So, I, uh. I'm still not sure what to think of this, but I'm writing Avengers fanfic.

Dear Captain America.

I started writing it this week. rainy_day has been writing a story that I've been discussing with her since before she started it, in April, and I really liked the premise of it, because she's actually trying to write Captain America in the ( Read more... )

On the way home from lunch, I worked out the chords to a song I wrote when I was fifteen ( Read more... )

Six weeks with the ukulele. I am delving deeper and deeper into the unexplored territory of angry!ukulele, which I do not think is a very broad genre. This song is intended as a counterpiece to The Sea Song: one is about fire, and one is about water. One of them is about feeling safe and one is about feeling broken. Both of them are about ( Read more... )

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I wrote a song about the NYC subway and circus animals.

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In the third grade in my elementary school, every kid took recorder lessons. I remember these vaguely; they were fun but not particularly exciting to me ( Read more... )

Three weeks today. I wrote another song!

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I have learned 3 songs well enough that I can play them by memory, not counting 'Happy Birthday," and I have lost track of how many chords I know. There are three songs I can almost play by memory, and three more songs I can play passably with the chords in front of me ( Read more... )

So, I got my ukulele exactly a week ago.

This is what I accomplished in the week:

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The concept has come up in a lot of discussions, in a lot of ways, for me, lately, that people are deserving or undeserving of certain things based on some kind of imaginary rubric that judges our worth as people ( Read more... )