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Moving, but not on.
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There is nothing in the world that we can count on
Even that we will wake up is an assumption
~Amanda Palmer
I'm still here. You can tell because i occasionally add something to my favourites.
I uploaded some new lyrics yesterday, but it feels weird to leave them hanging here without their skeleton of music; they seem oddly deflated.
I write songs, not poetry.
Even that we will wake up is an assumption
~Amanda Palmer
I'm still here. You can tell because i occasionally add something to my favourites.
I uploaded some new lyrics yesterday, but it feels weird to leave them hanging here without their skeleton of music; they seem oddly deflated.
I write songs, not poetry.
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how can you love vegemite?
it tastes like sadness
it tastes like batteries
it tastes like asses
i cannot hold a man so close who spreads this cancer on his toast
it is the vegemite my darling, or it's me
~Amanda Fucking Palmer (go listen to her new album, it's awesome music.amandapalmer.net/album/a… )
Oh boy, have I neglected this journal. So here's a quick update:
I graduated with a BA Hons Class I degree in Music
my band recorded an ep and released it 7 months late. you can hear/download it here whatthecatdraggedin.bandcamp.c…
since that was recorded we got better and acquired a violinist who steals our souls in a good way. we're going to record a single on Saturday.
Tristan Allen also steals my soul music.amandapalmer.net/album/t…
and finally, have some bunnies: amultiverse.com/2010/10/08/add…
it tastes like sadness
it tastes like batteries
it tastes like asses
i cannot hold a man so close who spreads this cancer on his toast
it is the vegemite my darling, or it's me
~Amanda Fucking Palmer (go listen to her new album, it's awesome music.amandapalmer.net/album/a… )
Oh boy, have I neglected this journal. So here's a quick update:
I graduated with a BA Hons Class I degree in Musicmy band recorded an ep and released it 7 months late. you can hear/download it here whatthecatdraggedin.bandcamp.c…since that was recorded we got better and acquired a violinist who steals our souls in a good way. we're going to record a single on Saturday.
Tristan Allen also steals my soul music.amandapalmer.net/album/t… and finally, have some bunnies: amultiverse.com/2010/10/08/add…
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The whimper has been whimped.
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He raised her hand to his lips. 'I know, Horry', he said. 'When I married you there was another woman in my life. She is not there now, my darling, and in my heart she never had a place.'
'Oh, M-Marcus, put m-me there!' Horatio said on a sob.
'You are there,' he answered, and caught her up in his arms and kissed her, not gently at all, but ruthlessly, crushing all the breath out of her body.
'Oh!' gasped Horatia. 'Oh, I n-never knew you could k-kiss like that!'
'But I can, you see,' said his lordship. 'And -- I am sorry if you do not like it, Horry -- I am going to do it again.'
'But I d-do like it!' said Horatia. 'I l-like it very m-much!'
~Georgette Heyer, 'The Convenient Marriage'
*coughcough*
Aaannyways...I handed in my dissertation this morning and then went to a funeral (where I acquired a rather lovely black tie). Thus endeth another university degree. Now what do I do?
'Oh, M-Marcus, put m-me there!' Horatio said on a sob.
'You are there,' he answered, and caught her up in his arms and kissed her, not gently at all, but ruthlessly, crushing all the breath out of her body.
'Oh!' gasped Horatia. 'Oh, I n-never knew you could k-kiss like that!'
'But I can, you see,' said his lordship. 'And -- I am sorry if you do not like it, Horry -- I am going to do it again.'
'But I d-do like it!' said Horatia. 'I l-like it very m-much!'
~Georgette Heyer, 'The Convenient Marriage'
*coughcough*
Aaannyways...I handed in my dissertation this morning and then went to a funeral (where I acquired a rather lovely black tie). Thus endeth another university degree. Now what do I do?
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Dissertation
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People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words. These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words. The thoughts which are expressed to me by music that I love are not too indefinite to be put into words, but on the contrary, too definite.
~Felix Mendelssohn in a letter to Marc-André Souchay, October 15, 1842
For I consider that music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all, whether a feeling, an attitude of mind, a psychological mood, a phenomenon of nature, etc....Expression has never been an inherent property of music. That is by no means the purpose of its existence. If, as is nearly always the case, music appears to express something, this is only an illusion and not a reality. It is simply an additional attribute which, by tacit and inveterate agreement, we have lent it, thrust upon it, as a label, a convention - in short, an aspect unconsciously or by force of habit, we have come to confuse with its essential being.
~Igor Stravinsky (1936). An Autobiography, p.53-54.
~Felix Mendelssohn in a letter to Marc-André Souchay, October 15, 1842
For I consider that music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all, whether a feeling, an attitude of mind, a psychological mood, a phenomenon of nature, etc....Expression has never been an inherent property of music. That is by no means the purpose of its existence. If, as is nearly always the case, music appears to express something, this is only an illusion and not a reality. It is simply an additional attribute which, by tacit and inveterate agreement, we have lent it, thrust upon it, as a label, a convention - in short, an aspect unconsciously or by force of habit, we have come to confuse with its essential being.
~Igor Stravinsky (1936). An Autobiography, p.53-54.
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