Don't you hate it when you have homework to do (like a paper on the influence of Arab traders on the East African coast from 7th century to 12th century), but all you want to do is sit around and watch Battlestar Galactica because you are only on the third season and you last left off with your favorite character dying and you want to know if she' ( Read more... )

I have not given a proper update in some time, so here's a list ( Read more... )

Dear BSG,

Where have you been all my life and why did I not take notice in you before? I hope the second season is as fraking good as the first.

Sincerely,

Me. 

I don't understand how I spent most of my musical life having never listened to Arnold Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht. It's so wonderful! I love his post-Romantic/pre-serialism stuff far more than Wagner's booming chromaticism. And it's not yet 12-tone, therefore not too scary because I don't have to pull out my calculator and start inverting and ( Read more... )

Why is it impossible to find the ORIGINAL Back in Black album on iTunes, and so easy to find every album ever created by an AC/DC tribute band. All I want is "You Shook Me All Night Long!" Is that so difficult?

Why is it impossible to find the ORIGINAL Back in Black album on iTunes, and so easy to find every AC/DC tribute band's albums ever created? All I want is "You Shook Me All Night Long!" Is that so difficult?

I got back from my trip to the U.K. two days ago. I cried when the plane took off to go home because I loved it there so much. I saw London, York, and Oxford ( Read more... )

Bahhhhhhhh I want spring break so I can ignore conducting and woodwinds and brass for a week and enjoy the rain in London, Oxford, and (maybe?) York ( Read more... )

I love it when my life feels like it was taken out of the page of a Harry Potter book ( Read more... )

I know I can't bitch because I'm going to London in a month, and, well...that's pretty cool (!!!!!!), but...

UGHHHHHHHHH why is the pound more than the dollar? I miss my Peru and China trips when my currency was so valuable!