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Sometimes when there's a long silence from me, it's because I am desperately resisting the urge to post every hour about the same thing because this is not a fandom blog and the fact that my life and spare time have been requisitioned by my occasional jag of obsessive preoccupation with one piece/band/writer/musician doesn't mean that anyone else is interested in seeing every Youtube video of it ever uploaded.
So, yeah, I'm diggin on Tim Minchin at the moment. And by moment I mean weeks. Let me remind myself that other people are awesome: Freddie Mercury, Stephen Fry, Crash Kings, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Robert Plant, Neil Gaiman, look at all those people who are not Tim Minchin who are awesome, one of them is even American, there's still hope. Whatever. I have to learn to play the freaking piano again. Or everything. Look at this, this song is about me (and I am not one of those people who says that about all songs):
And then, omfg, the playing of every air instrument with a skill level that bespeaks actual skill at the instruments:
(and the TV version with zillions more instruments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvhG6YHt574 and the documentary explication version where he explains how much fun it's gonna be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afMIysJtyYk)
And a huge intricate, virtuosic but still playful piano solo in the middle of a stupid song about how angst appeals to the teenage market:
Okay if I don't stop now I will never stop, but link the entire Minchin contents of youtube to my blog, which will doubtless cause an implosion that would bring down the wrath of innumerable lj and dw users.
But, you know, I'm still here. And I'm so damn jealous of Tim Minchin and his nervous comedy and his effortless pianism that I'm frustratedly trying to do it again myself. I even made a list of all the songs that I wrote and can play (or can't), and all the songs I can play (that I didn't write).
And I'm going to learn to cover Rock'n'Roll Nerd if it kills me.
So, yeah, I'm diggin on Tim Minchin at the moment. And by moment I mean weeks. Let me remind myself that other people are awesome: Freddie Mercury, Stephen Fry, Crash Kings, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Robert Plant, Neil Gaiman, look at all those people who are not Tim Minchin who are awesome, one of them is even American, there's still hope. Whatever. I have to learn to play the freaking piano again. Or everything. Look at this, this song is about me (and I am not one of those people who says that about all songs):
And then, omfg, the playing of every air instrument with a skill level that bespeaks actual skill at the instruments:
(and the TV version with zillions more instruments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvhG6YHt574 and the documentary explication version where he explains how much fun it's gonna be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afMIysJtyYk)
And a huge intricate, virtuosic but still playful piano solo in the middle of a stupid song about how angst appeals to the teenage market:
Okay if I don't stop now I will never stop, but link the entire Minchin contents of youtube to my blog, which will doubtless cause an implosion that would bring down the wrath of innumerable lj and dw users.
But, you know, I'm still here. And I'm so damn jealous of Tim Minchin and his nervous comedy and his effortless pianism that I'm frustratedly trying to do it again myself. I even made a list of all the songs that I wrote and can play (or can't), and all the songs I can play (that I didn't write).
And I'm going to learn to cover Rock'n'Roll Nerd if it kills me.