When it comes to gumption and all that: I’m used to a pretty limited life where I mostly try to control myself, so leadership has never been my strong suit.
I’d probably have more fun filming the Greens road trip than my scripts.
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The fresh strings on my guitar today were more a curse than a blessing. I really am not keen to run scales till the cows come home, and I really do not want to be a pro performer.
Ethan made me feel better about that. Whereas many of my other friends are performers, so they think it’s just an issue I can overcome; it’s not - it’s the reason I majored in composition to start with.
I wrote a brilliant piece, and that should be enough to pat me on the back. I shouldn’t have to play it, and that’s why I’m not.
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If anything, it’s the mana that she has that I find attractive. The brains too, but yeah the power is a bit of an aphrodisiac.
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One day I’ll write an elegy piece, but probs when I’m slightly older. The Glacier Melts piece is sort of that vibe, but a proper adagio movement would have to be lengthy, and right now it’s the fiddly rhythms that are on my brain.
A String Quartet is definitely something for me to strive towards.
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Fun fact: there isn’t any 9/8 in the In E movement. The guitar is just staggered against the 4/4 beat that the strings are playing.
It’s a technique I picked up from jazz improvisers, and the song cycle hinges on it - syncopations that imply another metre.
Plus the Knight on my Couch.
See, I know things that Salina doesn’t: I was trained differently. That’s all I really wanted from the music school: respect.
The CBD weed is really working. I'm relaxed, but I'm not tripping out on the letters and typos. I still have the crazy brain, but it's more manageable. That's why I started smoking weed all those years ago.