okay. I failed to retell the wonderful adventure I had in New York. I will. someday. eventually. maybe ( Read more... )

I promise an entry on the glories of NY after my lit test tomorrow. Until then, here:

English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 100% Expert!

You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't ( Read more... )

As many of you are aware, I applied for a Fulbright Scholarship to study in England next year. I finally heard back from them. I did not make the first cut. I'm not particularly surprised or anything, the competition for this was really tough, but I can't say I'm not disappointed either. Part of me kind of wish I'd spent more time trying to ( Read more... )

No!

nonononononono!

It's not fair, I really really wanted to compose, but I didn't let myself because I needed to study.

Now I really really need to compose and I can't come up with anything.

BOO! grr.

if I haven't already... =)

I will allow myself from now unti 6:30 or 7 to compose. then it's back to more terms and listening for baroque and classical opera. fun fun fun.

This is mostly to convince myself that this is a good plan. too much opera and my head will explode.

ok. off to compose.

full of music, that is. Trying to cram 200 years of music into your head in a weekend is just stupid. Especially when it's all opera. I do like opera, but I like 19th century opera, not all this frilly silly baroque stuff. Of course, had I started this sooner, I would not be cramming. so it's all my fault ( Read more... )

So today, for the hell of it, I decided to dress up. Normally, it's jeans and a sweatshirt or a sweater or something...at least, in winter. But today I decided I wanted to wear a skirt. An abnormal thing, I assure you, since playing clarinet in a skirt is...difficult and often...unseemly. And this skirt was...well, not terribly short, but ( Read more... )

for the record: trying to make tomato soup out of tomato sauce and water is a lost cause.

Just accept the fact you can't have tomato soup and cut your losses, and try to make spagetti instead.

You'll save yourself an hour.

that is all.

Today I felt like being very quartal, in terms of the harmonic nature of my composing today. Meaning stacked intervals of a fourth, for anyone who is confused. How very Hindemith of me. (yes, I should know how to spell his name, and I think I spelled it wrong). Am feeling pretty good about what I've got so far. A section of my minimalist string ( Read more... )

Been working on my string orchestra piece for a couple of hours. I have managed to quote Holst and write a passage that sounds like Wagner, just in those two hours (and in the space of about eight bars). Plus, this piece already references John Corigliano and Samuel Barber. My piece doesn't know whether to be American, English, German, angsty, ( Read more... )