Below are the most recent 2 friends' journal entries.

Monday, December 28th, 2009
sylvansafekeepe	1:13a	Not really that much of a music update, but still... I have a new favorite YouTube music clip, this from a Ryan McKasson & Hanneke Cassel concert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptd9paTkMI8 First half is just gorgeous, and second half is a lot of fun to listen to, especially if you're trying to figure out what's going on with the non-melody parts. Farewell to Tchernobyl also makes an appearance, which pretty much guarantees that I'll like the performance; in this regard, I'm rather predictable. Haven't been playing as much recently, since BiCo and Swat classes are on break for the next few weeks. Am spending the time learning new tunes. I can actually play The Mathematician's Hornpipe at speed now, but it's something of a hollow victory, since it's not like I'm ever going to play the damn thing for a dance or at a session. Sort of the same as The City of Savannah. Suspect I have a glaring weakness for Skinner tunes that nobody else actually feels are worth learning. Problem with the realization is that it means I actually have to learn bariolage bowing if I want to play some of this stuff. I'm not sure I want to do that. In 'played by the average fiddler' tune news, I have also discovered the Raivlin Reel, which is a heck of a lot of fun to play, and has a freakish number of possible ways to bow it. Still haven't decided how I'm going to come down on that. It's probably good that I'm doing the tune learning now, since my February is looking incredibly full of stuff. We'll see if I go nuts. Current Music: clip mentioned at beginning of post (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 26th, 2009
sylvansafekeepe	8:25a	A First. I don't think I've ever dreamed myself through an entire performance of Dr. Horrible before. But the real question is which is more troubling: that I was performing the role of the good doctor for most of it, complete with shifts in perspective, or that my dream-self had acquired Capt. Hammer's psychiatrist's appointment book, and was plotting an appropriate ambush, when I woke up. I sort of wish I'd stayed asleep, as things could've gotten really interesting. Also, I now have the musical number from the beginning of Act 2 stuck in my head, with no signs of it being interested in leaving. reldnahkram, if I start singing about throwing poison in the water main, don't worry -- I don't actually intend to do it. (Comment on this)