I just discovered this songwriter called Owl City. His songs...are...just beautiful, imho. Hello Seattle made me extremely home sick, and Designer Skyline made me a VERY happy little Fountainhead fan. <3
Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwaqG-E7DVM&feature= ( Read more... )

Tomorrow, I'm giving my violin back to the people I borrow it from. This means that I will have: thirteen years of musical education, no violin, and three guitars (two if I can sell one of them -_- does anyone want an electric guitar? It has a case... and it was recently cleaned and MOT'd or whatever the equivalent is for guitars and I'll sell it ( Read more... )

haha i stole this from my bb
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I've been listening to Beyoncé lately. Whilst I'm anything but a general R&B fan, there's something completely awesome about her songs that's really gripping me lately. Halo is totally buzzing me four days after I heard it on the radio; If I Were A Boy makes me dance and think about how awesome boy memes are; Single Ladies is like my anthem of I AM ( Read more... )

I went shopping today, and bought and baked all kinds of friendly things. Like the dozen blueberry muffins I made tonight, at only 92 calories a go! recipe here And they are all light and cakey and not chewy at all... ;3; <333 Also I've discovered today that I have to play a concert on Wednesday evening, which is a bummer as I can't exactly go home ( Read more... )

I bought a book of Beethoven Sonatas from a charity shop today, for twelve pounds. It's such a beautiful book! I'm not too sure what to do with it, as it is for piano... but I'm sure I'll think of something. Better than to have left it in the shop!

( Photos of the book )

I feel a little like there must be something wrong with my musical taste, but lately I've been finding some of Bach's music a little turgid. Some of it is still as exquisite as ever-Brandenburg 3, certain of the chorales, Goldberg Variation, er, BWV850, etc etc-but others, like certain of the other Goldberg Variations, certain movements from ( Read more... )

Oh, wow, I just talked to a girl I haven't spoken to for about a year and a half, that i used to know from the Guildhall-a pianist, just about to take her Diploma (which I really need to do D: she reminded me)-and it turns out that she read the Fountainhead since I last spoke to her, and loved it. So, we're meeting up next week sometime! She's an ( Read more... )

This week has been completely effing insane, and I can't say how glad I am that's over. I'm starting to enjoy my life, weirdly, because it isn't actually getting much nicer yet. My final recital was on thursday evening. I played the Bach Gavotte en Rondeau, amazingly better than I've ever played it in concert before; Lilium, the Elfen Lied opening ( Read more... )

After an impromptu agreement with a Jewish communist at my school, I have managed to trade math lessons for conversational hebrew tutoring.

YES. I RULE.

In addition, I attended a Jonah Goldberg talk at the LSE to publicise his new book on wednesday, entitled Liberal Facism: The uses and abuses of the F-word. It was an insanely good talk; more on ( Read more... )