Inveire = to rant

[pizzazzle]

Pet peeves for today!

1. Overly long movies that start out as romances and then, once the love object is secured, transform lurchingly into Nazi war movies within thirty seconds of the end of the wedding scene. Offenders I have seen recently: The Sound of Music, La vita è bella, Australia2. Classes on X that start out by asking "What is X?" as if

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[drandomtuba]

Totally unrelated to anything above:

I really like your piece! It was enjoyable to listen to, and fun to play!

[pizzazzle]

Oh, my God, you read it??

I'm glad you liked it, and I apologize for my sometimes messy tuba writing! I hope you know you were a big influence on the tuba part . . . like, deciding what octaves to put stuff in, I'd be like, nooo, not locking Crystal in the basement for this entire page . . .

[drandomtuba]

that's GREAT! I love getting more than one octave range! And sixteenth notes, Omigosh, do you know how rarely we see those suckers? I really appreciate them

(-:

We read through and recorded it-- unfortunately not the best quality, but we didn't have a to of time to fix things. I LOVED the celeste part!!!

Cory Sweeney says Hi!

[mon_froid_sang]

While I can't say I understand precisely where you are coming from, I do have a bitch about categories regarding sexuality.

I've several friends at my college that are lesbians (who I only met because I dated one of them for a while). Let me tell you... the moment I got out of that relationship and into one with a male, I was given the worst kind of crap: called a traitor to their cause, etc. It seems they couldn't accept the fact that I personally don't have a preference for genitalia and am more interested in intellect.

It really frustrates me to know that people make those distinctions. Who cares. People are people and any kind of relationship works because of a kind of balance... but I wouldn't necessarily say that this balance is strictly "feminine" or "masculine." Indeed, they've said that one sign of a well-balanced person is a mixture of what we like to call "feminine" and "masculine" characteristics! So why would you categorize a single person into one of the distinct categories in the first place?

GAH!!!

[capriuni]

Heh. Regarding the preference for Intellect over any one sort of genitalia or another, one person on my f'list uses the term "Sapiosexual" (sexually attracted by intelligence).

Now, what term can we come up with who are turned on by a healthy sense of humor? ;-)

[pizzazzle]

Nic!!

I can relate to that. I went through a stage when the word "bi" made me crazy -- I think I got to know one too many closet cases and started thinking it was just code for "afraid to admit I'm gay." But honestly, I think being able to love independently of body parts takes more courage rather than less, if you have to face crap like that from both sides.

[driftingquill]

I feel like all messages in self-help books, especially relationship ones, boil down to this: be yourself, but fundamentally change. And for the privilege of telling us nothing achievable they charge $19.99.

Yech. In other news, I shelved an Altar Boyz CD at the library last night and thought of you!

~Anna, who resents pigeon-holing. And pigeons.

[pizzazzle]

Yeah, I think the lesson I'm learning here is the inadvisability of coming in contact with self-help literature, period. Keeping blood pressure down, etc.

It's awesome that a) you have the Altar Boyz CD and b) people are checking it out. I always wonder whether there's some musical theatre professor masterminding such purchases or if there's just a librarian who's into showtunes.

[celtic_faerie13]

I have a co-worker... and she and her wife always claim how she is the butch and her wife is the lipstick in the relationship but they swear up and down that they don't believe in stereotyping or that you have to have a "male and female". It doesn't make sense to me. If you were so against stereotypes and stuff wouldn't you NOT be categorizing yourselves as each one?