I have to perform my 20-minute concerto tomorrow in front of a handful of people at my piano teacher's house. It's really quite unfortunate that I haven't practiced for two weeks...not that I could play it before I left. Hopefully someone else will be worse than me. The day after that, I have a music evaluation thingy in the middle of the day, ( Read more... )

Ah, well, I'm back from my journey to the Old World. I went to Salzburg, Vienna, and Prague (for the less geographically knowledgeable of you, I went to central Europe) with a bunch of kids from school. It was a really fun trip, and because my mind isn't capable of coherent thought right now, I'll give you a few random things I noticed ( Read more... )

I leave for Europe tomorrow. In case you were wondering.

It's 10 PM and I have an entire essay to write and a test to study for, but instead of working on those things, I'm wasting my time by browsing this list of the world's tallest skyscrapers. So cool.......

相思 [王維]

紅豆生南國，春來發幾枝。
願君多采擷，此物最相思。

I missed the first three days of school by being sick. Nothing important happened.

I think I might stop using this thing for a while. It fails to entertain me. So I might be back in March or something.

School started today, but due to a sudden twist of fate, I didn't go. It was the same twist of fate that got me sick Sunday night.

My band has a couple of recordings up here. The quality (of both the recording and the performance) isn't great, but you can listen to it anyways.

The show last night was good stuff. Schoolyard Heroes was awesome. I saw two other bands perform that I didn't know - all the bands were local.

School is on Monday. I still have limited but precious time to blissfully ignore that fact.

If anyone knows anything about violin pickups, please help me. I need one, but I know nothing about them.

I think I'm going to a Schoolyard Heroes show New Year's Eve. Someone sent me some of their stuff through IM. I should probably listen to it before I go.

I'm reading 1984 by George Orwell. Very intriguing so far.

Peace ev'r'body.

I saw the Phantom of the Opera movie today, or yesterday rather. Damn good stuff. I saw the Broadway show not that long ago, and I have to say that I understood the whole story a lot better in movie format rather than not understanding key phrases here and there as I did in the theatre. It seemed like the movie wanted to rationalize everything, ( Read more... )