Sunday, June 5, 2005

What a waste of recreational time.

Comment Commentary

Tony- I was under the impression that he usually uses a beer can or something like that, but most of that is just based off of DVD footage.

PsychoValkyrie- They have good pancakes. Maybe it's just the pancakes that I normally eat, but these actually tasted nice. All other pancakes I remember suck.

Shin- It's worth it just to see the dumbasses do stupid shit (like the drunk Japanese girl who jumped on top of the Pixies tour bus and couldn't get down).

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So, the piano recital.

My teacher does a good number of recitals yearly.. Though oftentimes it's a group of teachers instead of just one. That makes things a lot longer and a lot less personal. This time it was just her students, though, in the church where I went to preschool. We do lots of recitals there.

I've been practicing my piece nonstop for the past couple of weeks. It was pretty mechanical by the time of the recital, but it's customary to worry about messing up.

We're all organized by level of expertise in these. I'm in the third of four rows (advanced intermediate, I guess), which is mostly made up of people a little older than me. Funny thing, though- the teacher's son is in the sixth grade and the person right after me. I guess living with your teacher gets you some enrichment.

When my time finally came I got up there, anxiety-ridden, and didn't bother bowing. That's not good. Very poor stage presence. I went through the song smoothly, with only one or two barely noticeable mistakes, but at the end I hardly nodded my head, smirked, and went back to my seat. I don't know what's wrong with me- everyone else bows, smiles, blah blah, but I can't bring myself to do it. People probably think I'm a psycho loner recluse or something.

But that doesn't matter. I don't perform in most recitals anyway (I know I said earlier that she does a lot of them- I just don't join in the madness often).

After that I came home and I've been on the internet ever since, reading weird crazy stories about I don't know what. You know, "fake" blogs about people caught up in blair witch-type circumstances. The one about the two spelunker dudes who find some sort of demon-cave, another one about some group of kids who keep disappearing one after another and throw clues in on their blogs. It's interesting stuff.. Not necessarily believable, but it tickles my fancy like Alternate Realty Gaming.

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Paranoia Agent and Samurai Champloo are on tonight.. I can't remember if I talked about Paranoia Agent last week. It was a really intriguing first episode. It's pretty trippy, like Lain (I still need to watch the rest of that series) and seems like it would be a lot more accessible to non-otaku viewers. I remember Tony saying that he figured Champloo would be that way, but it wasn't. At this point in Paranoia Agent, I could see the show gaining its own following outside of the typical anime crowd. But it's too early to be sure.

Either way, I enjoy it, though the character designs are nasty.

EDIT: Congratulations, you just found an edit I made five months after this post's original publication date! Why, you ask?

Because I need to put this link somewhere.

http://gymnopedie.net/happytogether.mp3
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