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Title’s slightly inappropriate given the surprise I received upon discovering that my site was…different than when I’d last left it. Did someone hack? Hmm….
Well, the theme’s been changed and some things shuffled around. I’m liking this new setup. So I shall leave it for a bit until I can create a nice banner of my own.
I have been in this coffee shop wrangling life for far too long. I can feel the wrath of the baristas settling upon me. Must dash. kya~~
By the way, the music for the upcoming Ragnarok Online II, in case you haven’t heard yet, is written by Yoko Kanno and it is beautiful. Abso-damn-lutely beautiful. *squee*
I shall post a sample or two forthcoming.
January 08 2007 | Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
soundtrack: Endless World – DragonQuest String Quartet – DragonQuest II – Koichi Sugiyama
I think that Heaven has a library which houses all materials that ever were, are, and shall be. That way, if you die before you get to read the end of the Harry Potter series, you’ll still get to know what happens.
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Change is an amazing thing.
Best wishes for a happy and healthy and wonderfully awesome new year!
January 01 2007 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Happy Holidays to everyone! (I’m late for Christmas. Ahwell – it happens haha)
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Why is everyone’s attitude in classical music and film just so (no other word sorry) shitty? When I read other people’s comments on a performance or film, SOMEONE has to be the black dog and just gripe, whine, and basically shoot down everything around them.
Is this fun? To me, if these people are trying to be fashionably pessimistic, their words aren’t so much pessimistic than immature. Or are we all really just that arty-snooty these days? When did the respect for others’ opinions die?
December 27 2006 | music and Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
There’s no reason for all the God/higher being thoughts lately…they’ve just felt profound.
Today, I have decided that who/whatever’s up there must have a sense of humour.
The thought is nice.
A lot of traveling lately has put me far behind on weblife. I’ll get back to you all someday soon, but not really before finals, I don’t think.
miss you all ^_^
December 06 2006 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
soundtrack: Get Over It – Ok Go
Today is November 23rd.
I have been alive for twenty years.
I have a good life.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone, and remember to thank the turkeys that are letting you eat them.
November 24 2006 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
What would happen if you were walking down the street and all of a sudden, God decided to poke you?
I mean, literally poking – with a finger.
November 15 2006 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
some new fascinations added and will be elaborated as soon as I have to stop doing all this pointless shxtwork that has been eating up my life and keeping me from actually writing and posting photos that I have now (!) . Grah.
semester’s almost over. To me, that never sounds as optimistic as it should.
November 15 2006 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
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So I honestly shouldn’t be doing this right now. With a concert tonight, a massive test tomorrow morning, a two or three page paper due, and a conducting quiz, being online is perhaps the last thing I should be doing.
But there’s a reason for this. Trust me for just this one brief moment:
This entire week I have been working with the members of Nation Beat in collaboration with Jacare Brazil (Dr. Tremura was a former professor of mine and the graduate assistant for the group is a friend/violist of my quartet/quintet in the past.) for a concert tonight. Granted, I’m only playing one piece with the ensemble(s), but I don’t believe I’ve ever felt quite this musically alive before. The last time was perhaps the first time I played a musical (Gershwin. Crazy for You. Freshman year of high school). Well, after this week of playing non-classical music and after watching the dress rehearsal last night, I’m not sure if it’s because I’m so musically high that I think and feel this way, but for now, at least, and I do really hope for the rest of my life, I know that this is what I want to do. Yes, I’ll still plug ahead with the English degree just as a happy backup, but I know now that nothing will give me quite the satisfaction of life the way playing music with people who also love and live to play does.
There’s just something so beautiful about unity. Especially in music. There’s a certain rush that comes when there are people just all over the place, up and dancing and making music because of how it brings us all together.
I’ve always wanted to expand my musical boundaries. It killed a lot back in high school when there wasn’t really a place for violins in non-classical repertoire. In fact, there’s still not much of a scene here in the universitytown. But you kinda have to make the scene here, I guess. The Jacare grad assistant and I might play around with that idea.
There is so much that you can do with a violin beyond the standard Bach and Beethoven, and, call me selfish if you want, but I want to learn and play it all. But maybe playing the non-classical recently has just made me want it more because I’ve spent so much of my life already NOT playing that kind of music.
When I was watching Nation Beat rehearse last night, I got infinitely more and more jealous of Skye. He and I and two others have been working on a small string ensemble piece for tonight and the more I read of what he gets to do for a living, the bands he performs with, the way he can just play SO much (both in terms of what he can play on the instrument and amount of time he gets to spend playing music) the more I know he’s exactly what I wished I could have been back when I first discovered jazz and fusion music. He’s a really neat guy, and I am fairly certain that I’d love it if these people didn’t forget us as individuals after they leave, as, after all, they probably work with far more people than they can remember.
This learning is fantastic. I still can’t quite place a finger on why everything is such a rush lately, but I know that even though I have so much classical training already and that it’ll probably take a lot more of the other kind before I can achieve anything near what Skye has, I want more of this music. I’m sure I’m not the only one who wishes this after experiencing a new world.
That’s it – I need to get out of this state.
[updates: new section for things I can't get out of my head and soon to create one more section for photographs]
October 26 2006 | music and Uncategorized | No Comments »
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soundtrack: Hatsukoi – Mayumi Kojima
Some thoughts inspired by recent relationship events of various people around me:
+ “Nice guys finish last” is a stupid and false “saying.” Nice guys don’t finish last at all. In fact, they’re the best guys out there (in this girl’s humble opinion) and end up with probably the best girls too. But Nice Guys who believe or dwell on this statement tend to be just looking in the wrong places for what will truly make them happy, and thus end up simply a little ‘late’. It’s a very preventable condition.
+ We can’t be jealous of other people’s lives and true fortunes (I speak not of material wealth). If we are, then we stop lose focus on our own lives and what opportunities for true fortunes we have right in front of us. Obssession overpowers. Sure, we can wish for something that another has, but if there is no reasonable way that what we desire can be achieved without time, then we have to take that time to achieve it. Forcing yourself or another person is of no real benefit to either. And until the time comes, we can only really be happy for other people for their fortunes and hope that we will be that fortunate for fortunes with another person can’t really be made. Ultimately, we have to live for ourselves, but smile for others.
+ “Tall, dark, and handsome” is totally overrated.
+ No one is ever “out of league.” Some of the ugliest men on this planet are married to gorgeous actress or model wives that make more money than they do.
+ Being a great friend is a leg up to the other’s heart.
+ Desperation may make you do things you’ll only regret later.
+ Everyone needs someone or something at some point in time, be it a breath of air or a really good hug, and unfortunately, not everyone can selflessly help without hindrance. If someone can’t help you because of their own drawbacks, it’s not your fault.
October 15 2006 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Battlestar Galactica is airing tonight at 9pm on SciFi! That’s one hour from now! Hop on it, people!
Got it wrong in that previous post. Oopsies.
*excited excited drowning in excitement*
October 07 2006 | BSG (and such) and Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
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