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Non Piano Board => Anything but piano => Topic started by: m19834 on October 15, 2008, 02:30:02 AM
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I am feeling some new, deeper wave of inspiration wash over me. It's nice :).
*prepares for early mornings again*
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I am waking up slowly.
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I'm happy, because I have a job interview on Saturday, but I'm also procrastinating - I have an essay due tomorrow and it needs to be finished!
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but I'm also procrastinating
So am I.
Try Milk of Magnesia, it works for me.
Thal
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Well I finished! It's going through the first proof-reader (mum) before being subjected to my friend who is a grammar whiz. My sentence structure is really bad apparently, which is why I screen out my typos and contractions through mum so he doens't get too exasperated with my writing.
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I am enjoying being unburdened by parents for the next 8 days.
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Cool!
I'm not looking forward to going to dads for the next 3 days...
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I am bored out of my skull! I've got nothing to do and I'm loaded with the cold. Just my luck!
*SIGHS*
G.W.K
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doens't
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At least she seeks to include apostrophes when appropriate, mis-spellings notwithstanding...
Best,
Alistair
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Oops.
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I'm reading this thread :P
(Note the apostrophe Alistair!)
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I'm happy, I've just got new dance shoes!
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Now I'm slightly frustrated, but also slightly flattered. I've just broken up with one guy, and now another one is chasing me and paying me compliments. It's...odd.
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I am tired and upset.
Tired because I've been waking up way too early in the mornings.
Upset because yesterday at a birthday party, a really good friend of mine had to go to the hospital, because he sprained his ankle really bad. He went to the hospital because we didn't know if it was broken or just sprained, and he started hyperventilating. I thought he was going to pass out.
And the birthday party was for his younger brother. So that completely ruined it for him.
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My teacher laugh at me because I can't sight read 3 flat or more... T__T I'm okay if they're (sharp and flat) less than three, but... T.T ow, whatever...
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been down lately
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I am rather excited and yet bored.
Excited about an interview for an appreticeship this afternoon.
Bored because I am at TAFE.
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Very happy because I'll get a new teacher next year ;D ! Well... I'm getting serious now...
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My head aches...
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I'm drinking some orange spice tea and thinking about the rehearsal I have tomorrow with my trio. The trio consists of classical clarinet, baroque viola, and fortepiano. I'm playing on a replica of a 1780s Walter piano, which is a very appropriate instrument for the Mozart trio that we're playing.
This is what the instrument I'm using looks/sounds like:
https://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMUb9nqnk8o
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Feeling yuck after drinking a ton of sugar-free pop and some protein bars.
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Feeling happy at the prospect of getting this traineeship
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Runners high = :):):)
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fine thank you, how about you?
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fine thank you, how about you?
Pretty well, thanks :). I'm happy you are fine :).
I'm thinking about memory and rooms and such. And, I wonder if pieces of music can be like surpressed memories? Maybe a person can relate them to a specific time or event in their life and, depending on that situation, perhaps it gets somehow surpressed? But, somewhere underneath everything else, it's still just as clear as can be? What if all of the pieces I've learned are just surpressed memories that could just kind of resurface again? And, what if when they resurfaced again, I went back in time and taught them to my little tiny self? I think I can do that, you know, I've already done things like that in bits over the past couple of years. And, what if then my life felt so much different, that my whole understanding changed today because of that? It could happen, you know. Life isn't just a straight line and neither is time. I remember clear as day exactly what it felt like to be a child playing the piano, and she's often so, so hungry, and it's like I've been her mommy all this time. It's like she's just been hiding in there and now life is a little different and I can give her foods. As her mommy, I watched a YouTube about a month ago about a child prodigy girl, and even though at first it was scary, it triggered something very important. Similar things happened with other videos, too, but it became more than I could handle. But, maybe I can better handle it now, because my whole posture at the piano had to change as a result, and it had to grow into something else that would support a bigger idea. I've just been test-driving it for about a month now.
Also, since you asked, I'm a little sad that I can't find any of my "what if?" threads ... :'(
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Communist should reply in two more years.
I was confused, but it looks like this thread won out even though it's newer.
https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=34076.0
I wish Nils would tell us when he deletes threads. Things just disappear.
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I was confused, but it looks like this thread won out even though it's newer.
Yes, I wish that thread a great, happy and long life. I really do. In the meantime, I will enjoy this cozy, more intimate thread. It's similar to a smaller classroom size, it's just more personal and caring.
Well, I still am not out from under the blankets yet; I fell back to sleep until my hand started dreaming it was playing the piano and moved around on my knee in real life -- it woke me back up again.
*coffee please*
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One time, not very long ago (a couple of months?), I had a nice meeting with Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninov and Chopin. Even though I couldn't see them or actually hear their voices, it's like they were there in the room with me, and something they told me is that they know so much more now. All the music we know are just baby steps, though still great, of course. And, once in a while, when I'm sitting at the piano playing, I feel a strange kind of wind or so.
I think that music is like this line between dimensions, and it actually does become smooshy at some point, and it's like there is a cross between the dimensions. It's like, as a human being, you just work with the text and the instrument for awhile, and it seems like this hard and immovable thing, but then sometimes (and this has been certain times in performance for me) it becomes something else. Like something I once wrote about in my old "What if?" thread ( :'(). It's like it's a statue at first, and then at a certain point it becomes clay (I wish I could remember how that went :'( :'() and suddenly it becomes moveable and mallable again. That's when there is this smooshiness between dimensions.
And, I think music is truly like surpressed memories. I think it's like that in general, like we can feel the whole body of music at once through eternity, even things we've never known we've played, have never consciously heard from the past and present, and then even stuff that hasn't been written yet (or so it seems). But, also very specifically. When I learned the Mozart Fantasy and Sonata in c minor, yes, I had to work at it, but upon viewing into it, it's as though I were remembering it rather than learning it. Perhaps that's a state of mind.
Bye! I'm supposed to be Fiordiligi at the moment, but I feel torn and so I am paralyzed instead of being anything. Soon I will be her though.
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I wish I didn't have to stop practicing piano today!! But I had to cause I'm not supposed to play after 8 pm, because of the neighbours ::) And I always like practicing piano, but today was even more great than usually... I'm not sure why :-\ but I just wanted to keep practicing!! Oh well... I'll just go practice tomorrow when I wake up again..... I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Something pretty fun happened today at Opera rehearsal. Most people had shown up but not everybody yet, and so people were just kind of sitting around and the piano was just staring at me and magnetized me to it. So, I decided to go ahead and sit down and play, and it wasn't an actual performance because people were still talking for most of the time (they all hushed at one point ;D), but they still heard and were surprised :D. And, one woman who actually knows piano quite well, came over surprised and asked if I were giving concerts and was wondering who I was studying with (I think that's particularly funny because I've told her just a week ago and she didn't really pay attention, apparently, until today ;D). hmmmm :). I love this mostly because I've struggled so much with issues regarding this, and these were all people who normally see me only as a vocalist. Today is the first time I've ever felt like a handful of these people can actually start to understand why I *have* to play the piano still, despite my voice.
Well, tomorrow I am going to live my dream life for a day, and next Friday I will, as well. I am deciding that two days is better than none. Even one is better than none.
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I feel weird now :-\ I'm not sure why :-\ But I did practice piano a lot so that was cool!! 8) :P
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"feeling kind of sad and disappointed. :-\ wondering if I did anything wrong. Wishing I was her friend again...waiting for a next time..." - The music teacher's daughter~
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For one terrible minute i thought...............
Don't even think about it Thal.
Thal
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For one terrible minute i thought...............
Don't even think about it Thal.
But you don't have to, do you?! - the "123" gives it away, n'est-ce pas?
Best,
Alistair
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I slept for a good 10 hours last night, which I can't even remember doing ever before in my life. I did have a dream about driving off a cliff, but as I was falling, I was surrounded by a loving presence and I never hit the rocks and eventually didn't feel afraid.
My life is becoming _______ (I don't have a word for it), it seems, at the time. I welcome it.
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I did have a dream about driving off a cliff
I used to have lots of those when I owned an Esprit.
Thal
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Wake. I say, awake. In a thousand ways awake --
From the sleeplike days of dull sound and drab color,
from the shapeless heart of a loveless ear.
From Centuries I've come to you to say to you, awake.
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Kind of down about some things, having a lot fewer piano students, but they do
seem to come each week for lessons. Got 3 new beginners now.
My sinus keeps bothering me yesterday morning and this morning :P
I used to not have problems with that. Been exercising a lot more and feel
physically good. :)
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What in the WORLD!? I've been *seriously* digesting years-worth of stuff (something I've realized is that I've been keeping LOTS of stuff in for MANY years)! Where'd I go? How'd m1469 get here? It's okay :). I can hardly comprehend my life right now! I don't even know how it turned into what it is. In some ways it's *A.*M.*A.*Z.*I.*N.*G.* -- in some ways it's crazy!
Kind of down about some things, having a lot fewer piano students, but they do
seem to come each week for lessons. Got 3 new beginners now.
My sinus keeps bothering me yesterday morning and this morning :P
I used to not have problems with that. Been exercising a lot more and feel
physically good. :)
Hi, Go, good to see you again! I noticed you came back, but I was in some other world. You know, I'm actually slightly jealous of your situation. My husband lost his job of 12 years last Spring, we're in an upsidedown house, and at this point I have more students than I've ever had (because I've felt like I need to do that) and it's a little crazy. A couple of weeks ago I nearly had a bit of a breakdown while I was teaching (for the first time ever) and I had to *seriously* calm myself down and focus. It stemmed from the fact that I wanted badly to be staying at the piano and for several weeks in a row now, this student can barely name the white notes on the piano (and I had a few hours of that same sort of thing lined up, and then a few hours more of more managable teaching after that). I badly, BURNINGLY wish I could spend the kind of time it seems you have right now studying ... studying ... studying ... and exercising, sure. It's great that you are having some time for your drawing and painting, too! Sometimes I'm seriously considering what seems like crazy stuff ... like leaving the house, moving ... etc.
All I can think about is playing the piano -- even when I'm supposed to be thinking about other things. I want to build my life around it even more than it is already built around it. And, sometimes I think about singing :).
(DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME *shakes fist in air* I. HAVE. TO. PLAY. THE. PIANO!!!!!)
I know, it can be a bit stressful to feel like you don't have enough students ... but, are you mainly scared of losing the ones you've got (as in, you have the least you can have to still make ends meet)? Anyway, why not teach violin and maybe give some art lessons, too? Hmmm ? Advertise on Craigslist.
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*Bob hands the m1469 a chill pill.*
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*m1469 devours Bob*
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Sorry, Bob. I didn't mean to devour you.
*burps Bob back up*
You got in my path and it just sort of happened. I'm sure you understand :-*
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A couple of weeks ago I nearly had a bit of a breakdown while I was teaching (for the first time ever) and I had to *seriously* calm myself down and focus. It stemmed from the fact that I wanted badly to be staying at the piano and for several weeks in a row now, this student can barely name the white notes on the piano (and I had a few hours of that same sort of thing lined up, and then a few hours more of more managable teaching after that). I badly, BURNINGLY wish I could spend the kind of time it seems you have right now studying ... studying ... studying ... and exercising, sure. It's great that you are having some time for your drawing and painting, too! Sometimes I'm seriously considering what seems like crazy stuff ... like leaving the house, moving ... etc.
(DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME *shakes fist in air* I. HAVE. TO. PLAY. THE. PIANO!!!!!)
Haha that's me, in a sort of way. LOL.
I wish I could move to a convent. Or a castle in the deep forest of St.I don't knowwhere, because actually I have to do years and years of work to accomplish my 4 and a bit more Programs of composing 'n stuff. Of course it's not about the castle. A little studio where I can play 24/7, and sing and scream, would do it as well :D
And far away from women! That's important ;D I tend to get all distracted and messed up through relationship issues... :-[
And I would need internet access limitation.... :'( ;D
But then, how to make a living? I surely won't send my students away.....:( I love them, too...
oh well... ::)
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Hello m1469,
When you mentioned about teaching violin, I do teach violin to one of my piano
students. I did the craigslist and mostly I got was spam mail...and weird
phone calls. So I got a bit nervous about that. I'll be attending a Christmas program
rehearsal next Friday for violin students, so I'll be mingling with students and teachers.
I haven't been around the Suzuki group of teachers for a while. Some do know me from
my days of being a student and attending the Suzuki Institute in the Summer. Anyhow,
hopefully things will work out. There is a piano teacher that is "booked-up" and will refer me.
:)
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*Bob hands the m1469 a breath mint.*
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Haha that's me, in a sort of way. LOL.
I wish I could move to a convent. Or a castle in the deep forest of St.I don't knowwhere, because actually I have to do years and years of work to accomplish my 4 and a bit more Programs of composing 'n stuff. Of course it's not about the castle. A little studio where I can play 24/7, and sing and scream, would do it as well :D
And far away from women! That's important ;D I tend to get all distracted and messed up through relationship issues... :-[
And I would need internet access limitation.... :'( ;D
But then, how to make a living? I surely won't send my students away.....:( I love them, too...
oh well... ::)
For me, it's all about the castle ;D. That's a joke, actually. It's all about the haven :). I could never stay away from men forever ... hee hee. And, just to be clear, I don't wish to send my students away. Especially not some who I actually quite look forward to seeing and teaching during each week. They don't maybe realize that they make a positive difference my life, too!
*Bob hands the m1469 a breath mint.*
*savors breath mint*
Bob, I know that one might suspect I could need a breath mint after devouring you and burping you back up, but you must be such a nice person to give me anything at all after I did that to you! Thank you :).
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Okay, Okay, I get it, I get. There's all this blackness all around us, we're on this crazy sphere just hangin' out, circling the sun. We believe and (because of that) experience our existence as a human timeline, where we're born, we exist, we do things or don't, there's success, there's failures, there's beauty, there's ugliness ... yadda yadda ... and then it appears we die. We think in a hunch that maybe there's more, maybe there's not. There's all of these cultures and factions of belief, they're important, yes, for awhile, and then at some point we're all just human. We think maybe there's life on other planets, or at least some of us do, but who knows? Maybe there's a God, maybe not? Maybe heaven, maybe hell? Some people lived before us, some people will live after us. Every day's a mystery and our existence an enigma. Okay, okay. But, now what?
Guess I'll go about practicing ... and cleaning the house and teaching today and rehearsal tonight. Please be some poetry today! Please!
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Time isn't really just time... we just think it's just time because we're stuck in it. But if we could look at it from somewhere else outside of it, it wouldn't be like time anymore but it would be like space. So maybe when we die we're just not stuck in time anymore but we can move through it just like we are moving through space! but maybe we get another time then :-\ i think maybe we always have to have something that's like time...
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Apart from an itchy arse, I am doing fine.
Thal
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*Bob is laughing about existential questions about life, followed by the scratching of body parts.*
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I think my mum has changed her washing powder and my skin does not like it.
Scratches arse again.
Thal
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You know Thal that's what happens a lot of times to me too! Well not so very a lot of times cause my mum is very careful with washing powders... it has to say sensitive or something like that on them... and even that is not always ok! ::)
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I am sure my mum has changed brands. I think one becomes used to a certain powder and problems occur when it is changed.
**massive arse scratch**
Thal
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I'm full of Halloween leftovers. Burp!
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Okay, Okay, I get it, I get. There's all this blackness all around us, we're on this crazy sphere just hangin' out, circling the sun. We believe and (because of that) experience our existence as a human timeline, where we're born, we exist, we do things or don't, there's success, there's failures, there's beauty, there's ugliness ... yadda yadda ... and then it appears we die. We think in a hunch that maybe there's more, maybe there's not. There's all of these cultures and factions of belief, they're important, yes, for awhile, and then at some point we're all just human. We think maybe there's life on other planets, or at least some of us do, but who knows? Maybe there's a God, maybe not? Maybe heaven, maybe hell? Some people lived before us, some people will live after us. Every day's a mystery and our existence an enigma. Okay, okay. But, now what?
Guess I'll go about practicing ... and cleaning the house and teaching today and rehearsal tonight. Please be some poetry today! Please!
It might be hard to come back here on earth and to see that things seem to be the other way around. Where we used to see light there's now darkness. The whole universe used to be golden and bright. There was only one seemingly black spot: The center of the sun...
We might just have different ways of perception in different time periods...
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It might be hard to come back here on earth and to see that things seem to be the other way around. Where we used to see light there's now darkness. The whole universe used to be golden and bright. There was only one seemingly black spot: The center of the sun...
We might just have different ways of perception in different time periods...
I don't know why I feel like I can remember that, but I do. It's like I can picture it and it just seems right. Almost like I can never see it another way now.
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I don't know why I feel like I can remember that, but I do. It's like I can picture it and it just seems right. Almost like I can never see it another way now.
:)
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I remembered this morning that once I looked at the Sun through a telescope with a special filter. And, it appeared as you describe. Of course everything else was light (because it was daytime as we know it) and the sun wasn't only black in the middle, but was dark. I've never seen a solar eclipse, but I think it also is similar. Of course, that's not what I was "remembering" but, it reminds me of that.
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I think that both time and space function together, they are not separable, and act eternally and infinitely as a kind of supreme gravitational pull towards deeper understanding. The outter crust or perception experiences these things as separate dimensions and the strictly surface knowledge sees time as our human life and every moment from birth to death, within this space called the world. But, as we get beneath that crust, the lines between dimensions disappear and our vision becomes focused on the elements of principle, design, and complete ideas.
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I think that both time and space function together, they are not separable
To piggyback on your thought, I have thought the same, that if you can instantaneously travel from point A to point B, then you know you can travel through time.
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To piggyback on your thought, I have thought the same, that if you can instantaneously travel from point A to point B, then you know you can travel through time.
This got me thinking a bit. I think that in some way, if a person is able to travel through time in the way it is generally thought of, that individual has progressed quite a bit beyond thinking in terms of point A and B. That is part of why I simply can't understand time on a timeline, exactly, though I do recognize what that timeline is supposed to mean to mankind and what it's supposed to represent. But, if one's concept rather became such that it grew to naturally envelop (or simply that the individual realizes that it, in fact, already does envelop) all of existence (becuase I have a hunch that what we think of as our intellect actually does envelop all of existence), then the individual is more or less just already there. So, it's kind of like if I grew to be 400 pounds, what may have been a point A and B when I had been only 100 pounds are now just sitting right under me ... haha ... all at once. I think that our intellect is something like that, though we won't get there by having a certain kind of brain power, per se, but rather a certain kind of sense :).
I've also been thinking a bit about the Apocalypse lately. Lots of thoughts, really, and at first I got afraid because of some things, but then I realized that ... c'mon, man. C'mon. C'maaaannnn. There's a much bigger lesson involved than whether or not all of existence as we know it will just one day go "poof". And, we have to learn that lesson together, as a species.
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This got me thinking a bit. I think that in some way, if a person is able to travel through time in the way it is generally thought of, that individual has progressed quite a bit beyond thinking in terms of point A and B. That is part of why I simply can't understand time on a timeline, exactly, though I do recognize what that timeline is supposed to mean to mankind and what it's supposed to represent. But, if one's concept rather became such that it grew to naturally envelop (or simply that the individual realizes that it, in fact, already does envelop) all of existence (becuase I have a hunch that what we think of as our intellect actually does envelop all of existence), then the individual is more or less just already there. So, it's kind of like if I grew to be 400 pounds, what may have been a point A and B when I had been only 100 pounds are now just sitting right under me ... haha ... all at once. I think that our intellect is something like that, though we won't get there by having a certain kind of brain power, per se, but rather a certain kind of sense :).
I've also been thinking a bit about the Apocalypse lately. Lots of thoughts, really, and at first I got afraid because of some things, but then I realized that ... c'mon, man. C'mon. C'maaaannnn. There's a much bigger lesson involved than whether or not all of existence as we know it will just one day go "poof". And, we have to learn that lesson together, as a species.
right man...c'mon
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This got me thinking a bit. I think that in some way, if a person is able to travel through time in the way it is generally thought of, that individual has progressed quite a bit beyond thinking in terms of point A and B.
Well, if time and space are bound together, one entity, as you had said, then my conclusion should follow. It actually may be that simple. I'm not sure if you were disagreeing with what I said, though, but branching elsewhere. If I instantaneously appeared in New York, you might say that I traveled through time in the sense of bypassing the travelling miles, i.e. space. I bypassed time through space. Perhaps time and space have the nature of waves and particles.
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All this about time and space is really cool! 8) I wanna figure it out someday! :P well i can imagine really a lot about it but I can't explain it so well! :-\ :P
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Well, if time and space are bound together, one entity, as you had said, then my conclusion should follow. It actually may be that simple. I'm not sure if you were disagreeing with what I said, though, but branching elsewhere. If I instantaneously appeared in New York, you might say that I traveled through time in the sense of bypassing the travelling miles, i.e. space. I bypassed time through space. Perhaps time and space have the nature of waves and particles.
Well :P, just because I say that time and space are bound together as one entity and maybe you agree (maybe not?), doesn't mean there's only one way to percieve that or experience that! In general though, no, I am not disagreeing with you, however, I feel that the perception of there being a point A and B is perhaps not altogether what it seems. From earth, we try to percieve our coordinates within the solar system, and even though we have "things" that go deeper into space these days (of course, probably there is much more inside-knowledge regarding that than what I will ever know), much of our perception of where we are is very earthy. Whereas, if we had a much grander view, say we could actually just see from way beyond the knwon Universe (say our perception includes *at least* two known "Universes"), looking into the known Universe (I got a kick out of an astronomy book's way of explaining the "Universe" ... haha ...), maybe earth could still be a point A, but we would be percieving it much differently from the grander view than from only the view of standing right upon it -- which is how MOST of mankind seems to experience it.
For the most part though, I am definitely not talking about particals and waves and such, though I realize those are part of perception and I am not saying they aren't. But, just like I experience music as something much more than some kind of waves and particals, I can only guess that life is also much more than these, as well. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I don't believe in actually "empty space" in any part of the Universe (though I do comprehend that perception would argue otherwise) ... similiarly to how I believe a rest or silence in music is not empty.
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Foxy, you should read " A brief history of time".
Thal
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Thaly, at first I thought it was a joke because it's actually quite a comical title (is it supposed to be funny?), but then the magic google showed me it's a real and serious book. I will be interested to read :). I also got madly hungry for mathematics recently ... like I just want to eat it into my universal belly.
Thanks! :)
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I had no idea you were interested in mathematics ! I thought about little else in my youth, and now I have more time in retirement I am easing myself back into it - it forms a nice balance with music. What branches of mathematics do you enjoy working in ?
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Foxy, you should read " A brief history of time".
Thal
I thought everyone had read that! Because it's written by a genius for EVERYONE to understand and enjoy.
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Well, it looks like Foxy has not read it ;D
Indeed it sold millions and rightly so. A much better read than "The Arrow of Time" which i did not understand.
Thal
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Well, it looks like Foxy has not read it ;D
Yeah, believe me, it's no surprise at all. I feel like I've literally barely read anything in my life, I don't even know how I know how to read at all! Probably because of this forum ... hee hee ... where I've recieved a large portion of my in/formal education ;D. There's a HUGE list of things I've never read, never seen, never done ... hmmm ... for example, I don't know the stories behind most of the Operas in the world and people treat me like I do. I've only seen one live Opera in my entire life and have probably watched one other on video. Do you hear that world? Yeah. I've seen three different symphony orchestras in my entire life. Okay? Let's just get this all out in the open! So, if anybody wants to dig around about what I don't know, believe me, you don't have to dig very far! Oh well. I'm doing the best I can. I welcome people to donate to my education fund so I can spend time getting educated like all the rest of everybody :).
I had no idea you were interested in mathematics ! I thought about little else in my youth, and now I have more time in retirement I am easing myself back into it - it forms a nice balance with music. What branches of mathematics do you enjoy working in ?
Hi Ted, yes, actually I am quite interested in mathematics. I've of course not actually taken a class nor actually studied for ages upon ages ... but it's somehow always present. To me, somehow I am adding up and working equations that go like "Okay. Mountain, plus sky, plus sun ..." hmmmm ... there was a time though before I stopped coping with school that I was doing quite well in mathematics (way before I stopped taking math classes). AND, it was an area that my dad and I could relate and he would help me with my homework. Algebras were fun, I didn't care for geometry, though I suspect that had largely to do with me at the time in my life and my teacher, vs. the math itself. I went through trigonometry but that's pretty much it. I had always wished to at least understand all of those thouroughly as well as Calculus. My life just ... argh.
Anyway!
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Well, it looks like Foxy has not read it ;D
Indeed it sold millions and rightly so. A much better read than "The Arrow of Time" which i did not understand.
Ah, but what about the orchestral piece Time's Arrow, then? Have you heard that? You should. It's brilliant!
Best,
Alistair
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I have not heard it and cannot spare the time at the mo as it is my Daniel Lesur weekend.
Thal
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Well, it looks like Foxy has not read it ;D
Indeed it sold millions and rightly so. A much better read than "The Arrow of Time" which i did not understand.
Thal
Talking about time and its arrow, here's a thought. According to Einstein's theory, anything that would travel at the speed of light (in a vacuum) would experience time to shrink to 0 (i.e the time dilation would become infinite) and space to shrink to 0. Hence, a photon that was emitted at the moment of last scattering after the Big Bang (some 300,000 after the Big Bang), and is received now on Earth, has been traveling at the speed of light all the way (13,7 BILLION light years that is). But for that photon, because of its traveling at the speed of light, NO time has passed, and NO space has been travelled. So one could say that, to that photon, there is no time and no space. Then how can it exist, if it experiences no time and no space to exist in?
Your explanations please...
All best,
gep
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I have read that time and space does not exist for a Photon.
Too much for my brain to understand and I am only a cactus.
I try not to dwell on such things. I don't want to end up like Boltzmann.
Thal
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I didn't know that about the photon and that it's like no time has passed and no space has been travelled... but it seems kinda logical to me :-\ because you shouldn't really think about these things like the way they are in our universe but like it would be outside of our universe :-\ :-\ or any universe :-\ I don't know I'm not that good at explaining what I think about these things :P Maybe after a while I can explain what I think better :P 8) :)
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I have not heard it and cannot spare the time at the mo as it is my Daniel Lesur weekend.
Well, good for you in exploring the work of Daniel-hyphen-Lesur but, if you don't mind, I'd rather like to remind you (if indeed you require such reminding) that the gestation of Time's Arrow happens to have been rather closer to Britain than that of the work of this particular French composer - so maybe if not this weekend, then some time soon...
Best,
Alistair
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OK, I pencil it in for weekend after next listening session.
That is of course if I survive Andre Tchaikovsky next weekend.
Thal
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Don't overlook Boris Tchaikovsky too.
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Nor Alexander.
Thal
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Andre Tchaikovsky listening session cancelled. Could not last more than 8 minutes through his so called piano concerto.
Thal
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Then why delay with Time's Arrow?
Best,
Alistair
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Because I need to go back to the 19th Century to recover.
Now, where did I put me Reinecke?
Thal
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(https://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a94/Thalbergmad/tennant_1120894c.jpg)
Here is a photo of Andre Tchaikovsky.
Incredibly, he is the one on the right.
Thal
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I am becoming convinced that mankind's highest achievements are an entire life mostly uknown to mankind. Perhaps we have created some incredible (to us) things, and perhaps we have accomplished amazing (to us) feats, but nothing quite compares with the decision that was made to do it, and the lifetime on every side of that decision.
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I am becoming convinced that mankind's highest achievements are an entire life mostly uknown to mankind. Perhaps we have created some incredible (to us) things, and perhaps we have accomplished amazing (to us) feats, but nothing quite compares with the decision that was made to do it, and the lifetime on every side of that decision.
...like being able to see and think clearly and deeply :)
Some amazing accomplishments of mankind sound like this one of your's. I think I feel like I can hear the sound :)
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You is definately both on the same weed.
Thal
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Yeah, I want some!
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Andre Tchaikovsky listening session cancelled. Could not last more than 8 minutes through his so called piano concerto.
Thal
Following your recommendation, I searched for this Concerto (I assume you mean his Opus 4 Concerto, not the earlier one?). I must say that, after hearing it once in a performance by Andre Tchaikovsky himself (a very badly recorded live performance), I must disagree with you. Yes, it is a modern sounding work, very detailed, multi-facetted and multi-layered, but quite listenable (disregarding the recorded sound; it was recorded 1978 or so, so why does it sound like 1928??). I will seek out the other recordings too, hopefully they are better. But an interesting work, something like the Goehr Concerto or simillar. So thank you for putting it on my path!
all best,
gep
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I must disagree with you.
I would be worried if you did agree. I will keep you posted on all the works I cannot stand.
Time's arrow??
Thal
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I would be worried if you did agree. I will keep you posted on all the works I cannot stand.
If you were to do that, you'd show that you have far too much spare time on your hands.
Time's arrow??
What about it?
Best,
Alistair
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If you were to do that, you'd show that you have far too much spare time on your hands.
It is true, I do have too much time on my hands.
One of the great advantages of being single.
Thal
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I'm *ridiculously* sleepy right now. It's like I've been hit by the great sledge hammer of sleepies for the past hour. Siesta hour. It's a real doozy for me. I don't teach this week, yet I am only partially through my practicing for the day. I feel intimidated by the rest of my practicing for the day. argh. And, all I want to do is nothing. In my sweatpants.
*mentally drags herself off the couch and back to the piano* ... Okay, one thing. Just do one thing.
zzzzz ... *tink, tink* zzzzz ... *tink, tink* zzzz ... *tink, tink ... taaaaaa* zzzzz
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I am doing great now because it's snowing today!!! :P :P :P and I have been practicing piano a lot and I really like the Sonatina that I'm learning (my first sonatina ever!!) :P 8) :)
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I am doing great now because it's snowing today!!! :P :P :P and I have been practicing piano a lot and I really like the Sonatina that I'm learning (my first sonatina ever!!) :P 8) :)
Today I learnt a very cute song about snow :)
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Today I learnt a very cute song about snow :)
Really? that's coooooooool!!! :) 8) :P
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Really? that's coooooooool!!! :) 8) :P
Yes it's in Swiss German and it goes:
Schnee, Schnee, Schnee
Mir wette ganz viel Schnee
Dicki Wulche chum doch abe
Tue'ne Huffe Schnee ablade
Schnee, Schnee Schnee
Mir wette ganz viel Schnee
(Snow, Snow Snow
We want a lot of Snow
Oh you thick cloud please come down
Bring us loads of Snow!
Snow Snow Snow
we want a lot of Snow)
:)
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Uust my thoughts, precisely. except when you live near Rome, it's sort of difficult... :'(
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Yes it's in Swiss German and it goes:
Schnee, Schnee, Schnee
Mir wette ganz viel Schnee
Dicki Wulche chum doch abe
Tue'ne Huffe Schnee ablade
Schnee, Schnee Schnee
Mir wette ganz viel Schnee
(Snow, Snow Snow
We want a lot of Snow
Oh you thick cloud please come down
Bring us loads of Snow!
Snow Snow Snow
we want a lot of Snow)
:)
That's a cool song :) and Swiss German is cool too! 8) Thanks for writing it Wolfi! I wouldn't understand everything if you didn't write it in English too! Specially not the third line. You say "mir" instead of "wir"? How do you say "mir" then ? :) Well thanks :) cool :P
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That's a cool song :) and Swiss German is cool too! 8) Thanks for writing it Wolfi! I wouldn't understand everything if you didn't write it in English too! Specially not the third line. You say "mir" instead of "wir"? How do you say "mir" then ? :) Well thanks :) cool :P
We say also "mir" :)
Mir wette= wir wollen= we want (well there are a few different dialects, some would say "Mir wänd" (Zürich) or "mir wänn" (Basel) or "mir wei" (Bern)) :P
Mir isch chalt= Mir ist kalt= I am cold
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We say also "mir" :)
Mir wette= wir wollen= we want (well there are a few different dialects, some would say "Mir wänd" (Zürich) or "mir wänn" (Basel) or "mir wei" (Bern)) :P
Mir isch chalt= Mir ist kalt= I am cold
:) Hmm complicated :) but where do you say "Mir wette" then? Is that like no dialect, but the way it would be in a book?
So what would that song be like in German? :)
Schnee, Schnee, Schnee
Wir wollen ganz viel Schnee
Dicke Wolke komm doch unten (:-\ )
(is tue'ne like tun?? well I'm not sure about this one... :-\ )
Schnee, Schnee, Schnee
Wir wollen ganz viel Schnee :)
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:) Hmm complicated :) but where do you say "Mir wette" then? Is that like no dialect, but the way it would be in a book?
So what would that song be like in German? :)
Schnee, Schnee, Schnee
Wir wollen ganz viel Schnee
Dicke Wolke komm doch unten (:-\ )
(is tue'ne like tun?? well I'm not sure about this one... :-\ )
Schnee, Schnee, Schnee
Wir wollen ganz viel Schnee :)
I think "wette" is what they say in Solothurn and environment :)
Cool your translation!
"Dicke Wolke komm doch runter" would be correct but then it doesn't rhyme anymore.
"Lade ganz viel Schnee ab" :) (Yes "tue" is like tun) would be correct but wouldn't rhyme either.
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...like being able to see and think clearly and deeply :)
Some amazing accomplishments of mankind sound like this one of your's. I think I feel like I can hear the sound :)
Hi Wolfi, thank you very much. Yes, it does indeed sound. For a couple of years now though I can't quite decipher what the sound is, exactly, that's in me. Though admittedly, I don't actively try too often. My composition teacher in University used to tell me to write *something* everyday. I think that's probably a good practice, but I've never been able to do that since my youth. As a child, especially for awhile as an adolescent, I would be "composing" at least one piece everyday (though sometimes it was more like three or four or more). At the time I didn't think much of it, but now I wish sometimes I had that kind of innocence about just following an idea. I think I want that back mainly because it led to a deeper connection with the instrument itself, but also I used to feel for a time like I was actually just letting music flow right through me, like it was just sitting there and all I had to do was play. That's actually what most of my childhood felt like, as a matter of fact. It felt that way until I actually became afraid of what people think about that music. I know there's a lesson in that, but right now I'm too sleepy to think about it. Obviously a lot of that music could've been junky by some stuffy's standards, but what I wouldn't give to have the faucet on, the ability to follow, and the ability to develop and fulfill a higher standard. Well ... :P.
And, PS, you know what? I am a little intimidated by "journey" ... I don't know how others think about it really, and I realize it's not super complex in many ways, but at the same time, it's like I can't actually understand how that came out of me in a sitting, you know? I actually don't understand it and it intimidates me. And, actually, journey isn't the only one. There are a number from that time in my life that I don't understand how I did. I mean, I hear myself saying to myself that I am a person who grew up composing and improvising and such, but that person seems like a different person who did those improvs for a few(?) years. I feel like some really deep part of me is seriously considering music and life, and it's such a deep part of me that I'm barely consciously aware of it most of the time. It's more like I just feel lots of movement in there, deep, deep movement, and often I will have a melody or rhythm or several phrases at once come to the surface, as though deeply I am composing, but then it's not a conscious process. It's all happening deeply ... though some of it surfaces enough for me to like it or dislike it ... and I just suspect that one day I will start another couple years of fruitfulness. Like I have been composing all of this time and I'll sit down and a composition will just come out. Somehow that seems about right. I maybe should do some little composing everyday though, on paper or at the piano? I don't know. Okay, I'm going to sleepyville :).
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SNOW YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Dear m1469
It will come back to you I think, it's only a question of time. You never know when exactly it will come but it will happen. And with the time it will get more clear where these things come from. There are a few pieces in my programs (I know which ones), played within 10 minutes or even less, where I know precisely that it literally took me centuries to "compose" them. They were in there, waiting for their time to be born.
(Thal will again say I'm on weed but I don't care ;D )
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SNOW YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
GRRRRRRRRR!!!
All we have is wet fog. Damn!
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Dear m1469
It will come back to you I think, it's only a question of time. You never know when exactly it will come but it will happen. And with the time it will get more clear where these things come from. There are a few pieces in my programs (I know which ones), played within 10 minutes or even less, where I know precisely that it literally took me centuries to "compose" them. They were in there, waiting for their time to be born.
(Thal will again say I'm on weed but I don't care ;D )
Yeah. I mean, I think it's there, actually. But, to have clearly these things come out, it's not just happening right now. But, as I said, I'm not trying so much really right now, either. Right now there are other things that feel more important to my overall progress, like feeling shapes on the piano in my body/hands/fingers, for one, and listening a particular way(s). I feel like these are important steps for me no matter what I'm playing, even if it's my own stuff. So, when I wrote "what I wouldn't give" isn't exactly as it seems. Actually, lately, I simply can't seem to express myself correctly in writing ... which is a little odd, since that has for a long time been my survival expression. It's as though everything I try to express only comes out in partial truths or can be taken in ways that are completely not true. But, I almost feel like there's nothing I can do about it! Ah well.
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SNOW YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Thal are you happy about the snow?? :o well if you are that's really cool! 8) :) and I wish you lots of snow!! :) :P
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I am not so happy now after a 3 mile walk home from work.
The buses were not running and the Thalmobile is not good to drive in the snow.
Tomorrow I skive off work and play piano.
Thal
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You should play piano and then go play in the snow for a while and then play some more piano! :P
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I think I will bury my next door neighbours car in snow ;D
Thal
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Hmm would it be very bad to bury downstairs neighbour in snow? :-\ :o ::)
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Well, if there is 6 foot of snow and he is only 5 foot 10, then I guess it would be bad.
Thal ;D
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Well it's a she and she is a lot less than 5 foot 10 I'm sure... but we don't have 6 feet of snow anyway... :P
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Why am I sooo sleepy now? ::) annoying :) :P I think I wanted to say something but I'm too sleepy now :) Maybe it's cause our neighbour is waking us up ::) :)
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Why am I sooo sleepy now? ::) annoying :) :P I think I wanted to say something but I'm too sleepy now :) Maybe it's cause our neighbour is waking us up ::) :)
hmmm
sometimes it's good to surprise grumpy and frustrated people like her...with sympathy and love.
Perhaps if you go there and give her a selection of tasty self-baked christmas-cookies and talk a bit with her...and be a bit attentive to her...perhaps she's just lonely and frustrated..
well of course I can't say :( sometimes if you come to people with a friendly gesture they change totally.
Sometimes it's just all lost and they get even more angry and bullheaded...
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I think you might have something there. Maybe slip a little hash into those christmas cookies while you're at it. ;D
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Well I do feel kinda sorry for our neighbour! And I was thinking that she was probably really sad and lonely because she is all alone and especially now during the holidays she's probably sad... I guess... cause everyone went away from her, first her husband and then two other guys she was living with and also her daughter went away really soon... so that's kinda sad :( but I would be really scared to go see her :( because she is always looking like she really hates you (she has always been looking really angry but now it's even worse I guess). But I was thinking maybe we should like send her a Merry Christmas and happy New year card :-\ and me and my mum are now joking that we should really give her something because she always makes sure we don't sleep too late ;D cause sometimes my mum wakes up a little too late and then she's late for work and now she doesn't have to worry about that anymore cause our neighbour is waking us up every morning ;D :P
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Ok sorry for talking so much about our neighbour... but I just have to write about this again!! Today she sent us a letter again... and she wrote in the letter that she knew we were making toys or something and then selling them ??? and that she wouldn't mind if that's how we earned some more money but that if this is why we were making so much noise all the time and waking her up at all hours that she would call the inspector and told them about our illegal toy making business. :o and I am NOT kidding about this!!!! Even though it sounds just too crazy... but it's completely true!!!!! And we don't even know what to think about it! Well I got worried what if she really calls the inspectors or police or whatever and what if they come while we're not home and break into our apartement while my animals are home alone cause then they would get really scared and what if they would run away and get lost... but my parents said that they can't just break into our home just like that. But I'm still a little worried :-\ I'm not sure if I wanna go to music theory today cause my dad won't be home and my mum won't be home and my animals will be home alone if I go too :( Well I mean it's probably true that they can't just come while we're not home but I'll just be so nervous all the time now :-\ :( ...
So well yes... anyone wants to buy some toys? :P :) Maybe I should post a link... :P just kidding of course :) Ohhh what if she saw my Toys thread?? :o and that post where I posted those two toys I have made?!! I just remembered this now! :-\
althought I'm pretty sure she can't speak English...
Oh I don't know.... just crazy!! And I was just thinking how to earn some money!! Now I'm scared to even think about it!
Oh well ::) :P
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As long as you're playing during normal times of the day and there aren't any laws against it, it's ok. The neighbor can't do anything about it. It would be nice if they didn't mind or you could do something to accomodate them but if they don't like any noise at all and it's legal, it's their problem.
Save all the notes they give you.
If they do call the police, the police can't enter your place without a reason. I wouldn't worry about that. Even if you were illegally selling some stuff, the police might not do anything about it -- Murders, muggings, fires... or someone selling some toys out of their house, which will they spend their time on? As long as you're not selling a ton of stuff probably no one will care (except this neighbor).
You could find out what the law is but I from what I've heard it's usually something like between 9am and 5pm some noise is ok. Unless you rent and have something in the rental contract or are part of a community that makes up some rules for itself.
You could tell your parents not to put anything in writing or if they do to only put in writing what they're ok with having in court. If the neighbor is nuts, don't give them anything that could help them.
Are you in a big high-rise building? I would be concerned about piano sound, but whatever the rules are is what you can follow. If the neighbor gets annoyed, it's their problem -- They could always move too if they don't like the rules/law in the area. By staying there, they're agreeing to follow all the rules/laws.
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Thanks Bob!! :) Well we are not selling anything... althought I'm thinking it could be a good idea to earn some money like that :P :P ...
Well my parents say that here the noise is ok from 8am to 10 pm... but I never play after 8 pm (well sometimes a few minutes after 8pm but with silent pedal).
And my parents haven't written anything back to that neighbour... first my mum thought she would but then she didn't... so I don't know if they will write anything or not...
Oh and we don't really live in a high-rise building, we live in a small apartment building that has 4 stories or floors or whatever that's called... and we're on the fourth floor (and that neighbour is on the third). And today she woke us up again at 4. 45. am... ::) :) :P So she is really the one that is making noise when she shouldn't and waking people up... and we just don't know why... I mean how could we prove that we're not making noise if she says we are :-\ Oh well we'll see what happens I guess...
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Haha... You should report them for violating the hours of the noise ordinance.
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Just in case littletune is making toys, I would like a hairy spider.
Thal
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:D :P Ok I'll remember... a hairy spider for Thal! :P ;D Well... actually once me and my friend made a pretty big spider (but it wasn't hairy) cause we wanted to scare her English teacher ;D :P but not a teacher from school... she had a teacher who was teaching her at home so she would get better at English... and sometimes I was at my friends house too when she had her English lesson. And once we wanted to really scare her teacher and we made a big spider and hanged it from the ceiling exactly above the chair where she was always sitting so it would be exactly above her head. And we thought she was going to get really scared... but she didn't get scared AT ALL ::) .... when she saw that spider she was like: Oh what a great spider!!!!! And then she was looking at it and touching it and saying that we had made a really cool spider... and we were like ::) :) :P
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Recently, I realized very clearly that even the world's most spiritual leaders, and even with the world's advancements in other ways (technologically, intellectually, psychologically), there has not been a particular individual who has brought about world peace. In some way, I think there already IS world peace, but it is a kind of hidden thing. What I think though is that, perhaps, world peace is not the goal. Honestly, if Jesus really did exist, he didn't achieve it. And, if the kinds of things he did were true, I would think that he would be somebody who at least would have been aiming at world peace, you know? But, that's not what happened. Nobody has caused it to happen outwardly.
So, I started thinking about that a bit. Maybe it's not the goal. Sometimes I think people look at other people's examples and say "well, if they couldn't/didn't do it, why could/should I be able to" (with whatever thing) and that's not what I mean, either. What I mean is that, truly, maybe it's not the goal. Something else is. I think that the worlds greatest individuals have given us tools, and in fact we each have to work things out individually. Not that helping each other is impossible or unnecessary or wrong, but there's something we each have to come to grips with inside of our own hearts and souls, and within our own lives. And, that's somehow tricky, because it actually DOES involve the world and how we experience it and think about it. It involves other people. I mean, maybe as we each utilize particular tools, and as we each demonstrate higher abilities to use them, maybe at some point world peace would be achieved ... as a result of something else.
But, along those lines, I don't even think world peace is what it seems. I think that most people, if they try to imagine it, imagine something like placidness at all times and in all ways. I don't think anymore that's what it means. I think rather what it means is a type of activity, a kind of constant activity, and this activity is somehow vital and brilliant and all-encompassing.
In the meantime, lately I wonder if there is anymore even such a thing as a concert career? I mean, I know there are people out there making a living by way of giving concerts, but it seems like something is always sacrificed for it. Sometimes even the music itself. And, so I wonder, is there actually a "thing" ... an office of any sort, where a great artist, not just piano player, has a place giving concerts in the world for a living? It's almost as though artists are taking on a different kind of life or a different kind of meaning. Nowadays, it seems, it's not just out of necessity as though an artist can't make it in the world as an artist, but as though there is a newish kind of office being born (not entirely new, though). These days an artist is also a teacher, not because they have to be in order to make ends meet (even if that is actually true), but it's not enough anymore that somebody has chops and can plow through hoards of repertoire. Artistic playing requires thoughtful repose, deep study, spiritual growth and life, and then it's almost as though it actually REQUIRES teaching in the sense that the individual sharing his/her knowledge in this way brings about a different sort of artist altogether. I don't claim to understand how it all works yet though, so please understand that I don't mean to offend.
Lately though, I look at the piano and the keys ... and, it's as though it looks dated to me. I'm not sure why. This is partly due to some reading I did not TOO long ago regarding the forerunners of the piano, and then in part because of the seemingly changing music world ...
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In the meantime, lately I wonder if there is anymore even such a thing as a concert career? I mean, I know there are people out there making a living by way of giving concerts, but it seems like something is always sacrificed for it. Sometimes even the music itself.
I am sure sometimes the music must suffer. Can you imagine being contracted to play something that you despise? Can you imagine having to play on a certain night when you have a bad headache and wind??
Surely it is not possible to be artistic at these times.
Thal
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Artistic playing requires thoughtful repose, deep study, spiritual growth and life, and then it's almost as though it actually REQUIRES teaching in the sense that the individual sharing his/her knowledge in this way brings about a different sort of artist altogether.
This is why i blow a fuse when i see all these "rocketpiano" type adverts here.
Is not one hour with your teacher worth a billion hours on the internet??
Thal
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I am sure sometimes the music must suffer. Can you imagine being contracted to play something that you despise? Can you imagine having to play on a certain night when you have a bad headache and wind??
Surely it is not possible to be artistic at these times.
Thal
Yes, these are good points. I do think that the artist can actually make art out of bad situations and even bad music, too (and music that they may even despise). I think these are all very tricky things, for sure. But, sometimes it seems lately like the most profound artists are people who do give concerts, but who also teach and even have family lives, etc. And, I don't mean to imply that anybody out there giving concerts for an actual living must thereby not be an artist ... but, I guess I started thinking about if I wanted to aim for a performing career, what am I actually aiming for anymore? Is there an actual "office" anymore ... ? Right now it seems that rather I would want to aim at just more or less living the art at every moment possible (not that I achieve this, but perhaps it's a decent goal). I mean, great art, very profoundly meaningful experiences often take place behind closed doors where there are very few witnesses ... and I start feeling like ... what does that mean? (of course). No offense to people with huge concert careers, but I think there is something missing if the pieces don't have real time to incubate and for details to be worked out. I do understand though that it takes more time for some people than for others to work this stuff out. But, sometimes it seems that if you could generalize about today's concert artists, it's that details and depth are perhaps somehow missing a bit -- I mean maybe somebody like Lang Lang, for example (sorry). Maybe I'm not percieving it correctly though.
This is why i blow a fuse when i see all these "rocketpiano" type adverts here.
Is not one hour with your teacher worth a billion hours on the internet??
Thal
Well, I suppose it all depends a bit, but yes, in general I would agree that one hour with a good/right teacher is worth billions spent in various other ways. I think that part of what bothers me though about something like rocketpiano (though I admit that I haven't thoroughly checked it out) is that it seems the general public is becoming "dumbed down" a bit when it comes to instrumental and musical art. At the same time I myself want to play the piano and I might end up choosing, at some point in my life, a path that others may disagree with.
What's very strange to me though is that "Classical" music, the actual classic era style, was born as a means to give amateurs something great to play at home, but was also a time of the rise in the concert artist ... yet, now most Classical music is "beyond" the average individual and the concert artist's "office" is a bit dying. Am I wrong? It all seems very strange to me.
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What's very strange to me though is that "Classical" music, the actual classic era style, was born as a means to give amateurs something great to play at home, but was also a time of the rise in the concert artist
I feel the rise of the amateur was somewhat later than than the true classical era. I remember reading somewhere that in 1790 there was something like 8 piano shops in London but 40 years later there was over 300. I might have got the figures wrong, but you can see my drift.
When pianos became more widely produced and affordable, composers like Hunten & Herz made fortunes by targeting the amateur market and produced myriads of "playable" pieces for amateurs. I doubt if this was too much in the mind of Mozart or Beethoven.
No doubt the classical era witnessed the early stages of the performing artist as an independent agent, but it was not until the romantic era with the likes of Paganini and Liszt that they were anything like we see today.
Thal
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But, sometimes it seems lately like the most profound artists are people who do give concerts, but who also teach and even have family lives, etc.
Perhaps there is a lot of truth in this. I have a feeling that concert pianists today are produced like a car in a giant factory. They are put together in a robotic fashion and then come off the production line as a finished article, all sounding the same.
Thal
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yet, now most Classical music is "beyond" the average individual
Well, it is certainly beyond me my little foxy.
Thal
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Can you imagine having to play on a certain night when you have a bad headache and wind??
Surely it is not possible to be artistic at these times.
Thal
;D ;D ;D ;D Maybe while playing the g minor Rach. prelude! ;D
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Well, it is certainly beyond me my little foxy.
Thal
Somehow I doubt that, Thaly.
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Can't sleep. Well, okay, 2 hours ago I couldn't sleep, I've stopped trying since about an hour and a half ago. I got about 3 hours of sleep. I'm thinking about ... piano. Lately, I can't stop thinking about what it means to be a "concert pianist". That's not ALL that new for me to be thinking about it, but something's different regarding that consideration, very recently.
I've got a few five year old students these days, and though one has often been great, another has been extremely challenging. He's the only student I've ever had where I've seriously considered telling the parents that it's not working out (after 3 months). Yet, I feel strangely curious about the whole thing. I was considering the idea of concert pianists being made like cars, as Thal mentioned above, and between that and a number of other factors, I tried a(nother) new strategy on this particular 5 year old yesterday (lately I am trying a completely new strategy every, single lesson). It strangely opened my eyes and I strangely can't stop being curious about the possibilities of this situation, and so even more each day I don't give up on the situation.
Why, oh why, do I wake up so early because of music and the piano? Well, time to commence practicing for the day ... I'll be thinking clearly, I'll make a point, but I'm pretty sure that until the daylight comes, this will feel a bit like a dream.
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HEHE, I have a large bunch of mistletoe :-*
Thal
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*gives Thal a friendly, cyber foxy smooch before he can resist me!*
I feel like I'ma having deja vu ... for some reason.
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Slight increase in heart rate ;D
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Slight increase in heart rate ;D
This all sounds wonderfully healthy nevertheless!...
Best,
Alistair
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agreed
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When pianos became more widely produced and affordable, composers like Hunten & Herz made fortunes by targeting the amateur market and produced myriads of "playable" pieces for amateurs. I doubt if this was too much in the mind of Mozart or Beethoven.
What do you mean by this?
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I have no idea, I was pissed at the time.
Thal
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Well it's complicated... I was REALLY happy about December and holidays and all that... and now I don't know if I'm that happy anymore :-\ It's just that noone has any time AT ALL!! people have even less time than when it's not december and holidays! Like my mum... she is at work ALL days now! Like from 7 am to 6 or even 7 pm!! :o And when she comes home she is just sooo tired! And also I thought my friend was coming back at least for holidays but she is not...
And of course I am scared of my Christmas recital (which is in 4 days!). and I'm afraid my fingers won't be working ok! :-\
But well it doesn't matter I guess ::)
A few days ago I was dreaming that I was learning to play violin... I mean not just violin, piano too of course... but it's still kinda weird because I have never been thinking about learning violin, I really wanna try to learn cello some day... but learning violin was kinda cool in my dreams too :P
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I feel angry! You know what makes me angry? I am trying to read ONE book and I'm only about 20 pages in and I have so many deep and obssessive questions that I can hardly concentrate on what I'm supposed to be learning anymore. This is so stupid! How am I supposed to be able to learn ANYTHING like this? It just paralyzes me and I hate it.
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pheeew second recording session is over, two more to come soon...
I am knackered :P
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I feel ticked at this. I usually get something after a while... but this rhythm has driven me insane.
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So tomorrow is my Christmas recital! well.......... :P
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In bocca al lupo!!! (you have to answer under your breath "crepi lupo!") ;D
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Idk im fine thanks for asking.
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ahhhhh ... the opportunity to slow my whole inner being down and take in a day in such a quiet and peaceful way. Some of my favorite moments in the past three days are these times when even the refrigerator is not running to cool itself and the heater's fan is not blowing. And, I can't hear any cars outside or any other noise from outside and there is just this stillness in the house. This kind of calmness and stillness that becomes palpable. Today I am watching the sunset while I sit on my couch and peer out my living room window. The sun dropped behind the ridge at 3:30pm!! I've been so busy and sometimes I literally don't go outside for even a moment for days in a row, that I actually had no idea it snuck behind the ridge so early! It blew my mind!
Such a great day. Woke up, rolled out of bed, went to my couch and read and thought and went to the piano and practiced a ton. Watched some YouTubes, listened to some other recordings. Such a great day. It's not even over! Ciao!
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Good day good day. In the residential city, I never get a stillness such as that.
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Yeah, there's always some kind of tradeoff. For about 9 months I lived in a city that is 25 times bigger than where I grew up (and still live) and the house I lived in was set right against a very busy highway. It was *never* quiet and restful there. You could always hear the cars, and it's not just that you could hear the cars, but you could feel this kind of constant movement, too! All the time, day and night. But, I enjoyed being in the actual city, too, but not for the usual city life, I guess. I didn't go bar hopping or dancing or anything, but rather to the farmer's market and Saturday market and those were great there! And there were delicious resturants, too :). My favorite Thai resturants are there!
But, yes, here it's very quiet. You can hear coyotes every night, deer are all over town, there are bears and cougars right on the edge of town, and if you want to get somewhere even MORE quiet, you can be completely immersed in hundreds of miles of pure forest in every direction in about 10 minutes! When you go there without anybody else, THAT'S quiet and still!! (except, there's always the chance that something wild is sneaking up on you :-).
It's also super quiet under the ocean :).
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Yes. I love it out in the country. A five minute walk, my GF, a cell phone with chopin on it, and a bicycle always causes the best day. There is a park not to far. Off to the side, is the forest, and it gets so quiet there that you could cry hearing the music and your GF is staring you in the eyes like "Wow. So this is my BFs life." (She never understood quietness and its amazing beauty.) I also love to be in a concert hall alone playing Rachmaninoff. It brings tears to my eyes BC my mawmaw played it when she divorced. She played it amazingly. I get such an incredible moment in a few days at a HUGE church in atlanta with a brand new Bosendorfer. :D
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I get such an incredible moment in a few days at a HUGE church in atlanta with a brand new Bosendorfer. :D
Congratulations! :)
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Thank you. I can't decide what I like more... Recording alone in a huge harmonic chamber for a church or in front of thousands of people in balconies and in suits and dresses... It would be a sight.
But... I love the silence.
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Before I go, and before your day ends...... Listen. Listen to horowitz playing chpin sonata no. 2 marche funebre. good night mayla. Sweet dreams. :)
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Yes. I love it out in the country. A five minute walk, my GF, a cell phone with chopin on it, and a bicycle always causes the best day. There is a park not to far. Off to the side, is the forest, and it gets so quiet there that you could cry hearing the music and your GF is staring you in the eyes like "Wow. So this is my BFs life." (She never understood quietness and its amazing beauty.)
Women do not understand quietness and they rarely experience it as they cannot stop talking.
I took my GF into the woods once. 5 years later and she is still there.
Thal
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In bocca al lupo!!! (you have to answer under your breath "crepi lupo!") ;D
:) oh ok crepi lupo then :)
Just about 3 hours.... :-\ :P
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Women do not understand quietness and they rarely experience it as they cannot stop talking.
Hmm well funny theres this boy with me at music theory... and we usually go home with the same bus..... and he just talks and talks and taaaalksss aaaaallll the time!!! And he mostly just talks about how very talented he is and how great he is.... and I'm just like ::) ::) ::)
Oh and my dad! When he starts talking he just doesn't stop for hours!!!!! He just keeps talking and talking and we're not even listening to him anymore because we don't have time cause we have to do some other things... you know and then you go into another room or into the bathroom and when you come out after like 15 minutes or something he is still talking and doesn't even notice that you weren't listening anymore..... so..... yes..... I think you got that a little wrong Thal! :P :P
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Women do not understand quietness and they rarely experience it as they cannot stop talking.
Do not make a sexist comment. I know woman who hate noises. (Mom.) I also know woman who can stop talking. It is highly stereotypical to say such a thing about woman. (No matter how right I think you are! :D)
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:) oh ok crepi lupo then :)
Just about 3 hours.... :-\ :P
I'm back I'm back!!!!!!!! :) :) :) It was cooooooooooooooool!!! sooooooooo coooooooooool! :P :P 8) well I don't really know how I played cause I haven't listened to the recording yet but everything was really cool and people said I played very well... my mum said I never played so well before and my teacher said I played well (which she usually doesn't say) and one girls mum said that (that girl that was with me at the exams last year) and then her mum asked me if I was going to do exams for two grades again this year and i said I wouldn't (don't think I'm that good! that would be just too much)... and then there was also one woman from where my dad works and also one teacher from my school! So there was a lot of people! and then after the recital we ate cookies and candies and all that and I drank three glasses of orange juice cause I was soooo thirsty! So it was all REALLY COOL! well I don't know if I'll like the way I played when I listen to it but it was COOOL! 8)
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Do not make a sexist comment. I know woman who hate noises. (Mom.) I also know woman who can stop talking. It is highly stereotypical to say such a thing about woman. (No matter how right I think you are! :D)
I think you're a lot like that boy from my music theory class ::) .... oh or maybe all boys are like that? :-\ ::) ::)
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Eehhh... Are you talking about the gay one? 'Cus I ain't gay... Just very self-concious...
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The gay one? :-\ I don't think I was ever talking about a gay one... but whatever who CARES if someone is gay or not anyway!? I was talking about the ANNOYING one!! I have enough annoying boys at school... please I really don't need one here too! Thank you very much!!! :)
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Well said little one ;D
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Thank you Thal! :) 8) :-*
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Haha, I was going to ask if Littletune and dapianokid ride the same bus. :D
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Haha, I was going to ask if Littletune and dapianokid ride the same bus. :D
The happy one?
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Oy vey! I am practice saturated, but I can't quite bring myself to go completely away from the piano (well, I mean, it's sitting right there no matter what I do). Time for other projects! I always think though "Oh, just sit down and do that one phrase just for fun ;D" ... and then I say "YES!!! A THOUSAND times, YES!!!"
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In bocca al lupo!!! (you have to answer under your breath "crepi lupo!") ;D
Crepi lupo! Darn wolves.
Or should I say... "Fammi luce?" ;D
In groppa al riccio!
Ich kann ein bisschen Guido sein. 8)
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In groppa al riccio? I like that. ;D
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If only I spoke whatever language it is your speaking.
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With iron pants.
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Ich kann ein bisschen Guido sein. 8)
Wer ist (WAS ist) Guido?!
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Italian I thought. Looks like it's not so politically correct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_(slang)
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I think you said, "I can be a little Guido". I had no idea that guido was slang for a lower class italian! ;D
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Ah. I am the happy one. Not annoying. (I was until I had a life wakeup call. Mom left. I quit piano for months. :()
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It cant be italian.
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I think you said, "I can be a little Guido". I had no idea that guido was slang for a lower class italian! ;D
I meant in speaking of course, not in person, a tiny Italian. Or *like* a Guido. Ich kann als un Guido sein. Is dass richtig? Or it is "als ob?"... Ich kann als ob un Guido sein?
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Well then say it in Italian! Posso essere un piccolo Guido. Doesn't make much sense - mainly because Guido is only a name - but then neither does it in German! ;D Now, if you said "Posso essere una piccola guida" you'd be saying you can be a little guide. Like a tour guide. 8)
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TELL ME WHAT LANGUAGE! Before I shut off all your confusing processes.
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What language what? Italian? What was the question...? :(
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Yesterday my friend came for a visit for a whole day! And it was really cool, but then just before she went home when it was really late already she started talking about some horror movies ::) ::) ::) And she was showing me some pictures on the internet and she wanted to show me some videos on youtube (but fortunately some didn't want to work because it said it wasn't appropriate for all viewers) but it was enough what she did tell me and show me and I felt so horrible and I was sooo scared that I almost didn't sleep till 6 am !!! ::) Cause my brain just starts working too much and I get sooo scared and nervous! I just hate horror movies!!!!!! They should just distroy all the horror movies!!! >:( I hate feeling so bad and scared!!! >:( :(
And then I had to get up at 9 am anyway because I had to go get a doggy that we'll be looking after for a week! And then at 10.30 I went back to sleep again and I slept till almost 2 pm :o and in the evening I got really sleepy again and fell asleep and I woke up just about a half an hour ago or something ::) I just hope I won't be scared again!!! :( ::) And that I can sleep ok tonight!!! ::)
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I am almost too drunk to type.
Thal
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I am almost too drunk to type.
Thal
The best way to be good sir!
On topic-Convalescing after a long stay in hospital, chilling with a drink watching the storms is so relaxing :)
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(hmm it's "destroy", not "distroy") oh well...
I am sleepy again!! ::)
But today I had my piano lesson cause my teacher asked me if I wanted to have lesson during the holidays too and I said yes of course :) and it was REALLY cool today!!!!! :) 8) :P I was playing that Sonatina a lot and my teacher was like saying things all the time while I was playing and she looked like she would be playing too... :D :P (I don't know if anyone knows what I wanted to say ;D ) well it was coooooooooooooooool! 8)
Oh and yesterday I was teaching my mum how to play piano :) :P And she was learning one piece that I wrote for her (it's really easy and just 8 bars) and it was cool! :P
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Let this moment be full, no matter what seems to be lacking.
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I have been staring at a cream egg for 1 hour.
A man that can do that without eating it, can do anything.
Thal
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I have been staring at a cream egg for 1 hour.
A man that can do that without eating it, can do anything.
I could do that for far longer but, sadly, there are nevertheless many other things that I cannot do, some of which I wish that I could do.
Best,
Alistair
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I am not doin to well. I am too inactive due to school... Grrr..... I personally have found one thing good about today (besides everything not to do with this stinkin computer.). HR2. In HQ. Hamelin.
Yes! YES! YES!!!!
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I saw something weird in the sky again... something that I thought could have been a UFO! But it wasn't like last time... (with the lights and all that)... now it was more like a shadow gliding over the sky... pretty fast... but it was too big for a bird or a bat (it was kinda too dark for a bird already)... and this time I was looking at it near the window but it went by too fast for me to get a camera and record it (but it was probably too dark anyway)... I don't know why I always see this things! Oh well... :P
I earned 100 euros during the holidays!!! :P :) 8) Because I was taking care of a doggy again :) and they said they would pay 10 euros a day and so then they gave me 100 euros for 8 and a half days! :) :) 8) ... but I'll have to give 60 euros next week for my piano lessons for December...
And now someone said if I could translate something (from English to Slovenian)... and she would pay me too... but it's really a lot and it's kinda complicated because it's for college and it's something about linguistics and sign language... and some things are pretty complicated... so I'm a little worried... :-\ But I'll sure try!!! Actually I better start soon!! And maybe I can ask here if something will be too complicated for me to understand :P and then maybe Bob can help me :D ... or even Ahinton... cause he's good with complicated sentences! :D :P ... or whoever wants to help :) well we'll see :) 8)
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or even Ahinton... cause he's good with complicated sentences!
He is good at writing them.
Thal
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or even Ahinton... cause he's good with complicated sentences! :D :P ...
He is good at writing them.
As I implied above, I'm not so sure that I'm all that "good" at anything, really - I just try to do what I do in the best way that I can and know how - and, for the record, I've yet to be convicted of anything that obliged me to serve a "complicated sentence".
Best,
Alistair
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Dear tendery hearts, Do you want to know something that is all goldeny? Today I went to a solo piano concert and it made me feel like I was dancing inside. Sometimes I wanted to jump out of my chair. Sometimes, do you know what? Strangely, I felt as though he were playing just to me! Even in a room full of people, it's as though he inwardly found me, somehow. Which, is interesting as I've considered lately this very thing but from the curiosity of the performer's point of view. As a performer, what if I inwardly found one person and played to that person? That's what I think about, and what if that person from today thinks the same way? And, what if that person who he found just so happened to be me?
Do you know what else? It's like the whole world made sense for awhile. And, it's like at first I was the one playing ... I mean, I felt myself up there playing inside of his own hands ... but it's like they were mine and I was playing. And, it's like I could smell the piano. I've smelled the piano before, did you know that? Have you ever smelled the piano? Sometimes playing has this kind of scent. Well, tendery heart, I hope you are not mad that I wished to ever so slightly break your shell for a moment to tell you how much I love the piano. And, I am so very grateful to my dear teachers.
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I'm.... feeling intrinsically bursty and melty? ::) Um... spiritually in tune with the effervescences of the inner world.
Or not to all that. ::) :P
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I only have 5 piano students, therefore, I'm doing a lot of watercolor paintings for
the next exhibition for April and May. I'm doing fine other than the fact I have
been quite discouraged about students moving away or quitting...and so I'm making
a career choice of becoming a professional artist. It won't happen over night and I have
some paintings ready to get framed which is costly to do. But, I only do what I
can and embrace what life has to offer. 8)
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I only have 5 piano students, therefore, I'm doing a lot of watercolor paintings for
the next exhibition for April and May. I'm doing fine other than the fact I have
been quite discouraged about students moving away or quitting...and so I'm making
a career choice of becoming a professional artist. It won't happen over night and I have
some paintings ready to get framed which is costly to do. But, I only do what I
can and embrace what life has to offer. 8)
Go, I applaud your attitude and I wish you very much success :). Have you considered doing a kind of "formal" fundraiser for yourself? You know, be two entitites 8) ;D (whoa, I got carried away with the "t"s there). But, seriously, what I mean is ... what if you held a concert, either solo or you with as many students as you can, and it was for the purpose of raising money to have your art framed? You can give your new art career a formal name and let people come to support that.
Me, I've been up since 1:30AM. Not cool, actually. I tried for 3 hours to go back to sleep but I've got a lot on my mind. Finally, I got up and started practicing. And, do you want to know what? Just a few minutes ago, I heard the neighbor chickens wake up!! It's still dark outside, but, hey, I've got some friends now :). *waves to the chickens*
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I'm.... feeling intrinsically bursty and melty? ::) Um... spiritually in tune with the effervescences of the inner world.
Or not to all that. ::) :P
Bob! You are speaking my language :). I say-- no *demand* >:(-- that it is YES :-, YES :D, to all of that and not, not! ::) :D :)
*me starving*
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Bob! You are speaking my language :). I say-- no *demand* >:(-- that it is YES :-\, YES :D, to all of that and not, not! ::) :D :)
*me starving*
*Bob wades into the thread.*
Now I'm just amused. ::) :P
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Heh, heh, heh... *Bob wanders back into the thread wearing a black pointed hat.* ::) ;D
I feel melty again.
Really melty.
Really, really melty... Oh no! I'm melting!
I'm melting! Melting! Meh-elting.... What a world, what a world....
Wicked Witch of the West impression there. :P
Oooooh, look out! I'm going! Oooooh! Ooooooh!.....
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poor Bob-witch. mmmm ... poor boy sandwich ... *drools*
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Girls are witches. Guys are warlocks. So I would be Bob-warlock. Or Bob the Warlock.
*Bob attempts to pick up a pencil again "using the force."*
*It doesn't work again, of course.*
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We appreciate your candidness, Bob-lock, and we will review your application and be in contact with you. As well, witches and warlocks may be something of small consequence to you, but did it ever occur to you that you and this forum may actually be inside of m1469's stomach? And, that if there are witches and warlocks living in there, m1469's got ... well, I don't want to say "problems" ... but, let's just say "something to deal with". I think she has a lot on her mind now, this is huge, very huge.
*shakes hand*
*gives lollipop*
*winks*
*ushers Bob-lock out, shuts the door, sits down in leather chair at desk, puts feet on desk, folds hands over stomach, breathes deeply, looks out the window, and thinks*
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Phew.... out of that stomach. Which sounds very weird.
That was a long-winded post. If that's from within the stomach of the m1469, that means someone has gas.
Or again.... third time I think... Sounds like someone has a bun in the oven. Or gas. That sounds a lot more like a bun than previous bun-like posts.
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haha ... no bun, no bun. Not planning a bun anytime soon. Though, I do like various other types of buns, hee hee.
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We appreciate your candidness, Bob-lock, and we will review your application and be in contact with you. As well, witches and warlocks may be something of small consequence to you, but did it ever occur to you that you and this forum may actually be inside of m1469's stomach? And, that if there are witches and warlocks living in there, m1469's got ... well, I don't want to say "problems" ... but, let's just say "something to deal with". I think she has a lot on her mind now, this is huge, very huge.
*shakes hand*
*gives lollipop*
*winks*
*ushers Bob-lock out, shuts the door, sits down in leather chair at desk, puts feet on desk, folds hands over stomach, breathes deeply, looks out the window, and thinks*
So.... If no bun.... and there's a forum with witches and warlocks living in it inside the belly of the m1469..... then the m1469 has a possessed stomach?
*Bob still thinks that sounds like gas.* ::)
:o :o :o
*Bob hurries out of the thread in case any demons are released.*
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*Bob hurries out of the thread in case any demons are released.*
Hello, Bob. Didn't you have a mommy? A sister? Girls don't get gas :-.
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That's what I thought.
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It's almost like spring over here. I think I'm off for a little bicycle ride :)
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Right now my motor is running and I'm considering how to work it the right way. When I used to run for athletics, I was definitely a sprinter for the most part. And, do you know what? That was my mentality in general. But, the cool thing about basketball is that you have to be able to sprint AND have long-term conditioning that would last the whole game long. That was super dapper du fun. But, it's so interesting to consider the fact that the type of running a person is inclined towards is a kind of mental inclination or mentality.
So, anyway, I want my inner motor to be a basketball player primarily. She's the one who intelligently knows how to run plays and work with a team, but is capable of individual feats and improvisation when the moment calls for it, she can sprint and jump and be quick and light on her feet, yet her stamina is fit for an entire game. Ahh ... basketball. Generally I prefer to play than watch and sometimes I wish I had a hoop outside to just go out there and shoot once in awhile. As a matter of fact, besides a music box, that would be another thing that I want the most. I am a motor who wants a basketball hoop AND a music box. That's me.
I am learning. And, I realized even more ever so clearly, at least this great glimpse into the mathematics of music. Even though I sensed it always, I didn't truly understand more until in the last couple of days. I'm a mathematical motor person. Did you know that I've taken a mechanics class? I learned how to do the tires, completely change the oil, give the car a tune up, what the parts of the engine are ... it's been a long time now since then though. I found it fascinating.
;D
Oh yeah, and I wonder that if I knew actual mathematical equations anymore (on paper or in the air ... wherever they exist in formatily), would that help me in playing? It seems it actually would. At least some clarified principles. And, does the math change the more advanced you become as a pianist and musician? I mean, are you just doing little tiny equations at first, like little additions and subtractions ... and then multiplications and divisions ... and then, if you are an advanced player, are you doing calculus, for example (or beyond -- I don't even know what it's called)? I don't know. *burny burny* And, I wonder that if I DON'T formally know math, will it limit me in my playing? That's sad :'(.
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It's almost like spring over here. I think I'm off for a little bicycle ride :)
I hope you have a million nuggets of fun!
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It's almost like spring over here. I think I'm off for a little bicycle ride :)
Yes it's almost like spring here too! ::) And I really don't like it!! >:( It should be winter and snow!!!!!
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Thal little bike ride = 10 miles
Wolfi little bike ride = 100 miles
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How much is a mile?
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Thal little bike ride = 10 miles
Wolfi little bike ride = 100 miles
Haha, not today Thal, not really ;D In summer yes :)
@littletune: a mile is 1.609344 km
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I hope you have a million nuggets of fun!
Yes I did, it was absolutely gorgeous. I never saw such a pink sky before :) And later it turned into a bright orange :)
Oh and regarding the math thing:
And, I wonder that if I DON'T formally know math, will it limit me in my playing? That's sad :'(.
No it won't limit your playing. Bach is well known for having used many mathematical structures in his music, but I don't think that he did this on purpose, calculating how many notes and stuff like that. It was inside of himself and came out through his creative energy and potential, and of course passion :)
But one thing I realized lately: In music it's possible to play a precise polyrhythm like 5 over 3 absolutely exactly, whereas in math it's an infinite number of decimals like 1.666....
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Dumb question -- They use miles in England? I thought all of Europe was metric. Although that is where the US got it's measurements.
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Dumb question -- They use miles in England?
Yes. They even use £ and not €. And, well, I sorta think regarding the latter they might be right...
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I thought all of Europe was metric.
Not yet Bob. A little while back, we almost lost our beloved pint and pounds & ounces, but just for once the wishes of the masses were granted.
Not signing up to the Euro seems now to have been a good decision, and if we were allowed a referendum to vote on joining, it would be defeated.
However, this does not seem to have stopped our government from pumping billions of pounds into the EU, so the Greeks can retire at 46 and the Irish do not pay the price for failing to control their economy. No doubt we will also contribute when Spain & Portugal need help, whilst our own people are left to suffer due to government cuts.
Thal
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Dumb question -- They use miles in England? I thought all of Europe was metric. Although that is where the US got it's measurements.
Actually, I have a motorized music-bun in the oven.
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Oh ok thanks Wolfi! ... so Thal about 16 km and Wolfi about 160 km.... I wanna know how many km there are from my music school to my home! Because I walk a lot of times and it's pretty far... if I walk really really fast then I need 1 hour and about 15 minutes and if I walk slowly then it's 1 hour and a half or even more... I really wonder how many km that is... :-\
I am sooooo tired and sleepy now..... not because of walking or anything like that... but because I just have soooo many things to do and not enough time!! I thought I'll do a lot more this weekend... and I did do some of the things but not all of them at all! And now it's the end of weekend already! ::) and tomorrow is music theory again and I haven't practiced and learned enough and I'll do so bad at dictations again ::) and I haven't even practiced piano as much as I wanted! And that thing that I'm translating... I have only translated 3 pages! Well there are actually 2 pages on every page cause it's scaned from a book. And in the first part there are 16 pages! and then there's second part and there are 17 pages like that I think! :-\ I wanted to make a thread and ask about some things that I'm not sure about but I'm too tired now to do that ::) Does "citation" mean anything else besides quotation? I think it should mean something like a dictionary form of a word or something :-\ And does PRO.1 and PRO.3 mean like 1st person and third? Oh I have to make a thread about this things!
Why don't I ever have enough time??? That boy from music theory class said he had too much time!!! :o :o :o And that he didn't know what to do and was bored! :o :o I couldn't believe it!! How can people ever be bored and have too much time????? Well if someone has too much time they should just give their time to me!!! As much as they want! Thank you! :) I'll try to translate some more now... until I fall asleep..... :P
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The way I normally hear citation used is that it cites the source of the information. Usually for more scholarly writing there's a footnote number or author name. You can look at the bottom of the page or end of the article to find the citation, the information about the source of the information used in the article -- Author, name of the work, where and when it was published, copyright, etc. If you quote something, you should have a citation after it and information about the source somewhere, according to whatever citation format style you follow.
I don't know what PRO.1 or PRO.3 is. It sounds like version of something.
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Not yet Bob. A little while back, we almost lost our beloved pint and pounds & ounces, but just for once the wishes of the masses were granted.
Not signing up to the Euro seems now to have been a good decision, and if we were allowed a referendum to vote on joining, it would be defeated.
However, this does not seem to have stopped our government from pumping billions of pounds into the EU, so the Greeks can retire at 46 and the Irish do not pay the price for failing to control their economy. No doubt we will also contribute when Spain & Portugal need help, whilst our own people are left to suffer due to government cuts.
Thal
I don't get that. You haven't adopted the Euro but you still have to help bail out those countries. What are getting in return? Does that mean if the pound started to fail, the euro countries would get together and bail you out? As disappointed as I am with the euro and even more so now that they're letting every tom, dick, and harry into the union, I would think that England would be better off in the long run if they adopted the euro.
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1 .You haven't adopted the Euro but you still have to help bail out those countries.
2. What are getting in return?
3. Does that mean if the pound started to fail, the euro countries would get together and bail you out?
4. As disappointed as I am with the euro and even more so now that they're letting every tom, dick, and harry into the union, I would think that England would be better off in the long run if they adopted the euro.
1. Incredibly yes
2. Bugger all
3. I would doubt it
4. Almost certainly not
Thal
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Not yet Bob. A little while back, we almost lost our beloved pint and pounds & ounces, but just for once the wishes of the masses were granted.
Hardly; almost everything in supermarkets is measured in grams and kilos and we buy petrol and diesel by the litre, all of which causes confusion when people go into the pub for a pint but find that spirits measures there are in ml. Anyway, the old "imperial" measures were certainly never beloved of me; far too complicated and inconsistent.
Not signing up to the Euro seems now to have been a good decision, and if we were allowed a referendum to vote on joining, it would be defeated.
I think that delaying adopting the Euro in UK has indeed been a wise decision for the foreseeable future and, whilst I would not go as far as you in climing that a referendum to do so now would risk certain defeat, I do think that its chances of success would be pretty slim. UK is not alone in this among the longer standing member states, however; Denmark and Sweden have not adopted the Euro either.
However, this does not seem to have stopped our government from pumping billions of pounds into the EU, so the Greeks can retire at 46 and the Irish do not pay the price for failing to control their economy. No doubt we will also contribute when Spain & Portugal need help, whilst our own people are left to suffer due to government cuts.
It's not stopped the Dutch government from doing the same, either, as gep will no doubt confirm if he so chooses.
Best,
Alistair
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It's not stopped the Dutch government from doing the same, either, as gep will no doubt confirm if he so chooses.
€5billion in to Greece, €1,5 in Iceland (the Isavenot scandal), Gawd alone knows how much in Bruxelles since we've had the beloved Euro (we're the biggest net payer in the EU, and always have been so), how much in keeping the banks up is anyone's guess (think €10billion, times x), and as for the rest....
We're gonna cut some €21billion out of our own meat every year for the coming years to paste it all up, for as to ever getting anything of our money back, ah....
The only country that is even less critically in bowing for the European Disunion is Denmark I think... That said, the new sack (for the old wine, I fear) that's in place in The Hague seems a teensy bit more critical, having shot down (together with the UK) the Bruxelles proposal of stealing getting the EU taxes directly from the countries with or without their consent.
And huzzah! The Euro has been so good for us! As are all open borders to the kleptocracies and corruptocracies in the east and south from which we only benefit! Or at least, so we are told. Never mind the outflooding of our tax money and inflooding of, well, that what floats on top of society in the "new friends" from the former East Block states et altri, which is akin to what floats on top of any sewer...
Huzzah once more!
gep
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The way I normally hear citation used is that it cites the source of the information. Usually for more scholarly writing there's a footnote number or author name. You can look at the bottom of the page or end of the article to find the citation, the information about the source of the information used in the article -- Author, name of the work, where and when it was published, copyright, etc. If you quote something, you should have a citation after it and information about the source somewhere, according to whatever citation format style you follow.
I don't know what PRO.1 or PRO.3 is. It sounds like version of something.
Thank you very much Bob for helping me! :) and for not ignoring me (like others ::) - just kidding, I'm feeling a little sorry for myself now :P because I should do sooo much and I'm sleepy and my head hurts and I'm probably getting a little sick again ::) but oh well... :P )
I think I should really open a new thread about all this things because I think I should explain more what's it about and all that... but I probably won't have time now... because I have music theory and I have to go out with my dog before I go and finish homework and practice and all that............. ::) I even translated till page 4 today!!! And I only have less that half a page till next chapter!! Wow I am soooo good! I only just needed about 2 weeks to translate 4 pages!! wow! :o ::)
Oh Bob that PRO.1 and PRO.3 is about sign language..... maybe they say it like that... It's like example: PRO.1/0 WANT MEET PRO.3
"I want to meet him/her."
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Is that a language class or are you learning sign language little tune? I've never heard of translating that much if you're just starting. Are you learning English? (It sounds like you already know it.)
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Hardly; almost everything in supermarkets is measured in grams and kilos
For those of us that like to support local Saturday markets, this is not the case.
"3 KILOS OF BANANAS A POUND" does not have the right ring to it. Even worse would be "3 KILOS OF BANANAS A EURO"
We don't all jump in our Bentleys and drive to Waitrose y'know.
Thal
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And huzzah! The Euro has been so good for us! As are all open borders to the kleptocracies and corruptocracies in the east and south from which we only benefit! Or at least, so we are told. Never mind the outflooding of our tax money and inflooding of, well, that what floats on top of society in the "new friends" from the former East Block states et altri, which is akin to what floats on top of any sewer...
You are giving the impression that you are not entirely happy about Eastern European Immigrants.
Perhaps you might like to know, that they rescued the English Pickpocketing Industry that was almost dead. They have also improved the quality of prostitutes, undercut the prices charged by the Chinese for fake perfume, improved the trade in stolen landmowers and reduced the swan population.
You have to try to look at the positives.
Thal
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*Bob remembers drug dealers in the U.S. deal in kilos. Therefore, they must be on the cutting edge of measurement systems.*
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You can still buy an 8th over here old chap.
Thal
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For those of us that like to support local Saturday markets, this is not the case.
"3 KILOS OF BANANAS A POUND" does not have the right ring to it. Even worse would be "3 KILOS OF BANANAS A EURO"
We don't all jump in our Bentleys and drive to Waitrose y'know.
No, indeed - I, for one, have no Bentley into which to jump and so I get Waitrose to deliver to me - y'know.
I support markets, not only on Saturdays, when I can; many of them no longer use the old "imperial" measures either - and why should they? There's no "empire" and the measurements themselves are antediluvian, overly complex, inconsistent between themselves and, most importantly, incompatible with the Arabic way of counting and measuring in tens which we all do.
Best,
Alistair
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You are giving the impression that you are not entirely happy about Eastern European Immigrants.
Never mind Eastern European immigrants, especially since an acquaintance of mine who hails from Moldova and now lives in Belarus has said to me that he feels that he is an illegal immigrant everywhere because he comes from one country and lives in another of which both have been accused of letting go its citizens who have now become classified as "immigrants" where they now live, some of them "illegal".
I am an immigrant as a Scotsman living in England, but I don't care; I could go back to live in Scotland and still be regarded as an immigrant. I simply do not feel possessive of the country in which I happen to live, whichever country that may happen to be at any given time and regardless of the real of perceived legality of my domicile. Why should I?
Perhaps you might like to know, that they rescued the English Pickpocketing Industry that was almost dead.
Dead? Where? What's so special about Gravesend and why? Pickpocketing and all manner of other forms of thieving (not least intellectual property theft!) have been alive and well all over Britain from the time when there was first a place called Britain!
They have also improved the quality of prostitutes
I guess that I'll have to bow to your superior authority on that one.
undercut the prices charged by the Chinese for fake perfume, improved the trade in stolen landmowers and reduced the swan population.
I cannot comment about Chinese perfume, genuine or otherwise or on any non-Chinese people's attempts to fake and market it. I presume that, by "landmowers", you mean "lawnmowers". As for the swan population reduction, why not look for a great example at a distinguished knight of the realm who, despite being of largely English origin, has long since set up home in a Scottish island and who, as Master of the Queen's Music(k), has apparently become quite an authority on swan-uppingdowning?
You have to try to look at the positives.
I am - even if they're not quite the same ones as you're trying to look at.
As to those ridiculous measurements, I never did figure out how many inches there are in a gallon or indeed how many ounces make up a metre. Just as well, really.
Best,
Alistair
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You can still buy an 8th over here old chap.
An 8th (of) what?
Best,
Alistair
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You are giving the impression that you are not entirely happy about Eastern European Immigrants.
Perhaps you might like to know, that they rescued the English Pickpocketing Industry that was almost dead. They have also improved the quality of prostitutes, undercut the prices charged by the Chinese for fake perfume, improved the trade in stolen landmowers and reduced the swan population.
You have to try to look at the positives.
Thal
I'm far from happy about a certain fraction of Easter European Immigrants, namely that part that, as I said,
floats on top of society in the "new friends" from the former East Block states et altri
There are plenty of hard-working people coming in, doing jobs nobody else will do (or do for that wage), and to that I do not oppose. However, the wisdom of Bruxelles demands that we let in everybody without any problem, and there are quite a few who take the wrong advantage of that. And I would very much want the gov put a stop to that, if only not to hinder those who wish to come and be a contributing part of society. There are plenty of Poles (where I live many Polish have come to work in the flower growing industry) who find it increasingly hard to get a job because of the increasing mistrust generated by the increasing number of drunk and stealing compatriots.
As for the governments in some of thos coutries, well, they are a joke (and please note there are two ways of pronouncing "joke"), and I very much dislike something like the Greece of Rumanian government having any influence in my (or any other) country.
What I worry about is my country handing over our autonomy to the so called "Union". I'm all for coöperation within Europe, but I would like that my government, for what it's worth, is and remains in The Hague, rather than in Brussels, so that any last decision is made by my government, and not by the corrupt misbegotten parliamentable junk that is in Bruxelles.
all best,
gep
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Well said that man.
Thal
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Is that a language class or are you learning sign language little tune? I've never heard of translating that much if you're just starting. Are you learning English? (It sounds like you already know it.)
No I'm not learning sign language (although I was thinking it might be interesting and useful sometimes)... I'm helping someone who doesn't speak English very well... but she is in college already so that's why it's really complicated sometimes... And she needs to write a paper (or somethig) about sign language. And the book that is about the research of sign language is in English, so now I'm trying to translate all that into Slovenian so she'll understand everything. And she said she would pay me too :P :)
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Today I didn't have piano lessons :( because my teacher got sick...
But yesterday was REALLY cool at music theory class!!! When we were writing music dictation I didn't have ANY mistakes AT all!!! :o I really couldn't believe it!!! And I was the only one who didn't have any mistakes! :o I really don't know how that is possible, I don't really understand but it just seemed so easy! (cause usually it seems really difficult and I'm all nervous and I'm getting confused) But yesterday was just so weird! I could just hear everything so right! And I was so sure about everything... and once I saw that the boy who is sitting next to me wrote something completely different than I did... but I was still so sure I was right... (usually I would think that I must be wrong)... I don't know... and I just kinda knew the notes I mean specially the g just kinda rings really nice in my head :D it's funny :) I wish it was always so easy!!! And that I would always hear everythng so right and be so sure about all the notes! I mean I have been practicing a little, but I really didn't think it could be enough! So I'm not sure if it was because of that... :-\ I don't know... I guess we'll see :)
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I love my piano lessons verrrrryyyy much, too, Littletune :-[.
But, okay, I just read through the Mozart Fantasy in c minor, K. 475. I listened to Gould, again, who is becoming one of my fav. piano players (even though I didn't *love* his interpretation of the Fantasy), to my surprise. That was a goal of mine before I started this project (and the inventions are on hold), to find out who I actually really like and who I don't like AS much, and why.
Anyway, it was very interesting to read through it. Even while I was listening to Gould play, there came some spots where my ear was anticipating particular ouchy notes (mistakes) that I would always make when I played it years ago. See, that Fantasy and Sonata grew to mean SO much to me, they almost defined my insides or so, that to have some sounds engrained and then the way it used to feel in my body, that was a really big deal. But, do you know what? I read through that sucker and it felt COMPLETELY different than when I played it ever before. I thought it would maybe never change, but it has. It is liberating for me to read through it and know the language so much more, to have things be SO much more clear to me. All of the tension and awkwardness that I used to feel in it, all of the unhealthy angst, it's completely gone. I'm going to read through the sonata today (soon), too, and I imagine it will be a pretty great experience. Not TOO much more to go on the Mozarts, and already it's completely helping my perception of music in general and all eras within Classical music, but on the Classic era music, especially.
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heh heh heh ...
Firstly, I really like Gould's interpretation of the Sonata in c minor. Secondly, it's a pretty great thing, this reading through it! I could actually express what I had always wanted to, but had never before felt able to. I am free now, from the impression this left on me from years ago. It's as though I was frozen in time, but I'm not that person anymore and it doesn't have any more power over me! At some point, I will most likely do the same thing with all of that rep., but this was a really good place to start. It's like looking at a completely different reflection in the mirror :). Only 3 more sonatas to go, yippee!
Oh yeah, and I still LOVE these works (maybe now more than ever), the Fantasia and the Sonata in c minor, I want to play them for the rest of my life :).
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I love my piano lessons verrrrryyyy much, too, Littletune :-[.
:) you mean when you're teaching someone or when someone is teaching you or when you're teaching yourself? :)
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:) you mean when you're teaching someone or when someone is teaching you or when you're teaching yourself? :)
I love time alone, and I love also to be able to share what I love with other individuals who may happen to love the same thing (in their own way, of course).
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Just in case littletune is making toys, I would like a hairy spider.
Thal
(https://i881.photobucket.com/albums/ac20/littletune98/spider.jpg)
A hairy spider for Thal! :) :P 8)
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Right now my dad has one of his loooong talks about life and how you have to do what everyone else is doing and all that...something... I'm not really listening anymore :-\ I'm listening to music (with my earphones on :-\ so I just hear a voice from time to time in the background... I know that's kinda bad but ... :-\ ) He thinks we're talking :-\ even though I'm not saying anything at all, cause even if I say something he continues talking about the same things... so it doesn't really matter if I say something or not... so I better not say anything and hope he'll finally stop taaalking ::)
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... but it makes me a little sad anyway... :(
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HEHE, that is really lovely.
Thanks for my hairy spider.
Thal
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(https://i881.photobucket.com/albums/ac20/littletune98/spider.jpg)
A hairy spider for Thal! :) :P 8)
He was not talking about this kind of spider ;)
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He was not talking about this kind of spider ;)
Oh well then I don't know what kind of spider he was talking about! ::) I mean I know it's not a real spider it's just a picture of a spider but it's still better than nothing! And if he was talking about something else then I don't know about what... and I don't care... he said he wanted a spider and he got a spider!!!
HEHE, that is really lovely.
Thanks for my hairy spider.
Thal
:) I'm very glad you like the spider Thal! You should think of a name now :P :)
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hee hee :) that spider is very cheery and cute :)
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Thank you Wolfi! :) I think so too :) which is kinda weird cause I was drawing the spider while I wasn't so very cheery :-\ Maybe it's like that so that when you aren't so very cheery you look at this spider and it cheers you up! :) :P 8)
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:o :o :o
*Bob has a heart attack at the sight of the spider.*
I hate bugs. (Bugs as a general term, which includes spiders in this case.)
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:o :o :o
*Bob has a heart attack at the sight of the spider.*
I hate bugs. (Bugs as a general term, which includes spiders in this case.)
But you do know that in the house they are an augury of good fortune, don't you? Never, ever, kill them. >:(
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(But you do know that in the house they are an augury of good fortune, don't you? Never, ever, kill them. >:(
Yes Bob! Don't even think about killing a spider cause you'll have bad luck if you do!!!
I mean I'm scared of big spiders too if they're inside, but we just take them out... somewhere where it's safe for them.
(https://i881.photobucket.com/albums/ac20/littletune98/spider.jpg)
A hairy spider for Thal! :) :P 8)
Look Bob it's a really nice spider!!!!!!! Just happily hanging above your head smiling at you :) How could you hate this cute spider? :o :P :)
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Now I'm a little better... cause I wasn't so great this week :( but whatever... today I had piano lesson finally! cause it seemed like I didn't have a piano lesson for sooo long! And my teacher told me we would have a recital in March... sometime at the beginning of March... but I don't remember exactly when :-\ I'm not even sure if my teacher told me exactly when or not :-\ oh well... and she asked me if I would play Sonatina for that recital, and I said I would, cause I really like it.... but I am kinda worried anyway :-\ but oh well.... and I saw the doggy after a long time... well actually it wasn't so long cause I saw him last week on monday, but usually I see him also on tuseday or on wednesday and then on monday again (but this week we didn't have music theory on monday)........ I know I know noone cares about all this I'm talking too much ::) and noone will even read it so whatever ::) :P
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I know I know noone cares about all this
I don't think that is true.
You are much loved in this place.
Thal
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Thank you VERY much Thal!! You are sooo nice! :) Maybe I'll draw some more spiders for you sometime or something :D :P 8)
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I don't think that is true.
You are much loved in this place.
Thal
I'll second that!
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I AM ANGRY
Just checked my latest order from the British Library and there is a page missing :(
On my previous order there was 7 pages missing :(
Not amused >:(
Thal >:(
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I'll second that!
THANK YOU Birba! :) :) Do you want me to draw something for you too? :P :) 8)
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THANK YOU Birba! :) :) Do you want me to draw something for you too? :P :) 8)
Can you drawm me? So i can use it as avatar :D
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I AM ANGRY
Just checked my latest order from the British Library and there is a page missing :(
On my previous order there was 7 pages missing
Perhaps they're improving...
Best,
Alistair
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Well, that is the positive way of looking at it. However, one missing page of a Potter is as equally frustrating as a rondo of a Wilms.
Let us see what they do with my latest order for a Barker.
Thal
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Well, that is the positive way of looking at it. However, one missing page of a Potter is as equally frustrating as a rondo of a Wilms.
Let us see what they do with my latest order for a Barker.
Probably the same as if you ordered the boy Mozart's K9.
Best,
Alistair
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Can you drawm me? So i can use it as avatar :D
Well that's not so easy to draw real people :) are you the guy who is playing something that looks like pan flute in that video you posted? :)
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Well that's not so easy to draw real people :) are you the guy who is playing something that looks like pan flute in that video you posted? :)
Yes :)
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Our neighbour is completely crazy again!!! Today she was taking picture of my mum and shouting through her window at 7 am when my mum was going to work!!! She thinks my mum has toys in her bag (or a purse) and that she is selling them at preschool then!!! ??? ??? ???
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I have been working hard on Chopin's Etude Opus 10 No. 1, and the arpeggios are coming along
smoothly. This piece I have been working on for 2 years...and I have enjoyed learning
it. Then, Debussy's First Arabesque is coming together finally! The poly-rhythms are quite enjoyable to play, and I love this piece when I can truly express myself!
I have been doing a lot of water color paintings, only the 4x6 size, so it doesn't take
as much time to complete one. I plan to submit 3 paintings for another exhibition in my hometown for April and May. Oh, I still teach my 5 students and they are a delight! 8)
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I wish I could draw >:(
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I wish I could draw >:(
If rabbits be the food of love, why don't banjos play music?
Best,
Alistair
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haha ... I'm *exhausted* from a week with piano monsty.
*refueling* ;D :D ;) :) :o 8) :-X :- :-*
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Well tomorrow is a cultural holiday in Slovenia! It's Prešeren day :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre%C5%A1eren_Day
so it's school off day tomorrow and also today... but we have music theory today anyway :-\ well not that that's bad... but I would still rather have piano lesson than music theory ::) which I don't have, cause I usually have my piano lessons on tuesdays and tomorrow I don't cause it's a holiday. :-\
But I am going to a concert tomorrow!!! :P :) :P well there won't be any pianos but I think it will be cool anyway 8) It will be a precussion concert and there's also supposed to be a harp and a horn. :) And it says it's for the young (from 5 to 99 years old) and for all the rest who are interested :) And it's at 10 am, which is kinda funny cause usually concerts are in the evening right?... but maybe that's cause it's for the young :D :P :) Well we'll see tomorrow... I mean hear :) :P 8)
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It was cool at music theory!! 8) Well it was kinda funny cause it was only me and one other girl :) noone else showed up! I guess they're all on holidays... and then first we were writing two dictations (one with melody and one with just rhythem, but it wasn't that easy cause it was 6/8 time signature) and I didn't have any mistakes at all!!! :o I couldn't believe it! and then we were sight singing three exercises... and then we were listening to music! 8) To Beethoven's 6th symphony and to Tchaikovsky's Swan lake and to Vivaldi's Spring! It was cool! 8) :) :P
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Harp rulezz 8)
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Yes the harp was great... well everything was great :) :P and there were two different harps... one large one and one smaller one celtic harp (that a little girl was playing)... but I wanna play marimba :D :) :P It's cool! 8)
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I'm sick... well I'm better today... and I was at music theory today (we had it on a Saturday because once we didn't have it on a Monday)... and it was great even though I wasn't feeling so well... but the dictation was cool and at the end everyone was still correcting some things and the teacher asked me if I had finished already and I said I guess and she corrected it and I didn't have any mistakes and she said excellent you may go now... :) and I could go a little earlier because others haven't finished yet... and then I went to see the doggy and I gave him some treats and I wanted to take a picture cause he was so cute but the battery in the camera was too low! >:( oh well... but that doggy is really cool! 8) And I don't know if I'm really getting better at those dictations or am I just lucky now and I'll get worse again later :-\
Sorry for not saying anything smart again :(
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Today was snowing sooooooooo much in the morning when I woke up! It was soo cool! And beautiful! I had to take pictures and record it! :P
(https://i881.photobucket.com/albums/ac20/littletune98/sneg1722011007.jpg)
(https://i881.photobucket.com/albums/ac20/littletune98/sneg1722011009.jpg)
(it's just snow recorded through my window at 7 am, nothing so very interesting :) only if you love snow as much as I do! :) I thought my cat would be in a video too, cause she was waiting for her food and meowing but I guess she was too quiet... ) :P 8) :P
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I love snow.
I hate brazil -.-
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:) :P Oh but don't hate Brazil because of that, I'm sure there are a lot of other cool things in Brazil and you can go on holidays somewhere where there's snow. :)
So we have winter holidays!!!!!!!!!!! :) :P :P But I will have piano lesson next week anyway :P
I will start learning a new Sonatina (from C. Gurlitt) I will probably play it for my grade 3 exam at the end of the year. My teacher said I will have to play it with a lot of musicality and listen to myself a lot...
Next month I will have my piano lessons really late... in the evening... because I will have school till 4:30 pm on tuesdays ::)
I thought people on the street were kinda weird today :-\ oh well... and our neighbour was banging on the wall (or ceiling) yesterday and today morning again ::) :-\ ... whatever...
We have winter holidays now!!!!! :) :P 8)
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So now I played a piece: Snowflakes Gently Falling (by Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee) and added it to the Snowing video from yesterday... cause I thought it would go well together... :)
So just in case someone would want to look at the snowing video with music :D :P well I know probably noone really would but ...
:P
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Littletune that was SOOOOO captivating! Melancholic and wistful. With just a handful of notes you captured that bleak atmosophere of snow falling outside your window. You've certainly got a real artist soul inside of you!
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Thank you very much Birba! :) :) I'm glad if you liked it! :) 8) :)
And I really hope I will learn soon how to show my soul even more and better!! :) :P 8)
Thanks! :) (And say hi to your Jackie!) :)
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Oh I just wanted to say... I think someone on youtube thinks I'm fat or autistic or both :-\ Because someone who has videos about losing weight and autism on their channel has invited me to become friends :) oh well... I guess I could lose some weight (my mum better not see this :P ) and it is also true that once one psychologist said that maybe one of the reasons why I'm so weird (well she didn't say it exactly this way :) ) could be that I was a little autistic... so well yes :) :P
Oh and I have my recital on March 5th (Saturday)... and that is exactly when there's this thing in my country, kinda like Halloween in America, except it's not :) It's called "Pust" and I think it's meant to scare the winter away so that the spring can begin :) and you dress up in different things... :) so that's exactly when the recital is :) so I'm thinking I would dress up as something :) well at least I'll have something in my hair for sure! :) So that's really cool 8) it should be fun... maybe it will be less scary :)
well but the not so great thing is that the recital is in the same place as last years spring recital :-\ and that is not so good... because last year we weren't even playing on a piano... just on a keyboard with (a little) weighted keys and it was moving and shaking all the time :-\ but well I hope it will be cool anyway! :)
Oh and I'm taking care of one doggy during the holidays again ... she just came today. :)
And maybe my friend comes for a visit tomorrow. I'm talking sooo much again I don't even mean to... :-\ ::) :) :P :P
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I'm not doing very well :( :'(
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WHERE IS MY DRAWING??!!
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Oh, do you mean the drawing of you? That I am supposed to make?
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Oh, do you mean the drawing of you? That I am supposed to make?
Yes :'(
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Yes :'(
Oh ok... well I promise I'll try to make one as soon as I can :) Do you want your lion to be in the drawing too? :) :P
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Sure 8)
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Ok :) I'll try it :)
I can't believe it but I got sick again today! I mean my dad got sick on Saturday so I guess I got it from him, but I thought I already had what he got, cause I was sick only 2 or 3 weeks ago!! But I guess it wasn't the same thing! :-\ But I wanna go to music theory today anyway!! ::)
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No my mum wouldn't let me go to music theroy :'( Because I have a fever of 39,4 ° C (I don't know how much that is in the other measurement in F but over 102 I saw it in wikipedia). What if I miss something reaaaalllyyy important now!!?? Or I get worse at music dictations again? and then I fail my exam at the end of the year!?? Sorry I know I'm being a whiny baby now... ::) :P I mean I don't feel that bad! I was really like :o when I saw how much fever I had! Oh well :P
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Oh I'm still sick!!! And today I can't go to my piano lesson :'( Even though I only have a little fever now, but I look horrible, because my eyes are red cause I'm sneezing all the time and my nose and mouth are red and I am tired but I was hoping I could go anyway (cause it would be the last time before the recital!) And my mum called my teacher and asked her about what to do... but my teacher is REALLY afraid of getting sick and she said I played the Sonatina well already so I better stay home... so....... yes I'm just home all the time this week... and yesterday I should have really gone to school because I should have asked my slovene teacher about the home reading and now I don't know how to do it! ::) oh well... let's just hope I'm better till Saturday when it's my recital!
Oh and I just saw the program for Saturday's recital and it's kinda stupid because first I play the whole Sonatina (1st and 2nd movement) and then right after me another girl (who's with me at music theory) plays the same Sonatina only the 1st movement :-\ (maybe they thought I would still be sick) Oh well whatever I guess :)
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I feel pretty damned good today.
Just come back from the gym having showed the youngsters a thing or two.
Start with my personal trainer next week. She is really pretty :-*
Thal
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Oh well..... there's really too many things now! I better not even start writing about all of them!! It just kinda seems like this year hasn't started all that great :-\ I mean there are still some things that are great but there are some things that are really bad... so :-\
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How sad, littletune.
My year started good. I will make a test this month, and if I do well, i will get a good job near my town :).
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Unsaid goodbyes tend to weigh a person down much more than unspoken hellos, I think that must be a very difficult way to live. With some hellos it's almost unimaginable for them to have never taken place, and I guess that can make the goodbyes much more difficult. I wonder which one we each choose to avoid the most? Hello, or goodbye? And, maybe if we avoid hellos, it's because we're really avoiding goodbyes.
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I am listening to a CD that a student's Mother wanted me to listen to. At first I resisted, but now I'm listening and I actually love it. It's Joanna Newsom. I can't remember the last time I have just sat down like this to listen to music, not to study it, not because I'm in the car and it's a good opportunity, but just because I want to. It's really fun :).
And, tomorrow, I think I'm even going to go on a hike with my doggy.
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How sad, littletune.
My year started good. I will make a test this month, and if I do well, i will get a good job near my town :).
Good luck with your test! :)
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I feel good today. I am pleased with my weight loss and am beginning to get my muscles back.
Look out girls, here I come.
Thal
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Hmm I'm doing well! :P I went to music theory today (after not going last week cause I was sick). And it was great I didn't have any mistakes at music dictations and intervals!!! :P 8) :) I am tired but oh well.... and I also have piano lesson again tomorrow after 2 weeks!!! :o (because of being sick)... so that is great! And I also started playing my second Sonatina with both hands together, even though I was supposed to practice hands seperately... and i did but then I didn't have piano lesson for soooooooo long that I tried it hands together too.......... and I LOOOOVEEEE IT! :D :) 8)
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Im a bit happy.
Im polishing the Revolutionary Etude now. I can play the whole etude at full speed, but I still make some mistakes. I think tomorrow it will be complete. It took 7 weeks for me to finish it :(. Fantaisie-Impromptu was going pretty good, until I start practicing the B section, that looks like pretty easy but is a hell. I also want to start a Scarlatti Sonata, but I don't know wich one :p. I'm waiting for my "The Pop Piano Book" and "The Hammond Organ Complete" books arrive, so I can start studing some popular piano. Hum, let me see...Im also researching about the Gaia Hypothesis, greek mythology and im donwloading Halo 2 :D. I'm also playing the PC version of Resident Evil 3 (i wanted to play the 1 and 2, but they don't work on my notebook :().
Yeah, thats it.
Edit: Oh, i also discovered that i'm with dandruff on my head =(((((((((((((((
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*lights everything on fire*
*runs around wildly with a stick, underwears on head, pants on arms, shirt as a skirt, bird's nests as shoes ... "
*points stick to earth and opens a huge crack*
*demands* "RELEASE THE CRACHON!"
*sits down and quietly eats a bowl of grubs like popcorn while watching the mayhem*
Fin.
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Free Bradley Manning. Seriously.
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Weird.... Weird, weird, weird.... It's like there was a jail break at a mental institution. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest around here.
*Bob ponders the apparent "coincidence" that Japanese nuclear facilities are melting down.... and just after that things start getting nutty on the PS site.... Yes...*
*Bob puts hand to chin and strokes non-existent beard to help him think.* Hmmm.... I don't have enough facial hair to figure this one out....
Ah, yuck. Yuck. m1469 ate grubs. Ick... *Bob goes to bed.*
Yeeeuuck. Grubs? Ew....
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Confused about the forum.
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Ah, yuck. Yuck. m1469 ate grubs. Ick... *Bob goes to bed.*
Yeeeuuck. Grubs? Ew....
Not Ewwww ... they were delicious, Bob! Lightly buttered and salted, a little nutritional yeast, even a tiny bit of pepper. You missed out.
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*Bob is not sorry to miss out on that.*
I prefer accidental cajun mini pizzas.
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TH (I (A (SEC (MESSAGE) RET) ) S) IS
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*Quantum is slightly confused with the current forum activity as of late*
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Yes! :P :)
*Littletune feels kinda proud now* 8)
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Oh I have to say some things about this week... because I didn't have time yet because there are so many things going on on Pianostreet lately! :P
Well one thing is... I was kinda angry at my parents yesterday (specially my dad) because some stupid guy made them buy something we don't need at all!!! :o That stupid guy just started putting things in the car (while my dad was waiting for my mum) and I don't know how he convinced my dad (because usually he doesn't even listen to people who want to sell him something) but he made my dad buy some things for cooking or something!!! :o :o And my dad payed him..... :-X 250 euros for that!!!!!!!!! and we DON'T need it at all!!!!!!!! I mean the worst thing is that if I asked my dad to give me 50 euros for my music school he wouldn't!!! Or he would after 2 hour long talk about how stupid and useless it is to pay so much money for music school! And I'm scared every month that my mum won't have 60 euros and something for my piano lessons... and sometimes she doesn't and she has to call my teacher and ask her if she can wait... (and she always does and she's really nice about it but it's kinda embarrassing anyway!) and sometimes if I have enough money I pay myself and then don't have any money at all! So it's just really stupid that I have to feel bad about money for my music school and he just gives 250 euros for something we don't need at all!!! I mean 250 euros is for 4 months of my piano lessons or for a whole year of music theory lessons!!!!!!! :o I better don't even think about it!! And then when my mum came there too and that stupid guy said to my mum: Here mam or madam (or however you say that in english) this is a gift for you! and he gave her a watch... and then he said ok now give me 20 euros!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????????????' :o If I was there I would start screaming!!!!!!!!!!! I mean a gift is for free!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You don't pay for a gift!!!!!!!!!!! >:( >:( >:( And my mum gave him 20 euros!!!!!!!! I can't believe it!!!!!! WHY??? But she said that that guy was just so horrible and he just wouldn't stop.
Ok so now the good things :) :P We were of course writing a dictation again at music theory and the teacher said that it was going to be a more difficult one... and then I didn't have any mistakes at all!!!!!!!!! :o I just couldn't believe it! when my teacher was checking my dictation I was expecting her to start correcting some notes but she just didn't :o cause I got them all right!!!!!!! :P I'm really happy! :)
And I was helping again someone (who's in college) with translating something... I mean I had to find some answers from the text in English and answer questions in Slovenian... so I did that and then yesterday she told me she got all the points for it and that she was the best in class at doing that! :P And then bought me a pizza :P but first she ordered the wrong one that had meat on it :-X and I don't eat meat and then she ordered another one without the meat but she gave me the one with the meat to take home so today my parents ate it :P So I earned for my parents food today :P :) 8)
Oh and also yesterday when I came to my piano lessons my teacher was just talking to another teacher about some students who don't practice and are kinda bad and have to repeat one bar 20 times and still get it wrong... and then my teacher said: Well it's a good thing that she (me) comes cause she gets everything right :) and I mean I don't really (she was kidding a little)... but it was cool anyway :P and she also said I learned the first movement of my second Sonatina really well :P (but I didn't learn Menuet so very well ::) so she said when I was leaving: and learn that Menuet! :P but she was smiling so she wasn't really angry or anything :) )... so well yes... I think that's all I wanted to say for now :P
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Littletune now I think the best is you meet this guy who made your dad and mom pay for things they don't need, and ask him about his methods... ;D
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Littletune now I think the best is you meet this guy who made your dad and mom pay for things they don't need, and ask him about his methods... ;D
;D Oh so I could make them give me money too? :P
(oh and I think there are some pots or something from Switzerland!!! :P )
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My dad said today that he felt like he was hypnotized when that guy made him buy those things... he said he doesn't understand why he bought them! And he feels bad about it now. Cause otherwise he never listens to people who are trying to sell him something! So that was weird :o
And what's also weird is that they looked at the prices of those things... and the real prices are like REALLY high!!! So my dad gave really little money really! Cause when they were looking at the real prices it should have been like 4000 euros all together !!!! (and my dad gave 250!) :o so now they don't know why... :-\
Oh I guess I should learn hypnosis... :D and then convince my dad that music school and piano are the greatest and the most important things in the world!!! :P
Oh and I forgot to say that I gave some of the pizza to that doggy at music school too :) He's sooo cool and cute 8) I always wanna take him home! :)
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My dad said today that he felt like he was hypnotized when that guy made him buy those things... he said he doesn't understand why he bought them! And he feels bad about it now. Cause otherwise he never listens to people who are trying to sell him something! So that was weird :o
And what's also weird is that they looked at the prices of those things... and the real prices are like REALLY high!!! So my dad gave really little money really! Cause when they were looking at the real prices it should have been like 4000 euros all together !!!! (and my dad gave 250!) :o so now they don't know why... :-\
Oh I guess I should learn hypnosis... :D and then convince my dad that music school and piano are the greatest and the most important things in the world!!! :P
Oh and I forgot to say that I gave some of the pizza to that doggy at music school too :) He's sooo cool and cute 8) I always wanna take him home! :)
Lol. I asked my father something like 60 dolars (100 reals) to buy some books, and we almost had a fight. One week later, he borred aroud 3600 dolars (6000 reals) to my brother change his car.
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Lol. I asked my father something like 60 dolars (100 reals) to buy some books, and we almost had a fight. One week later, he borred aroud 3600 dolars (6000 reals) to my brother change his car.
:)
:o That sounds really unfair!!
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Surprisingly, I feel fine...
Learning new songs with the band feels nice.
Afterwards though, the LSS is insane.
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I'm a bit sleepy bo-deepy! No time for naps, though :- >:( :'( :). *forges ahead*
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How I'm "doing" has been alright...play piano and violin, doing artwork, writing essays of thoughts and poetry(I'm in another forum for writers).
Waiting for warmer weather with sunshine....been a bit rainy and cloudy this month of March.
I still have 5 piano students though....been that way for over a year and
they are fantastic students. :)
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How I'm "doing" has been alright...play piano and violin, doing artwork, writing essays of thoughts and poetry(I'm in another forum for writers).
Waiting for warmer weather with sunshine....been a bit rainy and cloudy this month of March.
I still have 5 piano students though....been that way for over a year and
they are fantastic students. :)
Go, I'm not sure how you pay the bills, exactly ( ;)), but your life sounds wonderful ;D :D :o.
Why are you not 12_3GO! ? It seems, a little bit, as though maybe you are slightly (to be kind) backwards about it? It's okay, though, I still like you ;D.
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woot! *Gorgeous* day today! I'm lovin' me some gorgeous dayz! 8) woot! I even went on a walk this morning, which was absolutely *fabulous*! Pretty soon, I'll be plannin' my garden and weeding my patch.
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Well, progressively today, I'm having a very nice day! I am grateful to my wonderful teachers :).
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Go, I'm not sure how you pay the bills, exactly ( ;)), but your life sounds wonderful ;D :D :o.
Why are you not 12_3GO! ? It seems, a little bit, as though maybe you are slightly (to be kind) backwards about it? It's okay, though, I still like you ;D.
I don't think you need to worry about how I pay the bills..... ;)
It's my little secret you know 8)
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I don't think you need to worry about how I pay the bills..... ;)
It's my little secret you know 8)
Well, rest-assured, I'm not at all worried about it :D! And, in no way do I intend to "infringe" upon your little secrets! I was actually happy for you, as I honestly think it sounds like a nice life, and, hey, if you don't have to worry about paying the bills, then more power to you!
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Would you like to know what in the world happened last night?
I went outside quite late (for me) and just looked up at the night sky; it's been quite awhile since I last did that, though it's been one of my favorite things over the years. And, I just was speaking with my guts to the Universe about some things, and right at that very moment, the only shooting star of the evening (that I saw) and by far the hugest one I've ever seen (other than a huge actual meteorite I once saw years ago, that never burned out from my eyes and was seen even in the whole state where I live!), tore across the sky! It was so great :).
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i'm fu***** sad
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I'm sorry you're sad :( I hope you feel better soon! :)
Would you like to know what in the world happened last night?
I went outside quite late (for me) and just looked up at the night sky; it's been quite awhile since I last did that, though it's been one of my favorite things over the years. And, I just was speaking with my guts to the Universe about some things, and right at that very moment, the only shooting star of the evening (that I saw) and by far the hugest one I've ever seen (other than a huge actual meteorite I once saw years ago, that never burned out from my eyes and was seen even in the whole state where I live!), tore across the sky! It was so great :).
That's cool! 8)
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Well today I had piano lesson. And I also had it on tuesday. :) And I was late really a lot both days! :-[ On tuesday I was 20 minutes late... and today 15! :-[ It's just so horrible I never know how long it will take for the bus to come there, sometimes it's really fast but sometimes it's just standing all the time! ::) Today when I saw that we were not moving anywhere I just got off the bus and then walked really fast and ran a little and I was faster than the bus!!! And I had a longer way to go! and I was sill faster! :o ::) But I was still 15 minutes late... and then I had to say hi to the doggy but then my teacher saw me... because usually I have piano lessons in another room, but today we were in the room that has a window from which you see the doggy... and so she saw me and started calling me and she was a little angry... and first she thought I was 30 minutes late cause she thought I had lesson at 15. 15. but I had it at 15. 30. and then she said that the other girl has a lesson 15 minutes after my lesson ends so I had 45 minutes of lesson anyway :) well but I know I shouldn't be late... :-[
and well actually I even had a 50 minute lesson because when that girl came we were choosing pieces for our exam together (cause that girl is grade 3 too like me). And so now that girl got a Menuett (that Mozart wrote when he was 6) - the one I was supposed to play at first, because this one is a little easier and cause that girl is younger (she's like 9 or 10) she got it and I got Menuet by Bach that's a little more difficult. But it's really well known... I've heard it really a lot of times already (but I don't remember exactly where :-\ , probably on youtube played by some 5 year old or something ::) :P )... Oh well then I will just learn that Mozart's Menuett by myself when I have time :P
But it was really cool 8) So now I know 3 pieces for my exam! Just two more! :P And my teacher said that you only had to play 2 or 3 pieces without sheet music! But I don't really have problems with that so I think I'll play all of the pieces without sheet music anyway.
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My head hurts now, I mean it's starting to hurt more and more! :-\ how annoying ::)
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I just did my first set of "squats" since ... well, maybe like 14 years ago :o. I only squated the bar :-[. But, two more sets to go of those, and then I'll get a few sets of bench pressing in, some stomach crunches and maybe some push ups ... that will be my workout for today! BUT, I'm really pretty stoked about it! AND, I already sung a little, I've practiced a decent chunk of piano repertoire (still lots to go!), I've done some thinking, I've read a little bit about teaching voice ... but I'm particularly happy about the squats. Time to shape those buns and thighs, I say. Time to shape them somefin' fierce! >:( ;D :o. Remember, you want to use your core and you want to explode out of the bottom!!! Explode, I say! Explode! That helps to increase your jump reach, too! :-*
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Squats are not good for ladies as they widen the hips.
Probably OK if you are just going to use the bar though.
Anything over 200 kilos I would be a little worried about.
Thal
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Squats are not good for ladies as they widen the hips.
Probably OK if you are just going to use the bar though.
Anything over 200 kilos I would be a little worried about.
Thal
I'll trust my experience, thanks! :D
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And it's sooo late again! ::) How very annoying! >:( :P But I'll have more time tomorrow. (I hope!!)
But my piano lesson was great and now I know 4 exam pieces already, just one more missing. :P
What are squats? :-\ I mean I've heard about them a lot of times but I don't know what kind of exercise that is exactly.
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What are squats? :- I mean I've heard about them a lot of times but I don't know what kind of exercise that is exactly.
Except, she has bad form and is whimpy. She looks like she's actually almost never done them before (and definitely not free weight). The third person is the best (so far, I didn't watch more so I don't know if there's more people).
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hahah ... there's like an army of spotters.
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Wow that looks difficult! :o I mean it kinda makes me feel tired just looking at it :D :P But I'm not a weak girl! So maybe I would get used to it anyway :P
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The live orchestra is a nice touch.
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Hi Littletune!!
I can not help smile and admire at the way you write ... it is so spontaneous and so honest !! ;D
My dad said today that he felt like he was hypnotized when that guy made him buy those things... he said he doesn't understand why he bought them! And he feels bad about it now. Cause otherwise he never listens to people who are trying to sell him something! So that was weird...
This is fairly common here ... and yes, hypnosis must be the medium. We had a neighbor who met someone in church who befriended her and before she knew it she was withdrawing from the bank all her savings and gave it to this stranger she just met. The police readily acknowledged that this type of crime is fairly common. I had a student a few years back who took a taxi to school rather than the train as she was running late. Instead of paying the fare she readily surrendered her 1 carat diamond ring, her watch and earings when the driver nicely asked her. She was bewildered at her stupidity! ;D
Now.... 4,000 Euros for pots and pans!! :o ... must be made of silver!! ;D ;D
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Thanks Emill! :)
So it's really possible that someone just hypnotises someone and makes them just buy something or give them money :o That's scary!!
Although I think it wouldn't be all that easy to hypnotise me! :P Cause I have a really strong will! :P Even when I was just a little baby, once I wanted to have something and my mum wouldn't let me and she took it away from me and then I started crying so much and for so long that I fainted ;D :P And then my mum got really scared and she took me to the doctor and the doctor said there was nothing wrong with me just that I must have a very strong will! :P :P So that's why it's not always all that easy with me! ::) :P :) I mean it's not so easy for my parents... :-\ :)
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I'm ok :) I have been a little bit ill this week (I was able to go to school, but my head was hurting like hell and I couldn't think that good). Yesterday I had piano lesson = the best day of the week!
Today I have been practicing a piano concert with a small orchestra of violins, a cello and a bass cello (I don't know the name of it :o ) for the first time :) That was fun! The youngest of the people there was about 20 years older than me, but most of them were much older (some of them were like 80 years).
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Didn't practice the piano that much today. I sat down in front of it, reading the score (slooooooooooooooowly) trying to memorise bits and pieces of it, but it never really clicked. Guess I need to work on my sight reading more. Wonder how I should go about that... Anyone got sight reading exercises to suggest, mayhaps?
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Well... today problems with the crazy neighbour again! ::) She says we're making horrible noise all the time and specially at an impossible night hours when we're playing piano, drilling and hammering... so yes... cause you know... we don't ever sleep or eat or anything... we're just playing piano, drilling and hammering all days and nights! Hmm maybe we're not really making toys like she first thought... maybe we're making pianos!!! 8) Although I'm not sure if you make pianos with drilling and hammering :-\ but oh well... or maybe we only need piano and music to keep us alive! I mean you know like some people who say that they don't ever eat that they just live from the energy of the sun or something... well maybe we don't need any food or rest or sleep because we get all the energy from music!! That's why we are playing piano all the time and that's why we can work all the time all days and nights without any rest!!!!! Yes I think that's it!! :P
Oh and then we started arguing again of course... first my mum and dad and then my dad started saying to me things about school and all the things I do wrong and all the things I should and shouldn't do and as if everything was my fault and as if I'm the horriblest person in the world and all that... and I know I'm not so very great and I know I do a lot of things wrong and I know I should do more for school and more at home and all that and I know I'm a difficult kid sometimes so I feel bad about it all the time... but then when he started talking like everything was my fault and like I was the horriblest person I just got really angry and I started arguing with him and I started screaming and then in the end I said why doesn't he just throw me out the window and then I said I was going to jump infront of a bus when I go to my music school... and then my mum got all scared and hid all the keys and said she won't let me go out with my dog and to my music school! so yes it was really fun ::)
But at music theory was cool 8) cause I only had one mistake with the intervals! :) :) 8) And now I really have to go to sleep cause I have soooo much things tomorrow! Good night!... yes I'll go play piano so we can have some music for dinner and get some energy and then go drilling and hammering! :P
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. . . but then when he started talking like everything was my fault and like I was the horriblest person I just got really angry and I started arguing with him and I started screaming and then in the end I said why doesn't he just throw me out the window and then I said I was going to jump infront of a bus when I go to my music school... and then my mum got all scared and hid all the keys and said she won't let me go out with my dog and to my music school! so yes it was really fun ::)
Now do NOT be a NAUGHTY girl ... please don't threaten your parents, especially your dad that way ... you do not realize how much stress it can cause a parent!! ;D :o :o (and you will be a parent someday!)
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Yes I know that was a really bad thing to say :-[ but it's just that when my dad starts saying all the things that I do wrong I just feel like I'm the horriblest person in the world and that it would be better for everyone if I didn't live at all... that's why I said that. And I know my dad doesn't really mean anything bad but he just makes me feel sometimes like I'm sooooo horrible and then I think well if I'm soooo horrible then it would be better for everyone if I wasn't even alive. I know that's stupid :-[ :P
Oh something good about school! I have a new math teacher!!! :) And she's really nice and cool! 8) She seems better than the one we had before... well I mean the one we had before wasn't that bad... I mean she wasn't mean (like one other teacher I had) but she just didn't know how to explain things but then she wanted us to understand everything right away anyway ::) so that was scary so I really started to hate math... I hope it will be better now! :P
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littletune, I think you're lucky you don't have an asian parent;
If I ever said that to my mom, you're sure to find me outside of a smashed window... ;D
In other news, if you're wanting to learn English words, the English word for
"to throw out of a window" is defenestrate ;D
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Defenestrate ;D that's funny... Oh you mean she would throw you out the window? :o I don't believe that!! Oh my dad said that if he ever said that to his dad he would throw him out of the house (not like through the window just like "get out" ) but I don't really believe that either :P But I know it's a bad thing to say anyway ::)
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believe it :)
I've been thrown out of the house on a number of times (by my mom), once in the middle of winter with nothing except for a T shirt, and pants. Not even shoes, socks, a coat etc; stayed outside for a whole 24 hours before my dad dragged me inside and forced me to apologize to my mom.
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Wow! :o And you didn't get sick? Oh but I mean she wouldn't throw you out of the 4th floor window!! :o
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littletune, I think you're lucky you don't have an asian parent;
If I ever said that to my mom, you're sure to find me outside of a smashed window... ;D
In other news, if you're wanting to learn English words, the English word for
"to throw out of a window" is defenestrate ;D
Defenestrate... kind of like in French... Fenêtre, which was once spelt fenestre :O :D
PS: Don't stereotype Asian parents ::)
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PS: Don't stereotype Asian parents ::)
Agreed :)
I'm actually doing quite well - on top of my work for once! And yet, I'm not sleeping any more... I think at least in part because I've conditioned myself to feel "lazy" for sleeping more than 5 hours... stupid overachieving/procrastination university culture >:(
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I feel like I haven't been on Pianostreet for sooo long! I had sooo much to do! And that translating thing was really difficult and sooo much work! I'm really tired now! But we have almost holidays!!! :P
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I'm pretty stoked right now, as I've just received an email informing that I am a winner of a huge prize.
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I'ma spiceya meata-balla.
*bring it*
??? <----- that's my meatball face with smoke coming out of it.
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I'm sleeping.
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I'm sleeping.
You type in your sleep? A-May-zing!
Best,
Alistair
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I'm so hungry I could eat a bear.
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I'm so hungry I could eat a bear.
Jessie...have you seen my improv. on the improv. section?
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I'm still looking for it. I'll post when I find it.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! *panic mode*
Haven't practiced properly for almost a month >_<
Ever since I moved in with my boyfriend (in a 10sqm apartment) I haven't had a place to have my digital piano at so that I can sit down with it whenever I feel like it. This has kinda killed my "practice at the very least an hour per day" life-style, and I'm hating it!
Can't wait to get a new bigger apartment. :S
*hides in a corner and mopes silently*
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My feet hurts! I have bought new soles (I'm kind of flat foot). I'm not really used to it, so it.. hurts..
But now I'm going and practice piano, so the pain will GO AWAY :D
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! *panic mode*
Haven't practiced properly for almost a month >_<
Ever since I moved in with my boyfriend (in a 10sqm apartment) I haven't had a place to have my digital piano at so that I can sit down with it whenever I feel like it. This has kinda killed my "practice at the very least an hour per day" life-style, and I'm hating it!
Can't wait to get a new bigger apartment. :S
*hides in a corner and mopes silently*
That's entirely wrong. Don't wait, don't hide'n'mope, just get out of this situation. Asap. Just my opinion.
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That's entirely wrong. Don't wait, don't hide'n'mope, just get out of this situation. Asap. Just my opinion.
It's really difficult though, I'm between jobs, and my bf is a student, so we can't buy a new apartment until I get employed again. >_<
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You type in your sleep? A-May-zing!
Best,
Alistair
Yeah, I'm a-may-zing like that :P :).
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It's really difficult though, I'm between jobs, and my bf is a student, so we can't buy a new apartment until I get employed again. >_<
So sorry to read that :'( But perhaps your digital needs less than 2 sqm? :)
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So sorry to read that :'( But perhaps your digital needs less than 2 sqm? :)
Well, it doesn't need much more than that, but the apartment barely holds a small bed that we share, and two desktops, one each. We are incredibly cramped for space.. Perhaps if I find a better piano stand I can make it work. : /
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If you have a digital like the Yamaha P85 you could search for a cheap foldable stand, and if the piano isn't in use, fold the stand and put the piano somewhere in a corner, or under the bed.
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If you have a digital like the Yamaha P85 you could search for a cheap foldable stand, and if the piano isn't in use, fold the stand and put the piano somewhere in a corner, or under the bed.
When my home was in reform, I had no place to put my DP too. When I wanted to practice, I just put it over my bed and at the end I kept under the bed
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If you have a digital like the Yamaha P85 you could search for a cheap foldable stand, and if the piano isn't in use, fold the stand and put the piano somewhere in a corner, or under the bed.
When my home was in reform, I had no place to put my DP too. When I wanted to practice, I just put it over my bed and at the end I kept under the bed
^ this is kinda the issue, I need it to be available at all times, otherwise I lose focus too easily to practice properly. I need to have it nearby, and ready to play at, otherwise it takes too much effort to set it up. (Got a Yamaha NP30, seemingly the best choice for the price/key-quality/sample-quality ratio)
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i think you should start a topic about your problem.
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i think you should start a topic about your problem.
Dunno, I can't even think of a feasible solution at the moment. We got zero space, and little to no money to spend on anything at the moment.
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I'm cool 8) I'm learning a lot of music theory now... And I'm happy because I got back the test from Saturday (when we had exams at our music school) and I couldn't believe it!!!!!!! I didn't have any mistakes!!!!!!!!!!!! I got 100% :o I was like: WHAT?? when my teacher told me... and she said she was really happy and that that's really special to get 100% (and it was a long test, two pages and also two dictations at the end)... I can't believe it!!! And then others said I was a nerd ::) (or I'm not sure if that's the same word as in my language, but something like that), but they were kidding... specially one boy was joking about it all the time and then I punched him in the arm a little :P
And then when we were checking some exercises (that we had for homework) the teacher asked me: Did you have any mistakes on this page? and I said: no, and she said: ok I'm just checking if I did everything right... and then she was asking me all the time... :) and I mean it's cool and I was happy, but it's scary too... I mean it's like everyone now expects me to do everything right and that I won't have any mistakes... and it's scary because I know I can still make a lot of mistakes and I don't want people to be disappointed then :-\ Oh well...
this is my 100% and I got a smiley! :) :) :)
(https://i881.photobucket.com/albums/ac20/littletune98/test.jpg)
Well I'm really afraid I won't do so good at that other school cause I'll be nervous :-\ ...
Oh I forgot to ask my teacher something... when you're conducting (if that's the right word)... do you do it the same for 3/4 and 3/8 time signature? Or can it be different? Or is it always just the same? (I mean like the way you move your arm).
Oh... something that I saw today... is it a "piece" or a "peice"? :-\ I'm confused :-\ Because I think I was writing it the wrong way all the time... or maybe I was at first writing it right and then started writing it wrong :-\
Oh I'm also not sure anymore if it's "Tuseday" or "Tuesday" :-\ How annoying! ::)
Well I think I'll go sing the sight singing exercises now... :P I really started to like it now :P
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Am I only imagining or are people really ignoring me most of the time lately? Well I mean it's ok, it's just that I always start to worry if I said or did something wrong...
But well... I wanted to say that usually it's really cool when it's Friday... but today I REALLY wish it wasn't Friday yet!! Because then there's only a weekend and then........ a really difficult and scary week!!!! :-\ I have something scary almost every day next week! And what if I'll have a bad week?? And I'll do really bad :-\ :'( I'm really scared!!
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Im tired of this all :-\
This week was terrible for me.
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I think I am *ever* so slowly awaking from a piano-induced, digesting piano-matters, coma, from throughout the past couple of weeks ... *yawns and stretches*
Pretty soon I will be WIDE awake ... methinks ;D (RAARRRRRRRRRR)
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Am I only imagining or are people really ignoring me most of the time lately? Well I mean it's ok, it's just that I always start to worry if I said or did something wrong...
But well... I wanted to say that usually it's really cool when it's Friday... but today I REALLY wish it wasn't Friday yet!! Because then there's only a weekend and then........ a really difficult and scary week!!!! :-\ I have something scary almost every day next week! And what if I'll have a bad week?? And I'll do really bad :-\ :'( I'm really scared!!
No you aren't being ignored, dear Littletune! :) And good luck for the scary things!!
I have had some "scary stuff" too. Today I had my final exam for singing and music with babies and I was very nervous!! But all went well and I now am officially certificated :) Plus I played three pieces of my Styx program for an Alumni meeting of my school in the evening, and that was quite heavy, (but it was very important for me to play there!!) since I also had of course not only to prepare my own (though only simulated) Baby lesson the days before, but also follow all the exam lessons of the other participants of that baby seminar today, during the whole day. So I basically had no time to practice for my recital at the Alumni meeting! :P
And of course all the teaching and preparing my student's concert for next Saturday had to happen as well during this time.
So now I am not only tired, but actually inexistent!! :P
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No you aren't being ignored, dear Littletune! :) And good luck for the scary things!!
I have had some "scary stuff" too. Today I had my final exam for singing and music with babies and I was very nervous!! But all went well and I now am officially certificated :) Plus I played three pieces of my Styx program for an Alumni meeting of my school in the evening, and that was quite heavy, (but it was very important for me to play there!!) since I also had of course not only to prepare my own (though only simulated) Baby lesson the days before, but also follow all the exam lessons of the other participants of that baby seminar today, during the whole day. So I basically had no time to practice for my recital at the Alumni meeting! :P
And of course all the teaching and preparing my student's concert for next Saturday had to happen as well during this time.
So now I am not only tired, but actually inexistent!! :P
I think it's very cute, and of course wonderful, but also very funny (for some reason) anytime you say about music with or for babies. It always makes me laugh. And, it is for some reason funny anytime you say about the babies at all, like when you said "that baby seminar today" ... haha. Well, please always "talk" about it as you wish, because I really do think it's great! And, congratulations on several things, I guess :), btw! But, I guess I just always picture all of these babies being around, maybe kind of laying there doing sometimes almost nothing ... and, they are just absorbing music and being musical in their own ways, but not everybody would think so! Yet, it's true! I guess I picture you being musical with babies and it just seems great and makes me smile :).
Anyway, congratulations again :).
And, yes, best wishes in your studies, Littletune!
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I think it's very cute, and of course wonderful, but also very funny (for some reason) anytime you say about music with or for babies. It always makes me laugh. And, it is for some reason funny anytime you say about the babies at all, like when you said "that baby seminar today" ... haha. Well, please always "talk" about it as you wish, because I really do think it's great! And, congratulations on several things, I guess :), btw! But, I guess I just always picture all of these babies being around, maybe kind of laying there doing sometimes almost nothing ... and, they are just absorbing music and being musical in their own ways, but not everybody would think so! Yet, it's true! I guess I picture you being musical with babies and it just seems great and makes me smile :).
Anyway, congratulations again :).
And, yes, best wishes in your studies, Littletune!
Yeah that's exactly what I feel too, m1469 :) I am fascinated by how receptive babies are to music. They absorb it with their whole being. I attended a lesson where the teacher put all the babies on the grand piano and played, so they could sense the vibrations, and they were just plainly fascinated, making huge round eyes ! :)
I hope I can start a class after the summer break :)
And I learned a lot during these seminars. For instance, did you know that very little babies have the ability to close their ears? You can put them under the grand and play full throttle and they would just sleep right away! I have seen it in one of the lessons and I was very surprised!
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I think this forum is ok. I'm visiting it from time to time. People ask questions that sometimes concern my current state in piano. These questions are sometimes answered in a very helpful manner which many(including me) find useful. Sometimes if I can help answer someone's question I do so immediately.
At first I thought the board "Anything but piano" was useless. But then again, I see some threads going pretty badly and the board "Anything but piano" is a good respite for this site. I browse threads here until another "interesting"/"useful" thread pops up in the other boards.
A good stop over.
so... that's how I'm doing right now in this site.
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a lot of people here seems to be in music school, or has a music-related career. im not. i feel quite wierd because my life doesn't really consist of musical stuff much, if anyone gets what i mean? i just go to a normal highschool and play online games all day. and practise like crazy before a performance at school (i take music as a subject). im supposed to be preparing for this performancex2 that's coming up very soon. but i have no motivation. that's why im on pianostreet, to find motivation! ;D
btw littletune, it's piece, not peice. (just remember 'i' before 'e' unless after 'c') and it's Tuesday, not teusday. you should practise your spelling honey :) how old are you?
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Actually, I like when forums have off-topic areas so you can get to know the people behind the posts. And Littletune, do you live in the US or an English speaking country?
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No you aren't being ignored, dear Littletune! :) And good luck for the scary things!!
I have had some "scary stuff" too. Today I had my final exam for singing and music with babies and I was very nervous!! But all went well and I now am officially certificated :) Plus I played three pieces of my Styx program for an Alumni meeting of my school in the evening, and that was quite heavy, (but it was very important for me to play there!!) since I also had of course not only to prepare my own (though only simulated) Baby lesson the days before, but also follow all the exam lessons of the other participants of that baby seminar today, during the whole day. So I basically had no time to practice for my recital at the Alumni meeting! :P
And of course all the teaching and preparing my student's concert for next Saturday had to happen as well during this time.
So now I am not only tired, but actually inexistent!! :P
Thank you Wolfi! :) And congratulations! :) 8)
And thank you m1469! :) :) That thing with babies really is funny :) I mean babies are funny anyway... they're like different kind of beings :D (well I know that some grownups think that about kids too :) ).
@bellywelly: Thanks for telling me about the spelling :P Well I usually don't make so very a lot of spelling mistakes... (I learned a lot on Pianostreet! :) ) And I'm 12... (for now :P ).
@floydcramerfan I don't live in an English speaking country :) I live in Europe in a small country Slovenia :) But thanks for thinking I live in the US or an English speaking country! :) That's cool! 8)
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Well today we were writing a music theory test... and... it wasn't so very difficult... but the melodic dictation was weird! It was like the teacher said that it was going to be in E-flat major and she said we have to be careful about the B flat and E flat and the dictation started in B flat and it was confusing!! And then at the end she said that she was just joking and that it was really in B-flat major! :o So that was weird... and confusing :-\ but oh well... Tomorrow I have the sight singing exercises and intervals... I'm scared :-\ (specially cause I don't know how I did with the test :-\ ). I'll go practice now! And if I'll get a bad grade I'll go do the exam in September again!! Cause I don't want a bad grade!!! :(
And then we also tried playing a little on the piano and in the room where we'll have piano exam... and the piano sounds cool!! 8) But sometimes you have to press the keys a little differently... and we didn't have enough time so we couldn't play all of our pieces. I wish we had more time with that piano!!! :)
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Hmm that sounds like it was a bit mean of that teacher :(
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Yeah that's exactly what I feel too, m1469 :) I am fascinated by how receptive babies are to music. They absorb it with their whole being. I attended a lesson where the teacher put all the babies on the grand piano and played, so they could sense the vibrations, and they were just plainly fascinated, making huge round eyes ! :)
I hope I can start a class after the summer break :)
Well, without you needing to reveal secrets, I will be interested to learn how it goes for you, how you enjoy it yourself :). hee hee ... sorry, I have to laugh again about all the babies on the piano ... haha ... how many were there? :) I can just picture their huge round eyes and several times throughout the day today, I have randomly pretended to be one of those babies on the piano, making huge round eyes, thinking and feeling what a baby would feel, and think about what that looks like. I know, that's weird, but I guess I'm a little strange :). Of course, this is not something that is entirely secret :).
And I learned a lot during these seminars. For instance, did you know that very little babies have the ability to close their ears? You can put them under the grand and play full throttle and they would just sleep right away! I have seen it in one of the lessons and I was very surprised!
No, actually, I had no formal idea! I find that surprising and very interesting ... thanks for sharing these things :).
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Well, without you needing to reveal secrets, I will be interested to learn how it goes for you, how you enjoy it yourself :). hee hee ... sorry, I have to laugh again about all the babies on the piano ... haha ... how many were there? :) I can just picture their huge round eyes and several times throughout the day today, I have randomly pretended to be one of those babies on the piano, making huge round eyes, thinking and feeling what a baby would feel, and think about what that looks like. I know, that's weird, but I guess I'm a little strange :). Of course, this is not something that is entirely secret :).
No, actually, I had no formal idea! I find that surprising and very interesting ... thanks for sharing these things :).
I know next to nothing about babies' responses to music but I do remember years ago a pianist making sure that his very small baby got held up against the framework of the piano while he played Boulez, Xenakis, Stockhausen et al in order to try to ensure that, if she didn't eventually get to feel as though she grew up with this music right from the get-go, it wouldn't be his fault.
Best,
Alistair
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And thank you m1469! :) :) That thing with babies really is funny :) I mean babies are funny anyway... they're like different kind of beings :D (well I know that some grownups think that about kids too :) ).
Yes, I'm happy I am not entirely the only one who thinks it's a little bit funny :). I know what you mean regarding babies being sort of like different beings, and I know what you mean regarding some adults thinking that kids are like different beings, as well. It seems that kids often think that adults are entirely different beings, too! I myself don't exactly think that way, and I honestly don't remember ever thinking that way about adults. In fact, I always, always gravitated towards individuals who were older than me, as I felt I generally related better with them (as far as I could relate with people at all, anyway). That has changed a little for me, by now, though! Not that I don't relate with people who have more years than I do (I go to coffee sometimes, for example, with a woman who is perhaps 35 years (?) my senior and that feels entirely natural and comfortable). I remember sometimes when I was a kid, I'd see on movies about adults who didn't like children and that never made any sense at all to me... I always thought "now, that is really stupid! Everybody was a child sometime, so you are saying basically that you don't even like your very own self, and you don't even realize what you're saying!" ... hee hee. I guess that's a little bit of a tangent.
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Well, without you needing to reveal secrets, I will be interested to learn how it goes for you, how you enjoy it yourself :). hee hee ... sorry, I have to laugh again about all the babies on the piano ... haha ... how many were there? :) I can just picture their huge round eyes and several times throughout the day today, I have randomly pretended to be one of those babies on the piano, making huge round eyes, thinking and feeling what a baby would feel, and think about what that looks like. I know, that's weird, but I guess I'm a little strange :). Of course, this is not something that is entirely secret :).
No, actually, I had no formal idea! I find that surprising and very interesting ... thanks for sharing these things :).
Hee hee ;D :) there were like 4 or 5 babies on that grand :) I felt like being one of them myself :) I remember when I was little (like 3-4, so not a baby anymore) I used to creep under the grand and to listen to my dad playing and sometimes I was moved to tears, especially when he played Beethoven, Mozart and Schumann.
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I know next to nothing about babies' responses to music but I do remember years ago a pianist making sure that his very small baby got held up against the framework of the piano while he played Boulez, Xenakis, Stockhausen et al in order to try to ensure that, if she didn't eventually get to feel as though she grew up with this music right from the get-go, it wouldn't be his fault.
Best,
Alistair
Yeah, I think I can relate to that! :) I wonder who that was and how it turned out for his daughter later in life :)
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Yeah, I think I can relate to that! :) I wonder who that was and how it turned out for his daughter later in life :)
After being subjected to those composers, she either ended up in prison or the looney bin.
Thal ;D
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After being subjected to those composers, she either ended up in prison or the looney bin.
And the source of your evidence is?...
Obviously you've made that up, otherwise you'd know which!
For the record and for the avoidance of doubt, incidentally, I was not the father concerned (and I did say that he was a pianist, after all)...
Best,
Alistair
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Yesssss!!!!!!! I got the best grade at music theory!! Which is a 5!!!!!! :) yes!!!!! I'm really happy! :)... and I would have gotten 100% at the test... but there was this exercise where you had to write two scales: a B-flat major and a A-major and the first had a treble clef written in the beginning and the second one had a bass clef... and I didn't see that!!!!!! and I wrote it as if it was a treble clef! ::) so that was stupid of me!! But it doesn't matter I still got a 5 (I think I just got it cause I got 98%) and I didn't have any other mistakes, not even in dictations!!!!!!!!! yes!!! I couldn't believe it! cause it was confusing and it didn't make sense cause she first said it was in another key, but I got everything right anyway!!!!!!!! Yeeeeeeeeeees! :) And they said I was sight singing really well and I got all the intervals right!! :) And then one of the teachers came out and she said: the test was 5 and now you got 5, so you have a 5! And then she shooke my hand and said congratulations :) and she said: continue this way! :) (and she didn't say that to anyone else that had exam before me!) :) :) 8) :P :) I'm really happy! :) 8)
But yes I'm still very worried about the piano exam on Friday! Even though I love the way that piano sounds!!! And I really wanna play it... :) but the exam is scary!
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Hmm that sounds like it was a bit mean of that teacher :(
Well... it was weird... and I mean otherwise she was really nice! So... maybe she just made a mistake and said the wrong key and then she saw that she made a mistake but she didn't want to say that she made a mistake and then she just said she was kidding a little... I don't know... :)
Yes, I'm happy I am not entirely the only one who thinks it's a little bit funny :). I know what you mean regarding babies being sort of like different beings, and I know what you mean regarding some adults thinking that kids are like different beings, as well. It seems that kids often think that adults are entirely different beings, too! I myself don't exactly think that way, and I honestly don't remember ever thinking that way about adults. In fact, I always, always gravitated towards individuals who were older than me, as I felt I generally related better with them (as far as I could relate with people at all, anyway). That has changed a little for me, by now, though! Not that I don't relate with people who have more years than I do (I go to coffee sometimes, for example, with a woman who is perhaps 35 years (?) my senior and that feels entirely natural and comfortable). I remember sometimes when I was a kid, I'd see on movies about adults who didn't like children and that never made any sense at all to me... I always thought "now, that is really stupid! Everybody was a child sometime, so you are saying basically that you don't even like your very own self, and you don't even realize what you're saying!" ... hee hee. I guess that's a little bit of a tangent.
Well sometimes I like better being around grownups too... but not all grownups!... some are boring ::) :P like some grownups just grow up a little too much and then they're like robots or computers, like their brain just gets stuck... I like the grownups that are funny and goofy sometimes and are like kids too in some ways and like to do a lot of things :P
And my dad has always been saying to me like: oh when I was your age I thought everyone who was older than 20 or 30 or 40 was soooo old! And I never understood that :-\ cause I never see people like that... well except maybe if I hear about someone who is like 100 or even over 100 years old and then I think about how old they were when I was born and it's kinda funny if someone was like 90 years old already when you were born! :) It's kinda hard to imagine :) :P
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whooopsies! Don't know how those thoughts got out!
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Thanks m1469!! :)
Why did I say that I have my piano exam on Friday? :o Because I don't! I have it on Thursday! :-\ That's weird... I really don't know why I wrote Friday!?
Oh yes I'm sure that it's not fun for the neighbor downstairs... I sure would never want to be like her! Cause it must be really sad to have a life like that! :-\ :(
Well I'm not sure if I understand completely everything you wrote (maybe I will a little later :) ), but I guess it's true :)... but there are also people who are kinda happy with their lives even if their life seems really boring... :P But I guess that's ok... just as long they're happy... :)
Oh and I hope you don't think I think you're boring!... cause you're like just completely the opposite of boring :P And Wolfi too! And some other people from Pianostreet too :P :) 8)
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Oh and I hope you don't think I think you're boring!... cause you're like just completely the opposite of boring :P And Wolfi too! And some other people from Pianostreet too :P :) 8
Well, it could cross my mind :). But, the truth is, whether or not I am boring, more than anything I am aiming I guess to survive, and I think that's what anybody is aiming to do, really. Everybody does that in different ways and "surviving" means something different to everybody I guess, but sure, there are seemingly personality tendencies involved, too :).
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Well... it was weird... and I mean otherwise she was really nice! So... maybe she just made a mistake and said the wrong key and then she saw that she made a mistake but she didn't want to say that she made a mistake and then she just said she was kidding a little... I don't know... :)
Yeah perhaps it was like that and she hadn't intended to be mean.
Just some thoughts: I don't think it takes anything away from "our" credibility or authority as a teacher if we admit that we have been wrong at something or made a mistake. Anyway everybody makes "mistakes" and, curiously, the more engaged and interested we are and the more we try to do everything right, the more mistakes can happen. That's just how we are, as humans. But we tend to get inhuman if we are pretending to never make mistakes at all.
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I have been staring at a choccy shortbread for 3 hours.
Thal
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I have been staring at a choccy shortbread for 3 hours.
Thal
haha ... ;D I am actually about to eat my choccy snack of the day :).
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Are you referring to chocolate? Dang it, I want some. And Littletune, you go girl. You rock on your exam and I'm sure you're going to ace your piano exam, too.
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I have been staring at a choccy shortbread for 3 hours.
Thal
eat it.
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I admit that was the eventual result.
Thal
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Well, it could cross my mind :).
How could that even cross your mind?? :o You're sooo cool! 8)
And Littletune, you go girl. You rock on your exam and I'm sure you're going to ace your piano exam, too.
Thank you Floydcramerfan!! :) 8)
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Oh well I have to say... I am very sad now :( :'( Because... in our apartment building (not inside, outside on the stairs, just where the stairs start) birds made a nest and first noone even noticed them, and now the two baby birds got bigger already and they were sometimes looking out of the nest and so you could notice them if you looked up... but they were so good and always quiet and they weren't throwing anything out of the nest or anything (there weren't even any egg shells, nothing, they were so good, just like little ghosts or angels... but I was scared all the time, because I know there are some mean people living here... that's why I didn't even say anything about them or tell anyone because I was afraid that something bad would happen to them if I said something... and today the nest was gone! :'( I'm sooooo sad! I just can't stop crying every time that I remember it! It's so horrible! Why would anyone do something like that!!!?? they weren't bothering anyone they were so good and quiet and clean and they would probably just need just a few weeks to grow up a little more so they could fly away... why WHY did someone do that??!!!!!! I'm so sad!!!!!!!! And I'm so angry... I threw the wet and dirty paper towel on the floor! Cause I was crying. And I'm going to make the stairs dirty all the time now!! so that the people who are obsessed with that will go crazy! And I'm going to write on a paper: What did you do to the poor birdies??! And I will put that on the stairs... and when they'll put it away i'll make a new one.... till they go crazy!!! because someone is also always throwing away posters, like if someone's pet gets lost (like cats, or birds) and someone makes a note or poster and says if someone sees that pet if they could call them, that always disappears after a few hours if it's anywhere near our apartment building. So I'll be writing that for ever now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't even know how I will play at my exam tomorrow..... :'( I'm too sad!
And today in the morning my bird just started flying and making noise in his cage, just for no reason.... I think maybe he knew that someone was hurting the poor birdies :'( :'( :'(
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That's indeed very very sad Littletune!! :( It seems there are people who hate life so much that they do everything against any utterance of living beings, be it music, or litte birds, or children playing :(
In our courtyard there are two big signs that playing football isn't allowed, but all the children here play football in spite of these signs and nobody but perhaps one person has anything against it. I am happy when the kids can play here and I don't care at all about that sign. And I think a lot of people here think like me :) But I know, at many other places this might be a huge problem and subject of discussions and arguments.
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Aww, what kind of straightie would hurt the poor birdies? I'll come over there and whack them with my cane, the mean people, not the birds, of course.
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Yes I would wanna beat up the people who did that with the birdies!
Well I have a lot to write now... I am VERY happy about the piano exam that I had today, but I am still VERY sad because of the birds :( I just can't stop thinking about that and it just makes me soooo sad... I know people don't understand how could someone be so sad because of that, but I don't know... I think I can feel the souls of other beings and if something bad happens to them I feel that too and it really hurts me!
Well yesterday I wrote on two papers: What have you done with the poor birdies?!? And I put them near where the nest was... and today there were two more papers where some people asked what happened to the birds and how could someone do something like that... so at least some other people think it's horrible too! But then later today my papers were gone... but those other two were still there maybe because they were really high (almost near the ceiling, so I don't know how they could reach so high, but I guess they were really tall... or they reached it some other way)... and then I wrote another paper saying the same thing just with two crying faces like :'( :'( and I taped it there again when I went to my piano exam... and I also saw that someone put the paper that I wrote first somewhere on a higher place but the paper was all like torn and crumpled, so I guess someone was angry because of the paper and threw it away but then someone else found it and put it there again. And now my mum also wrote something and she will put it there too... so... I guess that's all we can do... at least if that horrible person would tell us where the nest is (if they didn't kill them :( ) and we could see if the birdies are ok... but I don't think they will tell us :( and someone wrote that they probably won't tell because they're such cowards!
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Right now I'm nervous.. Tomorrow I will have a piano lesson on KMH (Royal College of Music, in Stockholm) with a really good teacher (probably on a Steinway D ;) ).
ARGHH
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Oh so yes now about the exam... that was really great!!!!!!!!!! :) Well at first it was really scary but then it was really great at the end! :) It was like this:
First when I came to that school, the other piano teacher from our music school was kinda upset... and she was saying that the teachers (who decide what grade you get) are really too strict and unfair and that they don't give the highest grade (5) to almost anyone and that some of the kids really played well but they just got a 4. So that was really scary! And then those teachers came out and they looked scary too... and then one boy had exam (but he's not from our school) and he came out and said he was disappointed because he got less than 5 and then one teacher came out and said that it wasn't even for a 4 but that they'll give him a 4 because they see that he's been practicing (something like that, I don't know if I heard everything completely right).
And that other piano teacher (from our school) just kept talking about how they're too strict and she said that one teacher said to her: Oh how can they even do the exams if you're just a private school... where do you even have enough space and the right pianos and rooms and things like that... so I just thought: oh so I guess noone from a private school can get a 5... and I didn't think it was right that she was saying all that when we were there because I think she just made us more nervous and scared. and my teacher tried to calm her down but she just wouldn't stop... And the most annoying thing was that this teacher was complaining last year too (when we had exams at a different school) and she was saying all the time how horrible and unfair they were there and that we needed to go to another school next year, because there they are just too horrible... And I just couldn't understand that because they were all sooooo nice to me last year at that other school... they were smiling and saying that I shouldn't be afraid and helped me and my teacher cause we had problems with the chair... so I just couldn't understand why she was saying how horrible they were and what a horrible school that is (because I liked that school soooo much and everyone was so nice to me)... so ... I guess this year she doesn't like this school either :-\ ::) well she said that the teachers for music theory were a lot better, but I guess she liked the piano teachers even less... because this year I think there weren't that many 5s.
So I just went to warm up and I was thinking ok so I guess we can't really get a very good grade anyway... so then my teacher came to get me... and she said that I shouldn't be scared that they're nice but strict but that I should just play my best and not worry and things like that... and I was the last one! and there were also two other girls who were before me and they didn't tell them the grades yet because they wanted to hear everyone (or something like that, cause we're all grade 3). So then I went in and it was scary... and it's a lot bigger hall than at that other school last year... and the piano seemed sooo large! But then when I looked at the keys they seemed so small... I mean just normal, I guess I expected them to be really large too... so I adjusted my piano chair by myself this year :P And then I started playing, I think I needed really a long time every time before I started playing... I made some little mistakes but not that horrible ones I think, and the biggest mistake was at Bach's Menuet, because somehow my fingers weren't on the right keys all of a sudden, and for a while I still kept playing with the wrong fingering but then I just couldn't anymore and I rather stopped playing with my left hand (that had the wrong fingering) and I played one or two bars just with the right hand until I could continue the right way with the left one again :P ... so when I finished they said: thank you and I said if I should wait outside and my teacher said yes and I went outside and we were waiting with those other two girls... and I was still a little scared but I was happy and I had a good feeling and I thought well I did my best and I don't think it was bad so it will be whatever it will be :) and then one girl just asked me if I'll get a 5 and I was like :-\ and then the door opened and my teacher and that other teacher (who's a teacher of those two girls) came out and that other teacher didn't look very happy and she said to those two girls: Don't be disapponted, you got a 3 and you got a 4. And then my teacher didn't look all that happy either and she said my name and gave me a hand and lifted me up (cause I was sitting on the floor) and then she hugged me and said you got a 5 of course :) :) and she said she was very happy and proud and she said those teachers really liked my playing and that they didn't even mind the way I play - cause I put my face into the piano keys :D (and my teacher is always trying to make me sit more with my head and shoulders up)... and she said they said they can tell that I really love piano and that I have a really good attitude or a relationship with the piano (I'm not sure which one of these words because in my language it's one word that can mean both) :) and then my teacher said that she knew she had to save me for last cause it's the best for last and that she knew I would make her day beautiful :) :P 8) So I was reall REALLY REALLY happy about all that.
But I'm still sad about the birds too... so it's like I'm very very happy and very very sad at the same time... I hope my brain doesn't melt or something!... :'( :'( :'( :) :) :)
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Wow well I wrote a little too much last time! :P
Well I'm still sad about the birds :( and I just don't want to meet any people from our building... and I've met a few but I didn't even say hello... :-\ I know it's not right cause not all people are bad but everything just makes me sick and I just don't like anyone except the ones who wrote the notes too (but I don't know who they were)... and every time I see birds I think : I'm so sorry that people did that to you! :( And now those people leave the things we wrote alone... they don't take them down anymore.
Oh well but I'm still very happy about the exams... and specially about that they liked my playing and that they could see how much I love piano. :) 8)
Well and tomorrow I have a final recital... :)
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Im terrible.
My week was terrible.
I'll just drink a wine a go to sleep.
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Im terrible.
My week was terrible.
I'll just drink a wine a go to sleep.
I'm sorry :( I hope your next week will be better!!
Well today I had my final piano recital :) My hands weren't shaking very much... it just didn't seem that scary after the exam! :) And I made a mistake anyway... well... once I stoped for a little longer than I should and the cadenza wasn't ok at all! ::) because the piano seemed so quiet and I'm supposed to play the cadenza really loudly and really fast (which is really difficult for me!) and I tried to play it louder but then my hands and fingers started missing the right keys ::) so it was a little weird... and then I rather released the pedal because I think it would sound really horrible if I didn't... so then it sounded a little boring but well... :P but my mum didn't even know I made a mistake, she thought I played it without mistakes... and my dad really liked it too :) and then my dad bought me Mozartkugelen and put them on my seat in the car, and then he said he didn't buy it that probably some elves probably put it there while he was cleaning the car and left the door open :D :) :P and that was really cool! 8) :) And my mum gave me some things too (some chocolates and notebooks for writing music and some sheet music that I think is still too difficult for me :P :) ).
Oh ... at the end of the recital some teachers from my music school made a surprise for us and they were playing and singing :P and it was really cool 8) they're really good!!! :) 8) but I couldn't record everything because all of the batteries were empty! ::) Oh and I think I was dreaming about one song that they were playing and singing, last night :o (and I didn't know it before!)
But I'm still sad about the birds and we got this diplomas and something on them reminded me of little birds in nest :( :'( and I started crying a little...
Well yes, I guess I'm now completely finished with grade 3!!! :o I can't believe it! I have to start practicing more now... because grade 4 is a lot more difficult I think!! And I want to play better than I do... because I'm never completely happy about how I play!... there are always some things that I really don't like! Can you ever play so that you are completely happy about it and you wouldn't wanna change anything? :-\
Well now I started learning two new pieces after a long time :) An Etude and a new (more difficult) Bach's Menuet. :) 8)
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What the hell is a Mozartkugelen ?
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What the hell is a Mozartkugelen ?
Oh sorry it's Mozartkugeln. :P This:
(https://www.tasteofaustria.info/i/hofbauermozartkugeln2.jpg)
(https://www.tivi.zdf.de/imperia/md/images/logo/a_43_quer_210x166/mozartkugeln.jpg)
I saw today that there's a nest again in the same place where it was! I guess they are making a new nest... and I don't know what to do now... what if someone kills the little birdies again.... I can't take it one more time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't know what to do... and obviously if they are making a new nest those baby birds died cause otherwise their parents wouldn't be making a new nest now...... I think I'll go crazy! :(
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How sad about the birds :( I really hope they're not making a new nest.. :/
Right now I'm quite frustrated. I'm on a course right now, a preparation course for cantors (I'm not going to be one, at least not right now. I'm too young right now ^^' ). I practiced and practiced all day, today.. on the organ, then. When I'm finally thought I've gotten it right and was pleased with my organ pieces.. Well... On the lesson my teacher complained about my practice. He's really nice, but I'm not that motivated to practice organ more than I do. I'm more of a pianist than a organist, and I'm much younger than the rest on the course.
Two weeks left, and too much to do.. I have to be able to play a full program for a church service, and at the moment I can play two preludes and one choral ... And I don't play them that good either :/
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Ugh... Smashed. Halbtot. Erased personality.
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I don't know! My mom just left after being here for a couple of days, after us having been gone for a couple of days ... after me having taken a step back from determined practicing for *cough*awhile*cough*. I haven't even actually touched the piano (not really hardly even) since last Friday? Thursday? Yesterday evening I became SO uncomfortable about it. Today will not be the same as it had been, but tomorrow and Friday and Saturday, etc., I can surely get myself back on track. I think I have "digested" the changes in my life this past year, I think I have pointed myself in a fresh direction for what's to come. I have pondered some far reaches and started some new things ... but, how am I? I don't know!
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I'm tired... and disappointed in people, I mean not all of course, but... sometimes it just seems like so many people are... just so horrible... And they also live in the same apartment building as me and it's making me feel really bad and sad! Oh well...
On Friday I'll go to the preschool where my mum works and I'll play for the little kids a little :)
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Right now I'm stressed out because of the pre-cantor-course I'm on.. But it's better now, when I know the people there a little more. It's a guy who is only one year older than me! He's actually pretty nice.. Otherwise there are some nice people there.
But tomorrow I have organ lesson, and usually I'm not so very happy when I've had organ lesson.. My teacher is like "think about what you're doing wrong, and practice it slooowly. Test it! ... Now you did wrong again, you are playing to fast then! Slow down. ... Hm... I would play this prelude like this! Test it.".
It's nice, but I'm used to get some nice things, like "you phrased it really good there".
But I won't complain... I have my piano lesson tomorrow..
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Well, today was kind of neat! I played Schumann for the first time in awhile, and it was ... wonderful and new :). And, would you like to know what? Last weekend, I found out that my great-great Grandma was born in Austria. Well, okay, my descendants on both sides are super, super German (except one Italian great-great grandpa and then a little mix) but somehow it's neat that my great-great Grandma was in Austria :).
And, would you like to know what else? Awhile ago I learned that my Grandpa (the husband of the Grandma I just saw last weekend) played the piano, and this last time I followed up on that a bit, and even we had to call and ask his sister because nobody knew how long he took lessons for and what all he could play. And, I learned that he took lessons from youngster days all the way up until he went into the service! And, he played all sorts of things, even apparently Rachmaninov's concerto in c minor! And, do you know what is strange? Well, when my grandpa passed away, I was in this piano group at the time and I didn't normally play, just observed, but that very day I learned about him passing away and I personally had to get up and play that day, and I played a Rachmaninov prelude, and when I played, I played it for him ... even though, then, I didn't even know *at all* that he had ever played!
Anyway :).
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Oh sorry it's Mozartkugeln. :P This:
(https://www.tasteofaustria.info/i/hofbauermozartkugeln2.jpg)
(https://www.tivi.zdf.de/imperia/md/images/logo/a_43_quer_210x166/mozartkugeln.jpg)
Looks delicious. But what's up with Mozart?
I mean, why it is related to mozart?
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meh, if I don't know the name of the symphony, it's like I can't find a single thing! There are towns where I know there is some sort of symphony, but I can't find them AT ALL :'(. So, if I take 5 hours to find. each. ensemble. and then I call them and basically they say "no" ... ARGH!
*pulls hair out*
I don't understand why it's impossible to find these things! Isn't there a listing somewhere or something?!? Hmmm? I keep trying all sorts of things and nothing's working!
*tries more stuff*
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Looks delicious. But what's up with Mozart?
I mean, why it is related to mozart?
Well... I'm not exactly sure how it's related... I think maybe because they make them in Salzburg, or started making them in Slazburg, and Mozart was from Salzburg... :)
Oh did I say that we have summer holidays now? I didn't even have time to think about it because I felt so bad about the little birdies :( and I am still very worried... because they are nesting again (in the same place)... and my mum wrote a lot of things about it and I made a picture and asked nicely if people could leave the birds alone until they grow enough and fly away because they only need 2 - 3 weeks from the time they hatch... and me and my mum also always try to clean everything up if there's something on the stairs under the nest (although it's much more dirty because of people but anyway I try to clean everything up). And we put that up on Saturday night and it's still there (even my picture!) ... but I'm still very worried... and I think I'll be especially worried on Wednesdays because that's when someone is cleaning the stairs... ohhhh... usually I'm sooo happy when holidays start and I feel like everything is cool and like I can do so many things and like I don't have to worry about anything... but now... I worry even more than during the year! Oh well it doesn't matter if I worry, only if the birdies would be ok!!!
Last week was my last piano lesson (until September! :o ) but my teacher gave me a lot of new pieces :) and I'm also learning some easier folk songs so I'll play them for the kids from preschool where my mum works (and then they'll try to guess which ones they are) :) and I also want to learn really a lot of some other pieces! :) 8)
Oh and my teacher said that next year for grade 4 I'll have to have a little longer piano lessons (cause now I had them 45 minutes a week) and the teacher said that I should have them 30 minutes twice a week next year (or if I can't once a week 60 minutes).
Oh I have to change the pieces in my signature too... :) :P
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Today I was dreaming about the birdies again! I was dreaming that the nest was gone again... It was sooo horrible! And then some people (who had a camera and were recording something) said that they recorded on their camera who did it... and then we were looking at it and we saw it was just some girl who I never saw before, she had blonde hair and they said she was 17 years old... and I said but she doesn't even live here I never saw her before, but they said that she does live here :-\ and I was so angry I just started puching everything around. And then after a while I saw the mum bird and she came really close to us and she was sad and I felt like I could talk to her... I mean she wasn't like talking with words but she understood what we were saying and she would do things so we saw that she understood us... and then we found a nest and two eggs... but then one got broken and then I don't remember very much anymore... and when I woke up I felt so bad and so worried again!
Now the stairs under the nest are soooo clean. It has never been so clean before! And I don't know if it's just me (cause every night when we go out with my dog I'm cleaning everything for like 5 minutes) or maybe some other people are cleaning too :-\ but well it looks kinda funny, because in that place around the nest everything is so clean, but everywhere else on the stairs everything is still dirty (because of people! not because of birds of course!). Ohhhh!
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I'm kind of annoyed right now. Parents were gone for a 3 week bike tour around the states (motorcycle); I cut the lawn today, walked my dogs, cleaned EVERY room in the house while my sister watched tv. I leave for 3 hours to go teach. I come home and my mom says "I can't believe you. You said you CLEANED the house. The sunroom's a mess, your piano books are all scattered!" I look over, and my books are just a little crooked, but nicely stacked on the piano.
...my sister then proceeded to tell my mom that me and my friends were smoking cigars. First off, who cares that much. Secondly, I didn't go and tell my parents that my underage sister went out drinking the other night!
So after completely straightening out the house (majority of my day), and coming back from teaching, I get torn to shreds. Gotta love how things work ;)
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i need to meet your sister
Thal.
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Well... of course I'm still worrying about the birds very much, yesterday I was dreaming about them again (but I don't remember very much, just that I got very angry again... ) :-\ well... Oh yesterday someone else wrote something and put it there... I don't know why they wrote it now... but me and my mum were thinking that they probably weren't home for these two weeks, and they just saw it and read about it yesterday... So there are a few great people living here...
I took a picture, this is what it looks like now... the two on the left on the wall are from my mum and mine is the one with a picture (third from the left) and the fourth is a new one and it also has a little picture of a nest (of a little bird hatching and mum bird).. but it's not in colours so you can't see it so well here. And in the corner (on the left) there's a nest. :) and a mum bird is sitting in the nest... It's so cute and beautiful! How could anyone want to do something bad!!!!!! ??? >:( I just don't understand!!!
(https://i881.photobucket.com/albums/ac20/littletune98/ptikijunij2011015.jpg)
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Ohhhhh! This week is a cleaning week! I have been cleaning my room and vacuum cleaning almost all day on Sunday and yesterday and today I was just looking through some things and throwing away some things I don't need. And maybe I wouldn't even be so good (even though I really had to clean up my room for a very long time!), but I started cleaning because I noticed that some of my piano books (with sheet music) are missing!!! :o Like about 6 books!!! And I don't know where they could be and I haven't found them :( I don't know what happened to them!!
I have met a few spiders while I was cleaning... :-\
And in some places there was soooo much dust you can't even imagine and then I was sneezing all the time!
And we are having a lot of problems with the downstairs lady again ::) Because she is banging now from 11 pm till 5 am!! And we don't care so much about it, but the problem is that she is banging now so loudly that HER downstairs neighbours hear her and they are nice but the husband talked to my dad and said that they are 80 years old already and they get scared, he said his wife got so scared last time that he thought he would have to call the ambulance! So my dad said he would go to the police... and today he talked to the police and the policeman said she called them yesterday too and they were here at about midnight but we didn't hear them ringing... well I don't know :-\
Oh today I had a really big bug in my room I think it's a hornet. And one was in my room a few days ago already and a few weeks ago one was flying really close to my window but I saw it and closed it quickly so it didn't go inside. But a few days ago I woke up cause it was so loud while it was flying around and my cat was watching it... and I got really scared and then I opened the window as much as I could and waited for it to find a way out, and today I did too but today it wasn't so loud I think... or maybe I just got used to it... and I even took a picture... but I don't know why there are so many of them flying into my room :-\ it's a little scary! Even though I read in Wikipedia they are not as dangerous as some people say, but still... they are huge!
Oh I learned kinda ok one Etude and Bach's Menuet! (two of the pieces my teacher gave me at my last piano lesson two weeks ago, to learn during the summer). :)
Oh I'm still worrying about the birds... but they are sooo cute!!! :) :-*
Probably we'll be cleaning all this week, cause it's not just my room but the whole apartment that we have to clean! And maybe we'll be getting visits from the police :-\ Well... I guess we should really move!
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Well... of course I'm still worrying about the birds very much, yesterday I was dreaming about them again (but I don't remember very much, just that I got very angry again... ) :-\ well... Oh yesterday someone else wrote something and put it there... I don't know why they wrote it now... but me and my mum were thinking that they probably weren't home for these two weeks, and they just saw it and read about it yesterday... So there are a few great people living here...
I took a picture, this is what it looks like now... the two on the left on the wall are from my mum and mine is the one with a picture (third from the left) and the fourth is a new one and it also has a little picture of a nest (of a little bird hatching and mum bird).. but it's not in colours so you can't see it so well here. And in the corner (on the left) there's a nest. :) and a mum bird is sitting in the nest... It's so cute and beautiful! How could anyone want to do something bad!!!!!! ??? >:( I just don't understand!!!
(https://i881.photobucket.com/albums/ac20/littletune98/ptikijunij2011015.jpg)
Littletune, this makes me come out of my silence for a moment, and tell you how much I keep my fingers crossed for those little birds and their parents!!!
My mom has died last week, and I am sure she would be so proud of you, of how you're protective of these wonderful birds!
She has always been a lover of nature and I think she has done a lot for animals and plants and living beings in general, her heart was with those little vulnerable creatures who depend so often on our goodwill!
I am sure she'd be so happy (well I think she actually is happy) that there are people like you who care about life, and living beings, and are passionate about this!!
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Littletune, this makes me come out of my silence for a moment, and tell you how much I keep my fingers crossed for those little birds and their parents!!!
My mom has died last week, and I am sure she would be so proud of you, of how you're protective of these wonderful birds!
She has always been a lover of nature and I think she has done a lot for animals and plants and living beings in general, her heart was with those little vulnerable creatures who depend so often on our goodwill!
I am sure she'd be so happy (well I think she actually is happy) that there are people like you who care about life, and living beings, and are passionate about this!!
Thanks Wolfi! :) You're very nice! :) And I wish I could know your mum too!!! Well maybe I can in some way! :) Thank you!
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I just came from my yard, where I sat for awhile after an evening walk with my doggy. Sitting in my yard, listening to the kids next door playing, and feeling wind on me and hearing it in the trees ... and, the sun setting. I haven't done that in quite awhile. It was the perfect temperature.
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It's really great outside in the evening here too! :)
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That's wonderful :). I adore wonderful mornings and evenings ... and days and nights, too :). There are many here.
I should be going to sleepy-by ... ready ... set .... go!
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Last night was magic for me. I sat out in the garden with Dougs and watched the sun set.
Then went down the pub and crawled back about 7 hours later to watch the sun come back out again.
Life don't get much better than that.
Thal
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Right now I am outside! And it's dark already but it's still very hot! I mean I'm outside on the balcony. :) It's really cool! 8) And some neighbours are very loud... I think they're having a party... I hope the downstairs lady won't say that we're making noise! ::) :P
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Woah, woah ... getting a serious dose of reality and, let me tell you, it'sa spicey'a meataball'a!
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I think that spicy meatball saying is actually politically incorrect, some kind of slur toward Italians.
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I don't think so. But anyway, all the parts of me and my lineage who are not German bratwursts, are Italian sausage. Which, is like, 1/16th or less (one of my great-greats was from Italy) ... but, anyway, I have permission from my ancestors, so settle down, Bob.
*mmmmmmm* you betch'ya! *wink*
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Right now, I'm lovin' me some gettin' back into honest to goodness practicing shape ... hmmmm :)
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I don't think so. But anyway, all the parts of me and my lineage who are not German bratwursts, are Italian sausage. Which, is like, 1/16th or less (one of my great-greats was from Italy) ... but, anyway, I have permission from my ancestors, so settle down, Bob.
*mmmmmmm* you betch'ya! *wink*
It is. It's from an Alka Seltzer ad and it didn't run long even back then.
*Bob is confused by a possible Sarah Palin reference and thinks m1469 might be related...*
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*cough*BS*cough*
Sorry, but, now you are being "typical Bob" with me.
*lets Bob alone with the mirror ...*
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It is. Same thing with Mario and Luigi or anything that's supposed to be typical of a ethinicity.
https://www.thefedoralounge.com/archive/index.php/t-23132.html
https://www.subchat.com/otchat/read.asp?Id=346329
https://www.promomanagersblog.com/2011/04/20/thats-a-one-bland-meatball-whats-the-beef-with-creativity-in-marketing/
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It is.
Haha, soon it will be considered politically incorrect to say playing on the black keys sounds Chinese ;D
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Awwewe ... Wolfi, I don't know if I'm allowed to laugh as I found that to be slightly deeply funny. I apologize to any spicy meatball that I may have offended by being profoundly obsessed with your fantastic meatballness and with such a wonderful phrase. Please, I want to say it again sometime in my life, and I myself am slightly spicy meatball, so I should be allowed to say it whenever I want. And anyway, what if I say it with the accent of a pentatonic scale?
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that's not pentatonic accent. It has no accent. It's just me saying it in my very own voice.
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Awwewe ... Wolfi, I don't know if I'm allowed to laugh as I found that to be slightly deeply funny. I apologize to any spicy meatball that I may have offended by being profoundly obsessed with your fantastic meatballness and with such a wonderful phrase. Please, I want to say it again sometime in my life, and I myself am slightly spicy meatball, so I should be allowed to say it whenever I want. And anyway, what if I say it with the accent of a pentatonic scale?
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that's not pentatonic accent. It has no accent. It's just me saying it in my very own voice.
Yes! :) I like your own voice :)
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You know what you know what??? Today I saw the little birdies for the first time... I'm not sure exactly when they hatched (maybe yesterday or today) and I don't know how many there are but I just saw today something tiny and fluffy moving a little!!!!! SOoooooooooo cute and soooooooo beautiful! I would be so happy, I mean I am happy, but I'm also very afraid and worried! Yesterday night I cleaned up the stairs with wet tissue, so I cleaned up the stains too... although most of the stains are not because of the birds of course, but because of people!But I'm just afraid stupid people would blame the birds for everything... and today (on Wednesday) is the day when someone comes to clean the strairs... and I'm always very afraid of that because the first nest disappeared on a Wednesday after that cleaning guy was cleaning... so today I got up before 7 am cause I wanted to see if there's something under the nest that should be cleaned up and I wanted to see what that cleaning guy was doing... but at 7am he already finished cleaning! and was gone! But fortunately he didn't do anything to the nest!!! Usually he only just started cleaning up at 7 am! and then last week he was half finished at 7 am! (well actually it was a different guy) and today he was already gone!! so I don't know... will he be cleaning every week earlier now? :-\ should I get up at 5 am next week?? :-\ I really don't know... :-\ Oh i'm just so worried! They are so cute and the parents are looking for food all the time, they don't go far they're always around here, both of them! they're so cute!! Please pray for them! They just need 2 to 3 weeks now... before the little birdies grow enough to fly away!!
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I think I'm going crazy! I'm just afraid all the time and everything seems suspicious... if people are like on the stairs or if i hear them walking and then I can't hear them anymore and I don't hear them opening and closing the door and if someone's door is open for a while and if someone is carrying something (like a basket) or if I see someone going into the basement... I just want to stay there and see what they're doing... and I have to force myself to keep walking and then I can't stop thinking about it! so yes I am going crazy!!!!!!!!!!!! great!
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I think I'm going crazy! I'm just afraid all the time and everything seems suspicious... if people are like on the stairs or if i hear them walking and then I can't hear them anymore and I don't hear them opening and closing the door and if someone's door is open for a while and if someone is carrying something (like a basket) or if I see someone going into the basement... I just want to stay there and see what they're doing... and I have to force myself to keep walking and then I can't stop thinking about it! so yes I am going crazy!!!!!!!!!!!! great!
How about putting a camera there and a sign "video surveillance" and then open a free livestream account and publish it on the internet. Just an idea. Perhaps a weird one...I have seen bird cameras every now and then on youtube.
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How about putting a camera there and a sign "video surveillance" and then open a free livestream account and publish it on the internet. Just an idea. Perhaps a weird one...I have seen bird cameras every now and then on youtube.
No it's not weird, it's a great idea! Only it's a little complicated... because if I put there a camera someone could just take it and that wouldn't be cool, then the battery of the camera wouldn't last for a very long time so I would need electricity there but I can't get it on the stairs... and also I would need a computer if I wanted to livestream it... :-\ so that's why it's complicated... I really really wish I could do that! It would be great... I wouldn't have to be so afraid all the time and it would be so cool to watch! But I don't know what I could do about those things...
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No it's not weird, it's a great idea! Only it's a little complicated... because if I put there a camera someone could just take it and that wouldn't be cool, then the battery of the camera wouldn't last for a very long time so I would need electricity there but I can't get it on the stairs... and also I would need a computer if I wanted to livestream it... :-\ so that's why it's complicated... I really really wish I could do that! It would be great... I wouldn't have to be so afraid all the time and it would be so cool to watch! But I don't know what I could do about those things...
Yes of course I also thought about all this. Not easy.
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Yes! :) I like your own voice :)
:) :)
aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ...... it's. quiet. here.
*soaks it in like never before*
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:) :)
aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ...... it's. quiet. here.
*soaks it in like never before*
Yes :) quiet. And dark:
I love darkness too, often. It goes well together with silence :)
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So today I got up a little before 6.30 am (because they were cleaning the stairs again today, and I'm afraid for the birdies)... but noone started cleaning yet... so I went back home and waited till 7.15 (about when my mum goes to work) and then I went out with my doggie, and today it was a cleaning lady... and she was cleaning everything, she was even climbing on the fence and cleaning things that are really high (under the ceiling), so I was worried even thought she seemed very nice... so I was waiting with my dog for an hour and 15 minutes! And then the lady said bye to me and smiled when she was leaving (cause I guess she saw I was sitting there all the time). And then I even tried recording the little birdies but from kinda far away. And then I went home at 8.30 and I went back to sleep! :P
I can't believe I am practicing so much now!!! Because of that Compound Time! :P Today I practiced for 145 minutes!! that is 5 minutes less than 2 hours and a half!!! :o (I think) :P I can't believe it!!!!! 8)
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I'm currently overcome with the Great Wall of sleepiness ... argh ... I still have a full hour before the rest of my students come and I wish I could practice, but I'm SOOooo sleepy that I'm not getting anything done when I do.
*sits here contemplating*
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I'm currently overcome with the Great Wall of sleepiness ... argh ... I still have a full hour before the rest of my students come and I wish I could practice, but I'm SOOooo sleepy that I'm not getting anything done when I do.
*sits here contemplating*
I've been having this issue for the past week or so. I seem to get tired at extremely early hours for some reason (7-9 PM), and then I wake up at 4~5 AM. I'm used to being a night owl, and despite waking up early, I still function best at night. So now I miss out on my "good" hours.
*mutters incoherently*
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I'm definitely a morning person ... then I hit the doldrums in the middle of the day ... then I get a second wind towards evening! I tried desperately to fend off the sleepy-time afternoons today with a weapon of half-caff coffee ... but, to little avail! I think I'm starting to get my second wind, though! Yesterday I absolutely HAD to lay down for about 20 mins (which I almost never do).
HEY - Do you know what anybody? ;D I'm seriously thinking about teaching a beginning violin class this next year ... hee hee. We'll see how long I feel that way for (and if I break out the violin to prepare for it) ...
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HEY - Do you know what anybody? ;D I'm seriously thinking about teaching a beginning violin class this next year ... hee hee. We'll see how long I feel that way for (and if I break out the violin to prepare for it) ...
*Signs up*
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*Signs up*
Fantastic! ;D
*Sooooo sleepy ... again* And I have only JUST finished my etudes, now it's on to repertoire ...
*yawns and lays on floor*
Okay, I'm going to try something different ... ciao!
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m1469, you play violin too?? Cool! 8)
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Well, we'll see if we can call it "playing" ;D. I'll be away this weekend and will NOT have my piano :'(, but I'm highly contemplating bringing the old neck and strings ;D. I'll be teaching at a school (at least all signs are pointing that direction, at the moment), where I can decide what sorts of music classes I'd like to offer, and only 6(!) people need to sign up to make a class! So, I'm thinkin' about brushing up on the old gal as something I can offer :).
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I'm trying not to get TOO excited, but I came from an orientation at the school where I'm going to be teaching starting in the Fall, and it was really super neat! It's exactly the type of education I would have wanted growing up, and these are exactly great people to be working with (they are all super nice and smart). And, I was introduced to the parents and even the Principal of the school brought up one of my own teachers to the whole crowd ;D, in a little story, introducing me ... hee hee (which he learned about during an interaction over pizza). And then parents came up to me afterwards and wanted to know what all I might be offering and saying how their child is interested in music :). It's kind of cool :).
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There's a Yamaha C3 on CL (apparently in fabulous condition) for $2900 ... every second I'm not buying it, it hurts me.
*wonder if I can convince the school to buy it ...*
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Lately I am becoming reunited with my violin ... which lived somehwere in me for years and years ... and it's pretty much really super fun. :). It's so strange how things work sometimes; you can have this idea and feeling for huge portions of your life, and it might just be in there incubating, and then one day it just starts finding its way out for some reason.
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my arms/hands/fingers feel like they are practically glowing with having been used in practice.
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my arms/hands/fingers feel like they are practically glowing with having been used in practice.
*Touches the glowing palms of glory*
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*Touches the glowing palms of glory*
:)
It's happening again. I love the feeling :).
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I say, hello music in me and hello to musical people!
*greets everybody with a curtsy*
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I'm trying not to get TOO excited, but I came from an orientation at the school where I'm going to be teaching starting in the Fall, and it was really super neat! It's exactly the type of education I would have wanted growing up, and these are exactly great people to be working with (they are all super nice and smart). And, I was introduced to the parents and even the Principal of the school brought up one of my own teachers to the whole crowd ;D, in a little story, introducing me ... hee hee (which he learned about during an interaction over pizza). And then parents came up to me afterwards and wanted to know what all I might be offering and saying how their child is interested in music :). It's kind of cool :).
Congratulations on your teaching job, m1469!
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I say, hello music in me and hello to musical people!
*greets everybody with a curtsy*
Hello musical m1469! *bows* :)
*goes practicing* 8)
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Hello musical m1469! *bows* :)
*goes practicing* 8)
:). *watches for Wolfi to appear on Compound Time* ;D
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:). *watches for Wolfi to appear on Compound Time* ;D
*Clicks on start practice and runs to the piano* 3...2...1..GO! ;D
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Congratulations on your teaching job, m1469!
Thanks very much, Fortissimo! I mean, FF, I mean, fleetfingers :).
I am starting to let myself get a little excited, because it really looks like on Fridays I'll probably for sure have at least one violin class, *maybe* two, at least one piano class ... *maybe* two (well, this could potentially be much more, actually, as what I talked about is just the beginners class and I'm offering two others, as well), and a whole general music class is actually full now - so if people keep signing up for that one, they'll probably create a second one! We'll see about choirs. There are plenty of families who are still not even getting around to all of it, yet, so this may just blow up in my face and be huge :P. But, I think there's starting to be some stuff I can count on! There is supposedly going to be two days, but so far just one is actively filling up, and they are the K-8 people. Mondays are highschoolers and there's almost nothing happening there and so I'm secretly starting to hope those classes don't go!
Anyhoo, there's plenty that I'm salivating over right now regarding all of it ... hee hee. But, one cool part is that I most likely can bring the standard of my private studio up, too, not to mention the fact that I'll now have direct contact with a whole new body of families through the school, who may be very interested in entering my private studio at some point! ALSO, I can register with the school as something called a "vendor" for private teaching, so that if kids are looking for private lessons and want those lessons to count towards their formal education, the school has certain people they will send those students to. Right now, it seems like either nothing is going to work and we might live on the street (hopefully: :P to that), or maybe things will be perfect, or maybe everything will try to be NUTS and I'll have to calm it all down! But anyway, I'm starting to get a bit excited :).
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*Clicks on start practice and runs to the piano* 3...2...1..GO! ;D
*does the same* ... 3...2...1...1.5...wait... GO! 8)
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I'm back (for about 4 hours now)... it was great!!!! :P I wanted to practice a lot but I'm too sleepy now... and I wanted to write a lot but I'm too sleepy for that too! But it was cool!!!!! 8) :)
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(https://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j37/pianowolfi/IMG_1025.jpg)
Second degree burn, after one week. I definitely loved my coffee kettle too much, last Sunday morning :P I didn't really take it so seriously and waited a bit, and then I put my wrist under cold water for 15 Minutes until it didn't hurt anymore and then I sorta forgot it.
But the next day I felt some strange sensation when I arrived at work (at school). The sleeve of my fleece jacket had obviously opened that blister....
I think if I had put it immediately under cold water I could have avoided this, but I'm not sure.
It doesn't disturb me at playing piano. But it might have gone worse.
Take care :)
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Wolfi! That looks bad! :( I hope it's getting better!! But I'm glad you can still play piano!! :)
I couldn't really take my keyboard with me :( but I had a toy keyboard! :P it was better than nothing, but now it feels a little funny playing on the real keys :) :P I have to write more about my super cool and great vacation tomorrow!! :) 8) I have been sleeping before, so now I can maybe go practice a little more... :) before going to bed again :P
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Wolfi! I hope it's getting better by now :).
I just improvised my first violin melody ... it was so fun and I walked around while I did this (I couldn't help it!). I love the E string the most, actually, I think. At least right now. There is something about its quality that is very striking to me though it may just be my instrument. AND, I'm getting better at my scales. I saw a picture yesterday on here, of a young lady holding her violin (well, she was playing, but it was a still picture), and it was so explaining and appealing looking. Instantly I want to hold mine like that (well, as much as I can). It was so tender :).
*me want a much better violin* ;D
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That's wonderful! :) I guess the violin is for you like the cello for me :) (hmmm I guess something went wrong with it, I really need to call the violinmaker who still has it :P )
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For injuries, it's all about how you phrase it, what words you use. For example, instead of "coffee kettle" you could substitute the words "Great White" or "thresher." Is anyone going to argue with someone who was in accident like that?
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Okay, so far there is at least one General Music class filled, plus at least 1 or 2 people overfilling it ... if more keep signing up, they will probably create another class. Then, there is at least 1 beginning piano class filled up, with 2 extra people signed up... so, again, they may create yet another class if more continue to sign up. Then, between the two violin classes I am offering, one for K-2 and one for 3-8, there are enough for at least one class ... so, they might combine them if there's not enough for both. That would *not* be ideal, but I'd do it! AND, between both of the choirs that I have offered (a concert choir and a chamber choir) there is getting to be enough for at least ONE class if they get combined. That would be OK. Also, I have to check again and see, but I think there is an "intermediate" piano class getting close.
My goal is at least 5 classes!
*please let me pass the test on State Laws and Civil Rights and please let there not be more complications and please let these things not be surprising more than they already are!*
Already I have to get an emergency license! This is sometimes nervy, but *hopefully* this year will be a bit more sane than last year, and all.
*watches class lists for more people signing up* 8)
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Okay, so far there is at least one General Music class filled, plus at least 1 or 2 people overfilling it ... if more keep signing up, they will probably create another class. Then, there is at least 1 beginning piano class filled up, with 2 extra people signed up... so, again, they may create yet another class if more continue to sign up. Then, between the two violin classes I am offering, one for K-2 and one for 3-8, there are enough for at least one class ... so, they might combine them if there's not enough for both. That would *not* be ideal, but I'd do it! AND, between both of the choirs that I have offered (a concert choir and a chamber choir) there is getting to be enough for at least ONE class if they get combined. That would be OK. Also, I have to check again and see, but I think there is an "intermediate" piano class getting close.
My goal is at least 5 classes!
*please let me pass the test on State Laws and Civil Rights and please let there not be more complications and please let these things not be surprising more than they already are!*
Already I have to get an emergency license! This is sometimes nervy, but *hopefully* this year will be a bit more sane than last year, and all.
*watches class lists for more people signing up* 8)
I wish you the best of luck! Sounds like a nice life to lead. : )
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I wish you the best of luck! Sounds like a nice life to lead. : )
Thank you very much! I think it should be a good change of pace for me. Supposedly the kids are very nice to work with; they generally really appreciate their teachers and generally very much enjoy learning. They like to help out with getting things set up and breaking them down ... I met with some of them a couple of weeks ago, and there developed a little possie of young ladies who seemed to want to be around me and talk to me and get me food and drinks, and help me carry stuff to and from the car ... hee hee ;D 8) ... it was kinda fun :).
AND, one of the cool things is that IF my hubby and I are smart, next Summer won't be as scary for us and it's very possible that I could have more practice time than ever next Summer ... *dreams* .... this has all been a transition, but I think it's working out! I'm not sure for how long I would be doing this ... maybe only this year if my life changes a bit more, but I certainly welcome it for even just the year! If I didn't move away, I'm sure I could keep having this job :).
Cheers :).
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m1469 what's the difference between a concert choir and a chamber choir? I really don't know, I think I should but I don't. :-\
And I hope you pass those tests!
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m1469 what's the difference between a concert choir and a chamber choir? I really don't know, I think I should but I don't. :-
And I hope you pass those tests!
Well, generally, a chamber choir is a bit smaller and more advanced - it's like the varsity choir while the concert choir is the JV (junior varsity). In my case, that was my ideal, but we'll see if that's what is achieved! Thanks for the wishes on my tests! I got off the phone with the State not too long ago, only to find out that there is another hurtle ... argh ... but, my whole Summer has been a big yo-yo, and I'm really trying to get away from being sucked into that emotional roller coaster! So, we'll see if it all works out! If it does, it *seems* like it'd be cool, if it doesn't, I'm just going to have to trust that there is something else that's right! I haven't got a choice!
*goes back to piano* :)
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Well, generally, a chamber choir is a bit smaller and more advanced - it's like the varsity choir while the concert choir is the JV (junior varsity). In my case, that was my ideal, but we'll see if that's what is achieved! Thanks for the wishes on my tests! I got off the phone with the State not too long ago, only to find out that there is another hurtle ... argh ... but, my whole Summer has been a big yo-yo, and I'm really trying to get away from being sucked into that emotional roller coaster! So, we'll see if it all works out! If it does, it *seems* like it'd be cool, if it doesn't, I'm just going to have to trust that there is something else that's right! I haven't got a choice!
*goes back to piano* :)
haha ... well, now off the phone just yet again, and now it's totally good news ... what the. It looks like I will definitely not have any problem with the state now (whereas just earlier, it seemed it was not going to be able to happen at all!), and even the Principal welcomed me aboard :).
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Thanks very much, Fortissimo! I mean, FF, I mean, fleetfingers :).
Haha, I love that! ;D
You'll have to keep us posted on the progress of your piano classes. I took lessons as a kid in a class setting. I think it's a great set-up for children, but it doesn't seem to be done much.
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haha ... well, now off the phone just yet again, and now it's totally good news ... what the. It looks like I will definitely not have any problem with the state now (whereas just earlier, it seemed it was not going to be able to happen at all!), and even the Principal welcomed me aboard :).
They just love messing with you huh? : P Good luck with it all, I'm sure it'll turn out great ^^
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Thanks m1469! I hope everything will be great! I wish I could be in your classes! :( Oh well :)
Could anyone tell me how do you know if a piece is in C-major or in A-minor? :-\ I mean if it first looks as if it was in C-major but it starts on A and ends on A, does that mean it's in A-minor? :-\ Maybe? I really don't know... we weren't doing any minor scales yet... just all the major ones.
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Thanks m1469! I hope everything will be great! I wish I could be in your classes! :( Oh well :)
Thanks! I think that would probably be fun :).
Could anyone tell me how do you know if a piece is in C-major or in A-minor? :- I mean if it first looks as if it was in C-major but it starts on A and ends on A, does that mean it's in A-minor? :- Maybe? I really don't know... we weren't doing any minor scales yet... just all the major ones.
In most cases, you would look to the last chord to be the deciding factor! There are exceptions, but if this were for a class situation, most examples for even the first two years of University Music Theory would not throw you for an unexpected loop, as far as that goes. One of the exceptions (though there are others, too) is a classic Bach maneuver, and giving a picardy third at the very end of the piece. If you aren't familiar with this term, it's when an entire piece could be considered in a minor key, but the very last chord goes to the parallel Major! So, if you have a piece in g minor, a picardy third would be where the very last chord were a G Major! I like picardy thirds ... they're good people ;D.
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I'm getting my hair cut soon ... I think I *really* want to go short again ... :-X
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I'm getting my hair cut soon ... I think I *really* want to go short again ... :-X
Shorter than before, or as it was?
From a concerned admirer. :)
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Shorter than before, or as it was?
From a concerned admirer. :)
hee hee ... thanks for the concern, but not short, as it turns out. I walked in there feeling almost certain I wanted to go short again, but through my session came to realize that what I really wanted were certain features that my hair dresser knew how to achieve, while keeping length, too! I really liked my hair short because of certain factors, but with this new cut and the styling possibilities, I love my new length/hairdo more than I ever have in my life! For example, she needed to thin it quite a bit to give it a particular shape and workability ... it looks much better than that sounds! I'm really excited because I feel like it fits my personality to a T! :) I never knew I could do with my hair what she did to it, even though I have wanted certain things for a really long time!
Now I kind of want to grow it super long again :).
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Red hair and a smile :)
*can't stop smiling*
:)
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Thanks! I think that would probably be fun :).
In most cases, you would look to the last chord to be the deciding factor! There are exceptions, but if this were for a class situation, most examples for even the first two years of University Music Theory would not throw you for an unexpected loop, as far as that goes. One of the exceptions (though there are others, too) is a classic Bach maneuver, and giving a picardy third at the very end of the piece. If you aren't familiar with this term, it's when an entire piece could be considered in a minor key, but the very last chord goes to the parallel Major! So, if you have a piece in g minor, a picardy third would be where the very last chord were a G Major! I like picardy thirds ... they're good people ;D.
I think it would be REALLY fun! :) :P 8)
Oh... well... I guess it doesn't matter that much in what key it is :) I mean for now... but today I kinda thought that it could really be in A minor because it sounds kinda sad.... and my friend who was learning violin for 5 or 6 years (but then she stopped because she hated it) said that the major scales sound more happy and the minor ones more sad.. I think... if I remember right... :-\ well I guess I could post a picture too...
Oh m1469, you have a lot of admirers here :P :P 8)
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Red hair and a smile :)
*can't stop smiling*
:)
That's nice of you! :)
Oh m1469, you have a lot of admirers here :P :P 8)
Well, there are plenty of people here who I admire, as well :).
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hee hee ... thanks for the concern, but not short, as it turns out. I walked in there feeling almost certain I wanted to go short again, but through my session came to realize that what I really wanted were certain features that my hair dresser knew how to achieve, while keeping length, too! I really liked my hair short because of certain factors, but with this new cut and the styling possibilities, I love my new length/hairdo more than I ever have in my life! For example, she needed to thin it quite a bit to give it a particular shape and workability ... it looks much better than that sounds! I'm really excited because I feel like it fits my personality to a T! :) I never knew I could do with my hair what she did to it, even though I have wanted certain things for a really long time!
Now I kind of want to grow it super long again :).
I'm glad you like your new cut. :)
Super long, ooooooh! But I also liked it when it was short. :)
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That's wonderful! :) I guess the violin is for you like the cello for me :) (hmmm I guess something went wrong with it, I really need to call the violinmaker who still has it :P )
Hey! How could you forget your cello somewhere? ;D >:( ;D Sometime I would *love* hear you play. Do you think you would ever record something for us ... or play on justin.tv? Now always I think of how to do something on there!
Do you find that you can relate things between piano and cello?
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Hey! How could you forget your cello somewhere? ;D >:( ;D Sometime I would *love* hear you play. Do you think you would ever record something for us ... or play on justin.tv? Now always I think of how to do something on there!
Do you find that you can relate things between piano and cello?
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Sure I'd love to revive it. I sometimes miss the direct contact with the string, the sound, the tone. You can play one note on a string instrument and it can be like playing a whole cosmos of notes :)
I'd need a few months to get back to where I was back then, I think. Like always it's a problem of time.
I remember the time when I was intensely practicing both instruments, in my late teens and early twenties. I could relate them inwardly, but when I switched from one to the other I needed physically some time to warm up on the other. It was like needing to change the whole approach. But I'm sure that it was very important for my piano path to also have a strong relationship with a string instrument! :) Especially I very much appreciate that I had so many opportunities to play the cello in school and amateur orchestras, I think that this was fundamentally important to me, together with the particular social experiences! :)
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I wanna hear Wolfi play cello too!!!!!!!!! 8)
And I also want to learn to play cello someday too! :P
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I wanna hear Wolfi play cello too!!!!!!!!! 8)
Believe me, that wouldn't be a very pleasuring experience, right now :P :-[
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Believe me, that would'nt be a very pleasuring experience, right now :P :-[
Well it would be for sure better than listening to me play the recorder now :-X :P ... or even the piano sometimes :( :P :D
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I'm pondering a violin or viola minor when I get my ass to college.. : )
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I'm pondering a violin or viola minor
Woo!
I'm currently brainstorming about my choir class, which is for sure happening! It looks like for sure I've got 4 classes, which is cool, and I'm trying to talk them into a 5th :). I'm pretty excited ;D.
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I'm currently brainstorming about my choir class, which is for sure happening! It looks like for sure I've got 4 classes, which is cool, and I'm trying to talk them into a 5th :). I'm pretty excited ;D.
Sounds like you'll be mighty busy pretty soon! : D I'm so happy for you, must be nice. : ) I've got my college plans delayed for a year, but on the other hand it'll give me time to work out a decent savings account for when I start, so shouldn't be too bad. ; )
Edit: Super stoked about my End of 2011 Goal (tm), the adagio movement of Beethoven's Pathétique!
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Sounds like you'll be mighty busy pretty soon! : D I'm so happy for you, must be nice. : )
Yes and no. I was mighty busy last year with just private students, and mighty busy the year before that w/private students and a different teaching gig I had, too. This year won't necessarily be any "busier" just because of the classes (and maybe a little less in strictly teaching, actually, in some ways, than the two years before this). Those only meet once a week, and 5 hours is not an unusual teaching day for me! All it really means is that I can be more picky in my private studio (at least that's the ... "plan") and that there will be a bit more financial reliability in the household. Also, I get to be out of the house and doing something different once a week, too, and actually "making music" with groups of people! And, it *appears* that none of the Monday classes went (high schoolers), so that means I'm going to push my schedule (my private students, included) to have Mondays off from teaching and as a practice and possibly travel day. Thanks for your well wishes!
I hope your year goes as you'd like! Why did college get delayed? Don't feel you have to answer if it's too personal, I'm just interested :).
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I hope your year goes as you'd like! Why did college get delayed? Don't feel you have to answer if it's too personal, I'm just interested :).
I hope so, too! The delay is part my fault for forgetting to apply to a few of my cram school choices (in preparation for college). Effectively meaning I'll have to wait until next year before I can apply again.
I just posted this on my tumblr, but I'll paste it here as it's kind of relevant;
Original Post at: https://thestarsareright.tumblr.com/post/9529979324/beethoven
Hmmm… I should probably ask my piano teacher to have me play some of Beethoven’s easier pieces instead of kabalevsky after thursday’s lesson. So I can familiarize myself with Beethoven in preparation of starting my work on the grande sonata; Sonata Op. 13 No. 2 in C minor Pathétique, Mvt. II. Adagio Cantabile
Thinking Russian Folk Song and the Sonatina in G would be good candidates.
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I'm pondering a violin or viola minor when I get my ass to college.. : )
Do learn to play the violin, it's a wonderful instrument! :)
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This fox seems pretty happy. Haha.
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2e7_1314596033
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Bob, Bob, Bob.
WOO! It's almost completely official! I have five courses: 2 pianos, 1 violin, 1 General Music, and 1 Choir. I'm pretty happy. In fact I'm smiling right now as I type this! One day only, which is great! Shove off of Mondays, private students, because that's MY day ;D. Okay, I'm still going to probably teach at least one (flexible) person on Mondays ... :).
I have been studying laws and preparing for my test, and researching various things for my classes ... but, not sleeping great for extra thoughts going into the new experience! It feels new, yet natural, all at the same time. AND, I've got a couple of new private students signing on who are going to be pretty good little students, as I've already raised the standard as a condition of them signing on! AND, I've applied to become a "vendor" for the school (though I've already been unofficially invited to be one by the Principal) and I've revamped my studio courses program, I may be offering some singing and violin classes from home, soon (we'll see how it goes, that might be *too* much). POW!
*bring it*
*runs to piano*
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m1469 that sounds really great :) Congratulations! And good luck with your new fields of activity! :)
8)
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Bob, Bob, Bob.
*Composes very rhythmical Bob, Bob, Bob rap in his mind*
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Thanks, Wolfi! I am the most happy because of what it may mean for me pianistically, and then "stress-wise" too. I feel like how things are seeming to start to be right now, at least I can have a little more breathing space for the next year. I'm sure I'll get nervous when it's time to re-register for classes in 5 months, and the school may honestly disappear into thin air next school year (and I might move away anyway? :-), but for now, it's a right step, it seems! And, I'm trying very much to learn in life right now how to think in steps! Of course my mind is always trying to plan, but eventually I'm learning to understand that steps lead where they lead, and not necessarily where I plan them! And, life has a mind of its own, besides that! So, for now, I'm just grateful for exactly it.
*hears Wolfi playing Cello* ;D
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I hear you on the cello subject ;D
And I hear you on the "Steps" subject too. There's a lot of wisdom in your words! :) I hope so much, that life will allow you also to plan, according to your plans, according to your ideas! I'll keep my thumbs crossed. :)
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I appreciate your meaning so much. I am laying under my covers, tired but not able to sleep, all full of thoughts. Okay, after writing something ridiculous and then erasing it, I'm about to fall asleep.
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I am sooo tired and sleepy and I would really need to practice at least a little today! Ohhh I have to try! We had to take my little bird to the vet today because she was throwing up! :-\ The vet said she probably doesn't get enough iodine (I hope that's the right word!) so he gave her antibiotics and iodine. And he said that she lookes healthy otherwise.
And the vet is really nice and cute :P :P but my bird didn't like him all that much cause he was holding her for a long time and she got all scared and nervous and even when he put her back in the cage she was still nervous and shaking, because she doesn't let people touch her (not even us), but then after awhile she calmed down and she looks happy again.
I don't know why I'm writing so much I have to go practice and sleep!!! ::) :)
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I'm really worried and afraid!! Because my doggy is having surgery tomorrow morning! :( She has tumors on her breasts (if that's how it's called in dogs too), and they will also remove her ovaries because the tumors are because of the hormones and she always had problems with hormones. I wanted to go to sleep now already cause I was tired and sleepy but then I couldn't sleep cause I got so nervous cause I started thinking about the surgery and my doggy was lying beside me and I remembered that I'm so afraid.... :-\ OHhhhhhhhhh
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Well yesterday was a really really scary and difficult day!!! I can't even describe it!! From 9 am till 4. 30 pm we didn't really know what's with our doggy! Because the surgery was more difficult than they first thought, so it lasted for a longer time and then when a lady (from the reception, not a doctor) called my mum she just said that the surgery was successful for now, but that it was very bad, and that we couldn't see our doggy till 5pm. I really don't know how I survived that. Then we came there a little earlier (at about 4. 30) cause we couldn't wait anymore, and I was soooo scared when we were going inside, and then the doctor saw us and she seemed all happy and my mum asked if it was very bad and she said that it wasn't (I wish she called us not that lady!) And then she went to get my doggy and she was so happy to see us even though she was still very sleepy. And I was soooo happy too to see my doggy and my mum was too of course. And then the doctor explained everything and then we went to buy special food for dogs who are recovering and some treats and all that (cause the store is in the same building as the vet)... and I thought while we were buying all that with my mum that we were there for a really long time and that my dad who was waiting outside could be worried if he didn't see us come out with our doggy and go into the store. And he really didn't see us and he was really worried (even more then I thoght he would be). So when we finally bought everything and came out, my dad looked like he was going to cry when he saw me holding our doggy! (I didn't really know he cared that much!). But he got up and called her and he sounded like he was going to cry and then he kissed her and then he even wiped his eyes a little. :) 8)
And then we went home and she was very thirsty and she was drinking really a lot and she even got up and was awake for about an hour and she went to the bathroom, but mostly she was sleeping, and then once she started shaking cause she was cold and then in the middle of the night she was hot and me and my mum were sitting outside with her (at like 4 am), and me and my mum were sleeping beside her all night. And today at first she didn't want to drink and eat at all, but in the evening she ate a little :) and the doctor said everything was healing nicely, and she didn't have fever, and she was walking really well already and when we came home from the doctor she even jumped onto the chair when we weren't looking (cause she's not supposed to be jumping yet). And now she is sleeping here beside me :)
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pheeeww O.o But that sounds like after all rather good news! :)
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pheeeww O.o But that sounds like after all rather good news! :)
Yes for now it's getting better every day... :) I hope something doesn't go wrong!!!!!
Well it was a lot more difficult surgery because she didn't only have tumors or cysts on her breasts (like they first thought) but she also had them on her ovaries (well on one ovary she had three cysts) and in her uterus and I think somewhere else on those organs (but I'm not completely sure) and she also had infection in her uterus so she had pus in it, and that can be VERY dangerous because if it gets into the blood it infects the blood too and that is VERY VERY dangerous! And then it also went from those organs also on the something I'm not sure exactly what's it called in English, but it's where the digested food is and then goes out of the body, so she had also three cysts there :o :( so it was pretty bad!!! But the doctor said she thought she removed everything and that it should be ok, because all of this started because of the stupid hormones, but now she doesn't have the things that are making the hormones so..... it should be ok!!!!! I reallly hope so!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hormones and ovaries are evil!!!!!!!!!! :o >:( It's better to remove them when a dog or a cat is still a puppy. I wonder if I could get mine removed too! :P
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Honestly, a little meh right now. I have about an hour and a half before I will teach for the rest of the day and into the evening, I have hoards to do, one, single thing I WANT to do (but can't have as a first priority), and the biggest priority *needing* to be that I practice and learn my opera stuff - to be memorized by first rehearsal next Monday (and I have barely even begun). I have managed to procrastinate plenty of time away, avoiding doing the vocal work, wishing badly I could just practice piano instead ... though getting some other chores done (since being "productive" is a very nice procrastination method) ... and I don't know why I'm like this! meh.
I guess it's time to ... do what I'm supposed to do. Ok, at least I did some cleaning, but I could've put in a couple of hours of vocal/opera work, then practiced piano for a couple of hours, too, but no, instead I procrastinated, wallowing in feelings and endless mind-stagnations ... like I'm doing right now, in fact ...
*tries to leave*
*still trying*
*meh*
*off*
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meh. still here.
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Pretty great actually! Going to go check out this other house and give a price for cleaning it! yay for getting more money!!
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I am doing well enough. I am making Easter eggs ... so I don't have to sing ;D.
(in reality, though, I am just making boiled eggs and I am actually going to get singing very, very soon. Not right this moment nor the next, and maybe not for the next half hour after this ... but, soon. Real soon. Or, at least soon enough... ... ... <----- That is borderline morse code)
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Oh yeah... *Bob recalls those eggs in the fridge from ... this year?* I'm sure they're not good anymore.
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Well, geez, I'm having such a silly time adjusting to being a singer. The truth is, I actually DO want to sing, but some major part of me is in major resistance to putting it first - EVEN though I am intellectually able to reason out that if I really put it first this week, I'll get the work done and things can become more normal again - and, as well, if I really put in the work, I'll still be able to do some piano practicing, too! But, the pianist part of me thinks that once I put singing first for even awhile or for something specific (as in, not indefinitely), it will just stay like that for the rest of my life and one day I'll wake up and hate myself and loathe my life and 40 years will have passed with me not practicing the piano, always intending to get back to it (I was truly on that track a few years back, so I know it can happen!). Yeah, that's how it feels. I only squoze out about half-hour of honest vocal practice yesterday and basically nothing of any other true practice on piano (or violin) ... that's not going to work (though I'm also trying to take this time to reason through some major concepts, but still!).
Okay - today is going to be different! I declare!
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Well, geez, I'm having such a silly time adjusting to being a singer. The truth is, I actually DO want to sing, but some major part of me is in major resistance to putting it first - EVEN though I am intellectually able to reason out that if I really put it first this week, I'll get the work done and things can become more normal again - and, as well, if I really put in the work, I'll still be able to do some piano practicing, too! But, the pianist part of me thinks that once I put singing first for even awhile or for something specific (as in, not indefinitely), it will just stay like that for the rest of my life and one day I'll wake up and hate myself and loathe my life and 40 years will have passed with me not practicing the piano, always intending to get back to it (I was truly on that track a few years back, so I know it can happen!). Yeah, that's how it feels. I only squoze out about half-hour of honest vocal practice yesterday and basically nothing of any other true practice on piano (or violin) ... that's not going to work (though I'm also trying to take this time to reason through some major concepts, but still!).
Okay - today is going to be different! I declare!
Why not *melt* the pianist with the singer, at some points? You did it already several (wonderful) times. Maybe those two just want to unite in some way :) Perhaps they are longing for each other? Perhaps they want to be as close as possible? :)
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Why not *melt* the pianist with the singer, at some points? You did it already several (wonderful) times. Maybe those two just want to unite in some way :) Perhaps they are longing for each other? Perhaps they want to be as close as possible? :)
Thanks, Wolfi. Yes, I do plan to develop some pieces which I have already begun, where I am indeed formally singing and playing at once. That will be a Summer project, most likely. More deeply, I do believe that ultimately there is the same source in me (and everybody) with singing and playing, and in a sense they are already melded, and my "developing" and growing in a formal way is a kind of digging more deeply to where they already meet. In concept, I would wish for that source to be more usable for me, especially while I am playing the piano (though while I am singing, too).
But, here is a fact about my life that I just can't seem to escape: If I am not playing, and actually studying the piano and literature, my life develops a crisis in such a way that I actually can't function - especially if I am not studying because other things are "forcing" that upon me, rather than me just needing a little space or a break or such. This actually began happening this past week and at first I didn't recognize it for what it was, but between my new job, teaching in general, and then singing needing to be a big priority, I kept trying to prioritize piano in back of those ... with the idea that it would be only for a time and then it'd shift again and all would be well. But, that is the thing, there will always be endless reasons not to practice piano - always. And, once you let it go, it can easily just take second, third, last place to millions of other things. That's not inherently bad, of course, as for some people that's just fine ... for me, it's just not. I suppose it didn't altogether hurt for me to feel that again, to be reminded of it in an acute way. And, I will need to make a further shift back in that direction or another crisis will occur soon :P.
During very heavy piano times I sometimes do miss singing, sometimes even deeply - but I can generally still function despite those things, at least that has been my experience so far. I can't say I can envision my life without it, but day to day is not fully disturbed in the same way that it is when the piano is missing from my life. So, I feel that piano must remain the base, and it can't be small - we have big lives to live!
Sometimes I feel I might need to explore singing while I play even Classical pieces, despite my desire to keep the pure sound of piano alone. But, I do feel there is a connection and sometimes when I sing my pieces along with playing, it is a great help to even overcoming challenges.
In any event, I would like to keep singing Opera and Art Songs, I would like to keep playing Classical Music for solo piano, I'd like to keep improvising, composing, and exploring piano and voice combinations ... as well as whatever else develops truly. But, a very pure sense of piano must. always. be. the base. always.
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Why not *melt* the pianist with the singer, at some points? You did it already several (wonderful) times. Maybe those two just want to unite in some way :) Perhaps they are longing for each other? Perhaps they want to be as close as possible? :)
Oh, I just understood this better, sorry. I had thought that maybe you were indicating that I should do that permanently as "my thing" (my only thing), but I see what you mean now and you may be exactly right. Thanks for the suggestion :).
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Oh, I just understood this better, sorry. I had thought that maybe you were indicating that I should do that permanently as "my thing" (my only thing), but I see what you mean now and you may be exactly right. Thanks for the suggestion :).
Yes I meant "at some points" :)
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I'm having this weird cold... it started I think more than a week ago but then it looked like it disappeared but sometimes I would still start sneezing a lot and I was tired the whole week but now I think it got worse again! But it's not that bad just a little annoying.
My mum and me were trying to get the aquarium filter to work all afternoon!! ::) Now it looks like it's working... for now... but we'll see... and because of that I couldn't practice piano at all!! I mean I'll go practice now but I can only practice on keyboard now cause it's too late already!
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Well, I (and my duet partner) just got back from a coaching for my upcoming Opera stuff. First of all, we are going to rock ;D. Second of all, it was *almost* fun - I'm going to be cramming like mad over the next 48 hours, and then, *hopefully* I can get things back on track and enjoy the singing part of my life a bit more (after Monday's rehearsal). My classes at the school are finding their legs, and I have hope about what's to come. I have hope, I have hope, I have hope (that I can return to numerous hours of piano practice each day ... SOON).
*plans for a long night and loooonnnggg day tomorrow*
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I am actually posting about singing again, and it's out of excitement! Yesterday was the first time I've sung with who will be my duet partner, and she has an A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. voice! I've never sung with her before, and she is the first person I've sung with who I feel I can probably truly use my full voice with (though yesterday I was still holding back to test the waters)! She is a true mezzo soprano with a big, rich voice - and going into the audition I wasn't sure who I would be paired with (maybe somebody like 12 years younger than me) or even what voice part they'd have me doing (sometimes I've sung mezzo soprano, which is never as comfortable nor fulfilling for me). It's going to take everything in my power to pay attention to what I'm supposed to be doing in our scenes, and not to just sit there staring at her in awe while she's singing ... haha. I was actually getting goose bumps yesterday! I plan to have our duets videoed and hopefully can post them :). We are doing the "flower duet" from Madama Butterfly and a scene from Suor Angelica! WooT! ;D
*OK, must drag my feet through the music-learning process, please*
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I love Suor Angelica, at least that one aria I accompanied a long time ago gave me goose bumps. Looking forward to your video! :)
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I hope you really post it m1469!! I can't wait! 8) :P
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I love Suor Angelica, at least that one aria I accompanied a long time ago gave me goose bumps. Looking forward to your video! :)
Yeah, it's a great scene! My partner has some ultra cool stuff in there, as do I! WOOT!
I hope you really post it m1469!! I can't wait! 8) :P
Yeah, I really will unless for some reason the video doesn't happen correctly. But, I'll try to have a number of them taken so that there are choices and options. Last year, unfortunately, it didn't even get fully recorded a single time :(, as the single attempt failed. Silly. But, this year will be different! The performances are November 12 and 13th ;D.
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Well I know it's kinda stupid but I'm really afraid of music theory tomorrow!! Like I kinda wish I didn't have to go! I just feel like a fail after last Monday when I made sooo many mistakes in rhythmic dictations :( ::) This is a picture of them! :-[ But I'm not exactly sure what's with the second measure in the first one :-\ I think the teacher made a mistake too when she was correcting it :-\ I don't know... I just couldn't concentrate..... I also know the teacher was saying something about that we will be paying differently for music theory this year... but I just don't really know what she said... :-\
(https://i748.photobucket.com/albums/xx127/0annalinda0/narekiokt11.jpg)
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haha ... Littletune, those are tricky for dictations at your age!
Oh man, I *just* "finished" Madama Butterfly and now I've got the entire Suor Angelica ... AAAAaaaaaaaaa ... I need a second wind *badly*
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Oh today was sooo much better at music theory!! :P
Well I had two mistakes at melodic dictation, cause I thought it was a third in the beginning but it was after the second note. But the rythmic dicatations were really easy because we started learning about those notes that are three for one quarter note (I can't find what they're called in English)... and so the dictations were soooo easy cause we only just started learning that :P and i also didn't have any mistakes at intervals! :) So I'm happy about that!! :)
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Oh today was sooo much better at music theory!! :P
Well I had two mistakes at melodic dictation, cause I thought it was a third in the beginning but it was after the second note. But the rythmic dicatations were really easy because we started learning about those notes that are three for one quarter note (I can't find what they're called in English)... and so the dictations were soooo easy cause we only just started learning that :P and i also didn't have any mistakes at intervals! :) So I'm happy about that!! :)
Congrats!
I'm in ultra quiet mode and am not speaking or anything, having just finished rehearsing with my duet partner for this evening's rehearsal ... heh ... it's strange to go physically silent and in my entire being, yet still type as though I have this inner voice. Hello, everybody, I'm talking to you from deep, deep inside ;D ... does it have a different sound? :o
I'm off-book for one and probably definitely won't be for the other ... I've still got about 3.5 hours to study the operas themselves (because I have to know a bunch of stuff related to it) and translate and work on the text alone ... (which is supposed to also be memorized). I know that this whole thing is supposed to be to help developing professionals, and so the expectations are put on us as we would have as a professional, but at the same time, I'm actually paying to be doing this and was seriously considering NOT doing this because I knew it would be like this. I think I'll ultimately enjoy it and will probably grow, but I also am doing this in big part to help the program get off the ground ... so, I guess I'm just going to do the best I can.
I did have quite a wonderful time in my piano practice this morning :), and tomorrow I won't sing even a little and will just practice only piano until I teach ... which is an hour later for a Tuesday than last week :) ... I can't wait.
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:-\ Ich bin nicht gut gefeelin.
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:- Ich bin nicht gut gefeelin.
uh ach!
Well, I survived my first rehearsal, what a relief to have that over and done with. Very supportive individuals running the show. We didn't have to do half the stuff I thought we'd have to do, and my least favorite stuff (singing in gibberish and improv. acting/singing) I at least did OK in, and could tell I wasn't the only one who felt silly. I don't think it's a good idea if I ignore singing this week, though :P.
I was nervous before we started and I got there about 11 minutes early, and so I sat down to the big giant beautiful Baldwin and played Chopin's 25/1, which I have been still working on consistently :). And, there was a little audience and a couple of them said "look at her hands" ;D, because the piano was like butter and I felt super relaxed and connected with it. And, they even clapped when I was done and I felt SO much better after I played because it released my inner self and I wasn't even nervous to be actually playing and knowing that people were listening. And one guy said "I guess that was ookkk" when I was done and while he was clapping, like it was a joke for him to say that! It was fun :).
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Well right now my head hurts! It started hurting when I was going to my music theory and I was waiting for a bus. Oh well... and I'm tired too! And I wanted to write about some nice and happy things but I'll wait till I feel a little better :)
Oh m1469 I'm glad that your rehearsal went so great! :) 8)
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Well right now my head hurts! It started hurting when I was going to my music theory and I was waiting for a bus. Oh well... and I'm tired too! And I wanted to write about some nice and happy things but I'll wait till I feel a little better :)
Oh m1469 I'm glad that your rehearsal went so great! :) 8)
Thanks, and I hope your head is feeling better by now!
I'm slightly bummed ... because I got fed up with my bangs and decided to cut them myself -which is not unusual- and I accidentally got carried away and now half my face/head looks like a boy. Oh well ...
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Thanks! Yes my head is ok now :)
Oh you know I sometimes cut my hair by myself too... the ones in front (that's probably bangs right?) and for awhile I was cutting the hair at the top of my head too :P because I wanted to have half girl half boy haircut... because I wanted to have long hair but I also wanted to have short hair at the top of my head because I liked the way sometimes some hairs are sticking in the air when someone has short hair.... :P so I wanted that too but i also wanted long hair.... so I was cutting the hair on the top of my head and then everyone was always angry like: oh nooo you have been cutting your hair again weren't you?! Stop doing that cause it looks stupid! So now I'm not doing that anymore but maybe someday I'll feel like it again. :P
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I'm pretty sure you just described a mullet ;D ... I've heard it described as "business in the front, party in the back." haha.
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*Bob was also thinking mullet.*
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I didn't know what mullet was and then I found it in Wikipedia :P I guess that is kinda what I had ;D well except that I had long hair on the sides too, it was short just at the top of my head (and in the front)..... :D
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I guess that is kinda what I had ;D
Don't worry, I think that very many good people once endured a phase of mullet-hood. It builds character ;D.
*imagines Bob with a mullet*
*imagines Beethoven with a mullet*
*imagines Mozart with a mullet-wig*
*imagines the piano with a mullet*
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Hee hee ;D
I think there must have been a mullet phase in my life too, I guess I was something like 8 years old...where did I put that photo? hmm...
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Hee hee ;D
I think there must have been a mullet phase in my life too, I guess I was something like 8 years old...where did I put that photo? hmm...
I would love to see that ;D
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Geez, I'd never have a mullet. No way.
I didn't know what mullet was and then I found it in Wikipedia :P I guess that is kinda what I had ;D well except that I had long hair on the sides too, it was short just at the top of my head (and in the front)..... :D
A mullet is a type of skunk-like rat-beaver. People skin them and wear the pelt on their head. Or sometime they just let the creature sit on top of their head.
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I'm ok... We'll see. I just ate a hamburger made of meat that's four...no five days past the sell by date. (No it's not exotic hamburger.) Topped off with some cheese that was starting to mold.
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Geez, I'd never have a mullet. No way.
Aw, Bob, as my grandma always says "Don't be bashful!" And I say, embrace your mullet-hood! I bet you would be adorable with a mullet ;D.
*Imagines Bob's posts with a mullet* awww ... ;D
I'm ok... We'll see. I just ate a hamburger made of meat that's four...no five days past the sell by date. (No it's not exotic hamburger.) Topped off with some cheese that was starting to mold.
Actualamente, aged beef is supposed to be da kine. As well, cheese with mold on it is bleu cheese! So, I guess you're gourmet!
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I think it just gave me a slight headache but I survived. *Bob is happy with himself for not wasting a few bucks on spoiled meat.*
I'm an anti-mullite. I'm against mullets. >:( Outlaw them or something.
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I'm kind of scared - I'm playing lots of diminished things and it's sounding kind of mean :'(.
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I'm kind of scared - I'm playing lots of diminished things and it's sounding kind of mean :'(.
hmmm...postypost? :)
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hmmm...postypost? :)
:) - Maybe Sunday or so ... I'll be doing them a bit more. It wasn't anything too musically exciting, though, just diminished arrangements that I got 'into'.
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I'm in a moral dilemma. I'm working ahead, thinking ahead to tomorrow. I just can't decide on the front seat or back seat for various kicking it activities. I can't take this kind of stress any longer. It's unbearable.
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I just can't decide on the front seat or back seat for various kicking it activities.
Bob, what does this mean? And, are you joking around in the rest of your post or muy serioso? Porque yo no sé.
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Sooo sleepy! :P This was a long and some days difficult week! But Now HOLIDAYS!!! :P I should write bout a lot of things but i'm too sleepy now! :) But I should go practice piano at least a little!!
I don't know what Bob is talking about either... and I don't know why I understand Spanish well I know it's just a few words but still... maybe cause it's a lot like French? :-\
Oh well whatever I'm half sleeping... I really want to know if I can wake up enough to go practice or maybe I can practice half sleeping. We'll see... :)
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eating chocolate kisses :P
ETA: I thought it said "What are you doing right now?" muhahahahaha
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Bob, what does this mean? And, are you joking around in the rest of your post or muy serioso? Porque yo no sé.
It's almost too late now.
Be warned. The following my scar your ears. You WILL NOT remain unaffected by the following....
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I did see Auto-tune or Melodyne had come down a little in price.
*Bob wonders if having idiots dancing around on the sides of a piano would help draw people into a classical piano recital.* Probably the wrong kind of people. They'd eat popcorn in the audience. And loudly eat it. If you posted an ad for it.... For an idiot.... If anyone responded they might just be a good candidate.
I don't want to know how much money that song made.
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Pretty good.
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Good day today, well, if you exclude that the laundry machine hogged my clothes for two hours (what kind of laundry machine takes two hours to finish? Seriously!). Family invited me to an early birthday dinner (since they would be travelling during my birthday). Was pretty sweet, had a half kilo steak, was yummy! The steak sauce made it even better...
Also got to do some serious piano practising today, even recorded some of it.
Now I'm back home and watching a performance Boris Berezovsky did back in 2002, he plays the whole set of Liszt's transcendental etudes. He always gets me so inspired to play the piano..
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Sounds like a nice day! Happy Birthday ... soon! :)
I'm doing reasonably well right now. Today's rehearsal was a little long but I have a BIG relief after having gotten through Suor Angelica for the first time by memory. I was behind with that one and had a really unfortunate rehearsal with it two weeks ago ... and so I'm *SO* relieved to feel like I've got that under my belt now. Now, time to work the staging in for both.
I am pretty sleepy, though, in a "I can finally let my guard down just a little" kind of way. phwew.
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Sounds like a nice day! Happy Birthday ... soon! :)
It really was, and thank you! ;D
I'm doing reasonably well right now. Today's rehearsal was a little long but I have a BIG relief after having gotten through Suor Angelica for the first time by memory. I was behind with that one and had a really unfortunate rehearsal with it two weeks ago ... and so I'm *SO* relieved to feel like I've got that under my belt now. Now, time to work the staging in for both.
I am pretty sleepy, though, in a "I can finally let my guard down just a little" kind of way. phwew.
Glad to hear your rehearsal went so well! :) I'm sure you'll make it, you always seem to manage to somehow. ;D
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I'm sure you'll make it, you always seem to manage to somehow. ;D
Thanks for the vote of confidence! I'm not going to turn it away :). But, I do feel a little like my preparation for both the auditions for the program I'm currently doing, as well as the learning process of the material for it, are similar to the mystique of baby Jesus being born ... :P ... it's a miracle and nobody really knows how it all came together :P (as a side note, that does not accurately reflect my own spiritual beliefs ;D).
As of yesterday, I've got some singing "gigs" throughout the year and into next summer (at least it seems), which means I'm going to have to be even more organized so I don't get into that place of feeling torn between piano and singing ... on top of teaching. But, getting these two duets under my belt in this time is a *major* thing for me, as singing gigs in the future will include these (so, not learning new stuff, just riding on what I've learned now), and for the competition in January, I'll be able to work the needed learning for those arias in over the next couple of months, instead of feeling like I've got to get it all learned in 2 weeks - and therefore completely taking me over and me resisting, etc..
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Ahhh I had such a great piano practicing day today!!! Just great great great!! :) :P 8)
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Be warned. The following my scar your ears. You WILL NOT remain unaffected by the following....
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I did see Auto-tune or Melodyne had come down a little in price.
*Bob wonders if having idiots dancing around on the sides of a piano would help draw people into a classical piano recital.* Probably the wrong kind of people. They'd eat popcorn in the audience. And loudly eat it. If you posted an ad for it.... For an idiot.... If anyone responded they might just be a good candidate.
I don't want to know how much money that song made.
Yes that is really bad and stupid... :-\ but do you know that she's only 14? (13 in the video)... I mean it must be really bad that you're just a kid and the whole world hates you and says really bad things about you!! I would feel soooo bad!!!
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Yes that is really bad and stupid... :- but do you know that she's only 14? (13 in the video)... I mean it must be really bad that you're just a kid and the whole world hates you and says really bad things about you!! I would feel soooo bad!!!
Ok. I just watched it. I feel like an entire thread should be dedicated to why this is so bad, but that would be giving it yet even MORE attention than it's apparently already received :o.
I have to say, maybe there's a small chance it would hurt her feelings to have people saying bad things (I didn't read the comments, but I could imagine what some people *might* say if they aren't from the same kind of community as she is), but she apparently hasn't taken the video down out of shame, and something tells me that she doesn't exactly come from the land of giving a concern about what the peasants of the world might think ... in fact, we are all the more peasanty in her world if we can't comprehend the greatness of this video, I'm thinkin' :-.
But, seriously, why does this have so many views? :- :'(
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omg ... why am I watching more videos from her ??
*tears hair out*
Please, is this what kids are watching? This is really not good.
*watches another* ;D
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Ok. I just watched it. I feel like an entire thread should be dedicated to why this is so bad, but that would be giving it yet even MORE attention than it's apparently already received :o.
I have to say, maybe there's a small chance it would hurt her feelings to have people saying bad things (I didn't read the comments, but I could imagine what some people *might* say if they aren't from the same kind of community as she is), but she apparently hasn't taken the video down out of shame, and something tells me that she doesn't exactly come from the land of giving a concern about what the peasants of the world might think ... in fact, we are all the more peasanty in her world if we can't comprehend the greatness of this video, I'm thinkin' :-\.
But, seriously, why does this have so many views? :-\ :'(
Well I guess some people really don't care so much about what other people think :-\ and I don't think that would be a bad thing if someone told real reasons why it's so bad.... I just think it's bad when people are saying bad things just to be mean... like how ugly she is and that she should die or somethings like that...
Oh I think people really like watching how bad someone is and then making fun of them that's why it has so many views I think.
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omg ... why am I watching more videos from her ??
*tears hair out*
Please, is this what kids are watching? This is really not good.
*watches another* ;D
:P ;D Does she have more videos? I only now this one and her new song " My moment". :D
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Well I guess some people really don't care so much about what other people think :- and I don't think that would be a bad thing if someone told real reasons why it's so bad.... I just think it's bad when people are saying bad things just to be mean... like how ugly she is and that she should die or somethings like that...
Oh I think people really like watching how bad someone is and then making fun of them that's why it has so many views I think.
What do you think is good about it? What do you think teenagers think is good about it? What do you think it communicates to the world about art? About the United States? People? Her very self? Do you think she even knows what she's communicating?
I can't even explain how many things I think are really not good about it. And, I don't understand why it's considered the ultimate character trait to not care about what other people think. Seriously, maybe I'm going through a major perspective change and others could say things about me, and that would be something to deal with, but I'm at a place in my life of really thinking about what kinds of role models (and lives) kids have. Do you think this is a good role model for people your age and younger? Maybe you do, and I would even understand why, because that's exactly how she's portrayed and part of my "beef" with it is that kids don't even know any better if this is what they're given as "popular" and "artistic" and what it means to be confident and bold about who you are deep inside (does she even have a clue about that?)! From my perspective it's a little sad.
As far as I can tell, there is no personal message about what she's given to the world which speaks louder than all of the messages she's giving without even meaning to. If nothing else, I'd say that's my biggest problem with it.
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Oh I don't think there's anything good about it! Maybe people think it's good that everyone can get a chance to become famous or something :-\ I don't know... cause some people really care about just being famous I think. And I don't think that's art at all!... more like entertainment I guess or something. Maybe she is comunicating: I can be famous no matter what! ;D cause the other song from her is "My moment" and I think it's about her being famous even though people are saying she would be nothing. which is really stupid of course but some people only care about that.
That's like when I was in preschool and first grades in school I was in a lot of school plays... and I really LOVED practicing, but all the other kids hated it... so when teachers would say: ok now let's go practice! all the kids were like: ohhhhhh nooooooooooo.... we practiced enough already! and I was like: Ohhh yes yes yes!!!!! let's go practice let's go practice!!! :) but just in my head cause I didn't want to show others that I loved practicing so much cause everyone else hated it so much... and I could never understand why they hated it so much... I mean like they wanted to be in a play but didn't want to practice... :-\ I never understood that! So I guess people just want to be famous or on a stage and want people to watch them and listen to them but they don't want to practice or do anything about it. :-\
No I don't think it's a good role model at all!! cause it's all just about being famous and nothing else!
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Well, I don't know if it's all about being famous. I mean, maybe for her it is, and maybe that's what "being a singer" means to her; if you're famous = you're a singer :P.
Right now I haven't got answers, just major stirrings and I find myself feeling easily thoughtful about many things that go on. But, it's just strange to juxtapose the scenes of this young lady in her "dressing room" (which was a house) and countless shoes and outfits and her singing about the big decision on whether to sit in the front or the back of the convertible hot-rod with her possie, to the way some of the students I teach at the school tomorrow smell. It blows my mind.
I'm also extremely tired, haven't been sleeping, and starting to feel a bit stressed :P - aside from that, so maybe my perspective is extra sensitive at the moment :P.
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Oh yeah, I see that's the famous Rebecca Black?
Oh yeah well at some point I will maybe have have to teach exactly this song as a "piano cover" to one of my students...for a while she (in all probability it will be a girl) will play it, practice it more or less. Maybe I will scold her for not practicing it enough or maybe I'll get angry because she ignores every half note for the umpteenth time. And, maybe at some point we'll progress...and maybe at some point she will play Comptine by Tiersen and then Für Elise, and then maybe...something like Chopin Nocturne c sharp minor...maybe...maybe not...we never know :)
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Oh yeah well at some point I will maybe have have to teach exactly this song as a "piano cover" to one of my students...for a while she (in all probability it will be a girl) will play it, practice it more or less. Maybe I will scold her for not practicing it enough or maybe I'll get angry because she ignores every half note for the umpteenth time. And, maybe at some point we'll progress...and maybe at some point she will play Comptine by Tiersen and then Für Elise, and then maybe...something like Chopin Nocturne c sharp minor...maybe...maybe not...we never know :)
*tries to remain calm*
NOT OK >:( :o :( :'(
No, no, this is NOT OK. *puts foot WAY down*
No, this has to stop. Do you think Rebecca Black ever played a Chopin Nocturne?! I wonder who her own role models were? GEEZ. This is NOT GOOD. It feels like an emergency. This is not right that this dictates what is being taught in music studios - I 'get' why, but NO, NO, NO! I 'get' the reasoning, but it didn't work for Rebecca ... or for Brittney Spears, or Jessica Simpson, or Hannah Montana ... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh .... *goes completely nuts*
Seriously. Something has to change.
*Inverts the World for Awhile* ;D
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phwewwww ...
Just gave a sneak preview of the Madame Butterfly scene to a local (and quite wealthy) Manor, from which there are a number of benefactors for the Opera program being run. I was a little nervous because yesterday was our very first run-through with blocking and actual props and music and off-book all together - and today we performed for potential donors to this program ... no pressure, haha. We just had to help prove to them why there needs to be another Opera Program around here (yes, the people we sat with were actually asking that) ... and why they would like to give over their life's savings to it, that's all :P. Anyway, I think it went pretty well and I'm looking forward to next weekend when the performances will be. So far, I'm still planning to post videos :). That will be strange and fun, because it will kind of be as though people here, who I've been friends with for years, will get to actually see and hear me performing vocally. I'm a little shy about it, and it's possible I'll chicken out ... but for now I'm still planning to post and it seems like it will be fun :). There's only one more week of 7 hours of actual rehearsal time each week, and of thinking about this music in the same way. It feels like it's been a lifetime :P.
Cheers!
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I need another holiday!!! i'm tired from this week! But I did really good on my math test... so that's great!! 8) :P wel... but at the end of November I have another one!!!
m1469 I hope you'll post something!!! :)
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I need another holiday!!! i'm tired from this week! But I did really good on my math test... so that's great!! 8) :P wel... but at the end of November I have another one!!!
m1469 I hope you'll post something!!! :)
Same here. I have another in a few days and that is the harder one. I did the easier test and that was !@#$ easy I could've got at least 90% and I haven't even been doing any homework. Glad to hear it, littletune.
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Same here. I have another in a few days and that is the harder one. I did the easier test and that was !@#$ easy I could've got at least 90% and I haven't even been doing any homework. Glad to hear it, littletune.
Thanks! :) Good luck for your next test. My next test will be a lot harder too. :-\
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Dress Rehearsal last night and our first show is today at 3pm. Phweewww, it's a bit exhausting all of it, especially considering all other things and getting not enough sleep (consistently). I thought I would be able to practice piano much more today, but I feel myself transitioning into vocal performance mode and that makes it really a lot tougher to take in sound in the same ways. Today we are performing at the Manor and it is a closed performance for just the residents, tomorrow is the "big" public performance in a different Theater.
Maybe I'll be able to focus on piano a little more once I go through my scenes, warm up vocally a bit, get everything together to take to the Manor, and get my makeup on. Tomorrow I will be done!!
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Oh man ... where am I? :P
I feel a little disoriented! I was traveling a bit today and on my way home I had fantasies of going home and getting straight into bed, just because I "could" ... but instead I'm just relishing in the silence and getting some things checked off my list that have been floating in some other dimension on hold for awhile. phweewww ... last night's concert went OK - many people thought I did very well, but I messed one phrase up in Suor Angelica, and that was actually fairly deeply disappointing for me, mainly because I haven't been sure if I should still post that scene or not now. My duet partner really wants it to still go up, and I can see her point because she did well (and everything else for me went fine) and it's her scene, too, not just mine ... haha ... I didn't break character and the music went on with almost nobody knowing anything, but still ... I knew, and I woke up at 3am this morning with a sinking feeling in my guts about it.
I couldn't figure out exactly why I was so upset because even though messing up like that is not a normal occurance for me with singing, I didn't think I would let things bother me *that* much when it comes to singing itself. But I dug a little bit to try to figure out why it bothered me so much, and I realized that I really wanted to post both scenes here, but also that I don't get another chance while knowing I can do better (didn't have the same problem in the performance (or dress rehearsal) the days before). I'll probably for sure put Madame up, but I had visualized in my head that it was going to look professional and it doesn't. I guess I have a good imagination because I saw in my head an entire set and all these particulars about the scene that aren't there in real life, and apparently what I see in my imagination is not what is visible on camera :-. No rehearsal tonight, though, and I "hardly know what to do with myself" ... well, I've got tons to do, but that was fun to say anyway!
*drags herself around*
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I've listened to Suor Angelica again and it's currently uploading to YouTube. My voice is different there ... it has this quality to it that Madama music didn't bring out, or else it's related to the emotion, which wouldn't surprise me, either. I'm currently picking out an English aria for the competition :).
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*Looking for a new German aria ...*
I'm looking at Wagner and I'm considering Dich, theure Halle from "Tannhauser" ... but I remember Wolfi making a Wagner suggestion, too, which I will look at again :).
*marches forward*
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Well I'm sad. :( ... but yes oh well.... :(
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I know noone asked but I'll write about why I'm sad anyway. (if you don't want to know then don't read).
So it's about the music school doggie... when I came to see him on Wednesday he was gone! :( I mean his doggy house and everything where he was! and I don't know why... I mean I'm afraid what if something happened to him, but it's also possible that they are moving... I mean the people who have him are in the same house as our music school was... and my music theory teacher said that our music school had to move because they (the people who own the house, because my music school was only renting half of it) sold the house. But i thought that maybe they only sold the part where my music school was, because the doggy was still there and everything... but maybe they sold the whole house and are moving somewhere else. And of course I'm hoping that that's what it is and that there is nothing wrong with the doggy!!! But even if it's that I'm still sad because I don't know where they are moving so I guess that means I would never see the doggy :'( :(
I was thinkng about what I could do to find out and on Thurseday I went there again... but there was noone there and I was kinda afraid to leave a note or something. But I remembered that they had a lot of cars parked there (now there was only one) and on the cars there was a name of a company (or whatever it is) - and I looked for it on the internet and it's for taking care of people's gardens and trees and things like that (and it's also for emloying people who can't get jobs that easy, because of disabilities)... and on the internet there was still the old address writen everywhere, except in one link there was a different address, so I thought maybe that could be where they're moving.... but I don't know... I'm afraid to hope to much so I wouldn't get so sad again... and also they have their email everywhere.... I was thinking if I wrote to them and asked them about the doggy....... but I'm afraid that I would be too sad if noone answered and specially if they said something bad happened... so I don't know what to do... :-\ I'm afraid to write to them, but I'm also so sad when I think I would never see him again... :-\ :(
Other things... I'm tired! I had math today (on Saturday!!) :o and I should be practicing and doing a lot of things but i'm too tired and I have a math test again on Monday! and I also broke my mp3 today when my school backpack fell on the floor. ::)
And I wasn't eating enough during the week so today I was sooo hungry and I ate sooo much my stomach hurts. ::)
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But you should only be sad if something awful happened to him and to me it sounds like he's just moved. Let go of it! You're going to learn that we can't control life and lots of things take care of themselves without our intervention. Think positive about it! That dog's got loads of personal power.
I live in the country and there's a mouse in my house. it's been here for several months now. It's not a rat. It's a country mouse. ONe of those cute ones that smile at you and stops you from laying out traps. I wouldn't mind it living here, but I'm afraid he's going to start doing damage to things like electric lines. He eats nothing that you would expect a mouse to eat. But he leaves microscopic turds - so he's getting by on something. And I don't know how he does it, but he can climb counters, desks, bookshelves, etc. At the moment he's come upstairs and has decided to sleep in my room. I finally found an "ecological" trap - I've baited it with some provolone but as of yet he hasn't fallen for it. It's just my luck I'm dealing with a street-wise dude.
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It's a country mouse. ONe of those cute ones that smile at you and stops you from laying out traps. At the moment he's come upstairs and has decided to sleep in my room. I finally found an "ecological" trap - I've baited it with some provolone but as of yet he hasn't fallen for it. It's just my luck I'm dealing with a street-wise dude.
how lovely this is!!
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So far nothing. Yet. I found a tiny turd in a drawer with my shirts. Right in the middle of a white capri pullover. He's challenging me. In the meantime, the provolone is putrefying inside the trap. He's a clever one, he is. But this isn't over.
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I've experienced rat episodes in my house. We bought 2 different mouse traps and put food in it but the rat was too fast for the trap's mechanism to react to the mouse.
I recently did my piano exams. It went alright. The thing is that I passed. Therefore, I'm free and have nothing to worry about anymore. Before the exam I was as nervous as hell but during the practice session in a practice room I calmed down a bit. Then came the exam and I waited 15 minutes before being ushered into the room. I barely composed myself. Took me a long time to settle down. The pieces went alright, the ear tests weren't that bad, general knowledge was good, sight reading was ok but the bit that cost me alot of marks were the scales. I stumbled virtually every 2nd scale and it sucked.
P.s 1000th post
JL
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Nothing. Maybe I should refresh the bait. Mice do eat cheese, right? Maybe he's died of starvation.
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Better alive than dead. If dead the rat will emit some extremely bad odour and only compound the situation. That's what happened in my house. Maybe try something instead of cheese and see what happens. Buy different mouse traps.
JL
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*trying to stop interrupting everything else (practicing) and instead obsessively looking for my birth certificate* >:(
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*trying to stop interrupting everything else (practicing) and instead obsessively looking for my birth certificate* >:(
I FOUND IT!!! Woot! It was in a folder in a drawer (full of other folders and "important" papers) which I had looked through countless other times already. But, out of desperation, I prayed honestly and found myself going to that drawer, yet again, in which a folder had snagged on the drawer above it, and upon wrestling the snag away, the drawer wiggled and the folder just popped open and there was my birth certificate, just staring me in the face! Coincidence? I don't know :).
Well, about three hours of my life down the drain -and several serendipitous other finds in the process of searching high and low- later, I can now stop obsessing over my birth certificate and move forward with practicing (and my life) for half an hour :P. I have a cancellation for an hour and 15 mins today, though, so I'll get a bit more practicing in then!
I just saw my voice teacher yesterday and the day before for the first time in about a year ... hmmmm ... I almost thought I was going to New York soon, but that's not happening as far as I know anytime soon, yet. I can't process certain things, but I will say it appears I'm getting my act together for the competition. At least a little. I've actually nailed down my 5 arias and have put 4 of them in a special binder, with the Embroidery Aria on its way in the mail ... I just have to fill out the application and get the rest of my official stuff together ... and then, learn and re-learn the stuff ... and then I guess it's going to happen. hmmm...
*runs to piano*
I actually did cry when I found my birth certificate ... OK, just a few tears.
*25/6 ... come to Mamma* ;D :-* And then, in my break, the Appassionata is mine :).
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On my mind is nicotine.
Have not had a ciggie for well over 3 years, but now I am trying to get off the lozenges which one is only supposed to take for a maximum of 2 months.
Now, I am suffering all the withdrawal symptoms again. which include pins and needles, dry mouth, irritability and the urge to machine gun my work colleagues.
Thal
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On my mind is nicotine.
Have not had a ciggie for well over 3 years, but now I am trying to get off the lozenges which one is only supposed to take for a maximum of 2 months.
Now, I am suffering all the withdrawal symptoms again. which include pins and needles, dry mouth, irritability and the urge to machine gun my work colleagues.
That's a shame. Sorry to hear that - and good luck in sorting it out. The only useful thing about nicotine these days is the exercise that one would get in walking here and there in order to get to a place where it's legal to light up and, since you've already losts so much weight anyway, I don't see that as being of any practical use to you, so I cannot think of a good reason for that stuff to be on your mind!
You could always substitute those thoughts with some about that woman pianist about whom you wrote yesterday...
Best,
Alistair
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The only useful thing about nicotine these days is the exercise that one would get in walking here and there in order to get to a place where it's legal to light up
HAHA, that is true. In your part of the World, I would think one could burn considerable calories walking to somewhere that sells them as well.
Thal
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HAHA, that is true. In your part of the World, I would think one could burn considerable calories walking to somewhere that sells them as well.
Very possibly so! - and that's another bit of exercise that I never take!
Of course, the attitudes both to smoking in public places and legislation against doing so France are very different; not for nothing did someone recently quip that "défense de fumer" translates into English as "defence of smoking"!...
Best,
Alistair
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How I'm doing....? Hum, have only 3 piano students, down from having over 10 students.
Is has been discouraging to get more students due to them quitting most of the time. I hope some day more students will come along but right now I'm redirecting my attention to my artwork.
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I am sooooooooo tired......... I really NEED holidays NOW!!!! In the last two weeks I had soo much things for school and I had to translate 12 pages of something about sick newborn babies :-\ :-\ :-\ I mean I didn't really HAVE to but I promised I would... so I had to... so I didn't even have time to practice piano yesterday at all! :o :-\ and today I'm so tired I just feel like screaming and throwing things around for every little stupid thing that's not the way I want. :-\ ::)
Oh well... I think I should get a little sick to get a little rest! :P Oh and I will tell my math teacher on Tuesday that there is no way I'm having one more math test in two weeks.....!!! (just before Christmas!) It's just too much!!! I can have it in January for both December and January! >:( :P
Oh and I was eating sooo much sweets again! I think my brain really needs a lot of sugar when it has to work so hard! :P
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I am sooooooooo tired......... I really NEED holidays NOW!!!!
Me too. I promised Dougs we would go away the week after next.
Not sure where yet.
Thal
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Me too. I promised Dougs we would go away the week after next.
Not sure where yet.
Thal
Oh I hope you'll post pictures from wherever you'll go!!! :P 8)
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I'm soo stressed out..
This is the things I'm facing the following weeks:
Practicing sooo many new pieces on the piano
Keep my "old" repertoire alive
Working on my organ repertoire (pieces + chorales)
I have two days to practice an accompaniment on the piano and a total new chorale on the organ
oboe pieces to practice
And that's the music... now comes the school stuff..
I have, in the following weeks;
Math exam, physics exam, chemistry exam, programming exam, swedish exam, english exam and german exam.
Why can't one day have at least... 30 hours? :-\
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My holidays just started...
Thinking about what Christmas present I want. Currently thinking Dogtag and a book.
JL
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I am seemingly very close to permitting myself to walk on a cloud, we're talking a mega cloud, for an indefinite period in my life. Don't worry, work is not absent on that cloud, even that is elevated there. :) <----- that's from my heart.
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Topo Gigio still wanders the house undisturbed. Don't know what to do. The cage with a morsel of provolone still remains open and untouched. I thought mice liked cheese. You know what? I have to get a cat. We've had cats ever since we moved out here. After the last one passed over we never got another one. Too much emotional turmoil. But I don't think you can live in a country house without a cat. Forget Jackie, my adorable jack russel who, I read, was used to rid mice in barns in the last century. She just loves to figure out where Topo Gigio is and point. That's it. She's missed him twice already.
My patience has come to an end. No more ecological traps. This is WAR! >:(
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m1469, that sounds absolutely wonderful! And Birba, best of luck. ;D
It's ridiculously cold in my apartment, not exactly contributing to a want of practising the piano. But these weekly meetings me and my friend have taken upon us are inspiring me to play despite the cold temperatures causing joints to hurt. It's 14C, or 57F, inside. Ridiculous, really. I'm starting to think my fridge is leaking cold air, the area surrounding it seems colder than any other place in the room save the window.
I'm decently well though, I have decided to start saving up money to trade in my Yamaha NP30 for a Yamaha P95. The lack of weighed keys is frustrating when trying to work in good dynamics into a piece, among other things. And I think I might have a new apartment deal on the horizon, which should make my life a great deal easier to deal with.
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Nooo Birba don't hurt the poor mouse! :( It's just trying to suvive. Can't you just catch it and take it somewhere else (well maybe that's what ecological trap means? I don't know )? Maybe the mouse just doesn't like that kind of cheese. :-\
Well if you had a cat just to scare the mouse that would be ok, but not to kill it! I think it's really bad the way cats kill mice. :( like they throw it around and play with it... :-X :( I don't know but I heard that. And the way my cat sometimes plays with her toys I could imagine that. Except that my cat is really nice and gentle (but I still watch her when she's around my birds of course).
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Topo Gigio
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That's not a bad similarity to my topo gigio. I don't WANT to kill it! That's the point. I changed the cheese yesterday using gloves and tweezers this time so my human smell didn't infect it. It's the most incredible mouse ever. Yesterday, Jackie was pointing at a small chest of drawers on the staircase landing. Mind you, this is an area of approximately 2 yards square. I thought Jackie wanted her ball, so I moved the chest of drawers and who darted out but Topo Gigio. He saw Jackie and ran back under again. Well, he absolutely disappeared. There are no holes there, I took out all the drawers, I moved the the whole thing round and round and there was NO MORE TRACE OF HIM. I really don't get it. I think he's back in the fireplace in my bedroom because jackie stood vigil there practically all night.
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Maybe he's a magical mouse. :)
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Most definitely. :'(
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Hi Birba:
I just wanted to let you know that I caught many mice using the PETA friendly mouse trap. I used peanut butter. Mice like cheese but it tends to get stale overnight. And I've always found the peanut butter works much better. I can mail you a PETA trap, if you like. I have several. Now that we have a cat and we're feeding the feral cats in our backyard, the mice don't show up anymore.
Let me know if you'd like a couple of PETA traps. Please, please, please be kind and do not use poisons or cruel traps. You were kind to me. Please be kind to the mouse!
Choo Choo Love
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Today at music theory we didn't really have music theory but we were making winter and Christmas decorations :P the whole time!! First the teacher said we would only be making them for the first half (for first 45 minutes) and then we would do music theory... but then the time went by so fast that we didn't do music theory at all. :P It was really cool. 8) Some were just coloring and some were cutting snowflakes and other winter things. But I was drawing because the teacher said: you can draw really well right? and I was like I don't know... and she was like: yes I know you can! You drew something for me once. (and I don't really remember that! and I mean we only have this teacher since last year)... well so I was drawing... :) and it was pretty cool! and then when it was only 10 or 15 minutes till the end I tried cutting a snowflake but I couldn't figure out how to do it right :-[ maybe i'll try it at home (cause I was nervous there cause it was so little time) and I'll make a few and take them with me when I have my piano lesson on wednesday if they'll still need some more. :)
Oh if we had more time I would draw one more picture with notes and everything... so it would be about music too... but well maybe I'll do it for at home or something... :)
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Hi Birba:
I just wanted to let you know that I caught many mice using the PETA friendly mouse trap. I used peanut butter. Mice like cheese but it tends to get stale overnight. And I've always found the peanut butter works much better. I can mail you a PETA trap, if you like. I have several. Now that we have a cat and we're feeding the feral cats in our backyard, the mice don't show up anymore.
Let me know if you'd like a couple of PETA traps. Please, please, please be kind and do not use poisons or cruel traps. You were kind to me. Please be kind to the mouse.
That's my problem. I started out on this quest trying to be as kind as possible. I refused poisons, sticky paper, etc. I finally found a "friendly" trap, but this dude is too street-wise for that. I changed to peanut butter. Nothing. I'm going to be leaving the house for 3 months and I've told our cleaning lady to take care of it before we get back. The fact is, we've always had cats out here. Tommy died last year, which leaves us open for every critter that wishes to come and stay a while...
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*I accidentally posted on the wrong thread, and I really can;t remember what I was doing. Hm...
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Oh, dear. Poor mouse.
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Birba: I wish you a safe and enjoyable vacation. I hope you'll adopt a cat when you return.
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Oh, dear. Poor mouse.
Yes. :(
I don't know why I'm always playing better at home (even if i'm recording) than at my piano lessons! >:( annoying....
I better not think what I'll do next week at my recital.... ::)
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I am sooo sleepy!!! I hate that! I have too many things! I need holidays! ::) Ohhh..... oh well...
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Oh nooo and now my tummy is also starting to hurt! ::) how very annoying!
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I have had this vocal epiphane as a result of screaming (yes) because of yet another spider incident inside the house. It's a kind of scream that is pure emotional reaction and one which I can't re-create by trying, and after the thing I realized it was really high and loud and clear. I got curious about what note it was, and it was about F#6 = three above middle C. I normally do not vocalize that high, in fact lately it's been to about C6 only. But now I'm thinking ... if my vocal chords can do that for a natural reason, why couldn't they do that for a planned reason? It seems like I should be able to make that sound at will, but right now I can't seem to do that, not even with a decided scream. So, this is very interesting to me both vocally and pianistically/musically. There is already some way for me to make those sounds, which I am capable of easily making when "inspired" and when in emotional reaction, but unless I'm in those circumstances, it seems mysterious and my head seems to be getting in the way. I'm sure there's a lesson in there for me (which has more to do with music than with spiders). Hmmmmmm ...
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Very good observations m1469! :) I think this is saying a lot about how musical expression works in the first place! :)
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Yes, that is how this strikes me. It's funny that this happened because of a spider ... heh ... I guess this is something lifely interesting for me in context of my relationship with spiders and all. But, musically, it supports the idea of sound and intent being instinctual and even a bit primordial. And in this case it supports the idea that when it's based in instinct, one may very well be capable of and achieve more than they thought or thought they knew they could. I obviously want to tap into that for all music making, but then there's the issue of "refinement" "correctness" "beauty" "art" and socialization if you want to get really philosophical about it. I don't *think* the idea to divorce oneself completely from those is 'the way' but, they can get in the way, at least if there is no room, ever, for experimentation outside its realm. Stangely, I also believe that the ultimate artistic goal, and perhaps origin, of music is to express these instinctual things in an artistic way, but it seems like something gets mixed up and a little confused in there with all of it. Somehow there gets a division about it, as in my case, I was never conscious of my ability to make that sound naturally, though it's probably been there for quite some time. It gets me thoughtful and interested and awake.
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See m1469 I told you! :P :D Spiders need to tell you something! :) 8) :P But I understand that you're still not too happy about them, specially cause you have some big and dangerous spiders around! :-\
Today I met one spider too in the bathroom, but it was a small tiny spider so it was ok, I just moved it from the bathroom cause it was having problems trying to crawl up the bathtub. Oh and a few days ago I met one in my room when my computer mouse fell behind the table and when I was trying to pick it up and I scared the spider, that one was a litte bigger than this one today but still small so it didn't bother me I just let it be there. :)
Oh only three more days to survive!!! And in four days....... holidays!!!!!!!! well actually in exactly... 3 days and 17 hours!!!!!! why does that seem soooo far away now.......... :P
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Trying to cope with that freaking new youtube-design. All friends are gone, and now there are only subscribers. If you don't subscribe to your former friends manually, they'll be probably gone for good. ARRRGHHHH >:( And nobody, I say NOBODY can ever convince me to change to that stupid Facebook-timeline thing unless they force me to do so because there's no more other option.....ARGHH >:(
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Trying to cope with that freaking new youtube-design. All friends are gone, and now there are only subscribers. If you don't subscribe to your former friends manually, they'll be probably gone for good. ARRRGHHHH >:( And nobody, I say NOBODY can ever convince me to change to that stupid Facebook-timeline thing unless they force me to do so because there's no more other option.....ARGHH >:(
I don't really like it either..... :-\ I mean you can't even have a background like before, you can only choose one colour :-\ or maybe I just don't know how to do it... and all the comments disapear when it changes your channel into the new design.... i mean you can switch back to the old channels design but probably that's only for a while...
I don't even know what's Facebook-timeline... :-\
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I don't really like it either..... :-\ I mean you can't even have a background like before, you can only choose one colour :-\ or maybe I just don't know how to do it... and all the comments disapear when it changes your channel into the new design.... i mean you can switch back to the old channels design but probably that's only for a while...
I don't even know what's Facebook-timeline... :-\
Yes, now I have just changed back to the old design. But the friends are gone because they merged friends into subscribers for everybody, not only for the new design.
Facebook timeline is also one of these "fancy" new things and you will come across as soon as somebody from your friends list changes to it :P It's just frustrating, why can't they stay with the good old things that have worked for years?
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I actually did cry when I found my birth certificate ... OK, just a few tears.
*25/6 ... come to Mamma* ;D :-* And then, in my break, the Appassionata is mine :).
Hee hee that's uber cute, I like :D 8)
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I found microscopic turds in my Yamaha C-3!!!!!!!!!!!! This has settled it. My pianotuner said it was strange that they hadn't gotten into my upright. That's what they usually prefer. Well, I bought the poison and it's started. It's a special poison where they supposedly leave the house looking for water. At any rate, if they die inside, they don't rot. They mummify. Has anyone ever heard of this stuff?!
So, ecological traps out the window. This is WAR!
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Use standard traps. Quick death for them. Cheap. Possible splatter but a dead creature to clean up and dispose of. Poison can leave the rotting bodies stinking up the place in the walls for a few weeks.
Ahh... *reads better* No, I haven't heard of that special poison. Just Decon.
Better yet... All of the above. Catch them and kill them any way you can.
You can sprinkle powder over specific points in the place, like across doorways, and then see if they leave footprints. It gives you an idea of where they are.
Or get a cat. Or a snake.
Or an African bull frog... ::)
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This one is just bad. There will be mouse guts potentially on that piano.
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I found microscopic turds in my Yamaha C-3!!!!!!!!!!!! This has settled it. My pianotuner said it was strange that they hadn't gotten into my upright. That's what they usually prefer. Well, I bought the poison and it's started. It's a special poison where they supposedly leave the house looking for water. At any rate, if they die inside, they don't rot. They mummify. Has anyone ever heard of this stuff?!
So, ecological traps out the window. This is WAR!
About two years ago, we tried for months to catch a mouse. He was really street smart, like the mouse in your house, and we couldn't catch him. Well, he vanished after a couple of months and we wondered where he had gone to. A few months later, the furnace inspection man found him. He had died and dried up. There was no odor. We didn't even know he was dead, there. I think he ate the type of poison you are putting out. We didn't leave out any poison. We think he ate poison from some other place. I'm very sorry you have to do this but I understand. If it's okay, please don't place this poison outside your house. Other animals may eat them, too.
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I love to tell this story. A few years ago my beloved Misciolina found a country mouse outside and had caught it. I was horrified at her "behavior" (uh, right? she is a cat, you know) and grabbed her and took the mouse out of her mouth. That damned thing bit me! Teaches you to stay out of nature's way. You know, one way or another, we're ALL going to go the way of the mouse trap, sooner or later... :-\
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I'm so mad right now.
There's no one home so I decided to put my story up here.
I suffer from stage fright badly and decided to get some help to get rid of it.
This was my first session and I already met the "therapist" once.
It went very well untill he called me arrogant >:(
He called me arrogant, because I'm very nervous when playing in front of wellknown pianist and not as nervous when playing in front of people who don't know anything about classical music.
That's not really the way of helping your "patients"...
Valerie
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Yeah, I don't think he knows what this business of playing the piano is all about. Maybe he's just trying to get a reaction out of you to get at some hard feelings.
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I love to tell this story. A few years ago my beloved Misciolina found a country mouse outside and had caught it. I was horrified at her "behavior" (uh, right? she is a cat, you know) and grabbed her and took the mouse out of her mouth. That damned thing bit me! Teaches you to stay out of nature's way. You know, one way or another, we're ALL going to go the way of the mouse trap, sooner or later... :-\
What do you mean by, "One way or another, we're ALL going to go the way of the mouse trap, sooner or later... " I know we're all going to die one way or another, but going the way of the mouse trap sooner or later? Please clarify.
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Birba I don't really like you all that much anymore!! >:( :( :'(
I don't think it's right! I don't care if everyone thinks that's the way to do it or that there's no other choice or that that's just the way life (or nature ::) ) is, I don't think it's right!!! Because it makes the mouse (or whatever animal) suffer before they die! I mean the mice leave the house because they are dying slowly!!!!! I know my friend told me, they live in an old house and have traps for mice and rats and she sees dying mice a lot of times. It's really sad... and then the stupid guy that is putting the traps told her that rats can become really dangerous and really huge, he said they can get bigger than a cat!!! :o yeah right... and my friend actually believed him ::) stupid people they just say that so they can convince people that that's the only right thing to do... to make them die from a slow painful death!!!!!!!!!! I mean just think about it... why do you think they get mummified?! Probably they dry up from inside while they're still alive!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't even want to think about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-X :-X :-X and what if an animal outside finds them and eats them? wouldn't they die too? That is no war! That is mass murder!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And sure we all die anyway... but probably noone wants to suffer for days before they die!!!!!!!!!!!
And Bob your "jokes" about killing and eating and torturing animals are really disgusting!!!!! :-X Keep your cruel jokes to youself"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:( >:( >:( :-X :-X
AND the worst thing is people pretend that that is just the way it has to be, so that they don't feel so bad!!!!!!!! I mean if you're doing it just admit what it really is!!!!!! And people think they're all smart... why don't they invent something that would just keep rats and mice away?? Like build better houses or invent a sound that would scare them or give them something so they couldn't have babies anymore? Stupid stupid people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have enough of this stupid human race!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! some aliens should just come and set traps to kill people!!!!!!!!! I mean they would be a lot more intelligent than people........ so that would give them the right to do whatever they want with us right?????????????????
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I'm on your same wave-length, Littletune, believe me! In fact, that picture of the toad eating the mouse was a bit sad. But at least that's nature - we just don't have to look at it. I know that what I'm doing is a cruel thing. But it was either that or the glue paper where they don't even die and YOU have to finish them off. Maybe that's even more humane, though. But I just don't know what to do! I've been trying with this ecological trap thing for a month now, and he (or THEY, I fear) just doesn't go anywhere near it. And when I found micro-turds in my piano I knew that there was no choice. Because if they begin to proliferate, OMG I don't even want to think about it. I know! I already feel awful - and now YOU have to load it on me! :(
Candlelight: "the way of the mouse trap" was only a euphanism. Like, yeah, we all have to go sooner or later - and it's not always the sweet way.
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I'm not joking about the traps and poison. Mice and bugs. Kill them. They're pests. They spread disease and eat the inside of buildings (and pianos) and wiring. At least with a standard mouse trap it's a quick death for them (assuming they don't get half-hit and take a long time to die).
Wait until you find traces in your kitchen or wake up one night and realize... you're not alone.
If you kill them sooner, they won't have a chance to breed and there will be less of them.
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I'm on your same wave-length, Littletune, believe me! In fact, that picture of the toad eating the mouse was a bit sad. But at least that's nature - we just don't have to look at it. I know that what I'm doing is a cruel thing. But it was either that or the glue paper where they don't even die and YOU have to finish them off. Maybe that's even more humane, though. But I just don't know what to do! I've been trying with this ecological trap thing for a month now, and he (or THEY, I fear) just doesn't go anywhere near it. And when I found micro-turds in my piano I knew that there was no choice. Because if they begin to proliferate, OMG I don't even want to think about it. I know! I already feel awful - and now YOU have to load it on me! :(
Candlelight: "the way of the mouse trap" was only a euphanism. Like, yeah, we all have to go sooner or later - and it's not always the sweet way.
Please don't use glue boards! I think that's even worse. Couldn't you adopt a cat? I think that just the knowledge that a cat is on the property turns mice away. If you adopted a cat that had been a stray or feral before, it's even better. They're better hunters.
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Birba I don't really like you all that much anymore!! >:( :( :'(
I don't think it's right! I don't care if everyone thinks that's the way to do it or that there's no other choice or that that's just the way life (or nature ::) ) is, I don't think it's right!!! Because it makes the mouse (or whatever animal) suffer before they die! I mean the mice leave the house because they are dying slowly!!!!! I know my friend told me, they live in an old house and have traps for mice and rats and she sees dying mice a lot of times. It's really sad... and then the stupid guy that is putting the traps told her that rats can become really dangerous and really huge, he said they can get bigger than a cat!!! :o yeah right... and my friend actually believed him ::) stupid people they just say that so they can convince people that that's the only right thing to do... to make them die from a slow painful death!!!!!!!!!! I mean just think about it... why do you think they get mummified?! Probably they dry up from inside while they're still alive!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't even want to think about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-X :-X :-X and what if an animal outside finds them and eats them? wouldn't they die too? That is no war! That is mass murder!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And sure we all die anyway... but probably noone wants to suffer for days before they die!!!!!!!!!!!
And Bob your "jokes" about killing and eating and torturing animals are really disgusting!!!!! :-X Keep your cruel jokes to youself"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:( >:( >:( :-X :-X
AND the worst thing is people pretend that that is just the way it has to be, so that they don't feel so bad!!!!!!!! I mean if you're doing it just admit what it really is!!!!!! And people think they're all smart... why don't they invent something that would just keep rats and mice away?? Like build better houses or invent a sound that would scare them or give them something so they couldn't have babies anymore? Stupid stupid people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have enough of this stupid human race!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! some aliens should just come and set traps to kill people!!!!!!!!! I mean they would be a lot more intelligent than people........ so that would give them the right to do whatever they want with us right?????????????????
You're a person after my own heart. :D
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It's quite easy, use something like this:
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try different baits until you catch the mouse and then transport it to a place far away. That's at least how we did it when I was a child (and we had lots of mice, sometimes also rats, because we lived in an old farmhouse for 8 years, I admit, it was really huge and actually the mice didn't disturb us very much because there was room for everybody, and they had their "regular" place somewhere else but still, sometimes they got annoying :P) first we used the simple standard mousetrap, but then we switched to this one (well, a similar one, back in the seventies) because of it's "humanness". Poison was never an option, of course, because it's cruel, and it will inevitably at some point poison other animals.
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Yes, you have to transport them something like at least 7 miles away. One time we had mice, we were catching them "by hand" (well, with an oven mitt on, and actually those oven mitts look like frogs, so ... :-) - then we started using live traps ... then :-X ... but anyway, we seriously had like 30 or more. Supposedly if you see one, there's lots more. Who knows how many we have at the time and they are mice and rats, too ... it's actually not that great and I am pretty sure they're not all that concerned for our well-being :-.
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There is no good solution. They're just not supposed to be there, in the house. Even if you capture them alive and transport them away, you're still stranding them out in the middle of nowhere. Who's to say they're getting food? Plucked up one day while they're quietly minding their own business, dreaming about having thousands of children one day themselves.... Trapped! And dropped off far away from their hundreds of siblings they once knew (and ate, some of them at least, because they were bigger and they were hungry). They're out there, alone, wandering, scared, possibly literally freezing to death as they starve....
You could take take them in as pets, find them a home in a zoo... Or I suppose take them to vet and pay to have them euthanized.
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I am fine. I just found this forum which I am currently posting on, hence the comment you are currently reading. Since I am excited for this new forum experience, I am doing very well, thanks for asking.
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I'm on your same wave-length, Littletune, believe me! In fact, that picture of the toad eating the mouse was a bit sad. But at least that's nature - we just don't have to look at it. I know that what I'm doing is a cruel thing. But it was either that or the glue paper where they don't even die and YOU have to finish them off. Maybe that's even more humane, though. But I just don't know what to do! I've been trying with this ecological trap thing for a month now, and he (or THEY, I fear) just doesn't go anywhere near it. And when I found micro-turds in my piano I knew that there was no choice. Because if they begin to proliferate, OMG I don't even want to think about it. I know! I already feel awful - and now YOU have to load it on me! :(
Candlelight: "the way of the mouse trap" was only a euphanism. Like, yeah, we all have to go sooner or later - and it's not always the sweet way.
Well... sorry... I just had to say it.... :-\ And I know you're really a good person Birba! I mean I would expect that from most other people anyway... but I know you're not like that. And I know that it must be annoying and even scary if you have a lot of mice and rats in the house... I just think people should think of something better to do about it.... I mean aren't humans supposed to be all smart.... if they really wanted to they could think of something better! But it's just that people don't care enough because they're like Bob and they think mice and rats are just pests and it doesn't matter how you kill them, you just have to kill them all. I think that's just a bad way of thinking... because people can really quickly start thinking that way about other people too.... if someone is not the way you would like them to be or you don't want them around then you should just destroy them all, right? And that's just bad and wrong!
And I know I know it must be bad if you have a house full of mice and rats... :-\ I know... :( But I am sure that if people cared enough they could think of something better to keep them away! I mean aren't there some sounds or smells that don't bother people but they bother animals? I mean we have this spray to make dogs go away or cats... couldn't there be something like that for mice and rats too? or some kinds of really high sound? Or just something you gave them so they couldn't have babies anymore.... :-\ or just build better houses? I don't know...
I don't want you to feel all sad Birba! I hope everything will just be the way it has to be... (and I really hope your Jackie can't get to the poison!!... or to the dead mice... so she wouldn't get poisoned too!!! :( )
Oh Bob no of course you weren't joking! Those were all serious scientific articles! specially that one with a mouse coming out of the piano direclty onto the keyborad while someone is playing the piano!! Yes I am sure that was a real documentary and the comment that you made about mouse guts all over the piano that was sooooo serious and scientific!!! ::) ::) ::)
You should have thought about that those pictures and comments might be disturbing to some people!!!
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Yes, you have to transport them something like at least 7 miles away. One time we had mice, we were catching them "by hand" (well, with an oven mitt on, and actually those oven mitts look like frogs, so ... :-\) - then we started using live traps ... then :-X ... but anyway, we seriously had like 30 or more. Supposedly if you see one, there's lots more. Who knows how many we have at the time and they are mice and rats, too ... it's actually not that great and I am pretty sure they're not all that concerned for our well-being :-\.
They certainly aren't. To care for the well-being of other beings (beyond of basic instincts) is in principle human, not animalistic behaviour. There are some species who do care, but I don't really think mice belong to those.
However, I just wanted to say that I think poison is not really a solution because it will inevitably poison other animals, and after all also humans, of course, as it inevitably will get into the food chain.
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They certainly aren't. To care for the well-being of other beings (beyond of basic instincts) is in principle human, not animalistic behaviour. There are some species who do care, but I don't really think mice belong to those.
Yes and a lot of people only pretend to care but really they only care about themselves... and sometimes animals do care... maybe not in the same way as humans but sometimes they just know what to do to help others... but of course the animals that are wild and have to fight every day to survive can't really care much for others because if they did they wouldn't survive. Cause that's just a sad and stupid way this world works :-\ I'm always trying to imagine if the world, I mean living beings could evolve in some other way... that they wouldn't be competing with eachother to survive, but rather helping each other to survive... but I don't know if that was possible... :-\
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Yes and a lot of people only pretend to care but really they only care about themselves... and sometimes animals do care... maybe not in the same way as humans but sometimes they just know what to do to help others... but of course the animals that are wild and have to fight every day to survive can't really care much for others because if they did they wouldn't survive. Cause that's just a sad and stupid way this world works :- I'm always trying to imagine if the world, I mean living beings could evolve in some other way... that they wouldn't be competing with eachother to survive, but rather helping each other to survive... but I don't know if that was possible... :-
People do pretend things, it seems. But, Littletune, how would you feel if mice and rats were living inside your piano and actually eating it? And you try gentle traps and such, and they not only don't stop, but there gets more and more and you can actually hear them just constantly gnawing on it and there is saw dust laying on the floor and it starts to stink and have rat/mice poops and pees and start to fall apart and not work? Do you just give it to them as a home? It's really easy to think you feel something and/or believe something until it's actually happening to you ... that tends to make things a bit different.
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Well... sorry... I just had to say it.... :-\ And I know you're really a good person Birba! I mean I would expect that from most other people anyway... but I know you're not like that. And I know that it must be annoying and even scary if you have a lot of mice and rats in the house... I just think people should think of something better to do about it.... I mean aren't humans supposed to be all smart.... if they really wanted to they could think of something better! But it's just that people don't care enough because they're like Bob and they think mice and rats are just pests and it doesn't matter how you kill them, you just have to kill them all. I think that's just a bad way of thinking... because people can really quickly start thinking that way about other people too.... if someone is not the way you would like them to be or you don't want them around then you should just destroy them all, right? And that's just bad and wrong!
And I know I know it must be bad if you have a house full of mice and rats... :-\ I know... :( But I am sure that if people cared enough they could think of something better to keep them away! I mean aren't there some sounds or smells that don't bother people but they bother animals? I mean we have this spray to make dogs go away or cats... couldn't there be something like that for mice and rats too? or some kinds of really high sound? Or just something you gave them so they couldn't have babies anymore.... :-\ or just build better houses? I don't know...
I don't want you to feel all sad Birba! I hope everything will just be the way it has to be... (and I really hope your Jackie can't get to the poison!!... or to the dead mice... so she wouldn't get poisoned too!!! :( )
Oh Bob no of course you weren't joking! Those were all serious scientific articles! specially that one with a mouse coming out of the piano direclty onto the keyborad while someone is playing the piano!! Yes I am sure that was a real documentary and the comment that you made about mouse guts all over the piano that was sooooo serious and scientific!!! ::) ::) ::)
You should have thought about that those pictures and comments might be disturbing to some people!!!
I agree with you, LittleTune. Birba is a good, kind, generous person. He did try his best to be kind. I wonder if he could get a couple of cats. I know he used to have one. There are ultrasonic mouse deterrents out there and we used them when we had mice in our house but unfortunately, they didn't work. The best solution is to have a cat. You'll also be giving a homeless cat a loving home so everyone is happy. Is Jackie Birba's dog?
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I think what scared me was the fact that there IS more than topo-gigio. I think he's already started a family. I've actually only seen one at a time and I just assumed it was the same one. But when I began to see micro-turds under the kitchen sink, under the staircase, upstairs in my drawers, in the fireplace, etc. I knew that my hunting him down with the one ecological trap, and to NO avail, wasn't getting anywhere. The fact is, I've always had cats in the house, ergo: no problem. For the last year I've only had Jackie, the so-called mouse dog they use on the english farms, and I think she feels sorry for them, too, because she only points them out and doesn't go after them. Or they're too fast for her. So I've gone against all my principles and declared war on them. So far, I've seen they've nibbled at the bait. Now why couldn't they have nibbled at the innocuous bait in the trap?!
I'm leaving for 3 months next week and the house is going to be completely topo-gigio free when I come back. Then I'm adopting a cat. >:(
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Topo-gigio, your mouse. Does that mean something, Birba? Is it Italian for something? It's very cute. Happy to hear that you're going to adopt a cat when you return, though a tad sad for topo-gigio and company :(
I know I'm off subject but I just wanted to let you know that the exercises you gave me have worked wonders! I'm now able to play the off beat part pretty well (I think). And I enjoy practicing now, much more than before. I think that I was so tense before that practice hurt. But now it's fun and getting through this new passage is exhilarating! I feel like a new person. Thanks a million!
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People do pretend things, it seems. But, Littletune, how would you feel if mice and rats were living inside your piano and actually eating it? And you try gentle traps and such, and they not only don't stop, but there gets more and more and you can actually hear them just constantly gnawing on it and there is saw dust laying on the floor and it starts to stink and have rat/mice poops and pees and start to fall apart and not work? Do you just give it to them as a home? It's really easy to think you feel something and/or believe something until it's actually happening to you ... that tends to make things a bit different.
Yes I know. I said I understand it must be bad. I just really wish people invented something better to keep rats and mice away!! and that they wouldn't just think oh they're just pests who cares how we kill them and how much they suffer before they die... :( :(
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well actually I feel really bad now! :( :'( And I should be happy cause I have HOLIDAYS!!!! finally!!! but I feel sooo bad..... I'm a bad person! :'( Today when I was going to my piano lesson and I was waiting for a bus there was this homeless guy standing there (well at least he looked homeless, like not very clean and with all rotting teeth) and then he started asking people if they would give him their mobile phone to call someone... and noone wanted to... and I went as far away as I could cause I didn't want him to ask me too... but it didn't help and he came to me and started asking me if I would give him my phone so he could call some people who were supposed to come any moment with a car to pick him up, but he just wanted to ask them where they were... and I didn't know what to do :-\ cause I didn't really want to give him my phone but I didn't want to be mean like other people. So after awhile I started to get my phone but then there were these two older people standing really close listening and watching all the time and when I wanted to get my phone the lady started saying: no no no, you shouldn't do that! and then I didn't know what to do again! :( And then he was asking me what school I go to, I think he was just trying to be nice... and then he asked me if I was afraid of him, and I said no I just don't know why it's so urgent to call them if they are coming soon anyway... I just wanted him to tell me why it was so important :-\ and if he said: well they were supposed to come a long time ago or I just want to check if I'm waiting at the right place or I'm really cold and I want to see if I have time to go somewhere where it's warmer.... then I would give him my phone... but he didn't (i mean i guess he's not really used to explaining to people how he feels)... but i just wanted him to tell me why he needed the phone so bad and i would give it to him.... but then he just went away and before he went he looked really sad :'( like he was going to start crying :'( and he still said bye when he went away but I couldn't cause I was so sad. And that lady was saying I did the right thing and that I was smart not to give him the phone but I felt like crying... and I still do... and then when I went back from my piano lesson I went to that bus stop to see if he was maybe still there (even though it was more than an hour since then) and then I made like three circles around there an went through different streets around there and I went by the place where there are usually a lot of homeless people but I didn't see him anywhere. And I know he will survive without my phone but what's really bad is that he now thinks noone cares about him and that noone wants to help him. :'(
And I don't know why I didn't think of saying that I would call those people and say that this and this person wanted to know where they were or I could even put my phone on loud speaker and he could talk to them while I was holding the phone... but I just didn't think of that then :( I'm sooo sorry! :(
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Well, you don't need to feel sorry at all!!
I am happy that your intuition showed you the right way to react.
Unfortunately not everybody is honest and compassionate like you are. Not everybody in this world is okay! You will have to learn it sooner or later. I guess now you are learning it the soft way, because you are intelligent. I hope you'll never get into the situation of needing to learn it the hard way.
Love works only if both parts do their job.
If a certain person only draws on the generosity of the other, or even attacks you in some way, it's time to close yourself up, and defend yourself, if necessary with all means, as soon as possible.
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Just one more thought: today I had a lesson with one of my students who is 10. She got attacked by an elder student (an 8th grader) in her schoolyard, with a snowball that contained a stone!!!
I mean, please, for heaven's sake! This could as well have ended deadly for her, or with severe injuries!! So many people are NOT AT ALL okay! And it's important that people like those who attacked her are brought to justice, with all consequences, as soon as possible! Where'd we end up as humanity if everybody could get away with something like this!
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Yeah. It's a tough world that we live in. I understand how you feel, LittleTune, about not helping this fellow but you never know what anyone's true intentions are when they come up to you. You have to be careful. There are a lot of nut cases out there.
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Littletune, I know EXACTLY how you feel. BUT, you are a little girl and should definitely NOT give time and talk to these people. More often then not, they are homeless and sad, but you never know. I, on the other hand, should be ashamed of myself when these incidents come up. It's like an automatic reaction to turn the other way, when instead, all you have to do is consider each situation separately and look at it anew. There are times when a kind word or gesture means so much to the other person. I'm always resolving to to do this. but, unfortunately, it doesn't happen often... ???
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Thanks Wolfi and Candlelightpiano and Birba! Wow these holidays started kinda weird! :-\ I was expecting to be all happy cause the Christmas holidays finally started and I'm all sad because of the poor mice and cause of the poor homeless guy...
and then there's also that end of the world thing and my billion mistakes at my piano recital and probably at my math test too..... ohhhhhhhhhhh
well I'll just try not to think about all that cause I guess there's really nothing I can do about it :( oh... :-\
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Thanks Wolfi and Candlelightpiano and Birba! Wow these holidays started kinda weird! :-\ I was expecting to be all happy cause the Christmas holidays finally started and I'm all sad because of the poor mice and cause of the poor homeless guy...
and then there's also that end of the world thing and my billion mistakes at my piano recital and probably at my math test too..... ohhhhhhhhhhh
well I'll just try not to think about all that cause I guess there's really nothing I can do about it :( oh... :-\
Well, at the very least don't worry about the end of the world thing because it's blatant science fiction for people who have nothing better to worry about, and also don't worry about your mistakes at a recital, puleaaaze :) Pinky promise? Okay? (I'm sure I'd be worse than you at the math test, I m so sure! ;D ) Oh yeah!! :) Cheers! :)
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Well, at the very least don't worry about the end of the world thing because it's blatant science fiction for people who have nothing better to worry about, and also don't worry about your mistakes at a recital, puleaaaze :) Pinky promise? Okay? Oh yeah!! :) Cheers! :)
Okay :) :P thanks Wolfi... or Wolfek :P :P You made me smile! 8) :) :P
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Okay :) :P thanks Wolfi... or Wolfek :P :P You made me smile! 8) :) :P
I hope so :) You have made me smile like I don't know how many times! :)
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LittleTune, I think they've been talking about the end of the world since I was born and that was a long time ago! As for recital mistakes, no one but you knew about them and even if others knew about them, so what? As for math exams, I sympathize but I'm sure you'll do much better than you think you will. I'm glad I don't have to take a math exam with you. I have a feeling you'll do better!
Yeah, I'm very sad about Birba's mice, too.
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I hope so :) You have made me smile like I don't know how many times! :)
Cool! 8) :)
LittleTune, I think they've been talking about the end of the world since I was born and that was a long time ago! As for recital mistakes, no one but you knew about them and even if others knew about them, so what? As for math exams, I sympathize but I'm sure you'll do much better than you think you will. I'm glad I don't have to take a math exam with you. I have a feeling you'll do better!
Yeah, I'm very sad about Birba's mice, too.
Thanks! :) Maybe I'll post the recording, but I haven't really seen it... because my mum borrowed a camera at work (cause our camera runs out of battery right away) and now she doesn't know how to put it onto computer (she needs to download some program)... and anyway I'm not sure if I want to see it. :P
Yes poor mice I wish there was some other way... :-\
And I just wanted to say that I have no idea what I would do if there were mice in our house and in my piano... because I don't think I could kill them and of course I wouldn't want them destroying the house and piano! I would probably just go crazy and would have to go to a mental hospital anyway! :-\
And I uderstand that people want to protect their home and their things and themselves, I mean they can't just let the rats and mice throw them out of their house! But this killing thing (specially in the way that they suffer before they die) is just REALLY REALLY disturbing to me. :( I don't know I just can't take this things... that's just the way I am... and the way I have always been (ever since I can remember). It's not that I would think about it and decide to be this way so that I would look like all good or something. It's just that it REALLY hurts me! :-\
I remember when I was 3 and we were on holidays in summer with my (a lot) older cousin and I thought he was sooo cool and I wanted to be just like him and do the things he did... and he really liked fishing (and we had that for food)... and I felt like I should like that too but I just felt soooo bad all the time... and I don't think I told anyone how bad it made me feel, except a year later he caught a fish that he said wasn't good for eating, and I got so happy and though he would throw it back, but he didn't (he said he would have it for a bait or something) and then I really couldn't take it anymore it just seemed so senseless and I just started crying so bad I couldn't even tell people why I was crying and noone knew why and then after awhile I told them somehow and then my aunt threw it back into the sea... but I didn't know if it was still alive :-\ but I hope it was I don't think it was that long.
So that's why... I'm not just being annoying or trying to force people to feel like I do, but it just really hurts me. :( and it's not so fun to be this way in a world where beings are hurting eachother all the time. :-\ but oh well... I wouldn't want to be different than I am cause that's me but it's just not that easy a lot of times and I can't really explain this to people.
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I think it's important to realize that we can control only OUR OWN karma. I know, in a way, I'm not doing the right thing with these mice. I did try the other way, and I suppose I should insist on getting rid of them in the humane way, but this is MY karma. Feeling sad or crying about a situation out of our control, only creates MORE bad feelings. There's a way of accepting the injustice and evil surrounding us, without being complacent about it. But you're still very young and I think your reaction is better than a "turning the other way" attitude. So, with time, you're going to find the median way.
Am I making any sense?
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I guess you're making sense... but I don't think I'll ever feel differently cause it's not something I think about but just something I feel :-\ I kinda feel like an alien who is from a world where living beings help eachother and care for eachother and feel what others are feeling... and i'm in this world where beings usually don't care and help each other and don't feel what others are feeling at all... :-\ so that makes it kinda difficult. But I'm not weak so I guess I can live with feeling this way...
I'll be ok :)
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A few years ago, we actually caught a mouse by just leaving some boxes of old, unwanted clothing around the house and putting food in them. In the morning, we put the cover over the boxes and took them out to the driveway. I think it was only a few mornings later that one little gray mouse tumbled out when we tipped the box out! I was so happy that we "caught" him that way. I'm sure Birba feels awful about this whole thing and I understand his predicament. And I understand your feelings, too, LittleTune. But he will be adopting a cat when he returns and hopefully, this won't happen again, so he is trying his best to be kind. We must try and look to the future and not keep dwelling on the past.
I wish both of you the very best for Christmas and the new year. Here's one of my favorite Christmas songs:
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A few years ago, we actually caught a mouse by just leaving some boxes of old, unwanted clothing around the house and putting food in them. In the morning, we put the cover over the boxes and took them out to the driveway. I think it was only a few mornings later that one little gray mouse tumbled out when we tipped the box out! I was so happy that we "caught" him that way. I'm sure Birba feels awful about this whole thing and I understand his predicament. And I understand your feelings, too, LittleTune. But he will be adopting a cat when he returns so he is trying his best.
I wish both of you the very best for Christmas and the new year. Here's one of my favorite Christmas songs, even though it is white here:
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Bummed out. I'll be glad when it's January.
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Why? What's the matter, Bob?
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I am starting to ignore everything. Now a days I am a little frustrated, but also a little flattered. I have just broken up with a girl, and now another is following me and paying me compliments. It's strange.
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I just upgraded my iphone for .99 cents and that seems cool. So far I can't get anything to work on it though ... :- and that is stupid.
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I just got a new laptop from my parents!
So I'm very happy now, of course ;D
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phwew ... starting to feel like myself again today. TONS to do, also the vocal competition is in two weeks ... eek ... and work starts up full swing next week. BUT, I think I'm getting that motor back in gear and all geared up to take it on.
Not quite "bring it" just yet ... but close :).
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I'm gonna get me all passionate up in yo' business!
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I'm feeling pretty great! Apart from a few shaky details in my private life, that is. ;D But those have been around for a while now, and aren't looking like they want to get better any time soon, so I'm not worrying about them currently. ;D But I'm getting a visit from my sister tomorrow, and I also might be picking up my new digital piano! ;D
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aaaaaaaaahhhhhh .... well, I don't know that I'm quite "relieved" but I am very thankful that I have finally sung through all of my 5 competition arias today (okay, not all the way through il est doux), for the first time and nearly everything is memorized (I've still got to study the Operas and scenes though, too ... but, that's this weekend). A week and a half out. Still quite a bit of work to do, but I think I'm on track to be where I'd like to be by this weekend, just in time to ever so slightly taper into the competition :P. My voice feels like it's changing again, and it's starting to feel *so* good to actually be getting it truly back into shape. I made it through my Opera Scenes auditions and 5 week program this Fall, but I wouldn't say my voice was truly in shape at that point. It's just starting to get there now, and it feels good and right, like that's how my life is supposed to feel. My plan is to get myself in nice vocal shape, have/get a program worked up, and to get in the best piano shape of my life :).
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What are the arias, what are the arias??? I want to know!!!
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What are the arias, what are the arias??? I want to know!!!
Italian: Come Scoglio from Cosi fan Tutte by Mozart
Porgi, Amor, qualche ristoro from The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart
French: Il est doux, il est bon from Herodiade by Massenet
German: Dich, theure Halle from Tannhauser by Wagner
English: Embroidery Aria from Peter Grimes by Britten
I pick which one I'll start with, then they pick the second (or more). I've got to be prepared to sing all of them. I'm happy to be getting into shape vocally, but if I didn't have this pushing me, I know I wouldn't do it in the same way (even though I'd fantasize about having stuff ready). It's a push getting these together as my German and English arias are completely new to me as of a few weeks ago ... heh ... and I'm relearning the French from a number of years ago ... and I'll have to replace the Italian probably in the next several months. But, since it's standard to have 5 arias and for these languages to be represented, and since all 5 of them should ideally be in the same fach (these aren't, though, but it's close enough for the time-being) these are at least something I can work with for future projects, and can build upon.
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Escept for the dich teure halle they're pretty much in the same fach. And actually, the aria by itself can be sung by any lyric soprano. I'm not that familiar with the peter grimes aria, though. I know what you mean about having goals to meet. If we don't have them, we have to create them. You have real deadlines to meet which is a good thing. Gambatte kudasai!
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Escept for the dich teure halle they're pretty much in the same fach. And actually, the aria by itself can be sung by any lyric soprano. I'm not that familiar with the peter grimes aria, though. I know what you mean about having goals to meet. If we don't have them, we have to create them. You have real deadlines to meet which is a good thing. Gambatte kudasai!
Dich theure is considered dramatic and Wagner in general is not sung by lyrics because it's considered to be fairly heavy writing. Porgi, amor (and the role of the countess in general) is considered more lyric territory (or "full" lyric) and even though Come Scoglio is considered "Dramatic coloratura" "full lyrics" also sing it, like Cecilia Bartolli and Renee Flemming. Il est doux is dramatic and the Emboidery aria is considered spinto territory. So, per the usual comment I get when I hand a repertoire list "well, it's a mixed bag" ... that precise thing, along with other related matters, are part of the reason I stepped back from singing for awhile (well, that as well as the fact that piano took first priority). These days, I say, guess what folks, I've got to sing something, and this is what I've got! Plus, I would think it would be somewhat understandable for growing voices who verge into dramatic territory ... you don't just start out as a spinto or a dramatic, you grow there. haha ... I was an alto for a long time in choir ... sometimes singing the tenor part. For awhile I was classified as a mezzo ... and then on and on. When do I get to just sing, folks? It's been this "thing" where, unless everything matches up, I'm not supposed to step into an audition because it will look as though I don't know what I'm doing. But, what am I supposed to think when I'm being told a THOUSAND different things? *insert time on my own* And, how am I supposed to get from that point, to being some world-renowned opera star (as people indicate I *could* be if only I'd get off my lazy bum and actually do something with my life! ::) :P (of course, not counting and besides all the thing I am actually doing and working very hard at)), when I don't even have audition arias to audition with? *breaks the mold*
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ending with the suggestion that I sing "Climb Every Mountain" as my English "aria" from The Sound of Music. argh. Seriously. It seriously makes me want to cry. But, oh well, now I've got that off my chest and I happen to have loads of vocal work to do in just this moment and for the next hours ... and I will sing whatever the h*** I've got.
Not that one! :P Peace and strength. :)
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Not that one! :P
I know, right? I'm not crazy for not wanting to walk into an (important-for-me-in-several-ways) competition/audition with that, right? Aside from the fact that it's musical theater, and sure there may be some crossover between opera and musical theater these days, is it really going to do me any favors vocally and musically? I really don't think so. Anyway, part of that was over a sudden concern that I might not be able to learn the Embroidery Aria (which was an aria suggestion from somebody else) in that much time (this was on the second day, when the amount of time I'd have to learn this stuff (not even thinking about what else is going on in my life) must have hit). Climb Every Mountain would be just as new for me with ZERO interest in the music on my part ... that actually makes a difference. I've got the Embroidery Aria learned and I've watched the entire Opera (on YT - that was fun :)). I need to practice performing it, though, in front of the video recorder.
Peace and strength. :)
Thanks :).
I shouldn't have posted -or at least it shouldn't stay- that last post, so I've erased it. I was just blowing off steam over something that had made me nearly want to explode ... and if I get to feeling that way, apparently it doesn't just go completely away on its own if it's over something that really matters to me.
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Yes, if the music doesn't move you, how can you sing your best? I wonder if Wolfi knows Climb Every Mountain? :)
I missed your steam exhibition. :)
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People have sort of gotten out of "pigeon holing" voices. At least in Europe. Lyric sopranos venture into lyric-spinto, there are coloratura lyric spintos, mezzos singing dramatic soprano roles, etc. I haven't heard enough of your singing, but if, in fact, your voice has that dramatic "sound", and you can get around the coloratura stuff in Così, you are a soprano spinto-lirico di agilità. And that repertoire sounds perfect! :)
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Well I wasn't all that great yesterday evening... I kinda got obsessed with some really scary thoughts and I didn't know what to do about them... i don't even know why I just remembered my friend and how she once said she had a dead rabbit in her backpack cause she had to give that to someone from someone else and then I started thinking about how people are killing bunnies and how can someone even do that and then I started thinking that maybe we're all killers anyway and we could all kill if we were in a different situation and then I started thinking what if I would just turn into a killer specially at night and started hurting my animals or my parents... I was feeling so scared and horrible :-X :'( well sometime back I was thinking about what if my dad started walking around with a knife at night and what if my mum would put poison in my food... ::) ::) ::) I can't believe I can be soooo stupid sometimes!!!!!!!!!! ::)
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Now I feel kinda sick and my stomach hurts! ::) I don't know what's wrong with me now!! I think I might have an allergy to the end of holidays!!
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Well I wasn't all that great yesterday evening... I kinda got obsessed with some really scary thoughts and I didn't know what to do about them... i don't even know why I just remembered my friend and how she once said she had a dead rabbit in her backpack cause she had to give that to someone from someone else and then I started thinking about how people are killing bunnies and how can someone even do that and then I started thinking that maybe we're all killers anyway and we could all kill if we were in a different situation and then I started thinking what if I would just turn into a killer specially at night and started hurting my animals or my parents... I was feeling so scared and horrible :-X :'( well sometime back I was thinking about what if my dad started walking around with a knife at night and what if my mum would put poison in my food... ::) ::) ::) I can't believe I can be soooo stupid sometimes!!!!!!!!!! ::)
That would make neat stuff for a horror movie! Like "Littletune, Zombie By Night"! ;D
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Oh that's not funny Birba!! It scares me!! :( But ok well I guess it is kinda funny cause it's so stupid ::) I just hate that I get sometimes so scared of such stupid things, sometimes I just think of something or hear something and then it just won't go out of my head for days and then it becomes more and more scary in my head because I have too much imagination!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These are the only times when I don't like having so much imagination! What if I become crazy?? >:( And I start believing all these things and then I'll be like: oh everyone is trying to kill me!!! or: I have this other mean personality in my head trying to make me do bad things :o ::) ::) ::) and then I'll have to be in a mental hospital... do you think they have pianos in mental hospitals?
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... and then I'll have to be in a mental hospital... do you think they have pianos in mental hospitals?
They had one in a mental hospital I visited!
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They had one in a mental hospital I visited!
Oh well at least that! But I still don't want to go crazy!!!!!
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Oh well at least that! But I still don't want to go crazy!!!!!
Hehe, you'll probably be fine.. :) Don't worry too much!
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Hehe, you'll probably be fine.. :) Don't worry too much!
Thanks! :) Well yes I guess that's the problem that I worry too much about everything! You know like they say that people always think to themselves: oh this can't happen to me! well I'm just the other way around I always think about everything: Oh why wouldn't it happen to me, if it can happen to someone else then why wouldn't it happen to me too! :-\
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Thanks! :) Well yes I guess that's the problem that I worry too much about everything! You know like they say that people always think to themselves: oh this can't happen to me! well I'm just the other way around I always think about everything: Oh why wouldn't it happen to me, if it can happen to someone else then why wouldn't it happen to me too! :-\
Just make it a habit to catch yourself whenever you start worrying or obsessing over something before it gets out of hand. :) I used to worry a lot, but then I started seeing the funny in my worries and that kind of broke the cycle after a while. ;D
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Just make it a habit to catch yourself whenever you start worrying or obsessing over something before it gets out of hand. :) I used to worry a lot, but then I started seeing the funny in my worries and that kind of broke the cycle after a while. ;D
Yes you're right. Thanks :)
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Hello snail!:)
well I don't have enough time! I hate that!! These weekends are like one second they start and the next second they're over! And I feel bad cause I didn't do the things I should and cause I didn't practice enough and I'm angry cause I didn't do the things I want to do!! ::)
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Hello snail!:)
well I don't have enough time! I hate that!! These weekends are like one second they start and the next second they're over! And I feel bad cause I didn't do the things I should and cause I didn't practice enough and I'm angry cause I didn't do the things I want to do!! ::)
I feel the exact same way!
Today's the lsat day of my Christmas holidays... I don't want to go back to school at all... didn't get all my work done....
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My kindle book was stolen about a month ago in the dentist's waiting room. Can you believe that? So today I ordered my new one. It should arrive in a week's time. If someone doesn't steal it from the postman. I'm on pins and needles. It's being sent to this house I'm staying at in antibes, france. Please please dear gods, let it arrive!
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My kindle book was stolen about a month ago in the dentist's waiting room. Can you believe that? So today I ordered my new one. It should arrive in a week's time. If someone doesn't steal it from the postman. I'm on pins and needles. It's being sent to this house I'm staying at in antibes, france. Please please dear gods, let it arrive!
Oh wow, I'm sorry to hear! People do such selfish things :S
AAASDHASDFADSFHGASDF! My abstinence is starting to become nigh unbearable! I haven't had a piano to practice at since thursday, and my new one won't arrive until end of the coming week!
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i'm kind of upset/bummed out that they don't make these fantastic pants anymore, i toally want a pair so i can be awesome like chuck and deliver devastating roundhouse kicks in denim
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Hello snail!:)
Heeellllloooo!
Well, BAM, the New Year hits and my life is suddenly different! Suddenly my life is "filled" with applications and getting professional materials together and preparing for performances. It's a very strange thing in that, my experience working at a grocery store in a different-seeming lifetime ago, is helping me cope with it. There's certain ways I think about all of it as it relates to the job experience I had there, which helps me just deal with it all and do it, vs. freaking out (for the most part ;D) and potentially stopping myself from progressing.
*puts on action jeans and does a HUGE kick ... (not a super ... becoming ... pose, btw ::))*
OH yeah, and BTW, my jeans are getting bigger and bigger on me ;D. BAM!
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Yeah! Go! :)
@ littletune don't worry.
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Heeellllloooo!
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Thanks Wolfi!! :)
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hmmm ... I don't know what to think, exactly, about this weekend's competition. Sometimes I'm in a good place, sometimes not as much (that's usually directly tied to the need to practice that day and/or when I feel like I'm not getting what I need in that way). This competition has two parts, the one here in my little town which they will video record, and then the second part in two weekends in a big (actually, truly pretty big for the US), artsy, operay city with connections to a conservatory there (I only do the part in my own town). I feel I actually have a chance of winning, I mean, I feel I'm in the running at least, but I also feel I'm going to have to sing the best I've ever sung before. I have to somehow get bigger as a musician and person than I've ever been before. I just realized that last part several minutes ago. And, it has to start now. I have to be an artist this week and weekend, a real artist, and not just a wanna be one. I have to actually communicate something real, and not just want to.
Also, I tracked my grant application and it's been delivered to the place it needs to be delivered to! YIP! I worry, too, Littletune, about things. It's something I'm working on because it can be extremely in the way. I was feeling so happy about the fact that I've actually gotten my application delivered today, which was the cutoff for when it needed to be postmarked by ... that is amazing in my world to have been "early" ... but as I was putting it into the mailbox, I didn't know if I would be relieved or even more worried! I wondered if it might get lost or if somehow, something was going to happen to it that would make everything horrible :P. But, it made it safe and sound, as far as I can tell :).
*digs deep, deep, deep*
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hmmm ... I don't know what to think, exactly, about this weekend's competition. Sometimes I'm in a good place, sometimes not as much (that's usually directly tied to the need to practice that day and/or when I feel like I'm not getting what I need in that way). This competition has two parts, the one here in my little town which they will video record, and then the second part in two weekends in a big (actually, truly pretty big for the US), artsy, operay city with connections to a conservatory there (I only do the part in my own town). I feel I actually have a chance of winning, I mean, I feel I'm in the running at least, but I also feel I'm going to have to sing the best I've ever sung before. I have to somehow get bigger as a musician and person than I've ever been before. I just realized that last part several minutes ago. And, it has to start now. I have to be an artist this week and weekend, a real artist, and not just a wanna be one. I have to actually communicate something real, and not just want to.
Also, I tracked my grant application and it's been delivered to the place it needs to be delivered to! YIP! I worry, too, Littletune, about things. It's something I'm working on because it can be extremely in the way. I was feeling so happy about the fact that I've actually gotten my application delivered today, which was the cutoff for when it needed to be postmarked by ... that is amazing in my world to have been "early" ... but as I was putting it into the mailbox, I didn't know if I would be relieved or even more worried! I wondered if it might get lost or if somehow, something was going to happen to it that would make everything horrible :P. But, it made it safe and sound, as far as I can tell :).
*digs deep, deep, deep*
we believe in you. you work hard, you got nothing to worry about, it's not like you're a slacker or anything.
here have an atta girl, you deserve, hope it helps
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To tell the truth, I've been feeling a little bit down for the past two weeks or so. Ever since my stepfather told me my dreams, ambitions, and goals are ridiculous. I know I started piano late, I know this painfully well. And I have memories from being somewhere around 5 years old, looking at toy keyboards in a magazine with big eyes, asking my grandmother (who plays the piano and has one at her place) which one would be good for me (silly, I know). And she instead of taking me under her wing and trying to teach me and give food to my curiosity, she gently ignored it.
A few years later, I began my first years in school, and was offered music lessons in an instrument of my liking. Confused with all the different choices, I looked to my mother for advice, but didn't become much wiser. It ended up with me missing the deadline, still not knowing what I would have liked to play.
Opportunities have passed me by, opportunities where I wish people in my life would have given me that little push so many other kids around me growing up were given. I'm not sure why no-one tried to help me, perhaps it was due mum not being too keen on sound filling our fairly small apartment. In retrospect she has always been kind of sensitive to that.
I can't blame them, I realise this. And when I took up piano about a year ago (I think it was), and felt how quickly the instrument clicked with me and realised what I wanted to do with my life. I told myself I'd make up for lost time with hard work. I practised a lot, every day. I am a late starter, but I have the same dream that any "child prodigy" might fancy. Which is why I became so disheartened when my stepfather condescendingly told me I was completely out of my mind when I told him of my intentions of majoring in music performance.
I know full well the likelihood that I'll earn anything beyond the most modest of incomes is slim to none, and that I might always struggle economically. But at least I'll have music, and I'm not ready to let anyone take that away from me, and I don't think I ever will be.
</why am I writing this, I am so lame. I'm supposed to be an adult, a grown-up. whatever>
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These are moments we ALL go through, believe me. I, too, was discouraged from making music my profession, and to please my father I went to a liberal arts college for 2 years. Gave it up, of course. I won't go into my life story here, but suffice it to say, I made the decision to make my own decisions. I wouldn't make it a point to make music your career in the material sense. That is, make it THE aim in your life, but earn your bread and butter in whatever way comes up. I was a short-order cook, waiter (lots of that), secretary, cocktail pianist (a lousy one), church organist, and finally a hack pianist in an opera house. Not that I'm degrading that last profession, it WAS music, and I WAS playing the piano, but no glory or recognition. But you will find that opportunities creep up in the most obscure situations and if you keep your goal in mind, things will fall into place.
I, too, am going through a little "phase". Nothing like last year, but still, I wonder "Chi mi lo fa fare?!?!?" I'm away for 3 months and I brought along my yamaha keyboard with great ambitions in mind, and here I find myself taking walks on the splendid shore with my dogs, and consulting pianostreet.com every 5 minutes and writing in "Anything but piano" (!)
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I, too, am going through a little "phase". Nothing like last year, but still, I wonder "Chi mi lo fa fare?!?!?" I'm away for 3 months and I brought along my yamaha keyboard with great ambitions in mind, and here I find myself taking walks on the splendid shore with my dogs, and consulting pianostreet.com every 5 minutes and writing in "Anything but piano" (!)
What's wrong with that? It's good to take time to "smell the roses." Life passes you by only too quickly. Walking on the splendid shore with your dogs sound heavenly to me! Wish I could join you! Enjoy it, enjoy them, and I hope your Kindle arrives safely. I'm sorry someone stole yours. I have one, too, and I'd hate to have mine stolen because anyone can buy a book on it without my authorization as I have it set on One Click Buy. Of course, one call to Kindle would probably take care of that.
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These are moments we ALL go through, believe me. I, too, was discouraged from making music my profession, and to please my father I went to a liberal arts college for 2 years. Gave it up, of course. I won't go into my life story here, but suffice it to say, I made the decision to make my own decisions. I wouldn't make it a point to make music your career in the material sense. That is, make it THE aim in your life, but earn your bread and butter in whatever way comes up. I was a short-order cook, waiter (lots of that), secretary, cocktail pianist (a lousy one), church organist, and finally a hack pianist in an opera house. Not that I'm degrading that last profession, it WAS music, and I WAS playing the piano, but no glory or recognition. But you will find that opportunities creep up in the most obscure situations and if you keep your goal in mind, things will fall into place.
I, too, am going through a little "phase". Nothing like last year, but still, I wonder "Chi mi lo fa fare?!?!?" I'm away for 3 months and I brought along my yamaha keyboard with great ambitions in mind, and here I find myself taking walks on the splendid shore with my dogs, and consulting pianostreet.com every 5 minutes and writing in "Anything but piano" (!)
Thanks, birba. Fame, recognition, money, those three thing have never been what has drawn me to the music world. Living with music has been the sole goal of pursuing music as a profession right from the start. :) A friend spoke to me a while ago, and I feel as if the flame that drove me to practice in desperation before has been re-ignited. I can't wait to get back to practising as soon as my piano arrives. I should probably remove my last post, but I pride myself in leading a life of no regrets to the greatest extent possible.
Thanks.
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Thanks, birba. Fame, recognition, money, those three thing have never been what has drawn me to the music world. Living with music has been the sole goal of pursuing music as a profession right from the start. :) A friend spoke to me a while ago, and I feel as if the flame that drove me to practice in desperation before has been re-ignited. I can't wait to get back to practising as soon as my piano arrives. I should probably remove my last post, but I pride myself in leading a life of no regrets to the greatest extent possible.
Thanks.
- hastur
Follow your heart and your dreams and you'll have no regrets. Besides, I've always believed that the only things you regret are the things you've never done. So you're doing the right thing. Keep it up!
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Hastur, that sounds like something my dad would say too... when we were going on vacation in summer he just couldn't understand why I wanted to take my keyboard with me! ::) and it's true that there was almost no space in the car, because we had so many things and our animals with us, but I just wanted to try if we could find a little more space for my keyboard, and when my dad saw what I was trying to put into the car he went completely crazy! and me and my mum were trying to tell him that we would just like to see if we can find somewhere to put it, and he wouldn't listen and he started saying why I even needed a keyboard on vacation and that it would be better if I was taking with me something for school because I'll need that for life but I won't need a piano and that it's not like I would ever be earning money from piano and I got really angry and I said: well maybe I will, and he said No you won't, I am 100% sure that you won't! And then he started saying that me and my mum were both crazy and things like that... and then I went out of the car and was taking my keyboard back home (up the stairs into the 4th floor!) and I was really angry and I started saying: idiot (I know it's bad but I was really angry!) and I wasn't even saying it in such a bad way I was more like singing, like: iiiidiiiiiooooot, iiiiidiiiiiioooooooooooot, iidiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiioooooooooooooooot... and he probably didn't hear me cause he was in the car, but there were two people walking behind me and I know one was a little kid and the other one I don't know... and I heard the little kid say: hihihi idiot..... so then I rather stopped :-[
so then I remembered I had a little toy keyboard somewhere... it's really old, my mum had it at preshool where she works for kids and then she brought it home to me that year before I started learning piano and I was learning keyboard at school for fun and I had that toy keyboard for practicing at home (until I got the real keyboard). So I found it quickly in a box and then I found the adapter (cause I didn't have the right batteries for it) and I wanted to try if it even still works, but when i turned it on it would only turn on for like a second and then nothing and I didn't understand why and I was trying different things but nothing worked... and then I saw that I put the thing for electricity into where the headphones should go ::) and then I finally figured it out and it was working! :) and then I put some clothes over it (I mean it's small anyway, it has four octaves and the keys are like half the size of normal keys) so I went down again and my mum was standing outside of the car (cause she didn't want to listen to my dad being annoying) and she saw what I had and she laughed a little but my dad didn't notice anything. :P And he was all nice, like we would never have an argument, cause he probably felt bad about being that way.
And then when we were there already and my dad saw what I had with me he was like: what is this? and I said: it's just a little toy keyboard! And he said: oh so that's how you tricked me!! and I said: no I didn't trick you, it's not even a real keyboard it's just a small toy keyboard that you didn't even notice cause it's so small! And then he was like: oh well what would you want to have a steinway concert grand? (I was surprised he even knew about that!) What a question! OF COURSE I would want a steinway concert grand ::) but if I can't have it and if I can't have my little upright piano and if I can't even have my 5 octaves keyboard, then I want at least my little toy keyborad!! But then he wasn't really angry anymore and we had a REALLY great vacation, and I was practincing every day for at least a few minutes on my toy keyboard :P and I really learned a lot of my summer pieces on it!! it was a little funny cause I got used to playing on those little keys, and when I came back the normal keys seemed soooo huge!! but it was even easier to play on the bigger keys then!!
So that's my summer story! :P :) I have a little more time today!! :P 8)
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A really cool summer story Littletune! Though, of course, I feel a bit sad because your dad seems to have not yet enough understanding for music :(
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A really cool summer story Littletune! Though, of course, I feel a bit sad because your dad seems to have not yet enough understanding for music :(
Thanks Wolfi! :) Well no I guess he doesn't really... and sometimes he has better days and he's more understanding but then sometimes he just doesn't get it! :-\
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I'm glad everything worked out in the end, littletune! :)
In other news, I might have my new piano tomorrow if I'm lucky!
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Thanks! :) I hope you get your piano! :)
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I hope you get your piano! :)
i'm a little bummed i can't get this piano, so cool, but really 600 dollars? i love all things japan, but c'mon! :(
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SEGA-Grand-Pianist-PIANO-CONCERT-PLAYER-NEW-Rare-/370489876978?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5642eae1f2
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COOL MINI GRANDS! The way I play piano, those two are ALL that I need! :D
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I guess it would be easy to take that mini grand with me on vacation! If I had one. :P But the keys must be even a lot smaller than the ones on my toy keayboard.
I slept really a lot today! I woke up at 10 am and then I think I was awake for about an hour and then a fell asleep again and woke up at 2.30 pm. :o and I'm sneezing even more today! :P
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Oh my eyes it's so hard to keep them open!! It's like there's something stuck at the top of my nose tickling me and I feel like sneezing all the time but I don't! And there's sooo much water coming out of my nose... where do I get all that water!? Oh well... :P
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Finally got my piano! It's lovely! The bus driver didn't seem all that amused when I climbed on with the big Yamaha P95 package in my arms though.. :P He went like: "Errr.. that doesn't really count as hand baggage, you know. ::)", but I claimed: "Well, you don't mind baby strollers, so I count it as one of those! ;D".
He looked like he wanted to kick me off the bus..... ;D
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I feel absolutely amazing right now. I just got back from my vocal competition audition, and the way I feel is indescribable. I haven't done any kind of contest since I was about 12-13, and that was for composition and wasn't live. So, this has been one heck of an experience leading up to today ... it's felt like my whole life has led up to it and there's been these extremely intense days of memories and this huge up-welling of thoughts and feelings ... it's been seriously borderline unbearable because it's been affecting me in all ways! BUT, I really felt like I knew what I wanted most of all to get out of actually showing up and singing today, and I really feel like I went and did *exactly* that! Plus, more than I could have imagined. I had more voice than I was even used to ... that's what happens, I guess, when you're in a Hall you LOVE, and when there is extra energy involved in the event.
I haven't got any idea if I'm going to place or what ... people flew from all over the US just to here, and then there's next week, too! I was already up against many out-of-towners... NY, NJ ... who knows where else. But, do you know what? I went there and I just sang my guts out ... seriously, they were practically coming out of me and into the Hall. ahhhhhhh .... So, this past week I've been all like "AH GAWD, WHEN WILL THIS EVER BE OVER ... AH GAWD, MAKE THIS STOP, I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN HANDLE THIS" and now I'm like "AH GAWD THAT WAS ACTUALLY INSANELY FUN!!!! SIGN ME UP FOR THE STAGE, PLEASE!!! PLEASE LET IT NEVER END! I LOVE COMPETITIONS! :P JUST GIVE ME SOMETHING TO COMPETE WITH ... PIANO, VOICE, VIOLIN, COOKING ... JUST LET ME AT 'EM" :P
I walked in and sang the Embroidery Aria, and then they asked for Wagner ... haha ... my two brand newies.
LOVE! :-*
I'm going to celebrate by playing the piano! That's true! That's what I actually want to do! My life is different now, okay? Just, whatever you do, nobody, and I mean NOBODY better remind me of this *ridiculous* post by the time I find my way down from this place! >:( >:( >:(
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nope I won't remind you, thus I won't quote this "ridiculous" post 8) But I like it and I like it again because it's pure life and joy! :) and because I like you and your voice and your piano playing and first of all I admire your incredibly!!! hard work, of course!
Huge congrats! :)
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Thanks, Wolfi :). There are so many things that are a blessing about this experience, and some of them extremely deep and meaningful for me, where they are just breaking these strange "spell-like" feelings that I've had for years (it's strange to explain, but often and for years it's felt as though I'm living nearly somebody else's life, and it's as though I don't understand why I feel something inside that I don't see myself actively living and as though I could hardly do anything about it). But, one of the cool things that happened is that, while I was performing, it's like I'd kind of look into this reserve inside of me, I would just kind of look in there, and it's like I would get this whole new glimpse of what is/was inside of me ... and, I'd be like "oh, I didn't realize that was there!" and then I'd use it and then I'd look inside again and the same thing would happen. And, I walked away feeling as though I didn't know that performing and music could be like that, while feeling also as though that's what I've always thought it could and somehow should be like. And, I want to say that although this has appeared to be a singing event for me, that's only the outside and it's been more than that, too. It's been a musical and personal event, and affects even my perspective on piano and all of life.
Anyhoo, back to the keys :).
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Ok, I'm "down" now. I've watched my videos and of course I'm super critical of myself :P, so that separates my feeling of being inside the performance from my vision of myself watching after the fact ... at some point I guess things will meet in the middle. I've still got so much learning to do, and apparently I haven't just reached some level of everything in the world being easy for me ... haha ... like I was feeling after the event :P.
Maybe I'm nearly even normal now ... with loads of piano and vocal work to do :P.
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Oh my eyes it's so hard to keep them open!! It's like there's something stuck at the top of my nose tickling me and I feel like sneezing all the time but I don't! And there's sooo much water coming out of my nose... where do I get all that water!? Oh well... :P
I'm not a doctor so I can't explain why all this water is coming out of everywhere when you get a cold but I hope you're feeling better today. Are you drinking lots of soup? Chicken noodle soup is good to eat when you have a cold. It will make you feel better. Or vegetable soup. And be sure to drink a lot of water, get a lot of rest, drink fruit juice. Get well soon, Littletune!
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I am slowly recovering from having poured my entire self into preparing for and singing in the competition last Saturday ... and then having that all been a life-altering event for me. I don't look at anything the same as before that, and it's strange! I am hoping I can develop a certain gear for that kind of experience, where it doesn't lose its meaning but doesn't put me through the wringer, either. I would think I *could* adjust and calibrate. This week has been a little like a dream, where you have these intentions to move or do things, but it's like you're just stuck and can't do what you intend. Slowly, slowly, it goes.
Tonight my music classes at the school are performing for what will be the first concert ever there. I conned one of my students into conducting the choir ... what? It's great experience for her ;D. I'll gladly be at the piano, thanks ;D.
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I'm not a doctor so I can't explain why all this water is coming out of everywhere when you get a cold but I hope you're feeling better today. Are you drinking lots of soup? Chicken noodle soup is good to eat when you have a cold. It will make you feel better. Or vegetable soup. And be sure to drink a lot of water, get a lot of rest, drink fruit juice. Get well soon, Littletune!
Thank you! :) I didn't even see this before I don't know why! But yes I am better now... I'm not completely ok... but... ok enough to go to school and all that ::) :)
so I don't have any time again!!! I can't wait tomorrow 14: 45 when I'll be done with this week and then I have a weekend!!!! :P I have to enjoy this weekend because the weekend after this one I will have to learn and learn... ::) and next two weeks will be really difficult and I won't have any time at all :(
Oh well... now I'm just looking forward to the weekend (this sentence reminded me of Rebecca Black! ::) ) :P :)
Oh m1469 I hope you have a great concert!! :)
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LITTLETUNE: I'm so glad you're feeling better. It's no fun to be sick, even if you have an excuse not to go to school. Sounds like you have a busy couple of weeks coming up, probably with exams? Those school girl days ....you remind me of them, the fun and the not so fun. So enjoy your weekend!!
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LITTLETUNE: I'm so glad you're feeling better. It's no fun to be sick, even if you have an excuse not to go to school. Sounds like you have a busy couple of weeks coming up, probably with exams? Those school girl days ....you remind me of them, the fun and the not so fun. So enjoy your weekend!!
Thank you! :) yes tests and a lot of things every day (even on Saturday! ::)... :-\ but now it's the weekend!! :P 8)
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I'm slightly surprised.
Earlier today I'm listening to music on a little mp3 player. I take it off and go about the day.
Later I come back and I've got this piece of music going through my head. Over and over. I pick up the headphones and realize I've left the player going all day. Guess what's on? Yes. The piece of music that was going through my head. And it was an 80-somthing track playlist. It just happened to return to that one track.
...ooOOOOoooo.... :o :o
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You were temporarily not aware of having left the mp3 player on a loop, but your subconscious was well aware of it. Well, of course the subconscious is also a part of yourself, so this subconscious part of yourself, which is registering every single bit of your moves (so to say the "big brother" in yourself) was sending you a signal.
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I wonder if I heard it still or picked up enough still through headphones, but those were buried in my pocket....
I hadn't listened to the CDs before to add a bit to it. I still haven't listened through the last half.
And several hours went by. It probably cycled through everything a few times. Just bizarre.
I wonder if someday they'll have music players that can do that -- Figure out what you want to hear and cue it up.
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I'm a bit nauseous. :-X
Guess who just cleaned their fridge... after a few years? A whole fridge full of rotten, spoiled food.
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That sounds... not so nice, Bob. :P
Had a monster week which culminated in my sister making a visit. Which, after all the dreadfully exhausting things that made up the majority of the week, was very pleasant. We had not seen each other for nearly a year!
She doesn't live in the same city as me, so I first took her to my favourite café. It's a nice place with great tea, coffee, and pastries. It has gorgeous old furnishings and wallpaper, kind of Victorianesque. After that we went on a walk along the city river, the park, castle, and cathedral. Ending the visit in one of my two favourite pubs over some good ale and merry conversation.
A very pleasant weekend after a equally dreadful week.
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(...) I first took her to my favourite café. It's a nice place with great tea, coffee, and pastries. It has gorgeous old furnishings and wallpaper, kind of Victorianesque. After that we went on a walk along the city river, the park, castle, and cathedral. Ending the visit in one of my two favourite pubs over some good ale and merry conversation.
Sounds super nice :). That would make a nice date! Glad you had a nice time.
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Sounds super nice :). That would make a nice date! Glad you had a nice time.
Haha!! I suppose it would have, hadn't thought of it. I shall have to remember this in case some poor soul decide they fancy me. And it was much needed after that long exhausting week. :)
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I've decided it's impossible for me to play the last movement of the chopin. op. 35. I can't get it any softer then mp. If I do, it's a mess. Otherwise it sounds like Hanon. "wind over the graves"? Yeah, right...
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I'm a bit nauseous. :-X
Guess who just cleaned their fridge... after a few years? A whole fridge full of rotten, spoiled food.
If the fridge stinks, be sure to wipe it down with vanilla (the vanilla you use for baking) and put a bowl of coffee grounds or kitty litter in it to absorb odors. It works very well.
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I've decided it's impossible for me to play the last movement of the chopin. op. 35. I can't get it any softer then mp. If I do, it's a mess. Otherwise it sounds like Hanon. "wind over the graves"? Yeah, right...
I love that sonata, especially the first and third mvmt. Are you unable to get softer than mp because of your keyboard? I can't get very soft with my digital.
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Well I have a feeling I did a lot today :P :-\ except math :-\ ::) and music theory ::) oh I'll try to do some of it now... I mean I slept a lot today so maybe I can stay up a little longer...
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I've decided it's impossible for me to play the last movement of the chopin. op. 35. I can't get it any softer then mp. If I do, it's a mess. Otherwise it sounds like Hanon. "wind over the graves"? Yeah, right...
I think if you can play op. 58, you can play that too :)
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I think if you can play op. 58, you can play that too :)
yes and I'm sure that it sounds much better than Birba thinks it does!! Like always!! :)
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yes and I'm sure that it sounds much better than Birba thinks it does!! Like always!! :)
So true, LittleTune. Birba sets extremely high standards for himself! I'm sure it sounds much better than he thinks. I would love to hear him play that sonata. It's one of my favorites.
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Do you know that the morning of the vocal competition last Saturday, I literally hid under the covers with the blankets over my head for about 2 hours? It was so cozy and safe and I listened to some music and thought about things ...
I have prepared my packet for the Aretha Franklin Opera Singer lottery, which I will send out tomorrow. I happen to have two contrasting tracks (we converted my videos into audio only tracks), sung in a Hall that I love, in a performance situation with an accompanist, as a result of singing in that competition last weekend without having had to specially hire any of that out ;D. Thanks ;D.
I'll send that out tomorrow, which feels really good to be moving forward, and do the next thing in line!
WOOT!
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Seems the community is doing just fine.
me... not quite.
So many things to do, one of them is research in two different directions (about neural systems), another is my upcoming piano recital. Also there's the class I'm teaching and I'm getting worried cause I don't like failing students but it seems it's a reality I have to do by the end of the semester.
Good thing the community here seems to be doing well. I'm not a personal type of guy and I view pianostreet as a whole community which I interact with. TBH most of my replies are actually aimed at the "pianostreet community". Even with specific suggestions for a user, I view my suggestions as part of an archive that future users will have access to in the future.
It's the way I operate, I feel very comfortable dealing with a whole community than a single person (even in hostility lol). That's why I interpret this thread as "How's the community is doing.".
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Just a few minutes ago I nearly chickened out while trying to kill a cockroach. I was so freaked out I was on the verge of scream the lung out of myself but it was the dead of night so I knew better. I smacked the cockie a few times but it was still moving. That part freaked me out. I applied more force but still it was moving. Finally, I dug my palm into my sneakers and fully smacked on it, hitting it a few times until it was on it's belly and dead. I used something like 5 layers of tissue to cover the dead cockie. I'm so traumatised by it. ;D Such a coward I am...
A few weeks ago, my sister was in her bedroom. All of a sudden I heard a loud shriek emitting from her room. She freaked out from just the sight of a cockroach. She collided her leg against her bedside table, resulting in a few bruises. ouch. Our house must being having a cockroach infestation...hmm.
Did you know, cockroaches can survive a few days without it's head and survive a full nuclear blast? If memory serves this is accurate. I read it in a book.
JL
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Very tired already! ::) :P and I would rather not have read that detailed description of killing that bug! ::) :-X although of course I understand it must be horrible to have those bugs in your house and I hope I never have anything like that.... but still it was kinda disturbing to me...
And no I don't believe they could live for days without a head! ::) I mean really what would be the point of that? it would be useful if they could grow a new head after a few days I guess, but just to live for a few days without the head and then what?? ???
Oh our downstairs neighbour is completely crazy again!!! ::)
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It happened again today.
I had a piece of music running through my head. I pick up the mp3 player and just hit play. Somehow it randomly picked a track, selecting from the entire mp3 player which has several thousdand tracks on it. You know which track it picked too. A different piece than last time, but the same piece that was going through my mind just before. It wasn't already playing this time.
Pretty strange. It picked another random track after that and then stayed on that CDs playlist.
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Well I guess you're getting some special powers Bob! :)
Sometimes I feel like I have some too! 8)
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Sometimes I feel like I have some too! 8)
Perhaps you do!
Well, I am starting to become relieved about job-related matters, at least *more* relieved. Haven't been sure what's going on with the school job AND have had some vacancies in my private studio become available ... BUT, it looks like I'll very likely have 4-5 classes next semester (which starts just next Friday), too, which is VERY GOOD :o. I just heard from the Principal about one part of that. That's the same amount of classes as I've had this past semester. Still more to have work out, but perhaps puzzle pieces are fitting together. The concert went really well in some respects, there was a HUGE turnout of parents, which made a big impression. Musically, lots to improve upon :P.
*such a sleepless night last night*
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I think if you can play op. 58, you can play that too :)
So you figured it out. :-[
But the fourth movement defies any sort of classic technical preparation for the piece. I'm trying to work it out in sections. The pedaling is vital in this movement. I'd say it's 75% of the success of the execution. And then I still have ringing in my ears Michelangeli at the Vatican in 1981 or thereabouts and it's like "chi mi lo fa fare?!?!?"... :'(
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C'mon, Birba, of course you can do it ;)!!
And competing with Michelangeli (one of the top pianist of the 20th century) is not fair.. With this attitude, none of us would dare to approach any piece...
Listening to Lisista's performance of the REV, I should commit suicide, or sell my Steinway and spend the money in things at my level (jewels, shoes, dresses ;D ;D ;D ;D )
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Today is the last of our end of year holidays and yesterday was the Chinese new year. We went out and saw the parade. It was like 2 hours long and involved 2900 volunteers. Massive crowd too but nothing compared to new years eve celebrations.
Sometimes I wish there was no such things as school. It's a tragedy to be educated by some jerk who doesn't know what they're talking about half the time and having to be corrected by a student every now and then. That's the math teacher and we're in the top class.
JL
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our CNY parade is never very popular because it's too cold! St Patricks day is good here if its nice but again there's always lots of rain around in mid-march so there is always the chance of it being a washout.
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I'm thinking about preparing my first half and half recital: Half piano, half voice. First half piano, second half voice ... I'd like to do each separately, too, of course, but half-and-half seems so much like me and it seems like it would be really fun to do, and maybe something unique for the audience to watch and listen to.
*strokes beard*
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You could alternate them too.
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You could alternate them too.
That would actually be pretty cool, too, so it's like they are more just one thing working together. I'm just thinking about my pianist, though (while I'm singing)... that means s/he'd have to be backstage or on stage the whole time vs. just one half, which if it were somebody I liked would be OK (or maybe even amazing, depending on the person ;D), but would s/he like that? hmmm.... this is seeming so fun.
*dreams*
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I'm just thinking about my pianist, though (while I'm singing)
I gather its too big an ask for you to sing and play at the same time? I think that would be quite hard for music outside the jazz/popular realm..
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You could walk offstag, do an instant costume change like this youtube video has, turn right around, and walk back out. Make the audience start wondering if it's actually two different people doing the recital.
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I gather its too big an ask for you to sing and play at the same time? I think that would be quite hard for music outside the jazz/popular realm..
That would be pretty crazy. If I ever do that, it probably wouldn't be for awhile. I'm not sure I have the desire, either, but I might grow into it. Does an audience really even want to see that? hmmm...
You could walk offstag, do an instant costume change like this youtube video has, turn right around, and walk back out. Make the audience start wondering if it's actually two different people doing the recital.
haha ... that's insane. I have to admit that even I am a little mystified (she who does not easily feel mystified by "magic" acts (not that I know how they work)). *thinks it through*
She's got to be wearing all those outfits plus skin suits all at once. Or what ?
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Does an audience really even want to see that?
If I was in the audience I would be exceedingly impressed.. I assume that the average person would not realise the jump in difficulty between that kind of coordination and playing an Alicia keys tune though.
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If I was in the audience I would be exceedingly impressed.. I assume that the average person would not realise the jump in difficulty between that kind of coordination and playing an Alicia keys tune though.
It would be a bit acrobatic :P (though some Art Songs might not be as much as Arias). I'd have to have the piano at a different angle. I don't think that would be as fun for me, either, but yeah, still not for a long time. I think it's probably at least pretty unique still to sing and play Classical music in the same recital, even if not simultaneously!
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I think it's probably at least pretty unique still to sing and play Classical music in the same recital, even if not simultaneously!
Yes, it would be!
And if you added improvising to it, that would blow their lid off yet more. :)
The New York Times Presents:
*The Amazing Karli*
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GREAT! I just returned from a week in Jamaica. Had a great time swimming in the clear waters of the Caribbean and taking long walks on the white sandy beach. Here's a very talented singing duo with one of my favorite songs: Jamaican Farewell.
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Well this week seemed really loooong and difficult!!! BUT I am happy because I did great on my geometry math test!!!!!!!!!!! :P 8) Yes I found out today I got a 5!!!! (that's the highest grade here) yes!!! I finally learned geometry really well for the first time in my life! :P :P I guess it was about time!!! I wasn't even sure I could do it, but I did it! And like really, I really get it for the first time! :) :P The test seemed so easy ! :P I couldn't believe it! And also I have a 5 if you count all the grades (or percents) from this year together!! :) :P 8)
But I am very tired from this week, but it doesn't matter!! :P
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CONGRATULATIONS, LITTLETUNE! I and everyone else here knew you could do it!! You deserve a good long rest now.
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CONGRATULATIONS, LITTLETUNE! I and everyone else here knew you could do it!! You deserve a good long rest now.
Thank you!!! :) :) Yes I hope I'll get some rest during the weekend! I thought I would have to practice math during the weekend again but now I don't have to (beacuse I'm not in between grades or anything)!!!!!!!! :P
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Yes, it would be!
And if you added improvising to it, that would blow their lid off yet more. :)
The New York Times Presents:
*The Amazing Karli*
:) - That would be really fun to do. There are different concerts that I feel would be pretty cool to give. One would be some of my own works and then maybe a little improvising, too. Something I'd truly like to program sometime is Journey. I've been listening to it so many times over these years and have been growing with it, and I know I need to write it (and refine/better define it). As you mention, though, it would also be really cool to include some improvisation in a "regular" concert of mine, too.
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:) - That would be really fun to do. There are different concerts that I feel would be pretty cool to give. One would be some of my own works and then maybe a little improvising, too. Something I'd truly like to program sometime is Journey. I've been listening to it so many times over these years and have been growing with it, and I know I need to write it (and refine/better define it). As you mention, though, it would also be really cool to include some improvisation in a "regular" concert of mine, too.
Of course, in its purest sense I'd say, you can't define Journey because of its nature. :)
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Of course, in its purest sense I'd say, you can't define Journey because of its nature. :)
Well, even though I'd love to just agree, in reality, there are different ways I could take that. One way is in considering the nature of a Journey, and in this case, for me, a very large one. My impression is that the nature of that journey has been definable only by itself and with every step taken, the destination being unclear, exactly, and therefore giving more mystery to each step AS I've taken them. However, if that music were a particular Journey, or a particular aspect/part of a bigger Journey (which I believe it is), then it may be possible to see it in a more complete form, to understand what each facet represents as it relates to the whole, and to understand it more fully in retrospect (hopefully my Journey will continue even if I write out this music and see it in retrospect!). In the case of this composition in particular, its effect on my life has been somewhat prophetic, in that I believe it came at a time that I couldn't comprehend it humanly, and details my journey to reaching a point where you could say that I do come to understand it. In a sense, it came as a guide and has acted as a guide to the point of being able to write it with understanding. It's as though I've finally reached, in real time, an understanding or a demonstrated living of the end of that particular journey (woah, this is a little scary to talk about).
hmmm ... :) - I am going to start writing it, right now.
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Well, after talking with my folks this evening, combined with some other things, I *believe* I'm feeling something settling in a way where I'm ready to take a huge forward motion. This is good.
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My forearm muscles and abs hurt a lot after doing pushups and using your abs to raise your legs and lower it without touching the floor (I don't know what that is called). I can't bend my forarms nor straighten them. They hurt. My teacher said the pain is very common and it will go away in 3 days.
JL
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I am doing OK - I had my four classes at the school today, which is the second day of the new semester. They are going pretty well, and I'm doing a lot better job this semester as I better know how to organize and I am putting more time into it. Would you like to know something? Last week I composed a violin piece for my little violin class, and I like the little piece a lot. But do you know what? My continuing violin class got combined with the beginner violin class, and so I had to compose something that everybody could play together and that was a fun challenge. We are also working on a rendition of Ode To Joy, to which I added a complete beginner part (OK, it's just open strings ... but they are sort of cello-like). And today I had them all facing me like they were a choir, and I was standing in front of them with my own violin and my music stand and I was leading them, and I almost started to cry while we were playing. And it felt a little bit like an orchestra and when I was composing that piece for them (I call it "Dark Night" :-) I felt a little bit like I was composing a symphony and it felt really so good.
Today in choir, we started on our Sound of Music music, since we will do a couple of scenes and we sang Edelweiss and I almost wanted to cry again with all of us singing together. I don't know what it is, but there can just be something so beautiful about that experience with these kids and me just making music together. I have had sometimes very difficult times letting myself fully shift into focusing on a job like that, but it's quite rewarding to have those experiences. Of course, it's not like we are making these huge sound achievements, it's just it's good enough for the idea to be there and there is something about the presence of each of us being together in music. I feel quite grateful.
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Now I feel kind a sick and my stomach hurts! Roll Eyes I don't know what's wrong with me now. I think It might have an allergy to the end of holidays because last week we had gone to low temperature area.
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Now I feel kind a sick and my stomach hurts! Roll Eyes I don't know what's wrong with me now. I think It might have an allergy to the end of holidays because last week we had gone to low temperature area.
I guesses yous needs mores practicings at the piano ;D! Ok, but really, I hope you feel better soon!
Would "you" like to know something pretty cool? I was perusing YAP tracker a few weeks back, an online singer's agent type dealiobob, and saw an ad for an Opera Co. in NY, running La Traviata in the Spring. The first step was to send an email with headshot, resume, and YouTube link if possible, just to even possibly get an audition slot. I thought "What the hayflower, I have all of that just sitting right here and ready to go. I'll just send this along and see what happens!" ... I was just kind of curious. Well, no word for awhile.
But, today (just minutes ago), I just got an email from them, and do you know what?? They want me for one of the lead roles!!! :o 8) OK, that's actually a total joke! I just thought that would be fun to say. But, here is what they really did say. They said they are overwhelmed with the response (yadda yadda, yawn) and that all the audition slots for lead are taken at the time, but wanted to know if I would like to audition for chorus. She was really nice and was wanting my continued interest and wanting to know if that's what I'd like to do, so on and so forth. Just let her know, she says! Well, ok, that's not the world's most exciting news, but I kind of wondered if I wouldn't even get a slight notice in any way from them (or anybody in the world!), since it was in NY and all, and it's not exactly a small production. Of course, I don't think there's any way I'm doing that :P, but somehow I liked that they emailed me back and that I actually got *some* sort of audition slot, despite my little, Opera-related resume that doesn't generally blare out to people to believe in me. hmmm ... well, anyway, it's just a slightly cool, little thing (I think it's little, anyway - right? Although I guess this is the sort of thing I'm supposed to be doing and starting to have on my resume ... ), and makes me feel like going ahead with this other thing I was thinking about, if it's still happening.
hmmm ... I haven't emailed her back yet and I probably won't just yet. I am a little bit getting curious what would happen ... but that certainly wasn't in my "plan" ... hmmmm
Bye!
IS IT NEXT MONDAY YET!? :o :-* :'(
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Now I feel kind a sick and my stomach hurts! Roll Eyes I don't know what's wrong with me now. I think It might have an allergy to the end of holidays because last week we had gone to low temperature area.
this... was the second thing I once said (except for that last part about temperature area??? ??? ) and I mean I hope what i said didn't sound so confusing as this but.... I would really like to know what is the point of doing this... spam right??
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m1469 your students are really lucky to have you for a teacher! I'm jealous!! :( >:( :P :)
And I guess I'm doing ok just tired again ::) and feeling bad for not practicing piano enough! :-\ but next week i have winter holidays!! 8)
But I am worried now about my guinea pig :-\ tomorrow we will probably take her to the vet because she has a lump somewhere under her arm (on the back side)... :-\ :-\
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m1469 your students are really lucky to have you for a teacher! I'm jealous!! :( >:( :P :)
Thank you, Littletune, for the nice thoughts! I feel genuinely blessed to have students :).
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Thank you, Littletune, for the nice thoughts! I feel genuinely blessed to have students :).
:) :)
Well ... I'm sleepy again ::) (I'm not really a very sleepy person even though I say I'm sleepy a lot of times here :P )... but today was kinda difficult because we had to leave my guinea pig at the vet cause they took some cells from her lump to see what it was. And so I was sooo worried all the time from 11 am till 6.30 pm when we got her back... and at 5pm till 6 pm I had my piano lesson (even though we have winter holidays now :P ) so I was worried ALL that time!!!!!!!!!!! and I couldn't eat cause I felt sick... and they still didn't tell us anything they said they would call us (well my mum) sometime this week. So I'm still very worried! :-\ but my guinea pig looks completely normal and happy... :)
Well so... it's cool I have holidays and also I'm happy cause my piano teacher said I finaly got better at that second movement of Sonatina, there are still some things I have to correct but mostly it's A LOT better than it was! :) 8)
And I also know when my next recital will be... on March 18 and I know what I will be playing (that arrangement of The fifth Nocturne).
Oh our downstairs neighbour went completely crazy and it really bothers the neighbours who live one floor below her, cause she's banging all the time at different hours... and the wife had surgery and she gets really scared so her husband came to talk to my dad about what we could do to make her stop because all the neighbours on this side of our aparment building can hear her (he went to talk to all of them) and he said he was afraid to go talk to the crazy woman again cause he was afraid she would attack him with a knife or something...well my parents say she wouldn't do that but she really scares me too!!! so my dad promissed he would go to the police agian... so he went today.... I hope that won't make her even more angry!!!!!!! :-\ what if she goes completely crazy and kills us all?! well my parents laugh when I say that but... I don't know... :-\ she scares me cause she seems so crazy!!! :-\
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m1469 your students are really lucky to have you for a teacher! I'm jealous!! :( >:( :P :)
I would like m1469 as a teacher. Especially if I was allowed to stay for tea.
Thal
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I would like m1469 as a teacher. Especially if I was allowed to stay for tea.
I don't imagine that she'd come to Gravesend for that purpose, but you could always pop across the pond...
Best,
Alistair
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I have to join the choir in my school because I take up music as a subject and all music students are required to join an ensemble group which I haven't. Compulsory. It sucks since I am no good at singing and everyone mocks my voice. If only I played another instrument....But singing is easier than other bands. I heard form my teacher I only had to hum, or even pretend singing, something like lip synching. But I don't want to embarass myself in front of the whole school.
JL
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I would like m1469 as a teacher. Especially if I was allowed to stay for tea.
Thal
:) - yeah, you are allowed :).
I don't imagine that she'd come to Gravesend for that purpose, but you could always pop across the pond...
Best,
Alistair
Maybe one day there will be a PianoStreet party.
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I'm doing pretty well, everything considered. And, it looks like I'm finally going to move out of this hell-hole I've been living at for almost half a year now. Pretty excited!
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Seems like I'm catching another cold... hoping this one doesn't last two weeks like my last cold did. Made a practice schedule for me to try help create more discipline in my day-to-day life. Hoping I can keep up with it despite these shenanigans.
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sleepy but better after watching this oldy/favorite. i love dog butt face! one of the funniest ever!
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I only have time now to say that I'm REALLYYYY HAPPY!!! :) :) because my guinea pig is back home and her surgery went well!!!!!! she had surgery yesterday but she had to stay there over night cause they were afraid of bleeding but today in the evening we got her back!!! :) :) :) And my cat and my dog were really happy to see her too and specially my cat is now besides her all the time and looking after her they're cute they gave eachother kisses too!! :) :) 8)
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That is lovely little one.
Thal :-*
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Yippieh yippieh, I've got my Macky booky backy!!!! :D :D :D :D
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Right now I am playing a game of instrument playing with my friends and I have chosen to play Piano because this is my favourite instrument and I play it wonderfully.
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That is lovely little one.
Thal :-*
Thank you Thal!! :) :P Well yesterday we were worried about my guinea pig again because she didn't want to eat anything. But today we took her to the vet again and he said he didn't see there would be anything wrong and then she also started eating again! :) :) we stopped giving her one medication (cause the vet said we should try that) because she has 4 different medications!!! and today we gave her only three of them cause it looked like her tummy was hurting yesterday and she looks like she's feeling better! :) :) :) :) :)
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I'm exhausted now after two days of traveling...
Crazy how some folks make praying so complicated. Going to the other end of the island to do Stations of the Cross... never again!
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Well I'm tired and my head hurts a little (and my face... well the right side of my face... under my eye, like my cheeks :-\ )... well but it doesn't matter. My recital on Sunday went better than I thought it would!!! I was very happy about that!! :) my mum liked it a lot too, and my teacher was very happy too!!! :) :) she even hugged me and said I played really well! :) :) 8) and my mum almost didn't record it! because she was recording the whole recital (cause I always tell her to, cause I want to watch other kids too) and I was almost last so the camera ran out of memory card just a little before I was supposed to play and then my mum got really nervous and she didn't know how to erase things and then she recorded me with her phone, but I think it's a good recording! :) Maybe I'll post it... :P
And now I will start learning pieces for my exam!!!! I kind of know almost all of them... well... for the slovenian piece my teacher was saying that maybe I would play a piece that her friend wrote... but that's not for sure yet, so I don't know about that one yet. Then for the older piece I will play Bach's prelude, but I don't know yet if I'll play the BWV 924 (which I'm learning now) or the BWV 939 which is a little easier (that's what my teacher said), but it's going to be one of these two. Then for an Etude I will maybe play one that is the last one in my Etude 3 book and it was arranged by Bach but my teacher said she would look for some others that maybe I should play something faster (that goes more up and down or something like that) so I'm not sure about that either. But I am sure about the Sonatina which will be Sonatina op.36 number 1 by M. Clementi. And I know about a newer piece which will be Sweet Reveries by Tchaikovsky (from Children's album). :) :) so I'm kind of excited about that!! :) :P
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Pain in my arm, pain in my heart.
I wasn't able to practice today. Making up for it by listening to recordings.
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Cold is mostly gone it seems, cough still lingers (It's been three weeks since it all began). Still going crazy from attempting Beethoven's Pathétique II. Adagio Cantabile. It's very difficult for me to read the piece. Also trying Satie's Gnossienne No. 1, where I'm facing similar issues, mostly from the complete lack of measure bars... I suppose I could draw them in, but not entirely sure if it would help me enough to motivate the time and effort.
Other than that, I've got a hectic bunch of days in front of me with re-packaging everything that I own in those neat little boxes used when moving from one place to another. Then I have the "fun" of going through all the clothes I never use and decide what to keep and what to shove in the laundry, also in preparation of moving. But the most stressful of all, is that I'm yet to find someone who can drive me and my junk to the new place (it's about 500km from where I'm currently situated).
James signing out.
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I'm so tired. Nothing exists but this tiredness. I wish I could do so many things that I have planned, but I'm just too tired. Maybe it's because it's good friday and I should just go into the silence and meditate.
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I can understand this very well, but I am slowly snapping out of it.
I am taking little steps forward ... constructing an email and letter I've been needing to construct, for example.
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Landscape cloud still looming over my head! I like yardwork to an extent but this is ridiculous and causes me anxiety! I look forward to winter here because it means I won't be a slave to the slope (450 plants on the stupid thing with weeds and I have to go out and pull weeds dressed in armour so the spiders won't get me) and the rest of the property! I had two spider bites that got infected and had to go to the doctor!
Tip: Don't ever build a house with too much yardwork!
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I'm doing fine, but not dandy. You hear a lot of people say, "fine and dandy", but I'm never both at the same time!l
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ahh... Well, the school asked me to play for the seniors' graudation, which will be good for me. It will be very similar to a church service lineup, but I'm going to see if I can seep some of my performance repertoire in there, too. Also, aside from the outside playing I'm going to line up for myself, I may schedule myself to play at the church a few times in the next couple of months. That seems smartish.
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My wife's choir is singing the Brahms Requiem, which I've been hearing for the last two months. I didn't like it at first, and continued exposure has reinforced my opinion. To me it sounds like that sort of thing they play in undertakers' offices. Were I not able to counter the effect with large doses of improvisation I would become very irritable. Nonetheless, she has a nice voice and her present choir is giving her the discipline to work on it, so I have been helping with the score and recordings as required.
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I'm just curious, Ted. What choir is this? Is it an amateur or a professional one? I can't imagine an amateur choir singing the brahms requiem. Well, maybe in Tokyo. I had a choir out here in the sticks, for a few years, and it got SOOOOOOOOOO depressing.
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Two combined church choirs. No professionals as far as I know, but they contain a particularly talented bunch of musicians. See here :
https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/OurAuckland/Events/Pages/brahmsrequiem.aspx (https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/OurAuckland/Events/Pages/brahmsrequiem.aspx)
I might stand corrected there. I see two of the singers belong to groups which appear to be semi-professional. Mainly amateur though.
Mark Rosser is very good. They put on a concert two years ago with a lot of Rutter and other modern stuff, some quite complicated, and it seemed very good to me.
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Tired. Muscles tired, brain tired due to some last minute pieces being added to the recital. I'm not worried about the technical difficulty but about my memory. Sometimes it just goes... out of nowhere... ZING! mental block. No choice but to keep playing them, using brute force to hammer them into my mind.
My teacher seems to have more faith in me than I do myself. That bothers me a bit.
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WOO! I think I've nailed down 7 arias for some events within the next several months. I think it's a little bit of a kick pants lineup:
English: Embroidery Aria from Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten
Italian: D'amor sull'ali rossee from Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi
Lo sguardo avea degli angeli from I Masnadieri by Giuseppe Verdi
Come Scoglio from Cosi fan Tutte by WA Mozart
German: Euch Lüften, die mein Klagen from Lohengrin by Richard Wagner
Dich, theure Halle from Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner
French: Il est doux, il est bon from Hérodiade by Jules Massenet
Now all I need are some Latin American Classical suggestions ... anybody reading this happen to have anything that comes to mind? I'm all ears!
Also, I'm a few inches away from organizing my house piano recital ... the list of guests is forming itself in my mind, as well as the message I will send out to them. I'm excited, but it's in the form of a deep kind of fluttering :). Cheers!
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Also, I'm a few inches away from organizing my house piano recital ... the list of guests is forming itself in my mind, as well as the message I will send out to them. I'm excited, but it's in the form of a deep kind of fluttering :). Cheers!
What about your 'virtual' guests of PS? Please don't forget us: post a copy of the program, and of course a recording of the event!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :)
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My teacher seems to have more faith in me than I do myself. That bothers me a bit.
Methinks the reverse should be more troubling.
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WOO! I think I've nailed down 7 arias for some events within the next several months. I think it's a little bit of a kick pants lineup:
English: Embroidery Aria from Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten
Italian: D'amor sull'ali rossee from Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi
Lo sguardo avea degli angeli from I Masnadieri by Giuseppe Verdi
Come Scoglio from Cosi fan Tutte by WA Mozart
German: Euch Lüften, die mein Klagen from Lohengrin by Richard Wagner
Dich, theure Halle from Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner
French: Il est doux, il est bon from Hérodiade by Jules Massenet
Now all I need are some Latin American Classical suggestions ... anybody reading this happen to have anything that comes to mind? I'm all ears!
Also, I'm a few inches away from organizing my house piano recital ... the list of guests is forming itself in my mind, as well as the message I will send out to them. I'm excited, but it's in the form of a deep kind of fluttering :). Cheers!
miss mayla, you should totally add a 'surprise' ending ala this gal , big kick in the pants. and your shapety shape work should help. actually pretty impressive if you consider the shoes and dress, her alignment was actually really good.
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Hysterical!!
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Also, I'm a few inches away from organizing my house piano recital ... the list of guests is forming itself in my mind, as well as the message I will send out to them. I'm excited, but it's in the form of a deep kind of fluttering :). Cheers!
What about your 'virtual' guests of PS? Please don't forget us: post a copy of the program, and of course a recording of the event!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :)
Would want to hear it too. Pretty please.
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What about your 'virtual' guests of PS? Please don't forget us: post a copy of the program, and of course a recording of the event!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :)
Would want to hear it too. Pretty please.
Thanks, that's encouraging! I just went through my calendar last night and mapped out performances for the next couple of months, and my very first "performance" will be to video record all of it at the end of this month over the days of 27-29th. That's an ambitious goal, I think, but I will be planning my first house concert about 2-3 weeks after that. The title will be:
"Pu pus and piano" :) That is Hawaiian for hors d'oeuvres. I will probably video record that, too, I guess.
My program:
Beethoven, Sonata in f minor, Op. 57 (Appassionata)
Chopin Etude in Ab Major, Op. 25 no. 1
Schumann, Theme and Variations on the name ABEGG, Op. 1
Rachmaninov, Prelude in D Major, Op. 23 no. 4
miss mayla, you should totally add a 'surprise' ending ala this gal , big kick in the pants. and your shapety shape work should help. actually pretty impressive if you consider the shoes and dress, her alignment was actually really good.
haha ... D natural >:( ;D ... well, I gave those up ages ago (not the D naturals ... I have yet to really start those :P), when once my shoulder went out of socket midway. The Opera scenes director always commented that we should be able to sing anything doing anything, so in the Opera Scenes workshops that we've been doing, sometimes we're laying on the ground, rolling around, etc.. I'm not positive what I think about that, but I get the principle. Anyway, that was pretty gutsy of that young lady! :)
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I have informally invited my second guest to the first house recital I will give, and she has a friend who she would like to invite, too, and this gave me a *brrrrrriiiiiilllllliiiiiiaaaannnnnnt* idea ;D. Soon, I will send out an actual message to people and I will soon start formalizing dates and times and even call places for the June recitals. YIP!
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OK, I set a date and sent out 6 official invitations for a "Pu pus and Piano" event at my house on Saturday, May 12th :). It feels really neat :). This one just so happens to be individuals in their 50's and 60's ... who happen to be single *casually whistles and looks upwards* either because a significant other has passed, or because they are just ... single (but looking! ;D). They can also use friends.
I have also talked with some of my middle school and high school students who will be another house concert audience, and that will be an icecream social :). I will probably send out some of those messages this evening, too. My students were excited seeming :). I'm going to rearrange my living room (yes, including the big, giant piano) in order to get it feeling more concert-like and seating people better. hmmm :).
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Am I the only one who doesn't get "pu pus"? Apparently.
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Am I the only one who doesn't get "pu pus"? Apparently.
Nope, me too. I'm guessing it's this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu_pu_platter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu_pu_platter)
Looks yummy!
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Nope, me too. I'm guessing it's this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu_pu_platter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu_pu_platter)
Looks yummy!
Yeah! Although, it will be more loosely employed for this event and just include any kind of appetizer. mmmmm ... food. I have been on a strict diet lately and have sometimes been pretty hungry, sometimes so hungry that I am convincing myself I want to move to other, bigger cities just for the delicious foods ... haha ... that's actually kind of real.
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OK, I set a date and sent out 6 official invitations for a "Pu pus and Piano" event at my house on Saturday, May 12th :).
Hey, that's the night I've planned to go hear Beethoven's 9th! What time does your concert commence? :)
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OK, I set a date and sent out 6 official invitations for a "Pu pus and Piano" event at my house on Saturday, May 12th :). It feels really neat :). This one just so happens to be individuals in their 50's and 60's ... who happen to be single *casually whistles and looks upwards* either because a significant other has passed, or because they are just ... single (but looking! ;D). They can also use friends.
I have also talked with some of my middle school and high school students who will be another house concert audience, and that will be an icecream social :). I will probably send out some of those messages this evening, too. My students were excited seeming :). I'm going to rearrange my living room (yes, including the big, giant piano) in order to get it feeling more concert-like and seating people better. hmmm :).
Haha just last monday I have set a date for a home recital at a student's house, the same day, May 12th, ! 8)
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Hey, that's the night I've planned to go hear Beethoven's 9th! What time does your concert commence? :)
Well, individuals will gather at about 6:45pm, and I am planning to give them time to select some delicious snacks and then I'll probably start playing at about 7pm. It seems it will truly happen, though I may branch out to some individuals who are married, too, etc.. One person got back to me saying she couldn't because she will be out of town for mother's day, but she was really excited and wants to be included in the next one that I do.
Haha just last monday I have set a date for a home recital at a student's house, the same day, May 12th, ! 8)
Very cool :). I guess there will be lots of music in the world :).
It also appears the icecream social will be on Saturday, May 5th. I've extended my invitation for that to select students in my piano classes and three in my violin class at the school (plus some others from last semester). It's really ... inspiring how excited they are about it. It's already bringing a new and very needed dynamic to my life :).
Since it seems quite sure these will happen, the next steps will be to start more officially planning the next levels up. For me this is not just a single event, but I find myself having a whole new concept of life to embrace, which I am happy to be doing.
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May 12 ?? That's my doggie's birthday!!! :) 8) the one who is an angel now...
Oh today I have a little more time even though it is Monday... but my piano teacher didn't have time today so I will have my piano lesson on Wednesday instead... and not that I wouldn't want to go to my piano lesson but it's just too many things in one day for me, because then in the evening I also have my music theory... so when i have my piano lesson I feel like I'm just running around the whole day!! but now I'll have to go try practice music theory, because I haven't for a reeeeealllyyy long time even though I'm always planning to. ::)
And I'm tired... I mean I just get so nervous cause there are so many things I want to do or need to do and then I just can't! and after a while I start feeling really bad! But this week on Friday holidays start!!! so I'm happy about that!!!!!! :P :P 8)
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Well I haven't practiced music theory as much as I thought I would... had too many other things to do and I couldn't find my music theory books! ::) but it wasn't too bad at music theory... I only got confused at the end with intervals fourths and fifhths... now I REALLY need to start practicing!!!
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I'm fine and can't wait till I eat my dinner having Delicious Kabob's can even smell them. (I'm in the USA so it's about six o'clock.)
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Well, my icecream social concert for my students has turned into two concerts, one on the 5th and one on the 6th, both from 2-4pm, with parents watching and even my Mom!! eeeky weeky! Let me tell ya', there's a fire under me bum! I'm going to be *so* systematic and like a queen of efficient practicing ;D. I'm going to circle wrong notes and everything ;D.
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Let me tell ya', there's a fire under me bum!
Did not know curry was popular in your neck of the woods.
Thal
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Did not know curry was popular in your neck of the woods.
Thal
:D ah gawd... I *love* curry! But, after a couple of days off, I'm back on my barely even vaguely-delicious diet, so no curries for me for awhile.
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Guess what? I'm sick! :P Not much, but I had a fever at night (I don't know if I still have it now or not) and my throat hurts. Well it's not good that I don't have my piano lesson today cause my teacher said it's better that I still rest today, but I have it tomorrow anyway. You know that when I get sick and my fever is getting higher I always feel like laughing... it's funny ;D and then my mum is like: have you been drinking? ;D (she's kidding of course!). I don't know why, but it just seems funny. Is that weird? are there some other people who feel like laughing when they start to get sick and their fever is getting higher? :-\ :P Probably not. I said to my mum that probably the viruses are having a party cause they think they won or something and they're getting drunk and then I feel like laughing too, but that's why I beat them really quickly! :P 8)
Oh today's my mum's birthday! :) 8)
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Guess what? I'm sick! :P Not much, but I had a fever at night (I don't know if I still have it now or not) and my throat hurts. Well it's not good that I don't have my piano lesson today cause my teacher said it's better that I still rest today, but I have it tomorrow anyway. You know that when I get sick and my fever is getting higher I always feel like laughing... it's funny ;D and then my mum is like: have you been drinking? ;D (she's kidding of course!). I don't know why, but it just seems funny. Is that weird? are there some other people who feel like laughing when they start to get sick and their fever is getting higher? :-\ :P Probably not. I said to my mum that probably the viruses are having a party cause they think they won or something and they're getting drunk and then I feel like laughing too, but that's why I beat them really quickly! :P 8)
Oh today's my mum's birthday! :) 8)
get well soon, i know being sick is yucky, hopeuflly you can get mum to make your favorite dish or just have lots of ice cream, that' always helps ;D
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on my end just trying to cope...
i should know better by now than to schedule my biggest performances for the end of the term as they always fall right in the middle of the hardest exam weeks! i generally have verylittle time to practice, little sleep and high stress all of which always affect my playing negatively yet here were are i am at it again and counting down, i just have to take it one day at a time.
breath, breath, first this, then that, oh gosh those will have to wait!....
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Get well soon, littletune. ;)
I'm doing pretty good. Just discovered that some arcades still have games for 5 pesos (around 10 American cents). And hammering is a good stress reliever. You win tickets, too. Wheee.
The only downside perhaps, is that I do very badly at musical simulation games. Whether it's guitar or percussion. I wonder if a pianist is usually good at this stuff? I knew a drummer who learned the basics with Drummania, and he turned out to be really good despite the lack of formal training.
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Thank you 49410enrique and db05 !! :) :) I'm doing better, but I'm tired and today when I woke up I had a really bad muscle cramp in my whole left leg!!! Like below the knee and above, but it was worse below. I mean it didn't last very long but it was painful and now my leg still hurts! Oh and the wird thing is that I don't feel like eating chocolate and things like that now... (usually all I want to eat are sweets!) but I did feel like eating pancakes and strawberries... :P so I ate a lot of that! :P
I hope everythng goes well for you Enrique!
I am happy because tomorrow holidays are starting!!! :P 8)
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Well, both the ice cream and piano concerts next weekend are seriously happening and it's starting to seem like the house is going to be really full on both days (bear in mind our house is tiny)! So is the pu pus and piano one during the weekend after that. I am really happy that I will be giving two next weekend, back to back. I think that's going to be really good for me, and then to be giving one again the following week! Also really good for me. Also, I have a venue for my first singing plus piano concert ever (and people already wanting to come to that! :))... that will probably be in later June, but I'm thinking about trying to find another venue in a nearby town, too. hmmm...
I guess I better start deciding on all my outfits ;D. I think I will just do one video recording this weekend, on Sunday. I will treat it like a performance. I'm not going to do take after take, just once as though that's all I have. I *think.*
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Yippeee! I got a check in the mail today; somebody donated to my cause ;D !! It is encouraging :).
I'll tell ya', though, there seriously might be 15-20(+?) people at each of my icecream concerts ... don't forget, my Mom, too! She's going to be at both! That's really nice of her! OK, this is the part where I must start growing beyond planning stages and into the part where I am doing it ... in a week. ONE week!!! I realize I will need to be a better person ...
*I'm starving*
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Today I had a first lesson with my new voice teacher and her husband. It was ME.GA ;D. They said I have a lot of metal in my voice ... that's a new description for me ... what does it mean? me don't know.
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I'll take some money if anyone's handing it out.
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Would you like to know something else? They think that maybe my voice will devour the whole planet once I get rid of some tension (which is really there, and I've kind of been aware of it but not fully, but now I'm aware of it and I know why it's there!)!
Piano moved into new position ... check. I am about to vacuum the moses outta this place. Our vacuum broke a couple months ago and all we have is a ragedy ol' shopvac ... that's what I'm going to use to vacuum this place up ...
Plus, I *did* wear a dress all day! And, I *am* going to wear a dress maybe all week! Ta da! I'm about to vacuum in a dress. Plus, would you like to know what? Some pants are HUGE on me now ... unwearable, in fact. Ta da!
Pretty soon I will take care of a few more things, but I am then going to officially begin my voyage into that other place ... *gets on the sailboat* Pretty soon, I might get *hilarious* ;D
I'll take some money if anyone's handing it out.
*intercepts all "purse" going towards Bob and reroutes to personal, off-shore banking account*
Would anybody like to be in the circle of supporters for my studies and performances? ;D :-* 8) ::) That's what my in-laws called it ... they forwarded the message to me, which they sent out to people ... no aliens ... it's a very cool circle, don't ya' know.
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Today I had a first lesson with my new voice teacher and her husband. It was ME.GA ;D. They said I have a lot of metal in my voice ... that's a new description for me ... what does it mean? me don't know.
They may have meant mettle. That works. :)
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They may have meant mettle. That works. :)
Maybe! It was in conjunction with her talking about a voice's ability to carry over an entire orchestra (but related to concepts for me technically, too)... which, intellectually doesn't make sense and has to do with quality of sound (which, btw, I think is very interesting in conjunction with something Marik recently posted about regarding the quality of sound with piano playing, too!). I have this intuition that I am embarking on a new era in my singing, and that this has a fundamental importance to my musical development overall. Day by day, step by step, the path is trod :).
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They may have meant mettle. That works. :)
Goldy this is cool! I didn't even know about that word before. :)
On the other hand, yes I actually noticed some metal in your voice, m1469. It always seemed to me like you had a "golden" voice :)
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"How are you doing right now?"
I love my life, I enjoy my life! :)
The older I get (I'll soon turn 48) the more I look back and recapitulate my experiences.
I have so many thoughts and feelings about everything. About music and life, about my particular individual life, about love, about humanity, about earth, knowledge, consciousness, awareness, about the fact that we actually have no limits to knowledge (this is in particular very important to me).
But what stroke me most on my little bike ride, today (I'd love to have more time for bicycling btw ::)):
In some sense I really love the "dark" sides of my life! I don't mean "evil", just "dark", shadowy. I encountered them quite early, when I was young (like 17-18): Extreme lonelyness, extreme sadness, often walking on a precipice between life and death, struggling with overwhelming metaphysical questions that nobody in my environment could answer. I love all those questions. Sometimes they kept me alive, sometimes they made me want to die :P
Nothing could ever convince me if I didn't understand it in depth. Nothing ever had the power to kill me, nothing ever had the power to make me surrender.
So, still going strong, for no absolute reason. Only to live my life and my message and my voice.
If I fail 1000 times at communicating my message and everybody's laughing at me, so what? I'll try a 1001st time :)
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"How are you doing right now?"
I love my life, I enjoy my life! :)
The older I get (I'll soon turn 48) the more I look back and recapitulate my experiences.
I have so many thoughts and feelings about everything. About music and life, about my particular individual life, about love, about humanity, about earth, knowledge, consciousness, awareness, about the fact that we actually have no limits to knowledge (this is in particular very important to me).
But what stroke me most on my little bike ride, today (I'd love to have more time for bicycling btw ::)):
In some sense I really love the "dark" sides of my life! I don't mean "evil", just "dark", shadowy. I encountered them quite early, when I was young (like 17-18): Extreme lonelyness, extreme sadness, often walking on a precipice between life and death, struggling with overwhelming metaphysical questions that nobody in my environment could answer. I love all those questions. Sometimes they kept me alive, sometimes they made me want to die :P
Nothing could ever convince me if I didn't understand it in depth. Nothing ever had the power to kill me, nothing ever had the power to make me surrender.
So, still going strong, for no absolute reason. Only to live my life and my message and my voice.
If I fail 1000 times at communicating my message and everybody's laughing at me, so what? I'll try a 1001st time :)
I like this. I would like to say that people don't laugh, because somewhere in me I really believe that if we speak straight from the soul, it's impossible for there to be no communication, but I waffle on that subject for years now. I do think more and more that if people are inclined towards laughing at a person who expresses something very deep and personal, that it is more that person's own shortcomings that they are uncomfortable with (even if on a subconscious level). In any event, I appreciate that you feel you have a message to communicate, and that you are a person in the world who bothers to do so. :)
Goldy this is cool! I didn't even know about that word before. :)
On the other hand, yes I actually noticed some metal in your voice, m1469. It always seemed to me like you had a "golden" voice :)
:) Thank you, that's very nice - what I can say is that I feel already a transformation taking place ... granted, I was very ready, too (in almost every detail of being ready). But, it is quite interesting how I found this teacher and how it all came about, and the fact that it seems like just the right step for now. I feel like I am getting to know my voice, my real voice, for the very first time. And, I feel I have the space of the whole world to sing into. Still, step by step, day by day, the path is trod :). I am happy to be on my path and it's amazing, sometimes, to me, to find the absolutely amazing individuals I encounter along the way. :)
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m1469 and Wolfi that's really great!! :) 8) :)
Well this cold that I have (or whatever it is) just doesn't want to go away completely... I mean I'm ok and I don't have a fever... but I am still more tired for no reason and a few days ago I started coughing really a lot and twice my nose started bleeding (first time just a little and yesterday night more)... but well it doesn't matter. :P It's cool cause I have holidays! 8) but tomorrow I have my piano lesson anyway, but then I won't have piano lessons for a whole next week cause my teacher is going somewhere. Oh and it's sooo warm here now since last week it's like summer!!! :o :)
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Goldy this is cool! I didn't even know about that word before. :)
:)
On the other hand, yes I actually noticed some metal in your voice, m1469. It always seemed to me like you had a "golden" voice :)
I told her once Wolfi that she was like Sinatra, who they simply called, "The Voice". :)
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very busy... on things not related to music.
on top of that, I broke a piano string. It has been a long time since I played Chopin's revolutinary etude. Played the first few measures then suddenly "TWANG!". I lost count on how many strings I broke. I almost leapt from my seat on how loud it was... first time it did that.
I also lost count on how many times I posted on pianostreet about "breaking strings". IIRC My first post in this forum was about breaking strings. I honestly think that my last post here will also be about breaking strings... That problem never ends.
And to think I was supposedly playing soft the past few weeks. I was gonna type "stupid piano", "stupid me" but I recall typing those already when I last broke a string.
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If it's any confort to you (as they say, "a trouble shared is a trouble halved"), the same happened to me twice this month. The first time a string in the bass register (it was like a shoot, and very expensive to replace, since I owe a Steinway), the second time about two weeks ago.
Do you really think it's our fault, I mean the way we play? Maybe they were a bit rusted, or worn out...or not? ::) ::) ::) ::)
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Well I had another nose bleed today at night! And I'm still caughing a lot! ::)
I'm worried about my exam pieces!!! Only 5 or 6 weeks till exams!!! I have to start recording them and posting them!! :P
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Well I had another nose bleed today at night! And I'm still caughing a lot! ::)
I'm worried about my exam pieces!!! Only 5 or 6 weeks till exams!!! I have to start recording them and posting them!! :P
i wish i had weeks, i have about 36 hours.... :o
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I'm pretty ticked off, to be honest. Just got unofficially kicked out of a school assembly band today (unofficially because they said it to one of the technical people right in front of me, but not directly to me). Yippee.
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Woah, sneaking around in a back room at intermission. Just made it through the Appassionata... 3 more to go. There are about 18 or so people here. Phweewww ... Stay focused.
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Woah, sneaking around in a back room at intermission. Just made it through the Appassionata... 3 more to go. There are about 18 or so people here. Phweewww ... Stay focused.
Sounds uber fun! Good luck for the second half!!!!
I've had my student's concert today, and it was one of the best ever in my career, but I was sooo nervous before, and I thought everything might just end up in a chaos, including myself, I played 4 pieces, one of them, though in my repertoire, rather unprepared because one student was sick. And all in all I was just like wow is this real, and I can't believe! But now I'll gonna have a hard time to get my home concert ready for next Saturday :P 8)
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to say i'm exhausted after today's piano marathon would be an understatement, i think exhausted imples a state of 'zero' energy, i'm most definately in the minus....Zzzz
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If it's any confort to you (as they say, "a trouble shared is a trouble halved"), the same happened to me twice this month. The first time a string in the bass register (it was like a shoot, and very expensive to replace, since I owe a Steinway), the second time about two weeks ago.
Thanks, at least I don't feel like a freak anymore lol. I felt that way cause even my teacher who's a faculty at the college (probably already into decades of teaching) told me that breaking strings was rare.
Do you really think it's our fault, I mean the way we play? Maybe they were a bit rusted, or worn out...or not? ::) ::) ::) ::)
My last technical/mechanical discussion about the causes yielded two results. IIRC
The pressurebar on my upright Samick being a bit sharp and also my forceful playing. In my case I would like to believe that it's the quality of my piano cause I've been very harsh at the lower notes and I haven't broken any. All the strings I broke were on the high notes mostly within the two octaves from the extreme right.
And yes, my piano technician also identified the rusted strings aside from the pressurebar.
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Sounds uber fun! Good luck for the second half!!!!
I've had my student's concert today, and it was one of the best ever in my career, but I was sooo nervous before, and I thought everything might just end up in a chaos, including myself, I played 4 pieces, one of them, though in my repertoire, rather unprepared because one student was sick. And all in all I was just like wow is this real, and I can't believe! But now I'll gonna have a hard time to get my home concert ready for next Saturday :P 8)
I'm happy for your success :). My concert was very interesting! It felt like a real performance, but there were more distractions than probably a Hall would have. My main goal, for today especially, was to get through functionally. I feel I achieved this particular goal very well, and it was really interesting to observe in me the various mindsets I'd have throughout this process today. I really learned so much from today, and it's soon enough going to be time to do it again tomorrow! If I had to say the leading learn of the experience, it is that there is a difference between needing to grow as a pianist vs. needing to grow as a performer. Obviously they can work hand in hand, and I can obviously continue to learn and grow as a pianist, but I feel my basic pianistic skills are better right now than my basic piano-performance skills. And, I feel a sense though of having at least started somewhere now, and tomorrow I can perhaps improve on it. Even during intermission, I kind of took stock of how the Appassionata went and realized I could try to get better as a performer just in the second half of the concert. I think I felt I could take some more risks at times ... eventually, I'd like to be able to risk everything :).
It was very cute that two of my students, after I was done, were willing and wanting to get up and play for everybody there. I loved that. Do you know, I have a ways to grow as a performer, but I feel I can do it, and I am very happy now that finally I am doing this. :)
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Today I had a first lesson with my new voice teacher and her husband. It was ME.GA ;D. They said I have a lot of metal in my voice ... that's a new description for me ... what does it mean? me don't know.
What?!!!
What do you mean?!!!
For last 3.75 years I have been telling you that and you still keep bugging me about that stupid piano??!!!??
OK, whatever works... if that metal happens to be gold (which I have no doubt) I'd like to have my share...
Best, M
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OK, whatever works... if that metal happens to be gold (which I have no doubt) I'd like to have my share...
Best, M
Gladly :)
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i wish i had weeks, i have about 36 hours.... :o
I hope everything went great for you!! :)
Well I'm not exactly the best... I don't know what's wrong this year but soooo many things are going wrong!! I'm starting to believe that our crazy neighbour is sending us bad energy! :( yesterday we bought two new fish and we prepared the aquaruim and it was really beautiful and the fish are so cute there are four (two from before and two new ones) and the cleaning fish from before too, but you know what happened today? the aquarium started leaking.... :( so now the poor fish are in one small aquarium and we have to go buy a new aquarium tomorrow... i'm worried! and there was also some water on the floor , but I don't think it was enough to leak downstairs... :-\ and some of my mum's papers (from work) got ruined... and that's only two days before the stupid inspection is coming!!!!! i think our stupid neighbour is wishing so bad that they would find something wrong, something leaking or whatever that she's thinking about it so much all the time that it really happens........ I mean maybe it wouldn't happen just out of nothing but it just helps a little with the things that are old anyway... cause this aquarium was about 10 yeas old already...... :( I just hope the fish will be ok!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm happy for your success :). My concert was very interesting! It felt like a real performance, but there were more distractions than probably a Hall would have. My main goal, for today especially, was to get through functionally. I feel I achieved this particular goal very well, and it was really interesting to observe in me the various mindsets I'd have throughout this process today. I really learned so much from today, and it's soon enough going to be time to do it again tomorrow! If I had to say the leading learn of the experience, it is that there is a difference between needing to grow as a pianist vs. needing to grow as a performer. Obviously they can work hand in hand, and I can obviously continue to learn and grow as a pianist, but I feel my basic pianistic skills are better right now than my basic piano-performance skills. And, I feel a sense though of having at least started somewhere now, and tomorrow I can perhaps improve on it. Even during intermission, I kind of took stock of how the Appassionata went and realized I could try to get better as a performer just in the second half of the concert. I think I felt I could take some more risks at times ... eventually, I'd like to be able to risk everything :).
It was very cute that two of my students, after I was done, were willing and wanting to get up and play for everybody there. I loved that. Do you know, I have a ways to grow as a performer, but I feel I can do it, and I am very happy now that finally I am doing this. :)
It sounds like it was a success. :)
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It sounds like it was a success. :)
Yes, thank you. It was certainly not perfection, but perfection wasn't truly the goal, nor even A goal. But, I needed to start on this particular path somewhere, and it felt the right time and in the right way to start. Under the goals that I had for this, I do consider it a success (I hear critics in my head, but I'm going to ignore those and still call it a success by definition of what I wanted these concerts to be for and about).
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*Bob is laughing about existential questions about life, followed by the scratching of body parts.*
Thalbergmad's timing is great
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Well :P, just because I say that time and space are bound together as one entity and maybe you agree (maybe not?), doesn't mean there's only one way to percieve that or experience that! In general though, no, I am not disagreeing with you, however, I feel that the perception of there being a point A and B is perhaps not altogether what it seems. From earth, we try to percieve our coordinates within the solar system, and even though we have "things" that go deeper into space these days (of course, probably there is much more inside-knowledge regarding that than what I will ever know), much of our perception of where we are is very earthy. Whereas, if we had a much grander view, say we could actually just see from way beyond the knwon Universe (say our perception includes *at least* two known "Universes"), looking into the known Universe (I got a kick out of an astronomy book's way of explaining the "Universe" ... haha ...), maybe earth could still be a point A, but we would be percieving it much differently from the grander view than from only the view of standing right upon it -- which is how MOST of mankind seems to experience it.
For the most part though, I am definitely not talking about particals and waves and such, though I realize those are part of perception and I am not saying they aren't. But, just like I experience music as something much more than some kind of waves and particals, I can only guess that life is also much more than these, as well. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I don't believe in actually "empty space" in any part of the Universe (though I do comprehend that perception would argue otherwise) ... similiarly to how I believe a rest or silence in music is not empty.
Well, I believe that it is the human soul that gives breadth and width and meaning to the universe. The same is with music. The music isn't complete by itself, it needs someone to make sense of it, to relate, and admire it. There needs to be a two way dialogue or communication to have any meaning whatsoever. If a tree falls and no one hears it did it really fall? I believe the universe was predestined to contain souls in it that can comprehend its being and worth.
"Reason is the natural order of truth, but imagination is the organ of meaning" Without reason and imagination working together you have an existence devoid of balance. I've noticed that there are usually two plains of self awareness: the realm of nature and reality where everything is bound by law and rules, and the creative, imaginative side of humanity, where anything is possible and we go outside the bounds of order. The science of things like matter, gravity, and and physics belong in the first camp. Dreams belong in the second camp, while art, and thought belong to both camps simultaneously. It takes organisation, and skill to make great art, but also something mysterious, and outside our natural biological selfs to produce art. Something within our souls to help function and fuel the creative process.
I know this probably makes no sense and is not relevant to anything else said, but I felt like spewing some ideas and thoughts out there anyway :P
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Today that inspector came he was really horrible and rude!!! he was also rude to the crazy neighbour but also to my dad! ::) :o i mean really!!? people shouldn't be allowed to be that way no matter what they are!!! >:( ::)
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BOOOOOMMMM!!! >:( :D My accompanist for my (very first ever) half-and-half recital at the church just wrote back and she is IN. Woot! That means I have a venue, I have an accompanist, I have a plan ... I just have to set a date now ... There's a number of things I've been needing to do that are a whole other level up even from where I've been existing in the last couple of weeks with my first piano recitals in a *decade* ::) ... and I's been scaried to take the steps. But, I think it's time. At least last night I filled out the necessary paperwork for my first passport ever! Woot! Now I just have to submit it ... and at least I wrote to the accompanist at all about the possibility of my recital ... those were already big steps for me in the land of baby steppings.
*inches around in life*
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Now I experience type a tired and my abdomen hurts! Throw Sight I don't know what's incorrect with me now. I think It might have an sensitivity to the end of vacations because the other day we had gone to low heat range place.
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BOOOOOMMMM!!! >:( :D My accompanist for my (very first ever) half-and-half recital at the church just wrote back and she is IN. Woot! That means I have a venue, I have an accompanist, I have a plan ... I just have to set a date now ... There's a number of things I've been needing to do that are a whole other level up even from where I've been existing in the last couple of weeks with my first piano recitals in a *decade* ::) ... and I's been scaried to take the steps. But, I think it's time. At least last night I filled out the necessary paperwork for my first passport ever! Woot! Now I just have to submit it ... and at least I wrote to the accompanist at all about the possibility of my recital ... those were already big steps for me in the land of baby steppings.
*inches around in life*
Congratulations! There is nothing wrong with baby steps (incrementation). I like to call it the granular approach. Setting short term goals to reach a long term goal works!
Keep a copy of what you filled out for your passport. You may need to answer questions about it at the oddest times and places. I had to answer really odd questions when I drove back from Canada and once when ICE saw my address he started me on a conversation about my local sports team that he happened to follow from 100's of miles away.
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i'm pooped. i feel like i spent the day doing math homework then decided to drill long division in my head, all from reading through new repertoire, normally it doesn't wreck me like this i think it's a combination of the extreme chromaticism in one piece's intro, it is dense, all over the place.....
i'm letting my mind rest by looking at some cosplay. really like it when it is done right. this is is pretty spot on, wow.
(https://meihoshi.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/img_7684w.jpg)
(https://rpgsquare.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/final-fantasy-ix-garnet.jpg)
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I'm gettin' my high D naturals on, boooooiiiiii ... and I didn't even know it! Woot! ;D :D
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YIP! I've now officially submitted my passport application and all is in the works! A very good and freeing step!! More steps to take, but that was a biggish one in the preparations :). OH! And I got Thank You cards and will begin mailing those :) ... soon I will build a spot on my professional blog for photos and posts about my studies and such ... YIP!
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Well, I've actually booked my flights ... I haven't made all travel arrangements yet, but I've booked the stuff that is the biggest deal ... now I have to work out *some* stuff on the insides of it. I can't believe it!
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last night I filled out the necessary paperwork for my first passport ever!
It never ceases to amaze me how few Americans (compared to those from elsewhere) actually possess passports and how some others delay their first applications for them for as long as they do; I believe that this has been the case for quite some time.
Good luck with the recital, anyway.
Best,
Alistair
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It never ceases to amaze me how few Americans (compared to those from elsewhere) actually possess passports
Unlike us Brits, they can still travel 3,000 miles and not leave their Country, so I guess they have so much more to explore before they get the urge to go further afield.
Thal
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i think we should all just get multipass. and call it good.
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It never ceases to amaze me how few Americans (compared to those from elsewhere) actually possess passports and how some others delay their first applications for them for as long as they do; I believe that this has been the case for quite some time.
Good luck with the recital, anyway.
Best,
Alistair
I think this is supposed to be one of those "you stupid, ignorant, uncultured American" posts, but I don't care. That's not why I haven't traveled, and I honestly can't believe the number of people who live in privileged families and go traveling throughout their growing up and entire lives. I'm not bored with the US, btw (I haven't seen and/or experienced MOST of it), I wasn't some little bank account baby, where some fund was set up for me to go to college or anything like that, OK? SO, what I am doing now in my life is a BIG deal (yet somehow entirely natural-feeling) and we're talking serious bucket-list territory. Like, I've wanted to do this for a very, very long time, deeply, and it's never been right or possible-seeming. Even this experience that I will have has been a deep meditation, and I've not wanted to get my hopes up (plus, it's been a little daunting), so unlike other people who might have the luxury of doing something like this at the drop of a hat, when it seemed like a possibility, I didn't just go out and spend $150 on a passport as though that's all that needed to happen. This has been and still is an evolving experience.
BUT, now that I've booked my flights with a general plan, I'm going to start getting some details squared away. My very being is a wanderer, I think, to a large degree (there's plenty within me that likes a regular home, as well). I've deeply wanted to experience other cultures and places, but Germany, Italy, Austria have been tiptop on my list. I'm not really going to "experience" Germany (I'm mainly just flying there), but think I am definitely finding my way to Vienna (and Salzburg with the Festival! WOOT!). There are Hostels and I feel so deeply about it, I'll sleep on the streets (outside of somewhere Beethoven-related) if I have to. That's nearly honestly how I feel.
My primary focus is Music and the Festival, of course (GLADLY!), but for me, being in these areas along with my primary focus is all part of the musical experience. It's as though I'll have a full experience that my entire being can participate and live in.
But here's what my soul is like: Germany, Italy (I'd also very much like/need to see Rome, specifically, but that's nowhere on the radar), Austria, Switzerland, Spain, France ... I'm pretty sure Russia and seeing the Moscow Conservatory are very high up on my list (maybe higher than those other places, I'm not sure) ... China, Japan, Africa, Antarctica, I'd love to see South America ... Brazil, Argentina ... and then pretty much anywhere else possible. Of course, I'd like to see major destinations, but I'd also just like to be in these small, little, secret places and just quietly take it in that way.
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That's great m1469. I don't think that Alistair meant to offend.
In the US we do have a lot to explore but it is only to look at. We don't experience a different culture from one city to another. Yes there may be some local customs that we might encounter. For example, my wife is a member of an international exercise gym and some facilities have different rules. Otherwise, our lodging, restaurants and road conditions were very much the same.
In Europe it's really different even between towns in the same country. I've been and lived all over Europe. You will enjoy it. Be open and embrace the differences!
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That's great m1469. I don't think that Alistair meant to offend.
In the US we do have a lot to explore but it is only to look at. We don't experience a different culture from one city to another. Yes there may be some local customs that we might encounter. For example, my wife is a member of an international exercise gym and some facilities have different rules. Otherwise, our lodging, restaurants and road conditions were very much the same.
In Europe it's really different even between towns in the same country. I've been and lived all over Europe. You will enjoy it. Be open and embrace the differences!
Well, I have all of these mixed thoughts about it ... like, what if I go somewhere and it was this huge effort and huge desire for years, and then it's just underwhelming and looks/behaves very much the same as my own little town? I guess I figure in that case, at least now I will know and perhaps something in me will still be quenched and can move forward and be free about that. Also, I'm not really going to experience *that* much, I'll be in Germany one night on my way home from the Festival, and I'll figure out what to do with that, and even though I'm flying into Germany, I'm arriving pretty early in the day and will probably get straight on a train to Vienna. And, I think other than what I see from my train(s), I'm going to mainly experience Vienna and Vols am Schlern, Italy. That is GREAT, but I don't know that I'll have an experience anything close to the sense of what you describe. That is, unless I decide to just take my backpack (with whatever silks I have to perform in, rolled up inside of it ;D) and start walking :) ... or if I decide against my plan at the moment.
I'm assuming Vienna is majorly touristized, and that makes me a little sad because I know my desire to see this place and somehow catch a glimpse of the life of these composers will be a little (or extremely) commercialized. But, something in me feels still that I can FEEL something there that isn't the same as imagining what it's like to be there. And, even though touring these places and things of composers'/musicians' is very relicy, and I don't see power, exactly, in just these places or things, I guess I feel there will still be something about it where I can take myself out of being a tourist, out of being some person from some other place looking at some historical thing, and somehow get some kind of sense about it all that goes beyond all of the outward stuff. Then again, maybe I will just be hugely disappointed? Even so, as like what I wrote above, at least something in me will be quenched on some very deep level, and I can move forward. There has been so much stagnation in my life, and moving forward, progressing, is just a very important thing to me.
Regarding the US, though, I get your point precisely. I suppose that is part of what I am craving ... my little town is very known as not having much in the way of diversity, and I find myself appreciating very much the diversity I experience in bigger cities. But, I haven't tried deep-fried twinkies or snickers bars, like they have in the South (or wherever that is!). I guess that's some serious US culture right there ;D.
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Unlike us Brits, they can still travel 3,000 miles and not leave their Country, so I guess they have so much more to explore before they get the urge to go further afield.
Well, that's true, of course, but one could as easily say that people in Europe can do the same (substuting continent for country, which is reasonable in the context of a country with as many widely divergent states as US has), but rather more of them tend to travel outside Europe rather more frequently than Americans travel ouside America.
Best,
Alistair
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Well, that's true, of course, but one could as easily say that people in Europe can do the same (substuting continent for country, which is reasonable in the context of a country with as many widely divergent states as US has), but rather more of them tend to travel outside Europe rather more frequently than Americans travel ouside America.
Best,
Alistair
It may come as a shock but America is not as divergent as it is portrayed. Yes, in magazines and on TV in Europe you see some pretty wild aspects of life but those reports are from assignments to look for those types of stories. As a matter of fact the European media won't buy/run any other story than one featuring the abnormal aspects of American life.
Now with the internet things are changing and one can read US news unfiltered.
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Now I experience type a tired and my abdomen hurts! Throw Sight I don't know what's incorrect with me now. I think It might have an sensitivity to the end of vacations because the other day we had gone to low heat range place.
Yes and I recognize this one too... not really sure how but I do! and I guess I should be horoured that you like my posts so much that you make so many different variations on them... :P
I'm ok right now I guess.... just never enough time! ::) :P
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i'm confused. what am i supposed to do?
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Blehy and sick, like I have been the past four days u___u
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i'm confused. what am i supposed to do?
Stop tweeting! Stop checking Facebook! Step outside and take a walk.
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Stop tweeting! Stop checking Facebook! Step outside and take a walk.
i was just joking. im an oddball of sorts among young people i do not have a facebook accout, or a twiittter account. etc. just an email, vimeo/youtube for piano viddys, and a pianostreet that's it.
my friends all think im strange, they're like , what you don't have a facebook? what's wrong with you? lol
to be fair i am strange.
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i was just joking. im an oddball of sorts among young people i do not have a facebook accout, or a twiittter account. etc. just an email, vimeo/youtube for piano viddys, and a pianostreet that's it.
my friends all think im strange, they're like , what you don't have a facebook? what's wrong with you? lol
to be fair i am strange.
No you're not.
Facebook is about Facebook, not about you. The same applies to every other of those media. Everyone seems to have been roped in to using them. Some businesses discovered very quickly that those media are not searchable. If a potential customer is looking for something your page on Facebook won't come up in the search results! Further, often Facebook won't show you a page unless you become a member.
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i was just joking. im an oddball of sorts among young people i do not have a facebook accout, or a twiittter account. etc. just an email, vimeo/youtube for piano viddys, and a pianostreet that's it.
my friends all think im strange, they're like , what you don't have a facebook? what's wrong with you? lol
to be fair i am strange.
What a relief!!!! :D :D :D :DI was going to feel, well, if not strange, senile fornot having a facebook and/or twitter account....They are so boring, judging from what I see on my daughter's one (yes, she is on facebook :'( :'( :'( :'()
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I felt a bit senile for not having a facebook account a couple of years back, so I took the bold step and opened one. Sometimes it can be fun, but people do tell you the most mundane things as well.
Dougs has also got his own facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dougs/157974927551341
I think he spends more time on it than me.
Thal
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Not to belabor the point but Facebook is exploiting something they get for free; your attention and your email address. Then they sell those eyeballs to advertisers. If tomorrow the company needed to be liquidated, only the name and the software would have any value. Even the names and addresses would only work for a short time.
Some employees who got some stock from the IPO have already cashed out...
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i'm doing better than this guy.
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Well at least he stayed on his feet. We had to call paramedics last week for a woman who couldn't get up.
The guy who helped him could have been his son. It's looks pretty cloudy on that beach. Maybe his problem wasn't the sun?
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I watched a solo piano recital a little bit ago and it actually really made me shed a few tears ... that might be the first time, I'm not positive. But, then, do you know what? The tears burned my face, actually it felt a little burny but even besides that, it left a red mark for at least a good half-hour afterwards (I haven't checked in a while) on my face where it "streamed" down my cheek (I didn't wipe it off because I didn't want to look like I was crying). People write and talk about burning tears, and this one really burned me, it seems! Hopefully the red mark is gone by now.
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I'm excited at the recent activity in the Improvisations room, and the attempt to provide a guide for newcomers to the room. There's a certain individual near to this post who is a very good improviser who is missed there. ;)
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I felt a bit senile for not having a facebook account a couple of years back, so I took the bold step and opened one. Sometimes it can be fun, but people do tell you the most mundane things as well.
Dougs has also got his own facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dougs/157974927551341
I think he spends more time on it than me.
Thal
Thal, my daughter Costanza fell immediatly in love with Dougs (and Dougs' girlfriend). She whishes to see more photos. For once, mother and daughter think the same ;D ;D ;D ;D
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No probs, I will ask Dougs to upload some more photos ;D
Thal
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i'm feeling sorry for whoever paid more for succulent ass. i mean it's on sale, so why pay more for succulent ass? (some sorry sap prob spent 3.99 for 2 oz. of succulent ass before seeing this. sorry man.)
(https://images.g4tv.com/ImageDb3/298873_S/on-sale-succulent-ass.jpg)
still price is not everything i suppose. i mean you just can't put a limit on the value of high quality succulent ass you know?
this post says succulent ass 6 times.
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No, this is not abstract art, it is the start of my day; my carpet completely (and hugely) stained now, right in the entryway, after I spilled my entire (large) mug of coffee onto it - pretty much 16 ounces. Then the day got worse, a lot worse, then it got better. I really don't have any idea how to get this stain out, but I tried a few things.
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Please tell me you were not going to drink all that coffee by yourself.
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Yes, I was very certainly planning to be drinking all of that coffee myself. It's at least half-decaf, but do you know what? Even though it dumped bye bye and I thought about making a fresh mug for myself, I didn't. I just felt like I didn't need it (even though it's so delicious).
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I have successfully removed such coffee stains with aerosol carpet stain remover. The sooner you apply it the better of course, and you might need two or three repeats, but coffee is one of the easier things, or so I have found.
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No, this is not abstract art, it is the start of my day; my carpet completely (and hugely) stained now, right in the entryway, after I spilled my entire (large) mug of coffee onto it - pretty much 16 ounces. Then the day got worse, a lot worse, then it got better. I really don't have any idea how to get this stain out, but I tried a few things.
Get some Spot Shot. It's super stuff. Just be careful not to spray too much on at a time as it can stain the carpet itself.
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Please tell me you were not going to drink all that coffee by yourself.
That's just two cups of coffee. Not exactly the greatest indulgence of all time. I almost had a second cup of coffee today myself.
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That's just two cups of coffee. Not exactly the greatest indulgence of all time. I almost had a second cup of coffee today myself.
Well, maybe it's just me, I can't have more than one cup. I remember one time I had three cups one evening with friends - couldn't sleep at all.
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That's just two cups of coffee. Not exactly the greatest indulgence of all time. I almost had a second cup of coffee today myself.
And, considering it's half decaf (or over half, even), it's just one cup o' leaded.
[edit]ooops too much detail before!
One thing I am *not* indulging in, is spending thousands of dollars on clothing. Most of my clothing (including shoes) are hand-me-downs or purchased for me by others (like parents at Holidays). I am curious what kinds of indulgences sit in other people's closets? hmmm?
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I think I'm crawling out of the bog of eternal stench!
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(https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium/ludo-in-the-bog-of-eternal-stench-louie-thomas.jpg)
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(ludo is really nice)
Time to make lists, and time to get things done and move!
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I'm doing pretty well ... slowly getting things crossed off my list, getting stuff in order. For example, I've just today returned about 20 books (or more) that I've had checked out from the library for over a year ... Time to do more :).
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I'm veeery happy now, today I got accepted at one of the better conservatories in the Netherlands! :D
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Congratulations!
I'm having a little bit of Valentina Lisitsa withdrawals ... I literally had her practicing on simultaneously to mine, and by yesterday afternoon really found some helpful thoughts about it! I'll survive for now, I guess, but when is she going to be back? hmmm?
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Well in some way I am happy but I am also sad! my music theory exams (yesterday and today) were kind of a disaster... :( And I didn't get the best grade of course, I got second best (which is a 4 in my country; and 5 is the best)... but it's not even so much about the grade it's that I feel like I completely failed the aural tests (I mean the dictations) and I don't even know what happened, because at the "practice exams" at our music school I didn't have any mistakes at all but yesterday I just couldn't concentrate and I didn't hear anything right I guess... I mean I don't even know exactly cause I only saw the test for a few seconds... and everyone said the dictation was really difficult (only one girl got a 5) but I don't care about others really I just know I failed for myself and I don't want to go to grade 5 music theory next year cause I feel like I need to practice this more!!! I hope people will understand that and they won't try to convince me and tell me I have to go to grade 5 because I don't want to!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cause I don't feel ready!
Well the piano exam was a little better! Although one teacher didn't like my pedaling at Tchaikovsky piece, but I got the best grade (5) anyway... but they made me feel pretty bad... those teachers were really scary and not nice at all even though my teacher said they were nice but they weren't!!!! they just made me feel like I was wasting their time! :( and they wouldn't even let me play my last piece :( and I know they had a lot of exams and they were listening to really a lot of people already but it still made me feel kinda bad. And at the beginning when I came in they were all like ok lets go lets hurry up and then one I guess wanted to make a joke (or something) maybe she wanted to be nice? ??? :-\ but she was like: Oh this one is almost big enough to get married (and they all laughed) >:( she is almost to big, and then my teacher said my age and she was like: ooooohhhhhhh like shocked and she was like: oh you should be in middle school already (I don't know what that would be called in English) but she meant I should be in the next level (or whatever) of music school... so that made me feel like I shouldn't even be there... and then my teacher said well she started late and then that teacher said: well it's never too late... but it didn't make me feel any better! also because I heard my teacher talking to one other girl from my music school before I had my exam and that girl went for an audition to be at this school (the conservatory where we have our exams) and they didn't accept her and they said it was because they have too many kids who are learning piano and that they accept only the ones who are very talented and that she was too old cause she was over 10 and she should have been about 9 for grade 3! So age is one of the most important things there!! So well then I started playing and I don't know why but I wasn't really as nervous as I am usually and my hands almost weren't shaking at all and I REALLY loved playing on a grand piano!!! so I enjoyed playing! (even though there were 3 scary teachers sitting right next to me!) and in the beginning they just started talking!!! and at first I thought that maybe it would be even better that way because they wouldn't notice so much if I made mistakes, but then it really started bothering me! because it was pretty loud and I started thinking that they're talking about how bad I was or something! so in one place (in the first movement of sonatina) I got confused and made a few mistakes... but other than that it was ok. and then after the Tchaikovsky piece one of them said: oh it's ok it's ok you have one more piece some butterfly or something right?... well it's enough and they all looked like they just wanted me to get out as fast as possible. Cause last year (and two years ago) they were all smiling when I finished and said thank you, but this year it was like they were: ok ok we have enough of you and your playing just get out already! :( :'( and it hurt my feelings. I know most people wouldn't even care about something like that but I do. So yes that was that!
I'm happy about my grade for piano and I'm REALLY happy that I LOVED playing so much and that I wasn't really that nervous and I could really enjoy playing, but all other things... :-X
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Jeez... Never heard teachers that mean... But their judges. But just because their judges they don't have to be mean to you. Well happy your in level 5. Congrats!! ;D;D Niice you got to play a grand? man I wonder if I'll ever get to play one. I have wanted to play a grand for 4 years still haven't had the chance!:(
Speaking of feeling good I have one more song in my 5th level!!!! And then after that will have one more book left!!! but the sad thing is....:( you have to leave your teacher. I'm just asking... is 1 year doing piano lessons short? I'm already in level 6. and that is the last lesson book for me.
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Well in some way I am happy but I am also sad! my music theory exams (yesterday and today) were kind of a disaster... :( And I didn't get the best grade of course, I got second best (which is a 4 in my country; and 5 is the best)... but it's not even so much about the grade it's that I feel like I completely failed the aural tests (I mean the dictations) and I don't even know what happened, because at the "practice exams" at our music school I didn't have any mistakes at all but yesterday I just couldn't concentrate and I didn't hear anything right I guess... I mean I don't even know exactly cause I only saw the test for a few seconds... and everyone said the dictation was really difficult (only one girl got a 5) but I don't care about others really I just know I failed for myself and I don't want to go to grade 5 music theory next year cause I feel like I need to practice this more!!! I hope people will understand that and they won't try to convince me and tell me I have to go to grade 5 because I don't want to!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cause I don't feel ready!
Well the piano exam was a little better! Although one teacher didn't like my pedaling at Tchaikovsky piece, but I got the best grade (5) anyway... but they made me feel pretty bad... those teachers were really scary and not nice at all even though my teacher said they were nice but they weren't!!!! they just made me feel like I was wasting their time! :( and they wouldn't even let me play my last piece :( and I know they had a lot of exams and they were listening to really a lot of people already but it still made me feel kinda bad. And at the beginning when I came in they were all like ok lets go lets hurry up and then one I guess wanted to make a joke (or something) maybe she wanted to be nice? ??? :-\ but she was like: Oh this one is almost big enough to get married (and they all laughed) >:( she is almost to big, and then my teacher said my age and she was like: ooooohhhhhhh like shocked and she was like: oh you should be in middle school already (I don't know what that would be called in English) but she meant I should be in the next level (or whatever) of music school... so that made me feel like I shouldn't even be there... and then my teacher said well she started late and then that teacher said: well it's never too late... but it didn't make me feel any better! also because I heard my teacher talking to one other girl from my music school before I had my exam and that girl went for an audition to be at this school (the conservatory where we have our exams) and they didn't accept her and they said it was because they have too many kids who are learning piano and that they accept only the ones who are very talented and that she was too old cause she was over 10 and she should have been about 9 for grade 3! So age is one of the most important things there!! So well then I started playing and I don't know why but I wasn't really as nervous as I am usually and my hands almost weren't shaking at all and I REALLY loved playing on a grand piano!!! so I enjoyed playing! (even though there were 3 scary teachers sitting right next to me!) and in the beginning they just started talking!!! and at first I thought that maybe it would be even better that way because they wouldn't notice so much if I made mistakes, but then it really started bothering me! because it was pretty loud and I started thinking that they're talking about how bad I was or something! so in one place (in the first movement of sonatina) I got confused and made a few mistakes... but other than that it was ok. and then after the Tchaikovsky piece one of them said: oh it's ok it's ok you have one more piece some butterfly or something right?... well it's enough and they all looked like they just wanted me to get out as fast as possible. Cause last year (and two years ago) they were all smiling when I finished and said thank you, but this year it was like they were: ok ok we have enough of you and your playing just get out already! :( :'( and it hurt my feelings. I know most people wouldn't even care about something like that but I do. So yes that was that!
I'm happy about my grade for piano and I'm REALLY happy that I LOVED playing so much and that I wasn't really that nervous and I could really enjoy playing, but all other things... :-X
(Groan!) Isn't that always the case? You work hard and get the good grade. They greet the effort with a big yawn and then make some belittling comment. That was the way it was for me all though school and university and I wasn't the only one. They all were arrogant and condescending.
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Jeez... Never heard teachers that mean... But their judges. But just because their judges they don't have to be mean to you. Well happy your in level 5. Congrats!! ;D;D Niice you got to play a grand? man I wonder if I'll ever get to play one. I have wanted to play a grand for 4 years still haven't had the chance!:(
Speaking of feeling good I have one more song in my 5th level!!!! And then after that will have one more book left!!! but the sad thing is....:( you have to leave your teacher. I'm just asking... is 1 year doing piano lessons short? I'm already in level 6. and that is the last lesson book for me.
Thanks! :) And congratulations to you too. Yes I really LOVE playing on grand pianos, but I only play on them once a year when I have my exams... so I almost love exams because of it! :P
Oh... why would you have to leave your teacher just cause you finished a book? :-\ and of course 1 year of piano lessons is short... I mean it almost can't be shorter that that! at least at my music school you're supposed to take piano lessons for at least one year... I mean when you decide for lessons you usually decide for the whole school year...
(Groan!) Isn't that always the case? You work hard and get the good grade. They greet the effort with a big yawn and then make some belittling comment. That was the way it was for me all though school and university and I wasn't the only one. They all were arrogant and condescending.
I'm sorry you had teachers like that! That's really bad!! Well I thought maybe I was overreacting a little :-[ maybe they weren't as horrible as I first thought... I don't know... but I sure hated those comments about how I'm too old to be grade 4 and all that... even if they meant it as a joke but it made me feel pretty bad! But oh well... now I'm feeling a little better about it! so it will be ok I guess. :) :P
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Really, littletune, I had to wait a bit until I respond to this, because it made me so overwhelmingly mad, so mad!! >:( >:( I was afraid I'd freak out completely.
These people, who the hell do they think they are? I'll tell you what they are. They're a bunch of frustrated well paid idiots who have no heart and no idea about music and about the human soul.
Unfortunately this kind of people often determine what is "right and wrong" in today's music culture. Stupid idiots they are, feeling their power and getting all excited about feeling it.
Don't be disouraged by them! Easier said than done, of course, because I know myself, and I would have been so totally frustrated, you can't imagine how much!! I am somehow ultra sensitive. I admire you, I admire your strength!! You are wonderful! Just keep going on!
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so that made me feel like I shouldn't even be there...
It's they who shouldn't have been there. Such people do not deserve to be called teachers.
P.S.: Happy you did OK, though. :)
Paul
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Thank you so much Wolfi and Paul! :) I think it REALLY helps me a lot to know all of you nice people at Pianostreet! :) I think I would feel soooooo much worse without Pianostreet! And sorry Wolfi for writing about things that make you so mad! I hope it didn't make you feel too bad! :) Oh and I was really really surprised that i was so calm and that I could concentrate on playing and nothing else... only for the first few seconds when I started I thought : Oh nooo what if I won't be able to stop thinking about all of that, but then I just did and I loved playing! :)
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Thank you so much Wolfi and Paul! :) I think it REALLY helps me a lot to know all of you nice people at Pianostreet! :) I think I would feel soooooo much worse without Pianostreet! And sorry Wolfi for writing about things that make you so mad! I hope it didn't make you feel too bad! :) Oh and I was really really surprised that i was so calm and that I could concentrate on playing and nothing else... only for the first few seconds when I started I thought : Oh nooo what if I won't be able to stop thinking about all of that, but then I just did and I loved playing! :)
Oh nooooooooo :o you might need :-\ to lay off :) a bit with the smilies. ;D
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I'm sorry you had teachers like that! That's really bad!! Well I thought maybe I was overreacting a little :-[ maybe they weren't as horrible as I first thought... I don't know... but I sure hated those comments about how I'm too old to be grade 4 and all that... even if they meant it as a joke but it made me feel pretty bad! But oh well... now I'm feeling a little better about it! so it will be ok I guess. :) :P
In the process of education you just put up with their arrogant and condescending attitudes. Why are they all in the music department? Rarely you find one who is honest and willing to recognize a good job.
In the process they kill classical music. They look down their noses at pieces the paying audience wants to hear and instead program obscure pieces, often modern and difficult to grasp at first hearing.
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My teacher said don't think about anything accept for playing the piano so you won't get nervous, but sounds like you handled it pretty well already. :)
To them it depends on how many mistakes you make and what style you play and mostly what THEY like. They might have had more people there than they usually had before so maybe that's why they we're so snappy.
Speaking of judges... I went to a piano competition it was in a church. The people who hosted it were the Bland's. Well I watched them play that piano one by one, boy they we're good but the songs kind of all sounded the same they we're classical. why I brought this up I'm going to join the competition this year!
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Taking stock of my performance attire ... WOOOOO ... so far I am not depressed ;D ;D 8) :-*
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well I didn't say yet... but summer holidays started!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :P Friday was last school day when we get the thing with the grades... I actually have all the best grades even math! :P but I didn't finish all my home reading beacuse it's really difficult for me to force myself to read something I don't feel like reading... so I will need to read it during the holidays till next year ::) and of course I got second best grade for my music theory ::) but oh well... my piano teacher said that that was a very nice grade for grade 4 and that it was a good 4 and my teacher was talking to my mum and saying all good things about me :) :P and I was the only one from our school (in grade 4) who got the best grade (5) for piano. and she said she was trying to figure out how we could be paying less for my piano lessons...
well and I got a lot of new pieces for during the summer holidays! :P but I haven't started practicing all that a lot yet but I will soon.... I can't wait....
but right now we have kinda a lot of work with that baby bird........ he/she is sooooooooooooo cute.... like a kitten, a puppy and a bird all in one (and maybe even some magical creature) :D :P 8) :) :)
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Just finished finding a new home for 15,000 bees who stopped by and wanted to set up a hive in my yard. They arrived during the half of the Spanish game and were on their way before the Italian game started. They did spend Saturday night here. Not really long enough to post to the pet thread.
This is the swarming season. Last year none, and the year before we got two. The largest of those was 30,000 bees.
There is a lot to this bee thing. While we think of an individual be as an organism, actually it is only a part (like a cell) of the larger organism, the hive. If we want to save our food chain we need to change our thinking and concentrate on the life cycle of the hive.
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Hi Littletune,
congratulations for you exams, no grim/stupid teacher can take away from you your achievement!!!
And now, please, enjoy at least a full week of holiday: enjoy your little animals, the summer, the end of the school, and have fun!!!!!
A big hug
marg
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i'm a bit confused, what the heck?
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i thought maybe it was just me misreading these signs, but nope it is apparently spreading....
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Hi Littletune,
congratulations for you exams, no grim/stupid teacher can take away from you your achievement!!!
And now, please, enjoy at least a full week of holiday: enjoy your little animals, the summer, the end of the school, and have fun!!!!!
A big hug
marg
Thank you very much Marg! :) I am enjoying this first week of holidays!! :P and I'm also very busy with all my pets... specially the baby bird, and also we are now taking care of one more doggy for a few days so there's a lot of things to do but I like taking care of animals :) right now there's really a lot of living beings in our apartment, we have two dogs, a cat, three birds, a guinea pig... so that's seven pets and three people, that's 10 and then also two turtles and four fish in the small aquarium and five fish in the bigger one so that's 11 more livig beings so 21. and then there are also lots of snails in the big aquarium but I have noooo idea how many cause there's really a lot of them and you can't even see all of them.... and we also have some bugs... :P and of course plants :P but lets say we only count vertebrates :P
Hugs back and thanks! :) :)
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i'm a bit confused, what the heck?
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i thought maybe it was just me misreading these signs, but nope it is apparently spreading....
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.... Just one could be simply an accident, three.... ::) ::) ::) ::) maybe they use a kind of non aristotelian logic: A and non A are not mutually exclusive? Mah!
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i'm good. i'm laughing at this. too funny (not my commentary, super funny ;D)
"...Those pesky advertising bugs always find creative ways to inject themselves in the middle of what you're watching.
This one, however, decided that an effective way to promote the upcoming release of The Amazing Spider-Man was to depict Spidey in the culmination of a miniature adventure as he swings out of pitcher, C.C. Sabathia's ass to safety.
He was looking for answers about the mysterious circumstances of his parents' disappearance. All he found instead was the remnants of a breakfast burrito and..."
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laughing. hard. funny, no hilarious since it's a real headline. you almost can't make this stuff up!
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Well I'm ok! I just don't have enough time for everything I want to do and need to do!!!! ::) >:( the second week of summer holidays is almost over!!!! ::) but well... I know when we're going on vacation!! :) from August 14 to 24!!!!! :P so i'll be home for my birthday this year! I hope I can do more of the things I want to and need to do!! :)
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I'm kind of.. Nervous or how i should say it.
I have my first own 1h concert (or recital? I don't really know the difference) in 18 days! And another one in 21 days! =D
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I'm kind of.. Nervous or how i should say it.
I have my first own 1h concert (or recital? I don't really know the difference) in 18 days! And another one in 21 days! =D
Good luck for your concerts!! :)
Well I am ok now, but a little tired ::) even though I have holidays! Yes well it's not that easy taking care of baby birds I guess! :P But I'm sooo glad he's doing well!!!! and also my guinea pig got sick again and last week the vet gave her some medications and right away she started feeling better but then 3 days later she started feeling worse again and then we stopped giving her one medication, and she was a little better but she wasn't eating anything at all and you could see that something was hurting her, so then we decided with my mum that we would give her like half a dose that she was supposed to be getting (and only once a day instead of twice) because that was during the weekend and her vet wasn't there, so we had to try something by ourselves, and after that she started getting slowly better again and now she's a lot better and running around and starting to eat by herself agian so we're soooooooooo happy (but we don't want to be too happy because we're afraid it would be like the first time again), now we're still feeding her but we will try to stop slowly (before we were feeding her 4 times a day and today we will try only 3 times because she's eating more by herself. and we'll go to the vet tomorrow or on Thursday so we'll see what he'll say.... so I had really little time these few weeks cause I had to take care of my pets! but they're all soooooooooo cute and I love them sooooooooooo much and I'm sooooooooooo happy they're doing ok!!!!!!!!! :) :) :)
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kind of puzzled at trying to figure out how i will buy that wallet i want that they carry. i mean i'd like to get it so i can buy snacks from them. but if i keep my money in my underroos, and i want to pay with money i keep in the wallet they won't sell me becuase of my current 'walle't not being appropriate. how do i get my snacks?
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so that means my new snazzy pair of pocket underwear were purchased for nothing?
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Awful...
I rolled my ankle last night skating.
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Awful...
I rolled my ankle last night skating.
Ouch!! Hope you're feeling better.
At least you missed your hands this time; and now that you can't pedal......(B###)!
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Yeah, well I fell off a 8-foot stage last night. The guard rail was messed up and the chair was not totally on the stage, so all in one motion as I sat down I fell all the way to the ground, bringing the guard rail, a big curtain, and somehow a xylophone that was 4 feet away with me. I seriously had no idea what happened since it all went by so fast. I'm still confused really.
Thankfully the xylophone is okay.
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Yeah, well I fell off a 8-foot stage last night. The guard rail was messed up and the chair was not totally on the stage, so all in one motion as I sat down I fell all the way to the ground, bringing the guard rail, a big curtain, and somehow a xylophone that was 4 feet away with me. I seriously had no idea what happened since it all went by so fast. I'm still confused really.
Thankfully the xylophone is okay.
Yikes!
Your lucky to have a hospital with internet access.
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hehe, thankfully the most I got out of it was a few bruises. I guess I am lucky ;D
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Yeah, well I fell off a 8-foot stage last night. The guard rail was messed up and the chair was not totally on the stage, so all in one motion as I sat down I fell all the way to the ground, bringing the guard rail, a big curtain, and somehow a xylophone that was 4 feet away with me. I seriously had no idea what happened since it all went by so fast. I'm still confused really.
Thankfully the xylophone is okay.
Lol that's halarious
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Congratulations to all UK'ers for the win of the Tour.
When he was growing up he never thought he would ever be sitting there with THE yellow shirt. Maybe big dreams are not the answer. Maybe smaller dreams about the next hurdle might work better.
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laughing. hard. funny, no hilarious since it's a real headline. you almost can't make this stuff up!
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I think that's supposed to be AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines).
But yes, MILF is a real organization. Apparently the Muslims came up with it long before American Pie.
Back to topic:
I'm doing quite well, thanks. But my piano music is a different story. :P
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I'm really, really tired. I had my first "big" (1 hour) solo concert/recital (still don't really know the difference.. so lets say "performance" ;D) yesterday. There was over 100 people there! That's pretty much, considering that it's a small church. I was on a concert there last year, with a professional (and REALLY good) pianist. Then it was like 10-20 people there.. But now I'm rambling!
My legs are itchy too. That's annoying 8)
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Hey, congratulations! Sounds like it went well. :D
Incidentally, a "recital" is where there is a soloist performing, either alone or with an "accompianist". A "concert" is for orchestras, ensembles or a soloist with an orchestra. The terms are not really strictly used these days.
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That sounds awesome, jollisg!
I was thinking to myself that 100 didn't seem like much, but I went to this recital with this dude from a local uni performing an all-liszt program (a HR, the b minor sonata, some of liszt's late works that I can't think of atm) and now that I think about it there were only about 20 people there. It's kinda sad really, he was amazing.
So what pieces did you perform?
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housemate complained about using 1/4 of washing powder, debated buying 20 boxes, but then wondered what i'd do with so much.
attended my first concert at the university as part of their lunchtime programs, they played williamson sonata for two pianos. grainger - fantasy on gershwin porgy and bess - and supposed to play debussy en blanc et noir but played ravel la valse 2 pianos instead - so i was ecstatic, but ive only heard clair de lune (yuck) and arabesque ..so who knows. And the others i have no idea who those composers are but its not helping in trying to finish music sheets before I finding more to play.
then pop by work early, get yelled at to get off my ass by a guest to help with something (i wasnt working) - but then he did then buy me a cheap juice maker i was looking for, score. then when i was working, having a lamp bulb explode on someone and apparently give them an electric shock :X I think a shock maybe, but not electric, since the power was still running.
and now in a few hours to deal with the drunken antics of people tonight.
but my housemate is out for the night so i will play the piano at midnight. yes yes yes yes
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just got back to playing the piano again. I'm tackling pieces that are relatively challenging but not the kind that will push my technique to new levels (specifically, Chopin etudes). The purpose is to keep my hands in at least "some form" of shape.
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So far today is by far the best day back in the US that I've had! A delicious breakfast, a very nice/healthy walk, and practicing on the brink. I feel alive about it! Feeling alive = better than feeling not alive.
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@ m1469: Good for you! ;D
@ littletune: That's great!! :) ;D <3 What Breed of guinea pig is yours? My sister breeds them and she'll probably be able to identify your if you don't know what type of guinea pig it is. :)
We used to have to birds names peanut and pecan then we found out that pecan was a girl because she was laying eggs but every-time she had one it landed to hard on the cage floor and broke, it was a hanging bird-cage so they stayed on the pole in the middle of the cage they never went in their store bought nest. :( but then we went on vacation we had a friend do our animals for us....then our friend told us something got into our barn! and knocked over our rabbits cage but she was fine the bird cage was busted open and they we're gone!!:( :(
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so tired, asked to work from midnight, supposed to see a sydney international piano competition winner at lunchtime today, but that means ill have maybe 2-3 hours sleep. was moving house this morning as my former housemate was a cow, fitting she was from the country (she is ofcourse the exception, most ive met are fantastic).
moved to a place they have a grand piano, don't know what i'll do with mine. has cost me a bit to move, but am much happier. one of the housemates has given me heaps of sheet music. and he can pick any note as well, i was playing 4 at a time, and then same keys but inversions across 3-4 octaves just to mess with him and he'd still get them correct, flats, dissonace, didnt matter :/ the piano even needed a tune.. lol, david blane of piano. just dont saw it in half.
one girl cooked a fantastic tea i asked what one of the dishes was and she said seafood. then the guy showed me a translation on his phone, it said jellyfish. i would never dream of eating jellyfish - but thats too late now, quite chewy and tasteless. i use to squish them on the beach it was so much fun, until i heard they could be deadly :x
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Terrible! It's been almost three weeks and my ankle is still swollen! I think I might have pulled a ligament or something.
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got home from work 9am, slept for 3 hours, banged my knee and ankle into an all manner of things but i couldnt feel it as i was so numb, and then watched myself and 100 others get locked out of the hall for the performance, i tried to listen and as well as others were in the area before - as the sound was travelling through the vents but people kept talking, so I left, did some chopping for slippers and frypans, got told by some school girls to wake up on the tram, laughed, then they kept playing with their pantyhouse, dreaming? head is on the desk at work, finishing midnight, going to be a long day. a guest asked if i wanted a coffee. she said which one, latte, cuppicino? There are different flavours, i said surprised. She said she knows what i like, nice change - normally people are trying to give me alcohol and bits of their food at work.
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Very sad... I've just recorded my newly memorized pieces and they are still awful, and I have no idea how to prepare them for performance.
I'm thinking of quitting, actually.
I realized that I've put in too much time practicing, studying and reading that I have been neglecting my social life... and for what? A half-dozen half-baked piano pieces?
This forum used to be a second home, back when I could barely play piano... now I'm a stranger here, and not much better. I should have stayed online. I could have made friends. I might have learned something different too. Who knows, maybe I would pick up the holy grail of piano practice somewhere on pianostreet... thus have my cake and eat it too.
I'm so confused... I just wish life wasn't so difficult.
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Very sad... I've just recorded my newly memorized pieces and they are still awful, and I have no idea how to prepare them for performance.
I'm thinking of quitting, actually.
I realized that I've put in too much time practicing, studying and reading that I have been neglecting my social life... and for what? A half-dozen half-baked piano pieces?
If you feel that way, you should probably quit because piano isn't supposed to make people sad. That said, if you do want to get better at the piano, you should get the right teacher. Do you have a good teacher now? I found myself a great teacher last year and its unbelievable the kind of progress I've made in a couple of months. IF you think you'd like to play the piano well, you must absolutely make the financial investment that everybody else makes (i.e., the people who are serious about getting better at the piano).
Life isn't as difficult as you think it is... IMO of course. :)
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School doesn't start for another 2 weeks! I'm sitting on the couch trying to get mentally ready for another long practice. It is August and my Audition is in November. Coffee usually helps but today I am like totally sore!!! I think my neck is stabbing through my head! Other than that, hopefully this guy will buy my Rhodes 73 Mark 1. It does not belong in my life right now and need the money.
I want to start another Chopin etude but I also want to learn Jeux Deau but I also want to start Ballade no 2( Im going in order with those, want all 4)
Are there other composers out there besides Chopin and Ravel? Hmmmmm.....
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@ littletune: That's great!! :) ;D <3 What Breed of guinea pig is yours? My sister breeds them and she'll probably be able to identify your if you don't know what type of guinea pig it is. :)
I'm not exactly sure what breed my guinea pig is... I will post a picture as soon as I can (but probably not before I come back from vacation) and then your sister can tell me. :) thanks!
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Kinda okay.
I whiplashed my neck and slammed the side of my face into the ground skating. So I have a bruise on the right side of my left eye.
But that's okay because I learned a new trick in the process! The battle scars were worth it. ;D
That was the first time I actually hit my head. Now I feel like I've gone through some sort of initiation for something.
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School doesn't start for another 2 weeks! I'm sitting on the couch trying to get mentally ready for another long practice. It is August and my Audition is in November. Coffee usually helps but today I am like totally sore!!! I think my neck is stabbing through my head! Other than that, hopefully this guy will buy my Rhodes 73 Mark 1. It does not belong in my life right now and need the money.
I want to start another Chopin etude but I also want to learn Jeux Deau but I also want to start Ballade no 2( Im going in order with those, want all 4)
Are there other composers out there besides Chopin and Ravel? Hmmmmm.....
You can never go wrong with Rachmaninoff or Scriabin!
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Kinda okay.
I whiplashed my neck and slammed the side of my face into the ground skating. So I have a bruise on the right side of my left eye.
But that's okay because I learned a new trick in the process! The battle scars were worth it. ;D
That was the first time I actually hit my head. Now I feel like I've gone through some sort of initiation for something.
I'm not sure concussion counts as a "trick".
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Not bad.
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I'm not sure concussion counts as a "trick".
Well I didn't actually get a concussion. All I did was ice it for like 15 minutes and I was ready to go!
Also last Time I checked, saying that you're not a professional pianist isn't part of the job description.
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Well I didn't actually get a concussion. All I did was ice it for like 15 minutes and I was ready to go!
And try it again?? Good Lord... ::)
Also last Time I checked, saying that you're not a professional pianist isn't part of the job description.
I'm having it written ito mine as we speak.
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And try it again?? Good Lord... ::)
It's not like I didn't know what I was doing.
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I whiplashed my neck and slammed the side of my face into the ground skating.
It's not like I didn't know what I was doing.
Obviously. :P ::)
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Obviously. :P ::)
Hey well I learned a new trick all right?! Battle scars were worth it. ;D
But anyways, take a look at this. Worst slam in skateboarding history.
He was back on his board in no time! ;D
What I would give to try a megaramp...
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I rolled my ankle last night skating.
I whiplashed my neck and slammed the side of my face into the ground skating. So I have a bruise on the right side of my left eye.
What I would give to try a megaramp...
I hope your health insurer is the understanding kind.... ::)
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I hope your health insurer is the understanding kind.... ::)
My ankle is swollen and I'm still skating it.
But hey! I haven't severely injured myself!
Yet...
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Yet...
Quite.
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Not bad.
Good to hear, I guess :D!
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I drove to work carefully today and almost got 18 miles per gallon.
Rock on.
Thal
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Ohhhh Gigi is back! How cute! Hi Gigi :) 8)
Hi Wolfi!
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Ohhhh Gigi is back! How cute! Hi Gigi :) 8)
Hi Wolfi!
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ja, sicher. :)
OK! I was pretty focused and on task in my practicing today and got some good things done. Everything on my list, in fact! I still have a lot of syllabuses and they are due tomorrow :'(. So, I'm setting the timer and I'm going to be doing some sprints and trying to get some serious stuff done in 15 minute spurts. *Focus*
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Just taught my first classes of the year today - I had a beginning piano and also a composition/song writing class for high schoolers. I was feeling some resistance to starting up again, but I'm really glad it has indeed started up again! They are really good classes! I have three more on Friday for the younger kids. Only operating on about 2 hours of sleep, but at least I'm operating at all :P.
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I lost my $30 Rubik's Cube. It was so fun playing with it. D:
Now I have to go hunt for it in the house.
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I lost my $30 Rubik's Cube. It was so fun playing with it. D:
Now I have to go hunt for it in the house.
Ack, bummer! I was never good at rubik's cube :-[ ... or maybe I lacked the patience. There's a wooden puzzle sitting in my teaching room that I have pondered giving away, and I've pondered actually using it even less.
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I forgot parts of Chopin ballade no 1 and I was supposed to play it this Thursday! :( I am probably not going to. I will just wait for my audition in Nov. and just play my other pieces.
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Oh man, I am listening to Bach whilst drawing (which has given me a new project idea :)), and I have to say, drawing + listening to music = a severely satisfied/healthy/happy m1469!! It's SO nourishing for me and this has been seriously, deeply missing from my life and I didn't even quite know it. It's absolutely my favorite way to take music in right now and gives me a whole different mindset while listening. I don't know that I'll always and only want this, but there is really something about it that is very, VERY, good and healthy for me. I hope soon I will have a drawing to present! :)
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Today I accidentally put on black nylons with huge runs in them, and didn't even notice until I was out and I wore them to Church with a just above the knee dress on :-[. Whoops. And my creativity today was so running around in me that it made a fire and burned me up for awhile, and I thought there was no way to get that creativity to play scales and chords and such, what do I do? And I thought I love piano, singing, drawing, writing ... and that's not even the end of it! What do I do? Where do I go? Where do I belong? What am I? Who am I? And I a little bit wanted to burst around, but I was sitting just in a pew, quietly, instead. Then I started to calm down a little, and started to be able to imagine practicing the piano in a disciplined way, today. And I started to get more and more calm, and now, soon, I will go.
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Well that creativity is desirable I think. It's not desirable that you would burst into pieces, but per se it's a good thing, I think :)
8)
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Well, I am just coming to be better understanding it, knowing it, and focusing it. Sometimes I'm still not good at it all, and there's really just a lot in there to try to intelligently grapple with. I think I basically need to get better at knowing what I'm needing to do and when, as in which outlets are tugging, and in what necessary balance, etc.. Even though sometimes the intensity of it catches me off guard and can be very disorienting for me, I think that despite it I can start to keep in my mind that whatever wave I am feeling at the moment will calm and pass, and that there are answers and right steps for me to be taking, and that this intensity is ultimately just a sign that I need to be taking those.
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I lost my $30 Rubik's Cube. It was so fun playing with it. D:
Now I have to go hunt for it in the house.
30 dollars for a Rubik's cube? You can get a Dayan Zanchi from amazon for like 12 dollars. Best cube on the market.
Do you speed cube? And if so, what's your fastest time and average?
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30 dollars for a Rubik's cube? You can get a Dayan Zanchi from amazon for like 12 dollars. Best cube on the market.
Do you speed cube? And if so, what's your fastest time and average?
I bought a Dayan Zhanchi for thirty dollars.. Seems that I got ripped off. LOL.
I used to speed cube, until I started learning the piano. I lost interest within a few weeks. I think my fastest time was just barely below 40 seconds, using the beginner method. I never was dedicated enough to learn a more advanced method, so I guess I averaged about 50-ish seconds.
Noob, I am.
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i had to stop studying to laugh uncontrollably at this !
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I feel like a tornado all over :P.
*Heckles Bob's dogs*
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*Dogs are already asleep.*
*But they're sleeping over the trap door containing the nachos, so the nachos are safe.*
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speaking of animals, I was late for work, and still have to explain to the neighbours why they dont have a cat anymore.
:(
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Why is this happening?! This is the second time that when i came to pianostreet after a few days there's a post about some poor animals dying :( :( :(
Well... I'm annoyed because I don't have enough time!!!!! I never have enough time anymore, I'm not even practicing as much as I should!!!! I'll try to practice really a lot today... I hope I can...
I am also worried that we won't have enough money for my music school, cause we have to change the windows and all that (because of the neighbour! because she is drowning because we still have old windows :o no not really, there's no water anywhere only some instrument that the inspector had showed there's some humidity or something ::) so he gave us 2 months to change the windows but the crazy neighbour complained cause he gave us soooooo much time!!!!! ::) ::) )...
yes well... I'll try to go practice!!! :P
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Why is this happening?! This is the second time that when i came to pianostreet after a few days there's a post about some poor animals dying :( :( :(
Well... I'm annoyed because I don't have enough time!!!!! I never have enough time anymore, I'm not even practicing as much as I should!!!! I'll try to practice really a lot today... I hope I can...
I am also worried that we won't have enough money for my music school, cause we have to change the windows and all that (because of the neighbour! because she is drowning because we still have old windows :o no not really, there's no water anywhere only some instrument that the inspector had showed there's some humidity or something ::) so he gave us 2 months to change the windows but the crazy neighbour complained cause he gave us soooooo much time!!!!! ::) ::) )...
yes well... I'll try to go practice!!! :P
2 Months? You won't even have an estimate by then. Then they still need to be manufactured and installed AND all that in the dead of winter. Good grief! You have my sympathy.
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Ahhhh ... I just did a nice piano warm up ... guess who? Hanon ;D 8). My hands and fingers feel so good right now ... they have that warm, supple, used and useful feeling :). Love that!
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Guess what! now I'm sick!! During the weekend! ::) yesterday pretty soon after I was writing about practicing more i started feeling weird and tired and now I'm sick. Today I first felt really sick but now it's better, but I'm sooooo tired I just want to go to sleep!! And I want to practice at least a little but i don't know if I can... maybe if I have a little half an hour nap I could practice after that... :-\
2 Months? You won't even have an estimate by then. Then they still need to be manufactured and installed AND all that in the dead of winter. Good grief! You have my sympathy.
Yes it's true it's not even possible to do it really fast... we didn't even know about it, but my mum sent some emails to different people who do that and someone was even here yesterday and my parents told him that we needed to change the windows as soon as possible and he said that he might be able to do it after October 25, but before that it's not possible at all, and some other people sent some offers back but everything is at least 1 to 2 months (from the time when we would pay 60% or something)! and that crazy woman thinks 2 months is too much time!!! :-X Oh well!! :P
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Get better, LT! ;D LT, I *know* I've heard you singing some little song before ... I think two of them, OK? I know I commented once ... you posted something in the student's board, I think. BUT I *swear* you sang that child song before, OK?
I'm SOooo sleepy. Not sleeping very much, once again. It's just not worth it! I get up, thinking I will get extra practice, but I'm so tired from no rest that I don't have much juice to put into it, and don't get much more in hour-wise, but it's harder to concentrate, too! I've tried to take a nap a couple of times and it hasn't worked. Ah well! I'm still getting stuff done.
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I'm doing good!
I skated yesterday, and my ankle is healed to the point where I can actually do some flip tricks without too much pain. But since I haven't been able to do certain tricks due to my ankle, I lost a bunch of them so I have to get back into the groove of things again.
But it still kinda sucks, I can't do anything too extreme or else I'm gonna re-injure it. A good stretch before every session should be enough though.
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Terrible!
I tried to freaking buy pictures at an exhibition on iTunes but accidentally clicked on the orchestral version!
What the freaking heck! The first one should be the piano version because it was writte for piano in the first place! Stupid iTunes!!! >:(
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Guess what! now I'm sick!! During the weekend! ::) yesterday pretty soon after I was writing about practicing more i started feeling weird and tired and now I'm sick. Today I first felt really sick but now it's better, but I'm sooooo tired I just want to go to sleep!! And I want to practice at least a little but i don't know if I can... maybe if I have a little half an hour nap I could practice after that... :-\
Yes it's true it's not even possible to do it really fast... we didn't even know about it, but my mum sent some emails to different people who do that and someone was even here yesterday and my parents told him that we needed to change the windows as soon as possible and he said that he might be able to do it after October 25, but before that it's not possible at all, and some other people sent some offers back but everything is at least 1 to 2 months (from the time when we would pay 60% or something)! and that crazy woman thinks 2 months is too much time!!! :-X Oh well!! :P
Maybe there is a little bit of government money you can get for this project? Also in a condo situation the individual owners are only responsible to a certain point because after that it's the building's association's responsibility. Also certain insurance policies might cover this. You are not too young to be involved in this project. At your age, I was thrust into a massive construction job that was underway and the lessons I learned from completing that job have lasted a lifetime.
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Terrible!
I tried to freaking buy pictures at an exhibition on iTunes but accidentally clicked on the orchestral version!
What the freaking heck! The first one should be the piano version because it was writte for piano in the first place! Stupid iTunes!!! >:(
Haha, take it on the chin as a learning experience (ie, check more carefully).
My own such experience was from buying my first ever opera recording. La Traviata. Turns out the one I got was sung in Hungarian!
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i'm so relieved i don't shop at 7-11
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i'm so relieved i don't shop at 7-11
I didn't know one could buy poultry by the millilitre. Or that it came in "Lite" and "Zero" for that matter. :o
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I didn't know one could buy poultry by the millilitre. Or that it came in "Lite" and "Zero" for that matter. :o
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Get better, LT! ;D LT, I *know* I've heard you singing some little song before ... I think two of them, OK? I know I commented once ... you posted something in the student's board, I think. BUT I *swear* you sang that child song before, OK?
Thanks m1469!! :) I'm not sick anymore. But I had sooo much to do last week and this week!!!! That's why I wasn't on Pianostreet for so long and .... :-X I haven't even been practicing piano for like a week! :o (well i practiced it for like 5 minutes on Monday before my piano lesson) and on Wednesday morning for an hour and a half (cause I have piano lessons on Wednesdays)... but that was it. But I was transcribing some inteviews and it was really a lot, but I will get payed and I REALLY need money! I'll get 1 euro for one minute, and there was almost 2 hours of interviews... but it took really a lot of time... because I needed about 1 hour for every 5 minutes!!! So all I was doing (when I was at home and didn't have other things to do) was transcribing those interviews since last Wednesday!!! And on Sunday I almost thought I was done, but I got one more interview... sooo... now i really hope I'm done!!! (at least for awhile, because I love earning money but... now I'm really tired of doing that for so long!) and I better don't even start talking about how the first woman who was interviewed was getting on my nerves!!!! :-X :-X ::) she was soooo whiny and without energy and fake :-X :-X ::) (and I told my friend about her, couldn't help it :-X and we found her on facebook and she looks exactly like she sounds... she's this skinny blond fake woman :-X ) So yes... :P don't want to be mean but.... :P
Oh m1469, yes I posted myself singing Edelweiss once, I don't know if I posted anything else but I'm very sure I haven't posted me singing that song (that I wrote about my doggy), because I can't find it!! I so hope I'll find it!! :) 8)
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I am very angry today!!!!! No even more than angry but I don't know what word to use!!!!! >:( >:( >:( But yesterday night I was even more angry!!!!!!!!!! I want to say some really bad things :-X :-X I mean I know people are horrible and mean and stupid and all that!!! Of course I know that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But............. right now I just really want all those stupid selfish horrible disgusting people to die in pain!!!!!!!!!!! Ok??????????? Yesterday when me and my mum went out with my dog... my dog stopped near a parked car and started looking and smelling something near the front wheel and I let her for a while but she just kept looking and smelling so me and my mum went to see why............ and you know why??????????????????' :-X you know why?????????????? the car was parked with the front wheel over a cat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( so only the cat's paws and tail were sticking out of the wheel!!!!!!!!! :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( I felt so sick when I saw that!!!!!!!!! What the ................................. ????????????????????????????????? I mean how the f.............. can you run over a cat in the parking lot??????????????????????? not with the back wheels, with the front wheel??????????????? not parking with the back of the car, but with the front of the car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what the .......................... is wrong with people??? and then just going out of the car with the wheel over the poor cat and leaving it like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh and that parking lot is also a parking lot that's infront of a preschool!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope the person (oh no that's not even a person) who did that dies!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in pain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! as soon as possible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really wanted to destroy the car! but my mum wouldn't let me cause she was afraid someone would see and that then we would have to pay a lot of money (otherwise she would want to destroy the car too)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a stupid f..... world........... you would get punished if you destroyed a stupid car but you don't get punished at all when you run over a cat and don't do anything and park on top of the cat like nothing happened!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! f... you people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know I know I'm gonna become that crazy person who hates people and yells bad things at people and only has animals for friends!!!!!!!!!!!! well the only thing I did to the car was lift up the windshield wipers and hit the car mirror (where the driver is) as much as I could with the flexi leash so it moved towards the window (but that's normal so I don't think I really did anything bad to it. I'm kinda hoping that at least that stupid white colour got at least a little damaged!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
So now I don't know if I should call or write to the police or of I should find the car and do something else to it, or if I should write a note and say that the driver of the white car with licence plate LJ HM 274 is a murderer! and also to the owners of cats who live in the city where there are big roads and lots of cars and let their cats out by themselves they're stupid selfish people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:( >:( >:( Also I want to light a candle there near that parking lot where the poor cat died... :'( :'( :'(
I'm so sad and angry!!!!!!!!! with things like that I just lose all hope in the stupid human race!!!!!! I mean I know animals kill other animals too, but people are supposed to have the brain with wich they can help and do good but instead of that they only imagine how they're something great and better and special............ and then do much much worse things than any animal ever could!!!!!!!! I mean if you look at all the horrible things humans have done.... you can't even compare it to what the animals do even the scariest and most violent animals!!!!!!!!! And then these stupid people think they're gonna ascend into some higher dimension or something.......... ::) OMG please don't they're just gonna ruin the whole universe or multiverse or whatever there is or is not!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cause most people are just these stupid retarded cave people who accidentaly got this powerful machine called the brain which they have absolutely no idea how to use!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and it looks to me like they're gonna need another couple million of years to even start learning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! F...... losers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ok................... I had to say all this................ I'm sorry. I know there are people who are good and nice and all that............. but just way too many people are.... what I said above!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok............ trying to let go of the anger and violent bad thoughts about other people!!!!!!!
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RIP poor cat!!!!!!!!!! :( :'( My angels will take care of you, you'll be ok now! lots of love and hugs!!!!!!!!!!!
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I am very angry today!!!!! No even more than angry but I don't know what word to use!!!!! >:( >:( >:( But yesterday night I was even more angry!!!!!!!!!! I want to say some really bad things :-X :-X I mean I know people are horrible and mean and stupid and all that!!! Of course I know that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But............. right now I just really want all those stupid selfish horrible disgusting people to die in pain!!!!!!!!!!! Ok??????????? Yesterday when me and my mum went out with my dog... my dog stopped near a parked car and started looking and smelling something near the front wheel and I let her for a while but she just kept looking and smelling so me and my mum went to see why............ and you know why??????????????????' :-X you know why?????????????? the car was parked with the front wheel over a cat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( so only the cat's paws and tail were sticking out of the wheel!!!!!!!!! :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( I felt so sick when I saw that!!!!!!!!! What the ................................. ????????????????????????????????? I mean how the f.............. can you run over a cat in the parking lot??????????????????????? not with the back wheels, with the front wheel??????????????? not parking with the back of the car, but with the front of the car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what the .......................... is wrong with people??? and then just going out of the car with the wheel over the poor cat and leaving it like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh and that parking lot is also a parking lot that's infront of a preschool!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope the person (oh no that's not even a person) who did that dies!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in pain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! as soon as possible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really wanted to destroy the car! but my mum wouldn't let me cause she was afraid someone would see and that then we would have to pay a lot of money (otherwise she would want to destroy the car too)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a stupid f..... world........... you would get punished if you destroyed a stupid car but you don't get punished at all when you run over a cat and don't do anything and park on top of the cat like nothing happened!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! f... you people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know I know I'm gonna become that crazy person who hates people and yells bad things at people and only has animals for friends!!!!!!!!!!!! well the only thing I did to the car was lift up the windshield wipers and hit the car mirror (where the driver is) as much as I could with the flexi leash so it moved towards the window (but that's normal so I don't think I really did anything bad to it. I'm kinda hoping that at least that stupid white colour got at least a little damaged!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
So now I don't know if I should call or write to the police or of I should find the car and do something else to it, or if I should write a note and say that the driver of the white car with licence plate LJ HM 274 is a murderer! and also to the owners of cats who live in the city where there are big roads and lots of cars and let their cats out by themselves they're stupid selfish people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:( >:( >:( Also I want to light a candle there near that parking lot where the poor cat died... :'( :'( :'(
I'm so sad and angry!!!!!!!!! with things like that I just lose all hope in the stupid human race!!!!!! I mean I know animals kill other animals too, but people are supposed to have the brain with wich they can help and do good but instead of that they only imagine how they're something great and better and special............ and then do much much worse things than any animal ever could!!!!!!!! I mean if you look at all the horrible things humans have done.... you can't even compare it to what the animals do even the scariest and most violent animals!!!!!!!!! And then these stupid people think they're gonna ascend into some higher dimension or something.......... ::) OMG please don't they're just gonna ruin the whole universe or multiverse or whatever there is or is not!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cause most people are just these stupid retarded cave people who accidentaly got this powerful machine called the brain which they have absolutely no idea how to use!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and it looks to me like they're gonna need another couple million of years to even start learning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! F...... losers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ok................... I had to say all this................ I'm sorry. I know there are people who are good and nice and all that............. but just way too many people are.... what I said above!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok............ trying to let go of the anger and violent bad thoughts about other people!!!!!!!
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RIP poor cat!!!!!!!!!! :( :'( My angels will take care of you, you'll be ok now! lots of love and hugs!!!!!!!!!!!
*vomits in her mouth* I am so sorry...that is just pathetic, people are so full of hate and darkness, I am sorry you had to see that side of people. :(((((((((((
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I understand so well your anger and disgust with human race, and unendless pity for that poor cat...I' really really sorry Littletune!!!!! :( :( :( :(
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*vomits in her mouth* I am so sorry...that is just pathetic, people are so full of hate and darkness, I am sorry you had to see that side of people. :(((((((((((
I understand so well your anger and disgust with human race, and unendless pity for that poor cat...I' really really sorry Littletune!!!!! :( :( :( :(
Thank you! I'm glad there are people who feel the same as I do about animals. I will light a candle for the poor cat!!
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I think I've been having, no, I know I've been having, deep withdrawals from not playing the Appassionata anymore. Schumann ABEGG, too. It's as if I haven't hardly even known who I am without those everyday. I've needed a break for various reasons, but I think I really deeply miss them ... it's been months since I've even thought seriously about playing them even just for fun.
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I'm obsessed with Rachmaninoff's Third Piano concerto, I just can't get it out of my head! It is wonderful but I feel insane... I wonder if any other musicians feel this way sometimes... ???
Natalya
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I'm obsessed with Rachmaninoff's Third Piano concerto, I just can't get it out of my head! It is wonderful but I feel insane... I wonder if any other musicians feel this way sometimes... ???
Natalya
I have a feeling we're gonna get along REALLY well...
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So my parents finally decided to kill my dog on Monday.
And today I had to record my college auditions. I think they went pretty well. We used some 2,000 dollar mic's, and we stayed there for five hours. The schools sound engineer was saying that I was OCD about mistakes.
I tried to do everything flawless but I couldn't manage it. I'm gonna redo my 20th century and the Rachmaninoff at a recording studio because the left pedal was too squeaky and the mic's would pick it up.
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So my parents finally decided to kill my dog on Monday.
Sorry to hear it.
The schools sound engineer was saying that I was OCD about mistakes.
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I tried to do everything flawless but I couldn't manage it.
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I'm gonna redo my 20th century and the Rachmaninoff at a recording studio because the left pedal was too squeaky and the mic's would pick it up.
I'm with the sound engineer. :P
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I'm with the sound engineer. :P
Well I did it without the left pedal, so he said he thinks that I don't have to redo it. But apparently I have to redo the whole thing because one of these schools want an audio AND video recording. We only did audio.
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But apparently I have to redo the whole thing because one of these schools want an audio AND video recording. We only did audio.
Mime?
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Well, I *think* I'm doing pretty well! In the last week I've committed myself to what has seemed like a very major life-decision, wrote two fairly thoughtful papers, made a new type of resume, compiled a repertoire list, completed 11 applications for the classes I'm offering in the Winter/Spring at the School, taught, practiced, video recorded my students and compiled a necessary video, I've completely rethought the last 10 years of my teaching and my entire teaching approach :P, rethought my whole life and turned into a new person :P, ordered both official and unofficial transcripts, started a new business with my husband, and last but not least, yesterday *drum roll* I had my debut of a public/formal setting where I both sang and accompanied myself on the piano, as well as playing the rest of the church service (all of the music organized by me). To top it all off, I've made more meals and done more cleaning, too! I'm kind of tired but it feels pretty great ... so, I guess the fact that it feels pretty good must mean I'm doing well ;D
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I'm sick. I have an upset stomach and a horrid headache. I don't know what illness this is, but it seems to be quite common here at this time of year. So I haven't been able to do anything for the past several days. I hope it gets better soon. I have been drinking tea to relieve my headache, but it makes me feel more sick to my stomach. And not eating/drinking makes me even more tired.
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Wow m1469 you did A LOT of things!!! well I hope you didn't turn into a completely different person cause you were really cool as a preson you were before! :)
Well I am tired from the last two weeks (or the last few weeks, I don't even know exactly)... we were renovating our apartment and then on tuesday they came to change our windows and it was supposed to be done in 5 or 6 hours but then all sorts of things went wrong and so those people were in our apartment for the whole two days!! And the first day all the windows were open (and the balcony) for a really long time and outside it was freezing!!! so the whole apartment got really cold and the floor was like ice cold and we didn't eat almost anything and we couldn't do anything.... really fun.... not!!! I mean we were changing our windows when it was the coldest... now it got wormer again, but we had to change the windows really quickly because we were already late cause the inspector said we needed to change them before the end of November and probably our dear downstairs neighbour complained that we still haven't because my parents got a letter from the inspector asking if we had changed the windows already. ::) I mean it's not like we can do it ourselves, we needed to wait for the windows to be made and for the people who know how to change windows to come and change them!! ::)
And then the next day after those two difficult days, the neighbour who lives on the bottom floor put into our mail box some parts of the things that i guess fell onto his garden when they were taking our old windows out! i mean it's not like we knew! it's not like we were doing that! it's not like we could have done anything about it! ::)
Then the next thing was that our pets were worrying us, because my cat was throwing up almost every day for a while and then in the end it looked like she threw up some blood!!! then when my cat stopped throwing up my dog threw up twice all the food she had just eaten, and the worst one was my bird - the cockatiel - who was having sneezing attacks that lasted for a really long time and then blood was coming out of his nose and mouth!!!! :o really horrible... and he wasn't feeling all that great for a few days, but then after that he became even more happy then before! :) I hope he doesn't get any more of those sneezing attacks!!
One more thing was that I felt really horrible cause I think I accidentally killed a little bug, like a really tiny beatle :( :( the ones that go into your food too, so my mum doesn't like them all that much, I mean I don't like them in my food either but I felt soooo horrible... I mean I saw it on the top of the turtle aquarium and I was thinking should I move it away or something and then I thought maybe I better leave it there cause it's such a tiny bug that I felt I could hurt it if i tried to move it... and then I was giving food to my turtles and I was giving them some fruit and vegetables but it wasn't that much and they ate it right away so I thought maybe I should also give them a little bit of their turtle food (and usually when I give them fruit and vegetables I don't give them their food but exactly that day I decided to cause there wasn't much of the fresh food) and of course while I was doing all that I completely forgot about the little bug and I pushed the thing that covers the opening for food back and gave them some food and then when I put it back I saw something that looked like bird food and then I remembered, and I'm not completely sure if it was really that little bug or not because it didn't look anything like it.... but if it was it was completely squashed :'( :'( I felt soooooooooo horrible!!!! And then a few days later when I got a little over that poor bug- the second day of changing our windows when they were done, there was a fly... it was flying all over the apartment but especially in my room and I thought well now we can't put it out cause it's freezing so we have to wait a few days till it gets a little warmer, and I was worried about it cause my cat was trying to catch it and cause I was thinking what if it falls into the aquarium (cause that happened a lot in summer) and then I am in my room and i hear the fly flying around and then all of a sudden it flys into the light that is on my aquarium (it doesn't have a normal light bulb but it has like a long tube, i think fluorescent) and then when it flew in it started buzzing really loudly so I knew something was wrong :( so I tried to lift the covering but it was really difficult which is weird because usually the covering is falling off all the time and when I finally opened it the fly was on the stupid flourescent light bulb and then it fell off and it was dead :'( :'( and some sticky brown yellow thing was comming out of it's head (or somewhere around that)... it was really horrible!!!!!!!! maybe people think I'm so stupid and weird to get so upset about bugs but it's just horrible to me it was really traumatic :( and then I was thinking I should have lifted that cover sooner or what if I injured it with the cover cause I was so awkward with it... :( :'(
And then there was Christmas recital yesterday! I think there was some kind of a virus there that makes you forget your piece! because almost everyone got confused in the middle of their piece and didn't know how to continue!!! It was especially bad for one girl who only played about 3 bars of her piece and then didn't know how to continue... she started from the beginning about 4 or 5 times and always stopped in the same place after just a few bars then she sat for a while and stared at the keys and then she got up and went off. Well I completely forgot one bar in the middle of the first movement of Sonatina and i could see in my head how the same thing will happen to me and i won't know how to continue at all! And I tried a few times to find the right keys, which was stupid cause if I didn't do that most people wouldn't notice I left one bar out, but I got really confused, but then I continued and I didn't forget or make mistakes anymore. So yes... but I didn't like the way my parents acted after the recital! I mean I know they're tired from last weeks so they're a little in a bad mood, specially my dad, I mean I am tired too, but when I get tired and I'm in a bad mood I cry or yell a little or even throw something :P and then soon I'm ok again, but my parents pretend like everything is cool and then they're a little bit in a bad mood for a lot longer... cause when I'm in a bad mood I'm in a really bad mood but just for a little while, but they're just a little bit in a bad mood for a really long time! ::) so my dad didn't say anything at all!!! when we were driving home it was like we were going from a funeral not from a Christmas recital!!!! ::) and the first thing my mum said was: Oh you messed up a little! ::) I mean really! I messed up in the middle of the first movement! the beginning and the end of the first movement were ok and the whole second movement was ok, and the first thing she says is: oh you messed up a little! ::) but well I know she didn't mean anything bad and she gave me a cute little cactus and a beautiful little angel! :) 8)
So yes and then the translating thing yesterday and now I'm ready to start enjoying Christmas holidays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :P :) 8)
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Aaah!! I'm finally making progress with my Satie, and then I'm going away from my piano for Christmas.. to top it all off, mother's all excited because it will be the first Christmas that we celebrate at their place with a whole bunch (thirteen) of our relatives (usually it's only us, me, mother, stepfather, and my brother); So I won't really be able to go recluse-mode and hide away from the merry loud folks, great. Just great.
I know, I know, Christmas is supposed to be this great holiday, but I'm not a huge fan, frankly.
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Aaah!! I'm finally making progress with my Satie, and then I'm going away from my piano for Christmas.. to top it all off, mother's all excited because it will be the first Christmas that we celebrate at their place with a whole bunch (thirteen) of our relatives (usually it's only us, me, mother, stepfather, and my brother); So I won't really be able to go recluse-mode and hide away from the merry loud folks, great. Just great.
I know, I know, Christmas is supposed to be this great holiday, but I'm not a huge fan, frankly.
Buck up and put on your party face! It won't hurt you. Besides it's good practice for later. And turn off the electronics. The last thing the world needs is another recluse who can't/won't/isn't able to get along with other people.
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Well holidays are cool!! 8) 8) 8) instead of a white Christmas we had a warm Christmas... it got really unusually warm here!!!
But I was also very worried (I still am a little), because my bird had another sneezing attack and blood coming out of his mouth and nose after a few days from when I was writing about it... so last Wednesday (exactly a week ago) we went to the vet and the vet said he probably had a bad lung infection (which is really bad, even for humans and even more for birds) so he gave him antibiotics which he gets once a day and he also has to have inhalation (i'm not sure if that's how you say it in english) twice a day... we heat up water and then put it close to his cage and cover him up so he breads hot wet air... and I'm there with him cause he shouldn't be left alone cause he could have trouble breathing... so I'm almost like in sauna twice a day, my mum says I'll have beautiful skin because of that :P but he seems to be getting better, but I don't want to say anything cause a lot of times when you get happy and you think it's getting better it gets worse again.... so I'm not saying anything :-X but the first two days after we gave him antibiotics he had this sneezing attack, well probably it's more like caughing attack... and he was making these horrible sounds when he was breathing and now he doesn't have any problems, right after I put him back into his cage he starts singing and looks all happy :) he also had a few (smaller) attacks (with a little blood coming out of his mouth) almost every day late in the evening.... but not yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so............... I'm soooooooooooooooooooo hoping he's really getting better!!!!!!!!! but I won't say anything :-X he needs to take antibiotics for 3 weeks, so for two more, and then we have to go to the vet again and he might even get another round of antibiotics if it wouldn't be completely ok yet.
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Birds are really difficult to keep or treat. Some friends are looking for temporary lodging for their African Grey. We've had extensive experience with one and said no. It's too fragile.
Good luck and best wishes for your bird.
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Stupid cold won't go away. I am pretty sure I overdosed on cold medication but nothing seems to be working. But it's not so bad, my head hurts and my throat is full of phlegm, but besides that I'm mostly okay.
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But I was also very worried (I still am a little), because my bird had another sneezing attack and blood coming out of his mouth and nose after a few days from when I was writing about it... so last Wednesday (exactly a week ago) we went to the vet and the vet said he probably had a bad lung infection (which is really bad, even for humans and even more for birds) so he gave him antibiotics which he gets once a day and he also has to have inhalation (i'm not sure if that's how you say it in english) twice a day... we heat up water and then put it close to his cage and cover him up so he breads hot wet air... and I'm there with him cause he shouldn't be left alone cause he could have trouble breathing... so I'm almost like in sauna twice a day, my mum says I'll have beautiful skin because of that :P but he seems to be getting better, but I don't want to say anything cause a lot of times when you get happy and you think it's getting better it gets worse again.... so I'm not saying anything :-X but the first two days after we gave him antibiotics he had this sneezing attack, well probably it's more like caughing attack... and he was making these horrible sounds when he was breathing and now he doesn't have any problems, right after I put him back into his cage he starts singing and looks all happy :) he also had a few (smaller) attacks (with a little blood coming out of his mouth) almost every day late in the evening.... but not yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so............... I'm soooooooooooooooooooo hoping he's really getting better!!!!!!!!! but I won't say anything :-X he needs to take antibiotics for 3 weeks, so for two more, and then we have to go to the vet again and he might even get another round of antibiotics if it wouldn't be completely ok yet.
Sounds very promising...just make sure you'll give him the whole course of antibiotics and do the follow up with the vet even if he seems ok. He might get some stomach problems because of the anitibiotics, but it should pass.
It's really stressing when animals are sick, it's always so hard to tell how serious it is :(
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Thank you Oxy and thank you Outin for caring about my bird... yes I thought he was going to be ok too I was so sure... but he died :'( :'( he died so quickly... later that evening when I wrote about it... 5 minutes to midnight... he was sitting on the thing with food and I heard something and I got this horrible feeling and I looked and he stll looked normal so I thought Oh I'm just nervous and imagining things and then I heard it again really soon after that and I looked and I knew it was bad, he couldn't stand on his feet his head was going forward and it was like he had some kind of a seizure then I took him out of his cage and my mum called the vet, the vet said we can bring him there and he would give him oxygen... but I kinda knew he wouldn't live that long... and almost right away when my mum hung up and I gave her my poor bird so she would hold him while I would get dressed he died, he closed his eyes (or half closed) and died, he looked like an angel sleeping. :'( :'( :'( I'm really sad, and that's normal that i'm sad but the bad thing is I feel like there's no hope, like I lost all my hope. :( because when my dog died I was really really sad I was crying all the time but when I woke up the next day I had this weird feeling of hope and like a new life was beginning. But now somehow I can't get that feeling of hope. I don't know why, maybe it's because I was sure he would get better and I had so much hope cause it was looking so well and I really wasn't expecting him to die and then he died and it's like all my hope died too... I don't know. :-\ but it's difficult! Well the vet said that he was afraid that it wasn't just an infection, because if it was an infection it wouldn't be just blood coming out of his mouth and nose but also mucus and pus, but it was just blood, so he was afraid it might be cancer but he couldn't do anything about that so he gave him antibiotics if it was an infection, and he said that maybe there was some infection beside the cancer and that's why the antibiotics seem to help at first, but he said he probably had a growth and it opened up and he bled internally... :( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( Oh I feel so horrible and he was only 7 years old even though these cockatiels can live 15 to 20 years. I really never thought he would die so soon!!!! I never ever thought that!!! maybe that's why it's so horrible I don't know.............
I don't even know how I'll play for the competition... I always imagined when I played the Tchaikovsky Sweet dreams wishing and hoping for something and now I feel like I don't have any hope....... but I will try it ... for my bird!
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Oh I feel so horrible and he was only 7 years old even though these cockatiels can live 15 to 20 years. I really never thought he would die so soon!!!! I never ever thought that!!! maybe that's why it's so horrible I don't know.............
I am so sorry :(
Just remember you did your best for him. Birds and reptiles really are fragile that way, when they get sick there's not so much even a vet can do. It was his time :(
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Thank you Outin!! Yes I've heard that when birds get really sick like get bad colds or infections and especially cancer there's really not much hope, but I just thought he would be ok cause he looked so well and was getting better and everything...
Now I'm also worried for my other little bird, she's a budgie and she is already about 12 to 13 years old! we got her cause some stupid woman wanted to kill her cause she didn't want to have her anymore, and that was 10 years ago!!! and the vet said she was about 2 to 3 years old then! And I have been worrying about her for like two years already even though she looks great, but just because of her age... and all that time I was worrying about her but I never worried about my cockatiel cause he was still young...
But now I'm like worrying about every little thing so yesterday we went to the vet with my budgie just so he would look at her to make sure she's ok. He couldn't even believe she was that old already and he said she looked well he just gave her some vitamines cause she's changing her feathers. But she's acting a little weird since my other bird died... she wants to go into his cage all the time and she stands and looks at his cage and gets kinda angry (at least that's what it sounds like), and yesterday when I opened his cage for the first time, when she saw it was opened she got so happy and she made a sound and it almost sounded like she said his name. And besides that she is trying now to go near the big bird that we rescued which is a crow and he can't fly but his head is like the size of my little budgie or bigger, but she is flying around him all the time when they're out of the cages and when he was in his cage she just flew on his cage and we're worried about that...
Well... maybe my angel bird will help us get a new friend for my budgie, like my dog helped us get the dog we have now!
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A lot of birds like to "pair up." We don't know much about it but they like to be around each other, even for just a fly-by.
Everybody was concerned about how an African Grey would adapt to a bird hotel while it's owner went on a trip. When we went to check on it, there it was talking to the other birds. It had bad moods at home but at the hotel it appeared very happy.
Maybe you need another bird to "pair-up" with the one you lost?
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I'm uber lazy today.
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Thanks Oxy! Yes we are now trying to find the right bird to be a friend to my budgie.
Tonight I had a panic attack about my bird, I just started thinking Oh what if he wasn't really completely dead and he wakes up in a box that's wraped in a plastic bag and he won't be able to breath... it was such a horrible feeling it was really horrible! :(
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Lethargic. I need a coffee injection.
I've had that feeling littletune. That's why I double check now just to avoid that. Haha. When they're gone, they're gone. Or really, really good at holding their body stiff.
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I am freaking pumped!!!!!!!!!
I just had my best game of infinity slayer on Halo 4 EVER!!!. I freaking put the team on my freaking back!!!
I went freaking 46-6 AND got freaking 37 kill streak!!! INCONCIEVABLE!!! Let's go!!!!!! My team absolutely sucked, everyone's kill death ratio on my team went negative but I went +40 so I ended up going positive for the team average!!! So I died six times in the beginning of the game but then all of the sudden I freaking went to town!!! I don't know what freaking happened to me!!!
And the other team felt SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SALTY!!!. They all got freaking annihilated by one person!!! Well not annihilated. We actually almost lost because my team sucked. But still...
AND I WAS PLAYING SPLIT SCREEN!!!
After that I decided to send personal messages to everyone involved in the game telling them how much they SUCKED!!!. Well three other people were in the same room as me so I was freaking screaming at them.
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Lethargic. I need a coffee injection.
I've had that feeling littletune. That's why I double check now just to avoid that. Haha. When they're gone, they're gone. Or really, really good at holding their body stiff.
dude, try coffee turkish style. AAAHHHMAAAAZING zing zing zing
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I feel horrible. I probably just failed my calc quiz because my calculator was set to radians instead of degrees. Too bad that I didn't have the common sense to realize that my answers were all weird for a reason.
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I feel horrible. I probably just failed my calc quiz because my calculator was set to radians instead of degrees. Too bad that I didn't have the common sense to realize that my answers were all weird for a reason.
Did you tell your teacher? Maybe he or she will understand.
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Did you tell your teacher? Maybe he or she will understand.
Yes, I did, but only for the purpose of reassuring her that I do understand the material. I know she's a strict grader, so this grade will probably stand (yay, 35%). I sort of got the indirect message, "this is your lesson learned, now go ace this upcoming test and redeem yourself."
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I'm doing freaking kickass right now!!!
I found 15 dollars on the ground!!!
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Yes, I did, but only for the purpose of reassuring her that I do understand the material. I know she's a strict grader, so this grade will probably stand (yay, 35%). I sort of got the indirect message, "this is your lesson learned, now go ace this upcoming test and redeem yourself."
Ouch. You take things a lot better than I do...good for you! You can do it!
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Rather warm. 44oC here at present, and the hottest part of the day looms.
That's 111oF for you yanks.
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Rather warm. 44oC here at present, and the hottest part of the day looms.
That's 111oF for you yanks.
copping what we had yesterday i see.
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copping what we had yesterday i see.
I hope not. Melbourne was 10 degrees cooler at this time yesterday and just kept getting warmer til about 7pm. If it does that here, I'm toast. Literally.
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You people are real heroes to live under those conditions. How do you do it?
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You people are real heroes to live under those conditions. How do you do it?
The alternative is considered bad form.
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Well, it's -22C here now, so please send me a little of your heat...
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Well, it's -22C here now, so please send me a little of your heat...
Done. Hope it all arrived safely.
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Rather warm. 44oC here at present, and the hottest part of the day looms.
That's 111oF for you yanks.
It's never too cold to skate, but it can be too hott to skate.
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I have my first audition at U of I tomorrow. I hope I get in.
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I have my first audition at U of I tomorrow. I hope I get in.
Knock 'em dead, mate.
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I practiced a little today, about 2 hours. I had to run to town and get a sustain pedal for the keyboard and then ate and sat on couch the rest of the day. I am taking the rest of the day off, but I needed it to figure out how I can improve next time I practice! So I am doing ok. Im not depressed and my hands do not hurt! :)
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Knock 'em dead, mate.
Thanks bro.
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Done. Hope it all arrived safely.
Not yet, but it's probably just stuck at the customs...
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I have my first audition at U of I tomorrow. I hope I get in.
Good luck! Charm them with your playing and your wooden thing!
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Charm them with your playing and your wooden thing!
"Thing"?!
That "thing" you're talking about is a freaking wooden bowtie!!! Get it right!!! >:(
If I do get in, it's probably because they thought the bow tie was cool and they wanted to ask me where I got it...
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"Thing"?!
That "thing" you're talking about is a freaking wooden bowtie!!! Get it right!!! >:(
Sorry, I didn't even know what a bowtie was, so I am just learning :-[
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... That "thing" ... is a ... wooden bowtie! ...
Wooden bowtie? Has a picture been posted of it? In that case, I would love to see it!
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Wooden bowtie? Has a picture been posted of it? In that case, I would love to see it!
I am not sure where all the photos of R-4's bowties are, but just look here:
https://www.google.com/search?q=wooden+bowtie&hl=en&tbo=d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Xln6UOznJIv74QSo8oDgAw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAA&biw=1366&bih=604 (https://www.google.com/search?q=wooden+bowtie&hl=en&tbo=d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Xln6UOznJIv74QSo8oDgAw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAA&biw=1366&bih=604)
The one with a face is quite cool ::)
(https://www.cmstatic1.com/23495/23495.146685.jpg)
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THis ;D
(https://static.brit.co.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/WoodenPopsicle.jpg)
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Communist should reply in two more years.
He missed his opportunity :(
Today I got a little excited about this Summer for a first time, as I've just had the entire Opera of Hansel and Gretel printed out, and have finally put it into a binder. It's my first full opera, and I'll be going to Costa Rica for a month! It's starting to seem more real now. I will know almost zero people there, and that's a little scary but also exciting to me. I will also have the opportunity to actually speak Spanish and live in a Spanish-speaking culture, which is very cool, refreshing and seems right! I've got two roles to learn ... and the entire Opera to know ... get in my belly!!
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Are you doing it in spanish? In january, i did it in nagasaki in japanese! You singing gretel?
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He missed his opportunity :(
Today I got a little excited about this Summer for a first time, as I've just had the entire Opera of Hansel and Gretel printed out, and have finally put it into a binder. It's my first full opera, and I'll be going to Costa Rica for a month! It's starting to seem more real now. I will know almost zero people there, and that's a little scary but also exciting to me. I will also have the opportunity to actually speak Spanish and live in a Spanish-speaking culture, which is very cool, refreshing and seems right! I've got two roles to learn ... and the entire Opera to know ... get in my belly!!
Exciting !
I'm not doing anything exotic this summer. We are hauling the boat back to Maine again in Late June. Looking forward to tying some artificial flies and doing some fly fishing in the rivers there with my Stepson for one thing ( we go in waders for that and walk the shore as well). Going on the lake in the early morning with my youngest daughter ( 37 yo), who absolutely loves it on the lake just after day break I might add. The wife wants to go off up to the north end of the lake in the boat ( about a 25 mile boat ride at least) and make a kind of picnic day out of it. Maine is all rocky but that end of the lake actually has a sandy beach. We will have the canoe with us for a river run and remote pond exploring.
Just a nice peaceful summer vacation.
Other than that, work till late August when I have a couple of weeks off again.. In two weeks ( late May) I'm off to do some Sea bass fishing in our local salt water bay. Also this summer I am working on a duet with my 14 yo grand daughter. It will be her first duet, gets to perform that with her old man grand dad along the way. She seems quite excited about that actually.
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Are you doing it in spanish? In january, i did it in nagasaki in japanese! You singing gretel?
No, we are singing in German. I am the mother and the witch! I've done the witch for a scene back when I was doing an Opera in the Schools program several years back. I think I will enjoy it ;D.
I feel surprisingly and suddenly more purposed as a singer than I ever have, to have an actual role in a full opera, vs. just learning arias and doing opera scenes (I don't dislike those, but it's been time for this next step).
Exciting !
I'm not doing anything exotic this summer. We are hauling the boat back to Maine again in Late June. Looking forward to tying some artificial flies and doing some fly fishing in the rivers there with my Stepson for one thing ( we go in waders for that and walk the shore as well). Going on the lake in the early morning with my youngest daughter ( 37 yo), who absolutely loves it on the lake just after day break I might add. The wife wants to go off up to the north end of the lake in the boat ( about a 25 mile boat ride at least) and make a kind of picnic day out of it. Maine is all rocky but that end of the lake actually has a sandy beach. We will have the canoe with us for a river run and remote pond exploring.
Just a nice peaceful summer vacation.
Other than that, work till late August when I have a couple of weeks off again.. In two weeks ( late May) I'm off to do some Sea bass fishing in our local salt water bay. Also this summer I am working on a duet with my 14 yo grand daughter. It will be her first duet, gets to perform that with her old man grand dad along the way. She seems quite excited about that actually.
That sounds really amazing, actually! Some part of me contemplated the idea of just hanging around town and basically cleaning and organizing the house (and my life!), and doing a bunch of hiking and maybe a trip to the coast. For several reasons I wasn't sure if it was right for me to go away this summer, but it's seeming right now. For me it's rather amazing that now I will have been to Europe last summer, visiting Germany, Austria, Italy ... and this Summer I am visiting Costa Rica and I think I will get a real idea of the culture there. It's as though I am *almost* myself! I'm not sure what my daily schedule will be like there, but I'm already wondering about finding a piano to steal some time on for serious practice each day. Hopefully, if I want to make the point to do that, I can find a way.
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Exciting !
I'm not doing anything exotic this summer. We are hauling the boat back to Maine again in Late June. Looking forward to tying some artificial flies and doing some fly fishing in the rivers there with my Stepson for one thing ( we go in waders for that and walk the shore as well). Going on the lake in the early morning with my youngest daughter ( 37 yo), who absolutely loves it on the lake just after day break I might add. The wife wants to go off up to the north end of the lake in the boat ( about a 25 mile boat ride at least) and make a kind of picnic day out of it. Maine is all rocky but that end of the lake actually has a sandy beach. We will have the canoe with us for a river run and remote pond exploring.
Just a nice peaceful summer vacation.
Other than that, work till late August when I have a couple of weeks off again.. In two weeks ( late May) I'm off to do some Sea bass fishing in our local salt water bay. Also this summer I am working on a duet with my 14 yo grand daughter. It will be her first duet, gets to perform that with her old man grand dad along the way. She seems quite excited about that actually.
you are neat! What a fullfilled and satisfying life you lead. "I'm not doing anything exotic this summer..." Get out!
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No, we are singing in German. I am the mother and the witch! I've done the witch for a scene back when I was doing an Opera in the Schools program several years back. I think I will enjoy it ;D.
the witch is actually the star of the show and has the best music. Right on!
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the witch is actually the star of the show and has the best music. Right on!
She better be or I'm not freakin' singing! BOOM. ;D And, actually, the mother has some decent stuff and proportionately kind of a lot for only being in the opening.
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I am tired and upset. >:( >:( >:( >:(
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She better be or I'm not freakin' singing! BOOM. ;D And, actually, the mother has some decent stuff and proportionately kind of a lot for only being in the opening.
There is a little bit in the finale for the mother. Do you do quick change after you're pushed in the oven?
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For the last two days I've been doing some renovation work...mostly ripping off wallpaper. I really don't like wallpapers, so I decided to paint instead...which means all the old papers have to come off and the walls evened. A lot of work...
Anyway, I haven't been to the piano much, but played a little last night. My fingers felt really funny after spending about 12 hours on the walls :)
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For the last two days I've been doing some renovation work...mostly ripping off wallpaper. I really don't like wallpapers, so I decided to paint instead...which means all the old papers have to come off and the walls evened. A lot of work...
Anyway, I haven't been to the piano much, but played a little last night. My fingers felt really funny after spending about 12 hours on the walls :)
They will. Give them a day of rest.
Have you folks thawed out yet? Are you ready for that one day of summer?
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They will. Give them a day of rest.
No can do... more walls to work on...although today was mostly painting.
I actually think it's good to use the hands for something else than computer work for a change...
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Stuffed full of cherries. ::)
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Great.