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Yeah, so, I haven't updated since....june lol. I figured I might say what's going on in my life.
I just had a lesson with my idol, Joe Alessi. He da man, and I think he liked me. At least he didn't take my money and run. He gave me lots of good tips, told my to play my Rochut EVERY DAY regular, tenor clef, up an octave, down an octave, tenor clef down two octaves. I've got it memorized, oh yeah.
I'm working on getting a new bone, hopefully an Edwards. My Bach is giving my an aneurysm every time I play it.
Apps are in, college audition dates are mostly set, and I'm working my butt off.
Hopefully I'll get in somewhere.
Btw, I hate school. | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment   |
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| well...
well...
well...
i honestly have no words for friday. my time with angela, it was...a fantastical dream
i guess i'll leave it at that.
i've never been happier. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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Aphrodite/Eros
?? Which Of The Greek Gods Are You ??
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You're Most Like The Season Autumn ...
You're warm, and the most approachable. You have
that gentle prescence about you. People can
relate to you, and find you easy company.
However it's likely you've been hurt in the
past and it has left you scarred so things can
become rather chilly with you at times. Being
the third Season in, you're mature, trustworthy
and loyal to your friends but prone to
depression and negative thinking.
Well done... You're the shy and sensitive season :)
?? Which Season Are You ??
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Love
?? Which Angel Or Demon Are You ??
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This next one made me laugh:
You are... WAIT! - you're none of the Sins you're an Angel! Perfect, or close enough, and annoyingly so! Did you always behave so 'just right'. ARGHHH . You can annoy the hell outta people with your attitude, but no doubt your church is real happy with you. The positive side certainly outweighs the negative, after all, you do chores, are smart, are cute, do charity work. Least you know what a perfect saint you are. You just make the rest of us sinners vomit. Perhaps you could break the rules once in a while, go wild - Eat an extra cookie or something. However - congratulations on being the most pure, of the entire human race.
?? Which Of The Seven Deadly Sins Are You ??
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Ok, very very weird. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
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| tuesday...
there are no words for it | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| The force that shouldn't be reckoned with that made me update just passed by in a little green clown car, but that doesn't matter, because I'm updating!
Ok, let's see. Important dates to know:
5/11 - Monticello gig ($$)
5/22 - MM's grad party (probably)
5/31 - MYO rehearsal
6/04 - MYO concert
6/24 - NYP Concert con un regalo da Dio (my favorite little lemon)
I think that's it for now.
Um...Juilliard jury on the 14th, this isn't going to be good. Well, I will, my accompanist will, but together we won't. I wonder what room I'm in. Hm..
I need a bass trombone, a new slide, and to live in Long Island. Money also helps, anybody around Poughkeepsie want lessons? I'm a good teacher, I swear.
Distance sucks, it's the worst thing, but it does make the heart grow fonder, and boy is mine fond.
I miss ||: tadpole :|| (repeat infinite).
So yeah, not touching the trombone for two days and coming back to it feels good but you suck afterwards. Not that I didn't suck before, but now I uberly suck. Uberly, yeah, just make an english adverb out of a germ adjective. You can do that, right?
Ok, time to get back in shape, byebye. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Holst - The Planets | | Security: | | | Subject: | yeah! | | Time: | 11:57 pm | | Current Mood: |  blank |
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| time for the weekly update
nothing's new, left my solo music at juilliard
still haven't heard from McNeur
i miss my tadpole like CARAZAY!!!!!
and i need a bass trombone
um...anything else?
i'm never drinking coffee ever again | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
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| Yeah it's been a while since my last update. There's really nothing to talk about. There are those I love and those I wish would disappear off the face of the Earth, but the latter are few and far between.
I e-mailed McNeur about playing in the MYO concert and I have to say it was a very impressive e-mail, Gabby said so too.
I'm now into cycling. It's mostly for my health because I don't want to die at the age of 30 because I'm a fat tub o' tuning slide grease. I now do half an hour of cycling and man, after three days, I feel great. I feel I'm already slimming down, so life physicall is good.
Tuesday, I think I helped a friend find herself. She doesn't know whether to go into music, and I really believe she wants to, but is afraid to admit it. So yay to helping people find themselves in music.
I had a lesson with Paul tonight, and man, I kicked butt. He told me two problems. TWO!! that's an achievement lol. He's auditioning for the 2nd trombone opening at the Met Opera. Poor Ko-Ichiro, he's leaving...I hope Paul does well, he deserves it, he's going nuts.
Everything's good, I need to see some good friends, because well, it just sucks without them. Sigh...
Until next update, this is B-Bone signing off. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
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| According to Mr. Guilfoyle, I don't update enough. So here goes:
Pre-College was fun. It's Pre-College. Solfege is bad for the soul, it must be.
Sunday I went to Geneseo and sat in a practice room for almost two hours, and I didn't notice. Yeah, I'm ready for endless practicing in college. It's what I'd love to do. My brother did an excellent job in his concerto, I'm very proud to say he's my brother. I just wish I had his bass trombone.
Monday was a school day, and...well it was a school day. Monday night I got to join a somewhat local brass choir. When I go to college, I'm either joining a brass choir or making one. They're so cool. The director said "I'm hearing a lot of good things from the bass trombone." Or something to that effect. He also tells me "it's a great pleasure." So either he wants to marry me or he likes my playing. I think it's the latter, and I doubt he's the Michael Jackson type but you never know. I'm just kidding, he's such a cool guy. I like him. He has an elkhart 88H which he got Chuck MacAlexander to make open wrap in like the 80s. That is the coolest thing and I'm going to try it out soon.
Today was chamber choir, we're singing an awesome arrangement of Bohemian Rhapsody, maybe if some of our singers could read music a little better it would go a little smoother. Today was also Vassar Wind Ensemble, we definitely have 5 trombones, and Mike, the bass trombonist who graduated from Eastman, has an Edwards B454 which I want to steal like now.
I missed MYOlove tonight. I wish I could have gone, but seeing that I have school tomorrow, I'd never get home. High school sucks.
My bass trombone will probably be an Edwards. And I figured out why low C is crap, I never use enough air. Once I add a little air, everything just pops out, everything from double pedal A to super Bb. I hate being a tenor trombonist, cause overblowing a tenor is easy to fix, but underblowing a bass is just crap. I need that bone now.
Sigh..such is the story of my life. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
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| Congrats to Ashleigh and John on Columbia, Leslie on NYU, and John again on Juilliard. Jees, I wish I could go to Juilliard...
Congrats to Ange on her acceptance into Boston Conservatory. You know, Boston's 3.5 hours from NYC by train. | | comments: 10 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Borodin - Polovtsian Dances (with choir) | | Security: | | | Subject: | The world... | | Time: | 06:40 pm | | Current Mood: |  frustrated with life |
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| I need a bass trombone, the Yamaha doesn't suit me, or else it's a terrible instrument, or else I just suck. No, I'm bad, but I don't suck so much that the instrument starts hurting my hand. My life needs adjusting. Why can't I just move to New Hyde Park, buy a bass trombone, not have to go to school, be able to practice every minute of the next two years, and go to college to do something that benefits both myself and the music world?
I had a revelation while vacuuming today. I thought how I have a nice new vacuum and a friend of mine has an older vacuum. And I thought to ask them "why don't you get a new vacuum?" and then I realized the answer was simple "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Then I thought how so many people don't realize that simple truth and they're just using excuses to buy and buy and buy and buy and to give money to companies that don't need it, because how many mom and pop stores are there anymore?
Yesterday, I was thinking of how in "You Can Take It With You," Ed Carmichael can go to the local grocery store, and actually KNOW the people who own it. I was thinking this in a SUPER STOP & SHOP yesterday. Gosh, I didn't know anybody in taht store. With it's 30 aisles and loads of stuff and stuff, and junk food, and 800 brands of soda and 9 million variations on a theme by Frito-Lay. Gosh. It's really sick what this world is. While the people at the cash register are making $7 an hour swiping credit cards and asking "paper or plastic?" there are the top 1% of Americans making a million bucks a day and saying "hey...I sure wish I could have a 14th Ferrari parked on my 300 ft. private driveway made from italian white marble." Gosh. I hate this world.
Maybe being poor just makes you realize a lot.
If it weren't for music, and maybe I'll do this on the side, I'd like to be a preacher. Not for the Lord or whatever, but for humanity. Did you know, New Balance is the only major shoe company that actually has any substantial production in America? Actually a better way of putting it is: did you know, New Balance is the only major shoe company that actually still employs people with decent wages, quality working conditions, and in the end turns out a good product?
My dad had a monitor for like 5 years. Then it blew. He's always been caring to me and he likes me being at his house and he thinks the only reason I'll go is because there's a computer, which isn't true. So the moment that monitor blew he went out and bought some no-name monitor because it was cheap. What happens? After three months, THAT one blew. I mean, come on...everyone's out for a buck and it's alway gotta be a buck not ninety nine cents. Gosh. Nobody can sacrifice a cent for better quality.
While vacuuming I thought, what if every company who employed someone made sure that their employee had decent living conditions and decent quality of life and good working conditions. How much better would this world be? How many fewer skeptics would there be about faulty products. Whatever happened to the ideals of capitalism? Sheesh.
Maybe I'm all talk and no walk, but I sure wish I could become better. The more I have these realizations, the better I find I become.
And by the way, no matter what I do or listen to, I'm always hearing oboe. From Oboe Concertos to Polovtsian Dances. EVERYWHERE. Not that I mind, I just notice it a lot more. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
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