Say It. I Dare You.

[littletune]

Maybe yes *looks into crystal ball but can't see anything*

So yes I'd stick with "maybe yes"   

Oh Wolfi! You shouldn't have looked into the crystal ball, that's why you didn't see anything! You should have looked into the krystel ball! 

[pianowolfi]

Oh Wolfi! You shouldn't have looked into the crystal ball, that's why you didn't see anything! You should have looked into the krystel ball! 

Oh yeah! No idea why I didn't think of this, now that you say it.
*Looks into Krystel(le) ball, gets mesmerized and faints*

[fleetfingers]

Alright.  Here goes:  I don't care for Horowitz's playing.

 

[krystellle]

Oh yeah! No idea why I didn't think of this, now that you say it.
*Looks into Krystel(le) ball, gets mesmerized and faints*

That bad, eh?

[zeusje]

I hate my collegue who sits in the room with me, as he managed to watch youtube videos a little bit too much while I was working hard....

luckily I just found myself a new job

[sunshine_keys]

Choppy? I don't get what you're talking about. I think you might want to listen to the right people
But anyway, there might be a very common confusion about the term "classical". Some people use this term only for the period of Viennese classical music, aka Mozart/Haydn/Beethoven, some others use it as a term for music that remotely resembles anything between Gesualdo and Boulez. So you can't really get to terms with that. How about just starting to hear and play music instead? And don't crossing yourself if you encounter something that goes beyond the three basic harmonies?

Okay..not all of them are "choppy", but they are pretty and flowing like a "romantic" song is. I would rather play something that flows..where as when I am playing *most* classical music I can't use the pedal and they don't exactly flow together. I probably not making any sense. Maybe you could recommend some good pieces?

[allthumbspiano]

Screw OCCUPY WALL STREET, go Tea Party.

[pianoplayjl]

I hate it when people try to be cool and impress others when they're not.

[pianowolfi]

That bad, eh?

No not bad

[perfect_pitch]

I hate people who are somehow rich because of stupidity and don't deserve it... I mean Paris Hilton, Johnny Knoxville and all those other pricks who somehow made millions while we toil in anonymity.

[pianoplayjl]

I hate people who are somehow rich because of stupidity and don't deserve it... I mean Paris Hilton, Johnny Knoxville and all those other pricks who somehow made millions while we toil in anonymity.

I agree. hear hear!

I hate school so thats way i'm posting in class.

[pianoplayjl]

I hate it when people come up and say 'what up, cuz?'  or 'O my God, bro.'

[littletune]

Well... I really like the toilet paper that we have now  because there are pictures of a bear and a mouse on it and butterflies and bees      I should take a picture and post it! And the good thing is also that it lasts for a really long time so my mum says we will only be buying this toilet paper from now on. 

[sunshine_keys]

Misunderstandings over the internet are not cool.

[allthumbspiano]

Misunderstandings over the internet are not cool.

What did you just call me?

[sunshine_keys]

What did you just call me?

huh?

[pianoman53]

Dude, we've been over this. Don't call him that! =/

An other thing that is annoying is when you try to be sarcastic, in written form... Cause they never ever get it!

[ethure]

I hate anyone smoking around me!! 

[perfect_pitch]

Well... considering the title says "Re: Say It. I Dare You"... I think I shall

I'm partially against religion. Although I have absolutely no problem to codes of conduct that people should abide by (thou shall not kill, steal, rape etc...) I refuse to believe in a deity who sees all and has some plan for all of us. I think the thought of people actually believing in a living god is idiotic, because either they have very little in their life, or refuse to believe that they are responsible for their actions and consequences whether good or bad.

And to prove how much I hate the concept of these people believing a bunch of make-believe over Science (which always searches for truth and knowledge)... Have a read of some of the nutjobs out there:

https://stfubelievers.tumblr.com/

I read that page every day for a laugh. This one however, proves that we are surrounded by idiots:





THERE - I SAID IT!!!

[sunshine_keys]

Dude, we've been over this. Don't call him that! =/

An other thing that is annoying is when you try to be sarcastic, in written form... Cause they never ever get it!

Umm, I'm really confused. So if someone could explain that would be nice. Are you talking to me? Or allthumbspiano?

[littletune]

Umm, I'm really confused. So if someone could explain that would be nice. Are you talking to me? Or allthumbspiano?

I think they're just kidding. 

[allthumbspiano]

Umm, I'm really confused. So if someone could explain that would be nice. Are you talking to me? Or allthumbspiano?

Haha, thats funny.

[sunshine_keys]

I think they're just kidding. 

I figured they are... but I've had misunderstandings before and just wanted to make sure

When you're joking or being sarcastic over the internet it usually helps for people to put a or

[littletune]

When you're joking or being sarcastic over the internet it usually helps for people to put a or

Yes I think that too! 

[allthumbspiano]

Sorry.....

[sunshine_keys]

Sorry.....

It's okay! It's alright!

[ethure]

x

[sunshine_keys]

Dear Coffee,

I LUV you!

Mucho love,

S_K

[arensky]

Screw OCCUPY WALL STREET, go Tea Party.

A pox on both their houses. Opinionated ignorant morons being manipulated by spin meisters bought and paid for by the super rich. Everyone is turning into pigs or commies. HELP 

[arensky]

It felt great to let that out    Thanks for starting this thread.

[allthumbspiano]

A pox on both their houses. Opinionated ignorant morons being manipulated by spin meisters bought and paid for by the super rich. Everyone is turning into pigs or commies. HELP 

   

[pianoplayjl]

I hate being unfit and being a lazy badass and a couch potato.

[krystellle]

I can't stand Edith Piaf.

[starlady]

I don't really like chocolate. 

--s.

[jesc]

all those history books, autobiographies, biographies, I've read, all those documentaries, and raw footage...  whose monstrosities carved themselves within the book and volume of my brain.

yet I can dare say... "I appreciate life." at the end of each day.

[arensky]

   

Sorry. I read the thread after watching pundits from the rival networks flay the opposition in their typical inflammatory manner. I think both sides have very valid points but the main point of the great American debate that's going on right now is (or should be) what's best for the countryand that is constantly being subverted by the shadowy forces that have come to control these two originally grass roots movements. It makes me very mad because neither side has all the answers, most of those seem to lie in the middle. I have friends in both camps, and I have to constantly check myself around them to avoid an arguement, instead of having a discussion. I respect a lot of what the tea party is about but some of their ideas are downright bizarre. Ditto for the "left". Anyway I'm sorry if I offended you.

My mother always said, "don't take dares"...

[allthumbspiano]

Sorry. I read the thread after watching pundits from the rival networks flay the opposition in their typical inflammatory manner. I think both sides have very valid points but the main point of the great American debate that's going on right now is (or should be) what's best for the countryand that is constantly being subverted by the shadowy forces that have come to control these two originally grass roots movements. It makes me very mad because neither side has all the answers, most of those seem to lie in the middle. I have friends in both camps, and I have to constantly check myself around them to avoid an arguement, instead of having a discussion. I respect a lot of what the tea party is about but some of their ideas are downright bizarre. Ditto for the "left". Anyway I'm sorry if I offended you.

My mother always said, "don't take dares"...

Nah, none taken.   

[megadodd]

I get really frustrated by my co students in the orchestra, having no knowledge about piano playing at all saying it's just 2 factors to playing the piano good- playing the right notes and being able to play them fast.

SO FRUSTRATING.

[pianoplayjl]

I want usa to pull out of WOT. they've done their mission. this  sort of helped  plunged america into a deep hole financially. Because of this, basically half the world is in a financial crisis.

God bless America.

[m1469]

My new teaching job has gradually been giving me a new point of view in life that I don't think I've ever had before.  I've worked in strange situations before, dealing with families and loads of kids, but this is something different.  Yes, my first day on the job, I walked in and got completely overwhelmed, leaving with the feeling that I couldn't see myself doing this for the rest of my life.  I don't know that this has changed, exactly, but right now that is just not something I can even think about - it's what I'm doing now.  

To get to know some of these kids, though, to have an insight into some of the families, and to feel like seeing some of them is actually the highlight of my week ... it's something *real*.  And, within a mixture of experiences along with this last Friday, I'm just finding myself feeling fairly thoughtful about it.  The campus building we are using is one in which there used to be an alternative school.  I did get my new piano classroom yesterday - which, will be nice.  The Dean asked my husband if he wanted to paint the room and our first reaction was "are you kidding me!?  We are so busy!"  I mean, he didn't say it like that, but that's how we feel.  The walls were not too clean (I won't go into details) and, they will get washed and freshly painted.  But, when I arrived there, somebody had washed the carpet and had taken all of the pianos and stands and some chairs into that room for me ... I had thought I would be carting them all in there myself.  

Would you like to know who spent time doing that?  A woman who has three boys attending this school and who has a diagnosis of two years to live - the father is not in the picture and no other family is there for the boys when she passes, so the Dean's family has agreed to adopt the boys into their family of already 5 children.  They walk around with amazing attitudes about it - both those boys as well as the family who will be taking them, as well as the mom.  She spent her time, cleaning my room, and offered to keep her eye out for stuff I could decorate it with.  She can't work and they have next to no income.

The principal also came in and asked sincerely if there was anything else that I needed, and my two requests he did himself, very graciously, without any kind of sense of being better than helping me out.  It was real.  I could tell.  He loves the school, he loves the kids, and he loves to be a part -however difficult it is- of something good and real.  And, so do all the people I have run into who work there - they all work unbelievably hard and long hours.  And, while there are challenges to be sure, and there are times where it's all much to deal with, they do it with love.  That is something real.  

I accidentally made a guy in a wheel chair (and who is considered special ed), in one of my piano classes cry, because week after week he comes to class without his music and I was asking him (nicely, but still) what we could do to get his music there each week.  He felt so badly that he cried.  I felt horrible.  Later that day, his amazing resilience within which has not been an easy life at all, for him, had him wheeling by me, giving me a special bag of chocolates for Halloween.  I truly felt touched.  I thanked him sincerely and he said "no problem" and was light-hearted despite what had happened in piano class earlier that day.  I went home thinking about all of this, but also thinking about him, and for the first time in so many years, I myself was in tears for feeling a sense of compassion for this person, wanting to help him in ways that I just don't know how.  That was real.  I've been in some kind of teaching position for quite a few years now, I've dealt with so many youth, and so many people in various situations, that I feel out of necessity, have had to become somewhat hardened.

It just seems that it is very easy to become caught up in pursuing things that don't have the substance of true love in them.  That makes me sad.  

[pianowolfi]

Thank you m1469, for sharing these experiences!

[sunshine_keys]

ahhhh, yes, peace and quiet.

[m1469]

Please, instead of asking me why I am not "out there" auditioning and becoming an Opera Star ... or why I haven't already, or why I am not developing my compositions, or why music skills like theory and aural training are still in want for me, or why I am just starting to develop my pianistic chops and repertoire - or where I expect it all to take me - or why I am not volunteering more time to whatever else, please feel free to set up a fund in my name so I can continue studying and pay my household bills at the same time, and that perhaps I could dedicate more time and energy to a schedule which allows me to develop these things which I promise I am not ignoring and as far as I can tell, am doing everything within my power to further.  

Oh, PS - I am not aiming this necessarily at the forum ... unless you are the bad guys  .  Just joking, but I get tired of people asking me things like this (for example at church last Sunday) and I just have to get it off my chest.

[teekay]

I hate Disney and all things Disney.  They are an Evil Empire who wants to take over the world.  (Only partly kidding!)   

[pianoplayjl]

Do you like Mcdonalds, Walmart, Apple or microsoft?

[littletune]

Oh well I just wanted to say Bye Kelly. We will miss you!  I mean I knew for a long time that it was the same person as Becky and Lady pianist... and I was happy they were back... I mean i didn't know about the recordings of course but I just knew in the way she was writing and talking and all that.... I was sometimes surprised that other people didn't notice it.  But yes oh well... I think we really need more Beckys and Lady pianists and Kellys... on Pianostreet and specially in the audition room.  (just maybe with their own recordings? :/ but that would be a lot for one person to learn I guess).

[pianoplayjl]

I declare a Jihad!

[krystellle]

Oh well I just wanted to say Bye Kelly. We will miss you!  I mean I knew for a long time that it was the same person as Becky and Lady pianist... and I was happy they were back... I mean i didn't know about the recordings of course but I just knew in the way she was writing and talking and all that.... I was sometimes surprised that other people didn't notice it.  But yes oh well... I think we really need more Beckys and Lady pianists and Kellys... on Pianostreet and specially in the audition room.  (just maybe with their own recordings? :/ but that would be a lot for one person to learn I guess).

But  they are still here, I think.  And I have a feeling who it is.  Some man/woman/child very talented, renaissance-type, knowledgeable in all fields of life, from the mundane to the esoteric - yes, I think I know who it is.   But you're right, littletune.  Does it really matter?  If you critique someone's playing, you're critiquing (!) the person playing.  Not kelly or becky or whatever her name was.  It could be joe shmoe.
I didn't get involved with this kelly girl.  But she must have been very apt at computer skills as well!   

[littletune]

But  they are still here, I think.  And I have a feeling who it is.  Some man/woman/child very talented, renaissance-type, knowledgeable in all fields of life, from the mundane to the esoteric - yes, I think I know who it is.   But you're right, littletune.  Does it really matter?  If you critique someone's playing, you're critiquing (!) the person playing.  Not kelly or becky or whatever her name was.  It could be joe shmoe.
I didn't get involved with this kelly girl.  But she must have been very apt at computer skills as well!   

Yes I'm very sure they don't do that so that people would admire them! And specially not to do something bad!!! They do that cause they want to share what they know with others and cause they want to inspire and help people!
(what does renaissance-type mean? ) 

[jesc]

IIRC renaissance was a period where everyone was encouraged to reach their potential in all possible fields. I would guess this resulted to a generation well versed in arts, philosophy and sciences.

There was a stage in my life when I thought the same. However, when I pursued my PhD, it is then that I realized that somewhere along the line, one has to choose a specialization and just focus on it.

It's quite depressing realizing that one cannot achieve/master all that one desires.