Banana mead that's been fermenting all summer

notdepressive @ 2009-12-08T21:15:00

2009-12-09T02:15:18Z

1. I drink too much strawberry milk.

2. I kind of like Dire Straits. What I've heard, anyway.

3. Moe and I should include both of these things (to a small degree) in our fictional business venture.

I've been trying to save money by checking my wallet for certain denominations of bills. When I have a 5, I put it somewhere else.

notdepressive @ 2009-12-07T18:41:00

2009-12-07T23:41:10Z

I had a dream yesterday morning in which my family and I, and probably some other people, were in a house in some rather pleasant suburb, but suddenly one of the people who lived there or at least was in the house more often than we were was trying to kill us, so we all tried to run away and it became a run-and-hide-for-your-life thing. I had an axe but was not confident in my ability to weild it, so I was concerned that I was going to die.

Weird part? The contractor who built our real-life house was the guy stalking around with a gun and shooting at us.

Then I went in the back, and there was a schoolyard where kids were having recess, and a teacher from Mariposa Elementary was trying to run me down with a minivan (I DON'T KNOW WHY BECAUSE IN REAL LIFE SHE WAS SO NICE TO ME) and I think she was also masterminding some sort of kill-everyone-arbitrarily scheme, and a guy who was the medium in Beetlejuice was one of the 2 people working with her. She and the two men exchanged jokes and barbs, but I think if they had really tried to oppose her, she was the more dangerous one and would have eliminated them.

I was also able to excape the house again and run around the neighborhood, but I think the contractor saw me and probably would have been able to follow me or shoot me from a window of the house, even though I was doing that really fast leaping&running thing I do in dreams.

In short, yesterday I dreamed that two perfectly decent real-life people were cold-blooded murderers who didn't care about witnesses. I think the idea was that if they killed everyone, there'd have been no witnesses.

I don't even know if the two were in league, or if they were separate threats who happened to be spread in such a way that I'd escape one, but immediately stumble into the other.

I have to go write some critiques on some short articles.

notdepressive @ 2009-11-21T22:01:00

2009-11-22T03:01:12Z

http://xkcd.com/665/

Ha.

RE: a phase

2009-11-18T08:58:04Z

Lady Gaga[1], I'm happy for you and I'ma let you finish, but the Smashing Pumpkins had my favorite music video of all time[2]. My favorite music video of ALL TIME. [3]

1. I like her, her videos, and her live performances quite a lot right now.

2. Ava Adore. BTW I first saw it on Todd's recommendation.

3. Sorry about stealing the sentence template, Kanye West. Also, an apology to everyone else.

Chopin opus 64 no. 2

2009-11-14T21:59:16Z

A waltz.
I liked this performance more than I liked Rubinstein's. Not that his wasn't amazing, too, but I think I prefer this.

I'm not sure how long ago this was, but the sound's decent. Not perfect, but better than what I expected to be paired with such video.

emo emo emo

2009-11-14T06:44:58Z

I ignore things that bother me. It's not that I don't respond, but that I can get by not thinking about it at all.

ANOTHER ONE AYESHA GET A LIFE

2009-11-13T05:24:32Z

I was so excited when this happened, but I wasn't on LiveJournal at the time.

Mrs. Borgstrom gave me (for my birthday) a hardcover book containing all of Chopin's waltzes. It's green and old, copyrighted in the early 40's, and there are some papers stapled in the front with contain some things written about each waltz (some facts, and quotes of other people's opinions, and some lyrical descriptions of the pieces). I assumed Mrs. Borgstrom's teacher had written them, until she told me she didn't even know who'd done that. So I didn't get to ask if the peson had copied those paragraphs out, or if they were the person's own thoughts.

The papers are brown with age, and smoother than the paper I normally use. They're also smaller than regular 8.5" x 11" sheets. I didn't take the exact measurements.

She also found some books from the Scribner Radio Music Library's nine-volume set for voice and piano. 1-6 are for piano only, and 7-8 for voice and piano, with 9 being for "supplementary pieces."
She brought Volume 1, "Classic and Romantic Compositions," and 6, "Standard and Modern Dance Music."
linke with a picture: http://www.amazon.com/Scribner-Radio-Music-Library-Volumes/dp/B000FCH2IQ

She has a lot of music, and sometimes brings some of hers for me to learn, or as gifts, except when she gives me new ones.

Jokes that don't sound like jokes

2009-11-13T05:05:50Z

Also, my dad's on Facebook.

Speaking of him, I was thinking a few minutes ago about my first memory of him being sarcastic. When I was 7, I found a penny among his things, and he said I could keep it. Then he added, "Don't spend it all in one place."

At first, I didn't understand, because he spoke in a rather serious monotone and the delivery was confusing.

notdepressive @ 2009-11-12T23:58:00

2009-11-13T04:58:04Z

Jane Goodall was on The Daily Show tonight, and she made me smile. She just seemed so sweet.

I laughed today.

2009-11-12T03:30:53Z

My brother needed pants that fit over the thing he wears on his leg.

To quote my father: "Why did you buy these pants? They look like Mark Twain pants."

...he was referring to illustrations of Huck Finn, in which the boy's pants are too large.

notdepressive @ 2009-11-08T01:14:00

2009-11-08T06:17:36Z

Kusmi brand Prince Vladimir tea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusmi_Tea

H TO THE N1

2009-11-02T03:29:43Z

Got the swine flu vaccine. My mother gave me the injection herself. I didn't know she was good at giving shots until eight days ago. I'm aware that she's an R.N. and worked in a hospital before I was born, but I didn't realize she'd held onto that particular skill over the past two decades.
Besides, being a nurse doesn't necessarily mean you're good with needles. I learned that while getting a flu shot at age 12.

Oh, hell yes.

2009-10-08T19:35:58Z

Full marks on the stats project, which really didn't feel like a project, as it was some (irritating) graphing accomanied by a series of questions. ANYWHO, the prof was letting us turn it in, and if we got things wrong, she'd send it back with commentary so we could fix it and still get full credit.

NOT NECESSARY THIS TIME.

Hello, anyone who still uses this.

2009-09-30T20:38:51Z

Apparently only Nicko and the metaquotes people (because that's a popular community) are the only people on my friends page who still use LiveJournal.

I'm still here, sometimes. I have to BS stuff for my education class, so not for long, but hello.

I'm 20 and I feel 16. And I just confirmed my mom as a Facebook friend.

I had a dream about things I can't remember, but it involved a rearranged parking lot where the old office was, and me walking across there slowly to get inside so it wouldn't rain on me, and me walking slowly into a place that reminded me of Home Depot's garden section except I don't think there was plants or hardware, and I was trying to hurry in but my left leg was injured and I limed the hell around, probably becuase I slept on my left side last night.
I miss run-on sentences. I can't give them to my teachers.

Apparently they're adding a "guest" thing on this site that will allow you to see who's on your journal and tell people when you're in theirs. It makes me feel strange because I would love to analyze other people's browsing habits, but I'd like to keep mine a secret. It's like in high school when I'd deduce which classes people had when they weren't in the same class as me.

Bees.

2009-06-21T03:56:13Z

Was on Metaquotes and followed a link in a thread there.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2243176

That's a lot of bees.

WOW CAT

2009-06-21T03:51:41Z

Yay, spam.

Linked from Moe.

Stalking cat.

notdepressive @ 2009-06-07T01:42:00

2009-06-07T05:44:37Z

Augh, why do I read the comments? YouTube comments are truly the bane of my existence. Whether the topic is Obama or piano technique, all I ever find there is annoyance.

notdepressive @ 2009-06-02T02:43:00

2009-06-02T06:48:53Z

I know it's almost 3 in the morning, but I was reading the entries tagged "sheet music" and I noticed that I never mentioned that sometime after I started tagging mentions of sheet music, I acquired all of Beethoven's sonatas.

I was so excited at the time, and I got them rather cheaply (my teacher referred to them as a "steal"). They were a hefty collection, and it was necessary to split them into two volumes.

I just...thought that would be in here.

fucking TSA

2009-05-30T07:40:56Z

Wikipedia says this about Krystian Zimerman, who's kinda my hero, a little bit:

Shortly after September 11, 2001, Zimerman's custom-made piano was confiscated at JFK Airport when he landed in Yew York City to give a recital at Carnegie Hall. The US Transportation Security Administration decided to destroy his piano, claiming the glue smelled like explosives.

This genuiniely upset me.

THIS WEEKEND

2009-05-28T02:55:02Z

Played Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe and liked it.

Stfu, critics, it was FUN, OKAY.

Book excerpt.

2009-05-01T05:17:15Z

Chopin was an incomparable teacher. The twenty francs paid by those who could afford his fee was not based on the cachet of his celebrity. He had the gift of imparting what he knew to his pupils in a way that both freed and inspired them. He taught by example: During lessons, the large Pleyel[1] was ceded to pupils while Chopin, seated beside them, played on a small upright "pianino." At the same time, he devoted rigorous and minute attention to each student's progress, particularly the proper position of the hands, on which he was implacable, helping students to master his own innovations in fingering and pedaling. On the subject of practice, he was still more radical. Taking a firm stand against the view that more was better, he warned that exhaustion was counterproductive; he advised a student who boasted of practicing for six hours to cut this time in half, and even then he urged that sessions at the piano alternate with intervals spent reading a book, looking at great paintings, or just taking a walk. The only point of technique was freedom, the liberation of interpretive faculties, not keyboard acrobatics for their own sake - the stock in trade of a Kalkbrenner or Liszt. Touch was the secret, he insisted, to "creating the most beautiful quality of sound"; Chopin's famous touch was described as a "stroking" movement which coaxed from certain final notes a magical afterlife, their tones lingering in the air.

Above the monotony of scales, or submission to the famous Czerny exercises, Chopin placed "an intense listening concentration" on the student's own playing to cultvate "refinement of the ear."[2]

He could be ill tempered, scourging pupils with icy contempt or explosive rage (the latter when he was feeling ill or confronted by lazy or careless work from students preparing for musical careers). He possessed, though, an intuitive understanding of what to give those young pianists who, once they had reached a certain level of virtuosity, were "stuck," unable tomove ahead with confidence in their own sense of the music: He urged them, "Be bolder, let yourself go more" - a reminder that along with Chopin's classical rigor, he was a romantic artist after all.

from Chopin's Funeral by Benita Eisler

1. Camille Pleyel was the maker of the pianos Chopin preferred.

2. I wish people payed more fucking attention to this.

Last night's dream.

2009-04-21T22:06:10Z

A mall, cousins (maybe), a standardized test.

The auditorium was in someone's mansion instead of a school.

It was raining and there was much knitwear. I never wear scarves. This past winter doesn't count.

DADDY DON'T WANT NO iPHONES IN HIS HOUSE.

2009-03-04T03:25:47Z

This amused me.

Lulz.

notdepressive @ 2009-02-21T20:55:00

2009-02-22T01:58:20Z

Someone on my friendslist posted this.

Hopefully, Moe is lurking about, because she'd like this very much, if only for Hitler.

Pop is fun

2009-02-17T08:01:40Z

Awake again. I might as well do some math, as it's due Wednesday.

Bought chocolate at 50% off (post-Valentine's Day sales always yield better sweets than post-Halloween sales, probably due to the respective natures of the holidays).

Also purchased some used books, because it was getting to be that time. Also, my brother had a book order for school, and I wanted to prevent him from spending $16 on a Carl Hiaasan novel. Who says I don't look out for him?

Still in the midst of organizing and rearranging things.