I have the "hard" sheet music for Bridge Over Troubled Water. I remember being freaked out at all the sharps and flats, and thinking it was so impossibly difficult-looking that never even tried to play it. Tonight I looked at it again and the mess of notes is really just a bunch of fairly standard chords in the key of E-flat major with a slow ( Read more... )

Moonlight Sonata (mvt 1) - Finished but haven't memorized it. I really ought to memorize it ( Read more... )

I'm starting to think that there is a correlation between ATMs in a nice neighborhood giving out fresh $20s, while ATMs in working-class neighborhoods giving out ratty, torn $20s. I don't like it when my cash disintegrates in my hand.

Got all the cables and stuff I need to record playing from my piano. Took a long time to gather because I kept buying the wrong stuff. But now that I have the stuff, the sound quality should be good. Just need to make the playing good now. Hopefully I can make recordings that sound better than when I play in front of people. People make me ( Read more... )

I just finished the Donner Lake Swim from the Sierra Nevada Masters. 2.7 miles. Water temp: 69° Truckee, CA. Altitude: 5933 ft ( Read more... )

Nausicaa - Kaze No Densetsu. I abandoned it. It's a very pretty song and not super difficult, but I just don't like playing it ( Read more... )

I've been doing swim workouts at the gym pool here and there, but not as much as I should. I've probably averaged about 1 or 1.5 per week, and time is running out. I need to be ready for an open water race that's in less than 4 weeks. It's 2.7mi (4.3km) at 5933ft (1800m) elevation, but I'm sure I can finish unless something dumb happens. The ( Read more... )

I swear, I will never accept a wedding invitation again. Every single time I do, some stupid conflict arises and I have to disappoint somebody, then I feel awful. I don't like attending weddings anyway. :c

It feels good to be home. I'm pretty jet lagged today. zzzzzzzzzzz

Trip to Italy is wonderful so far. Doing art and yoga every day with mom, which is actually fun. The art workshops are very strange to me, these artists think, create, synthesize, etc on a completely different plane than I do. While I attempt to imagine and then realize an ordered illustration, they operate in the realm of chaos and uncertainty ( Read more... )