This just in as a comment on my youtube performance of the Brahms' B-minor Capriccio:

youre fingering is worng for the most part, you are supposed to use the right and the left hand in the 0:37 parts where you go on to the main melody, and some other parts have worng fingering too.

My response: So you didn't enjoy it then. Shame.Seriously though ( Read more... )

It went well ( Read more... )

I've got a lot of little thinnngs to do today in preparation for tonight's recital. But I must take my soothing little smoke breaks and read my book from time to time to calm my nerves, which are very high-strung at the moment ( Read more... )

I'm as nervous as a long-tailed polecat in a room full of rocking chairs. Friday is the first (and possibly last) hard-core piano recital I've ever thrown in my 30 years of dabbling away at that instrument. An hour's worth of complicated Chopin is making my poor, simple country head swim ( Read more... )

I suffer from performance anxiety ( Read more... )

When we were out with qfu and my Jefferson Parish cop friend, Ben asked Jef, "Is crime in J.P. more smashy-grabby, or shooty-killy ( Read more... )

Things are seeming a bit better since my last (f'locked) words. My back, while still very angry with me for doing risky acrobatics like getting in a car, picking up a cat, or turning to the right, is howling with less fervor than the last few days. An angry murmur, I'll call it, with episodes of minor shrieks just to liven the atmosphere. Also, I ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went to the La. Crawfish Festival in the Lower Ninth with Candace, Leila, nofunangie, Steve, and a bunch of other friends ( Read more... )

It's definitely been Art Day. Didn't even schedule it to be so. Since I woke up at the crack of noon, I have:

1. worked on a writing project for a few hours - very happy with today's results.
2. Tossed around some design ideas in Photoshop for a web site for a friend who has suckered me into his current project.
3. Got more than half of the 50-run David Bowie ( Read more... )

Weekend starts … [clicking stopwatch definitively] … NOW!Between picking up an extra shift this week, fighting off Cold #27 of the season, playing with a few very entertaining houseguests, and the usual fatigue involved with being in bars all night long, I have next-to-nothing planned for the next four days besides sitting in bed, masturbating, ( Read more... )