Well, the performance with the group went really well and the performance of the solo went ok, but my lip was already gone before I began. I was also very shaky and couldn't get deep breaths, oh well. It's over now and I am awake. Boy am I awake. I have to get up at 8 tomorrow and I want to watch the replay of Michael Moore on Larry King at midnight. Oh, so that's not on. It says Robin Williams. Then I will watch Letterman and Conan. I also want to install Linux on my desktop, clean up my external hard drive, fix my laptops (and either list them on ebay or install Linux), read "To Kill a Mockingbird", finish my library books, clean up my room, work on my 3 courses, and finish some arrangements. Yeah, I'm not going to sleep.
Now that that concert is over, a huge burden has been lifted and I am free to mess around again, but for how long?
I would like to work on my performance skills and do weekly YouTube videos. I have recorded before, but I always find something wrong with my recordings, so I don't post them anywhere. I like to make arrangements in Sibelius, so I have a few waiting to be played. I'll start with something easy like Mario Bros or Tetris (as everyone on YouTube always plays) and move on to harder things later. That is my goal for Monday. I'll get a video up on the YouTube.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Concert Tonight!
Wow! This makes two blogs in a row. It's been a while since I've done that on a blog.
I have a concert tonight that starts somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00. It's a quintet concert, so a lot of a playing... There's also a tuba solo and a euphonium solo (that's me) and several organ solos so we can rest our lips. I don't know why, but my lips always get so tight in the week and sometimes just days before a concert. Of course, I always pick some song way up there in the stratosphere to do on a hot summer night. I didn't play much in May, but before then, I could hit a good half octave (sometimes an octave) above the highest note in this piece. I thought I wasn't going to much playing this summer or have to play any solos or anything (when I say "have to", that means when people ask, I can't say no), so I didn't play much during May or the first week of June. I'm not that nervous right this moment, but it's still early and I can't seem to snap out of this daze I'm in. I've also been having some really freaky dreams up to this point about the solo, so that hasn't helped my sleeping patterns any.
So, right now I'm debating whether or not I should practice any. I always feel like I have to have that one last run-through before the concert or the piece won't go well. Then if I do that, it's always "one more time" to the point of obsession and/or hurting my lips so there's no chance I'll be able to hit half of the notes.
I think this concert also means I'm going to miss Michael Moore on Larry King at 9. I can still watch it at midnight though.
So did you all hear about the three potential car bombs in London? Someone saw a car was smoking on the inside so police took a look and found large quantities of petrol and something else and a bunch of nails. I think later they found that the detonators to these potential bombs was a cell phone...speaking of cell phones, 6pm!!!
I predict the first few days (potentially weeks) there will be much hype and much regret to the people who did not get one. The buzz will die down shortly after this coming holiday weekend. Something with more features and better reception (at a lower price) will come out and just bury the iPhone. I hear Apple is coming out with something better sometime around Christmas, but maybe I drempt that.
So my favorite shows, TDS and TCR, are off for two weeks this year. Last year when they took off the first week of July, Israel erupted into a war with Hezbollah, Kobiashi (now stricken with arthritis of the jaw) won the Coney Island hotdog thing, North Korea launched Taepodog II missiles that fizzeled out shortly after launch, and all sorts of other things happened. When they took off for the Holiday season this past year, Saddam Hussein was hanged, Gerald Ford died, and so did James Brown. Do I see a pattern? First of all, when one crazy thing happens, it sets ablaze ten other situations and second, everything happens when these shows are on vacation.
I am very excited for the used book sale this weekend!! Books for a quarter!!
Now I must go be very nervous.
I have a concert tonight that starts somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00. It's a quintet concert, so a lot of a playing... There's also a tuba solo and a euphonium solo (that's me) and several organ solos so we can rest our lips. I don't know why, but my lips always get so tight in the week and sometimes just days before a concert. Of course, I always pick some song way up there in the stratosphere to do on a hot summer night. I didn't play much in May, but before then, I could hit a good half octave (sometimes an octave) above the highest note in this piece. I thought I wasn't going to much playing this summer or have to play any solos or anything (when I say "have to", that means when people ask, I can't say no), so I didn't play much during May or the first week of June. I'm not that nervous right this moment, but it's still early and I can't seem to snap out of this daze I'm in. I've also been having some really freaky dreams up to this point about the solo, so that hasn't helped my sleeping patterns any.
So, right now I'm debating whether or not I should practice any. I always feel like I have to have that one last run-through before the concert or the piece won't go well. Then if I do that, it's always "one more time" to the point of obsession and/or hurting my lips so there's no chance I'll be able to hit half of the notes.
I think this concert also means I'm going to miss Michael Moore on Larry King at 9. I can still watch it at midnight though.
So did you all hear about the three potential car bombs in London? Someone saw a car was smoking on the inside so police took a look and found large quantities of petrol and something else and a bunch of nails. I think later they found that the detonators to these potential bombs was a cell phone...speaking of cell phones, 6pm!!!
I predict the first few days (potentially weeks) there will be much hype and much regret to the people who did not get one. The buzz will die down shortly after this coming holiday weekend. Something with more features and better reception (at a lower price) will come out and just bury the iPhone. I hear Apple is coming out with something better sometime around Christmas, but maybe I drempt that.
So my favorite shows, TDS and TCR, are off for two weeks this year. Last year when they took off the first week of July, Israel erupted into a war with Hezbollah, Kobiashi (now stricken with arthritis of the jaw) won the Coney Island hotdog thing, North Korea launched Taepodog II missiles that fizzeled out shortly after launch, and all sorts of other things happened. When they took off for the Holiday season this past year, Saddam Hussein was hanged, Gerald Ford died, and so did James Brown. Do I see a pattern? First of all, when one crazy thing happens, it sets ablaze ten other situations and second, everything happens when these shows are on vacation.
I am very excited for the used book sale this weekend!! Books for a quarter!!
Now I must go be very nervous.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Not a Question
This is not a question, more like a personal update and several concerns. I'm thinking I'm going to start blogging daily and maybe even doing a video blog as well. I wish to discuss topics I feel strongly about as well.
Tomorrow is a big day. I have a quintet recital with a major solo. I'm a little more worried than I usually am about this since I have not really performed since October. I am excited about Saturday, however. There's a community band concert in the heart of town...in the street...that is currently being paved. They won't be working on Saturday, so the band should be safe. There will probably only be about 20 people or so that show up to the concert, so we will probably be drowned out by traffic. The concert is pretty early as well, 11am, so the wanderers we might get won't yet be awake. I plan on going a little early as there is a used book sale at the library(which is almost just accross the street from the intersection in which the concert will be held) at 9am. Last year I spent about 10 dollars and got almost 30 books for that price!
I live in one of those weird small towns, but this coming weekend will be weird...even for this town as it is the annual ArtFest. If I am happy with how my solo goes, I may post a video of it on YouTube. I am rarely happy with what I do, but I am very critical of myself, so I'm probably not a great judge.
In the world of tech, I am taking courses online in the field of web design and programming. I am also taking a course about the American Novel which is actually proving to be more interesting than any other course I've had so far. One of my courses is a Linux course and since most of the people in the class use windows, we connect remotely to Linux to experiment with the command line. I also just downloaded SmartCom Linux Barak, RedHat came with my book, and I have a copy of Mandrake from a few years ago. I want to get at least one of these installed on my desktop today. I have two old laptops that are sitting around as well. One only has a 4gig hard drive, so I may use that to experiment with a smaller version of Linux. My IBM laptop has a 30gig hard drive, but has some really issues. It has some warning screen and won't boot into windows. Also, the pointy stick thing doesn't work anymore and I have no clue where any of my external mice went. If anyone has any suggestions about the IBM warning screen thing, I could use some advice. Oh, the computer I'm on right now is my third laptop, a Dell. It's one of those that kind of looks Mac-y. I bought it almost two years ago and now I'm in the mood to buy a new laptop. I might have enough money this time to actually get a Mac, well, if my Amazon items ever sell that is. Anyone interested in books, I have several listed on my Amazon store. Not sure what my name on there is, but I will look it up if anyone has some great concerns about it.
What else is going on...
Weather. Well, obviously that is always occuring, but it's been in the extremes lately. For the past few days, it has been almost 100 degrees where I am. Texas and Oklahoma have had severe flooding and it seems the entire state of California is on fire. England and Wales also got flooded and I think there was some sort of a cyclone in Pakistan? ...or was that in my dream?
Paris Hilton. Enough said.
Blair! Britain's youngest PM in over 200 years ...visited by the Terminator on his last day. What a speech he gave in Parliament. That place is quite crowded compared to the US Congress. Also compare their way of legislating to ours. Since, I don't get CSPAN27, I'll have to go by what I've briefly seen on the news. It looked like some riot was going to break out in Parliament in some of the clips I saw yesterday. Compared to, "Will the gentleman yield..." "My respected (eventhough I overtly hate his guts and am going to pay lobbiests to change his mind) collegue has just stated..." People seem to be alive in Parliament, as compared to the US Senate.
Now he's [Blair's] on (or in?) the Mid-East quartet. I think of a different kind of quartet, but let's just say this one isn't playing any Mozart. Gordon Brown is now the new PM. I heard there was some sort of Wikipedia rip-off called Conservipedia that came about because apparently reality now has too much of a liberal bias. Try the inverse, reverse, converse of that. (I do not remember exactly what it is the *verse terms do, so I just listed them all.) Rupert Murdoch is buying the world. Dick Cheney has become the 4th branch that is neither and both the executive and/nor legislative branches as many have put it. There's a giant microwave that turns plastic back into oil. Oh, the iPhone is coming out tomorrow! Michael Moore's new movie is coming out soon as well (not sure what day, probably tomorrow). Russia's youth movement is expanding as Putin's power perpetually perpetrates the public affairs. There's some ultra-confusing pork-laden immigration bill that is trying to be passed. It's crazy and it's not going to work. (in the manner in which it [the bill] is written... too many hurdles that no one will follow, people can't afford)
CNN
"McCain, the senator from Arizona who's mounting his second presidential bid, blamed himself for collecting a mere $12.5 million in the first three months of 2007."
...a mere $12.5 million...3 months??? All these people spending all this time at fundraisers rather than working at their jobs (for which they voted themselves a raise last year) and the House just got a $4,400 raise.
"The former Massachusetts Governor, who topped his Republican rivals with nearly $21 million in the first quarter... ...he would contribute money to his campaign from his personal assets -- estimated to top $190 million."
If anyone needs that much money to run for president, he is not utilizing the Internets correctly...or any of his other resources for that matter.
It's a sad day when the person who can raise the most money for a campaign is considered to be the presidential front-runner rather than the person with the best ideals for the country, most experience, etc. I've been kind of on the fence over whether Hillary could make her national health care idea work. I think there are too many things broken right now and the system needs to be completely revised in order to make anything like that work. Then I learn the other night on the Tonight Show from Michael Moore that Hillary is the 2nd highest paid Senator from the pharmaceutical lobby (or something to that effect). I want to see his new movie. I probably won't be able to see it until it comes out on DVD though. It's insane that a lot of people pay an arm and a leg for insurance and then when something actually does happen they are either not fully covered or are dropped from their policy.
On a lighter note, it's Thursday, which means tomorrow's Friday...
uh, oh...
Tomorrow is a big day. I have a quintet recital with a major solo. I'm a little more worried than I usually am about this since I have not really performed since October. I am excited about Saturday, however. There's a community band concert in the heart of town...in the street...that is currently being paved. They won't be working on Saturday, so the band should be safe. There will probably only be about 20 people or so that show up to the concert, so we will probably be drowned out by traffic. The concert is pretty early as well, 11am, so the wanderers we might get won't yet be awake. I plan on going a little early as there is a used book sale at the library(which is almost just accross the street from the intersection in which the concert will be held) at 9am. Last year I spent about 10 dollars and got almost 30 books for that price!
I live in one of those weird small towns, but this coming weekend will be weird...even for this town as it is the annual ArtFest. If I am happy with how my solo goes, I may post a video of it on YouTube. I am rarely happy with what I do, but I am very critical of myself, so I'm probably not a great judge.
In the world of tech, I am taking courses online in the field of web design and programming. I am also taking a course about the American Novel which is actually proving to be more interesting than any other course I've had so far. One of my courses is a Linux course and since most of the people in the class use windows, we connect remotely to Linux to experiment with the command line. I also just downloaded SmartCom Linux Barak, RedHat came with my book, and I have a copy of Mandrake from a few years ago. I want to get at least one of these installed on my desktop today. I have two old laptops that are sitting around as well. One only has a 4gig hard drive, so I may use that to experiment with a smaller version of Linux. My IBM laptop has a 30gig hard drive, but has some really issues. It has some warning screen and won't boot into windows. Also, the pointy stick thing doesn't work anymore and I have no clue where any of my external mice went. If anyone has any suggestions about the IBM warning screen thing, I could use some advice. Oh, the computer I'm on right now is my third laptop, a Dell. It's one of those that kind of looks Mac-y. I bought it almost two years ago and now I'm in the mood to buy a new laptop. I might have enough money this time to actually get a Mac, well, if my Amazon items ever sell that is. Anyone interested in books, I have several listed on my Amazon store. Not sure what my name on there is, but I will look it up if anyone has some great concerns about it.
What else is going on...
Weather. Well, obviously that is always occuring, but it's been in the extremes lately. For the past few days, it has been almost 100 degrees where I am. Texas and Oklahoma have had severe flooding and it seems the entire state of California is on fire. England and Wales also got flooded and I think there was some sort of a cyclone in Pakistan? ...or was that in my dream?
Paris Hilton. Enough said.
Blair! Britain's youngest PM in over 200 years ...visited by the Terminator on his last day. What a speech he gave in Parliament. That place is quite crowded compared to the US Congress. Also compare their way of legislating to ours. Since, I don't get CSPAN27, I'll have to go by what I've briefly seen on the news. It looked like some riot was going to break out in Parliament in some of the clips I saw yesterday. Compared to, "Will the gentleman yield..." "My respected (eventhough I overtly hate his guts and am going to pay lobbiests to change his mind) collegue has just stated..." People seem to be alive in Parliament, as compared to the US Senate.
Now he's [Blair's] on (or in?) the Mid-East quartet. I think of a different kind of quartet, but let's just say this one isn't playing any Mozart. Gordon Brown is now the new PM. I heard there was some sort of Wikipedia rip-off called Conservipedia that came about because apparently reality now has too much of a liberal bias. Try the inverse, reverse, converse of that. (I do not remember exactly what it is the *verse terms do, so I just listed them all.) Rupert Murdoch is buying the world. Dick Cheney has become the 4th branch that is neither and both the executive and/nor legislative branches as many have put it. There's a giant microwave that turns plastic back into oil. Oh, the iPhone is coming out tomorrow! Michael Moore's new movie is coming out soon as well (not sure what day, probably tomorrow). Russia's youth movement is expanding as Putin's power perpetually perpetrates the public affairs. There's some ultra-confusing pork-laden immigration bill that is trying to be passed. It's crazy and it's not going to work. (in the manner in which it [the bill] is written... too many hurdles that no one will follow, people can't afford)
CNN
"McCain, the senator from Arizona who's mounting his second presidential bid, blamed himself for collecting a mere $12.5 million in the first three months of 2007."
...a mere $12.5 million...3 months??? All these people spending all this time at fundraisers rather than working at their jobs (for which they voted themselves a raise last year) and the House just got a $4,400 raise.
"The former Massachusetts Governor, who topped his Republican rivals with nearly $21 million in the first quarter... ...he would contribute money to his campaign from his personal assets -- estimated to top $190 million."
If anyone needs that much money to run for president, he is not utilizing the Internets correctly...or any of his other resources for that matter.
It's a sad day when the person who can raise the most money for a campaign is considered to be the presidential front-runner rather than the person with the best ideals for the country, most experience, etc. I've been kind of on the fence over whether Hillary could make her national health care idea work. I think there are too many things broken right now and the system needs to be completely revised in order to make anything like that work. Then I learn the other night on the Tonight Show from Michael Moore that Hillary is the 2nd highest paid Senator from the pharmaceutical lobby (or something to that effect). I want to see his new movie. I probably won't be able to see it until it comes out on DVD though. It's insane that a lot of people pay an arm and a leg for insurance and then when something actually does happen they are either not fully covered or are dropped from their policy.
On a lighter note, it's Thursday, which means tomorrow's Friday...
uh, oh...
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