Choir @ MindSay

28th March 2009 Saturday

Ek was nice to talk to, we talked about everything I missed at the event the day before (involving Ethan Hawke) though talking to him would mean talking in his accent, everything was cool because E appears to be nice. We walked to our Drama class and carried on talking.

While we entered class, B said hello and we started all exercises. I think I am beginning to imagine B's feelings. How he's sniffling like me, when I had a flu, or is it just a coincidence? How he did not refer to me as boring, during our character play, or maybe he did, just that I didn't notice? I didn't get to talk to B much this very day. It's a sense of weirdness, but also I am coming to realise that there really isn't anything much going on. I truly do not like like B, thank God!

Et referred to me as 'pretty' during our character play. This makes me all worried as to whether he was truly playing within character or speaking in real life context as well. I hate how my head bloats to the size of a floating elephant, because with him making that comment, there I am thinking: So does B think the same way?

29th March 2009 Sunday

J said hello to me. It's more of I initiated the greet first though, but either way, we actually talked. Acting rashly and planning on my fastest way out of this bump-into-each-other, I might have appeared to be ignorant and uncaring, since I allowed the door to close on a fellow choir member. :/

Still, my point is that J said hi!

30th March 2009 Monday

I text Ws to let him know how my band did in the competition. He gave neutral replies, and we started to talk about his band and their possible results. He said "Wanna bet on it?", and so I agreed and ask "Bet on?" He never answered my question. I guess he by now is afraid enough to place a bet on something, and even if I win or he wins, let's say a movie treat, we both would have to go out again, as friends, and the awkwardness start all over again. And moreover, I have the gut feeling that he doesn't like my company any longer.

As much as it hurts to say this, I miss our best buddy times together. I really do.

I've had Falling Slowly by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová stuck in my head today, because I listened to it before going to sleep last night. (There was another song after that, but I don't remember what song that was.) I can't remember for sure where I first heard this song, but I suspect that it may have been played during the musical performance at a queer youth art exhibit I went to in the spring. A boy played guitar and sang, and after a few songs a girl joined in with her voice. They did a couple of duets - I believe they said that one of them was in the movie Juno, but I still haven't watched that - and I think this may have been one of them. I remember the female singer forgetting the harmony part for a line at one point and just singing the boy's part an octave higher until they got to the next line. I tend to notice those things ever since I've been a vocal student.

Anyway, I do remember the second time I heard this song. I was at summer camp, and the movie the two singers were in was being played outside, projected onto the side of one of the camp buildings if I'm not mistaken. I had been roaming around the camp (which was home that week to the jazz and rock divisions of a music camp - I was one of the rock campers, contributing my vocals to a band for the week) with some of my cabin mates, and as we walked back up the hill to our cabin, I heard the song playing in the movie and knew that I'd heard it somewhere before. It caught my interest then, so I took note of the movie's name and looked it up when I got home from camp, and downloaded it along with a number of other songs that I'd heard there. I still haven't watched the movie, but I enjoy listening to the song from time to time. Today I've been singing the female harmony parts to myself, and it makes me want to do a duet of the song with someone. I always feel proud of myself when I learn a harmony part, other than the alto parts I learn for school choir songs.

I've been wanting to listen to some Chinese music today, too; I listened to a Nicholas Teo song (新歌试唱 - Xin Ge Shi Chang) on the way to school after not finding any songs from the Smiling Pasta OST that I wanted to listen to on my iPod. (I've been rebuilding my old iPod's music collection on my new one, which I had to buy since the old one's screen cracked.) And it would seem that I'm in the mood for ballads by female vocalists on the Japanese side of things, since yesterday I started listening to a few Hamasaki Ayumi ballads - You, Powder Snow, and Heaven - and trying to learn the words to them. I felt the urge to listen to those after hearing Hinoi Asuka's most recent song, Suiren, for the first time. I think it was released in the spring, but I missed it completely, and only found out about it while searching for information on what the Hinoi Team members have been up to since the group stopped being active. It's a nice song, and Asuka co-wrote the lyrics and sounds great, so I hope she's able to further her career sometime in the near future. Avex really should give her more to do.

In choir and vocal class, we're learning a song called Remember. The choral version is arranged by Stephen Chatman, but the lyrics come from this poem by Christina Rossetti. The song is really nice, and quite easy to sing. I got to run the alto sectional at the beginning of our choir practice on Monday, during which we learned our part for this song, and when the entire choir assembled for the second part of our practice, the altos knew our part almost perfectly. It feels nice being a new section leader at times like that. :) We'll have mid-term tests in vocal class soon, so if we have to sing one of our choir or class pieces solo (as we usually do for this once yearly test), I'm going to sing my part from Remember, because it's easier than my parts from our other songs and I like singing it, too.

And I've been wanting to listen to some AFI, and a little Billy Talent, and I realized that W's Dekoboko Seventeen will fit well with a couple of other songs that I want to sing together at some point, probably on camera for my as yet unopened (and unpurchased) website. I think I'm done tweaking that lineup of songs.

That's all for now! :)

Well I am in a better mood today.  Nobody lost life or limb yesterday.  Scared poor Randy that I wasn't in one of those killing moods.  I think he thinks I am plotting his demise to collect insurance money.  Silly man, I don't have enough insurance on him yet for that plan!

 

After choir practice yesterday, I have deiceded J the volunteer who is working this year's school choir will NOT be the one who teaches my kids and I how to play guitar.  We will go with the orginal plan of action.  I teach the basics and once TKD is done (to 1st dan) we will stop at that academy and go to the small lil mixed marital arts academy in town and find a guitar teacher.  The man drives  me crazy!  He has had no formal musical schooling and treats the kids like adults and the one teacher and me as if we were children and don't know how to read music let alone read the words on the sheet music.  My gods the teacher who is helping is playing an older Gibson guitar and knows how to play it!  Plus she can read music and i think since she is the 7th/8th grade teacher she can read the words!  I have told the man time and time again and he has gone to my HS music concerts before that I can not only read music but gasp I graduated from highschool at the top of my class! 

 

Anyway, I made chicken cordon blue and veggies for the kids and hubby last night before pool.  Then I scarfed a philly cheese steak and fries down at the Pub!:D  I did rather well for myself last night.  I won 1 out of 3 games last night.  I was hitting nothign but slop shots in my second game and then the old lady i was playing against got on a good run.  My Gods if I was happy to win one of hte games!  This old lady is in her early to mid 70s and she has been playing since her early 20s!  Their team consistered of the old lady, two of her daughters, one of her granddaughters, and another girl who played pretty well.  We lost our over all match by two games.  But we all still had fun!  As Justin the bartender stated:  "Ya'll should have ordered the mushrooms for a snack!  Then I could have slipped in some wwwwwwwwwwwwwoooooooooohhhhhhhhhh mushrooms on you and you would have shot better games!"  Such a smart ass! 

 

Today the kids went to school an hour and half late!  My Mommy reitred officially yesterday.  Actually it is Friday but she won a 24 hour off award via the gov't so she tookt hat as a day off and then jsut requested 2 days of her 7 weeks of vk they have to pay her to take the rest of the week off.  The hospital provided a staff pot luck.  A lot of ppl were in tears over my moms retiring.  She has put 20 some years in at the IHS Hospital and that doesn't include working 15 some years at another hospital!  She has worked on ppl her age parents and grandparents, her age ppl, helped birth a lot of my friends and their children and she will be very much missed up at that hospital!  The doctors even got a few digs on her and as they call her "opinions".  They knew she was going to get them if they did wrong!:D  Some of the other NA Indian ppl from other tribes had no clue until the Tribal Council Chairman stated that my mom's was born on the rezes and raised on the rezes and they were really suprised.  When my mom got up to thank everyone for the gifts they got her and the hospital got her, she suprised even some of the tribal family and staff from our rez when she said that her family has been in the area as long as if not longer then the Bago tribe has been in this area.  She gave dates and then stated the rez will always be home and then pointed to me and my kids and said our family feels welcomed here and has become members of various other families and you'll see me around!:D 

 

It was great.  Now it is time for the parental units to live it up for a while!:D  Maybe Bingo or Casinos for them:P:D  Heheheheheheheh.  Anyway I got my rough draft of my paper complete.  I jsut need to type it and get it submitted.  And hopefully my next post I'll have some wonderful news.

 

I am off to procrstantat more and try not to be so moody!:D

pictures.
of the choraliers concert.



and what the hell. MK just fucking ruined like, ALL of my shots. or all the ones she was in. which was all of the solo shots. what the fuck? does she have like, singing induced mild turrets syndrome? holy shit.

I am pleased.

Because in yesterday's You'll Have That, Andy's wearing a certain shirt. And I hadn't really figured him for a Jamiroquai kind of guy. It feels like a new insight into his character. Although, really, if you made a list of all the different points of media he represents on his clothing, you'd find yourself facing a rather eclectic person. And Andy for the most part is just a laid-back goof with a strong sense of decency.

In unrelated news, I am slightly stunned and bewildered.

My mom got me into doing the Christmas program back at ARC. I'm not really going to ARC anymore, I'm over at BCC. But BCC doesn't have a choir. And she mentioned new music. And in the same conversation, she mentioned something about The Planets. Turns out that that would be what my dear sister's doing in her music world, of which I am frequently envious. But I just went to rehearsal tonight to check out what kind of new stuff we might be doing for Christmas.

Much of it is not exactly exciting. But, it's also kind of cool. I mean, very cool if you're a nerdy music geek. (Two-fold nature of the kind of music I enjoy, and also what my pursuits have been for the last six years). I'm trying so hard to talk myself out of it. I do NOT need one more music commitment! I've already found myself in three more ensembles than I intended for this fall. For this year! It seems that I am incapable of 'taking it easy', as it were. As soon as I start to relax, there's some part of me that realizes, "Hey! I can do this now!" As might be expected, I'm also frustrated.

There seems to be an over-achiever gene in all three of us sisters, it just manifests itself in different ways. The youngest appears to be the only one able to properly manage it.

In other news, we had our auditions for show choir today. And I'm still annoyed with myself for the way I act around Knuter. Band is not cool - I'm considering not being there for the days he is. Just spend the time on my sax by myself - probably be more productive anyway.