I love my music, I truly do. Despite the (sometimes) incapacitating doubt that I have about being good enough to have a career in it, the pursuit of this career has taught me a focus that I never knew I had. Writing about other subjects and learning them was easier for me possibly because you could obsess about it, and gain something from that ( Read more... )

 Top 5 Favorite Russian/ Eastern European Pieces

1. Scherezade- Rimsky- Korsakov
2. Rusalka - Dvorak (Specifically Song of the Moon... SOOOOO GORGEOUS)
3. Rite of Spring- Stravinsky
4. Sonata in D Major- Prokofiev
5. Alexander Nevsky- Prokofiev

Disqualified- Pictures at an Exhibition because it was orchestrated by a Frenchman. Modest shouldn't have been ( Read more... )

 I can't keep a journal to keep track of my life, not events. Things don't happen that are important enough for me to comment on, or aren't as funny ( Read more... )

 More than anything I want to remember being surrounded by friends and making music. That's not what I experienced last semester. It was constant fighting to actually get to the music, not just the fact that no one really wanted to play- just rehearse. Rehearsing is not music, rehearsing is a step to music and as such is not fun unless there's a ( Read more... )

So I made a cake today, and I realized something. It's not that I do anything special to the things I make, it's not the just the way I mix or the fact that I like doing everything by hand that makes them taste so good. It's the fact that I stay and want to finish the job. When I bake, it's the only thing I want to be doing right in that second of ( Read more... )

There's a country song (yes, country.... get over it) out there that talks about the death of loved ones. As a result he begins to change the verb of how he approaches his day (not by saying the philosophy behind it, but rather by doing it over and over and over again). Since I'm a believer in the whole "change the thought, change the action" ( Read more... )

( Rant )

I needed a change in the book I was reading (or not reading since I haven't touched it in weeks...), so yesterday I went to the Brookline Booksmith and went into the philosophy section. A bright blue cover with the title "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Inquiry into Values" struck me as kind of cliche in a time when self help books ( Read more... )

So.... I had to work at 6AM and the first thing I did was check the election results ( Read more... )

Every semester has it's moment where I feel like I'm at my breaking point. This is this semester's breaking point... today just hasn't been fun.

That means that things will turn around in the next couple of weeks and I'll get stuff done though!