All is almost right
I sat down at the piano today after coming home from drivers' ed and started playing Salvation is Created, and then came back to the opening chord (which is really open - B F# B below middle C) and veered off and improvised for more than ten minutes. Seriously, it was actually so good I am sad I didn't record it. My sister came and asked me what I was playing and I shrugged while arpeggiating G7 and said I was making it up. I think she nearly fell over. She's been taking piano lessons for 7 years and I've never had one.
I was in at least six different keys (including D harmonic minor, various not very difficult major keys, many modes of C, and also F# major because I was like 'to hell with this white key modal shit!'), a few time signatures (6/8 is fun, but 5/8 failed and that section didn't have much of a transition) and all kinds of themes. The only failing is by the time I got to the 'end' I couldn't remember anything about my first theme, so I ended on a random Bb cadenza.
It was unbelievable.
Next time I do that, I think I might have to write it all down.
Yesterday when I was at Chinook Centre I walked into the Body Shop and there was a guy standing there greeting people and so on. I said hello and we ended up talking for a good while before I looked at anything at all. He asked me about the henna designs on my hand (for Navroz) and I told him it was the Persian New Year on the first day of spring, we celebrate it, etc etc. He showed me the tattoos on the inside of his arms - small ones, pretty tasteful - and said he'd love to get henna done to try it out.
He was ridiculously nice, a little flamboyant and very very cute. His name is Joshua. I bought gold eyeshadow, and wished I could have stayed longer.
I want to do something crazy, like leave an envelope one day with those little henna-style body art stickers in and a note. You know? Something weird. What should I do, any ideas?
... Anyway, have you ever wondered what Navy Blues would have looked like had Sufjan Stevens written it? I know I have. Original song titles precede the bastardised ones in case you're not familiar with the record, or heaven forbid, you can't recognise them from my Sufjanised ones.
If Sufjan Stevens Had Written Navy Blues
Or, A Round of Applause for Halagonians!
1. She Says What She Means: As In the Heart of She Who Says What She Really Wants To, or, Her Meaning is My Dream
2. C'mon C'mon (We're Gonna Get It Started): One Last Whoo-hoo! for the Broken Hearted
3. Iggy & Angus: Washed Up, Dead or Otherwise Out-of-Scene Rock Musicians
4. Sinking Ships: To the Sailors on the Titanic, I Have a Sad Song Concerning Your Predicament, But I Have No Lifeboats
5. Keep On Thinkin': The Shortest Man, The Largest Brain, or, The Energizer Bunny Meets Albert Einstein
6. Money City Maniacs: A Conjunction of Sirens Simulating Patrick Pentland Losing Far Too Much Money in Las Vegas, or, Yellow Lines Steal Our Hearts, or, Illegal Psychedelia
7. Seems So Heavy: Bad Bowel Movements [this is something of an SMB in-joke]
8. Chester the Molester: A Short Reprise For Ross Langager, Who Really Should Be In Jail By Now [another one]
9. Stand By Me, Yeah: My Shadow Is Out To Get Me!
10. Suppose They Close the Door: That Door Better Be Closed By The Time I Get There, Because We Heard Those Damn Strings Playing All The Way Out In Bushnell With It Open, And You Played It Twice
11. On the Horizon: On the Sunrise As in the Souls of Shark Painters, or, There Is No Way I Can Come Up With a Proper Title for This One
12. I Wanna Thank You: Merci, or, Gracias, or, Grazie, or, Danke, or, Arigato
13. I'm Not Through With You Yet: An Even Shorter Reprise for Those Of You Who Made It Through This Entire Album, or, The Ones Who Went Insane for Very Good Reasons
Yeah, man, that took me like, five minutes. Not even! SO FUN.
Episode 8 is up at airthatgrooves, so go check that out.
I was in at least six different keys (including D harmonic minor, various not very difficult major keys, many modes of C, and also F# major because I was like 'to hell with this white key modal shit!'), a few time signatures (6/8 is fun, but 5/8 failed and that section didn't have much of a transition) and all kinds of themes. The only failing is by the time I got to the 'end' I couldn't remember anything about my first theme, so I ended on a random Bb cadenza.
It was unbelievable.
Next time I do that, I think I might have to write it all down.
Yesterday when I was at Chinook Centre I walked into the Body Shop and there was a guy standing there greeting people and so on. I said hello and we ended up talking for a good while before I looked at anything at all. He asked me about the henna designs on my hand (for Navroz) and I told him it was the Persian New Year on the first day of spring, we celebrate it, etc etc. He showed me the tattoos on the inside of his arms - small ones, pretty tasteful - and said he'd love to get henna done to try it out.
He was ridiculously nice, a little flamboyant and very very cute. His name is Joshua. I bought gold eyeshadow, and wished I could have stayed longer.
I want to do something crazy, like leave an envelope one day with those little henna-style body art stickers in and a note. You know? Something weird. What should I do, any ideas?
... Anyway, have you ever wondered what Navy Blues would have looked like had Sufjan Stevens written it? I know I have. Original song titles precede the bastardised ones in case you're not familiar with the record, or heaven forbid, you can't recognise them from my Sufjanised ones.
If Sufjan Stevens Had Written Navy Blues
Or, A Round of Applause for Halagonians!
1. She Says What She Means: As In the Heart of She Who Says What She Really Wants To, or, Her Meaning is My Dream
2. C'mon C'mon (We're Gonna Get It Started): One Last Whoo-hoo! for the Broken Hearted
3. Iggy & Angus: Washed Up, Dead or Otherwise Out-of-Scene Rock Musicians
4. Sinking Ships: To the Sailors on the Titanic, I Have a Sad Song Concerning Your Predicament, But I Have No Lifeboats
5. Keep On Thinkin': The Shortest Man, The Largest Brain, or, The Energizer Bunny Meets Albert Einstein
6. Money City Maniacs: A Conjunction of Sirens Simulating Patrick Pentland Losing Far Too Much Money in Las Vegas, or, Yellow Lines Steal Our Hearts, or, Illegal Psychedelia
7. Seems So Heavy: Bad Bowel Movements [this is something of an SMB in-joke]
8. Chester the Molester: A Short Reprise For Ross Langager, Who Really Should Be In Jail By Now [another one]
9. Stand By Me, Yeah: My Shadow Is Out To Get Me!
10. Suppose They Close the Door: That Door Better Be Closed By The Time I Get There, Because We Heard Those Damn Strings Playing All The Way Out In Bushnell With It Open, And You Played It Twice
11. On the Horizon: On the Sunrise As in the Souls of Shark Painters, or, There Is No Way I Can Come Up With a Proper Title for This One
12. I Wanna Thank You: Merci, or, Gracias, or, Grazie, or, Danke, or, Arigato
13. I'm Not Through With You Yet: An Even Shorter Reprise for Those Of You Who Made It Through This Entire Album, or, The Ones Who Went Insane for Very Good Reasons
Yeah, man, that took me like, five minutes. Not even! SO FUN.
Episode 8 is up at airthatgrooves, so go check that out.