Arr! Talking Like A Pirate Be Hard!
Sep. 20th, 2004 03:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sub_dividedWent to a few more parties where there were too many warm bodies and not enough oxygen. Saw "When Harry Met Sally," didn't expect to see whatever it is that supposedly makes it so special, but did. Billy Crystal romantic lead! Ah hah hah! Gave up on that class I mistakenly didn't register for and am now in "World's Easiest Bhuddist Class for Honors Students Looking to Fluff Up Their Schedules."
Went house-hunting! It'll be me and five other girls next year (city ordinances say no more than 6 per house); probably I'm more excited about the prospect of cooking my own food than I really ought to be. So far we're looking at 5 different houses, all upwards of $450 dollars a month (OUCH) with utilities. I blame little-M (not other-M or M-dawg), becuase she doesn't have a car. The local landlords must've all sat down with a maps and compasses, because there's a rough circle around the campus (the "walk-to-classes-in-the-morning" circle) and everything within it is at least $100 a month more than everything outside it. At least heating is included; the weather Up Here being what it is, that's important.
Featuring :
Saw Wynton Marsalis! Technically, saw The Lincoln Center Jazz Ensemble Featuring Wynton Marsallis, at Hill Auditorium which is supposedly (after last year's remodeling) one of only five acoustically perfect auditoriums in the United States. Some impressions:
1) I'm not a big jazz fan, and if I were I might not have wanted to see jazz in a 10,000 person auditorium which is, I'm sure, not what the originators of the genre had in mind. But it was fun! Good musicianship is good musicianship, and those players did some craaazy things with sound production and mutes and whatnot, as well as playing a large variety of jazz, old and new, traditional and experimental, fast and slow, etc.
2) Forget violin/cello/flute. Trombones are officially the sexiest, most romantic instrument known to man.
3) "Featuing Wynton Marsalis" was a blatent mis-advertisement. Every other member of the ensemble had more solo time than him! Yes, even the younger brother of one of the trombones who wasn't even techinically in the band! And this was a shame, because he had the sweetest tone of all the trumpets- really mellow and beautiful.
4) I didn't like the trumpet who got most of the solos - he was more technically accomplished, yes, but he played with a typically trumpet sound (and if you know what trumpets typically sound like, then you will know that this is not a compliment). Also, boo to the jazz pianist for stealing pieces of other people's music and then failing to combine them in interesting ways.
4) String bass solos!
5) Say you've got a plunger and you're using it to modulate your tone, as a less tinny version of the straight mute. With me so far? Good. So tell me- does it really affect the sound in any noticible way when you wave said mute around about two feet from the bell of your instrument?
6) Jazz trumpet improvisational round-robins inevitibally become "who can play the highest" competitions. This is a law of nature.
7) According to Mr. Marsalis, The Blues are like Indoor Plumbing.
My notes for class are full of exclaimations!! Surely schoolwork is not that exciting!!!
Went house-hunting! It'll be me and five other girls next year (city ordinances say no more than 6 per house); probably I'm more excited about the prospect of cooking my own food than I really ought to be. So far we're looking at 5 different houses, all upwards of $450 dollars a month (OUCH) with utilities. I blame little-M (not other-M or M-dawg), becuase she doesn't have a car. The local landlords must've all sat down with a maps and compasses, because there's a rough circle around the campus (the "walk-to-classes-in-the-morning" circle) and everything within it is at least $100 a month more than everything outside it. At least heating is included; the weather Up Here being what it is, that's important.
Featuring :
Saw Wynton Marsalis! Technically, saw The Lincoln Center Jazz Ensemble Featuring Wynton Marsallis, at Hill Auditorium which is supposedly (after last year's remodeling) one of only five acoustically perfect auditoriums in the United States. Some impressions:
1) I'm not a big jazz fan, and if I were I might not have wanted to see jazz in a 10,000 person auditorium which is, I'm sure, not what the originators of the genre had in mind. But it was fun! Good musicianship is good musicianship, and those players did some craaazy things with sound production and mutes and whatnot, as well as playing a large variety of jazz, old and new, traditional and experimental, fast and slow, etc.
2) Forget violin/cello/flute. Trombones are officially the sexiest, most romantic instrument known to man.
3) "Featuing Wynton Marsalis" was a blatent mis-advertisement. Every other member of the ensemble had more solo time than him! Yes, even the younger brother of one of the trombones who wasn't even techinically in the band! And this was a shame, because he had the sweetest tone of all the trumpets- really mellow and beautiful.
4) I didn't like the trumpet who got most of the solos - he was more technically accomplished, yes, but he played with a typically trumpet sound (and if you know what trumpets typically sound like, then you will know that this is not a compliment). Also, boo to the jazz pianist for stealing pieces of other people's music and then failing to combine them in interesting ways.
4) String bass solos!
5) Say you've got a plunger and you're using it to modulate your tone, as a less tinny version of the straight mute. With me so far? Good. So tell me- does it really affect the sound in any noticible way when you wave said mute around about two feet from the bell of your instrument?
6) Jazz trumpet improvisational round-robins inevitibally become "who can play the highest" competitions. This is a law of nature.
7) According to Mr. Marsalis, The Blues are like Indoor Plumbing.
My notes for class are full of exclaimations!! Surely schoolwork is not that exciting!!!
