Honestly no music scratches my brain perfectly like will wood music does to the point that I’m almost scared I ruined all other music because none of it seems to do it for me quite as well lmao
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No mortal is fit to judge such perfection.
Looks: 1000/10
Sexiness: off the charts
Derangement: 10/10 he loves Paddy there's hope for us all
Voice: 1000/10
Capacity for fatal levels of loyalty: 10/10
Other: +801 for gorgeous hands
Total: perfection/10
OH well its not like a BAND band [tho i wish i could]. Instead its marching band lol. Ive already graduated from high school so im just helping my sister since its her last year in band/high school.
BUUT I played the Alto Saxophone! Also did Trumpet & Mellophone for a bit. Now though usually play piano/keyboard at home. [Not amazing at it but I can play all of The Mind Electric & Battle Against a True Hero!]
For better and for worse, [Sondheim's] is the most systematic and unsentimental mind that has ever addressed itself to the American musical—the sort of mind one might more easily imagine designing particle accelerators, or computer viruses too wily to destroy. “The first music teacher I had at Williams College was a man named Robert Barrow,” he says. “And everybody hated him because he was very dry, and I thought he was wonderful because he was very dry. And Barrow made me realize that all my romantic views of art were nonsense. I had always thought an angel came down and sat on your shoulder and whispered in your ear ‘dah-dah-dah-dum.’ Never occurred to me that art was something worked out. And suddenly it was the skies opening up. As soon as you find out what a leading tone is, you think, Oh my God. What a diatonic scale is—Oh my God! The logic of it. And, of course, what that meant to me was: Well, I can do that. Because you just don’t know. You think it’s a talent, you think you’re born with this thing. What I’ve found and what I believe is that everybody is talented. It’s just that some people get it developed and some don’t.”
(x) on the one hand, it's unbelievably funny that sondheim is like, "everyone would be thrilled to learn about leading tones and diatonic scales. the fact that i felt this way about them has nothing to do with me having any kind of talent. this is just the normal way for people to respond." but on the other hand i truly love so much knowing that one of the great creative luminaries of his century agreed with me that Teaching People Stuff Is Good Actually.
im sick of having knowledge and skills locked behind a paywall.
why is it always “well you need to pay at least $15,000 a year to learn that for four years before i even CONSIDER hiring you”??
whatever happened to “this is a fine young lad. he may only be seven but let me take him under my wing and teach him the ways of being a blacksmith so he may one day be my successor”???
I was watching one of those tributes to Charlie episodes that John de Christopher put out. Jim Keltner was on it and talked about how Steve was amazed at how thick Charlie's sticks were (I know that sounds like a euphemism) and that he tried to use them for a few songs but he couldn't do it and he mentioned it to Jim. Jim said that when he shook hands with Charlie, Charlie's hands were bigger than Jim's and said that Charlie had "big soft hands" and that George Harrison was the same. Two "small dudes but they had big soft hands." And it made me feel all warm inside, this small elegant gentleman with big soft hands. Awww
For comparison, you can see the size of his hands against Shirley’s shoulder: