oh, all right, i’ll update my journal, in spite of the fact that the same things are going on now that were going on a week ago (stress over not having a job, stress about moving to an as-yet-unknown place, stress about my car’s deteriorating condition, moisture festival performances, etc.), if for no other reason than to get the mass of links off of my desktop.
the moisture festival is in the middle of it’s second week of performances, and everything is going amazingly well, although as disorganised as ever. apparently hobbit wrote to someone at the moisture festival back in february, but nobody responded. oh well, better luck next time, ‘eh? there’s a review of the moisture festival, and a whole bunch of pictures taken at the moisture festival by john cornicello, who is the fremont philharmonic’s keyboard player, but there’s only one of me. we’ll have to fix that…
please note, what you can see of the hat was given to me by
now that i’ve got the photo on a server which doesn’t prevent me from linking to graphics of my own face… grumble, grumble…
through not very much poking around i found my father’s web site. the last time i talked to him, i called to ask for a copy of my birth certificate, about a month ago. he said he would send it to me, and then hung up with no further comment. that was the first time i spoke to him since my injury, almost 2 years ago, and i’ve not been in contact with him and the rest of my "family-of-origin" for maybe 3 years before that. i wish i could have expected more from him, but he’s been that way for close to 20 years, so i don’t know why i should expect anything else from him. he sent me a certified letter with the original of my birth certificate (!), but it was addressed to my old name, which i haven’t used for more than 20 years.
along the same lines, i found another species of salamander on the web, Aneides flavipunctatus, whose name i like almost as much as Ambystoma tigrinum (the Tiger salamander, which is a "Mole salamander" according to the family name, but which isn’t listed at wildherps.com).
turning the corner, there’s an article i rather liked about the "chaliban" – the "christian" taliban which is slowly and insidiously taking over this country – which has been hypocritical enough to allow the government to pull the plug on a 6-month-old baby with a fatal form of dwarfism (over his mother’s objections), and hypocritical enough to allow tom delay to pull the plug on his own terminally-ill father, but hypocritial enough to rush in and repeatedly try to deny michael schiavo’s attempts to pull the plug on his brain-damaged, used-to-be human wife, terri… similarly, there is now evidence that a good deal of the information that "we" used to "justify" going to war with iraq came from a drunken liar… dude… where’s my country?
more linky-links…
Pope Joan – myth, or what?
huitlacoche is a south american "delicacy" made from corn smut… EDIT: the original article, with more pictures, can be seen at The Sneeze – not for the squeamish or weak of heart… don’t say i didn’t warn you… i mean it!
here are a number of articles by Swami Abhedananda about jesus and "churchianity", which i have bookmarked for future reference.
the robo-urinal, which is bizarre enough that they included a picture of it, to assuage any skepticism…
thanks to
reefer "madness" – or, more accurately, reefer sarcasm. they’re grasping at straws here…
DON’T SAY CLICK HERE, and other dangerous words that i’ve been warning people about for years now… but people still ask me to use it anyway, which really frustrates me…
there, now i’ve updated. satisfied?
i’ve gotten a lot of positive comments specifically about my hat, and i’ve deferred them all to you, since i know practically nothing about it… i’ve also gotten some strange looks, but no comment from a guy from turkey who was at the show last night. i wonder what was going on in his head?
the hat suits you, and that makes me happy 🙂
actually, most music majors don’t know this either… try it out and see for yourself. i studied musical instrument repair for 2½ years to find this out.
And this is why I’m not a music major! :-p
no, both baritones and euphoniums (euphonia?) can have three, four or five valves, and one or two bells (although i’ve never seen a double-belled baritone, i’ve actually played a double-belled euphonium before)… the baritone and the euphonium have the same relationship that the trumpet and the cornet have: the baritone is largely cylindrical, and the euphonium is largely conical… in fact, it’s the same relationship between the sousaphone and the tuba as well.
The baritone doesn’t have nearly as high an opinion of himself as the euphonium does.. err, that’s not actually true, either.
Does it have something to do with the existence of a foruth valve (a C valve) on a Euphonium?
the fremont phil is vastly different from most other "professional" groups i’ve played in, and nothing like anything i ever experienced in college… we may be looking for someone to play baritone/euphonium/flute/something else at some point in the relatively near future (probably september, as that’s when our current baritone/flute player is going away to the berklee school).
i started out as a trombone player myself, but over the years i’ve taught myself to play most woodwind and brass instruments. before my injury, i’d just transpose the parts in my head, but since my injury i’ve lost the ability to transpose in my head, so i’ve got to write my parts out. suck!
by the way, you know what the difference between a baritone and a euphonium is, apart from the fact that normally one plays in treble clef and one plays in bass clef, don’t you?
Hee. That has to be fun arranging. Being a trombonist myself, I can read whatever’s written in concert and not have to do funky transposition. You think if I were ever out there long enough, they’d let me into the pit? I don’t claim to be any good, but just from the pictures, it looks like it would be a great thing to do.
Eb tuba… which has given the composers in the band, including myself, no end of fits… they can’t get it through their heads that it plays in bass clef, a fifth up, or a fourth down from concert… 8/
Oh. My bad. Nope, doesn’t show up. Probably some hotlinking protection on the site. At elast you can piont to the right one – you look good in that outfit. What instrument are you playing? A baritone, a euphonium, or a tuba?
no, the picture of me should be visible on this page… after the text that says
hrmph… i’ve got to wait until tomorrow before i do anything about it…
my picture is the one in the gallery labeled HN1X3249f.jpg – http://www.pbase.com/jcornice/image/41730626 – as there’s apparently no other way to link to it at the moment…
I see a picture gallery on the pbase.com link. Not a picture, per se, but the gallery. Which one of those are you, anyway?
can you see the picture of me at the moisture festival? all i get is the alt text… i know the html is correct, but the fact that i can’t see it makes me think that somebody at pbase.com doesn’t want me to link to pictures posted there…
That urinal… is creepy. Somehow, I don’t think I want to know what those hands are being used for.