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August 29, 2006

once


Originally uploaded
by Erzsébet.

Funny, I started writing a song about myself thinking it was about someone else. It's hard to write about things that are past..or rather, it's hard to write about them as though they were present, because I'd never have written anything while I felt as though words would bring some imaginary glass house down around my feet. There was no reason for silence except the illusion of...I'm not even sure what - a right, a place, a position, a name, a comfortable explanation for something that was more than I would admit to myself - to me, at any rate. I'd try to understand why I was miserable with exactly what I said I was happy with and be unable to form the questions that drove at my mind with a dull thudding.

And yet I didn't want anything like that; I wanted something that doesn't exist, and it is past tense, and it didn't ruin things, and yet I'm writing it present tense, and yes, I remember very well how it felt to wrap in on myself and not see the world.

On a slightly shallower note, I sat on a bed and looked at myself in the mirror the other day. I like my hips quite a bit. I mention it because I thought, at that moment, how I was missing blogging, and perhaps I could blog about sitting in front of the mirror thinking about hips and blogging. I don't know, it was a funny moment. I'm drinking a little too much coffee and practicing like mad. I'm pretty happy as I just hit the ' this piece is really cute' point again, which argues that it's getting better.

I think I might change the tenses.

August 16, 2006

small frustrations

So it seems likely that fate is somehow attacking me. I'm sitting on the front porch waiting for my supposed new boss, who was supposed to be here at 8am....I've been calling and calling her, and finally I got an answer - apparently telus is fixing her line and the wires have been crossed or something...she's out, they'll call her cell phone, she's probably already at the job....but I was here, waiting...I went home at 8:15 to double check I had the right day, and then came back. I don't usually wait for more than 15 minutes... I'm still here. I really hope she didn't come when I was heading home. Gaaaaaaaaaaah. Why the freaking mix ups? Fuckity, if I lose this over this I am going to be furious. Ok, lets be honest, I'm already kinda furious. I was supposed to be here, I am here. Where the hell is she? Did she forget? Did she decide not to do this today? If so do I want to work for her? grrr....I'm sure there's some sort of reasonable explanation.

Am having coffee with the superego later today, which will be nice. Watched Much ado about nothing last night with Genevieve, which was highly enjoyable - it's playing till saturday I believe, and is free, and quite worth every minute. I'm really not enjoying this waiting bullshit. I could be practicing. It's been an hour and a half. GAH!!!!!!!!

Ah good. she finally calls. off to a garden. wheee!

August 10, 2006

Delayed interlude


Yestereve was weird, complete with odd mood and company in various states of coming undone. Today was the gradual comedown and smoothing out. A fully wonderful day, it moved seamlessly from food to companionable reading, hair amusement, clerks, dinner conversation and arrived, perfectly in time, at a spectacular concert.

I feel more and more as I write about my discoveries and experiences as they relate to music, well, and life in general, that I'm restating the obvious truths that everyone hears over and over again, but I like the ornaments I add to the old tune, and maybe others will too, although it doesn't particularily matter.

I want to play chamber music like this. Was my first and continuing thought throughout the concert. The interaction between the musicians was so incredibly wonderful. Anoushka Shankar was undeniably the leader, but there was also a give and take, and, of course, the amazingly structured improvisation that always fills me with that strange almost-regret that I didn't grow up in a different musical tradition. Fusion at it's best, there was no jarring oddness, all the musicians working towards the same thing. The laptop musician filled me with a gleefulness that's hard to match. He was so incredibly happy and wore a white shirt that made him look like a little lab technician playing with some sort of highly dangerous magic while being so completely fascinated that he wasn't afraid. ha.

Funny, although music flowed through her body and her power is certainly refined, she doesn't have the steadiness, that deep reserve of musical...wisdom...that really does come with age. She was amazing, the music divine, the edge still firey and held together with will; none of the quiet assurance. I liked it for what it was, but it's neat, to me, to note the difference. I am still not good enough to have that brilliance...

I like it that I can hear the structures more now. I think my ear is getting better, bit by bit. I want to start working on my sight singing again, because I think I might be able to progress a little more this time - learning the cello has really been helping me, pitchwise. I hear scales now, and they stay with me, perhaps it's that my memory is getting better? I'm not sure, it feels similar to when I first was able to match pitch when I was 13 or so, something has definately shifted and my hearing/understanding has changed in a very physical way that needs to be taken advantage of before I start to rely on it in weird ways.

August 8, 2006

Rain, bruises and love


Originally uploaded
by Liz AM.

It's raining. It's beautiful and even through the strange exhaustion that comes from too much coffee and long days of work I'm feeling the edges of my mouth curl upwards. Funny to have so much faith, for lack of a better word, in my friends and my self. I think that's the wrong order, but it's essentially the same thing to me. A good night of release, in many ways, last night, even if I was improperly written upon. I'm learning to really listen to what people say these days. I've always been a good listener, but there's a difference between sitting there and being silent and actually understanding or making an effort to try to understand. I like seeing other people's views; they're interesting and useful.

I spent over a hundred dollars on clothes today. This is quite an achievement for me, and was wonderfully painless. I went in, looked, bought and ran away in soft brown and green hemp. Colour me hippy.

I have no worries about people right now. I like this, I really like having people I can bounce off of and not harm, no matter how tired I get. Odd. I never thought I'd fit into the strange community/tribe down on wreck, but, yknow, I do, and I like it a lot. Weird, no? I also never thought I'd be able to be as obnoxious and loud and yelly as Norm....mwahahaha. I'm still not as loud, but damn, I'm totally matching him for obnoxiousness. Next come the water balloon canons. Chris you didn't hear that. I wonder if I'll have the guts to hit Norm.....

Strange, the amount of thoughts that go unrecorded now that I use the internet and not a notebook as my casual thought storage space and don't have it readily available. I'm so incredibly pleased that it's raining. Beach people will be happy too; it's been far too sunny for far too long.

Well hopefully I'll get a call soon. Back to reality....or so you think...

August 2, 2006

Well, she did ask.

about five seconds of silence before the somewhat tense well, if that's what you want.

I decided not to push it too much by explaining to her it wasn't exactly something I'd thought out beforehand and decided I wanted. Still, much mellower reaction than I'd feared. You'd think I'd learn to stop underestimating my mother.

I hate lethargy so I shall attack it with scales and repetitive motion studies. look out!