Update
Ok, long time since i've been here - almost three months.
while the unofficial reason for that is everybodies current addiction to facebook, the official reason is that nothing interesting has happened in my life recently.
thats a lie now, just got back from a concert at the auckland town hall, with serj tankian [of system of a down fame] playing with the auckland philharmonic orchestra. It was indescribably awesome!
Probably a trained result of hollywood movies etc, but generally i find that orchestral music short circuits my brain and cuts straight to my emotions - as a result the concert was charged for me, and i thouroughly enjoyed it.
I also liked his choice to intersperse his set pieces with classical pieces by armenian composers, but thats heavily influenced by the fact that i like that anyway. Other people milage varied immensely - seeing the hard rockers grumble through a classical piece and then obligingly clap at the end was pretty amusing.
Apart from that, as i said, not much going on. the new site is finally launched, although its not running at full capacity yet - a situation that isn't helped by me taking a long weekend in auckland, but i regret nothing! getting it up and running [not to mention nearly getting it up and running, then pulling out at the last second!] was pretty stressfull, but its great to have that behind me now
anyway, its late, i'm bleary and a little deaf atm, i need sleep.
while the unofficial reason for that is everybodies current addiction to facebook, the official reason is that nothing interesting has happened in my life recently.
thats a lie now, just got back from a concert at the auckland town hall, with serj tankian [of system of a down fame] playing with the auckland philharmonic orchestra. It was indescribably awesome!
Probably a trained result of hollywood movies etc, but generally i find that orchestral music short circuits my brain and cuts straight to my emotions - as a result the concert was charged for me, and i thouroughly enjoyed it.
I also liked his choice to intersperse his set pieces with classical pieces by armenian composers, but thats heavily influenced by the fact that i like that anyway. Other people milage varied immensely - seeing the hard rockers grumble through a classical piece and then obligingly clap at the end was pretty amusing.
Apart from that, as i said, not much going on. the new site is finally launched, although its not running at full capacity yet - a situation that isn't helped by me taking a long weekend in auckland, but i regret nothing! getting it up and running [not to mention nearly getting it up and running, then pulling out at the last second!] was pretty stressfull, but its great to have that behind me now
anyway, its late, i'm bleary and a little deaf atm, i need sleep.