Trajectory

Hallelujah

On my life bucket list: see/participate in a flash mob

 

Sweet sweet agony

The musician sent me one of his audition recordings today. It's one of those Bach solos that makes you want to beat your head against the wall. It's somber and elegant and it builds and builds and builds with absolutely no resolution or release. The frustration is maddening, but I can't stop listening to it.

This is why women love musicians.

 

 

On my crap list

I went through and blocked nearly all of my female friends' news feeds. Already I feel incredibly relieved. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or engagement or wedding plans or how stressed you are or read about every detail of your pregnancy or see pictures of your kids.

I'm also not a fan of the laundry list of "rites of passage" and the recommended timeline for "achieving" all of these things that supposedly everyone wants.

Out of sight, out of mind. Problem solved.

  

Be careful what you wish for

There's been a strange pattern lately where things that I think about seem to manifest themselves... even my dreams now.

 

1. My kitchen is covered in blue butterflies. I saw the exact same butterflies while I was away two weeks ago.

2. I've been thinking about soccer a lot lately and how I missed my chance to play with Chris, but until we meet again I should probably get a ball and practice. Last night I found an unattended soccer ball on my way to a meeting.

3. I always wanted to play piano, said so over dinner one evening, and now there's a keyboard in my living room.

4. I thought about a friend of mine the other day (it's been four years since we'd talked), and she called to say that she was in town the next day. It's the first time she's been back since she got married four years ago.

5. I had a very vivid dream where I composed my own song, played all of the instruments myself, arranged it all, and synced up videos of me playing all of the parts. I was on a huge stage at my piano, and I was playing the piano live while the videos of me were playing on the giant screen behind me. Then a friend posted this video on his facebook:

 

I'm not quite sure what's going on, but it's pretty empowering to think that everything will fall into place if you will it.

It's not all glitz and glamour, folks

These videos are pretty great. Poor guy... I hope he's making more than minimum wage.

 

 

 

 

 

My lovers' eyes

I got to see my boyfriend last night <3

The main problem is that he's a Gemini. I'm more astrologically compatible with this one:

I went to the festival all by myself. I was one among 75,000 or so, and I was only there to see Muse. It took about 4 hours to fight my way to the front of the crowd, which is unusual seeing as how I'm not overly assertive/aggressive. It was so cramped that I had to ask the guy behind me to reach into my back pocket and hand me my camera because I couldn't reach it myself. My knee twisted, my skin is toasty, my neck can't move, my voice is gone, and my ears are still ringing.

BUT IT WAS WORTH IT. Check it out- 15 people away from the front... close enough to see my lovers' eyes <3

(p.s. - this was shot with a Canon Powershot model whatever. It's a great little camera)

 

It's a great big universe and we're all really puny

I miss having complex concepts explained to me through singing cartoons.

 

Can someone make a "how to decide what to do with your life" and/or "how to find a soulmate" song please?

Adoration

Valentina, you are incredible.

 

Apocalyptic star gazing

As much as I talk about stars and astrology and NASA and conspiracies, I've never actually seen stars in real life. Being a big city girl all my life, I've never seen more stars that I can count. It's on my to do list. 

In the mean time, this combines several of my favorite things: stars, crescendos, composition, photography, simplicity and a hint of Muse with the electric guitar/symphony piece by Hans Zimmer.

Watch it in HD full screen full volume for the best effect. 

 

opera tragedy

Scene: late spring evening in the recital hall of a local university

Characters: boy, girl, other boy, bassi profondi 

Girl is bored and decides to go see a recital by herself since all of her friends are either unavailable or not interested in opera. Girl gets all dolled up and goes to the recital hall to hear a world-renowned bassi profondi. Girl enters recital hall, chooses a seat, and starts reading the opera program.

Boy enters recital hall and looks around while talking on the phone. Girl notices boy and smiles. Boy picks the same row that the girl is sitting in, walks over, and asks, "are these seats taken?" Girl is enchanted with boy's gorgeous bass voice and motions for him to take a seat. Boy sits down one seat away and starts leafing through program. Girl smiles and flips through her program too.

The lights dim. Another boy enters the recital hall and goes to greet boy, boy scoots over to the seat next to girl, other boy takes first boy's seat as the show begins. Boy and girl are now sitting together and girl finds the courage to say hi and introduce herself. Boy is very charming and boy and girl talk during each break in the program.

Bassi profondi's performance is sublime. The booming Italian voice, the delightful accent, the humor, the cute nieces sitting in the front row, the superb accompanist and the music choices are perfect. First one encore, then another, followed by another. Boy and girl look at each other smiling while applauding after each piece. 

The lights come back on, girl exits right and thinks boy is following behind her. 

Boy exits left. 

Girl and boy get separated without girl saying goodbye, without girl wishing boy good luck at his senior vocal recital on Saturday, and without girl asking boy for his number. 

Boy disappears somewhere in crowd. Girl goes home sad and disappointed.