They'll make your teeth look like this guy's
Brettonios
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posted Jun 20, 2009
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I <3 NY! Except I've never been there...
Frosty High Elves Flakes
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posted Jun 20, 2009
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Helloooooo!!! I posted a picture. Actually, two pictures. Isn’t that exciting?
These were actually drawn by my Dad on a blank cardboard box that came inside a cereal box. I forget what kind of cereal. Some vaguely health-oriented cereal. Nature’s Path type cereal. I’m not sure. Go buy some healthy cereals until you find one with two blank boxes inside. It won’t hurt you, anyway. I think these pictures are hilarious, but then I laugh at a lot of things.
Maybe I’ll have more actual pictures for you tomorrow!
Soooo… what to talk about. There’s a lot that’s happened since January. I got into Performance at UVic!!! Woot! So now I have to start acting like it. I’m now learning the Waldstein Sonata by Beethoven, the Franck Variations Symphoniques again (going to enter the Concerto Competition next year) and Liszt’s La Campanella, as a study etude, not a performance etude. I’m also learning the 2-3 part Inventions/Sinfonias just so that I know them, although May Ling says I could play three or four of them as one selection. I am supposed to be looking for a couple other pieces (Dutilleaux Sonata for piano, Liebermann Gargoyles) but I haven’t gotten to the library yet. 
Also, Festival went well… I played a solo recital and it went well except for the Buxtehude… I turned pages for the Best Concert Evar (Duruflé’s Requiem + a whole bunch of motets an’ stuff) and made a new friend while doing it – the organist, who is awesome. And he lives in Vancouver and he collects swords. And tonight I’m going to be playing the Duruflé Sanctus in a wedding. It’s one of the more difficult movements, but fortunately the choir director is taking it a lot slower than Peter Butterfield (the ‘other’ Butterfield brother, ftw).
Also, as you’ve probably noticed, I’ve started running frequently. I want to be a bit slimmer before I go and buy new jeans to replace the ones I have, which are getting all ripped up for no reason at all. Blah.
Exciting weekend! I went to Vancouver on Thursday to play the Creston saxophone concerto (orchestral reduction) for my saxophonist in a terribly prestigious masterclass (Eugene Rousseau from the Paris Conservatoire comes to Van every year, apparently) and I got to see a bunch of friends (including the organist) whom I haven’t seen in some time. Although L is, I think, still in Taiwan. 
I hope to see her at some point this summer. That would be nice. I should really go to Van more often and get to know the city a bit better. And see folks, yeah. So far I just know the 99 bus route (sorta not really) and the area around Bard on the Beach, where my grand-aunt lives. Organist says they’re doing Othello this year, so I think I should go because I don’t know anything about Othello but it’s supposed to be important. Oh, and I drew pictures of all Zela’s family on the ferry in my new super-mini-sketchbook. They turned out well, mostly. Zela and Flaer (although he has shoulders too broad) and Flaria especially came out well.
I’m not really composing at the moment, but I do have the idea I want to write some organ variations on Ash Grove. My brother says he’ll go insane – he knows it too well already.
Oh, dear. Mom just this minute got me interested in Irish dancing, because she went to Courtenay this last week on a working vacation and her temporary boss watches Britain’s Got Talent and showed her some guy called Stavros Flatley who parodies Riverdance, so then I watched some Riverdance to see what was going on and now I am a Riverdance fan. Um. This is interesting too.
There are probably a zillion other things to say, but they’re either old or ultimately even less interesting than these, so I’ll save them for now. Tomorrow I will try to update again, with some actual drawings! That would be cool.
