Yikes, I need to get a life.
I spent THREE hours PRACTICING today AFTER WORK! That is, UNTIL 12:30!!!! And I still feel completely unprepared for this recital (OF DOOM!!!) that's in, oh, two weeks. 'Cause I don't already have to worry about the orchestra concert (also OF DOOM) because lord knows this hour long Schubert symphony isn't going to kill me (news headlines on Saturday November 20: Oboist DIES during performance of Schubert's Symphony No. 7(9). I haven't decided whether or not I'm going to use the Bulgheroni oboe (it sounds like some sort of Italian food, doesn't it??) or the POS oboe (aka the Fox Renard - a repetitious name, but only to those who speak French, or so I've been told). I think I might use POS oboe during the Mozart, but I'm not sure. Depends on my, uh, mood. That, and there's the band concert (everyone with me, OF DOOM) on Sunday. BLAH! I hope Giannini (or whatever the fuck his name is) died a long painful death, because that's how we're going to kill his symphony. Long, and painfully. Hopefully it'll be all over soon. Then it's the student recital....
POLL TIME!
Of the Six Metamorphoses after Ovid for Oboe Solo, I can play four (the fifth one sucks, and the sixth is hard. and it sucks too.)
I'm definitely doing Pan (movement I), and I would prefer to do Bacchus (movement 4 - aka the OBOE DRINKING SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
However, not sure if I can get Bacchus up to par by, uh, Tuesday, the 23rd....
So given your knowledge of mythology, of oboe music, or just because you think one word is cooler than another, should I do Pan and Phaeton, or Pan and Niobe, in case I can't play Pan and Bacchus (depending on how ambitious I am this week/weekend). :)
Leave a comment with your opinion!! Heehee.
Umm...so yeah. Student recital, than Thanksgiving. And then my recital. Fuckity, fuck, fuck.
Speaking of the word fuck...(subject change!)
http://www.msu.edu/~karjalae/electionrecap.htm
Check out this page (courtesy of Lizard!)...goooooooooood times.
So yeah, recital. Less than two weeks. YIKES!!!!! December 1, how I love them!! :)

Oh, and you guys were oh so helpful (not) with the song identification. It was sooooooo obviously Grandfather's Clock. American folk music, anybody?? (didn't anyone else hear this as a kid??)
Oh American folk music, that would be my senior sem topic. And senior sem work has come to a screeching halt already (not that it ever began....). Heh, good thing that's not till next semester. Procrastination, anybody????
I promise I'll have weekend fun up soon...just procrastinating. I'll do that right after I clean my room...maybe by this weekend. :)
- posted by L. @ 1:55 AM