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Aug. 31st, 2017 07:43 pmI thought Ashley was for a moment friendlier than she has been, which isn't saying much, but no, turns out she's every bit as empty as she's been. Hopefully Holly was able to talk to her. She told me that sometimes personalities are just too different and I said that I have a lot of things in common with Ashley (our politics, we both have eclectic musical tastes) and she said maybe that's why our friendship is fading away. I'm sorry, I know this is a bit like watching tortoises run a marathon: yeah, someone might get to the finish line eventually but they might just walk around in circles and circles, circles again the girl's in circles and circles, got to stop spinning. Anyways, I said my day could only improve from there and improve it did, but only in the most exact words way. The high point of my day was a squirrel eating a french fry and I don't mean this in any sort of bitter or sarcastic way. He was standing on the table holding it with both of his forelegs going ararararar.
I'm not sure if Gabriella couldn't make it or just didn't want to deal with the summer chill.
Waiting for an orange line train was a woman with hair of varying blue and teal shades.
Kate was reading a book about Karl Marx and Jenny von Westphalen. She's an art teacher and I told her that she'll inspire many students and she says may I finish many more sketchbooks. Kay is not an artist. She said something cryptic to me about how she "finally made it" and I'm not sure if it's about being art or it's about something entirely different.
I met a woman with a red-headed woodpecker tattoo, who was reading IQ84 for the third or possibly fourth time.
Now that I think about it, the Holocaust Memorial is the only place I've seen ash trees. Now that I think about it, it's the only reason I know what an ash tree looks like.
someone wrote a message about more love less hate and these lives matter and some flowers and someone wrote a message about the Battle of the Bulge where the smashed panel is.
and this is why we need to deal with fascism now and not after they've already killed millions of people, Pelosi, you dumbass.
In the audience was a woman with hair the color of the summer sky. It was by far the smallest audience I've seen, maybe because it was the coldest it's been since July and maybe because people were somehow uninformed. There was also a shih tzu puppy, a dog who was too close to the river for comfort, some big dogs, and a dog wearing a bow tie. It was also a very short concert. About an hour of music and a twenty minute intermission so that people could buy their cds for a donation. I got Transfigured Night by Arnold Schönberg and Dreams & Prayers, which has music by Hildegard von Bingen, Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol (a Turkish composer), Osvaldo Golijov (An Argentine composer of Jewish-Romanian heritage and I'm as surprised as you are), and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Frizt Kreisler - Scherzo from String Quartet in A Minor
This was arranged for a string orchestra by one of the members.
They liked to stand up. It's fun, they say. Also, with no conductor, it helps them follow each other. At least, the violinists and violists did. It's kind of awkward to stand up while playing the cello or double bass.
There are eighteen musicians in the ensemble: a nonet of violinists, a duo of bassists, a trio of cellists, and a quintet of violists. Viola, not viol.
Eugène Ysaÿe - Harmonies du soir
This means harmony of the evening.
Everything2 has a node on the letter ÿ because it's so unusual and yet it does exist in ASCII. In Ysaÿe's case, the diaresis is there to indicate that the vowels are pronounced separately. I think what I'm trying to say is I don't have a whole lot to say about this piece.
Like Kreisler, he's a violinist as well as a composer.
J.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concerto no. 3
The first [allegro] was in brackets because there's no tempo indication, it's just how it's typically played. I didn't notice the adagio either but it was there. Normally, it's played with a harpsichord as well.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchakovsky - Serenade for String Orchestra
This one is in four parts: a sonatina with a slow introduction meant to evoke Mozart, a waltz, an elegy, a spirited Russian dance.
So I had a dream that I was eating some kind of "scrambled eggs" which were actually just really thin omelets, with sour cream and spinach, and some kind of broth with spinach leaves floating in it.
and then I was exploring an abandoned city and went into an apartment tower and the (old-fashioned) tv was only displaying pale faded static but the 90s-era radio played music. all the power was still on so it made sense.
On the outside, the tower was Brutalist.
Inside, the wallpaper and upholstery were dark green and gold, the furniture was mahogany, the curtains were dark purple and somewhat shredded, the windows were unbroken so I wanted to make the place look more abandoned so I tried to break one of the windows with a mannequin head and the mannequin started talking. I wanted to explore more but then I woke up.
This is why I'm single: a friend from college is crowdsourcing favorite and least favorite wedding songs and I suggested March to the Scaffold by Hector Berlioz.
Or maybe it's the other way around.
Anyways, I wonder if she'll take my suggestion seriously. I'm not sure. Even if I wanted to go to her wedding, it's on the other side of the country.
This is semi-related
burning question: Trump says that we are losing culture and history by removing monuments to the Confederacy. What culture is Trump trying to protect?
I'm not sure if Gabriella couldn't make it or just didn't want to deal with the summer chill.
Waiting for an orange line train was a woman with hair of varying blue and teal shades.
Kate was reading a book about Karl Marx and Jenny von Westphalen. She's an art teacher and I told her that she'll inspire many students and she says may I finish many more sketchbooks. Kay is not an artist. She said something cryptic to me about how she "finally made it" and I'm not sure if it's about being art or it's about something entirely different.
I met a woman with a red-headed woodpecker tattoo, who was reading IQ84 for the third or possibly fourth time.
Now that I think about it, the Holocaust Memorial is the only place I've seen ash trees. Now that I think about it, it's the only reason I know what an ash tree looks like.
someone wrote a message about more love less hate and these lives matter and some flowers and someone wrote a message about the Battle of the Bulge where the smashed panel is.
and this is why we need to deal with fascism now and not after they've already killed millions of people, Pelosi, you dumbass.
In the audience was a woman with hair the color of the summer sky. It was by far the smallest audience I've seen, maybe because it was the coldest it's been since July and maybe because people were somehow uninformed. There was also a shih tzu puppy, a dog who was too close to the river for comfort, some big dogs, and a dog wearing a bow tie. It was also a very short concert. About an hour of music and a twenty minute intermission so that people could buy their cds for a donation. I got Transfigured Night by Arnold Schönberg and Dreams & Prayers, which has music by Hildegard von Bingen, Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol (a Turkish composer), Osvaldo Golijov (An Argentine composer of Jewish-Romanian heritage and I'm as surprised as you are), and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Frizt Kreisler - Scherzo from String Quartet in A Minor
This was arranged for a string orchestra by one of the members.
They liked to stand up. It's fun, they say. Also, with no conductor, it helps them follow each other. At least, the violinists and violists did. It's kind of awkward to stand up while playing the cello or double bass.
There are eighteen musicians in the ensemble: a nonet of violinists, a duo of bassists, a trio of cellists, and a quintet of violists. Viola, not viol.
Eugène Ysaÿe - Harmonies du soir
This means harmony of the evening.
Everything2 has a node on the letter ÿ because it's so unusual and yet it does exist in ASCII. In Ysaÿe's case, the diaresis is there to indicate that the vowels are pronounced separately. I think what I'm trying to say is I don't have a whole lot to say about this piece.
Like Kreisler, he's a violinist as well as a composer.
J.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concerto no. 3
The first [allegro] was in brackets because there's no tempo indication, it's just how it's typically played. I didn't notice the adagio either but it was there. Normally, it's played with a harpsichord as well.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchakovsky - Serenade for String Orchestra
This one is in four parts: a sonatina with a slow introduction meant to evoke Mozart, a waltz, an elegy, a spirited Russian dance.
So I had a dream that I was eating some kind of "scrambled eggs" which were actually just really thin omelets, with sour cream and spinach, and some kind of broth with spinach leaves floating in it.
and then I was exploring an abandoned city and went into an apartment tower and the (old-fashioned) tv was only displaying pale faded static but the 90s-era radio played music. all the power was still on so it made sense.
On the outside, the tower was Brutalist.
Inside, the wallpaper and upholstery were dark green and gold, the furniture was mahogany, the curtains were dark purple and somewhat shredded, the windows were unbroken so I wanted to make the place look more abandoned so I tried to break one of the windows with a mannequin head and the mannequin started talking. I wanted to explore more but then I woke up.
This is why I'm single: a friend from college is crowdsourcing favorite and least favorite wedding songs and I suggested March to the Scaffold by Hector Berlioz.
Or maybe it's the other way around.
Anyways, I wonder if she'll take my suggestion seriously. I'm not sure. Even if I wanted to go to her wedding, it's on the other side of the country.
This is semi-related
burning question: Trump says that we are losing culture and history by removing monuments to the Confederacy. What culture is Trump trying to protect?
