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[sanura]

ON PROBLEMS

Our choicest plans
have fallen through,
our airiest castles
tumbled over,
because of lines
we neatly drew
and later neatly
stumbled over.

-Piet Hein

I finished a new silver half-gauntlet of the smallest rings yet, and then I was so struck for anything to do that I actually went to Shepherd and practiced for a couple hours. I've got four songs tenuously memorized, two more to learn. Ah, my friends Faure and Schubert. I called Dan, having nothing else to do and wondering about Sunday. Speaking of which, there are to be lessons! I left a message on Dr. Farwell's cell phone asking when.

These half-gauntlets make quite interesting noises against the Powerbook as I type. I think I will now watch another movie I've already seen too many times. Mm, obsession.

Comments

[music-dissident.livejournal.com]

http://www.brunching.com/images/geekchartbig.gif

[sanura.livejournal.com]

That is tremendous. I can find myself on almost every level.

[music-dissident.livejournal.com]

I hope you aren't on the very last level. That would be highly disturbing.

[music-dissident.livejournal.com]

And they forgot an even lower level: people who write furry slashhfic versions of Klingon folklore in Klingon and put a furry version of themselves in the story - which is in iambic tetrameter, meant to be accompanied by a musical instrument they designed themselves in a microtonal mode they devised themselves with wave ratios based on a number like e or the golden section, and which they recite to small groups of confused SCA folk who are, for some reason, at Ren Fair.

[sanura.livejournal.com]

I think that group is probably small enough that everyone can have an arrow with its head in their direction, not just the other geeks. And no, I'm not on the last level, or the second-to-last. I'm also not on the first level, and there's only a small case for putting me on the third-to-last; I'd buy expensive replica fantasy swords if I didn't want to make them myself instead (along with nonreplica fantasy swords).

classical music geekdom

[music-dissident.livejournal.com]

famous published composers ---> famous profesional instrumental soloists ---> famous operatic singers ---> professors of music composition ---> (professional performing chamber musicians <---> professional orchestral musicians)---> professors of musicology ---> music theory professors ---> professional accompanists ---> (wedding quartet members <---> funeral quartet members) ---> amature chamber musicians ---> amature orchestral musicians ---> quartet members who play arrangements of Kenny-G tunes for business brunch meetings ---> public school music teachers ---> professional band memebrs ---> famous film score composers ---> professional film score composers ---> amature film score composers ---> amature film score composers who worship Danny elfman ---> invovled church choir members

Help me out here.

Re: classical music geekdom

[sanura.livejournal.com]

I'd put public school music teachers above the Kenny G quartet members, at least, and maybe above the amateur orchestra members too, unless the teacher doesn't actually play anything or compose. I'd also put brackets and mutual arrows around the musicology and theory professors; they look down on each other. So, where do college music students fit in among all these? Obviously, the instrumentalists are above the singers...