November 2010
2 posts
October 2010
1 post
August 2010
1 post
“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
– Ayn Rand (via kari-shma) (via meredithsmith)
Seeing as you are my happiness, I guess I’ll have to fight for you, huh? ;)
July 2010
5 posts
June 2010
3 posts
kids these days just don't stand a chance...
meredithsmith:
First “dance”
my 9 y/o neice’s role model
nonsensical objectification
Conclusion: our society sucks, and I’m going to raise my kids on another planet
comment #1: isn’t that kid like 10? I mean, it’s all sexual innuendos. I’m going to vomit.
comment #2: I think Abby is over her now, thankfully, because she’s just disturbingly dirty. Wait, isn’t...
May 2010
2 posts
Berry jazz →
Article was written like 4 years ago and I never knew it had my name in it. I miss Dr. Smith.
Watchawesome
April 2010
6 posts
gregshivers:
I had a dream that I fell asleep in front of my friend’s apartment. His girlfriend found me, picked me up by my turtle shell (Yes, I said turtle shell.), sat me down, and fed me leaves from a houseplant. And somehow my parents were there.
That’s brilliant. No joke, this sums up my life dream in a couple of sentences.
Creativity: my downfall in normal life →
I got this link from Meredith’s sister, Kristin, explaining how improvising requires the ability to essentially “turn off” your prefrontal cortex, which basically rationalizes your thinking. Eventually, people who improvise a lot learn to ignore their prefontal cortex. This helps with the spontaneity and risk-taking that is required to improvise well, but it also leaks into...
March 2010
15 posts
I actually loved her
like with my heart, and that doesn’t happen very often with things in my life. Maybe it’s for reasons like this that I am the way I am, distanced and skeptical of the mutuality of feelings, but when I saw her it was an immediate connection. I loved her, and I know she loved me. RIP Maggie. I’ll miss your head on my shoulder. so bad.
The Jazz Musician's Protocol
Some (hopefully) helpful thoughts for the professional jazz musician… By Ken Watters (Trumpeter / Summit Recording Artist / Jupiter Artist / RIYEL co-leader) LEADERS: 1) Whenever possible, pay the band BEFORE you socialize or break down the equipment. This allows them to leave at their own liberty when the gig is over. 2) Always try to pay the band AT the gig. If this isn’t...
seabre:
This is what my amplified bass sounds...
Liberalism (and other stuff) linked to higher IQ →
“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass...”
– Voltaire
February 2010
17 posts
I'm pretty pissed
and I’m posting on tumblr to release my frustration. sad.
Argh.
Yeah whatever... →
it’s actually pretty good. Darn you Ben
“Oh, snap! guess what I saw?
A fella tongue-kissin my girl in the mouth”
– Biz Markie
“It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
“Many musicians are easily excited into joy, and easily depressed into gloom....”
– Percy Scholes
