Likes: Originally Posted by Huilunsoittaja
Don't tease.
Don't tease.
I'd love to participate.If for no other reason than to always know exactly what time that darn train will arrive at the station.
I wasn't sure if I'd get a chance, but I did!Don't tease.
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Last edited by Huilunsoittaja; Oct-31-2014 at 06:34.
"Music is an art, and art is forever. Music should not succumb to fashion, which is passing and forgotten."
Glazunov
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Oh, and, here's my professional website!
Not really about what happened in my life, but I think next time a Wagner thread gets started, it would be a good idea for everyone to stick strictly to the discussion of music and not to fall for the bait of the usual agent provocateurs who will try to derail it, as usual.
... yet for us will still remain the holy German art... (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg)***God gave all men all earth to love,
But since our hearts are small,
Ordained for each one spot should prove
Beloved over all.
R. Kipling
Huilu, you look lovely!
My fiddle my joy.
Wouldn't that be nice? I could read it without feeling queasy, & even learn something!
Last edited by Ingélou; Oct-31-2014 at 11:06.
My fiddle my joy.
Turned 55 today...Its my Birthday and Halloween. When Kids knock on our door I take sweets off them!
What!? I say thank you...
Last edited by Badinerie; Oct-31-2014 at 13:47.
Did I miss something already?
I've been busy putting my grandmother in a care home. For the past month I have avoided posting because I could see the stress that I have been experiencing leaking into the tone of my posts (apologies to all). Instead of posting (or listening to classical music) I have been perusing legal forms, selling a house, dealing with obstreperous relative's demands for my grandmother's furniture, et cetera. When all of these events converged, my usual laid back, good-natured demeanour became decidedly curmudgeonly. From now on I think I'll just sit on the bleachers.
Imagination cannot make fools wise; but she can make them happy, to the envy of reason, who can only make her friends miserable. -Pascal
When the grass is greener on the other side, more often than not it is just Astro-Turf. - Anon.
Had a cup of coffee this morning with another photographer. He'd asked me to work with him on a couple of photoshoots he has coming up. They're reasonably big and so will be time consuming. However I discussed the scenario with Madam and she's cool with it - it helps that she knows the business - so the informal meeting this morning was simply to confirm. It's funny though, because I've known this guy for thirty years and this'll be the first time we've worked together on anything.
Current status: not Photoshopping an arched back while blindfolded.
Last night our choir just had our first rehearsal with Bramwell Tovey—we perform the Britten War Requiem with the VSO next week! I am quite excited
"Perhaps only genius really understand genius."
– Robert Schumann
We are performing that piece in March with Keith Lockhart conducting!
"To be a musician is a curse. To NOT be one is even worse." Jack Daney
I've been having a really bad last couple of weeks.
On the surface, of course, things are going really well. I'm 5 weeks through school and have been able to complete every assignment, getting basically an A in everything. I've finished the incomplete course in mathematical finance I had from last year (I had to study for and take the final over the last few weeks), and got an A- in the course, which is awesome because I was shooting for a B.
But on the inside, things are absolutely terrible: I still can't get a girlfriend.
Seriously, I couldn't care less if I'm the first person to make a quantum computer out of 5/2 fractional quantum Hall effect anyons. ANYBODY can do that. But getting a girlfriend... that's absolutely impossible.
It's not for a lack of trying, however. There's this frosh Asian girl I've been talking to every now and then in the library, and I even invited her to have lunch. She's quite the math/physics nerd: in fact, all she talks about is math and physics. But of course, whenever I ask her to dinner on the weekend, she always gives a Mickey Mouse wishy-washy answer, saying she's too busy (but of course she's not too busy to go out to dinner with her friends). She always gets uncomfortable whenever I give her a hug. In fact, I would always see her in the library basement quite often, but the last few weeks I haven't (most likely because she knows that I now study there all the time, and wants to avoid me).
There's another girl, also Asian (see a pattern?), but a transfer student and a bit older. She seems to like me... she even asked me to invite her to our dorm dinner! But she's always hanging out with this guy. They're always studying together. Now, I've never seen them get touchy-feely or kiss, but they're always hanging out together. In fact, when I invited this girl to dorm dinner the guy followed along! And then he proceeded to tell us about algebraic topology... I can't compete with someone who knows topology, I'm a ******* tiny-brained experimental physicist, not a Godlike mathematician for Chirst's sake!
It's just sad that women have such little use for us and derive so much pleasure from stepping over us. In fact: I have a modest proposal for the United States to solve this problem of men's existence. When young boys hit puberty at say, 13, we should force them to donate a few rounds of their sperm to a sperm bank. Then, we should execute them. This way, we can carry out the existence of our species without the disease of men. Women get what they want (the world is free from men) and men get what we want (we don't have to live in this God-forsaken society of ours).
When and why are you giving her a hug?
I sometimes give girls hugs when I see them. She actually enjoyed it at first and would warmly reciprocate, but when she slowly started to realize that I liked her, she tends to tense up a bit. It's so emasculating.
My therapist actually said that giving some girls (including girls you like or don't like) a hug every now and then is beneficial.
Seriously, I so wish I could get a girlfriend: then I would finally be a worthy person who deserves to live life on this earth. Right now, I'm basically a worthless inanimate object stepped on by the world.
I'll be in the audience!Last night our choir just had our first rehearsal with Bramwell Tovey—we perform the Britten War Requiem with the VSO next week! I am quite excited
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