that jeep commercial... it just ticks me off.

they use the song "sunshine (go away today)" by jonathan edwards.  i love the song.  a lot.  however, they rip the song apart and take various lines from various verses... and they don't make any sense and they don't rhyme.  i don't understand.

the lyrics they use are:

sunshine, go away today.
i don't feel ( Read more... )

i visualize myself bawling uncontrollably until i vomit.
but i don't actually shed a tear.

i'm not really sure what's wrong with me...

sometimes i'd rather just lock myself in a room with a horn and forget about everything else.

peter secured a full time position teaching horn at iowa state ( Read more... )

my horn-playing sounds sooooo much better in the recital hall than it does in my mom's basement.

imagine that.

i'm kind of a wimp.  i never want to play when anyone else is home.  i was proud of myself tonight, though.  i didn't stop playing immediately when i heard the door open.  but i finished the piece then turned on the tv.  i don't mind playing ( Read more... )

just when i think i know what i'm doing, something happens that gets in the way.  maybe i really should just take the hint and stop thinking about it.  but... i still want to talk about it.  what harm is there in throwing an idea out there?

i had a hottt date with my big brother tonight.  not my brother brent, but my viz brother, mark.  he took me ( Read more... )

i now have two cows that sit atop my loveseat and make me smile ( Read more... )

this probably makes me the equivalent of a heathen in the world of horn players, but i don't like william vermeulen's choice of tempo for the romanze of mozart's 3rd horn concerto.  the other movements are fine, but i don't think the second movement requires such a dramatic contrast from the other two ( Read more... )

sometimes i consider just dropping out of school and joining the army now, not because i don't like school (in fact, i do), but because i could be so much better of a horn player if i spent my time practicing my instrument instead of studying politics and chemistry and other sorts of random things. but i then realize that studying these other ( Read more... )

the bathroom frequently smells of food, and i just don't understand why. it's nowhere near the kitchen, and i can't smell the same food anywhere else in the hallway. not gonna lie, it kinda bothers me. a lot. seriously... do you want to smell dinner while you're pooping ( Read more... )

i don't really have any place i want to be ( Read more... )