December 2010
75 posts
NYC - 5
I don’t have a photo of me from the start of the start of last year, sorry challenge.
NYC - 4
A letter to a person you grew apart from this year.
Emma,
For over a year, I cared about you dearly. You were so huge in my life, when I truly needed help I would always turn to you, and somehow you always managed to cheer me up. For a while even, we got very close. But over the past few months we have grown apart, I have not really talked to you in so long. I think you texted me about an...
NYC-3
For new years!
Well, i’m going to like 3 different parties, from what I’ve been told. Which should be fun, I won’t know that many people, so as maybe new years will actually hold some new beginnings. I tried to do the same thing last year, and made three of my best friends for the whole year. I’m excited.
NYC (new years challenge, duhh)
10 things i did this year….
Got a first division for my solo and my duet at state solo ensemble.
Worked an actual job for the first time ever.
Completely changed who my closest friends are.
Became an only child, my brother and sister are at college.
Broke my jaw, and now I have an asymmetrical jawline.
Was captain of my soccer and lacrosse teams.
Got first chair for symphony band,...
I say No
Well I haven’t really had a vent sesh on here in a while, and although I’m sure most of you are all crying out exultantly, sorry to steal your thunder but here I go again. Granted I’m going to be vague so whether you read or not is your choice, you may be left with some lack of clarity.
I keep telling myself that I’m going to. It’s not hard, it’s not a big...
“Pious leaders speaking for God drive more to atheism than the devil.”
– Poorer Richards America
Missing
Let me say, before all else, I love Christmas. It is my favorite time of year, besides maybe lacrosse season. The music, the jovial discourse, punch and cookies, I love it all.
But this year, with Christmas comes a pang of sadness. This year Christmas is missing part of what made Christmas whole. The gregarious attitude, tantalizing stories and gruff jocularity of my Uncle Greg. He passed away...
ilikeitred:
Beautiful Disaster- Jon McLaughlin
A knife
A knife
Jutting, protruding out
Rammed, forced in
Constant pain
Immutable fear
Such strife
A gift
Warming, heartening still
Constant reminder
Impenetrable joy
A lift
Helping and healing
A constant reminder
Never forget
Such an immaculate feeling.
Visitors.
Over the past 5 months or so I’ve grown very used to living alone on my house. So now over break when my siblings both come home its like my life is thrown completely off keel. To be honest my sister doesn’t really change much, it is nice having her around, and we will spend time together and talk and what not, so I can’t complain. But my brother does irk me at times....
“Esse Est Percipi. To be is to be perceived.”
– George Berkeley
Tis the Season...
Tis the season for my annual watching of all the christmas movies I own. I’ve got about 15, and then there are all the ones on t.v. Yes I am excited.
Tis the season for snowboarding, other than lacrosse season, this time is truly, the MOST wonderful time of the year. I’m going tomorrow, and monday, and tuesday, and next thursday and friday. So ready, too bad my dog chewed up my...
Postponing
So, I really didn’t want to do my 30 day yesterday.
And I don’t like the topic today.
I’m going to take a break from this thing, at least for a week or so. It’s just gotten to be much less fun. The questions are stupid.
Wasting Time
1. Honestly, how many people have you kissed? Uhhhhhhhhhh ya, not going to go through and think about that. 2. Honestly, what color is your underwear? Red with blue polka dots. I love this pair because I was wearing them the first time I saw the movie Valentines Day and they are in the movie, I felt sweet. 3. Honestly, what’s on your mind? A song. 4. Honestly, what are you doing right now? This...
Thank you:
Music.
Artists who have composed songs that captivate me and can alter my mood, they can make me nostalgic, and sad, and happy, and thoughtful, and everything else. Thank you for feeding me all these thoughts. Thank you music also for letting me produce you. Playing saxophone is one of the greatest things that I can do with my life.
Writing.
You let me express, and vent, and learn, and...
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Musical Expression, the United States of: Pop,...
For a research paper I am doing, I’m writing about musical expression. In modern times there is much debate about people being able to use others work without obtaining their permission. Remix artists will often mash songs together from multiple artists. Now does that steal from the other artists, or is it creating a whole new song. I can take one note and change it in a million different...
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Fuckin up Raw
So basically I did what the title says. Like Kylie had told me when she broke up with me she just wanted to get rid of the label. But in my gratuitous reckless emotional absurdity I saw it that she wanted to just make things like we were going to continue talking but only as friends. And I thought I’d expressed that thought to her on the phone that night, but I may have been unclear....
Here We Go - Day 15
My favorite tumblrs are the only people who I follow, my friends.
Love
My dad really likes to hug me. Since I was little he has. I get lots of kinks in my back so he likes to squeeze so hard that he cracks my back, in all honesty it doesn’t feel very good. Also, I have since I was little been very susceptible to becoming lightheaded. By that I mean, if I sit too long, when I get up my vision goes completely blue and I feel dizzy for about a minute. Really...
When it comes down to it.
I’ve been trying to avoid annoying self rambling on here about my troubles, fears, glories, smiles, basically all those things related directly to me I’ve been trying to avoid getting too far in to. But i’m sorry, I need to do a little talking.
So yesterday I had that post about questions, and how everything comes to another question, and that you can’t really control...
Here We Go - Day 14
Your earliest memory
This is impossible. I have a good deal of memories from when I was very little, but it is hard to differentiate which one came before the other. Back then, time didn’t matter, so why did I care what happened when, it just happened.
Insanity
This is just another one of those times when I have a story in my head.
Wouldn’t you like to fall?
Let me tell you a story my father told me when I was 11. There once was a little boy, he had no friends. He liked to farm, raised in the city, he would run 5 miles every day, so that he could go farm a weed ridden field. This boy saw the possibility in the field, he wished to nurture the...
Here We Go - Day 13
Somewhere you’d like to move or visit.
I want to move to England, I always have, always will. I don’t remember what started it, but since I was little it’s been a desire of mine. There is just something about the place, the people, the attitude that draws me there.
“What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An...”
– Cobb, Inception
Here We Go Day 12
Bullet your whole day.
Wake Up
DECA TEST
Einsteins with Elliot and Alexandra
Bus ride to parcells
Sound check for jazz band
Sound check for other bands
Kids start showing up
Help a kid get the right answer for some candy
Perform for symphony band, smoke let off at the wrong time.
Sigh, sweatin balls with all these lights
Perform for Jazz band, whole crowd cheers for my solo? Kinda cool
...
"It's Turtles all the way down"
So I just went errand running with my mom, which included a stop at Barnes and Noble. I instantly trudged over to my go to places in the store: Philosophy, and the Vonnegut section of Fiction and Literature. In the philosophy section I bought a book I had been wanting for a long time, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar.
The book starts off with an introduction, that portrays the very essence...
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Shut Up and Smile- Bowling For...
Here We Go
so…i’m actually only posting this as a to-do note, I’m not failing my challenge because I didn’t do the challenge for today, I had two concerts, an hour and a half of photo taking for my newspaper, and some serious life training. I’ll respond to both todays challenge and yesterdays later on, and then I’ll probably write some shizzy on practicality, emmersion...