I hate my theory class

Not the material. Theory's more or less a no-brainer for me. I don't study, don't really take notes, and ace it. No trouble. But the people in my class. Boy they're a bunch of winners. Well if by winners i mean pieces of shit, then yes they are winners.

Let's break this down into a few groups of people (and some individuals that i really hate)

1. Stupid instrumentalists. These are the people who are just dumbshits and can't remember that a diminished triad with a diminished 7th in first inversion is a diminished 6-5. Really simple stuff that even non musicians can get because we've been learning this since the beginning of the year. Oh, and the dumbshit horn player who didn't know how to transpose. Yeah, she's a real winner.

2. Stupid vocalists. Well, I can understand that they might be a little behind because they've not been exposed to lots of classical music like someone like me. But they got a 90% or higher first semester which means they should be able to grasp new material fairly easily. Unfortunately, some people in my class just don't, and they need to drop it because they're dumb.

3. Stupid people who's major I don't even know. These people are by far the stupidest people in the class. I don't even give a shit what they're studying because I'm so busy plotting how I can kill them/remove them from class. They talk constantly, ask questions before the professor is done lecturing, and just don't get it. They sit there and interrupt him while he's explaining stuff to us, and 99.9999% of the time he's like "I'm about to get to that." They're dumbshits and they waste class time.


So yeah, that's theory for you.

Birthday and BSO

So my birthday was Friday and it was just great. After a very fine dinner at Violino's, Stef and I decided to take a walk around the walking mall downtown, and then came home. I went downstairs to find 6 of my friends from MD and a bunch of friends from school! A surprise party! It was nuts. People showing up at all hours of the night, it was a blast. So much fun, so many friends here. I think it was the best birthday I've ever had. Which is definitely saying something.

Anywho, last night I went to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra to see a night of Beethoven. The Violin Concerto and the 5th Symphony. The scheduled soloist was a 19 year old Julia Fischer. However, she was sick and couldn't make it, so we were treated to Julian Rachlin, the internationally-renowned soloist from Austria. He was incredible. Needless to say, I'm going to tell Olivia that I want to play it next. The symphony was just as awe-inspiring. Just a great night at the BSO.

Then came home and slept, and woke up at 11, watched SNL and wrote on the ol' blog. Going to BBQ tonight hopefully.

A bit of my daily happenings

So yeah it's the day before my 19th birthday, so I think I'll let everyone know what's going on around here (because really I don't have anything else to write/bitch about).

Got up @ 7 for quartet rehearsal at 8. Went pretty well. Didn't have ear training, so I went back to bed for a while. Got up for Music Lit. Got a high B on my exam/midterm, which is pretty good considering the class average is like a 60. Dumbshits. I study for 15 minutes and own them all. Man it's great to be awesome and smarter than everyone.

Practiced for my lesson a while, then came back home to get some lunch. Had leftover Gen. Tso's Chicken. Pretty damn good I must say. Then went to the lesson. It was good. Worked on Kreutzer and La Folia. Finally I'm starting to get it. Olivia commented on how much I've improved in the area of intonation since September. Which is a mighty big compliment.

Then orchestra. We had the conducting students try their hands (and batons) at Shostakovich. My thoughts. Good. All right. And double shitty. In that order. Then we worked on stuff for the soloists concert (April 18th). Without the soloists. Boring. As shit.

And now I'm sitting at home, going to a doctorate viola recital at 7, then having dinner somewhere around, whether it be out or at home. Then I'm probably going to bullshit around until I'm tired. Then I'll go to bed. And tomorrow I'll wake up, 19 years under my proverbial belt.

Things I like and dislike

Nothing really to do, so here goes.

Likes (in a very particular order... the order they happen to randomly appear in my brain):
1. Good comedy specials on tv
2. Jason Mraz... really want to get his CD
3. GOOD musicals (ie. not "The Unsinkable Molly Brown")
4. GOOD music (regardless of genre... could be good rock, classical, pop, anything)
5. Chamber Orchestra
6. My violin lessons
7. When Jan (the conductor) cracks jokes right before a concert
8. When I get to read alone without distraction
9. Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Halfway through it. Great story.
10. My new cell phone. It's badass.

Dislikes:
1. People who talk to you when you're trying to read.
2. People who clearly don't realize that I'm better than them.
3. Winchester drivers.
4. People who use religion as an excuse to justify their own prejudices.
5. People who want to make laws governing religious affairs.
6. Stupid kids who think they know everything.
7. Stupid middle school preteens who think they're awesome (yeah, try and debate me, ya pimply faced smelly 7th grader! ....actually that's never happened to me, but they annoy me just the same!)
8. High school kids who think they know everything because they've taken a couple of AP classes. Wow I'm in highschool and I aced AP US History! Wow! (ok so they don't usually confront me but they are still stupid)
9. People who think they're defending God by thrusting their beliefs in my face everywhere I go. Which they aren't. I have certain ideas that no amount of Jesus fish will change. That and these license plate holders that say "Warning! In case of rapture, this vehicle will be unmanned!" Yeah, those people are guaranteed a trip to heaven, especially with that sin of pride!
10. People who are intolerant of other peoples' cultures/customs (ie. racist pieces of shit)

That's all.

Secret Window

So the other day I saw Secret Window, and let me start off by saying "Big piece of crap."

ahem.

Big piece of crap! This movie was just wretched. Music was by Phillip Glass, and was pretty much the only redeeming part of the movie. I mean, it started off with this bitchin' cello section soli. It was badass. So I figured, "Hey, maybe I'm NOT wasting $7.50 and two hours of my day by seeing this movie." Oh, how horribly, horribly wrong I was. I'll split this up into two sections, "The Good" and "The Bad," with lists below each category (this is going to be a standard for when I decide to review things around these parts).

The Good.
1. The introductory music was great.
2. Johnny Depp looked like a nerd with big plastic glasses, and redeemed himself when he smoked (he looked badass).
3. The line "smoke the shit out of them" was used in reference to a pack of cigarettes.
4. He (meaning Johnny Depp, which just about ruins the movie for you) totally killed people with a shovel, which is just hardcore.
5. It ended. Finally.

The Bad!
1. Instead of getting a creepy old Southern guy, they decided to cast a stupid old Southerner. Who didn't creep me out. At all.
2. Character development of his wife and the guy she's screwing? umm... nothing?
3. Scary? wait a minute, this is based on a Stephen King novella, so you'd think it would be kind of, well, scary. That's a negatory. Nothing that made me jump. At all.
4. Entirely too obviously based on a book (ie. poor transitions, characterization, etc etc etc etc).

All in all, I'd give it (on my arbitrary rating scale of shit-great) I'd give it a 7, which really doesn't mean a damn thing to you guys. So I'll clarify. While it was a piece of shit, I would recommend it to a moderate enemy in hopes that they would try gouging out their own eyes, even though they probably wouldn't.

So I'm starting this blog mostly for my friends who I can't keep in good touch with, because I always check out my friends' blogs on a semi-regular basis. I'm not going to be posting anything too horribly personal about myself here, but rather just keep it for an update sort of deal. Personal information is unnecessary because everyone reading this ought to know who I am. So if you don't, prepare to be left out of the loop a whole hell of a lot.

Let's see. Orchestra was cancelled today (well, one of them... still have rehearsal at 7 tonight for Chamber Orch). That's pretty nice. I went to Chick-fil-a instead. Good chicken nuggets. Even better bbq (barbeque for those of you who are abbreviation-recognizing impaired) sauce. And real good waffle fries. Damn I wish I was eating them right now.

If you don't know (which you really should... otherwise, get out of here), I'm sort of a bitter, sarcastic cynic. Well, more along the lines of I think I'm better than everyone. Wait. That came out wrong. Read that again, leaving out the "of I think." There we go. I think that's what most of my entries are going to be concerning. That and my daily life. Yeah.

Well, tune in next time. Same Bat-Time, same Bat-Channel!