Pianostreet's Kindergarten

[ahinton]

compulsory insurance and road tax?  keep that at bay!

More likely one will be able to purchase both on eBay...

if you don't mind me saying so - what have you been drinking alistair?  double sex?  on the beach.  you mean with two girls - or with a drink and a girl?  i didn't realize you were gettin g to this point.  talk about counseling.  you tell me to go get counseling for losing a teacher - and you're thinking about this?  well - in the days which we now live - i wouldn't be surprised if the shrink says 'yes.  that might actually help.'  one must figure out their own cures nowdays.  what if your lower back was cured - but you got herpes or something.

i know the circular reasoning that one must die from something.  i'd prefer to pick from what.  if possible. 

Your problem here, Susan, seems to be more or less analogous to that which you have when spouting forth your Biblical stuff; you get yourself into a web of tangled and confused and confusing misinterpretation purely as a consequence of taking things far too literally and making no allowances for the possibilty that someone might actually be joking. On top of this (if you'll pardon me putting it like that), you seem already to have either forgotten or ignored the fact that I mentioned that sex on the beach held no especial appeal for me...

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

alistair, shhh...this is a kindergarten. safe or unsafe, that is the question.  shall we put plastic plugs in the electrical outlets - or just let them zap themselves?

[pianowolfi]

*takes other kids by the hands, forms a circle with them and dances around Piani and Ali singing "no no big adult words, no no no no noooooooooo!!!"*

[rach n bach]

ooooo.... can we mush dem?  pleeeeaaaassseee? mush mush Piani and ali!!!!

[quantum]

Psst..........Wolfi..

I heard the prinsipel talking to some guy in the hallway.  He said he was from the Bored of Edukasion!  Haha, an adult that is bored of edukasion!  hahaha. 

Ne ways.  He said he was here to look into the kinder kurriculum?  Some stuff about using too many big words in class. 

[rach n bach]

[pianowolfi]

Psst..........Wolfi..

I heard the prinsipel talking to some guy in the hallway.  He said he was from the Bored of Edukasion!  Haha, an adult that is bored of edukasion!  hahaha. 

Ne ways.  He said he was here to look into the kinder kurriculum?  Some stuff about using too many big words in class. 

hee hee bored of education he will scold ali and piani

[rach n bach]

heehehe... hope he solds them

[pianistimo]

if you all bring the 'bord of educashun' here - i will veto it and bring the health deparment.  ever notice how you all get sick at the same time.  every wonder why that is?  unsafe kindergatens -that's why.  unsafe, i tell you.  do you think that anti-bacterial hand wash the teacher puts on you does anything to defend you against the germs that lurk here?

[ahinton]

alistair, shhh...this is a kindergarten. safe or unsafe, that is the question.

"Whether 'tis nobler in the mind..." - oh, never mind. If this really is a kindergarten, Susan - and if you believe yourself to have and be taking some kind of responsibility for its smooth running - don't you think you owe it to the unsuspecting kindergartners (whoever they may be, if any) to write consistently in comprehensible English? The Bible makes more sense than you do sometimes! (please don't answer that - it isn't a question)...

shall we put plastic plugs in the electrical outlets - or just let them zap themselves?

Taking and answering your question literally, I should let the electrical outlets zap themslves; quite how they would go about doing this remains a mystery, however...

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

'the bible makes more sense than you do....' - i quite agree.  of course, it is in the king's english more often than not.  do you suppose kindergartners will understand that?  well, we could try some thee's and thou's.  amish-style.

pianowolfi, whilst thou fetch me a glass of water?

[ahinton]

'the bible makes more sense than you do....' - i quite agree.  of course, it is in the king's english more often than not.  do you suppose kindergartners will understand that?

Since my presence in the said kindergarten exists nowhere outside your imagination, I have no idea. What I mean here is that at least the texts of the Bible, however fantastical and ancient they are, doesn't cavort around in all directions and none in a kind of virtuosic disjecta membra of ideas and thoughts as you sometimes (though by nomeans always) do.

 

pianowolfi, whilst thou fetch me a glass of water?

I think that by "whilst" you mean "wilt" - which, in a different sense, is rather what I risk doing when I read some of what you write...

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

oh. don't wilt, alistair!  i beg you not to wilt.  for what thou wilt and wilt not...  (i'm feeling very poetic)

[ahinton]

oh. don't wilt, alistair!  i beg you not to wilt.  for what thou wilt and wilt not...  (i'm feeling very poetic)

So you are, it would seem - but, fear not, I am not really "wilting" at all (otherwise I'd not have felt inclined to write even this much here)...

But, to follow on from your little poeticism - how's this?...

Whither, again, am I to turn my eyes to sing Thy praise?
Above, below, within, without?
There is no way, no place is there about thee,
nor any other thing of things that are.
All are in thee; all are from Thee,
O Thou who givest all and takest naught,
For Thou art all, and there is nothing else which Thou art not.

And if you want to know any more about that - and/or the context in /reason for which I mention it - you'll simply have to write to me privately...

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

message sent.  you seem to fluctuate like the weather.  first you pick apart my replies and then write love poems and ask for private messages.  frankly, this does remind me of kindergarten.  btw, we are having a severe thunderstorm.

thunder! help.  somebody.  i'm scared of thunder.  (runs to center of room and shakes)  lightening!    death must be next.  hyperventilation time.

[pianowolfi]

stay calm piani, ali will protect you

[pianistimo]

he will?  then why is he over in the far corner?  pianowolfi.  i think you're the closest.  what are you going to do?  make me laugh by rubbing your feet on the carpet and causing your hair to stand on end. 

[pianowolfi]

yes exactly, just make you laugh, however

[gerry]

thunder! help.  somebody.  i'm scared of thunder.  (runs to center of room and shakes)  lightening!    death must be next.  hyperventilation time.

Have your say.

Don't be scared, it's just the above performer practicing in the upstairs apartment.

[pianistimo]

if that were the case, i'd move immediately.  of course, i have no idea what my neighbors think.  sometimes i think i hear voices saying 'shut up.'  that is only late at night. 

[jlh]

message sent.  you seem to fluctuate like the weather.  first you pick apart my replies and then write love poems and ask for private messages[...].

He fluctuates naught, for look thee hither:

https://www.gnosis.org/library/hermes5.html

 

[pianistimo]

wow.  thanks, jlh.  alistair is the only person i know that will go so far in the other direction to understand a person's perspective.  quite amazing actually.  i was never aware of this writing, actually.  the lightest parts of air known is helium, isn't it?  and, yet - God isn't helium is He?  and our brains work somewhat apart from Him.  deciding for ourselves what our choices will be.  he cannot take away what he first gave adam - free will - and yet -if we subsume back into God or spirit at the ressurrection of the dead - we are and always have been part of God.  it seems He can split himself up and create life.

[ahinton]

message sent.

and replied to - thanks.

you seem to fluctuate like the weather.

No.

first you pick apart my replies and then write love poems and ask for private messages.

I didn't actually "ask" for a private message as such; I invited you to write one if you wanted and were interested to (anyway, now you have done and I have replied to it).

frankly, this does remind me of kindergarten.

Frankly, it reminds me of nothng of the kind!

btw, we are having a severe thunderstorm.

thunder! help.  somebody.  i'm scared of thunder.  (runs to center of room and shakes)  lightening!    death must be next.  hyperventilation time.

Not according to your beliefs, surely?! Anyway, like a lot of things, all thunderstorms pass - and I daresay that that one will have done by the time you read this...

Best,

Alistair

[elspeth]

Psst..........Wolfi..

I heard the prinsipel talking to some guy in the hallway.  He said he was from the Bored of Edukasion!  Haha, an adult that is bored of edukasion!  hahaha. 

Ne ways.  He said he was here to look into the kinder kurriculum?  Some stuff about using too many big words in class. 

Following the aforementioned inspection... homework! A short paragraph on what music you're playing/composing at the moment and what you like about it, with no big words, please. And Wolfi, scales don't count...

I'll start... at the moment I'm working on Bach 2-part invention no 8, Chopin Prelude in E minor op 28/4, and Mendelssohn Song Without Words op 19/4. And yesterday I went in a couple of second-hand bookshops and accidentally bought some sheet music... I love second-hand sheet music, not only is it cheaper and supports small businesses, I get someone else's practice notes as well so there are more ideas already there than in new sheets. Hurrah! Anyway, the Bach. I'm having a hard time getting both voices to sound right but I find his music so fascinating I don't mind the effort! The Chopin... it's beautiful, and not very hard. And the Mendelssohn... I acquired a very pretty 1925 edition of the complete SWW, and more or less picked one at random that didn't look too hard. And having heard a couple of recordings in the audition room here, it wasn't a bad choice!

PS, my back's stopped hurting! And I slept well last night for the first time in a month! Yay!

[ahinton]

yesterday I went in a couple of second-hand bookshops and accidentally bought some sheet music...

How do you buy sheet music by accident? and can you somehow persuade more people to do this from The Sorabji Archive, since everyone who has ever purchased any sheet music from us throughout our entire existence has always only done it deliberately so far...

PS, my back's stopped hurting! And I slept well last night for the first time in a month! Yay!

Good for you! My MRI was OK, too and my orthopædic consultant (whose name is also Alistair and who on occasion seems to be more interested in music - especially singing - than his professional work) merely observed that it revealed that I had a few degenerate discs but that he wouldn't mind listening to them some time...

Best,

Alistair

[quantum]

elspeth, that's a nice story.  You should get a sticker.  Yay!!!


I'm shopping around for some reps for some possible masters audition.  Recommend me a P&F.  I'm leaning toward book 2.   Also looking for a very short, but very intensely crazy contemporary piece that is not often played. 

Also planning a concert paraphrase / transcription project.  It's a surprise, I won't say much yet.  But I'll make the score available on PS because there are so many great people here.  Actually not all the source material has been written for it yet!  I've heard 5, 2 possible more to go (hint).  Still undecided to make it one long mvt, multi mvt. or suite.

[gerry]

ummm- is kindergarten out for the day

[pianowolfi]

ummm- is kindergarten out for the day

lilili lalala now we go hoooooomeeeee yeah yay!!!! (for the day)

[pianistimo]

sticks the rest of the licked lolipop on the back of pianowolfi's backpack.  (he'll never notice).

[pianowolfi]

lollipop lollipop oh lalalalala lollipop lollipop......

[pianistimo]

you know what i like about you, pianowolfi, is that you don't use big words - and that you are so easy going.  some people would get very stressed out with the idea that someone stuck a lolipop on the back of their backpack.  complain to their mom.  whatever. 

you, on the other hand, seem to revel in eccentricity.  so i don't feel this terrible guilt complex that i normally would of having done something that could be construed as 'bad' to you.  it's almost like you make me feel proud for having done it.

no wonderm1469likes you.  no matter what we women do to you - you just make it seem 'right.'  pianowolfi - you're so loveable.

[pianowolfi]

no matter what we women do to you - you just make it seem 'right.' 

lol that is *slightly* sorta over the top. dangerous path be careful, soon all kind of girls will stick all kinda stuff on my backpack (*investigates backpack*) SEEE what you have done! A "what-if" sticker!! Who was that? And there....A chewing gum And here...an Ali p sticker!!! And a "Don't infringe copyright" one. I'm sure that was hinty. YIKES!!!!!!! Somebody stung a badge with a needle through my precious goretex jacket horror!!! And it says "go prax" on it argh.... 
What will my students think of me? They will gonna copy

[pianistimo]

that's hot.

[pianowolfi]

that's hot.

that's cool

[ahinton]

that's hot.

that's cool

Whatever the mean temperature may be argued to be, see my remark on that subject in the "What if" thread.

Anyway - let's once again urge the return of the discussion to the thread topic of Pianistimo's Kindergarten (that is the thread topic, is it not? - or am I somehow mistaken?...)

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

you know what i like about you, pianowolfi

Hmmm, i dread to think.

Must be the sunglasses and the moustache.

Thal

[ahinton]

Hmmm, i dread to think.

Must be the sunglasses and the moustache.

Thal

Personally, I think that what appeals to her about pianowolfi is that she would have to do something rather more challenging than just conveniently resorting to calling him "ahinton" if he challenges her Bibliocratic expressions.

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

believe me, i tried that already.  my car alarm went off at 7:00 am  - and mr. pianowolfi slept right through it.  i tell you, he's one of a kind.

the kindergarten is now in session.  alistair will now preside over the divvying up of webkins.  (*had i not gone to the latest birthday party - i would have missed this important milestone of children now).

https://astore.amazon.com/webkins-20

[pianowolfi]

believe me, i tried that already.  my car alarm went off at 7:00 am  - and mr. pianowolfi slept right through it.  i tell you, he's one of a kind.

Lol yeah I don't remember hearing any car alarm Where was that? At Limerick? but you know, some pianoforumers are so much unsound, you might be well advised to emphasize that I didn't sleep in a car at all, but in a motel and that this car alarm was supposedly (as said before ,i didn't hear it) going off outside when you were arriving at that motel, I mean...... at 7. a.m .....I am a MUSICIAN lol...

anyway, time to go back to Kindergarten, hee hee *manipulates pianistimo's car alarm so it would go off at 4 a.m.*

[jlh]

the kindergarten is now in session.  alistair will now preside over the divvying up of webkins.  (*had i not gone to the latest birthday party - i would have missed this important milestone of children now).

https://astore.amazon.com/webkins-20

What the...?!  I thought Beanie Babies were a thing of the past... ["the chocolate lab is so cute and adorable... $14 for one is definitely worth the money"] lol

[ahinton]

the kindergarten is now in session.  alistair will now preside over the divvying up of webkins.  (*had i not gone to the latest birthday party - i would have missed this important milestone of children now).

https://astore.amazon.com/webkins-20

Well, since I was not at the said birthday party, I would have missed this implausible millstone altogether had you not mentioned it, so even if I were within light years of this kindergarten of yours (it is yours, isn't it?) rathr than at my computer keyboard right now, I'd hardly be likely to be "divvying out" something of which I have never heard, would I?

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

knowing full well that there are not enough webkins to go around - also proves himself mature by refusing to need one anyway - thus the kindness of genius being it's redeeming value.

[ahinton]

knowing full well that there are not enough webkins to go around - also proves himself mature by refusing to need one anyway - thus the kindness of genius being it's redeeming value.

You omit to clarify to whom the word "himself" refers here (and I'm trying to belive that it matters, just as I'm trying not to see that redundant apostrophe in "it's")...

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

alistair, we could write many things together.  you siding with the devil and me God.  perhaps some sort of musical pondering.  sort of like milton.

[ahinton]

alistair, we could write many things together.  you siding with the devil and me God.

Thanks but no thanks! Why would you assume that I want to "side with the devil"?

perhaps some sort of musical pondering.  sort of like milton.

Er - pardon?...

Best,

Alistair

[quantum]

Can I have a cookie now? 

[pianowolfi]

me too me too? pleeeaze!

[elspeth]

Seeing as you asked so nicely, of course you can... maybe we ought to have a baking lesson at some point and you can make your own cookies! (My word, doesn't it show that my parents are both teachers!)

[pianowolfi]

Seeing as you asked so nicely, of course you can... maybe we ought to have a baking lesson at some point and you can make your own cookies! (My word, doesn't it show that my parents are both teachers!)

Yeahh yeahhhh! Yesterday I have baken scones, mmhhhmmm!! Yummy

[pianistimo]

you did?  did you save one for me?  with butter and jelly?