another corporate show.
I dropped Form & Theory on Monday night and sold my books back Tuesday. I decided it was just a little too much for me, and I imagine Dad will be emo about it if he finds out (he was gone for the night in New Jersey), but I don't care. I have to keep my head on straight.
I'm searching for prose pieces for Oral Interpretation. Mostly I'm rereading sections of Neil Gaiman's Smoke And Mirrors anthology, searching through my own writing, and also trying to read the book for Native American literature that I'm supposed to have finished tomorrow, but am only about 1/4 done with it. I don't know WHY reading is so beyond me, though once I find something engrossing - like Neil! - I can't put it down.
Textbooks, however, are a different matter; I've yet to crack open my expensive astronomy text and I can't seem to get through the Oral Lit book, either. I've looked at the theatre textbook and I enjoy it, but I have so many OTHER things I'm reading...
A Canadian girl on the Brett Anderson forums sent me all the Muse B-sides in the universe - I'm meeting great people through these forums! The Tears forum went down semi-permanently the other day; Brett and Bernard were all 'We'll resurrect the site when we do something together again!' and I'm okay with it. It got kind of hilarious and filthy and weird on the forum just as it was dying, because they were hacking the subforum titles...
The "news" forum became:
that third single and other lies...
now you tell a friend, and they tell a friend, and so on and so on and so on... post it on a secret forum
and then it became:
the second album is finished
and we just wanted you to know that we've heard it but you have to wait til hell freezes over cause rumours are more fun than promotional interviews
Other Bands became:
Morrissey
Come on, it's what you fucktards wanted all along, isn't it?
And alternately:
nothing about morrissey
no, nothing
It was good times, even if I was never really a part of the tightly-knit regular posters. I feel more a part of the BA forums. The Muse forums, which I just joined, are a total circus of posters - rather like the U2 forums I tried to infiltrate several years ago. I found another Muse fan in Nebraska, though, and she goes to UNO, and that's really awesome, because SOMEONE has to freak out about the amazingness of Matt Bellamy with me.
Speaking of that, I located jpgs of the sheet music for Muse's "Sunburn," which I've wanted to try playing for YEARS since it was the only Muse song I had for ages and I've always loved it. I took it down to the piano before taking my 5-hour nap (! whoops) and tried playing it, but it's really difficult. I got the chords down and the first 8 notes, but can't put them together in such a way as to make it... actually sound like "Sunburn." I really need to get Showbiz on CD so I can listen to it simultaneously. Reading music is starting to make sense to me, though I wish I'd been given some music as a child or something. I learned to read at 3 and thus I can't remember NOT reading, so I can't use that as a way to help me learn to read music. And I really want to learn to read music. I still have to count up the treble clef staff...thing (I just forgot all my musical terms, sorry) by going Every Good Boy Does Fine and F A C E and then mentally pencil in middle C. At least I can find all the notes on the keyboard and I can count out major scales so I can make chords with a little fiddling, and I can move my middle finger down 1/2 step and make minor chords, too. I'm trying to let it all sink in so that the learning process no longer hinders me from writing my own songs, but it's going to take a while and more dedicated practice than I've been giving it all summer. I know I was playing a lot of piano in May and June, when I was working, because I'd come home and sit at the piano and play for an hour and a half to comfort myself and get myself through the horrors of being a cashier. I don't do jobs well. But since I quit, and I had the Scones over, I haven't tickled the ivories (god, that's such a stupid phrase - why did I use it!?) very often since then.
Does anything in my life happen that's not music- or shopping-related?
No.
Well, unless it's writing. Or queerity.
I stopped at Homers earlier (and stayed too long, to Smeg's chagrin - I'm sorry, fair sibling!) to sell my dumb CDs, but they weren't accepting them until some preordained time (2 PM), so I wandered around looking for used Muse and their live DVD and found neither. I found Origin Of Symmetry, but it was $15 and I have a 30% off coupon for Borders that I can use and get it for about $9, I think, starting today (it's after midnight!) or Friday. I ended up buying Trainspotting on DVD for $10 and I wanted a Radiohead poster but they didn't have any besides the display. :'(
I'm printing out my 2006 poems - all the work I've done since April, at least. Which is sadly not as much as I'd like. I think declaring my writing major dried me up. But I know that's not true.
Back to trying to get my reading done for tomorrow. And locate some short prose - I probably should go copy shit on the scanner downstairs so I don't have to bring in my books.
J.
I'm searching for prose pieces for Oral Interpretation. Mostly I'm rereading sections of Neil Gaiman's Smoke And Mirrors anthology, searching through my own writing, and also trying to read the book for Native American literature that I'm supposed to have finished tomorrow, but am only about 1/4 done with it. I don't know WHY reading is so beyond me, though once I find something engrossing - like Neil! - I can't put it down.
Textbooks, however, are a different matter; I've yet to crack open my expensive astronomy text and I can't seem to get through the Oral Lit book, either. I've looked at the theatre textbook and I enjoy it, but I have so many OTHER things I'm reading...
A Canadian girl on the Brett Anderson forums sent me all the Muse B-sides in the universe - I'm meeting great people through these forums! The Tears forum went down semi-permanently the other day; Brett and Bernard were all 'We'll resurrect the site when we do something together again!' and I'm okay with it. It got kind of hilarious and filthy and weird on the forum just as it was dying, because they were hacking the subforum titles...
The "news" forum became:
that third single and other lies...
now you tell a friend, and they tell a friend, and so on and so on and so on... post it on a secret forum
and then it became:
the second album is finished
and we just wanted you to know that we've heard it but you have to wait til hell freezes over cause rumours are more fun than promotional interviews
Other Bands became:
Morrissey
Come on, it's what you fucktards wanted all along, isn't it?
And alternately:
nothing about morrissey
no, nothing
It was good times, even if I was never really a part of the tightly-knit regular posters. I feel more a part of the BA forums. The Muse forums, which I just joined, are a total circus of posters - rather like the U2 forums I tried to infiltrate several years ago. I found another Muse fan in Nebraska, though, and she goes to UNO, and that's really awesome, because SOMEONE has to freak out about the amazingness of Matt Bellamy with me.
Speaking of that, I located jpgs of the sheet music for Muse's "Sunburn," which I've wanted to try playing for YEARS since it was the only Muse song I had for ages and I've always loved it. I took it down to the piano before taking my 5-hour nap (! whoops) and tried playing it, but it's really difficult. I got the chords down and the first 8 notes, but can't put them together in such a way as to make it... actually sound like "Sunburn." I really need to get Showbiz on CD so I can listen to it simultaneously. Reading music is starting to make sense to me, though I wish I'd been given some music as a child or something. I learned to read at 3 and thus I can't remember NOT reading, so I can't use that as a way to help me learn to read music. And I really want to learn to read music. I still have to count up the treble clef staff...thing (I just forgot all my musical terms, sorry) by going Every Good Boy Does Fine and F A C E and then mentally pencil in middle C. At least I can find all the notes on the keyboard and I can count out major scales so I can make chords with a little fiddling, and I can move my middle finger down 1/2 step and make minor chords, too. I'm trying to let it all sink in so that the learning process no longer hinders me from writing my own songs, but it's going to take a while and more dedicated practice than I've been giving it all summer. I know I was playing a lot of piano in May and June, when I was working, because I'd come home and sit at the piano and play for an hour and a half to comfort myself and get myself through the horrors of being a cashier. I don't do jobs well. But since I quit, and I had the Scones over, I haven't tickled the ivories (god, that's such a stupid phrase - why did I use it!?) very often since then.
Does anything in my life happen that's not music- or shopping-related?
No.
Well, unless it's writing. Or queerity.
I stopped at Homers earlier (and stayed too long, to Smeg's chagrin - I'm sorry, fair sibling!) to sell my dumb CDs, but they weren't accepting them until some preordained time (2 PM), so I wandered around looking for used Muse and their live DVD and found neither. I found Origin Of Symmetry, but it was $15 and I have a 30% off coupon for Borders that I can use and get it for about $9, I think, starting today (it's after midnight!) or Friday. I ended up buying Trainspotting on DVD for $10 and I wanted a Radiohead poster but they didn't have any besides the display. :'(
I'm printing out my 2006 poems - all the work I've done since April, at least. Which is sadly not as much as I'd like. I think declaring my writing major dried me up. But I know that's not true.
Back to trying to get my reading done for tomorrow. And locate some short prose - I probably should go copy shit on the scanner downstairs so I don't have to bring in my books.
J.