Music & Quidditch
I am so sore from playing quidditch. It's actually a really good workout. Plus bruises from tackling people and being tackled.
Oh I feel like such a nerd. Wow.
We don't have the capes yet if anything . . .
Yet.
Ah so I didn't get in the McGill orchestra but I met a violist who recommended the Montréal Youth Symphony Orchestra, but apparently their auditions for 09/10 were in August. There has to be a community orchestra in Montréal, but I can't find one at all! The website is probably in French, but I don't know what they would call a community orchestra.
I am reassured in the fact that a lot of music students didn't get in either. There were something like 57 violinists auditioned and around 30 placed in the two orchestras.
So maybe I picked a school with a too good music program =_=``.
But there are so many musicians here not in the music program. What are they all doing? Where's our orchestra?
On the topic of music: download Mojo. If your housing is anywhere near other people and they're showing up on your network, you can download music from their computer. Dude, I thought I had a lot of songs, but this guy popped up with 15,691 and they weren't duplicates or anything. The person with all the Jewish music was the best though. I am excited!
It's also interesting just to see what everyone has. Apparently there are all these popular bands that I don't know of because they were all in common. I think? Uh . . . but yeah pretty much everyone had massive amounts of the Beatles and hip hop stuff. Lots of Eminem and the Who also. Hmm . . . yeah the one with all the Jewish music had the most interesting stuff though.
The Beatles . . . I appreciate that they were very creative and innovative and the first of their kind. But they just don't do it for me all the time. However I love Norwegian Wood. Which is apparently a strange favorite among their songs? Someone who loves the Beatles told me that.
Unfortunately I can only listen to recordings. What were they like in concert? It's always 100x better live. Except for recently. I think pitch correction is false advertising and should be illegal - well, when recordings are made free and concerts are what you pay for.
Like that free concert we went to - so we checked out the bands online. Sounded pretty good, nothing special, just good.
Then the concert! Dude they were all out of tune! Clearly they had done some sneaky computer work on those recordings. But the concert was free and it wasn't terribly bad so that's okay just slightly disheartening.
Also it's cheating ~_~ what are you going to do when people hear you live? I guess the majority would be tone deaf . . . or not really listening . . . or you play so loud that it disturbs your balance and you have an adrenaline rush anyways . . . or you're only a little out of tune so that mostly trained musicians would notice?
Wooo I just got really off-topic.
Grr I have people I want to be friends with, but how??? I don't know what to do~~~ I'm trying to be friends with Eiriksson, but I only ever see him during calc for 5 minutes before class starts. Boo. I need to meet some more interesting people.
Music people music people I need to jam or rehearse or something.
Oh I feel like such a nerd. Wow.
We don't have the capes yet if anything . . .
Yet.
Ah so I didn't get in the McGill orchestra but I met a violist who recommended the Montréal Youth Symphony Orchestra, but apparently their auditions for 09/10 were in August. There has to be a community orchestra in Montréal, but I can't find one at all! The website is probably in French, but I don't know what they would call a community orchestra.
I am reassured in the fact that a lot of music students didn't get in either. There were something like 57 violinists auditioned and around 30 placed in the two orchestras.
So maybe I picked a school with a too good music program =_=``.
But there are so many musicians here not in the music program. What are they all doing? Where's our orchestra?
On the topic of music: download Mojo. If your housing is anywhere near other people and they're showing up on your network, you can download music from their computer. Dude, I thought I had a lot of songs, but this guy popped up with 15,691 and they weren't duplicates or anything. The person with all the Jewish music was the best though. I am excited!
It's also interesting just to see what everyone has. Apparently there are all these popular bands that I don't know of because they were all in common. I think? Uh . . . but yeah pretty much everyone had massive amounts of the Beatles and hip hop stuff. Lots of Eminem and the Who also. Hmm . . . yeah the one with all the Jewish music had the most interesting stuff though.
The Beatles . . . I appreciate that they were very creative and innovative and the first of their kind. But they just don't do it for me all the time. However I love Norwegian Wood. Which is apparently a strange favorite among their songs? Someone who loves the Beatles told me that.
Unfortunately I can only listen to recordings. What were they like in concert? It's always 100x better live. Except for recently. I think pitch correction is false advertising and should be illegal - well, when recordings are made free and concerts are what you pay for.
Like that free concert we went to - so we checked out the bands online. Sounded pretty good, nothing special, just good.
Then the concert! Dude they were all out of tune! Clearly they had done some sneaky computer work on those recordings. But the concert was free and it wasn't terribly bad so that's okay just slightly disheartening.
Also it's cheating ~_~ what are you going to do when people hear you live? I guess the majority would be tone deaf . . . or not really listening . . . or you play so loud that it disturbs your balance and you have an adrenaline rush anyways . . . or you're only a little out of tune so that mostly trained musicians would notice?
Wooo I just got really off-topic.
Grr I have people I want to be friends with, but how??? I don't know what to do~~~ I'm trying to be friends with Eiriksson, but I only ever see him during calc for 5 minutes before class starts. Boo. I need to meet some more interesting people.
Music people music people I need to jam or rehearse or something.