| Just like old times |
[Apr. 20th, 2008|01:50 am] |
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Unfortunately, I am hanging on and depending on one song to keep me alive. I wrote the lyrics on my arm in sharpie. It's the only thing that I'm running on. |
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[Nov. 19th, 2007|03:28 pm] |
Just when I am feeling so low I don't know what to do, I see one of the only things in this world capable of bringing me back.
I'm so in love with everything. I need to keep this mentality. |
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[Oct. 6th, 2007|04:45 am] |
I'm sitting in Eric's basement right now. Joey is snoring on the left side of me, and Eric had been quietly sleeping for more than an hour. This house creeks all the time. Ever since I have been sleeping since 4th grade. This house always creeks.
It's 4:47 as I write these words.
I want to make this clear to myself and others:
- I'm not lazy and boring
- I'm going to stay in one place the rest of my life, or two place, or five
- I'm not going o break promises to myself.
Now Eric is snoring too.
- I am going to study what I want to study.
- I don't think my adventures are over
- I will have more than a million interesting stories by the time I am gone from the world
- I am unexperienced
- I love life
This house can be so scary sometimes.
- I'm going to find meaning in everything
- I feel uncomfortable if I can' play music for people
- I will here leave as soon as I can
I am not lying. I am not "just saying this".
I will.
This house creeks so much.
I love you. I'm sorry if it's annoying. You're wonderful. I'm not embarassed to tell everyone I know. You're the best person I ever met. If there were more people like you in the world, it wouldn't be so hard to find poetry and beauty in people.
Now they are going back and forth snoring. |
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[Sep. 30th, 2007|09:45 pm] |
D) "With a little imagination and dreams we can change the world."
M) "It's possible."
D) "It's probable." |
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| "Can they dance?" |
[May. 24th, 2007|06:33 pm] |
For those of you who didn't know, I had an internship with the elementary school music teacher, which ended today. It was mostly me helping her with 3rd and 4th graders who were in the school band, helping them warm up, playing music with them and et cetra.
Since today was my last day, I went for the full day, which I had never done before because I could only do it during lunch or after school. She told me to bring my accordion today so I could play for the kids. In the morning I played for 3rd and 4th graders, letting some of them play the piano keys while I held the instrument.
At some point in the morning, the other music teacher asked if she could bring in her children in kindergarden to hear me play. Of course I said sure. I thought they would be more iratating than the 3rd and 4th graders can be, but they weren't. They were in shock and wide-eyed.
I played some things for them. Then I started playing this Strauss waltz called "The Empress Waltz", it's always been a favorite of mine. When I started playing it, the kids jumps and asked the teacher if they could dance, and she said sure. I was playing this waltz on accordion watching about fifteen 5-year-olds waltzing and dancing to my music. I have never had a bigger smile on my face.
It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen in my life and makes me want to/made me cry with joy. |
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[May. 21st, 2007|07:15 pm] |
Listening to William Shatner brings back memories of the past. Very odd and good memories.
I don't know if the effort I put into things is even worth it sometimes. I don't think people notice it when I put a lot fo effort into something. Maybe I am thinking people care more than they do, and I already think people barely care at all.
I really have no reason to complain. With the exception of some difficult things here and there, my life is very wonderful now, after a long period of it being just okay. I'm still in shock of all of it.
My band's full legnth CD is finished musically, now we just need to get it out. I hope people like it, it kind of means a lot to me because I have been trying to do something with music before I even knew any instruments. I've been with this since I was 14, and this is what it all has amounted to. |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 15th, 2007|09:06 am] |
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Marching band complete. |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 8th, 2007|01:17 pm] |
La mort m'attend aux dernières feuilles
De l'arbre qui fera mon cercueil
Pour mieux clouer le temps qui passe
La mort m'attend dans les lilas
Qu'un fossoyeur lancera sur moi
Pour mieux fleurir le temps qui passe
La mort m'attend dans un grand lit
Tendu aux toiles de l'oubli
Pour mieux fermer le temps qui passe.
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Mais qu'y a-t-il derrière la porte
Et qui m'attend déjà
Ange ou démon qu'importe
Au-devant de la porte il y a toi. |
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[Mar. 18th, 2007|08:46 am] |
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Thus giving me 26 days to create a marching band. |
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| (no subject) |
[Mar. 6th, 2007|04:50 pm] |
I haven't done that in so long.
Now I know I am ready. |
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| It's time again. |
[Mar. 4th, 2007|09:31 pm] |
Tu te retrouves jusqu’en Amérique!
En troubadour des places publiques!
Danse par dessus toutes les frontières!
L’espace scénique grand comme la Terre!
When the earth rebirths, I won't hesitate for a minute. |
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| Important things in my life |
[Jan. 8th, 2007|10:56 pm] |
Got my new beautiful accordion. 120 Bass. 41 key. 3 bass Registers. 7 treble registers. White pearl. Gold grill.
My band, Whack, is playing shows, and getting heard of in the Westchester scene.
Been neglecting practicing, and I need to try harder.
College is pretty much applied to.
Haven't learned any new instruments in a while.
Finding it harder and harder to do school work. |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 21st, 2006|12:14 am] |
Exactly one year ago, I started playing this instrument. From that day on, I knew my life would be heading in a completely different direction. I was bent on not letting it become a phase. If you asked on November 19th 2005 what I wanted to do with my life, I would have said, I don't know. If you asked me on November 21st, 2005, I would've said be a musician. I have spent a long time making up for lost months and years. And now, I have engulfed myself in the world of music. I have a band, I play solo shows, I go to music school for both piano and accordion, I play other instruments in the school band, and learn any instrument I can get my hands on. I've reached my calling, I hope. One year of building myself. One year of learning about myself. One year with Penelope. |
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 11th, 2006|11:00 pm] |
Max Flagged: Hear about the goldfish that went bankrupt?
purplepuppiluva: nope
Max Flagged: Now he's a bronzefish.
purplepuppiluva: hahahahahahahahahaha
Max Flagged: Hear about the goldfish that went bankrupt?
kittie xp: no?
Max Flagged: Now he's a bronzefish.
kittie xp: HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
Max Flagged: Hear about the goldfish that went bankrupt?
Dave J Ska: nope
Max Flagged: Now he's a bronzefish.
Dave J Ska: hahahaha
Max Flagged: Hear about the goldfish that went bankrupt?
ginirosaru: nope
Max Flagged: Now he's a bronzefish.
ginirosaru: hahahahahaha
Max Flagged: Hear about the goldfish that went bankrupt?
see lexi run: huh?
Max Flagged: Now he's a bronzefish.
see lexi run: oh snap!
Max Flagged: Hear about the goldfish that went bankrupt?
Sherlock139: no
Max Flagged: Now he's a bronzefish.
Sherlock139: oh
Sherlock139: i wish that were funny
Sherlock139: its just depressing |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 10th, 2006|10:48 pm] |
Max Flagged: Ever play hearts on the computer?
TheMGsays: yea
Max Flagged: What does it say about me if I changed all the names of the characters who I am playing with to philosophers?
TheMGsays: you're nuts |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 10th, 2006|03:37 am] |
To accomplish my dream, in the next year, I need to be able to play (some I can already play, but I need to get better):
- Accordion
- Guitar
- Bass
- Xylophone
- Piano
- Drums
- Concertina
- Saxophone
- Clarinet
- Trumpet
- Tuba
- Mandolin
This is of the highest importance.
*Optional
- Oboe
- Trombone |
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| Revision. |
[Jun. 14th, 2006|02:51 pm] |
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| | Was Romeo Really A Jerk? - The No Smoking Orchestra | ] |
When I was in ninth grade, early in nith grade, I made a embarassing list of my top 20 favorite songs ever. I'm going to attempt to repeat. Feel free to add critism and comment.
This is in no order:
1. Hristiankova Kopanitsa - Ivo Papasov
2. Baro Foro - Gogol Bordello
3. Invasion - Chumbawamba
4. Black Bottom Stomp - Jelly Roll Morton
5. Les Bourgeois - Jacques Brel
6. Just You, Just Me - Lester Young
7. The Battle of Robot Bil - Terry S. Taylor
8. Por El Suelo - Manu Chao
9. Sally McLennane - The Pogues
10. Just the Right Bullets - Tom Waits
11. Il Pleut - Jacques Brel
12. Mala Vida - Mano Negra
13. Something to believe in - The Offspring
14. Mess Around - Ray Charles
15. Unza Unza Time - The No Smoking Orchestra
16. The Darktown Strutters Ball - Tiny Bradshaw
17. Innocent When You Dream - Tom Waits
18. The Band Played Waltzzing Matilda - The Pogues (I am aware that they did not write that song)
19. In Dreams - Roy Orbison
20. The World/Inferno Friendship Society - Tarot Americaine
I can play half of these.
The only one on there that repeats is #20, because it had a great effect on my life when I was 14/15. I haven't listened to it in ages, and it's one of the few songs that I refuse to listen to except on special occasions.
Some of those songs are their for their lyrics, some are there who their message, some are they because they just musically mind-blowing, and some just put you in the best mood. |
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| Le Petit Matin |
[Apr. 11th, 2006|11:28 am] |
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| | Against the nature - Gogol Bordello | ] |
I have always been a morning person, and I hold music that describes the morning or gives a good morning feel very close to me. I've tried to find as many as I can. Recently, I compiled a list of the morning music. This is the best I've done, and I suggest you listen to these songs. The order is not perfect, except for the first and last song.
Les Paumés du Petit Matin - Jacques Brel
The One That Got Away - Tom Waits
Blue Angel - Roy Orbison
Pasties And A G-String (At The Two O'Clock Club) - Tom Waits
Blue Monday - Fats Domino
The Partisan -Leonard Cohen
Blue Bayou -Roy Orbison
Fairytale Of New York -The Pogues
Table Top Joe - Tom Waits
The Old Main Drag - The Pogues
Il Pleut - Jacques Brel
Mi Inspiracion - Paco De Lucia
Just You, Just Me - Lester Young
Shiny - The Decmberists
It's A Wonderful Life - The Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution
Innocent When You Dream (78) - Tom Waits
Per I Morti Reggio Emilia - Mirah & The Black Cat Orchestra
Les Vieux - Jacques Brel
You make me feel so young - Frank Sinatra and Charles Aznavour
Against the Nature - Gogol Bordello
Some of these bands don't seem like they fit in, like Gogol Bordello, The Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, but these songs really are beautiful works. Obviously there are musicians that repreat on this list, like Tom Waits and Roy Orbison, these are some of the best musicians of the 20th century. I'd love to hear critism and suggestions.
Do yourself a favor, eat a satifying breakfast, make your self a cup of coffee or tea, sit outside with a stereo at 11 a.m., and play any of these songs. |
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| (no subject) |
[Mar. 2nd, 2006|08:56 am] |
Batty: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die...
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Deckard [in thoughts]: I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life, anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.
If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a statistic. |
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