I got sheet music in the mail on Wednesday! I got guitar sheet music for Damien Rice's album "O", and a 2-piano arrangement of Grieg's Piano Concerto. SheetMusicPlus.com must love me. I think this is the 4th or 5th time I've bought something from them. Anyway, last night I played through the first half of the piano concerto, sight-reading. It' ( Read more... )

So much going on in my life actually that I wrote this yesterday, almost finished it, and never pushed the "Update Journal" button ( Read more... )

This is really annoying me. So I've never really been a fan of SMS-speak... you know, the abbreviations that people use online because they were too lazy to learn how to type, or on cell phones because the silly things will only take 160 characters per message and you can't say much very fast anyway if you have to try to type English on a 10-key ( Read more... )

I know it's a dream, and not particularly practical... but I would love to live in at least 3 different places. Soon. Fundamentally, I'd like to spend as much time as possible in every place where I have good friends ... but there are two places that rise to the top of the list, in no particular order: #1. Ohio (anywhere in Ohio, really; I have ( Read more... )

I bought a piano. A really, really, nice one! I think I will begin learning to play now. :) Okay so I admit, I've been playing on other pianos for 20+ years so I have a (big) head start, but, there's so much more that can be done with a really nice piano, it's like learning all over again. That's what it feels/sounds like right now at least; it ( Read more... )

Ignore the title for this entry for now... it's more of an offhand side-comment. ;) This entry is a sort of mystery story. I'm curious if anybody else had the same experience ( Read more... )

I think I'm done watching Smallville. ( spoiler alert )

Randomly, I'm now learning how to play Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" (the famous part, the slow, first movement), on guitar, by ear. (It's written for piano and I've played the original for years.) I've stumbled through it 3-4 times now and I'm starting to come up with a suitable arrangement. Of course since the song is in C# minor I needed to ( Read more... )

I've managed to slog through another work week. Yay, it's finally over! Hard to believe, really, that about the only things of significance I did this week were work, and create some sheet music for a friend. (There were plenty of other minor things; just nothing worth sharing that I can remember.) And I didn't even work for my job in the ( Read more... )

Well this entry is going to be a bit different than some of the things I've written in the past. A ton of stuff has been going on in my life recently. And I thought I'd summarize it by giving out a few web links.

First of all, not in time order, but in priority, Challenger 2 Rock Climbing Camp was just awesome. I was privileged to spend a week ( Read more... )