unsure as to which Lawrence you have in mind here - T.E.? - D. H.? - the French saint after which is named the village where I intend eventually to settle? Whichever it may be or whoever else it might be, the prospect of logic going on strike is surely a far from welcome one...
preferring as I have instead to question the validity of points that your purport to make - no more, no less.Just as you do not claim to make questions, I do not purport to make points; I make them. Whether you agree with my point or not is, of course, your own free choice.
There are numerous possibilities here, including but by no means limited to
"you must be the bank's CEO, then"
"you're the Chancellor of the Exchequer, I see"
"I'm a serving police officer, so give me half and we'll say nothing about it, OK"
Perhaps you might now wish that you'd refrained from asking that question...
Never mind - you can't be everything.
You may pose suchever questions as you choose but, when doing so, do bear in mind that a pronoun has at least as much ability to type as I do and, while congratulating yourself (if indeed you are so doing) on your powers of observation in noticing one example of typographical error in my previous posts, you may at the same time ponder on such lack of them as let you miss three others therein (all of which have since been corrected).
Best,
Alistair
It shouldn't be; it is not my notion but a fact evidenced by your own repeated assertions to that effect (and not only in respose to my own posts either).
There are numerous possibilities here, including but by no means limited toI look forward to the day when a CEO will steal from his own bank. The act of stealing money and the act of legally taking money is, of course, different. If you cannot differentiate between such obvious differences, the fact that you cannot comprehend my writing isn't surprising.
"you must be the bank's CEO, then"
"you're the Chancellor of the Exchequer, I see"
"I'm a serving police officer, so give me half and we'll say nothing about it, OK"
Perhaps you might now wish that you'd refrained from asking that question...
You may pose suchever questions as you choose but, when doing so, do bear in mind that a pronoun has at least as much ability to type as I do and, while congratulating yourself (if indeed you are so doing) on your powers of observation in noticing one example of typographical error in my previous posts, you may at the same time ponder on such lack of them as let you miss three others therein (all of which have since been corrected).
Best,
Alistair
When I question something, i do not "claim" to question it; I do question it.
I'm unsure as to which Lawrence you have in mind here - T.E.? - D. H.? - the French saint after which is named the village where I intend eventually to settle?
Just as you do not claim to make questions, I do not purport to make points; I make them. Whether you agree with my point or not is, of course, your own free choice.Just as it is mine to question on occasion whether you have really made a point and whether or to what extent it may be valid; this is, of course, just as much anyone else's prerogative as it is mine and it would seem that I am not alone in questioning such matters.
I do not "lay down to rest" when I see your posts.I had neither expected you to do so nor suggested that you do so nor can I imagine any particular reason why you should do so.
Perhaps the word you're looking for is "response"."Perhaps" not, since I was not and am not "looking for" a word.
I do, encourage you however, to check up on the meaning of "fact".Your "encouragement" notwithstanding, let me assure you (should you requires such assurance) that there is no need for that.
Please do not mistake it with your own opinions.By "mistake" I assume you to mean "confuse" but, if my assumption here is correct, I do nothing of the kind, thank you.
What is, however, evidenced in your posts, is that you do appear to be attacking me.That is a matter of opinion, not a fact (and please do not confuse the one with the other); you have written about being "attacked" by other posters here bseides me, but then you have also had the grace and honesty to admit to paranoia, so perhaps that is par for the coure.
I look forward to the day when a CEO will steal from his own bank.I don't; I look backwards at the days when several of them have already done just that. Have a look (for all that it is a far from pretty sight) at the sheer scale of both banker incompetence and banker bonuses and you will doubtless see for yourself; had such bankers not been so incompetent and paid themeselves fortunes for having done so, certain taxpayers would not be being held to ransom today in order to minimise that risk that the banks concerned fail altogether.
The act of stealing money and the act of legally taking money is, of course, different. If you cannot differentiate between such obvious differencesBut what evidence is there that I am indeed unable to do this? That said, the phrase "legalised theft" is in common parlance and has been for years; that is because it occurs all too commonly.
the fact that you cannot comprehend my writing isn't surprisingNo, indeed; it's not "surprising", it's quite simply untrue, as I have already stated.
You may attempt to write eloquently as you chooseI do my best; I am no master of letters, but then this is an internet piano forum, not a place where the very highest literary merit is either generally expected or likely to be encountered.
but when doing so, do bear in mind that made up words like "suchever" doesn't make your writing look more sophisticated (if indeed that was your purpose)It was not my purpose, nor do I assume that it would make by writing look more anything in particular - but then you should be more careful in your reference to "made up words", since all words have been made up at some point.
And if you are assuming that I only found one of them, do realize that I am not your English teacher, and would not bother to point all of them out for you.I did not assume that per se; I merely drew attention to your having omitted to mention the others.
However, I would like you to know that perhaps correcting all of the mistakes is a bit too ambitious of a task for you.Whatever you "would like", I assume that this is an opinion rather than a fact and that you either know or are at least learning the difference between the two.
In which country?France - specifically the southern Charente.
Just as it is mine to question on occasion whether you have really made a point and whether or to what extent it may be valid; this is, of course, just as much anyone else's prerogative as it is mine and it would seem that I am not alone in questioning such matters.Just as it is mine to question on occasion whether you have really raised a question and whether or to what extent it may be valid; this is, of course, just as much anyone else's prerogative as it is mine and it would seem that I am not alone in qustioning such matters.
I had neither expected you to do so nor suggested that you do so nor can I imagine any particular reason why you should do so.
It shouldn't be; it is not my notion but a fact evidenced by your own repeated assertions to that effect (and not only in respose to my own posts either).Then I assume by respose, you are saying that I am in a state of freedom from worry, or a peace of mind when I read your posts?
Your "encouragement" notwithstanding, let me assure you (should you requires such assurance) that there is no need for that.Perhaps I had been over generous as well, in complimenting your English. Here is the definition of mistake from dictionary.com:
By "mistake" I assume you to mean "confuse" but, if my assumption here is correct, I do nothing of the kind, thank you.
4. to understand, interpret, or evaluate wrongly; misunderstand; misinterpret.You wrongly evaluated your opinion (that I feel almost everything is an attack to me) to be a fact. And of course, that statement is obviously false, as evidenced by the fact that of all the posters on pianostreet, the only ones that have attacked me are you, djealnla, stevebob (who has stopped and was nice enough to start answering my questions seriously) and thal (who has also stopped and was even nice enough to help me find transcriptions of Erlkonig, which I cannot thank him enough for).
That is a matter of opinion, not a fact (and please do not confuse the one with the other); you have written about being "attacked" by other posters here bseides me, but then you have also had the grace and honesty to admit to paranoia, so perhaps that is par for the coure.Nor did I state that it was a fact; I said there was evidence; please read carefully and don't read what's not there. I should also accept and thank your compliment in that I have grace and am honest.
I don't; I look backwards at the days when several of them have already done just that. Have a look (for all that it is a far from pretty sight) at the sheer scale of both banker incompetence and banker bonuses and you will doubtless see for yourself; had such bankers not been so incompetent and paid themeselves fortunes for having done so, certain taxpayers would not be being held to ransom today in order to minimise that risk that the banks concerned fail altogether.If you are referring to the recent financial crisis, there are many factors involved, and I don't believe the blame could be put completely on the bankers. There is a lot more to the crisis than the common man would believe, or indeed comprehend. As a student wanting to do finance in the future, I can say that even after learning a little about it, I do not completely understand everything involved. Unless you tell me you can understand the concept of the Gaussian Copula, and how it was used in determining pricing of collateralized debt obligations, I don't think we can go much further in this topic.
But what evidence is there that I am indeed unable to do this? That said, the phrase "legalised theft" is in common parlance and has been for years; that is because it occurs all too commonly.
It was not my purpose, nor do I assume that it would make by writing look more anything in particular - but then you should be more careful in your reference to "made up words", since all words have been made up at some point.Indeed, I shall say a word that is non-existant in the English language instead. Whether you have assumed "that" or not is none of my business, I merely stated that it was not my duty to correct all of your mistakes.
I did not assume that per se; I merely drew attention to your having omitted to mention the others.
Whatever you "would like", I assume that this is an opinion rather than a fact and that you either know or are at least learning the difference between the two.
Best,
Alistair
Whatever you "would like", I assume that this is an opinion rather than a fact and that you either know or are at least learning the difference between the two.Whether it is an opinion or a fact, I won't say. But the fact is, you did miss out on correcting some of your errors, when you thought you have corrected "all" of them. And I see that it is still left uncorrected.
Best,
Alistair
what's dictation?
And if they sound different, doesn't that mean you have perfect pitch?
Has anyone got a what emoticon????? <-- that?
Relative pitch. Every step of the scale has its own (relative pitch) color.I don't get it.
Just as it is mine to question on occasion whether you have really raised a question and whether or to what extent it may be valid; this is, of course, just as much anyone else's prerogative as it is mine and it would seem that I am not alone in qustioning such matters.So you can copy and paste - AND introduce a typo? Whoopty-doo!
Then I assume by resposeI assume that you mean "response"...
you are saying that I am in a state of freedom from worry, or a peace of mind when I read your posts?I am saying nothing at all about the state/s that you may be in on those occasions, not least because I cannot know about this with certainty and in any case have no control over it.
Perhaps I had been over generous as well, in complimenting your English.To the extent that no one asked you to do so and you had no need to do so, perhaps you were.
You wrongly evaluated your opinion (that I feel almost everything is an attack to me) to be a fact. And of course, that statement is obviously false, as evidenced by the fact that of all the posters on pianostreet, the only ones that have attacked me are you, djealnla, stevebob (who has stopped and was nice enough to start answering my questions seriously) and thal (who has also stopped and was even nice enough to help me find transcriptions of Erlkonig, which I cannot thank him enough for).Well, that's already three - and I didn't evaluate my own opinion, rightly or wrongly, preferring instead to draw attention to your own words on the subject, including your reference to paranoia on your part. More importantly than all of this, however, Thal is indeed a most generous fellow.
Nor did I state that it was a fact; I said there was evidence; please read carefully and don't read what's not there. I should also accept and thank your compliment in that I have grace and am honest.No, you didn't; I did. Since there is indeed such evidence for all to see, its existence is factual.
If you are referring to the recent financial crisis, there are many factors involved, and I don't believe the blame could be put completely on the bankers. There is a lot more to the crisis than the common man would believe, or indeed comprehend. As a student wanting to do finance in the future, I can say that even after learning a little about it, I do not completely understand everything involved. Unless you tell me you can understand the concept of the Gaussian Copula, and how it was used in determining pricing of collateralized debt obligations, I don't think we can go much further in this topic.Of course there were many factors involved in the recent financial crisis; I agree entirely and accordingly did not and would not suggest otherwise. It is indeed a massive topic and far too large to be discussed comprehensively on a piano forum!
Needless to say, the bankers did not physically steal money from the bank; it would, however, be quite a funny sight to watch bankers sneak into the banks after hours (Mind you, a typical analyst works from 8am to 1am, with the occasional all-nighter at least once a month, so there isn't a lot of time for "after hours") and attempt to steal from the investment banks, which really don't carry cash in the first place.Fair comment in all particulars!
Indeed, I shall say a word that is non-existant in the English language instead. Whether you have assumed "that" or not is none of my business, I merely stated that it was not my duty to correct all of your mistakes.You don't even have a "duty" to respond to my posts or anyone else's; you don't even have a "duty" to post anything here at all. The reason for your reference to "duty" is thus all the more puzzling, irrespective of the context in which you might seek to place it.
Whether it is an opinion or a fact, I won't say. But the fact is, you did miss out on correcting some of your errors, when you thought you have corrected "all" of them. And I see that it is still left uncorrected.Did I state that I had corrected all of them - or even that I "thought" that I had done so? I referred to three others that you didn't mention; that's all. I didn't state that there were no additional ones.
littletune: How can you writen down the right notes if you don't have perfect pitch? O_O
I don't get it.
you're saying a Do and Re sounds different from a So and La?
Yes they do. Great composers did not choose keys at random. C# minor sounds different than A minor. It's not mystical or "having certain vibes" it's the sound.I did, in another thread. I cannot hear the difference at all, and in fact I have asked those very questions for many years.
Try this experiment. Play a simple piece in the original key then transpose it a third up or down.
Do you notice the difference? If you don't then why bother to learn something in C# minor when it could just as well be transposed into A minor and become easier?
I did, in another thread. I cannot hear the difference at all, and in fact I have asked those very questions for many years.
Strange goings on in the forum lately.
https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110416/ap_on_en_mu/us_philadelphia_orchestra_finances
Philadelphia Orchestra board OKs Chapter 11 filing
Well, Nils and the moderators are mysterious people and you never know where they're going to be, and since I don't think I should start a whole thread for this, I will say here -- just in case they read -- thanks for my birthday cake in my profile :). I like it a lot :). It even looks actually yummy ... hee hee.
Yes that Pianostreet birthday cake is really cool! 8) I liked mine really a lot too! 8) :P
Aw.... ::)OMG. that rips my heart out! Gilberto, my wire-haired dachshund had the same problem!!!!!!!!!
https://sourcefed.com/2011/04/27/the-paraplegic-easter-bunny/
Creepy! Is she still alive?Well I think she's still alive. :-\ That's the neighbour that's always complaining about us and banging on the ceiling. But I don't know why I'm dreaming about her now cause she hasn't been complaining and banging for a while now... :-\ I hope she's not planning something mean again!!! :-\
My dog fled from home today :(
He is out there in the cold :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Exams tomorrow... I'm freaking out... I've done about 35 practise exams and now I don't even think I know how to use my calculator anymore. :'( :'( Good thing they're not allowed for this exam.
Aww I really hope you find your dog soon and that it's safe right now!! :(
My dog fled from home today :(That is really sad! I'm really sorry! :( I hope you find him soon!!! Or that he comes back home!!!!!!
He is out there in the cold :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
That is really sad! I'm really sorry! :( I hope you find him soon!!! Or that he comes back home!!!!!!
I really don't understand you people. Who cares about a stupid high school exam? It's meaningless and worthless. Besides, you're gonna get an A anyway. What's the difference between a 95 and a 96????No difference between 95 and 96... but I'm not even getting an A in the course.
I'm so angry at the people who are so concerned with that one mark when there are people (like me) who are sutruggling to pass courses.
I found him ;D
I found him ;DWas he fine? How old is he?
I found him ;D
That's great! One of the things I wonder about is why pets wander off. We think that regular food and a warm protected place to sleep would be enough to satisfy any animal but it isn't.
Are you in Brazil? Do you play in a Samba Band? I once assisted in a samba school. (I'm too old to march in parades any more. It was great fun to help out with logistics.)
Was he fine? How old is he?He's fine :). A neighbour found him on the street and took him home. I went from house to house asking for him ;D. He's 10 years old...pretty old for dogs.
My aunt's dog runs off all the time, but always comes back at the end of the day
That's really great!!! :) :) I'm really happy you found him!!! 8) I hope he was ok!!! Say hi to him! :)
No difference between 95 and 96... but I'm not even getting an A in the course.
But it doesn't matter because the exam (writing part 2 tomorrow) is worth basically my entire grade, and will affect my mark in 2 courses, not one. If I fail the exam, I fail 2 courses, automatically.
I need this mark for uni, without it, I won't even go to university in the first place. I'm sorry that your struggling, and I know university's more important, but I still care about my high school grades, especially for these two courses. If it were meaningless, why couldn't we just skip high school and go to university? :(
I found him ;D
Relax! :) I'm sure you won't fail! A couple of B's won't be the end of the world, regardless of what you're aiming for... I say this from experience ;) And I also disagree that high school is pointless... I can't imagine having gone to university at age 14... I mean, I suppose it would have been possible, but only if I started with the most basic classes. If you get the prerequisites out of the way in high school, there's a lot of really cool stuff to do in university (if you're willing to put in a lot of work, that is) :)
And I've located the raw fish I forgot to put away yesterday.... ::)
https://www.npr.org/2011/05/07/136053462/is-the-end-nigh-well-know-soon-enough
May 21st is the end of the world everyone. Take note. *Bob adds it to the calendar.*
*Bob also begins thinking about the availability of of parking following the rapture.* I bet I could get a better spot....
This summer we are going on vacation!!!! :) :) 8) Cause last year we didn't go anywhere! But this year my dad already went and made a reservation (or what's that called? Booked?) for 9th to 19th August!!!!!! :P Yesssssssss.... oh so I won't be home for my birthday! But I'm really happy we're going on vacation this summer! :) 8) :P
So, you will be long time without a piano? It doesnt sounds fun to me.
Please tell us you are not going to eat that fish. Please.
--s.
Well I'll be without the piano... but I'll for sure take my keyboard with me!!! So it won't be so bad! :) :P
@thinkgreenlovepiano We're not going very far... we're just going to the other side of my country where there's sea!! :P 8)
Oh why would you be too old for cartwheels and somersaults?? I mean if you feel like doing them then you're not too old and if you don't feel like doing them then you are too old :P :) It's just that simple! 8) You know that I don't know how to do a cartwheel :-[ I wish I could learn how to do them. I'm hoping I will someday :P
Oh well if there won't be the end of the world :-\ I have my piano lesson on the 17th! You think I'll be able to have it before the world ends? ::)
a tall asian girl means 1.60cm tall :D (which is like really short)::) ::) ::)
wait.... WHAT WE HAVE SUMMER IN CANADA? And here I thought I was living in a snowy winter all year long... I mean what'll happen to my igloo during summer? And how will I hunt for seals and whales? Guess I'll just have to live off of maple syrup. EH?!;D ;D
If you wanna go to the most interesting place, search up "sealand".
wait.... WHAT WE HAVE SUMMER IN CANADA? And here I thought I was living in a snowy winter all year long... I mean what'll happen to my igloo during summer? And how will I hunt for seals and whales? Guess I'll just have to live off of maple syrup. EH?!
https://www.npr.org/2011/05/07/136053462/is-the-end-nigh-well-know-soon-enough
May 21st is the end of the world everyone. Take note. *Bob adds it to the calendar.*
*Bob also begins thinking about the availability of of parking following the rapture.* I bet I could get a better spot....
The 21st is the last day of final exams at my university... so even if the world ends on the 21st, none of us will get out of a single exam (unless it ends before 9 AM that day, in which case a few people might be spared one...) :P
Well since the world is ending, why bother doing those exams? They won't matter. :P
Yeah, but... This one's the *real* one, right? .... Cause it's in the bible and then they scientifically proved it? I that's what the article said. Except I thought it was supposed to happen whenever and not be something you could calculate.Of course! I mean if you add up some random numbers together, it is equal to the square of the product of three random numbers!
Dibs on someone's grand piano. :) *Bob plans on sticking around around the 21st.*
Yeah, but... This one's the *real* one, right? .... Cause it's in the bible and then they scientifically proved it? I that's what the article said. Except I thought it was supposed to happen whenever and not be something you could calculate.I have no idea what bible he's using...
Dibs on someone's grand piano. :) *Bob plans on sticking around around the 21st.*
I can offer great wisdom and knowledge of the impending doom.
... If you pay me. ::) It's much more effective wisdom if you pay me.
A fool and his money are soon parted. And the world's not going to end for a long, long, long time.
Whether our species will survive that long remains to be seen. Natural gas will soon be depleted. The damage our species has done to the Earth is significant. Millions of species become extinct every year. Overpopulation. Poverty. We now have the weapons to destroy a significant part of humanity with just a few blasts, and the resulting radiation will kill off the rest.I agree, I think the key idea here is that we have to change. :) Not use some temporary fix.
We are at a crossroads right now. Either we clean up our act and advance technologically enough to go out of Earth and eventually out of our solar system, or we die.
But even beyond this, even if we survive, some people are thinking of the singularity, merging people with robots, or even getting rid the physical body completely, turning people into nothing but information.
YOu should read up about the singularity and ray kurzweil's other delusions. He thinks it'll happen in 2045, when he can ressurect his dad.
I'd rather believe in the bible myself. Or even may 21st.
And Michio Kaku's lessons about civilizations. They're quite interesting, more interesting then normal sci fi movies cuz it's actually predictions made by real scientists.
Well, today has passed, and the forecasted, much publicized earthquake prediction for Rome was null and void. It seems there was an 18% increase in day-off today for the businesses. However, there has just been reported a 5 level earthquake in Spain. Coincidence?
Now we have to wait for the 21st or 17th...
Maybe one day, when I'm realllly bored. :P So many people make these claims about when the world will end. You think I'll start believing them if I keep on reading? hmmm....
Oh but I'm pretty sure the bible says that no one knows the day or hour when the world is going to end except God... well except for the May 21st people's bibles, of course. ;D
Maybe I will read that, sounds kinda interesting. I used to hate sci fi, until I read the Chyrsalids. Was forced to read it at school.... but I love that book. :)
ONE MORE THING ON MY MIND. Have any of you heard of that lawn care company, Weedman? Stay away from them. Don't even talk to them. They're scammers.
>:(
So much for being the most popular lawn care company in Canada.
They called us to ask if we wanted them to take care of our lawn. My parents asked them to send more info. What happens? They come to our house when no one is home, spray the lawn with something, and then bill us for it. We didn't even tell them that we wanted their services.
Parents called to ask what was going on. They said, we'll email you about it.
What did the email say? "Thank you for choosing weedman. This email is to confirm your order."
What??? >:( >:(
Did a search online, there's about a million complaints about them.
They will not get a single penny from us, that's for sure.
Much better than BC student loans... they made f**king FIVEMISTAKES - I made none. And now they're refusing me my sudent loans because THEY MAKE THOSE ********** MISTAES. Now I have to appeal and sh*tOh that really sucks :(
Those weedman people came again! And left another bill? What??! Do they not know what "no" means?
Seriously, I wish they came when I was home. I would have come out with a pitchfork and a torch and driven them off our lawn! ;D >:(
^typical American :)
Except I'm not American ::)I was referring to the
I was thinking more medieval times
Can inadequacies ever evolve or develop into adequacies?That depends on your definition of inadequate.
If "inadequacy" is capable of adequate evolution or development, I would suppose it is not "inadequate" at all.
and along those lines...
Can true nothingness ever evolve into somethingness ? (NOT talking about smallness into bigness).
Is there any such "thing" as no-thing-ness (I would think not)
I love Blejsko Jezero and the little church on the little island, where you can ring a bell and wish for something and it will come true :)Have you tried "Blejske kremšnite" :P :)
Just WHAT is a weedman?!
ONE MORE THING ON MY MIND. Have any of you heard of that lawn care company, Weedman? Stay away from them. Don't even talk to them. They're scammers.
>:(
So much for being the most popular lawn care company in Canada.
They called us to ask if we wanted them to take care of our lawn. My parents asked them to send more info. What happens? They come to our house when no one is home, spray the lawn with something, and then bill us for it. We didn't even tell them that we wanted their services.
Parents called to ask what was going on. They said, we'll email you about it.
What did the email say? "Thank you for choosing weedman. This email is to confirm your order."
What??? >:( >:(
Did a search online, there's about a million complaints about them.
They will not get a single penny from us, that's for sure.
I was referring to thefactthat Canada is America's 51st state :)
You're in university but you didn't pass grade 1 social studies? Actually I'm sure even 3 year olds know that Canada isn't part of USA
so mean :(Smileys un-meanify any sentence. :P Also, you were being mean to Canada !
weedman is like superman but smokes weed. I haven't heard anything good about environmental hippies either :P
Have you tried "Blejske kremšnite" :P :)
We have a bell that you can ring and wish for something on Šmarna gora too. :) 8) (That's a lot closer to where I live :) actually it's really close to my music school). But I'm not so sure if it's working there :-\ I've tried it a few times... but it didn't seem to be working... but maybe it just needs time before it really starts working. :P :)
Oh... I have a recital next week already!!! And we'll be doing exams at some other school than last year :-\ But that's why we have exams a week later... and my teacher said today: You're doing good, oh I can't wait for the exam! I'm not worried about you at all!
wel... but I am worried anyway... even if she's not... Oh well :)
Officially done with academic work for the year and now have no idea what to do with myself... to the point that I've been looking through algebra and relativity textbooks in preparation for next semester ;D
Easy, easy. Is there something wrong with just enjoying a quiet, peaceful time and rebooting your head? A walk in a forest, sitting at a shore or lying in a meadow watching the clouds go by will do wonders for your outlook. Not to mention how it will improve your performance of the next task.
Nice quote recently, directed toward me.
"You're not really a musician... You just teach." ::)
From a coworker too. Oi....
Maybe a little faculty recital would set things right. For example, just a few minutes at an assembly might be enough.
I'm not practicing enough and I'm stuck back in technique land -- Just working on technique to keep technique.
I could/should work up something small and have it memorized. Anything is probably good enough, but something a little entertaining to Joe Schmoe would be good too. I'll have to find a piece like that. Something that would get the point across that I can play but not something too difficult to work up or perform on the spot, so not a "monster" piece for me, something well within my technique.... And something short enough that people could be polite for a minute and possibly listen and not have to wait politely (or impolitely) for the end of the piece. Something like Claire de Lune would even work. That kind of piece and something on the jazz side would be good. Hmm....
Oh great, another person trying to predict the world ending? I thought they said that was supposed to happen in 2012. Sorry nonbelievers, but that's so unscriptural that it's hillarious. We're not supposed to know the date. BTW, not trying to start a war.
Oh great, another person trying to predict the world ending? I thought they said that was supposed to happen in 2012. Sorry nonbelievers, but that's so unscriptural that it's hillarious. We're not supposed to know the date. BTW, not trying to start a war.From their website, which interestingly, is a "bible study website"
“Upon hearing the information that May 21, 2011 is Judgment Day, many in the churches immediately refer to a Bible verse such as:Matthew 24:36... You see,” they say after quoting this verse, “the Bible tells us that no man can know.”...uh.... what? :-\
Of course, we do acknowledge that the Bible has this verse within it. However, the question is: does the rest of the Bible support the idea that we cannot know the timing of the end of the world? Or, is there more information in the Bible that would allow for God’s people to learn the date of the end of the world?
The annoying orange on YouTube is hilarious.
Grr.... So much for the coffee....
ZZzzzz...... *Bob takes a nap.* Oder... Bob hält ein Schlaefchen? Richtig?
Ah..... *Bobs veins coarse with an upped dose of caffeine.*
Don't you think the whole "It's either a black key or a white key" concept is a little simplified? After all, there's a whole diverse array of colors out there, but we're only looking at things in terms of black and white keys? What about yellow keys? Or red? Or what about keys that originally from one piano and were transplanted into another piano? Are those still so much a "black" or "white" key? Is it still a "Steinway key" if it's been taken out of a Steinway and put into a Yahama? I think we're missing a whole color pallete of keys here and keys that actually exist in the real world, instead of on this theoretical "black and white keyboard" we hear so much about.
@ littletune, wow... Hopefully you'll solve the problems with your neighbour :-\
My recital is in 2 hours. I'm sooooo nervous! But a little excited too :)
Good luck! :)
Littletune please take care of yourself! And don't play faster as you can! To get red in the face after a physical effort is not really a problem at this age, but though, be careful! :) And good luck for Friday! And sleep a lot! :) And don't translate too much :) :P
"too hot" for her must be 20oC
To all you who live in countries with severe winters, be careful on the first nice days of spring. Your body needs to get accustomed to the change in weather. You will need to drink a LOT of water.
For us old desert rats, anything under 25C feels cold. Actually I start to function around 30C. I took a few days off and went to Palm Springs where it didn't drop below 30C.
Why do you say that?
Cause your country is cold.
I don't know if I believe this.... It is Time but...
https://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110525/wl_time/httpnewsfeedtimecom20110525hownaziscientststriedtocreateanarmyoftalkingdogsxidrssfullworldyahoo
Thanks Wolfi! :) Yes I guess it's normal... and I guess it would help if I had a lot more recitals... cause at first when I just started learning piano, my hands were shaking even at my piano lessons ::) but now they don't anymore (at least most of the times)... so I think maybe if I had recitals every week like I have piano lesson then my hands would stop shaking so much at recitals too... I hope! But I can't have that many recitals :-\ and I do try to tell myself everything is cool and that I know how to play my pieces and all that, and I don't even feel so very scared and nervous :-\ that's the weird thing! Maybe I just don't know I'm scared and nervous :-\ well... I'll have to do something about that I guess... my teacher said today that I played very well, but that I can play even a lot better when my hands are not shaking so much. And she said I should imagine I'm just playing for her and for my parents. And she said that she's lucky cause her legs are shaking not her hands... Oh well... I hope I can do something about this!!!
I finally found books for spanish and italian language instructionsI swap Spanish for English girls, come here and we will talk in terms of deal! ::)
Hope I get lots of girls :)
I swap Spanish for English girls, come here and we will talk in terms of deal! ::)
3 years for the world cup in brazil...As far as everything is happening, I think we have 3 years for the world cup in the US...
I'm just thinking about people who do things despite the fact that others find it ridiculous that they do them. Like, Sarah Palin, for example. Doesn't she know that most people find her ridiculous? Of course not, because she'll go down in history alright, as the individual who showed the world that absolutely anybody can run for US president.
On my mind now is still the beautiful football played by Barcelona last night.
They made England's best look like a team of Sunday afternoon hackers and nothing gives me more pleasure than to see Man Utd humiliated.
Thal
I know, that's annoying. I hear a constant B-flat 2 all the time
Actually I was talking about sewing thread. I make teddy bears by hand and I need to make some to try to sell at our high school reunion, but I can't find the blasted thread.
Wolfy, lol *throws a bear at Wolfy*.
You can throw all the bears you want at me as long as they're teddy bears.
*throws loads of fluffy teddybears at Jessie* :D
(Btw does your screenreader support emoticons? )
You know, I STILL get nervous at piano lessons :-\ My hands don't really shake but they're always really cold and clumsy. Partly because the classroom is cold (it's in the basement) but also because I just get nervous really easily. When it comes to recitals, it's even worse because once I start playing, I have to keep going... My legs are probably shaking as I'm walking onto the stage. And the audience has to wait a realllllly long time before I start to play.
If you can't have so many recitals, maybe you should find some of your friends to listen to you play. If your friends play piano you can make your own mini recital. And I know a lot of hospitals/ nursing homes/ libraries like having people come over and perform for them too.
My teacher's advice is to just focus on the music. She also says that chocolate, bananas, and warm tea always help calm nerves. My mom also makes me eat candy when I'm nervous. :D Also....the audience isn't listening to you because they're trying to catch your mistakes, they want to listen to your music and how beautiful it is! :)
*Bob is debating on whether to tell Littletune that bees die after they sting someone.* At least I think they do.
She's right. I didn't know that those large fuzzy ones would sting. I've encountered them often flying around as if they are blind and now and then bumping into me but never stinging. Maybe if it is their fault for hitting me they say they're sorry by not stinging?I think these bumble bees are really nice :) I mean they even look really nice and cute... they just sting if they get really scared I guess. :)
"haven't found"
Yes I know about the poor bees :( and I got scared this one would die too, but then I saw that it didn't and I was really happy :) but it wasn't a usual bee... it was a bumble bee... the fuzzy one :) and I looked in Wikipedia and it says they don't die after they sting! Look:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumble_bee#Sting
I mean did you think I was just imagining the bee to stil be alive? :o Or that I was lying or just imagining that I got stung by a bee? :-\
(Oh I know... everyone thought that I was just making up some stories about some bee right? Everyone probably thinks I'm just saying some stupid things that aren't even true and just lying or that I don't even know what's true and what's not? Right? :( Ok whatever... you can think whatever you want! :( )
Look I have something for you :)
I encountered many of these today on my bike ride, and they were excessively busy, as they had to visit many hundreds, if not thousands of these blue blossoms until the evening!! I didn't dare to tell them to keep still for two seconds. So the bumble bee appears a bit blurry on the photo :)
(https://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j37/pianowolfi/IMG_0987.jpg)
I've never heard of anyone doing this in a formal setting. It *is* extraordinary.
This is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo undescribably or indescribably cute!!!!!!!!Awwww! That's adorable!
https://www.google.com/webhp?tune=CA40wJj3FBUSyniAABLcIyiAACMEZMBCYBwkJwLTgMjAERBDgDAFIQmAgJBSAA**
Better look quick. I don't know if it will disappear.
This is one of the grossest things I've ever heard of. My stomach is turning.Coming up in the nearest Mcdonald's...
:-X
You really are a sweetie with a huge great big heart :-*Mmm, cockles.
It is rare to hear someone with so much care and consideration for animals. It warms me cockles.
Thal
You really are a sweetie with a huge great big heart :-*You're nice Thal! :) 8)
It is rare to hear someone with so much care and consideration for animals. It warms me cockles.
Thal
Littletune it seems that a few people in the building are on your side, first of all your mom. What about just keeping to put notes and candles again and again, every day, not only you but the other people too? Like a sort of demonstration. And the other people who are on your side might declare themselves being solidary with you on the notes, as well?
Thanks Bob for answering! :) I didn't mean that sign (although I didn't know what that means either, so thanks for explaining) :)
I meant this:
(https://i881.photobucket.com/albums/ac20/littletune98/mypiano.jpg)
That sign above the 3.
Located between concrete buildings and kebab shops...It's been a long while since my last time in Europe, and I kept wonder: are there so many kebab shops now?!? :-X
It's been a long while since my last time in Europe, and I kept wonder: are there so many kebab shops now?!? :-X
Best regards,
Jay.
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_76HJKwgU9TQ/TRJ_RoBqRtI/AAAAAAAABa8/aeYn7zUJmvk/s1600/Spicy+Meatball.jpg)
That's a little trill. In this case you play it f-g-f. So instead of the single f you play f-g-f and then the e. It will sound almost like a triplet.
Thank you very much Wolfi! :) 8) How do you know that it's exactly f-g-f... I mean cause it doesn't say anywhere... how can you know it's not f-e-f or something like that :P Is it always the same?
A trill is a quick alternation between a note and the note above. Either it starts on the main note or on the note above (the so called auxiliary note) as often in Mozart and Haydn. But here it's clear from the context that it has to start from the main note.
f-e-f would be a mordent, a quick alternation with the note below, which has a different sign: it looks the same but has a straight line through it.
Looks like that cat got paperclipped.
*Bob sets the paperclipped m1469 aside.*
But does land without time even exist?
It does if you create one :).Yes you're right! :P 8)
Hobbits are supposed to have Somerset accents, aren't they? Not Cockney, anyway. And of course Hobbits exist, next you'll be telling me dragons aren't real...
I'm thinking of getting out of the rat race. I'm tired of the other rats and I'm just not competitive enough to ever win that particular race.
Wow I haven't been on Pianostreet for like a week or something!!!! :o That's soooo long for me!!
BUT we're going on holidays next week!!!!!! :P In 9 days, well actually I think more like 8 and a half... cause my dad said that we should leave at like 5 am already!! 8) But we're not sure yet if we can get the keys so early or not cause if not then we'll have to go in the evening cause we can't drive during the day cause it's too hot for the pets! (except maybe if it was raining). But well yes I sooooo can't wait!!!!!!! But I'm also a little worried what if something goes wrong!! But I hope everything will be ok!!! Cause I soooo can't wait to go cause last year we didn't go anywhere!! :-\ I can't believe it's next week already!!!!! :P 8)
Will you have water in the car for the animals? I always bring a water dish and am always ready to slightly dampen the the fur of the cat (because they don't pant like dogs) to keep him cool. Not wet, I just make my hand damp and then pet the cat. And don't leave them in a parked car!
Enjoy your trip!
Thank you Oxy! You are very nice :) Yes we will have water in the car (and we will be making stops too). That's a good idea, thanks, I will dampen my pet's fur... (I could take my water gun with me, but I'm sure they wouldn't like that :P ). And no we would never leave them in a parked car!
Thank you! :) 8) I really can't wait!!
I hope we will really go when we're supposed to, because yesterday my dad started saying that it doesn't matter if we go two or three days later ::) :o But we didn't go anywhere at all last year, I want to be on holidays as much as possible this year! I hope we really go on Tuesday at 5am!!! Oh and my mum bought two cameras for one time use for underwater :P so I'll be making pictures and if there will be some good ones I'll post them! :P 8) :)
Hi Littletune,
I'm new here but I ran across your name many times and you
always make me smile. You're so full of life and so nice you remind
me of my favorite niece and my 13 yo son. Hope you have lots of
fun on your vacation. Where are you going?
Jzp93
You could use a mister spray bottle.
Except then you'll have a damp pet stinking up the car.
Thank you very much! You are very nice to say that! :) And I'm really glad if I make you smile!! :) :) 8) And thank you for nice wishes! Oh we're going just on the other side of our country where there's sea! :P (I'm from a small country in Europe) :) I haven't seen the sea for 2 years already! So I really can't wait! :P :) :)
Oh Bob I don't think we would mind the smell of a damp pet, just that they will feel good and it will be ok! :)
Hi Go! :) I hope you get a lot of piano students! :)
Spaghetti.
John 3:16
New International Version (NIV)
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
What do you think of this Video?
So when it comes to the Jews, belief must be based on truth and sense,
Endorphins. I got my pulse up to 170+ and it felt nice. I wasn't sure why at first but it must be endorphins. Walk/job on treadmill for 15 min/.5 mile, lift weights, then walk/job again. Somewhere between .5 and .66 miles it happened. Then it went away. Too bad. Although my pulse did drop. Could have been the pulse, more exercise than normal, listening to music... Kind of interesting.
I thought the whole idea of religious belief was that it is based on fairy stories, superstition and misapplied folklore?
I am sorry, I am not the one to be having a religious debate with. This is what I believe.
I believe in God the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth:
And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord,
Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost,
Born of the Virgin Mary,
Suffered under Pontius Pilate,
Was crucified, dead, and buried:
He descended into hell;
The third day he rose again from the dead;
He ascended into heaven,
And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost;
The holy Catholick Church;
The Communion of Saints;
The Forgiveness of sins;
The Resurrection of the body,
And the Life everlasting.
Amen.
John 3:16
New International Version (NIV)
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
What's steady state?
https://www.answers.com/topic/steady-state-exercise
https://ab.mec.edu/abrhs/science/AnatPhys_Labs/backgroundsteadystate.html
https://www.sport-fitness-advisor.com/cardiovascular-system-and-exercise.html
I'm still not quite following...
I was huffing and puffing more. It could have been more from more O2 also. I've noticed when I get more air my short term memory disappears. I can't remember why I was doing something or what I was planning on doing next.
I got my pulse up to 170+ and it felt nice.
Oh, I know what you believe, that was never the question, the question was if whatever you believe is based on truth. I have explained that its not based on truth.
You can believe whatever you want...
Most Christians would say, I think, that if what you believe is based on truth, it's not religion. Religious belief--faith--is, by most definitions, a firm trust in something that has no conclusive proof.
On second thought, you said "truth", not "proof", so I guess my point is somewhat tangential. But you also said "explained", which implies some kind of proof. A believer might say their faith isn't something to be explained, on any level. Religion dealing with the supernatural, kind of precludes human understanding.
Just playing devil's advocate, if you will... ;)
I think that if you pushed your pulse up to 170 you will in all probability have passed your personal anaerobic threshold:
https://www.rice.edu/~jenky/sports/anaerobic.threshold.html
Steady state is below that threshold, but still quite intense exercising. I just feels good, it feels like you could go on and on. Exercising above the anaerobic threshold is of course possible but it can never be done as long as exercising at the steady state.
Thank you very much! :) I wish we had a beach close to where I live but it's more like on the other side of the country, but we're going there now so that's cool! 8)
My mum is getting angry now cause I haven't packed everything yet :-\ :) :P So I'm hurrying now!
So everyone have a great time in the next 11 days when I'm gone I'll miss Pianostreet... but I can't wait to see the sea and to swim and everything :P
And Oh please everyone have a great August 11!!! Eat a cake and celebrate cause it's my birthday :P :D :) Oh... now I won't be able to see my Pianostreet cake!! :( Can someone please take a picture of my Pianostreet cake? It will be on my profile on August 11 (at least it should be I think)... :P 8) Oh well gotta go now!!!! Bye everyone till about August 20! :-*
Ah, interesting. I was listening to music, jogging instead of walking -- I had been alternating walking and jogging to keep my pulse above 130 -- and was daydreaming about chasing a thief. Then I looked down and noticed my pulse was 170+. The little monitor wasn't tracking it higher than that for some reason. And I remember thinking "I could keep running if I wanted to" instead of just boosting my pulse. And I started thinking of all the things I could cross off on my 'to do' list today. It was nice while it lasted.
Intelligent people do things because they are firmly based in reality and fact, and of course history.That's why most intelligent people don't believe in a biblical god, because there is no scientific evidence of god.
That's why most intelligent people don't believe in a biblical god, because there is no scientific evidence of god.Just because something can't be proven scientifically doesn't mean it isn't true. To say that nothing is true unless there is scientific evidence for it doesn't really make sense, it's kinda self-refuting... because you have no scientific evidence to back up that statement :P Just my thoughts, not trying to argue...
Excellent! I've seen some of my neighbors do the run/walk thing and there is a form of workout that employs the same system. If you can't get outside there are treadmills that will automatically keep you at a certain pulse rate.Speaking of walking and jogging and pulse yesterday I decided to estimate my maximum oxygen consumption (VO2 max) using the Rockport Fitness Walking test:
A little late- but happy belated birthday! And hope you're having fun on vacation! I love the water and swimming! I was on vacation on your birthday... so I'll wish you a happy birthday now, almost a week late. But I did eat cake August 11. Actually we had cake almost everyday for dessert, hahaha. ;D
In a few days, I'll probably be on vacation again. What an awesome summer! Too bad that means I have to leave my piano behind, again. :(
Thank you very much Thinkgreenlovepiano!! :) 8) I had a lot of fun on my vacation!! IT was soooo great and cool! 8) I hope you're having a great time too!
Oh I guess noone took a picture of my Pianosetreet cake then right? :- Oh well maybe I could cheat a little... I mean... actually I was supposed to be born a little later actually on August 22nd :P So maybe that is in a way my birthday too ;D Would that work? :- :P :D
Thank you m1469!! You are very nice! :)
It worked!! I have my Pianostreet birthday cake today!!! :P :P 8) Thanks Pianostreet! Oh and I didn't just make this up, I mean that I was supposed to be born on August 22nd! It's really true, the doctors said I was going to be born on August 22! And then my mum went to the doctor for a check up on August 10th and the doctor said : everything looks great, see you next week! And my mum was feeling ok and she said to my dad that he could go with his friends the next day August 11. So on August 11 my mum was home alone and then I decided to be born :P and then my mum didn't even call anyone first and then her sisters called her to ask her how she was doing and she said she was ok just that it looks like the baby decided to be born already... and then they were like: WHAT? and they got all nervous and everything... So yes... and then I think they came over and called the ambulance and then just when they were leaving my dad came home too. :) And I was a very big baby even though I was born a little too soon :)
Speaking of walking and jogging and pulse yesterday I decided to estimate my maximum oxygen consumption (VO2 max) using the Rockport Fitness Walking test:
https://www.brianmac.co.uk/rockport.htm
I read about it in my bio textbook and thought it would be fun. Plus I needed to reassure myself that I had some endurance...
(I am such a bio nerd. :) )
I don't know that anyone doubted you! But, this happens! In fact, I was not making up that I was becoming an Auntie again yesterday! My brother and his wife had a little girl on August 21st :). Their daughter was a few weeks early, too! I just think it's funny because -I think- I remember that your Mom's birthday is right near mine (April 23rd), and your birthday is the day before my sister's, and now my new little niece was born the day before your original due date! Of course, due dates are almost never exactly right :).
Err...Thank you very much! :) It's really great to have a supposed-to-be birthday!! :P :)
Happy what-was-supposed-to-be-your-birthday, littletune! (Since it's probably too late for a belated happy birthday)
And Littletune, do you hold a record as the largest baby, for the hospital, for the village, for the country? A former catcher for the LA Dodgers held the US record for several years.
m1469! Congratulations to your auntship!! :) I imagine the baby :) Just today I saw a very very tiny baby, perhaps only a few weeks old, at the mall, and I am always astonished how small and tender they are :)
I don't know that anyone doubted you! But, this happens! In fact, I was not making up that I was becoming an Auntie again yesterday! My brother and his wife had a little girl on August 21st :). Their daughter was a few weeks early, too! I just think it's funny because -I think- I remember that your Mom's birthday is right near mine (April 23rd), and your birthday is the day before my sister's, and now my new little niece was born the day before your original due date! Of course, due dates are almost never exactly right :).
Time does seem to be flying.
I don't quite understand the emergency part.
Well, :P, emergency is code for "Has completed some important steps (at least we know she is not a criminal), but has not actually completed everything necessary for the regular certificate, and must offically-seeming be inside the classroom before the other stuff will officially get done." and then, imagine even smaller writing between those imaginary lines that reads: and has also paid the appropriate fees and has had the official OK's from the right people.
Oh, oh... I forgot the "PS" which is there, but invisible:
"PS - And, believe us -the State- she better get her bottom in gear and finish that other stuff (the civil rights test) soon, and I mean SOON, because this sucker's a ticking time-bomb and is going to expire towards the end of November! And then what'chya gonna do? Hmmm? Yeah, that's right. We win."
And, the state says that wearing a suit and tie, shaking their broad shoulders back and forth and all puffed up, and with raised eyebrows and a wrinkled up forehead, and these piercing eyes and stern tone of voice. And, with one finger pointing... :o >:( ;D 8)
Hmmm. :) Just remain calm and get your bottom in gear whilst doing so. :)
Pretty soon I want to give my little violin debut here. I am nearly going to graduate myself from my first book, and I will prepare some scales, arpeggios, and a small selections from my book (and maybe something else). Yippppeeeee ;D :-*
Pretty soon I want to give my little violin debut here. I am nearly going to graduate myself from my first book, and I will prepare some scales, arpeggios, and a small selections from my book (and maybe something else). Yippppeeeee ;D :-*
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c69_1315767872Oh how cool! 8) The cows are sooo cute and smart!!! :)
Cows love jazz.
Oh how cool! 8) The cows are sooo cute and smart!!! :)
I hope that tag in Bessie's ear doesn't mean she's marked for food. >:(
I hope that tag in Bessie's ear doesn't mean she's marked for food. >:(I better not even think about it!!!! :o :-X
I better not even think about it!!!! :o :-X
How do all y'all think/feel about huge, beautiful, old trees in the natural forest that are marked for logging?Sad :'( Me and my friend where trying to save some trees once.
Sad :'( Me and my friend where trying to save some trees once.
I'm not exactly a "tree hugger," and I don't have a definite stance that we shouldn't ever use wood, etc., but I do feel there needs to be smarter ways of dealing with all of it - including animals. But, even with animals, I'm not quite ready to say nobody should eat meat (even though I often have an involuntarily hard time with it - yet, I still eat it).
But, once I went into an old-growth, famous forest with my boyfriend at the time, whose dad was/is working for a *major* logging company. It was a strange experience. I am the type of person who feels like the trees and forests are living and as though I can actually feel that life (not just the animals within the forest) and as though the trees even have a kind of communication with each other and with us. These ones actually seemed wise to me. Let's just say that my boyfriend and I had very different experiences there :P.
I am the type of person who feels like the trees and forests are living and as though I can actually feel that life (not just the animals within the forest) and as though the trees even have a kind of communication with each other and with us.You and me both. Did you know that trees have an aura, similar to ours?
I'm with you all the way!!! ;D
What kind of disturbing images? :-\
Weird:wierd?! That doesn't really quite describe it. Although I have heard of it before.
https://www.independent.ie/national-news/man-died-from-spontaneous-human-combustion-inquest-finds-2885633.html
:o
*Bob whacks littletune and krystellle on the kneecap... with a spoon!* ;D
It's ugly out there in the animal kingdom. And we don't exactly get along with them either.
No, no no. *Bob shakes head.* Honey badgers don't secretly care deep down. They have thick skin and do whatever they want, such as eating poisonous snakes and eating from a working bee hive. They don't care.
Dearest Whoever Is Responsible For The Weather!
Yesterday we still had summer, today we have winter! Could we please get at least a few days of autumn too? That would be really great! (Cause this is a little shocking! :o ) Thank you very much! :)
Amen! Yesterday I was driving around with air conditioning and last night (for the first time this year) turned on the heating in the car. Although today we're getting a mini Indian summer (22C under clear skies).
We hope you get one too!
*Honey hamster is impervious to battery acid.*
The honey hamster remains safe in its nest where it has always been.
Because there are a few things lately that have hurt my feelings.
Yeah, there is another thing that has hurt my feelings. Recently some pictures from my last Opera Scenes (a year ago) was posted, and in them (though I wasn't tagged) there is one in the middle of my aria performance of Come Scoglio - and, I'm singing right at a guy in a chair and my mouth is HUGE and I look like I'm seriously going to devour him ... :-[ :-[
*cough,cough* "Someone" here has been known to eat hamsters, so....
Maybe you or someone could photoshop in a hamster on that pic?
I mean it's normal for people to open their mouth when they're singing...
I saw that picture :) And it doesn't look weird or anything at al!! You look pretty m1469! :) I mean it's normal for people to open their mouth when they're singing... I think it would be very weird and scary if you were singing and your mouth was closed... :o Can you imagine that?!There's a picture of m1469?! I always thought she was a muliple-personality who was everywhere at all times. Where's the picture?
I am completely sure noone thinks there's anything wrong with the picture! :)
I saw that picture :) And it doesn't look weird or anything at al!! You look pretty m1469! :) I mean it's normal for people to open their mouth when they're singing... I think it would be very weird and scary if you were singing and your mouth was closed... :o Can you imagine that?!
I am completely sure noone thinks there's anything wrong with the picture! :)
According to several choir conductors and voice teachers that I have met in my life it's not only normal but also desirable and inevitable, without any doubt :)
There's a picture of m1469?! I always thought she was a muliple-personality who was everywhere at all times. Where's the picture?
Well I kinda know what you mean m1469! I mean I always see sooo many things wrong with me (or hear)... that's why I don't post videos from my recitals because I think I look sooooo weird! But I will and I just won't care anymore... someday... I think... :P
m1469 doesn't show up on facebook! >:(
I find that very sad. It's obivious from the position of the ears, the arching of the back, the sucking of the tongue, that he's in pain. And it's a sound that cats make when they're in danger or great physical discomfort.
Weird. ::)
Yeah, same here :). But, I guess we'll just both work on that, because, if we are 'into' seeing flaws about ourselves, we could recognize that this can actually be a kind of flaw, too!
Oh Bob I don't think you could really tell from this how intelligent the poor cat is! ::)
I'm way deeply meditating on Bach's Invention no. 1. I know, I know, most people probably think that to do this is perhaps silly. I can't help it! I've got questions :-[ ... which turned into deep questions ... :-[ :-[ ... and now all I want to do is lay on the floor and listen to the silence and to the world and feel a resonating within my guts.
I'm way deeply meditating on Bach's Invention no. 1. I know, I know, most people probably think that to do this is perhaps silly. I can't help it! I've got questions :-[ ... which turned into deep questions ... :-[ :-[ ... and now all I want to do is lay on the floor and listen to the silence and to the world and feel a resonating within my guts.
*Bob is glad he wasn't around while things were "resonating within guts."*
A revision of my routine is in my mind. A synthesis of lots of ideas, all coming together. Finally. A step forward I think.
A revision of my routine is in my mind. A synthesis of lots of ideas, all coming together. Finally. A step forward I think.
Just noticing on the members list that it's not 'a thousand members joined each day' anymore. Although I'm surprised that nearly everyone who's joining lately is a Gold member. Nils must be raking the money if people keep paying each month.
*wondering if they will be making "exotic hamburgers" in Ohio.* :P
Oh. By the way... Today's the end of the world. It got rescheduled from May 2011.
https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2097462_2097456,00.html?xid=rss-specials
Sucks that it has to end right before the weekend.
Everyone make note. *Bob marks it on his calendar.*
Carry on....
Oh well so now we really do have winter! Today it was snowing! There were these huge gigantic snowflakes falling :o I don't think I ever saw snow in October in my life!! Last year I thought it started really early cause we had first snow in November!
So we had a really long summer then we had a little less than 2 weeks of autumn and now it's winter!!! Oh well I don't mind anymore I'm just worried about the animals because I'm not sure if they had time to prepare for winter :-\ I hope they did!!
Bob! ::) >:( :-X
And I just wanted to say that I survived this week! :-\ And I only have to survive next week and then holidaaaays! Well maybe it can get rescheduled one more time? :P
I'm still here.
Eventually one of these end of the world people will be right. Then we'll all feel awkward for mocking them.
You know that we have really a lot of birds now here too... since like the beginning of October! There are sooo many of them, we never saw so many birds before... and we don't know what kind of birds they are. I tried recording them yesterday... but I didn't put it on the computer yet so I don't know if I got them well. But they're really cool, i never saw sooo many birds flying around and sitting on trees! :) 8)
Ohio?
Money's on my mind. *Bob rolls the dice . . . i n e x t r a d i n a r i l a r i l y s l o w m o t i o n . . . . *
It's going to be a looooong time before those come to rest.
High pitched? His voice has been recorded didn't you know that? Mr. Bach comes to call (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnaYm9XWZms#t=2m27s) :)
Well I think we have some people with special powers on Compound time! :o Yes last week there were some who practiced for 900 minutes and more without stopping... but that's nothing compared to a guy who was able to practice for 180 minutes in only 1 minute !!! Isn't that incredible?? I think he's probably able to stop time or something! :o Or maybe he can go to another universe (or dimension) where time goes faster than here... so it's like 180 minutes there but only 1 minute here!! Wow! Just WOW!!! Maybe he would want to tell me how he does that... cause that would be really cool! Yes... well too bad we can't all have these special powers! ::) :P
haha ... me love soooooo, sooooo, so much :). Bach is my Daddy ;D. He's nice. :)
*Bob whistles and prepares Halloween candy for the trick-or-treaters, attaching disclaimers, "This piece of candy is perfect safe to eat. It is not poisoned nor does it contain pins or razor blades." Bob also prepares 3-page form for trick-or-treaters to sign, "Bob is not responsible for any eating disorders and/or obesity resulting from the eating of this candy.... ...This candy is guaranteed to be eaten within 48 hours since it was paid for and this candy also will not be horded away for months and months until next Christmas...." along with signatures and ID verification to ensure trick-or-treaters only show up once and only once.
Yes, that was a joke. *Bob bought candy but has no plans on handing it out.* ::)
Now m1469, does your state have such a requirement and does it apply to home schooled students?
I didn't notice that :-\ I am too busy with teaching, and I even practice a bit more than I post on compound time, because it takes a lot of time to always change the pieces according to the practice session, and search them in the repertoire list and so on, it takes something off the practice time... :P
Now I feel philosophical about it. There is of course something 'to' people being met where they are at and in a way which speaks to them ... but ...
It doesn't seem like a big deal if it doesn't stand out as one - and the fact that it doesn't stand out as one is actually one of my points as this being a "big deal." If it's not a big deal that this could be considered as musicianship and even "great" musicianship by many youth in the world (and that there is an industry willing to promote it as such), then the world's got some big fat problems. Of course, that's not news.
I didn't intend to describe a method, let alone propagate it, with what I said. I am much more pragmatic.
*Bob is laughing.* Rebecca Black is manufactured, all fake, created to be whatever will make the most money.
If that were true, where in the WORLD did the music come from? :P
I would like to call them "magic studios." I would never have know about them unless a friend of mine proudly presented me with his first CD. He has some good ideas and sings his original songs from the heart. He went to another friend who has such a studio.
As the "artist" you go in, sing your songs and speak about what kind of feeling, background, etc., you would like. In about two weeks you came back and sing it again. That's it. You never rehearse with the musicians, or even meet them. They exist on memory chips. In some of the better places they have "session players" who come in and sweeten the tracks. You will pay extra for that.
I don't work that way. I want the entire band in the studio at once, each player sound proofed and recorded on a separate track.
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Does anyone know how to feed large dogs right? I mean because I read about that thing that can happen to large dogs if they eat too much and then run or something and then something really bad can happen to their stomach that is very dangerous! :( And I'm just worried everytime because I'm giving some treats to that Music school doggy when I go see him.... does anyone know how much food is too much? :-\ And if he just runs a little to one side and barks cause he sees a dog is that too much running? How much food does a really large dog eat in a day? And how much in one time so that it isn't too much? anyone knows?
Big dogs eat little dogs, like chihuahuas and miniature toy poodles. About one small dog a day. This is why you don't tend to see big dogs around little dogs. And sometimes the big dogs accidentally inhale a little dog. It happens.::) Yeah right Bob! And I do see big dogs around little dogs!! ::) Only Bob the hamster can get accidentally inhaled (if I remember right)! :P
Thanks for answering Oxy! :) Well I also give him a few pieces of what I'm eating (like toast and cheese or something like that), but not a lot. And he's not overweight at all, I think he needs a lot of food because he's outside most of the time... and he needs energy and maybe even a little fat to keep him warm I think.
::) Yeah right Bob! And I do see big dogs around little dogs!! ::) Only Bob the hamster can get accidentally inhaled (if I remember right)! :P
There's your answer. If the big dogs eat enough little dogs, they aren't hungry anymore. You're just seeing big dogs that ate enough so they don't go after the littles ones anymore.
I haven't noticed any Google or Youtube problems.
Yes, doggies need love just like humans! I think they would probably love it for you to take care of the doggie! Mine is on my lap now. Can you help me post a pic of her? It's in my e-mail from my phone. Do you know how to do that? For some reason, my camera software doesn't work on this new computer.I would really like to see your doggie!! :) But I'm not sure if I can help you. I mean I think the only way to post a picture here is that you first upload it to a Photobucket (or some other site for uploading pictures) and then post the link for the picture here. Because here in the "Anything but piano" you can't upload any kind of files. Can you save a picture from your email to you computer? Cause if you can then you just have to get a Photobucket account and upload it there and post the link here. :) I wish I could help you more! :)
I'm assuming that's not like regular human-use deodorant. That would be pretty strong.lol yeah, you'd have to be pretty d@$& stinky to need to use that stuff on yourself...nah just for home use/general stuff.
? Is anyone "country?"
i guess I am
Wondering how many miles it would take to work off Thanksgiving.
Also wondering how my body fattened up *before* Thanksgiving, like it was anticipating it. Strange. *Bob decides the best strategy is to ignore the fat. Paying any attention to it will only give it the attention its seeking.*
Wondering how many miles it would take to work off Thanksgiving.
I wonder if it would ever be required for parents to have their offspring developed and "borne" in some kind of 'birth/development' chamber. If they could make something better than the womb? Have some kind of "right to normal/ideal prenatal development?" I could see something like that. If it eliminated any kind of chance of something like the mother drinking alcohol or doing drugs and screw up a kid for life.
I've been told that a person would need to exercise an hour a day just to stay the same over the age of fifty. If you didn't do anything except eat over the 4 day holiday, you're four hours behind...
Then you would have ideal kids going to school. The discipline issue wouldn't exist, class sizes could be increased to college level and half the teachers could be fired! When those kids grow up they would become exemplary members of society. Law enforcement could be cut in half and we wouldn't need to build any more prisons.
Where did I put it? Where did I put it? Where did I put it??
PS - A big brown spider crawled over my stomach as I was laying down on the couch over Thanksgiving holidays ... I screamed super loud without being able to control it, even though the kids were asleep :-[
They've worked before with peanut butter on them, though! So, you might want to try peanut butter, Birba!good idea! Hadn't thought about that. I'll try it tonight.
Yikes! Did you see the video of the female eating the male? You can never trust 'em...So the rumour says. But, of course, I am not an advocate of humanizing animalistic behaviour. Especially those species can't really be compared to humans, I think. They're so very different.
A good subject, Furtwängler! :) What a coincidence. I am reworking my "Centuries" and I am thinking about the way from "via dolorosa" to a "via gloriosa"! :)
I'm learning Wolfi's piece from Opus 3 number 10! :P :) 8) (except now I haven't had time for a month already :( ). But I'll practice it again during holidays!!!!! :) 8)
I had a feeling. Then I saw the name at the end.
Cheap entertainment. Circa the late 1990s, X-Files era.
Although actually if that stuff works... It could work. I'm not sure. The guy explaining it has no credibility though.
That's truly special, as I actually had not enough time to practice it myself yet 8) I have written almost the whole program InSecret op. 3 but I'm still busy practicing other pieces. I am sure you will play this one very well :)Thanks Wolfi! I really hope I'll play it well!!! :) That would be really cool! 8)
Back to that hydrogen car...
The key question is where does the power come from for the tank heaters?
Perpetual motion has been a challenge from the beginning. So far no one has come up with it, much less get a net energy gain from it.
Back to that hydrogen car...
The key question is where does the power come from for the tank heaters?
Perpetual motion has been a challenge from the beginning. So far no one has come up with it, much less get a net energy gain from it.
You realize there's one year left for the world? Everything will end one year from today.
Or not... They might be wrong again. They've been wrong before. Several times. I don't think they've ever been right actually.
They predicted something would happen on 9/11 and the 2004 tsunami.
Or not... They might be wrong again. They've been wrong before. Several times. I don't think they've ever been right actually.
Wonderful! Gesänge der Frühe are very special and not very often played. I don't know the Mosolov sonata yet.
Yes of course I will allow others to play my programs. Styx is soon ready. Are you interested? :) I can send you the sheet music. The best would be that you set a concert time, so I have to finally finish all the editing ;D I didn't publish anything yet because I'm constantly correcting and changing things. Now for instance with centuries, it will be a totally different program and I'm hitting walls because I don't have the whole new shape yet, but I just can't play it the way it has been, anymore. Many pieces will be removed from it and others will be added. Those who get removed will be in a different program.
You realize there's one year left for the world? Everything will end one year from today.
Or not... They might be wrong again. They've been wrong before. Several times. I don't think they've ever been right actually.
What? There's supposed to be the end of the world AGAIN?? ::)
I am interested even though I know I cannot set a date at the moment...I'm juggling commitments in a not so organized fashion at the moment. It is definitely true I want to explore your music deeper, though!
Oh did anyone maybe know that Mayan calendar starts with August 11 ?! :o that is my birthday!!! I don't really know how I should feel about that :-\
specially cause I really don't like these Mayans :-X they were killing people to sacrifice them to gods! :-X they held them and cut them and pulled their heart out with their hands! :o :-X :-X (i mean it would be just as horrible if they did that to animals of course!) I just don't think they were good and wise people if they were doing things like that! And really if gods would want me to do something like that I would rather not live at all, thank you for gods like that! ??? Although the people probably just thought of that by themselves anyway. :-X That's just what people are like! :-X
Oh Great Guru of Bobness, how can we all participate in this incredible mystery? Do we need now all drive to MC*******and so save the world? It's late here. And verrryyy dark. And I'm afrrrrrraiddd of the cold temperature outside...brrrrrr....I was just curious. Did YOU put the asterisks in McDonald's or was it censored? Oh, I guess I'll find out when I publish this. (Im SOOOOO smart)
*Bob thinks it's "just a strange coincidence" that a discussion of mice extermination is followed by fast food hamburgers...* ::)If we only knew...
That's as old as the ozarks! Before liquid soap.lol they should bring it back! ;D
Yeah, you see, now you have found many more reasons not to believe in this 2012 thing :) I don't think that people who cut other's hearts out of their living body could in any way deliver any sort of truth, only lies which support their egotistical power. But of course those might have only been a sort of dictators and tyrants, and we can't blame the people for it.
That cat is really cool!! 8)OMG! the generation gap has never been so wide! I just assumed everyone knew what that thing was. But then I realized it was a gadget in my young days before everyone here was even born! It has a grater in side, and when you push the lever it turns and grates a bit of soap. Like parmesan cheese. There's another type where you turn a knob which turns the grater.
How does that soap work? :-\
OMG! the generation gap has never been so wide! I just assumed everyone knew what that thing was. But then I realized it was a gadget in my young days before everyone here was even born! It has a grater in side, and when you push the lever it turns and grates a bit of soap. Like parmesan cheese. There's another type where you turn a knob which turns the grater.
OMG! the generation gap has never been so wide! I just assumed everyone knew what that thing was. But then I realized it was a gadget in my young days before everyone here was even born! It has a grater in side, and when you push the lever it turns and grates a bit of soap. Like parmesan cheese. There's another type where you turn a knob which turns the grater.
right now i'm trying to figure out why i think this is so much funnier to me on christmas eve than when i've seen it in the past, oh well.... merry christmas all!
I'm still here! :P Not going to sleep today. :P
I have no idea why that looks funny to you :-\ it looks pretty bad to me! I mean that must hurt a lot!
I think I will go play some VERY easy Christmas songs now :P I mean this year I wasn't really playing any real Christmas pieces... so I will now play some easy ones that I can sight read and play them right away! :P 8)
To me, cemeteries are peaceful places where I can feel close to those who lived and died, where I can wonder about their lives, and be aware of my own mortality.
I thought it was hilarious!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Mmmm...this is funny??? ::) ::) ::)
My grandfather was a gravedigger during the war and to get to his cottage, you had to walk through the graveyard.
He told me it was the people above ground that I needed to worry about, not the people below it.
Thal
I thought it was hilarious!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
They talk in my language so you won't understand, but I think it's funny even if you just watch, but it's funny cause they're talking about stress ;D and the first time she says: this is stress! Please leave this in! and then the second time she says: would you like to destroy my child's mum? (and she's talking in a dialect so to me that makes it even more funny) and at the end she says: well lets say I have a hard head. And the second time it must have hurt pretty bad... but she's laughing about it so... that makes it less horrible I guess...
So you think being on TV/stage is glamorous. It was very funny. However the second piece that fell on her did hit her in the neck. Since she is the interviewer I guess she's insured. It was very nice of the guest to spring up to help.
In the early days of Dutch private television I was on the set once. All they had was a corner of a warehouse to shoot the shows. Sets were very similar to this one and had to be changed during the commercials. By sheer luck nothing fell.
Now Littletune would you please enlighten us? What was the name of your country before it became what it is today?
Yes that second time was bad! If the video ended with that thing falling on her I wouldn't think it was funny, but cause she seems ok and she even laughs about it's kinda funny...
Well I'm not exactly sure if it had a different name... :-\ I mean it was part of a lot of other countries (but I think it still had the same name)... till 20 years ago it was part of Yugoslavia, but it was still named Slovenia. And before that I think it was part of Austro-Hungarian monarchy and I'm not sure how it was called then, but people were always trying to keep our language and all that... and it wasn't easy but 20 years ago we became an independant country. :) and yesterday it was some important date for Slovenia too... I think it's when people decided (like when people vote for something... I think it's referendum) that they wanted to go out of Yugoslavia and become an independant country. :)
Scary... I just forgot the password to my main email account. I use it all the time. And bloop! Gone! I haven't had to actually think about it for a long, long time. Something in my mind must have gotten erased. Wow... I'm losing it. I figured it out, but wow.
When I was a little older than you Littletune, my school offered a stage craft course. I had the extra hour so for a year I worked on a real stage doing real shows. Falling pieces of sets were not allowed. Before the curtain went up our teacher would check our work.
Also thank you for the short history lesson. With further research I find out you have the Euro and are part of Schengen.
On a real stage doing real shows? That sounds interesting! :)
Well if you ever want to know something more about my country just ask :) (if I will know the answer... :P )
Gah, why does it look like that under my kitchen sink? SERIOUSLY. *runs away full speed* (of course I can't get very far in here, so I got in anyway about a milli-trilli-moment's running workout ... *counts it as something and devours 3 doughnuts* (that's a joke))now i'm thinking about donuts (which are no joking matter!).
https://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/01/02/144482863/double-blind-violin-test-can-you-pick-the-strad?sc=fb&cc=fpIn my professional experience, I've found violinists to be some of the most self-centered, holier-then-thou a....... around. I came to dread every time I had to work with one. "what's the intonation of this piano? 440?! OMG, I can't play anything less then 444...blah blah blah" The ones I worked with who actually listened to me, were few and far between. (Violists, on the other hand, tended to be lots of fun and didn't take themselves so seriously.) And here we have an example of their general ignorance. Loved it! By the way, I couldn't hear any difference between the two. I mean any difference that would make any difference (!) But don't ask me. I'm just a piano-player...
Since we're on the subject of food, take a good close look at this menu that we photographed when we were in Beijing. (https://i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa446/candlelightpiano/menu.jpg)oh my gosh you found 'ENGRISH'! that's awesome. you should totally submit it!!!
Wonder what kind of qualifications you'd earn from the Institute of Tortilla Pork!
oh my gosh you found 'ENGRISH'! that's awesome. you should totally submit it!!!
i love this site (i mean no offense to our asian friends, it's just an amusing collection).
https://www.engrish.com/
they have some goodies up there but i like youre more
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lol ;D
lol ;D
now i'm thinking about donuts (which are no joking matter!).
What I wouldn't give for a glazed Dunkin Donut right now. I mean I love european cooking, but with age, my roots call me back more and more...are you originally from close to the mid west or the us east coast? it seems dunkin is pretty popular over all but especially so in those areas, in the south and west it looks like krispy kreme wins out, have you tried them? for a while they could not get any more popular,... not so much now, but when i used to indulge that was definately the route i went.
That video was hysterical! I wonder who made it.
Bacon on donuts?! YUCK! :-X What I wouldn't give for a glazed Dunkin Donut right now. I mean I love european cooking, but with age, my roots call me back more and more...
it's very well done. the timing and editing with vh's facial expressions is freakin great.
Enrique: That video with the cell phone was hilarious!!
I didn't know that Costco carried Dunkin Donuts! I'll be sure to get a box today, now that you got me craving for it.
I'm trying to figure out if the shoes that I got for Christmas are the right size or if I would maybe need one size larger... :-\ so I'm wearing them now... but I still don't know... the left foot seems completely ok but the right one seems a little tight in some places... but I mean maybe they will stretch right? :-\
supposedly based on a true event with ignacy paderewski and the tune was chopsticks not twinkle twinkle...
::) Is that what the big competitions are?
It sounds like you're growing out of your shoes! I don't think your shoe is going to stretch. You may need to get it returned or exchanged for a larger one.
I don't know. But, that is what musicians seem to be psychologically competing with in general.
When one of those quiet, oppressed, bullied cheerleaders finally goes nuts in a school and starts hacking everyone up with a chainsaw... They'll blame this game for all that.i say bring them on, we need nutso cheerleaders around when the zombie apocolypse finally hits
Why is it when I see that, I can only think of violence. In one moment, he's going to be beat over the head by some crazy norwegian (no offense) hunter.
My kindle book arrived!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That picture is really beautiful Birba!! I want to be there too!!!!!!!!!!
Everyone here is sick!! At school and at my music school... so I don't have my piano lessons this week cause my teacher is sick... but I have a cold too and today I kinda feel like I have a little fever too... so I won't have to go anywhere this week anymore :P and I don't mind being a little sick and having fever like most people do... so it's kinda like holidays again to me. :D :P oh it's cool being a little sick!!! :P 8)
(i know I'm weird)
Wouldn't it be nice if you and I could be with Birba and his doggies in that heavenly spot? Alas, only in my dreams.
When I was going to school, I always found excuses for not going to school so I am not a good example for you, LittleTune. You wonder how I learned to read and write at all! What grade are you in?
Be sure to drink lots of liquids, soup, and grapefruit juice. Grape juice is also very good when you come down with a cold.
Thanks :) yes that would be great!!! 8)
Grape juice? like the one you buy at a store or you have to make it yourself?
Oh I mostly learned how to read and write before school anyway :P so who needs school anymore! :P ;D
In 8th grade, only two years till high school :( (or not even the whole 2 years!) :-\
So are you 13 years old? (your age is not a secret when you're so young, right? If it is, you don't have to answer it.)
I only buy grape juice. I never make it. I like Concord grape juice but grapefruit juice is actually better for colds. I used to always get a cold when I went away in the winter to a warm place and then returned to winter wonderland here but I learned that if I drank a glass of grapefruit juice everyday or nearly everyday, I wouldn't come down with a cold. I don't know why it works but it has worked for me. So now I drink it every other day even when I don't travel and I don't come down with colds. It's very strange.
What would be great? You and me and Birba with his dogs in that beautiful place? I'd love to but I just had a thought that he may not want us there with him! Have you thought of that?
You're too funny! How can anyone like having a cold? I was going to tell you to be sure to wash your hands often and wash them properly to try and prevent a cold but since you like having a cold, I won't do that! You sound like me when I was your age. Any reason not to go to school!!
:P :)
Oh I forgot to tell you!! I watched your video (from your Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu project) and I was watching and I was thinking if your cat is ever in the video and just a little later your cat came by, first in one direction and then back again!! It was really cool!! 8) :) And I think I also saw those stairs that he loves so much (in the background).
I'm going to have to buy yet another ink cartridge.... If I want all of Wikipedia printed out before midnight. This is going to take longer than I thought.lol the blackout! tomorrow should see dramatic increases in worker productivity across all sectors! lol 8)
Actually it sounds like that SOPA PIPA stuff could affect this site too.i know it's stupid and scary. the bills are written essentially by the lobby with purposely ambiguos language that really puts most any site with user uploaded content at risk for shut down /ip blocks. to think that simply posting a recording of yourself playing a copyrighted work (which you purchased legally) to the audition room can upset a watchdog and boom no more pianostreet just like that. man i hope they kill this thing.
Apparently. Releasing (poor) Nemo... into the wild! Dumb, dumb, dumb. That seems naively cruel.
Just got back from seeing "edgar". As in Hoover. sort of disappointed. Eastwood is first-rate, though. I had no idea of Hoover's alledged homosexuality. But Eastwood brought it out with great honesty and tenderness. Di Caprio owes his success to Eastwood. His accent was NOT believable, though. And the make-up jobs. Tolson looked like night of the zombies.
Can't say it was a great film. for me, at least. Anyone else saw it?
Did you see the original English version? I was not aware that there was a V.O. theater on the Riviera.Sure, in Nice.
there is something definitely odd about enriquenormal is soooo boring. who wants to be normal. it's much more fun on this side. thanks for the compliment ;D
there is something definitely odd about enrique
i'm already pretty excited about the summer games. i can't wait to see what happens in london this year especially since i pretty much missed all of the 08 games in their entirety, at least this year i'll be able to record when i'm not around. and man i hope the US market gets television coverage of events other then the big ticket ones (i love gymanstics and track and field bunches but i really want to see some people throw up some big number on the oly lifts)
this little samplign is so cool, i love that pyrros dimas gets a 15 minute standing ovation in the 2nd vid from the crowd even with a failed lift, shows how much courage and athleticism it takes, i also learned a valuable lesson from it, sometimes the audience really is on yourside even in the face of a failure they are still routing for you. i think my piano performance anxiety can take a note or two from that.
great beat. i need to download it for my next workout.
i'm already pretty excited about the summer games. i can't wait to see what happens in london
And then there's those of us in the regions, who have to host various foreign teams so the government can justify making us pay extra tax to pay for a shindig in London, which we have no access to - because, as Thal says, the transport's going to fall apart, even if we could afford it now the train fares have gone up.could be worse ,you could live in rio (de janeiro) in 2016, if ever there was a bad idea....
My local city council is using it as a marketing campaign to get us to take more exercise - while quietly ignoring the fact they just shut my local sports centre because they couldn't afford to maintain it.
Mutter mutter...
My local city council is using it as a marketing campaign to get us to take more exercise - while quietly ignoring the fact they just shut my local sports centre because they couldn't afford to maintain it.
Mutter mutter...
How about this for an idea... The Olympics are given a permanent home, back in their original home of Greece.But who pays to do this in the first place? The EU that's already bailing it out? In putting together an infrastructure that it hopes will accommodate and enable this year's Olympic Games, Britian has already invested a fortune which would then have to be spent all over again in dismantling and relocating it, to say nothing of reassembling it all in Athens which, given Greece's currently parlous ecomonic state, would be vastly more difficult, time-consuming and expensive to do. Such a scheme would not in any case give Greece anything like what it needs to help it get its economy going again, especially since you mention "the financial burden of building new facilities that are allowed to rot afterwards", a factor from which Greece would suffer following every set of Olympic Games held there!
This relieves the rest of the world of the financial burden of building new facilities that are allowed to rot afterwards and gets rid of all the politics surrounding the event. It takes all the pressure off transport infrastructures that can't even cope with the domestic use they get.
It also gives Greece a proper domestic industry which will help them get their economy going and reduce the amount of money the rest of Europe has to subsidise them by.
Everybody wins...
Eastern Europe and our member Littletune. Hope that she and her family are OK under that blanket of snow.
Also I was thinking about Birba as I had an extra glazed doughnut at a morning meeting. Coincidentally, they came from Dunkin-Donuts along with the coffee. We need a lot of sugar and coffee to stay awake as the lights dim for a power point presentation at 7AM.
Thank you Oxy for thinking about me! :) You're very nice! :) 8) Well there are some parts in my country where schools are closed and people are not supposed to go out and all that, but not even so much because of the snow but more because of really strong wind! Here (in the capital city) it's windy and cold too (but not that much) and we don't have snow here yet but they say we'll get it soon too!
Oh that puppy from the video is really cute!!! :)
I remember that day!
And oh I almost forgot to say again!!! My dear piano and me had a 2 year anniversary!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :-* :-* :-* 8) :P
Yesterday I got smacked in the head for sleeping in my maths class. Can you believe that? Yes, I deserve punishment but not something that severe, although it was only a moderate smack. I thought the teacher was a decent person until she did that. I guess that shows the violence she is capable of if she is infuriated even further.
JL
Oh, I meant that girl who is the image for a Piano Street gift card looks a bit like my piano teacher. Well, my teacher wears glasses and has darker hair, but I think it's because of the way you smile and maybe a haircut.
I remember that day!Really you remember that?! Cool!! 8) :P :) Thanks!
I'm wondering what they do with the hotel room Whitney Houston died in. Or when anyone dies in a hotel room. If they're not famous, they probably just keep using it and don't say anything. But if it's something famous, people will know they died in that room. Does the hotel keep using it?
Oh I almost forgot: we now know the date of when we started our toy making business! ::) yes our dear downstairs neighbour sent us another letter today, she said that it will be 3 years in a week since we started making this horrible unbearable noise all days and nights (you know the drilling and hammering and all that). ::) She said it started on March 1st 2009! You think we should celebrate or something? And send her some cake and maybe a toy? :-\ Even though she said she reported us to I don't know who again... ::) yes really interesting. ::) specially cause we don't know anything about it! and we don't hear any drilling from anywhere else either...
You think she has Tinnitus? Well the policeman talked to her and told her if she doesn't stop banging and if only one more person complains about it she would have to pay for disturbing people. But I think that only made her even more angry... :-\ My mum said that maybe they should try to find her daughter and ask her if she knows what's wrong with her mother... I don't know... :-\
Well one thing is for sure, she is hearing something and the sound is not coming from outside her apartment so... she is making it up. Whether she hears it or think she hears it is not important. She is disconnected from reality and that is important.
Most countries including yours have social services set up for old folks who have lost their minds. This poor old lady needs intervention.
Yes you're right. It looks like she's not home now... there are no lights on at all in her apartment... and everything is quiet. Oh but she's not really that old yet. She's like about my mum's age, I think about 50 or something... but I guess some people get old really soon! :-\
so random stange thoughts here but i was wondering, if acne on the back is slang termed 'backne' and on the butt is affectionately referred to as 'buttne' what if you get a pimple or two on your knee cap? is it called kneene (pronounced "nee-nee")? i know it's silly and sorta krass but for somereason i found the question really funny when it popped (whoops funny pun not intended) in my head.
sorry. that is all.
March fourth! Onward!
Can you play through each hand separately? If that's down somewhat well enough, I would start putting the hands together, even if it's at a really slow tempo. Each hand has to have its part down, but they won't work together unless you practice them.Thanks Bob! :) No that's the problem. I can't play it hands separately. I mean at least not without mistakes or without stopping. I kind of memorized it now but I still forget sometimes... so I don't know if this is going to work. :-\ oh well I tried. It's Little prelude BWV 924 (from 12 Little preludes). Oh I don't know... I mean I guess I could learn it if I still had a month or something but I don't... so I guess we'll just have to leave it for now, cause I don't think I learned it well enough yet, and tomorrow I have my piano lesson so... :-\ oh well ::) :P
And it can take a little time for the mind to adjust. It gets easier after a while. The different voices all moving at the same time make it tougher, I think at least.
And it's Baroque so the fingerings don't always fit the hand well.
Which piece is it? On some of them they've got different voices but you can keep shifting your attention from one hand to the other.
Thanks Bob! :) No that's the problem. I can't play it hands separately. I mean at least not without mistakes or without stopping. I kind of memorized it now but I still forget sometimes... so I don't know if this is going to work. :-\ oh well I tried. It's Little prelude BWV 924 (from 12 Little preludes). Oh I don't know... I mean I guess I could learn it if I still had a month or something but I don't... so I guess we'll just have to leave it for now, cause I don't think I learned it well enough yet, and tomorrow I have my piano lesson so... :-\ oh well ::) :P
Ah, I see.
https://www.score-on-line.com/freescores.php
It's more harmonic than what I was thinking.
Try hands together but feel the 8th note as the beat.
Figure out what the chords are, or at least something so you can think of them in group, esp for the RH.&feature=related
And I'd really emphasize to myself feeling the downbeat on every beat. I listened to a few youtube videos and it's easy to start hearing the right hand's first note as being the downbeat, at least to me. That just throws me off completely. I can hear 1 123, 1 123, 1 123 instead of 1234 1234, counting every 16th note with numbers. You could speak, say "Mm" on each beat to emphasize it. Or slap the left hand on your knee and play the right hand alone.
You can slow up or you can slow down, doesn't matter which one. There are some other words or word combinations like that. Recurring or reoccurring.
Those Mayans are going to lose a lot of credibility on December 22nd, 2012.Well I don't know, for me they lost a lot of credibility when I read they were cutting out people's hearts while they were still alive for sacrifise... :-X (although I know they are not the only ones who did that and that a lot of people (even now) still do that, I mean to me it's just as horrible if they do that with animals of course!!! :-X :-X ) when I hear things like that (and a lot of other things) it just makes me think human beings are a really big horrible stupid mistake!! :-X >:( ... so you could sometimes almost understand why someone would want to end the (human) world... like: ok you had thousands of years of time to learn how to use your powerful brain for something good! But you failed!!! Cause you mostly used it to do bad and horrible and selfish things!!! To destroy and torture other beings and other human beings!!!!! Now time's over!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can go and start form the beginning again! Cause you're waaaaay too stupid to have such a powerful brain! >:( :( Goodbye!!!!!!!!!! >:(
Well I don't know, for me they lost a lot of credibility when I read they were cutting out people's hearts while they were still alive for sacrifise... :-X (although I know they are not the only ones who did that and that a lot of people (even now) still do that, I mean to me it's just as horrible if they do that with animals of course!!! :-X :-X ) when I hear things like that (and a lot of other things) it just makes me think human beings are a really big horrible stupid mistake!! :-X >:( ... so you could sometimes almost understand why someone would want to end the (human) world... like: ok you had thousands of years of time to learn how to use your powerful brain for something good! But you failed!!! Cause you mostly used it to do bad and horrible and selfish things!!! To destroy and torture other beings and other human beings!!!!! Now time's over!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can go and start form the beginning again! Cause you're waaaaay too stupid to have such a powerful brain! >:( :( Goodbye!!!!!!!!!! >:(
(and I'm talking about human beings in general, I know there are some good ones too.)
You hit that right on the head.Yes that's exactly right! :) and also animals don't think that they're better than someone else, they don't think: oh I'm worth more than those other beings that's why I have a right to do anything I want with them! And people do that! and it's the stupidest thing and it just makes those who think that worth so much less for thinking that!!
Anyone who has animals as pets or who has worked with animals in the wild knows that animals treat each other better than humans do. Yes, animals do eat each other, but only to the extent to satisfy hunger. Not to satisfy some deity whom they haven't even seen, or to satisfy some manufactured concept.
Hmmm.... Apparently "someone" here forgot to remove the filter and leftover coffee the last time coffee was made... a few months ago.
Time to bleach out the coffee maker... Who wants the first cup after that?
Yes that's exactly right! :) and also animals don't think that they're better than someone else, they don't think: oh I'm worth more than those other beings that's why I have a right to do anything I want with them! And people do that! and it's the stupidest thing and it just makes those who think that worth so much less for thinking that!!
Found online...awe man that's perfect!!!!
"I tried to look up ninjas in the online thesaurus. It said that, "ninjas could not be found". Well played, ninjas, well played."
so I had to put on a Band aid (I think that's what it's called) on my finger and it's a little weird to play piano with it. :P
It's really annoying that today had even one hour less!!! >:( ::)
I see some people are being proactive about the upcoming end of the world. ::)just remember you're not scrooge mcduck and you cannot swim in all your gold money like in ducktails....
https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/pic-bugarach-french-commune-home-20-000-doomsday-210932058.html
I haven't made my own plans... yet. I still have time. Plenty of time. I'll get to it. There's at least a full six months left. I could probably build a spaceship in that time and take along some canned goods to tide me over. ... And all that gold that people won't need anymore. I can take that up with me too into space.
just remember you're not scrooge mcduck and you cannot swim in all your gold money like in ducktails....
...I was on a long drive home and I was in a very mountainy area and I did see a little bit of a tiny cougar crossing the road ... from left to right and s/he was like two times the size of a house cat ... It might have been a Bobcat, but I think it was a cougar ......
I saw some pop groups using tablets on stage.
Relationships. I am a single since two years and I really love it.
That could mean something completely different.
Thal
I found a few more...
https://www.amazon.com/INFINITY-FOOT-PEDAL-INSUB2-IN-USB2/dp/B002MY6I7G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333908825&sr=8-1
INFINITY VEC USB FOOT PEDAL (INSUB2) (IN-USB2)
by Infinity
https://www.amazon.com/PageFlip-Cicada-Bluetooth-Automatic-Turner/dp/B004N1K4BM/ref=sr_1_37?ie=UTF8&qid=1333908926&sr=8-37
PageFlip Cicada Bluetooth Pedal Automatic Page Turner
by PageFlip, Inc
https://www.amazon.com/Kinesis-Savant-Programmable-Triple-Footswitch/dp/B000R9T0LO/ref=sr_1_42?ie=UTF8&qid=1333908926&sr=8-42
Kinesis Savant Elite Programmable Triple Action Footswitch, USB
by Kinesis
And the same bili one, but $20 more.
https://www.amazon.com/Maxi-Aids-Footime-Foot-Mouse/dp/B001CH956U/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1333908825&sr=8-7
I am single now for 13 years and I cannot say I miss relationships. I find it better just to have close friends.
If I get the urge, I just ring up the agency and get them to send someone over.
Thal
Relationships. I am a single since two years and I really love it. I feel like not ever wanting to go back to all that madness, sadness and drama that often comes with relationships. Too sad. I see so many people breaking up with each other. Very sad.
I am single now for 13 years and I cannot say I miss relationships. I find it better just to have close friends.
This year I celebrate 40 years with the same companion.
I whish you other happy 40 years with your companion!!!! :) :) :) :)2nd-ed.
To Wolfi:
I never heard that P.Grainger arrangement. It sounds like he used the gershwin piano solo as a basis. Shows how ignorant I am. I was sure Percy Grainger was a late 19th century composer. :Pi'll email it you, it's quite nice, he did more than that one, i'll send you the ones i know i have (i have at least two of them). they are really quite nice and well laid out for the piano (as 'concert solos').
I'd love to get my hands on the music.
This year I celebrate 40 years with the same companion.
Enrique is the male (and muscular) version of the fairy tales’ angel :D :D :D :D :D :D :D..I know! I got them! He's really special, that Enrique!
costicina
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Enrique is the male (and muscular) version of the fairy tales’ angel ..
I know! I got them! He's really special, that Enrique!
See what I mean!?
Happy 40 year anniversary Birba! :) 8)
Oh I have a lot on my mind!!! First I am so scared of tomorrow cause my guinea pig will probably have to have one more surgery! :-\
And then the other thing is that I'm thinking about moving!! Today we went to see those houses (apartments)!!!! It looks really cool. we could live downstairs and have a smaller apartment but a huge garden (that goes all around the house) or we could be upstairs (under the roof) and we would have a huge apartment!!! and the one upstairs costs less. So we were thinking more about the one upstairs! And it's really cool, you have the whole staircase (and places around them) and then you have a small room before you go into the apartment and then the apartment has two rooms and a living room (together with kitchen) and then one small room, and then you also have the attick! It's more than twice as big as our apartment now and it feels like you have your own house!! we also talked to some people who would be our neighbours, they seemed really nice and we asked them if the piano would bother them, and they were like even surprised why that would bother anyone. One woman with kids said that her son is learning to play a flute and that noone complained but that next year he will start learning a saxophon! And she also said her little daughter wants to start learning piano when she will be bigger (cause now she's like 4 or something). And then that woman also said Oh that would be nice if there was an older girl here so she could babysit sometimes (and she meant me).
And anyway the guy who was showing the apartments said he used to be a piano tuner :P and he told my mum which room would be the best so people couldn't hear my piano playing. And that is a small room which is besides the room that would be my room, so I would have two rooms!!! A normal room and a music room!!!!!!!! :P :P 8) 8) :) :) And also my dog liked it there so much, I don't know why but she was jumping and running around :P ...
But that place is out of the city, and there's soooo much nature around (which is cool of course), but it's about 20 minutes till the first bus stop... so if my dad couldn't drive us it would be a little complicated...
And I don't even know how to feel about it!!! Because in a way I'm really excited and happy and would want to move there but in a way I don't want to go from here for ever... because I have been here my whole life!!!! So half of me is really happy and excited and really wants to go, but half of me is sad and wants to stay here!!!! :( :) :-\ I don't know what to think!!!!!!
This was in Roma and often during their legendary traffic jams, the bus or trolley could get through where the cars couldn't.
This year I celebrate 40 years with the same companion.
Imagine walking on board something like that.
This is wonderful and truly a reason to celebrate abundantly! :)But why must your companion share all your interests? My companion certainly shares my musical life and has always participated in that aspect. But there are parts of my life, which I consider even more important that this person doesn't even consider. I've been of the buddhist belief for years and nothing would please me more of this person would participate, or, at least, take an interest. But I respect their beliefs and don't try or expect them understand me. Now this is big stuff. Bigger then the music. But it certainly doesn't affect our relationship. I don't think a relationship is for feeling less alone. Like you say, you can feel alone in a relationship. But I don't think that depends on the relationship. It depends on something else inside you. A relationship isn't for boosting our interests or moral support. Two out of four of your interests is a lot! There's more there...
I have no idea why it never worked with my relationships.
Well, actually, I do have an idea: I have a very rare combination of interests. All of my three or four main interests are very important to me. It's quite easy to find a woman that really likes me and I like her, and she has perhaps two of my interests in common with me, but when it comes to the third or even fourth, there's just a huge wall and we can't share anything beyond those two common interests and there appears just a huge taboo which we can never ever sort out! And if I feel like my companion doesn't share all three or four of my interests, and can relate, and has all the same interests and priorities, I feel completely alone and I feel like what do I need a relationship for? Just for the sake of feeling less alone? It's an illusion, as I am more alone in a relationship than if I stay a single.
Like you say, you can feel alone in a relationship. But I don't think that depends on the relationship. It depends on something else inside you. A relationship isn't for boosting our interests or moral support. Two out of four of your interests is a lot! There's more there...
This is really very incredible to me. A new device, a robotic mobilization, for people who would normally be confined to a wheelchair, but here they can have a much more mainstream life. It just makes me happy for those who can really benefit from them, to see some technological advancements like this - it's really quite an incredible machine, too, and to consider the kind of thought that's behind it and which went into it (and it seems it had to be touched with love). I know it's not necessarily everybody's cup of tea, but having felt extremely touched myself by a couple of individuals who could greatly benefit from this machine, it's really deeply beautiful to me.
https://www.wimp.com/newdevice/
I would consider Birba's luminating words, Wolfi. I agree with him--something seems out of kilter. Reading your words, Wolfi, I find myself "scratching my soul" wondering about your shared interests obstacle. You seem to be placing a demand that no one or very few could fulfill. And then when some of your interests aren't reciprocated, are you concluding that they don't really care about you or love you? Were you able to be a part of all of their interests?
I wish the best for you. :)
But why must your companion share all your interests?
Dear Birba, don't get me started on unconditional love, you are risking another Wolfi rant ;D But I try my very best to avoid it!! ;D *keeps mouth shut and fingers on the piano*That was very banal of me, I know. Things are so different for every individual. There's no maxim in the world that can hold for everyone.
Wolfi, don't get mad at me, but I'm burning of curiosity: what are those unmentionable interests of yours that make your beloved run away? Maybe other women would find them very intriguing ;) ;)
i
You lived in Roma? Intersting.....I've been living here for many years now: such an mpossibile, yet beautiful city....
Wolfi, don't get mad at me, but I'm burning of curiosity: what are those unmentionable interests of yours that make your beloved run away?
Wolfi is very modest and he would not tell you himself, but he has one of the World's greatest collection of cuckoo clocks.
It is the job of his partners to wind them all up. Something that has proved to be intolerable.
Thal
Yes, during the late 70's. I had to learn Italian from scratch because in those days no one spoke anything else. I lived in three different districts, Flaminia, Monte Mario and Centro on the IV Fontana. Birba writes that nothing has really changed. Have you seen any big changes for the better? When I was living outside the walls the four rush hours were a real problem.
Are you an ex-pat?
Embrace the change! That 20 minute walk to the bus stop won't kill you. Just be sure the buses run on time. You don't want to be standing there freezing.
I had a 20 minute walk to the bus. Slowly I got to know people on my route and the drivers. Sometimes late at night, I would be careful. The exercise did me a lot of good and I have never been in better shape. This was in Roma and often during their legendary traffic jams, the bus or trolley could get through where the cars couldn't.
i'm not sure how much good i can do, but rockstar kitty says you're a strong girl and you'll get through this and be there for mom. yes problems suck, money problems suck big time but you have many things to be very thankful for, focus on those. (rockstar kitty didn't say those words exactly but that's what i understood)
P.S. Enrique, please, do something to cheer up our Littletune, only you could do that!!!
One of the issues I've thought about was that we can't save the pdfs from THIS site. I wouldn't want to trigger an abuse accusation by downloading the same 15 or twenty pieces every day for my practice sessions.
i'm not sure how much good i can do, but rockstar kitty says you're a strong girl and you'll get through this and be there for mom. yes problems suck, money problems suck big time but you have many things to be very thankful for, focus on those. (rockstar kitty disn't say those words exactly but that's what i understood)
try to find a way for that emotion to come out through the piano, look for some music to let your soul get it out. and since your family makes the sacrifice for you to study piano the very best way for you to 'pay them back' is to study really hard, practice and discipline yourself (which we know you do) so that you learn as much as you can, i think that is what would really make them happy even when there's problems around.
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I've seen many changes, but sure not for the better...yet, I have the luck to live in the historical center, in a 15th century building. The legend says that in my apartment used to live Lucrezia Borgia, (in)famous for her beauty, her dissolute life and her unpleasant habit to poison her hubbies when she got tired of them (needless to say, I admire her!!! ;D)
And no, I'm not an ex-pat, I'm Italian, but I was born in Sardinya: another world altogether.....
this might have been asked and answered before, but i really wonder why drive up ATM machines have the braile for the vision impared (i'm not against someone with vision problems getting quick convenient access to their money, it's the driving up to and driving away from the machine that i can't figure out).
I wasn't prying into your private life when I asked about your status.
You are right, Littletune,
it's NOT FAIR that a special person like you have to experience this kind of hideous money problems.... >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( You deserve to be happy, and serene. You are very dear to us....
P.S. Enrique, please, do something to cheer up our Littletune, only you could do that!!!
i'm not sure how much good i can do, but rockstar kitty says you're a strong girl and you'll get through this and be there for mom. yes problems suck, money problems suck big time but you have many things to be very thankful for, focus on those. (rockstar kitty didn't say those words exactly but that's what i understood)
try to find a way for that emotion to come out through the piano, look for some music to let your soul get it out. and since your family makes the sacrifice for you to study piano the very best way for you to 'pay them back' is to study really hard, practice and discipline yourself (which we know you do) so that you learn as much as you can, i think that is what would really make them happy even when there's problems around.
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Don't worry!!! :)I moved here in 1989, it's not likely we have acquaintances in common (yet it would be a funny and pleasant coincidence!) And now, may I pry in your private life, asking you what brought you in Rome, and if you liked the experience?
according to the yt vid this is not available for purchase except old vhs tapes, i wish it would be cleaned up and released on blu ray or dvd, it looks interesting and though this didn't actually happen, it's entertaining as hell, fun scene
"Uploaded by AlphaTerminus on Dec 13, 2010
This is the best clip in the movie Scott Joplin (1977) by Universal Studios. It depicts a competition between "professors" (brothel pianists) to win $100 from John Stark in Sedalia, Missouri. Louis Chauvin, who is a better pianist but can't read/write music, teams up with Joplin and unleashes Maple Leaf Rag upon the public for the first time (this did not actually occur.) You cannot buy this movie anywhere except terrible VHS non-original copies on Amazon and searching Google for the same terrible copies. Dick Hyman is playing the soundtrack and Billy Dee Williams is portraying Scott Joplin. Please contact Universal and encourage them to release a high quality DVD and/or streaming versions of this good, but historically inaccurate, movie!
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this is another great scene this i have seen (the movie) it's quite good, about an orphan piano prodigy child that grows up on an cruise ship and never leaves the boat, fantastic film , great piano playing (i have the piano scores sheets too some nice pieces in there)
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this one is best enjoyed on yt in 720P
ah gawd, I keep having brilliant ideas ;D :D
What's the title of the second movie? I WANNA WATCH IT!!!!!!
Well my cancelled home concert (due to spontaneous absence of the few listeners, probably due to the even more spontaneous announcements from my side beforehand) at least had the pleasurable side effect of having more order in my flat...
#alwayslookonthebrightsideoflife
2.5-3 weeks to come inspect a potential water leak? ::) Plus some amount of decision-making time before that. Good thing there isn't a real leak.
;D :P yes if there was our dear crazy neighbour would have a swimming pool in her apartment...
I have no idea what they will be inspecting... :-\ I mean will they break the wall just to see if any of the pipes are leaking? :-\ really stupid! ::)
I think it would be kind of intersting and a bit creepy too if they would rebuild the Titanic. Make it safe, but keep it as much of a copy to the original as possible. It didn't even make it for one trip. It could be a functional, travelling museum type of thing. Call it Titantic 2012 or something but keep Titanic in the name. Imagine walking on board something like that.
Thinking about 239 x 4,649. Somebody check and see if 101,010,101 is a prime number. (It would be so picturesque if it were.
On the subject of arithmetic: that's interesting, whether or not there are infinitely many palindromic prime numbers: like 313 or 191.
But being palindromic relative to base 10 is still a well-defined property of numbers. How to prove there are infinitely many such numbers, that is the question.
(https://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/e/e0/Yoda_SWSB.jpg)and an an early happy
May the 4th... be with you. ::)
Well, no one could say it didn't look pleasant at Weissensee. I am left wondering what skeletons are hidden in the closet!
I *was* thinking politics and writing an extracurricular paper on a few (lol) American foreign policy dilemmas, but now I'm watching this instead:we aim to please lol&sns=em
Thanks, Enrique! :P.
I would agree. Haha, I adore the technique employed throughout that segment.stunning, mindblowingly beautiful, as a former athlete strength and conditioning coach i ahve always loved human movement, beautiful efficient strength power and etc. it's one of the reasons i love gymnastics, track and field, and olympic weightlifting so much, to me it's beautiful to watch at the highest levels of achievement. this is just as lovely in a very different but still familar way. wow
Here is the rest of the video. I wonder what you think after watching the second half?
Belly dancing.do you belly? it's an amazing art. i'm super intrigued by it..
I intended that young lady who is the picture for a Guitar Road coupon looks a bit like my piano instructor. Well my instructor would wear eyeglasses and has deeper locks but I think it's because of the way you grin and maybe a hairstyle.even though it's changed VERY A LOT and it doesn't make sense I still recognize that it came from my post!!! ::) I don't know why you people are using exactly my posts but I'm glad you like them so much I guess :-\
golly, just becuase you sell 19-21 dollar fancy pants, you don't have to get all snooty!
note to self, find new place to go poo poo
Only to be exceeded by a notice [in Spanish only] in the restrooms of the San Diego Zoo to please put used toilet paper into the toilet bowl!well how else are you supposed to know where?!?
wondering if the juxtaposition of real life and situational and verbal irony all at the same time in a single fantacular momment was lost on this kid
(https://files.g4tv.com/ImageDb3/298555_S/party-your-foot-off.jpg)
It's funny..and terrible at the same time.Well, there was the old riddle: "What must you do to have soft hands?" Answer: Nothing. (If Chopin had written an etude specially for callused hands, I wonder what it would sound like? In another section, m1469 was discussing whether music could sound "honest"; maybe an etude for callused hands would be an example of such.)
In this very moment I noticed that my hands are callused like an old farmer because of my gym training, and even if I always wear gloves. Not very nice in a lady, the more so in a would be pianist lady....What should I do? ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
It's funny..and terrible at the same time.
In this very moment I noticed that my hands are callused like an old farmer because of my gym training, and even if I always wear gloves. Not very nice in a lady, the more so in a would be pianist lady....What should I do? ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
If Chopin had written an etude specially for callused hands, I wonder what it would sound like?
I'm afraid I play Chopin Etude as they were purposefully written for callused hands :'( :'( :'( :'(....
I don't have a vigorous touch, just a callused touch....
::) ::) ::) Oxy, I'll follow your suggestion buying some lotion that will makemy hands soft and smooth..but I'm not sure my Chopin will sound better :( :( :(
boobies.
(https://www.danheller.com/images/LatinAmerica/Ecuador/Galapagos/Birds/Boobies/Blue/pair-of-boobies-v-big.jpg)
;D
LOL! :Dlike the younger ones. very cute.
like the younger ones. very cute.
(https://ecuador.donniedid.com/img/genovesa205.jpg)
Hisss!!!! >:( *Bob sees the pic above, realizes what it is, hisses and draws back while making a cross*
*then glides out of the thread backwards, keeping an eye on those.... things.*
Perhaps I'm weird ::) ::) ::)... but I find beautiful that 'composition' of spiders: it seems an abstract sculputre, or a delicate lacework....
(https://stuffucanuse.com/thumbnail-pictures/Spider-breeding.jpg)
:D
Perhaps I'm weird ::) ::) ::)... but I find beautiful that 'composition' of spiders: it seems an abstract sculputre, or a delicate lacework....
(https://images.g4tv.com/ImageDb3/300137_S/enter-the-backside-of-copenhagen.jpg);D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D I can't stop laughing....
https://www.ustream.tv/channel/val-s-daily-practice-webcam
:)
I'm wondering....
If I wrote myself a check for a million dollars... And ate that overdraft fee.... But took the million and let it earn interest until I had to give it back....
I'm wondering....
If I wrote myself a check for a million dollars... And ate that overdraft fee.... But took the million and let it earn interest until I had to give it back....
another most interesting venue, the american academy in rome
also on a completely unrelated but musical thought i got to thinking about trying to hunt down videos for creative piano performance venues, so far this is my favorite, not only beucase it is one of my fav schubert impromptus (played very well) but c'mon a lakeside stage in what appears to be a most picturesque little alpine village?!?! really this is so incredible to me, a dream...
another most interesting venue, the american academy in rome&feature=relmfu
id never heard this sonata, i'm tempted to hunt down the other movements
It only rained like twice this year so far. This partially contributes to why I wanna to out of state for school.
,Happy Birthday! Hahaha just kidding, one year closer to death!'. That's what a friend of mine said to me on my birthday lol!
Where to? How about Oregon? You could be Duck or a Beaver!
You have an incurable disease that you got at birth. It's called life!
The Rach 3 is my favorite piano concerto, but I can't find a recording that completely satisfies me 100% so I really HATE listening to it. I'm always like, 'come on, play the Ossia cadenza!!! You're playing this too fast, you need to play louder, softer, the trumpets should've held that note louder and longer'. So it really pains me to hear it.
Why do people say life is short? How is life short?! It's the longest thing you do!!! :o
wondering how much this 50 CD mega collection will actually cost. it looks good but i have a feeling it will be prohibitively expen$ive...
I really like San Francisco, but it's extremely expensive there. But I also like a lot of snow and the skate scene of New York, so I might wanna go there too. But San Francisco has a better surf and skate scene... So I don't really know. My parents want me to stay in Illinois where there's nothing to do here >:(
Why do people say life is short? How is life short?! It's the longest thing you do!!! :o
No, being dead is. :P
Well if you're dead, you're not actually doing anything.
Bach has been dead for centuries, but he's still annoying you. :P
If the wages were better life would be better. Especially housing is out of hand.
You know, contrary to popular belief, the houses along the beach are the cheapest. It's just that after you by it, matenience is so expensive because you're right by the ocean.
Do you rate a school by how many good looking people it enrolls?
I saw a piano CD the other day with very little information listed. No performer listed. I think it's all computer generated most likely.
I was thinking... It's not just that pianists are competiting with each other and then all the dead pianists' recordings from the past. Now they're competing with non-human performances too.
How did I stop being in Europe ??? What happened to Vienna? Where did Stephansdom go? Why don't I walk towards the Schlern mountains on my way to my hotel anymore? Why doesn't any cashier care about my Euros (I keep trying to use them ;D)? Where did everybody go? Why is Wolfi only reachable through internet again? I miss that white puppy in the Academy.
*watches my Stephansdom video*
Probably just to get something back right away. I heard color ones should be along by Wed. Still... That was a dip in the excitment last night. If they came back with a big panoramic red pic of Mars that would have really topped things off. Instead it was, "Here a grey blob. That's Mars!" Still impressive though.
It'll be interesting for a while and still amazing to think that it's another planet but... It's just going to end up being pictures of a red desert. I'm sure they'll be more interesting things, like water or telling something about the origin of the solar system, but I wonder how long the views will stay interesting.I wouldn't be surprised if they found life on Mars, that would sure keep people interested. I don't think they'll find animals or anything, but possibly microorganisms. Mars was once like earth with oceans and a somewhat stable atmosphere, so if primitive life such as bacteria formed then, it could still survive under the surface of the planet. I don't see why not.
Ohhh nooo I haven't been here for like a billion years!!!!!!! :o i'm sure I missed soooooo many things!!!!! :( and I wasn't even away, I'm thinking about going to Pianostreetevery day but then always something comes up and in the evening it's always too late!! ::) I hope I'll have at least some time before I go on vacation next week!!! Oh and yes Mars and all that is really cool!!! 8) :)
ps: did Birba come back yet? :-\
Happy Birthday Littletune! :)Thank you Wolfi! :) :P
I wonder where the "what if" thread has gone :-\
I have a prospective "what if" post.
"What if there's a thread on pianostreet that is written in sonata form?"
:)
Thank you Wolfi! :) :POh wow is it already that long ago??? :o
You mean this thread? https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=31162.0
I will be born in about 20 minutes! :P and then we will eat cake! :P
Oh wow is it already that long ago??? :oyes it's really long ago! and I even posted in it! :o :o I can't believe it's going to be 3 years soon since I found Pianostreet!!! :o :P
Thanks Wolfi! :) It was great!!!!!!!!!! :P :P :P hope your salad was too! :)
yes it's really long ago! and I even posted in it! :o :o I can't believe it's going to be 3 years soon since I found Pianostreet!!! :o :P
If my math is correct aren't you close to celebrating a "quinceanera"? It is a lovely tradition in many Latin countries. You can look it up on Google. I think that the big birthdays of life need a big celebration. It doesn't need to cost tons of money, like the ones on Google, as long whatever you do will be significant to you.
I wonder why those photos from Mars are so blurry and only black and white? I just don't get it. It feels like 45 years ago, with the technology from back then :P But perhaps I'm just ignorant.
If I weren't a musician, I would go teach English in China for at least a year.
Forget China. We need English taught here!
https://www.artsatl.com/2012/08/atlanta-symphony-forced-pantomime-pre-recorded-tracks-sunday%E2%80%99s-il-divo-concert/maybe wouldn't sting as bad if they bill for the standard live performance plus a HEFTY premium for the garbage/hijinks the mangement company tried to pull. the audiences should be the ones giving the them (not the ASO the other twerps) grief, but somehow i think a hot and bothered lonely ladies swooning over these chaps will hardly care enough as I don't exactly think the crowd was drawn to the aso part....still, i'd start a social media campaign against the whole debaucle if i were involved on the aso/musician side.
Ouch....
why do the cheap dvd players play subtitled movie files and hoardes of different encoded file types but not expensive models like lg and sony from similar production dates :/
Well, I just finished my last day at work. I was really getting stressed out because I had been working on a project with some C# stuff and I just couldn't get it to work on the company's server while it worked fine on my local server. I finally figured out the problem, right before I was supposed to leave, and I finished it up, and left on a good note.
That felt so good.
Good work!
But maybe you should have told them that you really can't get it right in the time you have left unless you get a big bonus check ;D
Yuk! What a way to come home from a vacation. Littletune, try to just focus a your great vacation.
Here in the US we have a legal principle that we have the right to quietly enjoy our real property. We can legally require anyone who infringes on that right to stop. And in some cases we can get monetary damages. At the least we can get a temporary restraining order from the judge.
Gotta learn how to solve this 5x5x5 Rubik's cube.
So far I have most of the edges down, I have to solve three more, but I can't do it.
Gotta learn how to solve this 5x5x5 Rubik's cube.
So far I have most of the edges down, I have to solve three more, but I can't do it.
If I remember rightly the 5 x 5 must be solved from the inside out.. you get the interior 3 x 3 first, then do the edges in a similar way to you would with a normal 3 x 3 cube..
That said I never actually finished the edges. The thing is a pain.
Ich bin muede.
people are idiots. how's that saying go, extraordinary minds dwell on the ordinary, and ordinary minds dwell on the extraordinary...
WOOOOOOOOOW everyone's so ugly for that!lol
My gravity allowed me the luxury of making a dinner salad and then returning straight back to my place with full gravity, to power ahead.
You must be a great heavenly body. :) I'll be watching for you if you come into my orbit. ;D
why out of all the possible things that could happen, certain things undergo the formality of actually occurring?
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And why my lotto numbers coming up never seems to be one of those things. >:(
why out of all the possible things that could happen, certain things undergo the formality of actually occurring?
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You know, you're more likely to die on your way to buy your lottery ticket than actually winning the lottery?
..
Woah, crazy cool photos, Enrique! Except, I fundamentally disagree with tatooing a pig!! >:(
I'm wondering just how wrong it would be to have all the cuts of meat tattooed onto the pig. :-\ It'd look kinda cool, though.
I wonder how old our forum members might be? Is there anyone born before 1960, the year I graduated from college?
Let's jump a couple of decades and ask, is anyone out there born before 1980?
Let's jump a couple of decades and ask, is anyone out there born before 1980?Quite a few of us I would think?
I don't think you need to worry :)
Someone probably just thought you had ANGRY BIRDS on your video...or maybe the tune your birds were singing is copyrighted ;D
Lovely birds anyway...my cats just loved them ;D
Quite a few of us I would think?
Thanks! :) :P Well i don't know where my birds could hear the copyrighted tune. But maybe they are just so talented they could have their own record label or something ;D if those people like their tune they could pay us and we would let them use my bird's tunes for their songs :P :P
Oh my cat loves my birds too! :P 8)
Really, were you?
Before 1980? Sure...1980 I was 14 or something....
There doesn't seem to be as many of you as I thought. There are however a lot of school and college age people on here. At this moment most of the comments seem to be coming from our younger members.
So the first president you remember would be tricky-dick?
Yes, I know most of YOU are very young. But at least some of US are more mature...I wonder if there should be a separate division for OLD people ;D
Who is tricky-dick? The first president I remember:
(https://www.kansallisbiografia.fi/img/kb/0063202.jpg)
Oh, Nixon :)
Looks mean doesn't he? He was the president of Finland between 1956-1982...that's over 25 years! We only got rid of him when he got demented :)
That is why we instituted term limits. You know that guy did look familiar but I couldn't place him. And I was thinking in terms of US presidents. I know so little about Finland. I was there once on the island of Turku for about two or three hours waiting for a return (Silja) ferry to Stockholm. The only thing I learned on that outing was that booze was cheaper on board as was the reason for all the young people making the same day trip. That was a real eye opener into the youth culture of the frozen north...
First of all, Turku is not an island, just a city on the cost with lost of islands around it. I actually live in the neighbouring town :)
Things have changed you know. With EU booze is now reasonably prized on the mainland too. People still go on the boat to consume it though, I guess they think it's more fun...And the way Finns consume booze it may be better too, at least you won't freeze outside when you pass out...then again you might go overboard... ???
One learns something new everyday. Heavy drinking and the frozen north seem to go together. From my stays in Stockholm I have seen things that can not be posted here.
One story that's PG: Often I would hang out at a piano bar overlooking the harbor and buy drinks for those near me and get drinks back. After several days a member of the staff of the hotel asked me if I was with the government. It turns out that the gentleman who would ofter sit next to me was the minister of defense. I never asked and he never told.
You seem to know quite a lot more of us than the average American :)
I guess this was some time ago...? I wonder if you have some stories about him we could sell to tabloids ;D
I am not the typical prying American that can only ask questions. Over the years I've learned that don't ask, don't tell means a lot more. Do you know where "X" is these days? Of course I know but I'm not telling.You never gave me the year, so I have no idea who X is :)
Now that your dailies have become tabloids what has become of the old tabloids? They're making stuff up. I guess that is what the readers want.
I didn't used to think I liked the AMB, but there are definitely some in there that I like a lot!
lies lies such lies, i wont ffffffffall for it.
What's AMB and AMRavel?
*Pulls up the AMB*
I like 'em.
Got a Calc quiz tomorrow.
Gonna fail that soo freaking hard!
Not because I don't know all the material; I know it all fine.
It's just that when I take tests... Bad things happen...
No but yeah, it's so freaking ugly! the last test we had, we had freaking two review sheets and the copy of last years test; I did them all no problem! But when it was test day... 66% what the freaking heck! I know all of this stuff! Then when I review the answers that I put in there I realized how stupid I was! What the freaking heck is going on here?! And that's not the only test either. This happens with ALL of my math tests! I know all the stuff like the back of my hand, but when it comes test day, I forget everything!
This is so ugly dude...
The cover and everything can't come off to get at it? Or poke it with a stick?Nah, it rolled down so far I can't reach it or anything. :P
DigGis is trying to shake down littletune for some copyright infringement money? (Kidding)
Or maybe someone wants royalities on the whatever piece of music they think that bird is whistling. (Also joking, but it's possible that a computer program found some fragment similar to another piece.)
I think groups go around claiming copyright infringement on lots of videos without any reason. I just saw an article about that a week or so ago. It's not uncommon.
Unless it's the John Cage Foundation.... There is a lot of use of silence in that video.
I wouldn't be surprised if a program picked up a similarity between the bird whistling and an actual piece of music. That's probably the level that kind of software is at.
The five note rule still applies. You can't claim infringement until the fifth note that is the same. Under EU rules do the birds own their creative product?
I can see it now: The Bird Trust, Littletune, Trustee.
:P :P
I have no idea if the birds own their creative product... but they should!!! :)
Well now it seems like everything is ok with that video (it doesn't say "matched third party content" (or something like that) anymore). :)
Monkey bars?
not quite what you'd think it is at first....oh russia, why are you so awesome?
(https://www.englishrussia.com/images/cool_cars/2.jpg)i'll see your ....
Damn I miss Soviet!! :Pi can see why
Figured bass...is hott!!!! :Pit's the original improv. those cats were doing it way before the first fake books and chord symbols started popping up! 8) it is pretty rad.
it's the original improv. those cats were doing it way before the first fake books and chord symbols started popping up! 8) it is pretty rad.Oh my godness! It comes with the pipe organ?? :P
in other news....
35,000 yen!?!?!?! c'mon really? that's like $448.43
was excited before i made the conversion now i'm just sour and bitter with disapointment at yet another box set i will not own! >:( :'(
*decides to self medicate with some russia.....
meanwhile, elsewhere in russia...
Oh my godness! It comes with the pipe organ?? :Pyou all give me too much credit. smoke and mirros. that's my big secret...lol
no?? *bangs head on 49410enrique's biceps and gets a concussion*
https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-oregon-farmer-eaten-hogs-231144839.html;_ylt=AjPUVee8hbUc3BUkR0TAXYa1qHQA;_ylu=X3oDMTQyZjB2cGJqBG1pdANNb3N0UG9wdWxhciBMaXN0aW5nBHBrZwM1ZTkzZmEzMS05OTE1LTM5NGItOWQ3MC0yZDdmZmU1MDNmNDUEcG9zAzEwMARzZWMDTW9zdCBQb3B1bGFyBHZlcgNjMDBlYzE2MC0wYzQ3LTExZTItYjk4Ny1kZDA2ZGEyYWU1NzU-;_ylg=X3oDMTFsNnAxMGFjBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANwb3B1bGFyBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3more interesting is the thought of 'what happens next'.....the pigs continue on to slaughter, get made into tasty piggy treats....and eventually find their way onto a plate as bacon,then you eat the bacon, now you've eaten farmer?!
Ugh... What a way to go....
https://www.japantrendshop.com/peramos-kids-geiger-radiation-meter-p-1379.htmllol, i love japan and that site, i always find the coolest stuf, btw click on their affiliate 'adult' site at your own risk...
Also why? Not a just a geiger counter... A geiger counter for kids. Let them learn to do their own radiation testing.
On the pig eating, I wonder how much other stuff gets eaten by hogs. A missing pet. Wild animals.
I like cake charts!(https://lolsheaven.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/If-I-Have-10-Chocolate-Cakes.jpg)
taking some notes
Twice now. Energy dips way low in the evening. Way, way low. I'm getting old.
A friend's bird could whistle real tunes that it learned from its owner. However it could never whistle twice exactly the same. There were always variations in note length.
That's a big subject! Are you going to focus it on some aspect, etc?
Old is when ... you can't get out of bed in the morning...
Apparently I've been old since birth then. :o
blobfish. so freakin strange! and awesome!
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/c0.111.403.403/p403x403/255523_354649401292201_961762712_n.jpg)
If crime fighters fight fire, and firefighters fight fire, then what do freedom fighters fight?
i think this place is even prettier in winter
Agreed! Have you ever been there or do you live in the area?no. and no. but i'd like to visit it someday, several times (i.e. winter and spring maybe?).
I always enjoyed visiting there privately between public tours (with the loud guides), especially those gardens!
There he goes....that was awesome. too bad about the free fall totla time record, but he shattered the other ones. so freakin cool. amazing how he pulled himself out of that bad spin early on. that could've been disasterous.
I heard it's 10 min to ground.
no. and no. but i'd like to visit it someday, several times (i.e. winter and spring maybe?).
i live in "uhmerikuh" land of walmart, suv's and the rotund...
you get to see that beutiful place and other nice things, i have this:
(pic)
also apparently 'uhmerikuns' can't seem to read the word compact or they thing it's a synonym for SUV
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i at least feel pretty good that i can claim this as my homeland/country, born there, lived there, have visited, will go visit again in the future.
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Your home country is where we want to go, get a hotel in the old city and hang out. Do you know of any music clubs or jams there? Just last night we were hanging with a Cubano. Didn't play but just checked out the jam. Impressive layered rhythms. Place was SRO. Now I need to dust off my cow bell for the clave.sorry, im completely useless to you in that regard. club's for the most part are not my scene. im sure the hotel and any locals you run into can suggest something great though. have fun! 8)
Today is the day of my destruction.
I have to see my math teacher... :'(
Today is the day of my destruction.
I have to see my math teacher... :'(
Today is my 15° day without smoking...I feel terrible :'( :'( :'(
Today is my 15° day without smoking...I feel terrible :'( :'( :'(
Thank you so much for th encouragement, I badly need it!!!!coffee can help take the edge off of hunger. i use strong black coffee during intermittent fasts and hunger is rarely an issue (i.e i can easily go with a 16-24 to even 36 hour fast-though i seldom go beyond 18, rare is the super long one,).
I'm resisting heroically, but the idea to get fat is freightening me, so I'm literally starving to death. Besides, Not eating is not that difficult, since as soon as I eat, even just a carrot, I feel the urge to light a cigarette, and with wine is still worse...not to mention sex: if it's ture thant post coitum omnes anilam triste est (after coitus every animal is sad), without smoking is sadder than ever :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
:-* :-* :-* I was sure I could count on your support, Enrique!!!!sounds good. don't worry, even if metabolism slows a tiny bit, it is not likely to add any unwanted weight to an appreciable degree. most of that weight gain people do gain when quiting is due to their misbehavior with with and lifestyle not a slight drop in metabolic rate, which can be counteracted wtih excercise and proper eating which can raise it.
The problem is not that I'm compensating smoking with food, but the fear that my metabolism will get slower...even if I keep chewing Nicorette gums all the day long.
Anyway I'm intensifying my workout sessions.... and (but please, don't laugh at me) whenever at home I fancy a cigarette, I do a set of squats, or push-ups, or force our poor Felipe (the cat) to run with me across the apartment to catch a stuffed mouse...
Thank you so much for th encouragement, I badly need it!!!!
I'm resisting heroically, but the idea to get fat is freightening me, so I'm literally starving to death. Besides, Not eating is not that difficult, since as soon as I eat, even just a carrot, I feel the urge to light a cigarette, and with wine is still worse...not to mention sex: if it's ture thant post coitum omnes anilam triste est (after coitus every animal is sad), without smoking is sadder than ever :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
I hope Enrique's kitten trick did work against your bad luck curse, Outin. Do you mind if I borrow your ubelievable cute kitten to cheer up my day?here i have an extra one
I hope Enrique's kitten trick did work against your bad luck curse, Outin. Do you mind if I borrow your ubelievable cute kitten to cheer up my day?
btw you should in vest in one of these if you don't have one already i had spell where i had no cofee maker and these inexpensive things are magical. best freakin coffee i've ever made, you put the grinds. add the boiling/hot water. let it sit for about 5 minutes, slowly press the plunger down so the grings get pressed to the bottom. give it some good preessure at the end. out comes inredible coffee. better than anything ive ever made in a coffee maker.
This morning I started to make coffee and broke the coffee machine (don't ask)...so I though I would make my coffee the old fashioned way...and the bloody water boiler didn't work either! >:(
So I had to boil water on the stove which takes ages...and then was finally able to make some brown stuff that vaquely looks like coffee...
out comes inredible coffee. better than anything ive ever made in a coffee maker.
french press
Well, I think the only remedy for such bad days is...Henry!!!! (Enrique the Great discovered him, and now I'm completely Henry-addicted.
btw you should in vest in one of these if you don't have one already i had spell where i had no cofee maker and these inexpensive things are magical. best freakin coffee i've ever made, you put the grinds. add the boiling/hot water. let it sit for about 5 minutes, slowly press the plunger down so the grings get pressed to the bottom. give it some good preessure at the end. out comes inredible coffee. better than anything ive ever made in a coffee maker.Fine as they are and nice as they look, I'd advise investing in an all-metal one as the glass jugs are rather expensive to replace if they break; I'd not be without three of them (of different sizes), though!
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french press
^ are you sure it's not a nightmare?It for sure sounds like.
What's on my mind now?
College applications. They're terrifying me. :-\
&feature=related She is at my age. Why is this piece is my ultimate dream and her reality?
I looked at some of her videos, and she freaking played Ondine from Gaspard de la Nuit at age 14!
fml
fml
And hey what the heck, I need you to help me out with some Calculus. Check out the thread I made please.
Where are you applying?
my housemate is going back to china for 2 months, and given me some websites for clothes, my god they are so cheap, $10 for formal wear, compared to the 60-100 or so price of it here.
Im sorry. Is he hurt? Is he old?
Hahahahahhahahahhaha I went on my Facebook and posted, 'Did Romney win?'.
Everyone got sooooooooooo mad!!!!!
I don't see a difference between either candidate...
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i think you're right. they both look kinda of goofey
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The downfall of America, and my lost hope in the American people...
Four more years'll prove me right.
Better go stock up on ammo, spend all my money before the economy crashes, hide my textbooks, and start digging underground buildings.
Yes.. I'm slightly pessimistic...
But seriously... stock up on ammo.
HERE WE COME, WALMART
One more thing:
I've seen promises, but only unfulfilled ones.
I've seen Change; only in the worsening problems these years.
I've seen not Hope, but loss of it because of rising unemployment.
I've seen not a greater country, but a weaker one.
The time to open our eyes is past, and the time to suffer for it is now.
Yes, Forwards, but not the Forwards America wants. It's the Forwards our enemies have always wanted for us.
I see not a sun rising, but a sun setting on a red horizon.
YOU chose.
Not quite the outcome many of us (25 states) were expecting. Your comfort will be to embrace gridlock. Remember Clinton? All we got out of that was a scandal. Unless the Dems can get the House very little will get done. And be ready to start paying medical premiums...
Not quite the outcome many of us (25 states) were expecting. Your comfort will be to embrace gridlock. Remember Clinton? All we got out of that was a scandal. Unless the Dems can get the House very little will get done. And be ready to start paying medical premiums...
If anyone comes and tries to take my stuff and the house I am killing them, and if they come again to snipe me down I will shoot at them until I am dead. Serious. I would rather die than see what used to happen in Russia.
I know...I still can hardly believe it..
I actually was 4 when Clinton got out of office but I've heard about it. ;D
Yes...one last chance to slow the tide.
The people who voted for him should be the ones to worry because like countries in the EU who must cut somewhere to balance he will also cut benefits.
I wonder how much you actually know about the countries within EU? I live in one I don't see nothing much to worry, unless one is REALLY unhappy about anything to do with aiming for a bit more social equality.
Screw equality! Just leave us alone! I like where I live and I don't want to move anywhere outside of the country, I like havin' dogs with a yard for them to run around in and rednecks hangin' deer-kill from their trees to gut them in their back yard and there you have it, organic dinner for months! I can't move to Poland until I finish my degree and hopefully degrees. *yells and goes and loads the gun because a helicopter flew over the house*
I wonder how much you actually know about the countries within EU? I live in one I don't see nothing much to worry, unless one is REALLY unhappy about anything to do with aiming for a bit more social equality.
We know A LOT. Equality is stupid. America is a rich country, and the RICH keep the middle class and poor employed. Start taxing the rich for "equality", they drop employees, and unemployment goes UP.
Yes, you live in EU, not the U.S. There are so many freedoms America has (at the present time) that other countries in EU couldn't even IMAGINE.
There are so many freedoms America has (at the present time) that other countries in EU couldn't even IMAGINE.
To be honest my experience is that US citizens in general know quite little about European societies. They may think they know a lot, but most of it has no bearing in reality. Of course there are many informed people there, this is a generalization. There are also many points where one can be well informed but still disagree because these things are not black and white. But it will very soon become evident in conversation which group the other belongs to.
I have studied the American society and been there. I have compared the US and Canadian and European societies. So I don't have to imagine, I know what kind of freedoms exist there, but I also know how much you have pay for it in several ways.
However that was not my point, my point was that the fears people shout out about the future because of the election result are ridiculous. But I guess they are understandable because of the political campaigns which were full of ridiculous claims and threats.
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Since you are obviously very young and passionate about your beliefs I will let pass the contradictions and misconceptions in your post. I just hope you can enjoy your wonderful life, play piano and not get stressed about something you can do nothing about at this point :)
Apart from the freedom to go round shooting one another, perhaps you would care to name one?
As for your question:
The Bill of Rights.
I rest my case. The reason Obama was re-elected was because of blind people like you. Yes-- maybe you don't live in America, but still, people who are blind.
I know you'll think me a fool, but I refuse to be blinded by lies and government.
you know if romney had got in the obama-ramas would be saying all the same things you are right..? granted with some mild variations..
your candidate is no better than the other.
...
infact, your unyielding insistence that one side is right and another is wrong kind of makes you incredibly blind. Your opinion isnt the only one in the world, and no opinion is wrong.
There are such things as wrong opinions.
Like J_menz, I would encourage you to explain how your country is fundamentally different to mine..
and since, for example, my country has been significantly more stable post GFC than yours I'm not seeing how your system is better than ours.. because that can't have been about the guns..
..and you certainly arent saying why..
We haven't had a conservative government. Yes... it isn't about the guns....
I did. go read the Bill of Rights. If you still can't see, then, I give up.
..care to provide one for analysis? ;D
..personally i think this is a fundamentally wrong opinion.
"Romney would prefer to see passage of federal legislation or of a constitutional amendment that would outlaw abortion"
Tell me why its not, since I presume your on his side?
As J_menz said, there is nothing there that does not exist in our society - excusing the right to bear arms.
if you think otherwise you can feel free to be more specific.
Abortion is the killing of an innocent life. I stand by this, and NOTHING anyone can say will change me. God gives ALL life, and to kill an innocent being -yes an unborn child is an innocent being- is an unforgivable sin. Imagine if we were to start performing abortions on animals to slow their growing populations. What would the animal rights activists do? They would SCREAM. Is an animal's life that much more important than a human's? It is PITIFUL, yes, pitiful that we live in a world that condones the killing of babies.
Imagine if we were to start performing abortions on animals to slow their growing populations. What would the animal rights activists do? They would SCREAM.
Abortion is the killing of an innocent life. I stand by this, and NOTHING anyone can say will change me. God gives ALL life, and to kill an innocent being -yes an unborn child is an innocent being- is an unforgivable sin. Imagine if we were to start performing abortions on animals to slow their growing populations. What would the animal rights activists do? They would SCREAM. Is an animal's life that much more important than a human's? It is PITIFUL, yes, pitiful that we live in a world that condones the killing of babies.
I stand by this, and NOTHING anyone can say will change me.
I'm not a one-sided person. I consider both sides of things
If it were to balance the ecosystem, then probably no.
Yeah. "You guys can't put lakes here because it will kill this species of bugs!!!! OOOOH MY GOOOOOSHHH! That would be terrible!! We just HAVE to save the little bugs that live under leaves and eat dirt which nobody even knows exists, so you'll just have to struggle during the summer droughts!!"
....Not going any farther with this btw....
God gives ALL life, and to kill an innocent being is an unforgivable sin
Great, good point.
to kill an innocent being is wrong.
Cool, so you are a vegetarian? why is human life any more valuable than animal life? And just to be clear, we CULL animals on mass around the world to slow their growing populations and its an uncomfortable but valid choice because they are not able to be supported within our society. This is a choice that we as humans make when we preserve ourselves over animals - are you comfortable with that? Suppose you aren't, lets put you in charge.. we stop killing homeless dogs, where are you going to put the millions of them that stack up in a single year?
What about the children in 3rd world countries, ones that will grow up to be 5 years old before they may die of starvation? is their 5 years of suffering ok? is that better than a reduced population of humans? ..and in regard to that, you would be entitled to your opinion - but that does not make it right, or wrong. Its just an opinion.
This is why my opinion is right, but its also wrong. And so is yours, its right for who you are as a person.. its wrong for any number of other people.
I'm referring to human morals. Killing animals is not murder.
Apart from the right to bear arms...
I rest my case. The reason Obama was re-elected was because of blind and uneducated people like you. Yes-- maybe you don't live in America, but still, people who are blind.
The whole principle is different between the Bill of Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights.
our President has proven himself greatly uneducated.
go read the Bill of Rights. If you still can't see, then, I give up.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
My unyielding insistence that one side is right is not blindness. I'm not a one-sided person. I consider both sides of things, and choose the one I believe is right. I research, I ask questions, and I study.
I have. And it's drafts, the Declaration of Independence, your Constitution of which it forms part, the various texts upon which it is based and a whole lot of comparative examples (including the 1936 Soviet one, which is extraordinarily good though it evidently lacked a bit in the interpretation and enforcement).
I repeat. What is so special about the US Bill of Rights? Apart from the right to bear arms, which I concede is unique (and deservedly so).
This is amuurica, and we speak amuurican.also goes by 'merica, and folks can be bilungual and also speak 'merican
no one would mess with me with claws like that!
Obviously you don't know the history behind the Bill of Rights.
not only is J_menz a lawyer.. but in australia.. many of us also study american history a long side our own at school.. so this is pretty unlikely.
Obviously he doesn't, or he would see the difference. I'm not going to pull out every history book in the library and cram the information into a post only for him not to believe it.
Even so.. why can't you name one point for discussion?
Obviously you don't know the history behind the Bill of Rights.
also goes by 'merica, and folks can be bilungual and also speak 'merican
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I must have missed it in amongst all that other background material. The English Bill of Rights, the Virginia Bill of Rights, the writings of Rousseau, Locke, Paine, the federalist papers, Madison's original drafts, the Congressional debate on their introduction. What "history" is not there?
'merican is a lnguage truly unique in that it clearly has and needs 400 different ways to say "I can feel my ateries clogging with each mouthful. Mmmmm Yum"c'mon it has xtra lettuce! nom nom nom nom nom
Obviously he doesn't, or he would see the difference. I'm not going to pull out every history book in the library and cram the information into a post only for him not to believe it.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the
It was founded to keep our government from having tyrannical power. Whole reason we left England!
"It was founded to keep our government from having tyrannical power. Whole reason we left England!"
c'mon it has xtra lettuce! nom nom nom nom nom
I thought that was some of those green eggs Dr Seuss wrote about. Lettuce seems highly improbable, unless you can deep fry lettuce. :-\lol perhaps. perhaps. perhaps.
It was founded to keep our government from having tyrannical power. Whole reason we left England!
America was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free. :Preally?
all the history talked reminded me about the only history people seem concerned with these days....
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America was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free. :P
Who on the Mayflower owned a slave?
..you think our present governments have tyrannical power over us? Are you concerned that in australia, because we still recognize the British monarch that we will one day soon be bound and gagged by the queen?
You know we actually had a referendum and our nation voted against becoming a republic, because we have a passion for our history and because we are not subject to tyranny.. our country is as free, if not more than yours.
America was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free. :P
Didn't say that. I'm just annoyed that people who don't know what they're talking about are arguing with me about my country(which I<< live in) and it's history.
This conversation has become so stupid. It's rather annoying when people who don't have a clue start arguing with somebody who knows about it...I can bring a TON of *AMERICANS* on here that would trample all your statements, and send each and every one of you through the wringer, because they KNOW their FACTS. One against all of you isn't enough to even TRY to convince anybody.
But then, they probably wouldn't bother joining, because it's so idiotic.
Since the only bit of "history" you have provided to us is one line from a high school text book and a quote from Thomas Jefferson, you will forgive me if I feel you may be a bit short on knowing the history of your own country.
I'm happy to further this discussion with anyone who "knows their facts". I suggest you go either become one, or consult one. Oh, and this isn't a numbers game.
But I wouldn't advise arguing with the people that actually live in America...
You lived in Europe in a previous life? ;D
and no, visiting isn't the same as living.
I understand that know, never argue with someone who has the right to carry arms and has the mind set to use them against anyone who disagrees :P
You lived in Europe in a previous life? ;D
I don't remember looking anything up in a high school textbook for some reason...Interesting, right? I provided plenty of things for you to look into, you just didn't like it, so sorry.
In fact, if you're SO convinced you're right, why don't you come over here and start up a debate with Americans who have actually STUDIED our history and politics?
I'd like to see how that turns out...
I can safely say most of America is in agreement with me,
I think there is...sometimes referred to as the bible belt...
That would be the "most of America" who just voted for Obama. Or is there another "most of America"?
You provided a one line unsourced quote. Hardly convincing.
I studied both US history and politics at University. Some of my teachers were Americans. I passed.
That would be the "most of America" who just voted for Obama. Or is there another "most of America"?
pakistan has got your back.
Maybe to you. At least I know it's true off-hand, and know I researched it to be 100% positive. You would know it's true if you had really studied it.
In fact, if you're SO convinced you're right, why don't you come over here and start up a debate with Americans who have actually STUDIED our history and politics?
Maybe to you. At least I know it's true off-hand, and know I researched it to be 100% positive. You would know it's true if you had really studied it.
How about this .... rankings on economic freedom by country.
https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
1 - hong kong
2 - singapore
3 - australia
...The US comes in at a dismal number 10.. behind canada (lol)..
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I admire your patriotism but you're just not as well off as you think. Those stats aren't something new, its been that way for a long time.. well you know.. at least in relation to your lifetime.
Oh wow. Economic freedom? this is now utterly ridiculous..
J-menz would be out of a job if it wasn't for that right, and the economic freedom is what makes it possible for sometime to exercise that right.. because someone can choose to become a lawyer.
No, not a cop out, just sick of it. Call it whatever.
j_menz, if it was what I said about being free of tyrannical government, I'll provide you loads of information, and gladly so.
Actually, I worked as a corporate lawyer, often with close links to government. That sort of job exists even under tyrannies.
Wimp out?Lets not be too harsh, this is not a fair game. You (?) and I have had a few years behind us to clear our minds of the many silly things we were given as granted by our parents and other adults around us when very young...
Lets not be too harsh, this is not a fair game. You (?) and I have had a few years behind us to clear our minds of the many silly things we were given as granted by our parents and other adults around us when very young...
I see you said "worked".. ..so you chose to quit? i guess that's why they call it the lucky country.
I changed jobs away from legal work.
...clearly I'll be that parent that says "so, you actually believe a man in a red suit gives you presents every year?"That's what you say now...just wait ;D
Lets not be too harsh, this is not a fair game.
you actually believe a man in a red suit gives you presents every year?"
I have never claimed to be a nice person, and I do not intend to start pretending now.
rach_forever: AHA! you are a professional pianist.
or cat burglar.
True, not the cats, but my right to live with them...
cats would not need to be defended by guns.
I'm usually pretty nice.. apparently though I become a bit of an ass when someone suggests that a political loss is going to send their country into the pits of hell...
Then again...
Even though clavile might have chosen the wrong environment to express her views, she might actually be quite rational not the change them no matter what...If she did she might get bullied hard by her immediate peers, just like some of us are bullied on this forum for not wanting to play Bach >:(
Needless to say I like that my country's leader is an atheist. However her recent vote of "no" on the gay marriage bill disturbs me just as much when considered as a representation of her fundamental values, so i guess you can't win.No...but it's sometimes impossible to tell whether a politician's view is genuine or whether it is tailored to the demands of voters, sometimes more and sometimes less. It is obvious that no matter what Romney or Obama think in their own mind, it would be a political suicide in US to announce yourself as atheist.
America was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free. :P
I wonder how much you actually know about the countries within EU? I live in one I don't see nothing much to worry, unless one is REALLY unhappy about anything to do with aiming for a bit more social equality.
Well, actually quite a bit. At this moment in Spain where I am living we have a 25% unemployment rate. Shop keepers are suffering. Businesses are closing.
Here like most of the EU the government is in way too many businesses. They are in partnership with the pharmacies as part of a national health care system. They haven't paid the pharmacies for months for the medicines they gave out as part of that plan. Now some pharmacies will close in protest, denying some areas service.
I am sure that from your point of view there doesn't seem to be much to worry about. But follow the money source that is used to provide a sort of utopian feeling.
If America is such a "typical" country, why do we have so many immigrants coming HERE for "a better life", and to start businesses and provide for their families?
This backs up everything I've said.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights
Feel free to argue with that.
As for Obama being a "Christian", that is absurd. What "Christian" goes and bashes the Bible, says how stupid and ridiculous it is, and then turns around and says he's "Christian"?
If America is such a "typical" country, why do we have so many immigrants coming HERE for "a better life", and to start businesses and provide for their families?
---And yes I know quite a few immigrants.
Must...
Get...
Halo 4!
Wikipedia?
But what in it backs up what you have said, our runs counter to anything I have said? You need to be more specific. Argue your case from it, not just point me at it and say "there". I don't see anything at all in that article which refutes anything I have said - point me to it and explain why.
When did Obama "bash the bible and say how stupid and ridiculous it is"? Reference, please.
There are quite a few countries that have many immigrants seeking a better life. How is the US different to them?
You . haven't . heard . of . Wikipedia? ....or was that disapproving...
The whole thing backs up what I've said, and runs counter to what you said.
Your proof:
America is called "The Land Of Opportunity" for everybody in it, and all immigrants.
Let me come from a different approach --- America is different from other countries.
Oh-- here is this to back this up. That says plenty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream
I suggest reading the whole thing. It's not complicated to read, and most of it is what I was trying to say earlier.
In australia we call it "the great australian dream" - and its the same thing, exactly.. This has nothing to do with america being a bad place.. its just not better than anywhere else, or at least not better than many other places at present.. you've been fed a mountain of patriotic misinformation.
We call our place the "land of opportunity" too.. and immigrants poor in here just like in the US.
I read that entire wiki article before commenting about your bill of rights, and yes Wikipedia is a bad reference.
here's why..
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The information is just not reputable, so even if that article is right about US history and the bill of rights, no one in there right mind would assume it to be so without checking other references... and that of course is irrelevant, because as far as we can see there is nothing in the article that sets you aside as being different. If you're not willing to point out a specific thing and talk about it then you should discontinue.
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Try this, - as a framework
I believe america is better for this specific reason "we have the freedom to ______ "
see this reference - link -
quote from reference "bla bla etc. etc."
I believe your country is not like that, you do not have that freedom..
see this reference - link -
quote from reference "bla bla etc. etc."
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if you can do that you might convince us, of course you'll still be subject to counter argument and scrutiny.
...if you can not do that, your argument is invalid and you shouldn't have begun such a thing, because you don't personally know what you're talking about.. you only think you do because some other person told you that's how it is.. in fact I suspect many people told you that is how it is, ..church school friends parents?? all of them were not giving you the full story and they will have told you its that way because their parents did, and their parents before them did..
America breeds patriots with this attitude like mad because you guys get about actively telling your kids that america is the best place in the world from the day they are born. Its indoctrinated into you, and its not true.
in·doc·tri·nate
Verb:
Teach (a person or group) to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.
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Obama's speech is not mocking Christianity, it is pointing out that religion can not define public policy - and that has been a part of your country's ideals for a long time.
The bill of rights, 1789.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances"
What is your interpretation of this? How does that not mean its ok for your citizens to have a different religion, or no religion.. and that they have the right to operate under their beliefs and morals, which may conflict with your own or that of those in power... and that public policy must therefore respect the choices of other belief systems meaning that human law must conflict with scripture in order to service the nation as a whole. Not doing so would mean severe discrimination on the basis of religion and violate the bill of rights.
There is little wonder why obama was voted in.. the attitude he puts across is one of acceptance and a government for the greater good of the majority of your country, not his own personal convictions.
I had a dream about my english teacher...(he is really good looking). I had a dream the whole class was in a different country and we walked off together and I fell(or laid) down on the ground and he kissed me(once). Class was not as good today though, I am afraid my dream was completely pointless. Oh well.
Must..
Not!
rach_forever: AHA! you are a professional pianist.
No utopian feeling here, just experience. Our country has been through many economic depressions and survived because mostly we know how to spend when we can and save when we have to. We have unemployment too in certain professions, but nothing like the early 90's. The system takes reasonably good care of those who don't have work. Our politicians like to scare us with the recession, that's a way to be able to make decisions that people might not otherwise accept. Things never turn out as bad as it is supposed to.
It is true that in some parts of EU the economy is a disaster and I never was much of a EU fan really. But we were here discussing how it is to live in the European countries, rather than the state of the union itself. The sorry state of the economy in certain EU countries is their own doing and they never actually followed the rules of the EU and no doubt there's corruption too. We are helping them because our politicians believe EU is worth saving and we can still afford it. Don't know how long it's worth it though.
Do you even...
Do you even know what halo 4 is?!
It's the freaking pinnacle of human achievement! I MUST get that game!!!
America is called "The Land Of Opportunity" for everybody in it, and all immigrants.
I even own an X Box
Dude what's your gamer tag?!
another tired-out FPS
i've been subpoenaed to give evidence at a trial. the case makes me sick : [ i expect it to be very emotional if the family is there. i don't want to go, but it's unreasonable, never mind being unlawful not to.
Halo 4 is another tired-out FPS. If we're talking about pinnacles of human achievement here, Dark Souls is the only thing that should be mentioned. Game is sex.as is this. the relaunch i believe has succeeded in fixing a very broken game. great in concept but utter failure in the first launch, they kept at it, listened to gamer feedback and improved upon what was already good.
as is this. the relaunch i believe has succeeded in fixing a very broken game. great in concept but utter failure in the first launch, they kept at it, listened to gamer feedback and improved upon what was already good.
this is what it should have been. i'm so glad it has landed. talk about a great set up to what promises to be a pretty incredible story (though i'm not too happy it's mmo but i am really wanting to start this sometime next year).
epic (relaunch was/is this month)
Don't yawn.
;D
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What situation makes up an emergency in this case? ::)
It'll get back to me eventually. Someday I'll run across that post and it will get me.
Yawning is supposed to be a sign of empathy potential.
You'll probably take it the wrong way but...
It's supposed to work with dogs too. You can make dogs yawn by yawning in front of them. Dogs can feel empathy for humans, so they yawn too. Something along those lines.
Of course it could also mean you and the dog are both bored too I suppose.
This must be an incredibly awesome light. It IS deluxe.
https://www.amazon.com/Mighty-Bright-Telescoping-Triple-Deluxe/dp/1891747851/ref=sr_1_18?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1354041365&sr=1-18
Over $45,000. Used.
I'm trying to submit my prescreening materials but I keep getting this stupid god damn error!!! >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
I'm trying to submit my prescreening materials but I keep getting this stupid god damn error!!! >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
what does it say?
An HTTP 0 error occurred after it gets past 97%
Just submitted my NEC prescreening materials, I'm soooooooooooo anxious!awesome. congrats. i shall join you in a celebratory dance
awesome. congrats. i shall join you in a celebratory dance
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Just submitted my NEC prescreening materials
I'm soooooooooooo anxious!
So I gotta submit my college apps by Saturday.
But today my father told me that he's not paying for for music school applications. *** you dad.
I'll see if I can get my music theory teacher to pay for some of them.
What's affected - which applications?
It's magnetic
We find out tomorrow, I hope I get into the gold medal recital.
Was it a competition? what did you play?
I need to go get a new E string for my violin, and make rice, and call my cousin, and call the piano tuner, and email Trinity about LTCL prerequisites, and...
I have too much to do, AND it's my birthday...
I need to go get a new E string for my violin, and make rice, and call my cousin, and call the piano tuner, and email Trinity about LTCL prerequisites, and...
I have too much to do, AND it's my birthday...
I still don't know what it was.
I play the first movement of the Beethoven sonata.
Gold medal!
Valentina Lisitsa must've answered my prayers! :-* :-* :-*
So you are praying to her now... ::)
what is the day of ur birth?
Do think the serialists, Second Viennesse School, or anything one like that... if they had a significant other.... that they had "a song" that was theirs? "Honey, do you recognize that 12-tone row? I think they're playing our song."
Gold medal!
Valentina Lisitsa must've answered my prayers! :-* :-* :-*
;D ;D ;D
Gold medal!
Valentina Lisitsa must've answered my prayers! :-* :-* :-*
;D ;D ;D
I have this calc test tomorrow.Why? If you know everything you should be good to go, but if you really think you're going to fail, there's always the Pianostreet Calculus Group...
I know everything, but I'm going to fail it anyways.
Why? If you know everything you should be good to go, but if you really think you're going to fail, there's always the Pianostreet Calculus Group...
Lol I made the group.I know the feeling. I felt like that when I took the DipABRSM. I felt like I had prepared enough for the Viva Voce before the exam, then, during the exam, my mind went blank. Afterwards, I thought of LOADS of things I could say. I still passed with distinction though!
It's been like that for almost every test in the class.
Prior to it, I know everything. During, I know nothing. After it, I know everything.
I've only passed like two tests and a quiz.
Prior to it, I know everything. During, I know nothing. After it, I know everything.
I have to go to freaking bed.
Cute... :)
I just don't get it how you manage to be so good at piano when you spend so much time with Mr. Google and digging up all those toilets in the internet? ::)
Enrique is a god of time management.wow, well, what can i say?
Enrique is a god of time management.
Show some class. ;Di will see your tuba, and raise you:
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Wooden bow ties are so last week. Everyone has golden toilets now. At least the cool people do.
Did you know that the toilets in the girls washrooms are the cleanest places in schools all the way up to high school?
I don't know about toilets in college.
Did you know that the toilets in the girls washrooms are the cleanest places in schools all the way up to high school?
I don't know about toilets in college.
I wonder where I can get 1.21 gigawatts.
I wonder where I can get 1.21 gigawatts.So u mean jiggawatts
Someone's already looked into it. Oi...
"The power required is pronounced in the film as "one point twenty-one jiggawatts."[1] While the closed-captioning in home video versions spells the word as it appears in the script, jigowatt,[4] the actual spelling matches the standard prefix and the term for power of "one billion watts": gigawatt. Though obscure, the "j" sound at the beginning of the SI prefix giga- is an acceptable pronunciation for "gigawatt."[5][6] In the DVD commentary for Back to the Future, Robert Zemeckis states that he had thought it was pronounced this way because this was how the scientific advisor that he had for the film pronounced it.[7]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_time_machine
So it is 'giga' with the alternate pronunciation. ::)
The Delorean gets a full article but I bet there are real issues out there without any coverage.
I blame Doc Brown.
I'm thinking about pronouncing gig that way, including I have a gig I am playing at tonight.
am thinking you need to do a video like this and post it. mad skillz!
Professional pianist...
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I blame Doc Brown.
When I saw the original film in the theater I didn't give one thought to what the Doc said. There were already enough time episode mistakes (not depicting the eras correctly) that the remark about ??watts was just as wrong. If you recall the scene you will notice that while he wanted watts all he really got was volts!
The song White Christmas is going to take on a different meaning if things warm up and there's just not or as much snow around during the winter in some places in the country.
Or the opposite, the snow becomes more extreme.
You might with global warming. Strange topsy-turvy things can happen with the weather. And with the snow Santa might come too. And then the White Christmas song will have a different meaning.
*Bob's cognitive dissonance is resolved.* Whew....
How was your lesson with your new student?
J
am thinking you need to do a video like this and post it. mad skillz!
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I think my student heard me practicing Gaspard because she was hinting that I need more practice! :D I can play everything else I'm practicing reasonably well, except the Prokofiev Toccata and the Waldstein. Why did she have to hear me practicing Gaspard? But to be fair, she knew it was a really difficult piece.
haha I hate when people walk in or hear when you are just barely grasping what is going on here. :)
I wonder where I can get 1.21 gigawatts.i wonder if this is bob....
I can't tell whether that's real or a joke.
Ooh.. I want one (except I'm not planning on ever having the need of one).
At 24,500 euro, who says you can't take it with you.
I'll pass on the "have your loved ones add songs to your playlist" feature, though. I'm not spending eternity putting up with potentially awful taste.
Yeah, I wouldn't want you adding Bach to my playlist.
What if the volume is too high or low? Or the speakers are crappy?
If they bury that, the wires are goingto get moisture. The moisture will run down. And it wil short out the system. If it's wireless, it's going to run out of batteries eventually. "Yes, yes, we'll bury you with your music playing. Don't worry." Then a few days later the batteries stop working. You're down there for all eternity without music after that. Or until your ears deteriorate. Or brain. Which all of course wouldn't be working anyway. I suppose the volume could be cranked up in that case. The louder, the better.
If someone put Mozart on my playlist I'd become one mad zombie >:(
Maybe you'll like him better now:
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Come on, that video is old, they tore down that skatepark and built a new one somewhere else in LA like a few days ago.
Get with the program!
No but yeah, that's pretty sick, I can't do any of that lol.
What if the volume is too high or low? Or the speakers are crappy?
If they bury that, the wires are goingto get moisture. The moisture will run down. And it wil short out the system. If it's wireless, it's going to run out of batteries eventually. "Yes, yes, we'll bury you with your music playing. Don't worry." Then a few days later the batteries stop working. You're down there for all eternity without music after that. Or until your ears deteriorate. Or brain. Which all of course wouldn't be working anyway. I suppose the volume could be cranked up in that case. The louder, the better.
A couple interesting things I heard. Usually nuts like that have a track record building up to that event. He probably did some other unusual red flag things in the past.
If those kindergarteners all had guns....
He would have done something else then.
He would have done something else then.
He sure would have. But guns are one of the easiest ways to kill people, and are easily accessible. Even fertilizer sales are tracked more rigorously than guns.
1) I heard some maniac on Fox
2) American gun deaths lead the world by a huge margin and that is why.
3) No one, not in the military or law enforcement, has the need or right to purchase a weapon capable of mass destruction in the quickest possible amount of time.
4) And clearly unstable mothers
5) The Second Amendment does not confer that right.
What the freaking heck do you need a freaking gun in your house for?
What the freaking heck do you need a freaking gun in your house for?
And Sudafed. I want my Sudafed back. The real stuff. Darn meth addicts...dude you can (should) still be able to get it, you just have to buy it at the pharmacist counter, show id, sign, buy. that's how it is over here at least, it's not 'outlawed' just some silly limit on buying huge/massive amounts at one time/in a short period
They should definitely do something about this right to bear arms bullshit.
I thought you had to get a prescription now for Sudafed. The stuff they replaced it with doesn't work at all.
And here I've been saving my last little strip of real Sudafed for ten years for the rare occasion I want something that really works. Only seven or either left. They are.. precious... to me. Haha. I can't use them, but they're there if I need them.basically what i outlined, not outlawed, just restricted (and i even read there have been state repeals of certain aspects going into effect in 2013 by various states)
Just because you CAN get it on the black market doesn't mean everyone WILL get it on the black market. If you want to kill people, you're going to find a way. On the other hand, most people are law abiding citizens in regards to things that are harshly enforced.
Beyond all that, there has been a steady decrease in the number of households with guns over the last 30 years anyway, along with a decrease in crime. I can't speak to causality, just pointing out correlation. I think it's partially due to the population migrating towards cities and out of the rural areas, since most cities have significantly stricter policies on firearms. Change is slow and always will be slow, but it's happening on it's own anyway. People just tend to react strongly to large single incidents in comparison to multiple smaller incidents.
basically what i outlined, not outlawed, just restricted (and i even read there have been state repeals of certain aspects going into effect in 2013 by various states)
https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drugsafety/informationbydrugclass/ucm072423.htm
excerpt:
...". Does this mean I need a prescription from my doctor to buy pseudoephedrine?
No. The Act allows for the sale of pseudoephedrine only from locked cabinets or behind the counter. The law:
limits the monthly amount any individual could purchase
requires individuals to present photo identification to purchase such medications
requires retailers to keep personal information about these customers for at least two years after the purchase of these medicines. ..."
I don't know about other cities but just in South Central Los Angeles there were at last count 64,000 armed gang members on the streets. I don't seem to recall a school shooting in South Central ever.
If gun laws are tightened how will that crowd be disarmed? What about East LA?
Mis-identifying the problem is destructive to providing a solution. As I've said, it's not about gun laws. 200m+ guns aren't going to disappear overnight. Ammo restrictions would be far more effective and timely. Of course nothing changes overnight, but saying "that won't have an effect" is just an excuse to do nothing. It will have an effect 100 years from now, isn't it worth at least doing something for our children's children? (I will revise my opinion if the zombie apocalypse happens in 5 days).
In regards to the black market, there is a popular misconception as to where those 64,000 guns came from. More than half of the black market guns were purchased using ostensibly legal channels, and not from theft of legal gun owners(10-15%). An excerpt from a PBS article on interview with an ATF agent:
"...the most common ways criminals get guns is through straw purchase sales. A straw purchase occurs when someone who may not legally acquire a firearm, or who wants to do so anonymously, has a companion buy it on their behalf... one selects a firearm, and then the other uses identification for the purchase and pays for the gun. Or, several underage people walk into a store and an adult with them makes the purchases. Both of these are illegal activities.
The next biggest source of illegal gun transactions where criminals get guns are sales made by legally licensed but corrupt at-home and commercial gun dealers... illegal activity by those licensed to sell guns, known as Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs), is a huge source of crime guns and greatly surpasses the sale of guns stolen from John Q. Citizen."
The interview ends by one of the most consistent statements we've all seen:
""Let's be honest. If someone wants a gun, it's obvious the person will not have difficulty buying a gun, either legally or through the extensive United States black market."
Who should we focus on, the illegal owner, or the illegal seller? (not that those are the only options) I'm not quite sure what the restrictions are on becoming an FFL though.
*Bob hordes his newly refound Sudafed.* Real Sudafed... It does exist....
BTW, that shooter shot his way into the school. They were locked in but not on lock down. Strengthening those exterior doors might be the cheapest and quickest solution.
I would never advocate against that solution and I agree it would clearly have some impact on major incidents, however:
Focusing on single and large incidents, again, doesn't address the underlying issues. More gun violence against students are committed OFF of school property than on it. Large incidents tend to be the only thing the media cares about and subsequently the oblivious population. It still doesn't address the pertinent issue. Children are no different than 25yo's who are no different than 80yo's: they are all people. On the other hand, children just have a greater emotional impact on society. But addressing a minute aspect of the violent crimes would just distract (or even blind) the public from the major issue.
Mass murders this year (US) accounted for 140 deaths, which is not limited to children - Mass shootings are categorized by 4 or more deaths in a single incident.
There was 1 mass school shooting in the 90's, 1 in the 00's, and now 1 in the 10's (so far and to my knowledge. It may be more since, as I've mentioned, only major ones make the news).
There are 99,000 public schools in the US.
However, in the 2008-2009 school year, there were 55.6m children k-12 and 38 violent deaths on school property (including suicide, and not limited to guns). I can't find a more recent statistic, but even having a major incident this year won't affect the general numbers given school crime has been steadily decreasing.
3,000 children have been killed by firearms alone this year.
Let's focus on 1.2% of the crimes to children to make the public "feel safe"? It's a ridiculous concept that hides the true issues. It's like stomping on a termite while your house crumbles around you, saying "problem solved".
I imagine all the kids with Aspergers... Everyone's looking at them now. And will be... for a long time or permanently now.
Recently in LA we were running 10 homicides a day. That is in a population of 20 million. Do the math and put that ratio against 300 million.
And what do we do against a suicide killer?
Okay so I got denied my live audition to San Francisco conservatory.
I feel sooooooo salty!!!
Oh, sorry about that. Any explanation why?
Okay so I got denied my live audition to San Francisco conservatory.
I feel sooooooo salty!!!
Bummer.
Their loss, though.
blood sacrifice to Bach!!!
Why not just learn a couple more P&Fs. You did such a wonderful job with the last one, that is more likely to please him than anything else.
The more I listen to it the more I realize how much it sucks. :-[
What the freaking heck happened with Davidjosepha?!I don't know, Mr. Freaking Heck...
Did he freaking die or something?
What the freaking heck happened with Davidjosepha?!
Did he freaking die or something?
What the freaking heck happened with Davidjosepha?!
Did he freaking die or something?
Whoever this freaking freaking heck Davidjosepha is, I freaking don't freaking think he freaking heck freaking died or anything freaking heck crazy like that freaking kind of freaking thing.
IQ myth article.
https://www.thestar.com/living/article/1304289--iq-a-myth-study-says
Another topic that will never be decided one way or the other.
Whoever this freaking freaking heck Davidjosepha is, I freaking don't freaking think he freaking heck freaking died or anything freaking heck crazy like that freaking kind of freaking thing.
An IQ test only predicts how well you will do in academic work. It's validated with other students. Adult life will require different skills...
https://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/student-pulls-off-awesome-graduation-prank-174930285--abc-news-topstories.html
This. And when they read the titles of dissertations. All what you have to do is swap out those cards or make a correction in this case. I've thought about doing that for a long time, although I was thinking of adding an extra card in. ;D All what you have to do is slip a card in. No one will know and they'll be too busy. They'll read it just like this guy did. 8) I have some titles picked out but if I said them I'd give away my identity (meaning I've already mentioned the unique dissertation titles to people, not that I couldn't change my name here).
I would say it's more the potential to do well in academic work. Adult life definitely requires different skills (social...) but academic work is reliant on effort just as much as intelligence. Screw that 90/10 crap people usually spew.
So I suspect none of you have ever constructed and validated a test...
I haven't taught languages, history, psychology or any of the other soft subjects. I have been a TA and helped make/grade the tests for math and statistics as well as quantitative economics. Correct answers count for 50%, showing work and explaining your logic counts for a potential 50%. IQ isn't black and white where you are either a genius or dumb as rocks. At the super high end, almost no effort is needed to get the right answer. In the middle/high range you still need to put at least some effort, it won't necessarily be intuitive. IQ then is a potential indicator, not an absolute indicator. It's silly to think the laziest POS in the world with the highest IQ is going to get perfect scores. He still has to show up to class...
That's the grading part. Now think about making the test to evaluate your students. Think about which questions to ask. Should we ask 10 killer problems and see if we have some sort of genius in our midst? Then what about the rest of the sloggers who can't even start to answer the first question? How much did they learn?
An IQ test only predicts how well you will do in academic work.
What the heck is going on here?!?!?!!
If not, he is just trying to tell you that when you get involved with girls don't do anything you'd regret later.
*Reads*
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*has finally come to consensus*
WHAT THE FREAKING HECK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!??!?!?! ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
OK, I got it now...
It seems your father does not know you very well...the girl you'd get involved with keeps her nails really short for obvious reasons :)
WHAT?!
I'm not involved with anyone, except for Valentia Lisitsa and zombie Scriabin in the future.
I will win the heart of Valentina Lisitsa. Then with her by my side, I will revive Scriabin and fulfil his destiny by performing his Mysterium on the top of Mt. Everest and end the world!!!What makes you think that it's up for winning? Have you not heard of Alexey Kuznetsov? Will you use the Nemtin version of Mysterium? And the most important question - haven't you got some practice to do?...
WHAT?!
I find your innocence refreshing, amusing and mildly disturbing in equal measure. :-\
So how did you get the scratches? More skating disasters?
Ouch. So maybe not just scratches, but scars?
When the heck is that new freaking Naruto manga coming out?!?! It's freaking Wedsnesdy what the heck?!
No Naruto for 2 weeks or so it seems.
Scars?
I was born in 1995, long after slavery. :P
I still don't know what's going on here. >:(
Haha. I think your dad was thinking about these kinds of scratches...
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Or whips could leave marks like you say... Who knows? Not my business.....
;D Just don't think about why your dad would know something like that. :o Neeeeeeooooo! Haha. ::)
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I'm not sure this is a good thing or not. Was the sky and water already moving before?
Yes. Duh on me. The original doesn't have the bottom part. I'm not an art expert.
Here's another version...
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I was thinking if you turn that into a moving gif is it destroying the original? If part of the "essence" of the original was that it was in unmoving paint but it can produce effect/feeling of movement still... That would be lost if it were turned into a moving gif.
I'm stunned! Where did everybody go to school? Is it the case these days that recognizing a masterpiece is not taught? There aren't that many great artists in the top tier.
I went to MIT, but I can recognize most masterpieces.
Everybody should. At least recognize the styles. I don't know all the masterpieces but at least I can spot the style. There are still a lot pieces in private collections.
Years ago we were cleaning out an attic and came across a small painting which was done very well. We didn't recognize the artist but because it was so good we took it for a free appraisal. They put it up at auction and we put a couple of bucks into our pocket.
I'm stunned! Where did everybody go to school? Is it the case these days that recognizing a masterpiece is not taught? There aren't that many great artists in the top tier.
What the heck I have to get this stupid freaking waiver signed and get it notarized and pay freaking 12 dollars to get into a freaking skatepark?!
What the heck does notarized even mean?!
What the heck I have to get this stupid freaking waiver signed and get it notarized and pay freaking 12 dollars to get into a freaking skatepark?!
What the heck does notarized even mean?!
EDIT: I believe most people can recognize the major works due to popular media, not from being taught. Although I'm sure it was taught to me, I don't remember ever seeing the Mona Lisa in a classroom. Schooling is probably irrelevant in regards to major works. Similarly, every idiot can recognize Beethoven's 5th without actually having any interest or having been taught in school.
In my age much of what I have known some day is already forgotten... and I am definitely an idiot, since I never remember the names/numbers of classical pieces...especially the ones I don't care for... probably couldn't tell 5th from 9th really ;D
I usually recognize the composer and remember some parts of the piece, but that's it.
dun dun dun DUNNNNNNNNNNNN
dun dun dun DUNNNNNNNNNNNN
Oh, thanks, I remember now :)
Identify the melody: (the numbers indicate note length in sixteenth notes)(the piece is well-known)(no rests)
4 3 1 4 4 4 4 8 4 3 1 4 4 4 4 8 4 3 1 2 2 2 2 4 3 1 2 2 2 2 (don't remember the rest)
How many pieces of music are there in the world? I'd bet there are quite a few that start with similar rhythm... And well known is relative... You'd need to narrow it down quite a bit before I'd even try :)
I wasn't expecting an answer...
The piece I meant was Winter Wind Etude, left hand melody.
mathematical argumentsLol ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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They should definitely do something about this right to bear arms bullshit.
What the freaking heck do you need a freaking gun in your house for?
Then tell me, why is our President protected by guns? Why does he need so many body guards carrying guns? I'll tell you. If one person tries to attack our President, guaranteed, he will be dead by a gunshot within seconds.
Take my scissors, I have rocks.
Name one who was. Lee Harvey Oswald doesn't count, btw.
I have paper. ;D
I could see changing the amount of bullets that can get sprayed out. Maybe that's the line that will change. Even with slower firing guns, there would be enough to make a statement against the government if the government was trying to take things over. And the government could already outgun everyone as it is if they wanted to.
That, something improved with mental health care abilities, and then possibly I could see something with security guards in schools. You've got at them at the airports, in stadiums, at malls... I wasn't originally thinking it was practical, but if they can do that, why not schools too? That would have to be one of the dullest jobs though. 99.999% of the time nothing is going to happen and they won't be doing much except "being present." Unless they became professional, armed, playground supervisors/bus monitors. That I could see too.
Guns keep us safer. If they didn't, why would our President be protected by them?
Incidentally, do you believe the second amendment right to bear arms protects your (individual) right to own nuclear weapons? If not, why not?Now there's a thought!
Why do I need a gun in my house? Because people rob houses.
Why do I want a concealed carry? Because women get raped.
It's as simple as that. It's protection from criminals and rapists. If a robber comes into my house, I don't want to have to wait for the police to come. I want to take care of the situation before he kills me, any of my family, or steals my stuff.
I'd rather pull a gun out of my purse when a rapist comes after me than run off in another direction or hide behind a trash bin while he comes after me while I wait for the police to come help me, if I was even in a place where I could get signal strength.
Taking the guns away doesn't help protect you. It leaves you, your family, and your women more vulnerable to crime.
Yes, there are nuts that get ahold of guns and go crazy. But we need to blame the people, not the guns. People need to take responsibility for their actions, and we need to MAKE them take responsibility for it, not blame guns.
People say we don't need guns to protect ourselves. Then tell me, why is our President protected by guns? Why does he need so many body guards carrying guns? I'll tell you. If one person tries to attack our President, guaranteed, he will be dead by a gunshot within seconds. Guns protect. Otherwise our president wouldn't be protected by guns. If our President's family is protected by guns, and it's okay for him to protect his family with guns, why isn't it okay for US, to protect OUR families with guns from people who would try to harm us?
If you ban guns, criminals don't follow laws. They WILL find guns, and they will NOT hesitate to use them. This is the nature of criminals. They break laws, and find ways to break them. When a criminal comes into my house with a gun and points it at MY family, I want more than a knife or baseball bat to defend myself and my family with. If my President can protect his family from criminals, with guns, I should be able to also.
People are constantly blaming guns for the horrible shootings that happened. When 9/11 happened, we didn't blame the planes and try to ban jets and helicopters. We blamed the terrorists for the horrible thing that they did to us. It's the same thing with guns. We need to make the people take responsibility for it, just like we did the terrorists. The people that go into schools and shoot little children are no different than those terrorists. They're just as responsible for their actions as the people that flew the jets into the Twin Towers, killing fellow Americans.
Take my gun, I have a knife. Take my knife, I have bats. Take my bats, I have scissors. Take my scissors, I have rocks.
Taking guns won't solve it. There'll just be other ways for psychos and criminals to do it.
Why then have more US Presidents been assasinated than leaders of any other democracy in the last 50 or 100 years?
Incidentally, do you believe the second amendment right to bear arms protects your (individual) right to own nuclear weapons? If not, why not?
Working on that one---
That's a bit of a stretch, j_menz, and I'm sure even you realize that. "Bear arms" is referring to guns, not nuclear weapons. Nuclear bombs, and bombs are weapons of mass destruction. A nuclear bomb, or bomb is used solely for the destruction of things. There is no reason to own a bomb, unless you plan to needlessly destroy something. A bomb is not a mode of protection for a U.S. citizen.
mathematical arguments
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i am more than a little creeped out by this.omg again!! where where is it from!? seriously, who's hand is that!??! do i really want to know?
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WHO'S FREAKIN HAND IS THAT!?!? :o
*when you see it
Does anyone have Halo 4? Add me, my gamertag is House Atredis.
So ANYWAYS...
I was freaking playing capture the flag right? We won, but some guy on the other teams kill death ratio was freaki- Oh I can't say that anymore... 48 and 4!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE HE- oh that's right, I can't say that anymore either... He absolutely DESTROYED us!!!
Because of him my kill death ratio was...
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FLIPPING Hahaha, I didn't say... You know what.
8 and 21!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I went waaaaaaaaaaaay negative!!!
Clearly all those articles warning how too much gaming corrupts/rots young minds should be taken more seriously than I had hithertofore believed.
Videogames hasn't corrupted my mind.
Merely your grammar? :P
Dude what the- Jeez this is hard... are you talking about?! Videogames hasn't corrupted my mind. I don't even play games that often! Halo is the ONLY xbox game I play. Now my brother is a real gamehead.
Okay. Time for a RESET. Dump the video games. Kid stuff. No. Worse than that. The violence that is called gaming is corrosive. It numbs you and dumbs you. It leads you, unconsciously, to rationalize that "killing," virtually speaking, is a game. That's sophistry. In short, that's crap. "Killing" is never a game. When it becomes a "game," it's conditioning people to accept behavior that goes beyond any acceptable norm in any civilized society.
You're a pianist. If you want to know what killing (war) does to cultures, then learn the Prokofiev Sixth, Seventh or Eighth sonatas. This, Prokokfiev went to much trouble to say, is the legacy of killing.
Divert your energies there. Dump the a-hole video games. Practice even more. Get into a good conservatory. Something you deserve.
I'm not going to kill anyone.
I will ... end the world!!!
Well, which is it? ::)
I'm going to replace you guys with...
Nobler beings.
I'm going to replace you guys with...
Nobler beings.
Can I pick my own replacement?
No you can't! >:(
I'll pick j_menz, and ensure he will continue tormenting you until the end of times.
omg again!! where where is it from!? seriously, who's hand is that!??! do i really want to know?
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The the Colorado shooter, I wonder if you can really punish someone like that. If they're already not rational or not quite there mentally... Yes, you could just kill them, but is life in prison really going to punish them?
I would think it would be cheaper to execute him and be done with it.
Actually not. There's a lot of reasearch on this and execution ends up being more expensive than life in prison. In US that is, in some other countries they just do it, short trial, no appeals or anything, that's cheap.
that's a fun fact
I doubt everyone finds it fun...certainly not those on death row...that and as Steven Levitt points out in his in depth study of 'the numbers' in his book Freakonomics ("A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything"), it actually turns out that being on death row is safer(with regards to dying) than being out on the streets commiting the crimes that will get you arrested inthe first place:
Most criminologists who base their opinions on research would advice against death penalty for a few main reasons:
- It's expensive
- It doesn't work as a deterrent
- Mistakes happen every now and then in the juridical process
- It's arbitrary and the probability of getting death penalty depends highly on demographical factors
I guess the main benefit of death penalty is that it satisfies the hunger for revenge and punishment that large part of the voting population have.
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Feeling moody and sad about my wrist problems and not being able to play the piano. To have been given this awesome gift and not be able to play it is worse than not having it at all
Watts love got to do with it
Feeling moody and sad about my wrist problems and not being able to play the piano. To have been given this awesome gift and not be able to play it is worse than not having it at all
definitely true. When I get really annoyed, I play guitar. I'm left handed, so I have a lefty guitar though.
That is very special. What styles do you play?
Today is a glorius day.
Today, a man who has inspired hatred in America has now been arrested and is in jail.
His name is Chief Keef.
One rapper down, so many more to go.....
Dude, thats rad! What did they have u sight read?
Some crazy ass, extra over convoluted romantic piece.
That *** sightreading freaking ran me into the ground!
Like, I'm not a very good sightreader, but after a certain point in time, enough is enough.
But hopefully my ACTUAL audition cancels that out so I break even.
Ah, thats ok dude, man im pretty nervous about my audition in 2 weeks.
Where are you auditioning?Im auditioning locally.
And what are you playing?
Im auditioning locally.
Im playing p and f in cmoll book 1
Chopin op 25 no 11
Debussy la plus que lente
My reading is lame, dude. Im scared! The etude freaking can ruin my life! Its sooo hard :-\
Haha! Ok! Thanks dude! What kind of piano did u play on?
A nice Steinway D.
I was in this small room with two pianos next to each other and the teachers were just chilling out. One of the guys were sitting on the window, the lady was chilling on the couch, and one guy was sitting on the table.
I was upset that I didn't get to play on the Steinway D on the stage.
No but yeah, like while you're playing, they're gonna freaking cut you off and tell you to play something else. What the heck?! They cut me off the Liszt before I got to any hard parts, so I didn't get to show off. >:(
Oh, so in the lesson rooms? I have heard of that. Thats cool! Maybe theyll cut me off in the etude! I hope so. Did they cut you off on each piece? After how long?
They made me play the whole Bach, not even half of the Beethoven, and like 1/3 of the Liszt. But my playing time was like a lot shorter than th girl before me. :-\
Sweeet! Ill play the whole bach too, then the debussy, and the etude last!
Would you like to know what has been one of the most fun and intensely interesting things for me to start teaching lately? Composition. I have taught a high school class this last semester and learned a lot about how to teach it better, and will be offering it anew for next semester (which starts on Monday!), and I'm really looking forward to it. I also drifted into having a composition private student, as it turns out. It's really thrilling, actually, and I find having taught first year Theory a few years back is really helpful - all of that combined is really providing a new perspective for me to consider composition from. There's this extra feeling in teaching composition that is exciting for me to think of really seeing an individual express their musical thoughts in this way.I wish you luck; I could no more teach composition than I could fly (though I'd be the first to admit that this fact is no one's fault but my own)...
How do you teach it if you don't do it?You don't, I guess; on the other hand, doing it doesn't automatically presume the ability to teach it.
You don't, I guess; on the other hand, doing it doesn't automatically presume the ability to teach it.
(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/c0.0.382.382/p403x403/76387_526393554049620_1304042823_n.jpg)Hehe, that's cute :D at least it cheered me up. I'm in the computer science classroom at my school. It has been fixed during the winter break, but they haven't installed any compiler. What a waste of time, having to install it now... But my life is good enough to not complain:)
I hear birds outside. They sound angry....
Really? How do you know?
Wow! U have these?
Yeah, there's two more that I didn't open though.
Are you going to be filthy rich now? ::)
Nah, I wouldn't even sell these to Valentina Lisitsa!
I nominate Bernhard for Pope.
I see Hearos foam ones that do 33dB. They're not musician ear plugs though. Are there 33dB musician ear plugs?
Ive had those days. Actually, my hearing is very sensitive, and i need protection from traffic noise, music other people play, construction if i run into any, those are just some of the things i hate.
I've tried when my cats were on heat
The vet will be more useful than the earplugs
Like the "What are you listening to right now" thread...
What's the most pressing concern on your mind at the moment?
Things you are working on now, things you "must remember to do today or this week," etc. not necessarily piano.
Well that was mean, she tried so freaking hard to get me to like her at first, and when I wanted to start a relationship, she was like, 'nah, not interested'. It's like she freaking slapped me in the face! That's like really freaking mean. What a dick move. >:( :'(
Once you get into a school, what's the lowest you can get on your report card without getting rejected in the middle of July?
What the freaking heck?! I can't freaking stop thinking about what she did to me! What a low blow...
Well that was mean, she tried so freaking hard to get me to like her at first, and when I wanted to start a relationship, she was like, 'nah, not interested'. It's like she freaking slapped me in the face! That's like really freaking mean. What a dick move. >:( :'(
Oooohhhh you dont know the things i did when I was supposed to be a young lady....but not as bad as the girls that were popular...you know why they were popular, now. Anyways. It just depends on the school, and you should check. You know, Ive dropped a class or 2 in the day for sake of avoiding an f on the report card. So, find out when the last day to drop and withdraw is, and ask if they give incompletes, too.
But the girl....dont sweat. Itll be ok, plenty of love out there *cough...yamaha...cough* haha
But yeah, youll meet tons of girls, just avoid bars and obscene parties, dont look for relationships there!
You know, just like some guys, many girls just like a challenge. They want to see if they can have you and once they can they loose interest. Or she simply changed her mind a bit which is totally ok. Or she was flattered by your interest but not really serious to begin with. Life gets easier when one stops wondering about other people's motives ;)
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Let's revive them along with Scriabin and end the world!!!
I gotta get way better at music and piano before any of reviving Chopin so I can seduce him with my legit piano skills.
I got the impression at that age that SOME of the girls instinctively flirted like mad with absolutely no concept of what they were doing or the implications, then when they realized the impact they'd had they freaked out and ran in the opposite direction.
You're probably nearly there
HEY! flirting should be fun and harmless, and one can do it free from long-term implications.
Yeh, in an adult world.. teenagers haven't always got there yet and can be a little overly taken by what would be otherwise fairly innocent.OTOH Some of the stuff the teenagers do these days would freak out many adults...
I'm broke though, if Chopin were to ask.
OTOH Some of the stuff the teenagers do these days would freak out many adults...
He was a freaking expensive teacher.. given he charged about the same amount I do.. just 200 years earlier.
Kalkbrenner charged twenty-five francs. Today I am to give five lessons. You probably think I am making a fortune, but you are wrong. The cab [carriage] and white gloves cost more than I earn but without them I would not be in good form.
Well I guess if you manage to garner any attention from him he genuinely likes you..
his lessons were 20 francs.. the average wage at the time was about 1 franc per day. You had to be a rothschild to afford him.
Hmm, well I have like 50 rubles in my purse... I could trade for some electronics work...I could fix his amp? hahahCan you edit manuscripts? It seems he needed help with getting them into shape for publishing...
:/
World's best page-turner?
Ah, but you don't have the same expenses.
Gloves and carriages was his excuse:
If I insisted upon arriving by horse I wonder if anyone would have me as a teacher at all.I don't mind, as long as you collect the horse sh-- on your way out :D
hahah, yes.. well, that was probably the case with my generation too, it was only 10 years ago.
Can you edit manuscripts? It seems he needed help with getting them into shape for publishing...
If I insisted upon arriving by horse I wonder if anyone would have me as a teacher at all.
**with some electronics work
I don't mind, as long as you collect the horse sh-- on your way out :D
If I insisted upon arriving by horse I wonder if anyone would have me as a teacher at all.
The Romans complained about it too.
If he did teaching at a pupils home, he insisted that they send their carriage for him. You may have trouble there.
OHH, I'd ask too many questions. Actually, it would be cool to try sometime.
If he did teaching at a pupils home, he insisted that they send their carriage for him. You may have trouble there.
Well, I actually refuse to go to students homes. They come to me.
**lets just consider that to mean that I command more respect than chopin.
I think you could really impress him by using something like Sibelius for the work :)
He charged 30 francs for it, though.That's meaningless - the french franc is an obsolete currency.
That's meaningless - the french franc is an obsolete currency.
Logic pro, dude!
Check this out: midi, firewire, quarter inch balanced? gold tip..., Xlr...alligator clips...lol
No I meant you could revive Jean as well ;D
He charged 30 francs for it, though.
Do you guys ever get overwhelmed with emotion when you're playing? Like, have the shivers go through your whole body, and not be able to control yourself?
Parts of the concerto make me start to cry a bit. Its a pregnant dog.
But the freaking rach 1 sonata omg... I just had a moment today, and I was like freaking out!!! I was learning the last two minutes of the third movement, and my body was like 'nah bro, after a certain amount of time, enough is enough', I was like completely overwhelmed, really felt it in my torso, I thought I was gonna die lol. But it felt soooo good!
Pegnant dog?if you write a certain swear word PS filters it and changes it to pregnant dog.
I totally feel you with the Rach 3! That's why it's my favorite piano concerto.
I was like completely overwhelmed, really felt it in my torso, I thought I was gonna die lol. But it felt soooo good!yeh, pretty much like that.
the ossia cadenza is a problem for this too.. difficult to control emotionally.. only time I've seen your beloved valentina miss notes, ever.
Meh, her cadenza is okay...
There's a part in the 3rd mov where the orchestra goes solo for a bit and I'm pretty sure I'd need a restraint prevent me jumping and running around the stage at a performance.
By that stage, I'd have thought sheer exhaustion (emotional if nothing else) would have kept you to a feeble canter.
..yeh but the best part is still coming at that point.
And if you've been for a 10 mile sprint, and you stop to catch your breath, look up, and see a lion coming at you I'm guessing you start running again pretty quickly.
And if you've been for a 10 mile sprint, and you stop to catch your breath, look up, and see a lion coming at you I'm guessing you start running again pretty quickly.
If I've been on a ten mile sprint, I've already seen the lion.
There are 2 lions..
and apparently in my case I sourced them, starved them and then willingly set them upon myself.
apparently in my case I sourced them, starved them and then willingly set them upon myself.
You needn't have done it on your own. I'm sure there are many who'd have chipped in to help.
you can find me tiger then.
1 cat per movement.
edit
*considering I already had 3 movements I'm no longer sure what the metaphor is refering to and am a little concerned as to what the tiger may actually be.
I dont drink or anythin...but my guests shall drink only the finest... :-*
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I like to mix my Rachmanioff Vodka with Chopin. Pretty awesome.
Two locked threads. Wondering if something's going on. Don't start arguing on my thread and get it closed. I wonder if we could get the ability to delete posts on these threads. Then the thread creator would be in charge/could moderate their own thread. That would be a different PS culture though.
Thinking that I haven't been on here as much lately.
Wondering why, if I'm actually leaning toward losing weight now, that fat does disappear evenly all over. I see fat on my abs, where some appears to have disappeared, but it didn't disappear evenly all over. It just disappeared on the bottom. Looks weird. Nice to have control over hunger though.
This is my AP music theory class. I'm the guy with the afro in the back.
It seems kind of ironic.... (or something)
... that in classical music, the first person to do something often and at a high level get the credit. Those who do the same later are just copying. For example, if someone writes a symphony in the style of Mozart, it's probably automatically garbage. It's just copying... why not go listen to the real thing instead? (Although I do wonder why someone doesn't write a symphony in x style on the same level as the original composer, and if they wrote it well enough, if it would be considered good. Then again, if it's repeating the style, there might not be financial support for it, enough to let them develop as a composer and create more works, finer works.)
The ironic thing -- Repetition of style in composition is rejected. (Right?) But on the performance side, we're all trying to create the exact same thing over and over most of the time. (Right?) You want Beethoven? Yes, but you want it just like Beethoven meant it to be, as pure as possible, as much... like Beethoven as possible. Yes, you can add your own self into it somewhat, but it's still mostly Beethoven. If you write a piece of music like Beethoven, it's crap. If you can perform Beethoven like he meant it to be, it can be great. I suppose it's bringing to life the actual music, but... It's probably already been done before many times and captured in recordings. There is the live music argument I guess.
I wonder if littletune has outgrown us...I miss her.
So it turns out that I have to accompany a singer for her showcase.
Auditions are this week!
What the freaking heck?! We haven't even had a rehearsal yet!!! And I barely know the music!!!
Okay... Think...
What would Valentina Lisitsa do?
What would Valentina Lisitsa do?
One suspects she would have been better prepared. What are you playing, and why no rehearsal yet - surely the singer has been anxious for one.
Hey I asked what would Valentina Lisitsa do! Not what she did! >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
Heres what ypu should not do though: do not pour yourself a delicious glassnof lagunitas IPA... ::)
I have this back pain which woke me up and now I am unable to sleep...I am out of the nice pills that really knock one out, just have some ibuprofen which doesn't do much anything >:(
I wonder if littletune has outgrown us...I miss her.
When I lived in a country with universal heath care there was a lot of trading of pain killers between patients as they switched from meds that stopped working. Good luck finding something that works. Every body is different.
The back is better now...I have a couple of doctor friends who prescribe me things that do work, so I seldom go to the doctors at my official medical care. Nothing illegal, but doctors who suffer from similar problems themselves seem to know better what works :)
Glad you feel better, O!
Best wishes towards you!
You'll get back on that horse and ride it like you oughtta soon! Don't fret!
I have never been able to stay on a horse, used to fall off all the time ;D
The horse symbolizes any great thing that provides an experience of certain importance. Such can be learning the ways of Bach or the what-nots. Lol. You can get on a Rach sonata horse, but some may not be ready to ride it for long. If you keep working on your schedule, you will find good time to practice. This success would be an example of fully riding the horse. It's what Texas is all about, apparently.
Lol! Luckily(if you choose the B) horses can cause much more physical trauma...
That La Campanella should freaking seal the deal!
Bob created the longest-ever thread in the history of pianostreet...
Interesting.
/ignoreLol
Lang Lang's kind of got bug eyes. Thyroid thing going on there?
I'm thinking about how tired I am!
If you can think, you ain't tired.
Thal
[!!!]
I stole them and sold them to the black market. I'm sorry. I had to pay for my AP exam fees. My school is practically robbing me, with each AP exam at $89.
irony
Where the freaking heck are my freaking glasses?!?!?! I am SOOOOO mad right now!!! I only got them less than a month ago and they're SOOOOO freaking expensive what the heck?!?!?!?!? 150 freaking dollars!!!!!!You know how many times i've desperately searched for my glasses WITH my glasses on my nose...?!
I remember where I last had them and where I put them, but now they're gone what the heck?!
One word...
THIEF!!!
And I'm not saying that just to defend myself, I've ruled out all other posibilities. So someone freaking stole them! But why the heck would you freaking steal prescription glasses in the first place you freaking douchebag!!!
Some subtle reference to John Cage? First two movements of 4"33? :-\No. Just a senior moment.
Full ride freaking scholar freaking ship!!!
Howd u get that?? Just curious for the future
Full ride freaking scholar freaking ship!!!
Cool. Where to?
Congrats! Nothing like having your talent confirmed by experts. What did you play?
(I only just now figured out "freaking scholar freaking ship" :P)
U of I at Urbana-Champaign.
Looks like I'm going there
(I only just now figured out "freaking scholar freaking ship" :P)
Please tell me you didn't write down the beethoven sonata like that...
It was the campanella that did it, i bet. I can just hear you now...
Sweet! Congrats! ;D
I use google translate on R4's posts - makes life much simpler!
Oh, and I actually bet it was the Rach.
But I didn't play the Rachmaninoff for this one!
U of I at Urbana-Champaign.
Looks like I'm going there
But I didn't play the Rachmaninoff for this one!Only a genuine hacker would be able to change the "B" to "R" in the quote from jmenz's comment. 8)
And just to set the record straight, Rach4, the beethoven is presented thus (if you insist on using the chronological number of the sonata):
L.v.Beethoven - Sonata no. 8, op. 13
But better:
L.v.Beethoven. - Sonata, op. 13 ("Pathetique")
With the accent aigu over the first "e" of course...
:-*
If our blood was based on Iron, turning it green, what color would the stop lights be?
Do you mean copper? It's already based on iron.
The colour of stoplights has to do with visual perception of colours, which is unrelated to the composition of the blood, so I would suppose they would carry on being much the same.
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The final answer to learning finger technique? ;D
You can't imagine how frustrating it is to live here...
I imagine you're talking about amanda knox. Yes, the judicial system here is quite barbaric. Along with the entire political scene. You can't imagine how frustrating it is to live here...
Omg omg the Diva is a fan of Valentina Lisitsa!!!
I can use her to help me end the world!!
Drown her out, or hit to many bum notes and sh'll need no heklp to end your world.
Actually I tripped her and she almost fell when we were walking on stage.
Drown her out, or hit to many bum notes and sh'll need no heklp to end your world.
Actually I tripped her and she almost fell when we were walking on stage.
One time in highschool I accompanied a girl singing at some school talent show. I had the sheets for the song all laid out in front of me on the piano then during the performance they all started falling onto my hands.
I was totally oblivious to any reaction to this, but apparently the audience was way more engaged with watching me trying to get them sorted out (while still playing) than they were listening to her sing.. and she wasn't overly impressed about that.
..so why live there?After 43 years, it's sort of hard to just pick up and leave. And i guess there are a few +'s that outweigh the -'s.
And i guess there are a few +'s that outweigh the -'s.
One time in highschool I accompanied a girl singing at some school talent show. I had the sheets for the song all laid out in front of me on the piano then during the performance they all started falling onto my hands.this is even better:
I was totally oblivious to any reaction to this, but apparently the audience was way more engaged with watching me trying to get them sorted out (while still playing) than they were listening to her sing.. and she wasn't overly impressed about that.
A standing invitation to Silvio's bunga bunga parties? ;DOh god...
So basically it is all Thal's fault. The amount of time, money and frustration he has cost me is enourmous >:(
On the other hand, knowing him he couldn't care less ;D
After 43 years, it's sort of hard to just pick up and leave. And i guess there are a few +'s that outweigh the -'s.
this is even better:
Brahms zigeunelieder. Rehearsals great. Wonderful singer. Concert going great. Until...last page missing from my photocopy edition. Try improvising with brahms in front of a 500+ audience with a diva trying to follow you. Not nice.
After 43 years, it's sort of hard to just pick up and leave. And i guess there are a few +'s that outweigh the -'s.
this is even better:
Dvorak zigeunelieder. Rehearsals great. Wonderful singer. Concert going great. Until...last page missing from my photocopy edition. Try improvising with dvorak in front of a 500+ audience with a diva trying to follow you. Not nice.
Thank you, Birba, for this (undeserved?) hommage to my unhappy copuntry. Such a beautiful land, devastated by its own people. Often I feel like move away, but as you said, the few + are too precious to me...
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I remember a long time ago running across a website where some guy connected up various electric devices in his house and anyone could stop by the website and turn those devices on or off. Yes, interesting for ten seconds, if that was you powering the lamp on and off.
I was thinking it would be a little more interesting if an acoustic piano with a virtual/piano roll operation part were set up. Same idea. People on the internet could plunk down keys on a real piano somewhere.
I didn't hunt for closer shots, but that didn't look like the worst thing I'd ever seen. There's worse on the internet.
On my mind...
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Hm. Let me think...
The worst one was probably a guy diving off a second floor in some Latin country. He landed head first part on the walk way and part in the water he was aiming for. They got him out of the water. The next scene you see is him in the hospital with his head literally split open, eyes going around... Then you realize those are his teeth sticking out in the middle and that sound is him trying to breath. Then the nurse tries to press the two halves of his head back in place. That was a bit disturbing.
A cow with its mouth part ripped off by a train. The cow's just standing like there nothing unusual has happened, dripping blood.
Some guy in India or Asia literally in half after getting hit by a car or something. He doesn't seem to really realize what's happened.
Some guy in a third world country who got his hand caught in a machine. His hand now looks like spaghetti/hamburger. Literally.
The pus ones. Those are just gross.
The Russians who have been on drugs and had their bodies rot from the inside. Lady crying as the "doctor" uses a hack saw to cut off the dead bone she has for an arm.
Someone shooting a video just after a lady hit a bicyclist. She's going nuts. People are trying to talk to the person who is now entwined under the car. Then the fire department comes out and lifts the car. Then the car suddenly drops down when their jack breaks.
The helmet cam of one of those dare devils either doing those flying squirrel jumps or mountain climbing. Flying squirrel I think. He gets too close and hits the mountain. Then you hear and somewhat see him tumbling down the mountain, along with him at the bottom gasping for breath.
I think there was one like the split head cliff diver. Suicide person in the hospital. Face blown off but they're on the table still gasping for breath, gurgling air.
Gross. Disturbing. I had more free time on my hands at that time. Not too difficult to find either. I just googled searching fore more video collections sites like the viral video collections and ran across it. Stuff that happens but you don't hear about.
Car of teenagers trying to beat a train. They don't.
Real though. A different look at the world. Video clips like that that you can't stop watching because it's so unusual but also real.
After that, the clip from tv is from across the other side of the arena. The clip I saw didn't show anything up close. Healthy person. Random event. Nothing really evil. He'll live. He'll recover. It's not that bad, or not as bad as it could be.
Just carnage. They hyped it up on tv like it was the worst thing the world. Cringe-worthy, yes. There are a ton of videos on viral collection sites of idiots doing similar things -- going over the handle bars on a bike, bending body parts the wrong way, etc. Lots of face plants. Haha... Stuff that makes you stop and look both ways when you cross the street.
Hm. I wonder if there's a better or if that one is it...
I found a still shot that's closer. Too much work to hunt for a close up video. It looks slightly different than what I was picturing. Make more sense for how it cracked than what I was picturing in my mind.
The reaction of everyone has an impact. And not being able to see has an impact. It's like the trick in movies where you don't see the evil creature and they build the suspense that way.
Something for tall people to worry about.
Actually when they did the first replay I saw everyone's reaction and I burst out laughing. Like three guys were just laying down on the court and I thought they were the ones that injured themselves. The bench's reaction was soo funny! But then they showed a different angle...
The guy's got to be tall. The other thing that pops into my mind is that he's probably pretty healthy. And that happens to him. Shhtuff could happen to anyone.
Aw. It's the Mario theme from Nintendo. I wonder if it's out there somewhere else.
Quite possibly.
We're cross gender dressing in English class tomorrow!
I already got my dress and make up set up right!
We're cross gender dressing in English class tomorrow!
I already got my dress and make up set up right!
Dude, in college, that won't happen. I think...
I have photos, but I don't know if I wanna share them lol.
Well duh, I don't dress like that anyways so I won't have anything to worry about.
Well I got attacked verbally and physically.
In the locker room a bunch of guys all tried to jump me.
I the hallways I was called 'fag' and 'gay' a lot.
None of them were girls, and almost all of them were black guys. I think that's because I'm black.
I have photos, but I don't know if I wanna share them lol.
The girls said that they liked my shoulders and arms. ::). Gotta start wearing t-shirts more often. 8)
How do you find out someone's name when you've known them too long to ask?
Asking them how to spell name doesn't always work. Bcause if they have an easy name to spell, they'll either think your stupid or catch on to the fact that you don't know their name.
How do you find out someone's name when you've known them too long to ask?
Asking them how to spell name doesn't always work. Bcause if they have an easy name to spell, they'll either think your stupid or catch on to the fact that you don't know their name.
10 days without coffee now... I was bluntly told by the doc that I have to cut down to just one cup a day or so...Could never do that so I went cold turkey...Still alive and sane...I think...
Sounds like the politically correct rap from a doctor on the other side of the world. Cut down on coffee, cut down on salt they say while while ignoring the real problem, sugar.
Now they want to remove the salt shakers from the Mexico City restaurants! And New York wants to do the same.
If you want to take charge of your health, get a glucose tester and a blood pressure monitor for yourself. Learn to use them and take command.
I thought coffee was healthy.
The doctor said coffee... Can you still take caffeine pills?
Who had the wooden bowtie here?
https://wonderlee123.storenvy.com/
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/392923/60-70-dead-in-texas-plant-explosion-media
I live in Texas....that was crappy thing that happened!
Yeah, it's awful...i won't rant about it though. The fertilizer expands in the heat and the heat in texas....is more than normal.
Are we going to look that unusual 100 years from now?
What things will still be the same?
And the pop music...?
Of course, none of us will be around to find out.
What if we don't have free will? That it's all just an illusion?
Don't be so sure!
A baby born today may easily live to 100 or so..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
Not likely based on what I assume is your reasoning. I assume you were talking about the quality of treating illnesses which is generally what people think about in regards to longevity. Sorry if it is a bad assumption.
Healthcare advances in regards to treating illnesses will have only a marginal effect on the expected lifespan of humans and almost no effect on max lifespan. There are these things called telomeres (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomere) which all but dictate your expected longevity exclusive of illness. They are the end sections of your chromosomes that contain dummy genetic code. As your cells replicate, they slowly cut genetic material off the end. So all this dummy code slowly gets cut out as you age. Once it's gone, your chromosomes don't replicate correctly. Basically it's a genetic death clock. So exclusive of genetic reconstruction, any changes will be marginal at best.
In terms of pension funding we should be concerned because it's not the high ages achieved by individuals but the number of people achieving old age.
I don't know...
https://www.amazon.com/Oboe-Swab/dp/B000TSD23A/ref=sr_1_33?s=musical-instruments&ie=UTF8&qid=1366779319&sr=1-33&keywords=oboe+swab
https://xkcd.com/1199/
Don't know what happened to me today...I studied some chords and theory, which normally is very offputting...I noticed I am getting too mixed up with different terminology so I decided to stick to the local ones for the time being...which means I have to learn to use the right names for everything again. And I might need to get a theory book on my own language...maybe I have some in the basement storage...then again it's packed full of stuff and I can't get to anything... or maybe it's too much trouble and I'll just forget about the whole thing... :P
So the chords and theory are normally offputting BUT? Was it better today? You sound like you are surprised with yourself!
I am surprised, I usually just forget about any theory and practice on the piano, I have good ear and go by intuition :)
Can't remember the last time I bothered to try to get back some of the theoretical concepts...I think whatever theory I ever learned was very shallow, since it's all gone now. Probably because it was never in any connection with the practice of making music... But I do see now that I probably need some to help me remember what I am doing...
Something in my mind to which I can associate the physical movements of playing and the sounds I hear, if you know what I mean...
My teacher always fails miserably when trying to talk about music theory, during the lesson I simply cannot concentrate on what she is saying...I need to read things and think them through on my own.
you should ear train to learn chords and harmony! That way you can learn all the chords and you will be able to identify them when you listen to music.
I've never done any deliberate ear training...
I wish I could make myself care about things like identifying chords in music, but I just don't...it's so boring... I guess my problem is that when it comes to music I am mainly interested in the finished product, not so much in how it is constructed. I am more interested on how to execute it on the piano...
Lol you never played an ear-training drinking game?
Wow. I need to hang out with you.
This is it?
That's going to be the question several times throughout my life I think. That's it? This is what I did all that work for?
That and it's probably all downhill/going to get worse.
Now if we look on pessimistic side....
This is it?
That's going to be the question several times throughout my life I think. That's it? This is what I did all that work for?
That and it's probably all downhill/going to get worse.
Now if we look on pessimistic side....
Lol you never played an ear-training drinking game?
I've never played a drinking game actually. Drinking is serious business around here, we never played games with it... we just drank as much as we could as fast as we could ;D
Haha! To the point of emotional brilliance? :DWhen I drink I get brilliant in every way, not emotional really, just relaxed and energetic..It actually seems to alter my brain chemistry to better :)
When I drink I get brilliant in every way, not emotional really, just relaxed and energetic..It actually seems to alter my brain chemistry to better :)
One of the tragedies in my life is the inability to consume alcohol anymore :(
Reading the comments of popular classical music videos on YouTube is funny. I don't even know how so much ignorance, idiocy, and pointless quibbling can end up on a single video.
Morbid thoughts... At first I was thinking a hundred years from now, maybe PS would have all these posts from dead people on it. Except of course in 2113 computers and whatever the internet turns into will be very different, and someone would have to migrate and keep all this data. That aside...
A more immediate thought... What about sooner? Or, when would the PS site end? When do other sites end? When the owner gives up on it or... when the owner dies. What happens to the site when Nils dies? Or what happens if Nils is hit by a car tomorrow? If Nils dies decades from now would he pass the site on to his kids? Would they bother to take care of it?
I suppose someone could copy it and make another version of the PS site if they wanted to.
Or... What if people stop buying gold memberships and the site doesn't bring in any money? What if stops making financial sense to continue the site?
Morbid thoughts...
More than likely PS will end because people want everything for free!
Everything on the internet is free except tangible downloads. Hosting isn't very expensive if not free for forums (https://www.forumotion.com/). For a forum such as this one, it probably costs no more than 20 a month for the forum section on the absolute high end.
The stuff that is expensive is the download section which eats up bandwith. That is what the gold membership -obviously- pays for and covers the cost. On average, I'd estimate ~$5 per gold membership per month. My assumption is based on the idea that people are more likely to sign up for longer terms simply because this is a hobby that lasts a lifetime, not a game that is old in 3 months. 4 gold memberships pay for the forum, and whichever other ones pay for the download section. Just on this page we have 3 gold members that total 19 years on this forum.
The last bandwith issue is the performance section, but people could just link to youtube/soundcloud instead of the site supporting a playback. Again, if it came down to preserving solely this forum, it could/would be free.
I'm much more worried about Nils falling on the ice!
It's funny coz I dreamt I'd met Beethoven himself. You could imagine how apprehensive you would feel. :-[
I don't really know the structure of the site, but I would assume he isn't the only one with access given the "About us" section lists:
Patrick Jovell - Articles, news and social media
Henrik Sandback - Sheet music production, recordings and forum moderation
David Wärn - Writing, sheet music editing, recordings and social media
Johan Sandback, CEO
While nothing on the internet is permanent except your embarrassing stories, I'd be somewhat confident they'd be able to manage passing along access.
Has anyone here perchance heard of, or watched Iron Man 3?
Creepy short story, The Russian Sleep Experiment. Nice one for Halloween.
And i miss littletune, too. :'(. And wolfi. And costicina and enrique...
(https://media-cache-ec3.pinimg.com/550x/12/79/95/127995a6cb118ed34aa6c4dad52d9172.jpg)That has to be one of the cutest pictures I've ever seen!
Where's ajspiano? Off getting married and making photogenic babies? Or maybe rach babies/concerto and other crazy music while getting married?
I remember that was mentioned, so I wanted to send good wishes! Hopefully it is just the good things happening, and nothin' other!
I got married on the 4th of may. The force was with me.
which in turn made me cry in front of everyone (in a good way).. :P
Ya big sook. :P
a bit of an extended dominant 7 build up just before, then there was like a suspended kind of plagal cadence to finish right as she got to be in front of me...
I got married on the 4th of may. The force was with me.
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My bride had secretly written/rehearsed a song with the guitarist from the band. She dragged me out in front of everyone during her speech and sang to me.. which in turn made me cry in front of everyone (in a good way).. :P
That picture looks like it could be an add for something.
Our photographer was a freaking boss. She's like the yuja wang of wedding photography or something, has international awards and such.. it was seriously fun doing the photos, can't wait to see them in a couple of weeks, that's the only one we have seen so far.
That is awesome! You guys are lucky to have each other! Congrats once more! Unkess you have answers to my mazeppa questions, what u doin on here? go serenade the bride, dude! ;)
first on the liszt. Ha.
hahah indeed.AWESOME! Finally a wedding procession that works WITH the wedding. And that picture. At first i thought you were pulling our leg. It could be a fold-out from vogue magazine. AUGURI!!!
Its not so bad really. Heaps of people cried at our wedding.. must have been a truly horrible experience for them.
I recorded my own arrangement of the pachelbel canon for the bridal procession, which was announced as being my playing by the celebrant at the start of the ceremony - so I think 95% of the female guests were a bit teary from the very start.
It did me over to.. Bel insisted that we time everything out, and build the music up as each bridesmaid came in.. so the music climaxed perfectly as she entered the chapel, with a bit of an extended dominant 7 build up just before, then there was like a suspended kind of plagal cadence to finish right as she got to be in front of me... at least I think the ending worked out properly - Its a bit of a mental blank for me to be honest.. it worked at the rehearsal.
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No. ms left hand. Then the next two groups md right hand.
Sweet! Thank y'all! That's what I was assuming but was unsure. Birba, you play this? :o
Anyone have a pdf with good fingering for this?
That 42 24 42 fingering was dictated by Liszt himself as part of the etude, the purpose being to more accurately mimic a galloping horse. Mess with it at your own peril.
:o
No! The first group with left hand. The next two groups with the right hand. Using the 42-31 fingering. But making the whole thing SOUND like you're alternating hands playing with the 24 fingering on all the two-note chords. That is, very detached. And like a galloping horse, like jmenz says.
NOOOOOOOOOO the Diva is doing her recital on the same day as me!!!
Is she trying to smash me on purpose?!
Time for some hard core advertising...
Good for you if you can do it. It's that leap in the left hand after the third group that's a female dog. That's why i suggested you do it with the rh. Where the leap isn't as great.
Its not too bad if you find a tempo that you can make the jump and go a little faster to practice not looking for it nut just going for it. Also I forgot what mu teacher told me. Never practice this stuff full volume. It is waaay easier to play faster and do the jumps if you practice quietly and lightly! :-[
If the goal is to simulate a galloping horse then they shouldn't be perfectly even. A gallop is not a gait, it's just a natural run which will be uneven.
. It is waaay easier to play faster and do the jumps if you practice quietly and lightly! :-[uh, duh...!
Chopin op.48 no.1 is unplayable. >:(
Nonsense. Occasionally it is, you just have to be in the right mood. Like after you've been burgled.i know that lovely recording. In effect, he plays it "playably". He doesn't do the third part doppio tempo and it doesn't have that agitato feeling. If you're going to play it at speed it can't be piano. Even pollini said that. But rubenstein and all the greats were never sticklers for the written page. Arrau, who was a stickler, however, plays it at tempo. It is agitato, and i like i that way. But, of course, it's forte.
i know that lovely recording. In effect, he plays it "playably". He doesn't do the third part doppio tempo and it doesn't have that agitato feeling. If you're going to play it at speed it can't be piano. Even pollini said that. But rubenstein and all the greats were never sticklers for the written page. Arrau, who was a stickler, however, plays it at tempo. It is agitato, and i like i that way. But, of course, it's forte.
If you only ever play silent instruments (https://www.chappellofbondstreet.co.uk/index.php?page_id=-20130603&source=mailing&st=175&pid=85599), do you actually have to practice?
What's that think Ted practices on that you can adjust the tension? I'd love to have one of those, but an actual piano would probably be a better investment.
I've never played on a practice clavier of that type, but i do wonder about the "finger strength" thing..
suppose the device forces a much more efficient motion in order to depress the keys, so the illusion is strength but the reality is effective technique? atleast so far as the finger efficiency and arm support aspect..
Yes, that may be the actual result, but the instructions coming with the device look much like 19th-Century marketing hype of the Hanon type.
P.S.: Arrau and virtually any pianist of note before him had such a silent keyboard, so it is certainly worth investigating. The difference with "silent practice" as it is often mentioned here on this forum is that you can physically do something to develop the skills needed to play. I cannot imagine, for example, how anybody could learn a Chopin etude well by simply training the mind only. :)
how anybody could learn a Chopin etude well by simply training the mind only. :)plausible, but probably only for people who've already learnt all the chopin etudes.. so perhaps alternative material at that level provided the technical facility is there already..
*Bob contemplates the difference between an acoustic vs. digital silent piano.*
Brahms. I'm going to force myself to like his music even if it kills me.
I keep happening across some sheet music entitled the Skaters waltz, have you heard it? I digress... dogs chase, it's what they do, whether you notice them or not. Birds are too obsessed with procreation this time of year to worry about whether you're hurriedly racing home to play Beethoven, which sounds like a nice find btw. I got half of them ABRSM for about a quid, but it's my line of country, there'd be something wrong if I didn't.... I'm keeping that one. there's too many keepers really. My life is charity shops and auctions.
maybe you're being stalked?
all my days are like this. I wish, most of them are dull and uneventful. But it's the o/h birthday,I got him some brandy and there we are back to the dog theme, I'm a bit of a St. Bernard I suppose.
I think my days of hanging out, with invented superheros or anyone else, are sadly long past. The closest I get is a look of vague recognition from the woman at the Post Office counter.
It irks me how some pianists' websites have a gigantic gleaming picture of them smiling right at you. It makes me feel uncomfortable.
LOL, there are worse things they could be doing:
(https://images.smh.com.au/ftsmh/ffximage/2009/06/16/hough_narrowweb__300x409,0.jpg)
Creeeeeeeeepy!
That's terrible. It sounds mighty lonely out there.
Here we have the opposite. An eternal quest for peace and quiet.
Now if we could just get a blend of the two...
LOL, there are worse things they could be doing:
(https://images.smh.com.au/ftsmh/ffximage/2009/06/16/hough_narrowweb__300x409,0.jpg)
Creeeeeeeeepy!
Am I the only one with an uncontrollable urge to remove the lid support?
I have no idea how to dress when attending a classical concert. Help?
I have no idea how to dress when attending a classical concert. Help?
How old are you? Do you live with your parents? Big city or small town and big hall vs school recital room make a difference. Plus hot weather or cold and whether the hall is acclimatised also should be taken into consideration.
If you want a serious answer you need to tell us more...
Alright then.
Respective to the order of your questions: Sixteen; yes; outdoor concert in Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl; it's at 8 in the evening, so I guess the temperature would be in the low sixties (Fahrenheit)
I have no idea how to dress when attending a classical concert. Help?
Comfortably.
The concert in question is not from hick-ville. The orchestra is the summer version of the Los Angeles Philharmonic wearing white dinner jackets in one of the most well known historic venues in the world!
While everybody would really like to dress up, the reality of the cold wind down that canyon modifies the desire.
Up in back on cheapskate hill you may dress as you please because you will be sitting on the ground or climbing a tree for a better view!
I'm not sure why you think "comfortably" implies sloppiness.
It does not, however it also implies nothing. We all always dress "comfortably." Why would we choose differently?
I haven't had that much fun skating in a long time.... I slammed pretty hard and kinda bloodied up my hands a bit, but it was worth it.
Fun apparently means something different where you are. ::)
so here i am, like a parrot repeating words in a chinese restaurant. and my housemates friend goes bright red. and says do you want to know what it means? dont say that. so i repeated it again, this time the waitress was at our table.. - apparently it means flat chest..lucky i already received my food.
^ i hear dog taste quite good acually..i said goodbye to the girl, she looked kind of sheepish but not as much as my friends did.
Hmm. I wonder if I could marry myself and get some kind of tax break.
It's probably already been tried. Or I'd still have to file as a one person in the household.
Okay Pianostreet, I have a rant for you. I'd write it in the style of rachmaninoff_forever, but nah, I don't feel like it.
:(
Just saved a runaway dog running on some traintracks
Oohh, what happened? I have nightmares about this, well, not literally, but you know what I mean. Poor thing, was it a stray? Mine once broke his lead and buggered off after a cyclist.
I recently had another ear surgery. And aside from feeling miserable in pain and deafness and terror, I am also in soo much pain from the heartache because I have a HUUUGE GIANT CRUSH on my doctor. I mean, my goodness! FOXY!!! Nothing more attractive than an intelligent person.
:)
Anyways I gave it back to the lady and she was like thanks bro, and I was like, nay no worries, it was fun.
Well I'm sure the dog would've ran off once the train got close enough.
Yo what the heck is up with your ear?!
And damn you have a crush on your doctor? That's soooooo weird!!! Like dude physical examinations and stuff, what the heck?! Well I guess love knows no boundaries... ::)
My ear drum never healed right after the screwed up my first surgery and didn't take care of me. Look up Cholesteotoma and tell me if that is not the scariest thing ever!!!! You gotta get those things removed early enough or it will seriously mess your hearing up.
I became really violent and like kicked him around and finally grabbed him. He was pretty aggressive, he bit my hands a couple times in the struggle.
Anyways I gave it back to the lady and she was like thanks bro, and I was like, nay no worries, it was fun.
Well I'm sure the dog would've ran off once the train got close enough.
Hey...
It's that Beethoven tattoo.
Beethovens deafness is rubbing off on you!
Yesterday I started work again after my 3 week vacation. Today I suddenly realized that I had mixed up the dates and I actually was supposed to start work today. I don't feel very clever now ;D
Well, I'll have an extra day off tomorrow and will dedicate it to my piano :)
While out with the dog today I opened the gate that leads onto the bridge that goes over the river, and put my hand in something unpleasant, sort of mucussy snotty clear stuff at about waist height. I'm hoping it was dog snot, I'm used to that but if it wasn't I don't want to know what it was.
... besides playing with your testicle that is.And I couln't even do that >:(
Yet the average person could.
*Bob's wondering what the average person who is average for everything would consist of.* Average age, height, weight, etc. Weight... I guess America would throw that off. You'd need an average American and an average 'world citizen.'
Fake.
No but yeah,
Be careful, you may end up like this.
In real life though I have a pretty solid speech.
Like I can get around in job interviews.
Well for all the job interviews I've done, the interviewees were like in their early to late 20s so... Meh,
Interviwers.
Unless you've been remiss in mentioning your staff.
Interviwers.
Unless you've been remiss in mentioning your staff.
Closed enough. ::)
I assumed he was interviewed in some kind of joint interview where the company ran a high speed quiz, last one standing/best results gets the job.
More seriously though, I actually thought he was saying that his skills were good enough that he could apply for jobs where the typical applicant was that age.. and then I wondered what the job was, where they could potentially hire a 17 year old but usually take on someone who's 25.
he wouldn't let me got to go in certain places cause it was like classified, it was really weird.
he wouldn't let me got to go in certain places cause it was like classified, it was really weird.
Classified
Adjective
Arranged in classes or categories.
You guys know I'm joking about my speech now right?
You really don't watch enough TV, do you. Or read enough newspapers.
You mean it's actually worse? :o
;)
You're digging yourself in a deeper hole... >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
I'm thinking about Kate Upton wearing a baconini (bikini made of bacon). Double yum.
I might start wearing a helmet...
And a left hand rist guard.
Given your history, I'd suggest going the whole hog:
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That's why I decided to gear up.
I'd have chosen another four letter word starting with "g". ::)
I'd have chosen another four letter word starting with "g". ::)
Hey I'll never stop being a kid!!! >:( >:( >:(
Goat?
Gray?
Green?
Grow?
It's grow isn it?!
Nope.
Then what the heck was it?!
Oh I fractured my big toe...
what's a Peter pan?
Give. And you've strengthened the case for it.
Is that a serious question.. ?
My toe didn't come from skating.
I was running down the hallway at night and ran into the edge of a door.
Give? I'm not giving anything to anyone. I don't even have anything that interests anyone to give to... I have like three editions of the Rachmaninoff preludes, I could give up a book.
So how the heck does my skating strengthen the case for myself needing to give something to someone?
This make no sense...
Are you developing a third personality?
And when the heck are you performing in America?! I have yet to see any of your concerts.
Check your inbox.
Give as in "give up".
Give as in "give up".
as in "give up".
"give up"
give up
Yeh I got it like yesterday - I'm yet to actually listen through properly. I want to sit down and go through it with a score at hand before I reply.
Well the part of my body that takes the most damage is my left butt, shins, and left wrist.
I've never actually hit my head before, but today I saw someone slam on an 11 foot vert wall and hit his head.
When he got to the top, he tried to go down backwards but his board was still stuck on the coping. So that's an 11 foot drop to the back of the head.
Yeah it was pretty nasty. He was done for the day. I don't know if he went to the hospital or not. He needed people to carry him out of the bowl.
No but yeah, today was my first time coming to this park and skating the bowl, and it's freaking ENORMOUS! Like dude it's absolutely terrifying! Everything is like 7-8 feet tall, and then there's this big ass 11 foot extension on it! And all my skating career I've only skated 4 foot tall half pipes lol...
Think of it as like jumping from a Chopin etude to the Rach 3.
And when that guy hit his head, I was like, 'nuh uh man, I will NOT die on this!'.
That's why I decided to gear up.
Skating lunatic places. Or just skating. ::)
Aside from the occasional rolled ankle every 3 years or so, the worst I'll get is like road rash, or a bruise somewhere.
It's not as bad as it sounds.
Man, the first time i dropped in from a ramp that was taller than a mouse was the last time I went skating. I stacked it an decided instantaneously that my hands were more important than the fun I got from skating. Not that I hurt them severely or really thought I would in the future, it just pissed me off so much not being able to play drums for a few days.
So you didn't even hurt yourself?! Come on man, quit being a whimp! No pain no gain!
Wimps don't play rachmaninoff concertos.
Damn it!!! >:( >:( >:(
This is how the Houston Symphony advertised him:
AHHH! :o
Can't shake this visual..
"Gentlemen, first to finish wins - Hanon, No. 19 Ab Major. 3, 2, 1. GO!"
"Development of an RSI will result in instant disqualification. Go home and lift some finger weights."
what's an RSI? :-[Repetitive strain injury
AHHH! :o
Repetitive strain injury
Bit one sided.. thirds is all Muzio has going for him according to Wolfi.
Greatest of the 18th Century - Mozart vs Clementi
Bit one sided.. thirds is all Muzio has going for him according to Wolfi.
Maybe it really happened and that's just how he psyched clementi out.
Any takers for the 21st?
Me + Scriabin + Valentina Lisitsa vs the world?
Of all the challenges the world faces, that one seems its best chance.
Rach4, you appeared in my dreams last night.
I find this very disturbing. --s.
Scirabin
Really?!
What happened in the dream?!
Was Scirabin and Valentina Lisitsa in it too?!
Or was it just me?
Either way the world will experience the same outcome.
Maybe the dream was a prophecy that you will play with a big symphony?! :o
What's disturbed me is that I must be spending way too much time on Piano Street if I'm dreaming about it.
best, --s.
Well I'm learning the Rach 2 right now.
And I think I can find two orchestras to play with!!! But I have to enter their concerto competitions... And the winner of last years concerto competitions for one of those orchestras was a freaking MONSTER!!! Like dude what the heck, I've never seen anything like it! Like she literally had horns and everything! She could even breathe fire!!!
Well not RIGHT NOW, I'm taking a break from it until August, I have some other stuff to take care of.
I know, something else more important than Rachmaninoff, that's crazy. ::)
If something is infinite, and you put a label on it, "infinity," does that limit it? Because then you can talk about as one thing (limited).
For example,
Infinity
Infinity + 1 <-- You've capture infinity here. It's limited. And then you added more to it.
he better be straight out of heaven or something!
Good news. It's this guy:
(https://cloud.graphicleftovers.com/12009/1224039/cartoon-angel-angry.jpg)
What if my roommate was the reincarnation of Scriabin!
And J Menz, you're not getting one!
Shouldn't be a problem as long as you send ajspiano one. He doesn't really need two anyway
HELP ME!!! I NEED A JOB!!!
So I'm tyinking of applying for one and this is the job description:
Stuff daily receipts; prepare general correspondence for mailing and prepare matching gift forms for completion and mailing.
What the hell is this?!
If you don't know you may not be qualified ;D
Seems like some simple office work.
Is the job with a charity/not for profit?
Looks like basic office work. Something like this:
(https://images.sodahead.com/polls/002328933/worst-job-63480289330_xlarge.jpeg)
AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHH I still don't know what it is!!!!!!!! >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
I don't know what "stuff" daily receipts is. Bank them? Enter them into a database? It's not a term we use here.
Prepare correspondence for mailing sounds like basic envelope stuffing.
Matching gift forms are forms relating to employers who "match" charitable donations by their employees, so this is part of the paperwork for that.
All pretty basic stuff - general officework, as I believe I said previously.
Alright, time to send in an application!
I thought you had a scholarship. Why are you looking for a job? Your practicing literally paid off. (Not to be nosey or rude...)
Or take a mindless job and listen to music or mentally practice while doing office work.
Everything else is from my music. Which I honestly don't think I deserve by the way. Considering there are 14 year old kids who have won more competitions than I've played pieces... :-[
But of course you do! You have such pretty hands :-*
Is that offer for an hour with Valentina Lisitsa still up?
They're not fully developed yet... (tehnique)
I might even raise it to 2 hours if they can play op 10-2 :)
I don't like op 10 no 2...
^ i dont like op 45 or op 17.... because i cant play them with only 2 hands..
- edit oh chopin not rachmaninoff.. i guess it wouldn't matter if i had 4 of my hands anyway.
But I do :)>:(
And I think Val likes it too ;)
>:(
Damn it I freaking missed the job position I'm such a loser whaaat the heck?!?!?!!?
You never know why you were hired. There are factors beyond you that are part of it. They may have already had someone picked and had to go through the motions (which really wastes your time). You could have been overqualified and they didn't think you'd stick with it. Or there could have been someone with better experience.
Wouldn't vampires have kind of messy hair and things stuck in their teeth? They can't use mirrors. A mirror wouldn't do them any good. Or they'd have to have another vampire do their grooming like that.
I'm wondering if cleaning my bedroom and house count/qualify as a life-changing experience?
If it's the first time you've done it, it probably does.
To add to the vampire idea, they probably would be dressed badly. Same idea. Unless they have another vampire around to tell them... There's probably a vampire in a baggy plaid suit out there, with food (blood? scabs?) stuck between his teeth, and a big Alpalpha cowlick. Since they've got the seductive charm, they couldn't even use humans to tell. The women would swoon. I don't know what men do with same gender vampires, assuming they're hetero vampires... Either swoon too or not swoon, but they would be some kind of competition so he probably couldn't take what they say seriously. Only another vampire could tell him he looks like an idiot.
At least that was until technology came along. A mirror is just reflecting light. But what about a webcam? Or even a painting. Surely a painting would work fine. If a computer is creating its own recreation of the view, it's more like a painting then a reflection of light. So, would the vampire be able to see himself using a webcam and a computer screen?
Vampires are also destroyed by light, which is essential to creating a reflection...In the dark, the webcam wouldn't even see you to create a detailed enough picture for a vampire to see how disgusting their pores are...:P
I wonder if, or I'm surprised one hasn't already, if a politician would try to tax states that have forest fires, to put a carbon tax on them.
I wonder if we start going around saying, "Suite!" when we think something's cool.
I guess the joke would be lost though if it's verbal. Maybe it's you're looking at a concert program... Then I could see it working. Suite.... Suite program....
burned, bruised, and slashed all in one trick...
And yet you persist. ::)
That was the ramps fault!
It just sat there and did nothing. ::)
Try not to bleed to death or get septicaemia or tetanus.
#1 rule: relax and enjoy yourself. Let us know how you liked it and what you saw.
I saw LA Phil
HB has been using amplification since the 1940's (https://www.hollywoodbowl.com/philpedia/hollywood-bowl-history/symphonic-music-and-opera/symphonic-music-decade#1940).
Went to the concert a couple of days ago. I loved it. Best night of my life (yeah, I don't get out often, haha).
I saw LA Phil and Helene Grimaud perform Brahms 1. I can't say much about it, other than the fact that I was speechless at the end of the performance. It was the first time in my life that I actually saw a REAL piano performance.
Best hundred dollars I've ever spent. :P
The acoustics were amazing, but I'm just wondering- I noticed speakers all over the stage; do the performers actually utilize these to amplify the sound? I'm guessing yes, because the audience is pretty big. Would you know anything about this?
I was walking up some stairs today and tripped and fell and hurt my hand and knee... >:( :-[
Maybe we have been wrong all the time...you'll be safer on your board than walking around...
THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING THE WHOLE TIME!!!!!
...Or maybe you just need to wear protection all the time ;D
Outin, if you've had any time to assess it yet, what do you think about that Polka you will be working on ?
I've already worked it out actually...It's a cute little piece. And quite easy, except for a couple of uncomfortable hand positions.
I also really like the Casella set, I might just do them all...
My left elbow just made a loud squelching sound as I stretched it out. It wasn't painful, but it nearly gave me a heart attack.
But even worse...
My teacher is making me do Bach!!! NOOOOOOO!!!
But even worse...
My teacher is making me do Bach!!! NOOOOOOO!!!
So that's why I'm gonna drop out of college.
Be brave! One has to do all kinds of horrible things in college, but after you get out, you'll never have to touch him again...neither does anyone else after you've ended the world ;)
Well I canceled my plans to end the world already.
Well I canceled my plans to end the world already.The establishment got to you this soon? :(
I'm not happy >:(
There's this buzzing echo when I play some keys on my piano...can't figure out why it has appeared, wasn't there yesterday. I first thought something was resonating on my piano, but it didn't help to take away all the stuff. Now I can't practice certain pieces for my lesson tomorrow, the noise annoys me too much...
This is two person job. Your friend plays the offending note and you put your ear close to the source.
How?
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Nothing really seems to beat scheduling things by time.
You can always break projects down to smaller pieces.
You can always schedule more time.
Problems are too much work, too little time. But those can't be overcome. The only answer to schedule things out. Or work more, work harder, but with scheduling that could be lessened. If there's no deadline it can all be scheduled and worked out eventually.
Watching the news.....
Blah, blah, blah... Yacht race... Most advanced yacht, very fast....
Cost....?
100...... I'm thinking $100,000. And wow it's that expensive. $100,000 for a flat little boat.
What it actually cost? $100,000,000. 100 million dollars. For a boat.
https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57598453/oracle-ceo-ellison-on-americas-cup-racing-it-has-to-be-a-little-bit-risky/
$100,000,000 for a boat? For a race? Million? 100 million?
Today is National Poetry Day, well it is where I am anyway
Why are people so quickly judgmental?
I've entered the 'need for solitude' phase in my adolescence and am choosing to sit alone in a nice shaded spot at lunch at school. I've began to meet the first of the hordes of people who feel the need to ask me if I'm okay. No, I do not want to become your "friend". No, I do not want to 'come over and sit by you sometime'. No, my life is not unhappy.
I apologize for what I am about to do, but I feel the need to do so.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, IS IT A CRIME TO NOT WANT TO SPEND EVERY WAKING SECOND OF MY DAY IN THE PRESENCE OF OTHER PEOPLE?
Jeez, I mean, I have friends and all..Why are people so quickly judgmental?
Whatever. Suck it up. ::)
Il est hanche à Bobland.
*friend listening in on my piano practice because I left a Skype call on*
"You suck."
And me in response (more or less), "No, any musical opinion you could possibly have is invalid because you don't even play an instrument."
Apparently anything deviating from the kitschy pop piano music they hold as their standard for "good piano music" is bad. Learn to tolerate dissonance, fool. I was only practicing Chopin's 10/3; how bad could it be?
Okay, maybe I'm a pretty bad pianist in general, but I wonder if non-musicians can actually tell between good and bad performances.
I was only practicing Chopin's 10/3; how bad could it be?
...any musical opinion you could possibly have is invalid because you don't even play an instrument.
....I wonder if non-musicians can actually tell between good and bad performances.
I disagree. Anyone can have some idea about the quality of music. You don't have to be able to do something to know if it seems 'good' to you or not.
Non-musicians can tell. They don't know how to describe it. They don't know the terminology. There are things they'll focus on more that trained musicians wouldn't and vice-versa.
Probably staged.
Be warned -- Contains swearing. ::)
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I don't know when it's from.
I don't want to hear Christmas music yet....
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Strange thing I've noticed. Some music kind of appeals to be due to the rhythmic precision.
I give up on trying to make this embed correctly on here...
Quitter!!
How did you get the youtube URL? I tried twice. Yesterday I spent 10-15 fiddling with it, trying to find the right form of the URL to work. How did you get it?
Today's lesson: If you quit, someone else will do your work for you. ;D ::) 8) Laziness prevails! :P
Ta mère est une pute.
I'm no expert on the culture where you live Bob, but around here such a remark would be considered quite rude. In France you could get a fist in the face for saying such things. In Spain it would be written on the walls as derogatory graffiti against someone.
But I guess in Sweden you can say such things and get a laugh...
It's a parody, so it's covered by Fair Use. See this post...
https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=7833.msg574696#msg574696
"Elle est couverte par "l'utilisation équitable". ... Grenouille."
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I thought it was Sindarin. Something like that. The first one is supposed to be in the language. The bottom one, second one, is just translating English into one of the Elvish languages, ie incorrect.
I have always, and will always, think of Kawai pianos as Kawaii pianos.
ahhahahaahah
amen
If it was a really, really overcast day.... and you were a vampire... could you go outside during the day? Just plain overcast can still give you a sunburn, so that must be out. But is there a point where it would be safe to go out?
I'm sick of hearing about Kennedy. Fifty years ago fine. I've heard the stories and theories my whole life. The only new thing I heard was that Kennedy wore a back brace that day that made him sit upright.
There's really nothing new. It even looks like the old people reporting and reminiscing about the event are enjoying it.
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I've been looking for something like that. ::)
That looks like it made for me...Sitting down is such hard work :(
does it actually have strings? cause if so...this just might work.
Yeah. Cheap keyboard and you could do finger exercise (yeh! Hanon!) laying down. (Or lying down?)
What kind of stand would hold a decent-sized cheap keyboard though?
Sometimes, I feel like WAY too much focus here is on the Classical and Romantic eras. I don't see very much conversation on Baroque outside of mentions of Bach here. There's a good wealth of keyboard music from the Renaissance, Baroque, and Gallante eras, but it often goes unnoticed and unmentioned here.
I wonder why?
It's The Bach Mafia around here...
#2 Cat piano ::)
Where can I get one of those! :D
does pianostreet have an app for the phone? It should have a newsfeed and allow us to view the posts of friends. I would glady have such an app on my phone rather than the pointless drivel i see on my facebook feed.
Also, suspicious of those negro french (for lack of a precise word) who stand in front of sacra couer with pieces of string and force you to play their games
That has become such a zoo up there. What's it like over at Trocadero?quite indeed. Oh trocadero, when i went there it was night already, chilly yet peaceful. It was freeeeezing when i went to the top of the eiffel tower *shivers* brrr
quite indeed. Oh trocadero, when i went there it was night already, chilly yet peaceful. It was freeeeezing when i went to the top of the eiffel tower *shivers* brrr
At one point the "merchants" were so many I could hardly walk. Every time the police would come they would bundle their stuff and try to blend in.the police are absolutely useless. They stand at the top of sacre couer and do nothing to patrol the area and stop merchants from harassing tourists
the police are absolutely useless.
I hate myself.
I hate myself.
@ chopin2015
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P.S.: For those who do not know Russian, it says: Get well soon! :)
Why is it if I have two SD cards, when I remove the first SD card, the second one isn't recognized? The computer dings when I insert/remove the second SD card, but it never displays so I can work with the files on it. I have to restart the whole computer.
*Bob whines,*
if i'm lucky, i will survive this winter break without a mental breakdown. yeah, this isn't a mental breakdown, i'm just letting you guys know how I feel...for the sake of relief! thanks again, everyone! keep on keeping on. as will I, Bach help me. Please stop ignoring me, I'm not that desperate for friends, but...you know. I won't stalk you, I promise...to try. :'(
Poor thing...Maybe you should get a new tattoo to cheer yourself up? A Bach in the belly? :)
how are your pieces coming along?Very slowly...as usual.
hope you are having a merry holiday season!
I have experienced the slow crawl of time
It starts to speed up as you get older.It certainly does...cannot believe it's almost another year gone by...
https://www.pianostreet.com/blog/site-news/ast-updated-700-piano-pieces-added-6525/
This AST makes me wonder though. It appeals to my laziness to have the score and video clip right there. Probably don't have to wade through crap. But... You miss out on developing the skills to find and evaluate this stuff yourself. Especially if you went from this to a less common, less findable piece... You might be hurting for research skills.
Must get out of the habit of saying "bollocks" after every mistake, especially when playing in front of my deeply religious father in law.
*Bob whines,* But I don't wanna safely eject it! [....what she said...]
I guess that's it. Wade through the little icons to safely eject the stupid thing. It would be nice if worked like usb... Rip it out (and probably nothing bad will happen) [again, that's what she said].
Must get out of the habit of saying "bollocks" after every mistake, especially when playing in front of my deeply religious father in law.
Heart rate -- I wonder exactly how much the pulse has to increase to start feeling more alert. It can't be that much. And how to have a standard way to increase that heart rate, like jogging in place for x-minutes. Except it's not always guaranteed... The wearing out idea again.
Didn't go home for the holidays?
Pssssh!!!
That's it?!
I have the mouth of a sailor when I'm playing!
I just had the worst best nightmare ever!!!knock us out, what just happened?
I haven't had a good scare in a while. Nothing scares me anymore! But this did...
And it was in 3rd person so that's okay!!!
At the end of the dream EVERYONE was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SALTY!!!
Like... It was soo much salt, I've never seen the likes of it before! I thought I saw it all.. But I haven't...
I must share what I experienced with you people!
I'm gonna make a movie of it one day.
Damn it!!!!!!
That was fresking scary!
Alright I'm out.
knock us out, what just happened?
Today's my 21st birthday. I'm now legally able to drink, and own a pistol. And I'm now entering my third decade of life, a tremendous crossroads for me.
For what purpose has God kept me alive? What is so important that absolutely nothing has been able to kill me, despite the rather powerful forces at work by many, including myself, to ensure my death?
Happy Birthday! I hope instead of drinking a lot and getting a pistol you will find enjoyment also in other aspects of life!
I find getting older every year fascinating, because I used to think I won't live over 30...and I am still here...hope you will start to appreciate the process of living as much as I do now instead of worrying about it's meaning. I do not ask why anymore, it's not really important...
I'm a reductionist and a philosopher at heart. I enjoy questioning the meaning of everything.Well, if you enjoy it, then do :)
I hate people who don't have cell phones. >:(I hate people who have cell phones at gatherings, but prefer to check their facebook/twitter rather than engaging in a potential conversation at hand...
I hate people who don't have cell phones. >:(
I hate people who don't have cell phones. >:(
What about people who have cell phones but never turn them on or take them with them anywhere? :-\
What about people who have cell phones but never turn them on or take them with them anywhere? :-\
what about people who don't have smartphones! hahaha, i don't...:D
it still has the qwerty keyboard, so I get to txt and drive without having to look at my screen!!
The reason why I hate people with no phones is because when you're supposed to meet up somewhere, you have no idea where the heck they are!!!
Like a friend of mine was supposed to pick up four of us today and he came 45 minutes late so one of them ended up walking home in -52 windchill degree weather.
If you're gonna come late, then why don't you call to tell us?
Oh you don't have a phone?
THEN GET A PHONE YOU IDIOT!!! You can afford a car but not a phone?! Buy a freaking phone!!!! >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
There was a time before cell phones when people at least TRIED to be on time and keep their arrangements...now it's like: "Sorry, I'm a little late, be there in a minute" (and their minute is quite a bit longer than mine) or "I know I promised to be there like now, but could we do this another day, something came up".
This is what I have ;D
This is what I have ;D
Some of us remember when the only mobile phones looked like this:
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Dude your links never freaking work!!!
Works at my end. Just keeping you in the dark at your end. ;D
Good to see you're back to normal. No actually, when I first joined your personality was already split. So it's nice to finally see you normal for the first time.
I wonder if it's the whether, this surge of threads about a certain topic.
At one time those were kings of the hill.
I don't think you're old enough to remember but I traveled with a colleague around Scandinavia with a phone that had colored buttons with the initials of the various countries. When we were on a ship we would go the top deck out in the cold and push buttons until we got a signal. If the best signal was DK and we wanted call the office in Stockholm we would need to use DK codes as if we were in Copenhagen. Plus there was an antenna we could extend...
If you are talking about NMT I'm certainly old enough...never had one myself though...
Maybe that was what they were called. They were very expensive and really only companies could afford them.
i got a new doggie! I adopted a 2 yrs age female siberian husky! :D
she is sooo fun to play with! and she doesn't mind piano practice.
I wanna try getting stuck in quick sand.
What on earth for?
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My hated for Bach is too strong for me to die just yet!
I doubt the laws of physics factor that in.
I am immortal.
You will love that dog so much dude.
Then why aren't you at the meetings? ::)
I'm immortal. I can do whatever the heck I want!
i got a new doggie! I adopted a 2 yrs age female siberian husky! :D
she is sooo fun to play with! and she doesn't mind piano practice.
Great! How much does she practice? Are you teaching her yourself?
ahahahah, Outin <3
she's more of a dancer than a pianist, I'd say.
The you play and she dances...will be a lovely act! :)
Nils closed the 'more/better' thread? I don't think it was anonvisits, the thread creator. If we're able to close our own threads anymore.
Amusing.
(This is my Sunset Boulevard post.)
Earlier, I was eating my dessert for the evening, a piece of apple pie from a store bought pie. I began to think about the fact that, as good intentions as the peoples of the stores and bakeries might have, they will always make an inferior product to a homemade pie. It's not as fresh, they're mass produced, and the ingredients are cheaper.
This lead me to ponder human inefficacy as a whole, how we tend to fail even if our heart is in the right place, due to simple uncontrollable circumstance. The thought saddened and scared me, that the world was ruled by the endless gaping maw of inevitable human failure, a constant reminder ever lingering about how truly inadequate we are in this world.
All I did was eat a pie, and I was sent through the roaring winds of a philosophical storm. Incredible, simply incredible. Unfortunately, such could not be said about the pie: it was a bit ghastly.
No idea what he was saying but he sounded happy.
It's good enough from being mass produced that people are willing to buy it even though it's probably lower quality. Enough of a demand to make it worthwhile to produce.
Does anyone know what this sign actually says or a direct translation of it?
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And I'm starting to feel like Chopin2015, Outin, and Birba are all either the same person or closely related.
More so Birba and Chopin2015.
...
Great rolled my other ankle. >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
Other? That's six since I've known you! How many ankles do you have? :o
I was still able to skate it till the end of the session.
But I'm kinda worried about how flexible it is now. That thing is bending in places it shouldn't be able to bend in! :-\
Sigh.... ::)
Dude as long as I don't land on it wrong again I'll be fine!
Easy as pie!
#painisallinthemind
The triumph of hope over experience?
You learn from falling! 8)
True. What I learnt, though, was not to.
EXACTLY!
Noooooooo.... I meant I learnt to avoid falling, not to pursue more and more elaborate ways of doing it in pursuit of something else. ::)
NOW do you catch my drift?
Yes, I do.
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I JUST EXPLAINED EVERYTHING!!!!!!
I know. That's what made me wonder.
But it makes complete sense!!!
Only to skaters. The rest of us don't balance the trade off into the black (meaning the slams aren't worth the eventual success).
or else I'm gonna put you on blast for whipping out! >:(
I take it your English classes were the exception to your "rule".
It's like actually a legit thing to say.
You starting a Beethoven sonata? You better learn the WHOLE thing kid! I don't care how long it takes, you better finish it! >:(
Sigh...
Looks like I'm gonna have to continue doomsday plans with Valentina Lisitsa again...
How does that happen? Are you talking to prisoners? Or was it a revolutionary in a Middle Eastern country?
We are all different and we are all born into different cultures.
The secret trick to have a peaceful and successful life is to find out the culture (norms) of where you are and conform. Your desires need to be put on hold. We are going through a period where various groups are asserting themselves. If there are enough of you maybe something can be changed. In general nothing changes.
Let this tragedy in the UAE be a lesson to all of us.
I'm gonna be a dad!
Imagine what all the people who are a little different are thinking? Left-handed? Lost a limb? Have an idea that's different than everyone else?
Automated instruments?
https://www.darkroastedblend.com/2014/01/automated-musical-instruments.html
Left-handed people are dealt a considerably worse hand, really (Looking up the subject, I found a few accounts of people both gay and left handed that the latter is worse). As are those with a lost limb. Those necessitate physical disadvantage.
Homosexuality, on the other hand, doesn't affect you under either you start having sex or you decide you need to shout from the bloody mountaintops the nature of your sexual proclivities.
And as for ideas that are different? I'm well versed in that. Hell, I sometimes even fantasize about burning my country's flag, a proper expression of my disdain for this vile cesspool and the patriotic zealots foolish enough to take pride in its existence. Guess how popular that is? And guess how little I complain about that while you are at it.
I've lived in a Pride City all of my life (where there are enough LBGT'ers to have a yearly parade). We have elected them to all levels of government and they are doing a good job.
However I don't need to be gay to get things done. We all seem to be able to work together for common good.
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*Bob is amused.* 8)
Well actually landing the trick is avoiding falls. ::)
I mean, look...
If you take a slam and you give up, then you're being a whimp! And nobody likes a whimp. >:(
The more slams you take the more binded you are to land the trick. If you give up, then why the heck did you take all those falls? All that effort you put in was in vain. So now you HAVE to do it.
I know a guy who fractured his skull after trying to skate a pretty big 12 flat 12 (12 stairs, then there's a flat about the size of a big slab of sidewalk, then another 12 stairs) hubba (like a handrail except a ledge, and it has two kinks in the middle). So he waited for a couple weeks to heal up, and now he HAS to do it. He's just waiting for the ground to dry up.
He has to land it now because it would be pretty stupid if he fractured his skull but in the end never landed it.
And if you try something, but never land it, you like won't be able to sleep at night. That trick will haunt you until you land it.
NOW do you catch my drift?
You don't hear about this happening with pianos so much. ::) Thieves are obviously biased towards strings.
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I have a sensor stuck on my chest that is supposed to measure my stress levels for 3 days...unfortunately no piano lessons on this period, but maybe it will show what practicing does to me ;D
Stolen violin.
https://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/28/22487068-300-year-old-stradivarius-violin-stolen-from-musician?lite=
You don't hear about this happening with pianos so much. ::) Thieves are obviously biased towards strings.
Shouldn't Batman be over in the Middle East or North Korea? Defending freedom, justice, etc. Isn't that where it's a situation where he's "what the city needs?" We've got police departments here, etc. People are watching out for things.
Kind of lazy on Bruce Wayne's part to only stick around and patrol the city he's living in. Apparently someone doesn't like a long commute.
It is about this time of year when cabin fever starts to cut in. You need to be in a sunny destination for a while. I know it's not cheap but your health is paramount!
Waiting for a gift when it's not even my birthday. 8) All right...lol ;D it will be an eventful weekend for you, then, i see.
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I can't believe I'm sick again! 2 Weeks ago I had a pretty bad cold, then I was ok for about a week and now I'm sick again! It's a good thing I don't mind being sick as much as other people usually do. :P
It's just a difficult time! I'm really starting to believe the world is really changing a lot or something... :-\ I don't know but there's just sooooooooooo many things happening... mostly bad ones for me, a few good ones too I guess, but I'm still waiting for better times :P
Now I can't practice piano at home at all! Our neighbour (who is a retired policeman) went crazy and threatened us, if I kept playing piano. Even though I was only playing about every other day for half to one hour, with the middle (quiet) pedal! So now we have to find out what we can do... But the thing is even if the police and everyone says I have the right to play, I just can't enjoy playing anymore:( cause I just can't enjoy doing something if I know I'm bothering someone so much... and if I don't enjoy practicing piano then there's no point in practicing. So now I have been going to my music school to practice but it takes me sooo much time (about an hour there and an hour back!).
Well we'll see what happens... I'm waiting to win the Euro Jackpot! :P :P
I can't believe I'm sick again! 2 Weeks ago I had a pretty bad cold, then I was ok for about a week and now I'm sick again! It's a good thing I don't mind being sick as much as other people usually do. :PHe threatened to do what? I'm sorry you feel worried about playing at home. :(
It's just a difficult time! I'm really starting to believe the world is really changing a lot or something... :-\ I don't know but there's just sooooooooooo many things happening... mostly bad ones for me, a few good ones too I guess, but I'm still waiting for better times :P
Now I can't practice piano at home at all! Our neighbour (who is a retired policeman) went crazy and threatened us, if I kept playing piano. Even though I was only playing about every other day for half to one hour, with the middle (quiet) pedal! So now we have to find out what we can do... But the thing is even if the police and everyone says I have the right to play, I just can't enjoy playing anymore:( cause I just can't enjoy doing something if I know I'm bothering someone so much... and if I don't enjoy practicing piano then there's no point in practicing. So now I have been going to my music school to practice but it takes me sooo much time (about an hour there and an hour back!).
Well we'll see what happens... I'm waiting to win the Euro Jackpot! :P :P
me and my dogshaha! That's great!! ;D
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Welcome back to the forum!Hi Oxy! :) Thank you very much! Yes we're thinking about getting a digital piano (stage piano)... my teacher says it's not the same as real piano but better than just a keyboard (with only 5 octaves - which is what I have now)... we just have to find one that's not too expensive (probably used one), cause we don't have so much money.
I wish there was a solution to your problem. People who stay home all day long are a problem for all of us. My piano is electronic so no one is disturbed. When my crew starts up the construction equipment at 7AM we get our share of complaints even though it is legal.
Again, welcome back. We were worried...
He threatened to do what? I'm sorry you feel worried about playing at home. :(
I did the NASTIEST job!!!
That does sound pretty gross. Where are you working? Get a cushy college job where you sit around and do nothing. Save the fingers.
What a sheltered life you've led. ::)
NOBODY works in freaking liquid food!
I keep thinking that I should stop trying to make piano music. But if I don't put this sonata in my head to sheet, I'm going to go more insane than I already am.
Do you use a computer program to write it out or just write it by hand? I like Notation.
I'm laying in bed with back pain...No piano today I think :(
Welcome to the club! One would think that more research money should be put into solving back pain, considering the number of lost hours of productivity due to it.
Best wishes to all of us. No cure or help in sight...
::)
*Bob secretly wants his own gravity
Can you be a vegetarian.... and still be pretty obese?
I spilled garlic and olive oil on my blanket. :-[ :( :'(
::)
I'll wash it next year. Whether it needs it or not. :P It's good to have goals.
I spilled garlic and olive oil on my blanket. :-[ :( :'(
::)
I'll wash it next year. Whether it needs it or not. :P It's good to have goals.
::)LOL cool!
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Can you be a vegetarian.... and still be pretty obese?
I'd like to say I didn't just do the exact same thing again today. >:( I'd like to say that. ::)
Yes. Vegetable aren't without carbohydrates, which are the main factor in gaining weight. Eat enough of them, and you'll be both obese and very ill.
Vegetables are also packed with fiber, which is often said to be a main factor in losing weight.
But basically it is still about the calory intake versus consumption. Good to understand if one need to loose some ;)
Is that supposed to be a hint? ;)
Why my brain decides to give me a storyline from a horror movie and I wake up a couple minutes before the alarm is supposed to go off.
It's fading now. It doesn't even make sense.
There's a lady, investigator. And there's a car that's haunted for some reason. Older car, sitting out in an open space. And there's a teenage girl. The investigator eventually is having the girl go around to the right side passenger door. That's where another girl sometime in the past got shot. In the car is the Sumara character from the Ring movies. I know this, except there's nothing to see. It's a haunted car. For some reason the investigator lady was testing had people by other spots in the car. Creepy, but nothing happened. Then the girl is by the right side passenger door. Bam! Shot dead. The investigator lady gets upset about that (except she would have known that was supposed to happen?, the point of the testing?) and opens the car door and rips out the clothes and clutter in the car. This of course uber-ticks off the ghost from the car.... And then I wake up. Now I'm wondering what's the point of testing a haunted car by setting up the same conditions where someone got shot near it? And why would a ghost shot someone? And why did the investigator forget about the girl who actually just got shot (by the ghost apparently)?
And overall, what's the point of the dream? Usually they're pretty clear. Before this part of the dream, somehow I knew this part was coming up, but I was in an medium-sized concert hall for a class with an old professor. The professor was going to do some kind of modern recital and we were warned not to record it.
What about a macro program?
Remember the dream is never about the dream!
Yes. Interesting. I found an interpretation of the dream that's relevant. Even the snail pic below that is relevant. Very interesting. Could pay off big too I suppose. Finally a dream that potentially sheds light on things instead of being an obvious one like a test or project coming up and you're being chased by something.
I see a few options...
1) Do nothing. Not necessarily bad.
2) Do something different than I normally would -- which could result a positive or negative outcome for me.
3) Do the same as I've always done -- which is the impulse.
Or... Redefine the whole situation, esp. for #2 here.
Or I suppose... Remove myself from the situation, a variation on #1.
Have you ever read Freud's books on the interpretation of dreams ?
Have you ever read Freud's books on the interpretation of dreams ?
Considering how little of Freud's theories are still accepted, is Freud really the best guide?
Nope. I imagine he'd say that wasn't a car.
Also wondering if we've had any true mental breakdowns on here so far. There must have been some but...
If you got a baby grand and took care of it, etc.... would it grow into an adult grand?
https://www.startribune.com/local/252263751.html
I'm still surprised when a school thinks they "have jurisdiction" in a place completely outside the school.
One thing, beyond all other things about it, bothers me about MIDI format. There's no clavichord. There's a clavinet, but that's basically the unholy child of an electric guitar and a synthesizer. No clavichord, yet they have oodles of instruments pretty much no one uses.
Reading.
There's no way to actually establish tonality on that thing. The best you could do is Re-Do or Mi-Re-Do, but that's still not 'it' for tonality.
I got an ad for a food product I just bought at the grocery store. Did they really just connect my internet browsing to my grocery purchasing?
Maybe but it seems backwards.
I can't even remember the last time I had a hot dog. Yeuck.
What fat actually turns into...
C02 and water? Plus energy. Breath it out and expel it out?
*Bob is amazified by breathing out pounds of gas.*
British/English culture question...
Do British people say "maths" or "math?"
I just heard the narrator on a British documentary say maths. I thought that was an Asian thing.
Maths, though for some of what you yanks call "Math", they'd say Arithmetic.
How would you know, you're a bloody Aussie ;DOnly when he's cut himself.
How would you know, you're a bloody Aussie ;D
Thal
Arithmetic is just one branch of mathematics, anyway; the two terms are not synonymous.
Best,
Alistair
Oi.... Scary, scary scary....
I uninstall software on one computer. I get ads for it on another computer.
It *has* to be coincidence though. The computer I uninstalled software on isn't connected to the internet. It's just weird though.
If you had a pet chicken and it died... What would you do with it?
Hm. Say something fell on it or it got hit by a car, just a tap but that killed it.
So it's actually edible.
Would you eat it?
Whats on my mind is.....Quantum Mechanics. The double slit experiment and Delayed Quantum Erasure. This is truly mind bending.
How do people who study this full time keep a grip on every day life?
I'm wondering if there's a key combination for a heart. Like if I wanted to put "I heart Chooka" as my profile signature.
Googling sounds like a lot of work for this project.
Blurring of word meanings....
Epic does not mean cool or awesome.
Hack does not mean method.
It's annoying. >:( ::)
'I should done x... and then... '
its favor
It's not its?
Or it's not favor? Favour? I favor favor.
It's not its.
In the US you favor "favor", but in the English speaking world we favour "favour".
Not anywhere civilised, it's not. ::)
Wondering how different parts of the world managed to split off with F or C for temp, imperial vs. metric for measurement.
Wondering how different parts of the world managed to split off with F or C for temp, imperial vs. metric for measurement.
I suppose that makes more sense than someone deciding it and everyone just following along with that.
Actually, there were a variety of systems, and there was international agreement to standardise on metric back in the 1960s, with implementation due in the 70s. Even the US agreed. They, however, as is sometimes their want, never managed to get around to it.
The rest of the world did, though. There aren't really "different parts of the word" operating different systems, there's the world and the US.
Don't the British and some of their followers also still use some arcahic measures?
None of their "followers", but the Brits still think it's part of a EU conspiracy, so although they've officially converted, in practice a lot of old usage, and even labeling, remains.
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Don't ask why. Just laugh.
Girl, Ghost, Girl, Girl, Bacon. In that order.
I'm wondering... What if j_menz were a fake account I made... but in the future? Sometimes he's posting what I would have posted.
Also I know you guys don't care about football
Hmm.. time to book in for that therapy methinks. :o
Hmm.. time to book in for that therapy methinks. :o
But he'll have the copies I purchased now.
If j_menz is my future self, then I could just ask him for the answers to my current questions, assuming I had figured out the answers by that/his time.
Except if he gives me the answers, that would mess up the timeline.... I wouldn't have to think up the answer on my own.... I was thinking he wouldn't have the answers then in the future to give me, and that would be the grandfather paradox. Except if he gave me answers now, I'd have those answers in the future too and just give them back to myself only to have them again. Like a perpetual idea existing that way.
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You probably missed the moonwalking bear in the gif though. Even if you view it again... You'll still miss the moonwalking bear.
For your mind...
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That's an odd way to say thank you.
I thought it was a video?
But not an odd way to say something else. ::)
*Bob......second viewing.*
Hate you j.
Why people can't accept no as a response when they offer me food.
That's actually part of it. I don't want extra calories. Or diabetes 20+ years from now.
This would have been inappropriate but I did think, "What? You want me to take one, thank you, and then throw it out later?" That probably would have been fine. I get sick of the social norm garbage like that. I have actually done that before. Then it's wasting food and I feel guilty about it. But I never wanted it in the first place.
I used to know someone who worked in bomb transportation/disposal. He said weapons were often transported along public roads. I believe the same goes for nuclear waste.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Nuclear_Material_Transport_Operations#Nuclear_weapon_transport_by_road
And the other thought was, how much music do people have in a collection that they never, ever, ever play?
Black holes. Suppose to swallow everything, right? Then why do they expel gas/energy/whatever too at some point? Why doesn't that stuff get pulled back in? Fine, explode, but then shouldn't that jetted out stuff get pulled back in?
Black holes. Suppose to swallow everything, right? Then why do they expel gas/energy/whatever too at some point? Why doesn't that stuff get pulled back in? Fine, explode, but then shouldn't that jetted out stuff get pulled back in?
It seems black holes may not agree to our conventional theories after all:
Even if Hawking is right, how would they tell us?
Because the information is escaping the hole, we just need to listen...
But because of quantum interference, the information is garbled. Listening is not enough.
Maybe he can do it?
Thinking about a new set of wheels for me bike.
I think I am beyond the weight bearing limits of my existing ones.
Thal
Thinking about a new set of wheels for me bike.
I think I am beyond the weight bearing limits of my existing ones.
Thal
I ended skidding over sideways, using the side of my body and hands like Flintstone brakes. Fortunately there was oil on the ground so my hands and arms didn't get Swiss cheesed as much as I expected. I wouldn't care so much now, except my shoulder hurts. Still works, but it banged on the way down. Tomorrow I'm going to be blue and blue and probably sore from that.
Pain is very motivating.
Pain is very motivating.
Not really unless you're a masochist...Avoiding pain is a much better motivator...
What a horrible creature.I too once dated a balloon. A green one. *shudders
Reminds me of one of my ex girlfriends.
Thal
I too once dated a balloon. A green one. *shudders
Did she break up with you? ;Dhad to get out. was always exploding. couldn't take all the popping, all the time.
Pain is very motivating.
The thought passed through my mind today... My goal really isn't happiness. It's being productive. Then I realized I thought that and was thinking it's more about control than productivity. I think I'd rather have control over things more than be happy.
If you're an adult male and you happen to have wondered about chord progressions in the music from the new Frozen Disney movie....
No idea why that guy is wearing a mask.
And My Little Pony CDs.... Grr.....
there's no way to convince him that I am NOT into boy bands >:(
Three kd laing albums should do it.
We've had exercising threads on here before. That's why I posted mine. Someone might have good ideas.
Golden... type?
NSA's not going to spy on Snoopy. ::)
'dat comments lol
I age like milk. Seriously, I age about as well as milk. By now, pretty much every part of me has started breaking down (if it ever even worked).
'dat comments lol
Some milk ages very well, it just needs to redefine itself....
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I wonder if there will be a way to measure ugliness. Or beauty. I'm thinking faces. It's obvious when someone is kind of a ugly or plain or much better looking. And I've heard about symmetry for beauty. But I can see someone is... pretty much ugly, but I can't say exactly what it is that makes them ugly. I would think you could tweak someone's face to go from ugly to good looking. Right? I'm thinking on a computer. In real life, yes, but there are limits. What would it look like if you took an ugly person and make them beautiful?
In real life it's a bit messy with all that blood and tissue, but with photoshopping it's not difficult...assuming you know what's ugly and what's not...
Why not the other way round?
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I think my old teacher is in jail!
How can you tell?
I think my old teacher is in jail!
I want to emigrate, far away from my family..
For what?
crazy how i never noticed the uncanny resemblance (to me at least) of Emil Sauer to Gene Wilder ha ha
What would it feel like it, the experience, if you had your intelligence increased? Easier? More difficult? It's always portrayed the same way in movies, but that really doesn't count for much. It would depend on what "intelligence" is, but... if you actually boosted something related to the general idea of intelligence, say working memory, what would that actually feel like?
What would it feel like it, the experience, if you had your intelligence increased?
The stupidity of people around you increases accordingly.
You really don't need to have THAT much intelligence for that to be a problem :(
True, but the more you have, the worse it gets.
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A potato has skin. I have skin. I might be a potato.
A potato has skin. I have skin. I might be a potato.
Yep. The resemblance is uncanny.just waiting for me big break. They said I can be anything I want to be . I became an actoress
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I became an actoress
Generally, one should avoid becoming something one can't spell. :PIt is my contraction of actor and actress. Potatoe is not limited by gender
Potatoe
A lobotomized radish?
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;D
That's just so cruel :'(
If you're going to run amok with a chainsaw, you gotta expect a reaction. ::)
If I had a lobotomy, I'd be non compos mentis, right?
If you were a radish capable of having a lobotomy, even afterwards you'd still be the most compos mentis radish ever.
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I saw boxes of peaches at the store today. It made me think of goldentone. Haha.
I'm wondering what causes a global effect for me. It seems like I make progress or have bad days with piano, exercise, etc. All at once. I'm not convinced it's really anything I do during practicing that does it, except that sometimes I'm able to push things more and get results. Other times, a push might be too much and it would break things.
So what causes that?
Global effect... global cause...?
Sleep?
Nutrition?
The body devoting energy to recovering in one area at the expense of others?
If it's something like sleep or food.... Just get more and have good days. Control it that way.
If you dropped a peach from up on those Alps...
I got one...
Completely floors me. People, esp. intelligent/logical/even scientific people, who probably or must believe in something scientific, but just don't believe in evolution. They reject the concept of evolution. I was never aware that was an option. It kind of sounds like if it were math, algebra is ok, but you don't believe in geometry. Just seems bizarre.
I got one...
Completely floors me. People, esp. intelligent/logical/even scientific people, who probably or must believe in something scientific, but just don't believe in evolution. They reject the concept of evolution. I was never aware that was an option. It kind of sounds like if it were math, algebra is ok, but you don't believe in geometry. Just seems bizarre.
not pure enough to be really scientific.
In which philosophy of science is "purity" a requirement?
It's not even a philosophy; it's a theory, and it seems to have been set up solely to prove that the other theory is not true. That is not the task of science if you ask me.
You misunderstand my question. Philosophies of Science are attempts to define what is and isn't science; a surprisingly contentious field. You implied that purity was a requirement for something to be scientific, but I am unfamiliar with that being a requirement in any of the philosophical approaches with which I am familiar.
OK. Maybe "pure" was the wrong word choice. Let's say evolution as a theory is not "scientific" enough in its assertions to be taken seriously enough by some rational people because of the assumptions you need to make for the theory to be true. You also need to close your eyes to scientific evidence that contradicts certain findings.
P.S.: "Pure" in this context to me means that it is what it says it is.
What do you suggest that it asserts? What assumptions do you suggest it makes? What scientific evidence contradicts it?
I think it's the Ben Stein one that surprises me. And then the idea that a politician wouldn't think evolution was true.
Wow! I'm not a biologist so I won't go there. In layman terms and to limit this to only one idea: it has been proven that life comes from life, but evolutionists insist that life can come from non-life. This is enough for me to cause suspicion because it hasn't been proven; only assumed.
Actually, I'm not sure evolutionary theory strictly requires that, though it traces all life back to very simple forms.
I suppose it depends if I sleep more today ...
End of the silent era. ;)
Even typing this now is seeming like a certain amount of effort.
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Is there an app for that?
Camped on the banks of a wild river last night. This "rogue river" seems ready to sweep
us to our destination, like it's turned it mega up. Hoping won't need anymore red once home. . .
Somehow, the fact you have Wi-Fi seems to make the whole thing seem a whole lot tamer.
What if you were more intelligent? What would you do with it?
Would you even notice a difference? How?
What if you were more intelligent?
How would you recognize it either way though?
Easy:
Less Intelligent + Coffee = More Intelligent. The coffee is the giveaway.
Does that mean I am happier now that I gave up coffee? :)
as a person with less...I wouldn't have to be so annoyed at all the stupidity around me ::)
Just increasingly part of the problem. >:(
Why don't you try decaf as well?
As a substitute for real coffee? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhh!
That 'Swiss water process' nonsense really screws up the flavour!
i say give me coffee or give me death! ;)
That's what happens when you drink too much coffee.
What would it feel like to be stupider?
Cloudy brain, right? And isn't that what you feel like when you're tired, sleepy, or groggy in the morning?
Long term... Scarier. Because you probably won't notice it. Remember what you felt like ten years ago? I don't. Not really.
We might all be stupid.
We might all be stupid...
We probably are...compared to a superior alien species....
*ye you read that right. It is what it sounds like what it is.
250 millions years? That's making me agree with the idea that intelligence is just a fluke, not even an evolutionary advantage. After 250 million years, wouldn't you think there would be some random mutations for a more intelligent crocodile that would have survived? They'd all be geniuses by now.
We don't need aliens for that. Mankind risks to be a very short living species. Don't forget crocodiles are already around for 250 million years for example. So if not stupid we are at least short-sighted. ::)
If you did something like that periodically as a routine, I wonder what it does to the mind.
Negatives of exercising...
Soreness
Injury
Time not doing something else, like keeping my place organized/clean or practicing
Feeling of calendar time passing (months) faster, while having less time during the days, but being more relaxed.
Laundry... Always having to wash sweaty exercise clothes.
You can lose just about any ability... but can you lose the ability to be conscious, yet still have everything work? ie be an intelligent zombie?They had a story on one of those crime shows a while back. This guy had been shot in the head upstairs in bed. The police couldn't at first workout how he got downstairs in the hall where he was found. Turned out consciously dead he'd gone downstairs, got the paper from the front door and a glass of milk from the fridge before blood loss got him.
12-13-14 today, at least in the US.
Well, it seems Dima has deleted his posts from this forum as well...which is a pity... I wonder who's next?So many Divas! ::) Who in their right mind would take the internet seriously? My guess is kids think it's real - the new faith. We old codgers can still remember a time....
What's on my mind is that there are a lot of new accounts this week, and I'm wondering how many are just troll accounts.
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A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. When one had not such thoughts against enemies, he surely hath not towards love.You're reminding me of when I memorized the entire text of Hamlet for fun some years back.
I hate it when I give up on a day. Always seems like such a waste.
I wonder if there's a way out of it....
Or you think you're making progress. Haha. It probably won't last forever for making progress if it's relying on something like that. Maybe you're mind is just cleared out.
Why does "what" rhyme with "butt? Should it not be closer to "watt"?
In civilised parts of the English speaking world, it is. ::)That makes sense. I also read that response while laughing at this
I also read that response while laughing at this
the limits of the human ear
will a mod PLEASE check out the IP addresses of the new posters from the past few weeks?? I feel like they're all the same person.
There must be some automated way Nils could be alerted if someone kept switching accounts.
A potato. . .
Why would he? As far as I know it's not forbidden to use separate acoounts for one's multiple personalities as long as you're not spamming?
It's in the forum rules. Haha.
Wonder how volume one ended
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Last words of Vol. 1:what about this!? :o
Thus the golden potato spread its wings to North America, and the red potato was sometime cultivated to serve to more heartthrobbing palates.
(Vol. 2 has a potato E-card.)
what about this!? :o
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Sloppily copied...
Quote from: Bob on October 05, 2014, 09:24:58 PM
Negatives of exercising...
Soreness
Injury
Time not doing something else, like keeping my place organized/clean or practicing
Feeling of calendar time passing (months) faster, while having less time during the days, but being more relaxed.
Laundry... Always having to wash sweaty exercise clothes.
Calendar time. That's another one. It was just summer a little while ago... Now it's December and year's almost over.
I suppose something along the lines of exercising late at night when you have no energy and it's effort to anything. Fizzling. Vs. exercising earlier and seeing the same effect on music practice. There's never enough time.
Adding...
Little dogs that nip at your ankles when you run by. I'd use them (the little dogs) as hurdles but if I trip by entire body weight might come down on them. Although they do nip and I'm on a public space... They might accidentally run into my foot next time.
*Bob considers that those could have been miniature dingos....* I didn't check. It was dark. *Bob googles.* Wow, they could have been... That bark sounds the same. ::) As opposed to other little "please step on me" dogs. :P
Feel that northwesterly wind lift the fog of years. :)
Definitely dealing with the laundry.
The stench of sweaty exercise clothes.
And having to shower a lot. Exercise, shower. Exercise, shower. And still getting a whiff of that musty sweat smell once in a while. It's the constant little stuff like that that starts to drive me nuts.
Not if Bob is to the northwest.....
No one else is posting on this thread anymore....
It's the limit of caffeine.
What's on your mind now?
Does a harpsichord have 88 keys? I need an answer or else i won't be able to sleep.
The markup on roses at this time of year.... they really should implement laws on this.
I'd probably go crazy within a week
This response is my good deed for the week. 8)
On another note, does anyone remember the name of a classical musician a while ago who committed a rather controversial act, causing a little uproar here? I apologize for my extremely vague description, and maybe I'm remembering something else, but this has been scratching at the back of my head because I read something on another website.
Interesting.
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Interesting indeed. After reading some of that, there was a link underneath. Dare i say, even more interesting?
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31589764
In War of the Worlds, couldn't it just have easily been that Martians land on Earth and their microbes infect and wipe out the entire planet? That's happened already with populations meeting.
Hilarious!!
Gold!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutanese_passport
Now where's Kent?
What's on my mind? I've been away for a while and I'm wondering what's happened to m1469? And all her posts have been eliminated?
Just wondering...
Yes, i was wondering how she could go throughALL her posts and eliminate them. Maybe there was a short cut.
there really will be an intruder when I stuck asleep. Then... something will be sorry.
One of these nights or mornings (or days if I take a nap) there really will be an intruder when I stuck asleep. Then... something will be sorry.
It's always the "someone is approaching, someone has entered my place and is heading toward me" feel, but it's got sound. Except for the one time I woke up and swore a door was either open or closed when it shouldn't have been.
I must be pregnant
Thinking about instances where a journey of self discovery succeeds exceedingly well
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The Golden Road is ready.
The Golden Road is ready.
*Bob checks the weather and ponders...*
Yes, it looks like it's about that time of the year... Time to wash the dishes again.
Is it mostly pop stuff?
My piano pupil is comming soon. Im already irritated >:(
Why is that ?
He seldom bring his sheets, he expects me to copying all sheet for him. He plays too fast and slow down in the difficult parts, he rejects my proposals, he want to play way too difficult pieces and work on them instead of my suggestions, he doesnt talk. He just say "hello", and "no" -nothing more. I talk cheerfully to him as soon as we meet, but afterwards Im sooo irritated >:(
Someday... 8)
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Hi Compline,
Thanks for find that! The legal name of the person who is responsible for the website is what I am looking for.
The website has a classical music section.
Mvh,
Michael
Thanks Michael , I noticed the classical thread after looking again. :)
There are ways of finding the managements real name.
Not sure if this is any help, Michael.
https://rockafella-skank.deviantart.com/
Hi Compline,
Thanks for that! I should do my own searching and see what I can come up with, shouldn't I?
It could be a popular username online, there are some which are like that.
Mvh,
Michael
I'm resting my eyes now . :)
Let me know if you have any luck with your search.
It is working fine now . . .
Mvh,
Michael
Robert Hoffmann?
Maybe someone here knows who runs the dasdc website?
Mvh,
Michael
It looks like this is their contact address:
Contact
1&1 Internet, Inc. - 1and1.com/contact
701 Lee Rd, Ste 300
Chesterbrook, PA 19087
US
proxy49378 [at] 1and1-private-registration.com
More info.
https://whois.domaintools.com/dasdc.net
Oh I see, sorry about that Michael. I didn't realize.
I guess it is all beyond me. :)
Yes, I agree Piano Street is one of the best run Classical music sites that I have come across it is professionally run.
I don't understand why dasdc use that strange dude language like it's text messaging and sometimes there is bad language, It's horrid.
I don't intend to be a member there but I have read some of the threads.
I think most members seem quite knowledgeable. Why is it called Speed Demon Community?
Hm.
(https://33.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzmguroP0I1r8ea81o1_500.gif)that's interesting, i have visions of everything overturning in my brain everytime i try to go down this hill
Yes, Watson, I have visions of Redwood overturning in my brain. . .
oke, I'm lost in thought right now...I was wondering why people are and want to be so competitive in music and why so many people from so many cultures combine and call them selves European or American or Asian or Indian or African or what ever and why musicians can be so war-like...(competitive) etc...
Maybe I've been born in a right time, but experienced some things really strange for me. I can't figure out being an European and making and listening music from here and abroad. I feel even here in Europe a strange thingy about music and that is always this pecureliour question...
Why do people always find their best findings and make it their worst...or maybe better...how do people find (in the way of finding) they are alligiable to know they are right about their theory and forgot about about the theorie thought by the original composer who is so famous and difficult...
That must be playing difficult like the 8+ or how they call it...that is for me...well..
I do not care if you play what grade...if you play with your heart and soul and know and feel where that came from...its good for me. And if you manage to have a teacher who is European (and not a fraught...) I think everything will be allright. ehehehe
Or a reason not to get married. Haha.there are a LOT of reasons not to get married
there are a LOT of reasons not to get married
there are a LOT of reasons not to get married
Lol I had a conversation with my friend the other day about marrying the piano. It was very awkward. :-X ;D
Why would you want to marry your piano? Think about it, a most beautiful Steinway comes your way and you're into a messy divorce...
hahaha, we were just joking of course ;DOh really?? ::)
Oh really?? ::)
Yes, I'm sure you needed to know that. ;)
And I would probably end up dumping the steinway for a fazoli anyway.
I think you need to learn to spell his (sorry her) name first ::)
I'd rather just have them all...definitely a Fazioli and a Bosie...oh and at least one fortepiano as well...monogamy is not for me ;)
Lol I had a conversation with my friend the other day about marrying the piano. It was very awkward. :-X ;D
Yes, I'm sure you needed to know that. ;)if i married a piano, how do you have sex with it?
And I would probably end up dumping the steinway for a fazoli anyway.
And I am yet to find one good reason to do it ;)ikr
The "friend..." ::)then: (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Operation_Upshot-Knothole_-_Badger_001.jpg)
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Looks like the friend got very agitated and started scolding by ticking angrily.
if i married a piano, how do you have sex with it?
like i stick my dick into the d# and i make a baby? :P
if i married a piano, how do you have sex with it?FINALLY KYPIANO'S DISGUSTING QUOTE WAS DELETED
like i stick my dick into the d# and i make a baby? :P
ikr
then: (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Operation_Upshot-Knothole_-_Badger_001.jpg)
Uh... that's not what I meant. It happened because I was like "I don't think I'll ever get married because I want to spend the rest of my with my piano" and my friend was like "That's pretty much the same thing as being married just with a piano". And I was like "Yeah, I'll get married to the piano! It seems you can get a marriage license for anything now a days!!" then after some laughing the conversation descended into awkward silence. ;Dyeah, but how DO you have sex with a piano?
yeah, but how DO you have sex with a piano?
i should change my user into kevonthepervertedpianist
if i married a piano, how do you have sex with it?
ahhh but no one said that you can't ;D
YOU DON'T my friend that was the point of my previous post.
Is there supposed to be sex in a marriage? :owell, after marriage, there's usually sex, unless the other woman scenes pop up or something strange happens
well, after marriage, there's usually sex,
I thought the interest for that decreases pretty soon after settling to married life ;)true. the most sex these days are illegal sex ;)
Sept 24, 2015
Just heard a bit of an xmas commercial on tv....
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vwwJuvG8qPE/UKWG1ofaSII/AAAAAAAAA5U/ss-zsf2bBQU/s1600/Christmas_before_Thanksgiving_by_soulchaserzero.jpg)nah, Thanksgiving ALWAYS comes after Easter ;D
Still laughing at myself....
I'm walking out of a restroom. A foreign girl starts walking in.
I laugh and say, "Uh... This is the men's restroom." Obviously she missed the sign on the door or didn't understand it.
...And then I realized she was actually a guy.
(https://36.media.tumblr.com/62fe0db117d4c5ea34e252a273303143/tumblr_nbacfca0pl1thjzcdo1_1280.jpg)yes. even better if we can be had on the back of a squirelgeon. i know this. pizza cat said so.
Did you suggest pizza for some on the spot travels, old Chap?
yes. even better if we can be had on the back of a squirelgeon. i know this. pizza cat said so.
I wonder why we haven't heard about marijuana driving or crimes being committed while on marijuana. You'd think opponents would bring that up, so... It must not happen or no one cares.one of the latest Facebook trends is about a guy who called the police cause he was high on weed... he was found underneath a mountain of Doritos chips
Suddenly a wild squirrelekeet appears!!
I wonder what school the Harris Fine Arts Center is at. ::)It's actually part of BYU ;D
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That's a bad advertisement. It should be something more like this...
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Ninja School
Ivett Gyongyosi
Over 150 dead in Paris...
I much prefer ginger peach tea!
hahaha true!
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Here's a reindeer to lick up those yucky rainbow cookies!
:P
Xenon fireside chat now open.
What is that?
That is a Xenonian secret message. ;Dgreetings.
In terms of varying things and focusing on pushing in certain directions, I wonder if it's better to push just one day and then recover vs. pushing for several days/week(s).
*Bob has less than happy thought about Xenon since it's an unknown.*
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Mini peach pies. When you're out on your day, and suddenly your palate cries out for some.
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"Do you hear it, Admiral?"
"The clopping?"
"No, the fire northward."
"From Jefferson's lodge."
"Ay."
"Revolutionary! To the Kharghs Red Inn!"
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"Do you hear it, Admiral?"
Because it's quite admirable of him.
lol XD
Interesting though process
You don't hear about the instrument itself being too attractive(?) in that it distracts from the performance, although I could see that to some extent.
Why is it when we are rehearsing we couunt off 1 2 3 4...
but when dancers rehearse they count 5 6 7 8?...
How can you call yourself a pianist if you cannot even play at public.It is a fallacy bc it is not a life's mystery and it is not inherent in the definition of pianist.
It is one of my life's greatest mysteries.
It is a fallacy bc it is not a life's mystery and it is not inherent in the definition of pianist.
Tree falls in forest no one hears does it make it not a tree?
Amusing seeing you make all these snap judgments of me.
I don't think that is the question. For me it is what that objective purpose is. And I think I know ;)To me it seems arrogant to say that, in this enormous universe, that a) there is a given purpose that we can assign to anything or b) that we can know, much less at the age of 16..
I don't think that is the question. For me it is what that objective purpose is. And I think I know ;)
Interesting. I guess we can disagree on that. Too bad public schools are trashing today's youth so they expect all 16 year olds to be infested with video games and brainwashing teachers and not doing research by themselves simply for the pursuit of truth.
History filters out the useless people like you and I
Mjames I think that the purpose of every human is to bring glory to God. He made us and gave his son for us so we should glorify him for it.
Mjames I think that the purpose---
not doing a gud job bro
what you think isn't sufficient enough
It is because he is not sure that makes him a great man. It is people who are sure and almost certainly wrong that need to be feared.
How many oolong teas can a person drink? ? ? !This is the beauty of the oolong tea. What you said above is actually a famous rhetorical Chinese proverb.
I once drank 4 cups of tea in one day ;D that was when I was working on prelude 16 for like 2 hours/ day haha good timesOk, 4 are safe then cause you nailed it. I would like to play this piece some time in future too.
This is the beauty of the oolong tea. What you said above is actually a famous rhetorical Chinese proverb.
It really requires a lifetime of meditation to answer that one.
Thank you for coming to my aid, Thal!
So hang on.. An all powerful God created an entire universe and a species just to make them kiss his ass? Really?
What? I'm glad you have finally come to believe in God's sovereignty though. That's awesome. You're moving in the right direction!
So hang on.. An all powerful God created an entire universe and a species just to make them kiss his ass? Really?
Ma cowboy hatWhy. Are you going anywhere? 8)
Why. Are you going anywhere? 8)Maybe. I feel just to walk eastward and never stopping to look back. Yeah. I strongly feel that.
What's on my mind:
Kishi freakin RUINED Naruto. The build up and climax was SO good during the pain arc but it all fell apart after it ended
Someone who exercised a bit daily. Dead. Dead within a reasonable (low end) amount of life but... The exercise probably didn't make much difference.
I just realized the shippuden is finally back and watch the last two episodes today
...
Damn... it seems I missed a good atheism versus ancient-mystical-mumbo-jumbo-crap argument.
Shame - I would have gotten like 1,000,000 points for the Atheists.
I think we must face the fact that true Atheism is just as much of a fairy tale as Theism/Deism. The notion that the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing by nothing seems like magic to me. (The quantum vacuum doesn't count as nothing.) If you would like to have a nice discussion about this, feel free to send me a PM. I apologize for snapping at you earlier. I just want all of us to be respectful to one another. :)Atheism says nothing of the sort. Atheism is literally only about what you believe in regard to the God question. Just, "do you believe in God/Gods? Check the box yes or no."
Best,
AJ
Here we go again.
As a forum member who once fanned the flames of religious debate only to leave it aside once it became boring I have grown tired of seeing it constantly crop up.
Seriously guys, nobody is changing anybody's mind. Religious positions aren't theoretical statements one either agrees with or does not. They are ways of life. You think anyone will ever change that based on a forum "debate"? Maybe ya'll find it fun but if you're arguing seriously I'm here to tell you that it's probably a waste of effort.
More importantly I'd rather just get on with all of you as well as I can and forego most serious debates in favour of more interesting, trivial and appropriate conversations about MUSIC.
Hi, James
Thank you for your kind response. Let me clear up a few things here.
I think that you're making a mistake in your logical deduction of metaphysics and reality. By saying that " If God is a reality, then it is not longer metaphysical " seems to me a misunderstanding of what a spiritual dimension really is. A physical reality and a metaphysical reality are two separate things. If the concepts of spirituality and physicality were one reality, you would be correct in your logic. But the very definition of " spiritual " implies that it is a completely different reality altogether. I believe you can have it both ways.
that's democracy for ya.The worst form of government... except all the others.
Her faith stresses beautiful ideas such as humility and helping others.
You don't need religion to be a nice person.
My biggest annoyance about that is that this isn't just attributed to Catholicism... You don't need to be religious to be humble and helpful. Being good and decent to other human beings should be because we are all equal and each person should be treated as such... and not to please a non-existent deity who apparently keeps a pro's and con's list about everything we do in life.^ This
You don't need religion to be a nice person.
My thoughts: My good friend is a devout Catholic. I am an atheist. The last thing that I would want to do is interfere with her faith. Her faith stresses beautiful ideas such as humility and helping others. She is always trying to convert me to being a Catholic. I tell her that she can try for a thousand years and this will not affect my being an atheist. But I also tell her that I greatly admire Pope Francis and many aspects of her faith. My friend is also a firm believer in science and like Pope Francis, she believes that global warming exists and is caused largely by man. A discussion on global warming though will also unlikely change minds. However, discussions are great if you enjoy them and you treat others with respect.If it only was so simple...I couldn't care less what people believe in if it didn't affect the world I live in in a negative way. But religions do unfortunately. Historically they have also affected the world in a good way, there's no question about that. Nothing's black and white.
Historically they have also affected the world in a good way, there's no question about that. Nothing's black and white.
Historically they have also affected the world in a good way, there's no question about that. Nothing's black and white.
Hi Outin,
With all due respect, be very careful when telling somebody that they misunderstand or do not understand a concept and/or word. A true atheist is somebody who does not believe in a god/gods. Period. The new atheists are trying to redefine the term to mean a " Lack of belief in god/gods " but that is flirting with Agnosticism (Not believing but not denying the possibility.) Why is it that we are constantly distorting the semantics of the English language to make words conveniently fit into our own system of thought? Why can't Christianity be Christianity (people distort what Christianity is as well. I don't deny that), Atheism be Atheism, and Agnosticism be Agnosticism? With all of this redefining and cautious but convenient word-play, we will eventually become a very confused society because a clear foundation of semantics will turn extremely foggy. Believe what you want to believe regarding words and their meaning. But tread carefully.
Second time this has happened. ::)
I go for jog. I have a set path I usually go on. I time it just to keep an eye on that, not to push the time. Point being I don't want to stop running though.
Partway through a girl turns onto "my" path from a side street. She ends up being about a half block in front of me. It ends up looking like I'm chasing after possibly. But then I've also got this straight ahead of me...
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Awkward enough. "Hey cars driving by. I'm not chasing her. And my eyes are on the horizon. She just happens to be straight in my line of sight." The first time it happened, she was farther ahead and turned... only to appear back again right by me when her path turned back to mine a few blocks later.
I don't want to stop and walk because the point is to run. Crossing to the other side of the street isn't always an option.
I cannot stand with ya on this one, Outin. It's impossible to truly KNOW that there are no gods,Actually it may be impossible to PROVE, but it's not impossible to KNOW. Trust me ;)
Actually it may be impossible to PROVE, but it's not impossible to KNOW. Trust me ;)Knowing something is not proof of its validity, since your own brain will tend to warp things in your favor. I may "know" that Bernie Sanders is the best candidate for reasons X, Y, and Z, but that doesn't objectively prove it ;)
It can be proven in math with 100% certainty that there are the SAME number of points on the number line going from 0 to 1 as there are going from 0 to 2 or as going from 0 to 3. I fact there are the SAME number of points on the number line going from 0 to 1 as there are points going from negative infinity to positive infinity. The proof is rather simple and I can see it clearly, but it goes against my intuition. :o
100% certainty mentioned above means 99.9999%+ certainty. ;)
The only things you can know with a 100% certainty are things that are wrong
I may "know" that xx for reasons X, Y, and Z, but that doesn't objectively prove xx ;)
All Beethoven sonatas.
Ready, go!
that's not a challenge..thats fun...
Like the "What are you listening to right now" thread...
What's the most pressing concern on your mind at the moment?
Things you are working on now, things you "must remember to do today or this week," etc. not necessarily piano.
All Beethoven sonatas.
Ready, go!
dude i freaking love eggs manDo you like spicy? There is this Mexican picante sauce I love at the market it is called Pico Pica (get the hot not the mild one sucks)
yo you should try either scrambled eggs or omellete with chorizo (portuguese sausage...no sex jokes plz) and cheddar. stuff is da bomb.
either cheddar or mozzarella.
When you cook morning scrambled eggs, toss a little cracked black pepper, throw in a little jack or chedar cheese near the end ( i dont like my chees completely melted; i like it a bit stiff in some parts , the texture it adds is good) and then after you serve it up pour a litte Pico Pica on top of it. Maybe a few slices of fresh avocado on the side.
Yum! Add a bowl of oatmeal with berries and coconut butter and then it is a perfect breakfast.No
No
But I know what else to add to make it a Perfect breakfast. ;)
visitor. i have to give it to you. you are way quick. lol
surströmming? Please say it is anything but that stuff..
Well, I can tell you it tastes really bad. I guess the Swedes are just that weird...(https://media.giphy.com/media/3oEdv0N0nfiQECKPu0/giphy.gif)
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If I attached a string and added a tail to a fedora would it work for kite-flying?No are you insane?
Donald TrumpetNo context needed
All Beethoven sonatas.
Ready, go!
All Beethoven sonatas.
Ready, go!
Done. Phew.... Yes, that was a challenge. And that was just listening with them in the background. I can't quite imagine learning all those.Props to you!
RIP Aaron Pajich. I knew him as a little child and helped his mother and her children as they lived with me over the years. Your murderers will be put to justice.
I'm not political. I didn't think candidates would get worse, but it looks like they have. Donald Trumpet or Hillary Clinton. And regardless of anything I do, one of those two will be President.
Jesus christ I just googled this and the it's so freaking morbid. Knowing him I can't even begin to imagine how you're feeling...His funeral was today. It's just terrible what has happened, it's not a nice feeling and will haunt all of us for a long time. He was a boy of faith so I am pleased that he will see his creator with his own eyes.
:/
-I have to book a church for a recital tomorrow. :P :P >:(do you have to book a church tomorrow or book a church now becuase the recital is tomorrow?
EPIC: as in 'Epic Piano Cover'. Since this means 'extremely awesome' in terms of internet slang, how is it that these pop musicians are able to label their own work as 'extremely awesome'????+1 this.
As a classical pianist, I am not able to label my own performance as 'extremely awesome' without meeting derision from other musicians.
Just wondering....................
I ran out of potatoes.
My old piano tutor ended up in Jail!
:-[
For what?
I'm going to guess child porn or something along those lines.
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I'm looking for apartments in Chicago and everyone's being hella mean for no reason.
I live in edgewater and love it.. 2 blocks from lake Michigan beach and few blocks from red line and express bus. 850 for my studio.
I'm looking for apartments in Chicago and everyone's being hella mean for no reason.
is there decent street parking there? Cause ima need my car for work.
I don't drive so I have no Idea about parking but my building has an indoor lot.
lets be roommates or whatever
Did you give the guy a picture of a SCARBO? What picture? We want to see! :o
Or do you mean you have the SCORE on your ribs now... Wow, that must be painful.
-s.
What's on my mind now? Disappearing posters. They show up and ask for recommendations about how to improve their audition posting, or how to finger a passage or something else musically related.
SOOO, you take the time to reply....,and the disappearing act.
I wouldn't mind even receiving a message that says 'Thanks' or 'thanks, but I think you're full of hot air ' but not to acknowledge at all??
This happen enough where I am reconsidering providing any input on anything musical to anyone who has not been around for a while .
i see/get what you are saying
What's on my mind now? Disappearing posters. They show up and ask for recommendations about how to improve their audition posting, or how to finger a passage or something else musically related.
SOOO, you take the time to reply....,and the disappearing act.
I wouldn't mind even receiving a message that says 'Thanks' or 'thanks, but I think you're full of hot air ' but not to acknowledge at all??
This happen enough where I am reconsidering providing any input on anything musical to anyone who has not been around for a while
Is it a decent one?
Maybe. I thought more like 3-4 people. They have special lifting straps for that type of move, specific piano ones too I believe. Weight on the shoulders. Lift with the legs.
Yep.... If this is true, it's what I was thinking. Small uprights can be 300-400 pounds.
https://www.learntomove.com/piano-moving-basics.php
And in stairs and turns. Maybe lifting that thing upward into a truck?
Most pianos I've seen being given away are because in part of this moving part. How do you move 400 pounds out of your house? One way is to give it away and then the person who claims it has to move it.
Watch your fingers too for getting stressed with all that weight.
I remember trying to pick up some piano at some point, just to lift the end. Whatever effort I put into it wasn't enough. It was like a solid, immovable force.
Or... Just pay piano movers to move it. Save your back and all that.
Maybe check where you're moving it to too, if the flooring can support that kind of weight. Cheap wood construction might have issues.
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I bet that would work for a piano too, except for the hallways, corners, stairs...
I hate it when I wake up early on a weekend and feel like practicing but cannot play with the acoustic yet :(
Then when I finally can I've lost it...
Get Yamaha Avantgrand N1, N2 or N3!
push everything must adjust
Is it her being candid or maybe in any context other than piano that she's incredibly dull....maybe it's her laugh I dont Know...
you're just annoyed you can't get with herhahaha !!
that's what
Damn Yuja is fine.
Is it her being candid or maybe in any context other than piano that she's incredibly dull....maybe it's her laugh I dont Know...
you're just annoyed you can't get with her
that's what
Damn Yuja is fine.
They're asking her basic ass two dimensional questions what kind of answers were you expecting?lol no not her answers i think it's her accent, something's off about , it's not nearly as annoying w mute and reading the screens amd knowing what she answered yeah maybe that's it I'm not super sure
lol no not her answers i think it's her accent, something's off about , it's not nearly as annoying w mute and reading the screens amd knowing what she answered yeah maybe that's it I'm not super sure
For me, what is irritating is the laugh after every answer when some are not really funny. It seems like she goes out of her way to play the 'dumb blonde' musician rather than someone with obvious brains
I don't blame classical musicians tho, what can they really do? It's not a subculture with the flexibility to allow in showbizness and stuff. Even the "eccentric" like Lang Lang aren't that much different from normal musicians during a performance.
You know if Lang Lang wanted to he could do whatever he wants in a performance and get away with itI don't want to see HIM in his underwear...
I don't want to see HIM in his underwear...
-You might change youre mind if you did ::)
Lang Lang is decent looking and fit, what's the problem? Outy only likes 22 yr old black dudes?
You live in the US, you graduated from university this year, and I know how the US school system works primarily because I'm also a student living in the US. Not exactly rocket science.
Lang Lang isn't fit? Idk man for his age he looks pretty slender.
Lang Lang is decent looking and fit, what's the problem? Outy only likes 22 yr old black dudes?
Naw but yeah man if I had the fame and power of Yuja and Lang Lang I'd want food, drinks, weed (wherever it's legal, but honestly I wouldn't care if people showed up high) at my concerts, no dress code, couches on stage so people could chill and not have to sit super far away next to some old smelly dude who's coughing their intestines out the whole time.
We all have our preferences ;)
What about Yundi li? He's a pretty boy.I'm not into pretty boys I guess...
I'm not into pretty boys I guess...
Insane. My gf would lose me just to get a chance with him, and she hates piano. Thought all Scandinavians had a thing for asian boys...
OH WAIT FINLANDS NOT IN SCANDINAVIA
I keep forgetting.
It isn't and no, I don't think Asian boys are more popular than other boys here...
BTW, I do not care for blonds either so I hope I don't sound like I have something against Asians...
Sounds great! Except maybe for the food...I don't want to listen to someone next to me making eating noises either. I love food but even I can manage a piano recital without...
Can I bring a cat btw?
As long as they're non allergenic. Depends on the venue
It's the younger generation man: https://www.kpopstarz.com/articles/89518/20140428/world-k-pop-highlight-teen-tops-dominance-northern-europe.htm
Besides I'm just joking. ;P
By the way blondes are gorgeous....
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Sincerity i think thats it
And yet similar scenario now swap ever likable George Li and without an lot of wiggle room to drive outside the lanes of this road of questions, he comes across and genuine and not annoying....
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Some of us are allergic to dogs you know...
But I think only one of my cats is interested anyway and only if you play Scriabin.
maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan she looks average get your standards up >:(
I haven't done any Scriabin in a while though
dogs are allowed but not you then >:(
I want to play a Scriabin sonata..............................
Who wouldn't...
thinking about sonata no.3 or polishing sonata no. 2 1st mvt and learning the rest of the opus after the chopin ballade. would love to go for no. 4 and 5 but unfortunately they're too hard right now....
The later ones are cool but impossible (for me) to read and memorizing seems like an impossible task as well...I just spent whole summer memorizing a couple of short preludes :(
no. 6 is a metronome nightmare man, I would lose my head trying to learn it.
But I will give it a go a few years from now
I can understand memorizing but why is it impossible for you to read it?
I have a visual defect (a sort of note dyslexia). I have trouble with most scores, but when the score is packed with stuff like these the notes start dancing around on the page making it impossible to follow... after a page or two I will get a headache...es muy ok outin, i dont exactly have a grand time trying to read new music myself either
hey man here's super model cutie Bar Rafi aint she gorgeous
"nah nigguh a super model? so avg, get ur standards up..."
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Give any girl who's in shape a lot of money and they can all look like herWho wants to get a nose job though...
Who wants to get a nose job though...
You don't even need a nose job you just need expensive tattoos and good makeup
Give any girl who's in shape a lot of money and they can all look like her
Believe me there's a little more needed ;)
you're full of sht man
okokok
Post a pic of a blonde girl you think's hot
Just google search hot blonde lol
If you want a girl I think is ACTUALLY hot before and after fame then the actor for Wonder Woman is one.
Dead ass dude look at celebrities before and after they're famous EVERYONE looks more attractive
well yes you don't have to look like Bar Ref to be attractive, she's just an example of a cute blonde. she was cute before she became famous too sooooooo
don't chicken out
I want to know what you think is above average
which actress are you talking about, Lynda carter or gal gadot?
One can look attractive without looking like that blond you know...
But generally those people probably would not be famous if they didn't have a certain amount of visual potential. The other way to get famous is to actually be good (or really bad) at something...
Naw naw naw dude have you seen Kylie Jenner before she was famous???
Rihanna?
Nicki Minaj?
Literally I can pull any girl who's in decent shape from the gym and give her a lot of money and she can look like everyone else
you think gal gadot's hotter than bar?
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Ok, clearly we have different tastes.
Also Rihanna became famous when she was 15 dude, before that she was just a kid lol. When she was 17 she was pretty banging. I mean I don't see what your point is, I mean yeah make up makes her prettier (goes for any girl) but she is naturally gorgeous. The only negative is her huge forehead.
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Oi... How do you piss Canada? Geez.
Oi... How do you piss Canada? Geez.
How do you piss off Canada geese?
Wow.I remember reading about that pretty nuts
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/music-student-must-pay-for-sabotaging-boyfriends-clarinet-career
Just ordered my first order from amazon.co.uk (united kingdom version) instead of USA version of amazon. The only difference I can see so far (besides currency) is in email notification:
UK:
Your Amazon.co.uk order of "Goldmark - Piano Trios" has been dispatched
USA:
Your Amazon order of "Goldmark - Piano Trios" has shipped!
In UK, they dispatch. In USA, they ship. ;)
It's the time of year to watch scary movies. It must start around the fall solstice but it ends just after Halloween. Then it feels like Thanksgiving. But now it's at the beginning when horror movies match everything.really should not have put that up Bob, you made it easier for the baddies to find you....*horror music playing intensifies
Hm. I feel like I've lost my sense of humor. I had it but it's not the same now. I wonder if it's gone. And I wonder if that's bad, even though I'd like it bad again. I did have more exposure to humorous things before, so it makes sense I'd have more of a sense of humor. (Or is it aging?) (...possibly, plus goals and a deadline.) I wonder if I'm not the same as I still consider myself, without that same sense of humor.
And there was something else, but now it's slipped out of mind....
Hahaha. You cannot not be funny..... sort of like Seinfeld. :D
I wonder about Bob sometimes.
Do pianists get up in the middle of the night if they can't sleep and play the piano?
Wonder how volume one ended
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Hm. Dang. Serious things. Beyond words.
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How to get good or better sleep. How nice it is to get an extra hour of sleep. How much easier it is to wake up after an extra hour of sleep.
Yes Outin is right. It is just cute! :D But maybe it's just because I have to deal with my psycho neighbours every day and all the aliens, ghosts, monsters... seem pretty friendly and calming compared to them. :o :(been a few since little tune posted , hope she's happy and well
I am very frustrated with the Brahms Intermezzo 118 no. 2 and wondering if I will ever get to play it well enough to perform. Any practice tips would be appreciated...
How to capture strength(or pushing any edge like speed), and how to make that usable in daily life. Like more, but permanently (impossible) more and always available.
And how to make muscles springy.
I didn't watch the whole thing and wasn't going to post it, but then I realized who one of the performers is. He went from this in 2016 to the current situation now.
2 weeks of Driver's Ed homework that I want to get over with right now.