The Academy of Ancient Music

The Found Footage Festival (FFF)

2006-07-13T18:47:00.000-07:00

My sis will find the title insightful if not anyone else

Found Footage Festival is a movie or screening of a project that put together bits of video that are comical that were found in thrift stores and other places. Here is a preview. I don't think it is available on the web in it's entirety but it is an interesting idea.

Radiohead -- All I need

2006-06-24T00:23:00.000-07:00

Check out this new song by Radiohead it's awesome

For other cool music stuff go to pitchfork, they have a good media site.

Wedding info.

2006-06-20T22:22:00.000-07:00

Be sure to check the post below for maps and driving instructions.

Wedding date: July 22nd
Time: 7pm
Place: All Faiths Chapel, KSU Campus
Reception following: KSU Union -- Union Station

If you are in need of a stay while in manhattan for the wedding please feel free to contact Hannah or me via email or phone, and we can assist you in finding a place. We have limited host family space, but it is available for people who need a free place to stay.
We have also reserved a block on rooms at the Ramada Plaza Hotel, which is directly across from KSU -- approx. $99 a night.

How to get to the rehearsal dinner

2006-06-20T22:01:00.000-07:00

These pictures should help anyone not familiar with Manhattan get to the places they need to be -- AFC (All Faiths Chapel) is where the wedding is being held, Green Valley Community Center is where the rehearsal dinner is being held.

To make the pictures bigger simply click on them.

To download them, hold down the ctrl key and click and you should get a menu that allows you to "save image as."

Here is a close-up map of the area around the ramada hotel and Ksu campus where All Faiths Chapel is

here is a map to the rehearsal dinner

here are driving instructions

Genpets

2006-06-19T13:33:00.000-07:00

Ok, I have to post about this -- it's ... at the very least wierd!

Genpets are gentically engineered animals for human ownership and are sold on the shelf at stores. They come pakaged in a plastic bubble much like action figures. These are not real animals as the website claims (you can get to the website by clicking the link I made in the above sentence -- first word. Genpets are an art project by Adam Brandejs.

Pretty crazy huh? -- read about how the artist uses his genpets to scare up a reaction from the populace.

he's also made a latex flesh shoe and other crazy stuff.

Now we are out to go where?

2006-06-01T05:19:00.000-07:00

Don't click directly in the picture to play this movie -- instead click the round play button in the lower left-hand corner. this keeps you in the same window.

Please scroll down past the videos to the bottom to start at the begginning of my trip. It's a long way down there.

Leaving the river to go snorkeling

2006-06-01T05:16:00.000-07:00

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Our Concert Soloists -- Elisa

2006-06-01T05:13:00.000-07:00

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Elisa soloing to the piece, "Blues for a Killed Kat"

The Harbour Bridge

2006-06-01T05:10:00.000-07:00

Don't click directly in the picture to play this movie -- instead click the round play button in the lower left-hand corner. this keeps you in the same window.

Beatboxer in Sydney

2006-06-01T05:07:00.000-07:00

Don't click directly in the picture to play this movie -- instead click the round play button in the lower left-hand corner. this keeps you in the same window.

I didn't post anything about this guy earlier, but he was pretty good at beatboxing -- if you don't know what that is go to www.google.com and search the word "beatboxing"
See if you can gues the song he is doing...

Piha Beach NZ

2006-06-01T04:56:00.000-07:00

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The Reservior/Mnt range Visitor's Center

2006-06-01T04:52:00.000-07:00

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The Pearl

2006-06-01T04:16:00.000-07:00

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South Pacific Tour Pictures

2006-05-28T16:32:00.000-07:00

Well these picture are in reverse chronological order and the two posts of south pacific are in revserse order as well so you might want to scroll to the bottom of the pictures and look at them from bottom to top -- click on any of the pictures to enlarge them.

Just to give you then span of our journey back to Kansas we left FIJI at 5am Wednesday morning in Kansas and we got to KCI at 9am or so Friday morning.

We were both pretty sick the day we came back to the US -- this is LAX we had a nine hour layover there and a four hour layover in Chicago.

My trombone in a special protective case Hannah made after the journey was over -- it made it but not without a few bumps and scratches.

Oops, What's this?!?

Last Day

Hannah's room

They sell Raspberry flavoured coca cola there.

I got a cool mask at a local shop -- the turtle up at the top is for good luck.

The ground floor rooms had beds outside that were neat though I didn't utilize them.

It was so windy it was like getting sandblasted hence the look on Hannah's face.

In the hammock

Hannah's artistry.

The beach right next to the resort.

The last day we were there my friend Elisa went boogie-boarding.

the sign for the rooms was cool

The rooms.

One of the many bars -- this one had a waterfall/mirror thing going.

This is where we ate breakfast.

The reception desk and eating area I just showed you.

A nice place to eat and is usually open all hours to this walkway.

There's the golf cart (it was also a golf resort) and the reception desk is just to the right.

Our resort was pretty cool -- the lobby had no doors just a huge open area that you could drive right up to. There is a golf cart on the other side of those trees and that's where you drive up to.

Stacia and I cut our knees on the reef.

The beach we had our island BBQ on while snorkeling.

The crew on the beach waiting for snorkeling equipment.

The island we did go to.

Closer shot of the island you saw as we departed the river -- we didn't go to this one.

A tiny island -- soo cool!

A map of FIJI on the boat.

The rock jetty next to our resort and a distant minor island.

Mangroves.

The resort we stayed at as see from the beach.

The other boat was considerably sportier than ours -- I never really got a shot of ours except from the beach when we got to island.

The river heads out to sea.

Isn't Hannah beautiful in the swimsuit I bought her?

This was not our boat but it was cool so I took a shot.

We went snorkeling the next morning and we started off in this river on a couple of boats that took about an hour and a half to get to the Island that we snorkeled at.

The airport in Sydney and we thought this wall was cool -- off to FIJI!

We combined with another band for one of our pieces on the concert.

The concert in Sydney at the Univeristy of New South Wales.

More on the bridge: You can take of tour of it by doing a guiding climbing tour. You actucally climb to the top and hike down it's length. You have to pay quite a bit though. The bridge is really huge and the pictures I took of it are in no way able to capture how big it really is when you are looking at it in person. huge! :)

Interesting symmetry of Glenn and Hannah huh?

This pictrue turned out pretty cool -- I lined up the arc of the bridge just right with the arc of the opera house. These two are in close proximity and make a pretty cool sight.

We are getting ready to depart on the cruise.

Me on the harbour near a naval base.

This is me right before the cruise -- I bought a boomerang.

Hannah thinks the bridge is cool too.

This was taken from the cruise that toured the harbour. We learned a lot about it's history.

click on any of the pictures to enlarge them

A cool shot of the opera house up close.

A shot from downtown the shows the enormous bridge that goes over the harbour in Sydney -- city of sails they call it because so many sailboats come into the harbour.

Downtown Sydney.

More stained glass.

Here we are skipping to Sydney a shot early. I think you know what we are posing in front of.

oops out-of-order back at Piha beach

This is the stained glass at the front or opposite end of the church from where the band was positioned.

Cathedral of HT concert.

This is our concert at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity.

This is simon, Innes, and Sofia -- Innes is from Germany and only spoke German to their daughter and simon only spoke English.

Hannah's wearing a sweater but it again the water wasn't too cool.

2006-05-28T12:08:00.000-07:00

Well these picture are in reverse chronological order and the two posts of south pacific are in revserse order as well so you might want to scroll to the bottom of the pictures and look at them from bottom to top -- click on any of the pictures to enlarge

here are pictures of me and simon at the beach

a closer shot of Lion rock with me and Simon

The waves made interesting patterns in the sand -- different everytime.

Simon got worried when I went out this far -- I didn't read the signs Hannah took a picture of. simon said the surf was capable of sweeping me out to sea and a ripcurrent could take me even farther if one was present (which they often are he said). The water wasn't too cold -- it was cool but it wasn't uncomfortable.

The waves were huge and it made for excellent surfing I hear.

This is Piha beach and a shot of Lion Rock at Piha. It's a surfing beach on the Tasman Sea on the West side of NZ.

Hannah took this. It's a picture of the warnings before you go on the beach -- I didn't read them.

I loved the view of the reservior and the harbor.

I zoomed in on approximately the center of the picture below.

This is a reservior near Auckland that lets out into the harbour. It was cool because there were so many types of foliage -- though I'm not sure how dicernable they are in the picture. the Waitakere maontian range

Two Maoris showing a traditional sign of defiance called the (don't know the spelling exactly) pookana put extra emphasis on the POO and that's how they say it :)

boiling mud at the reserve

riverside runoff

then they went off on us

This is a cool shot because it has a really blue pool right next to the gysers that fills every time they go off -- the river on the other side also gets some runoff from the gysers

Here's a closer shot.

The next day we went to a reserve called Te Puia (formerly wakkarewarewa) Which is half Maori history center half natural reserve. All the Kiwis pronounces Maori as Mowry -- as in Dowry. This is a far off picture of twin gysers that we watched.

We went to a traditional Maori Dinner.

The crater lake, it was beautiful.

Here's a shopping center -- there were countless souvenier shops.

Places all over had cool corragated metal workings.

need an explanation?

Hannah, Elisa, Eston, and I went on a tramp of Downtown Rotorua -- the most touristy part of the town I guess -- there were souvenier shops everywhere.

This water was boilling, but unlike all of the other areas it was quite cold. Interesting...

The sulphfur made for very insterestingly coloured (spelled that way purposefully) algae. I saw all this on the trail next to the hotel.

Now back to the lake, this is a picture of the steaming vents at the lake shore-- it was a sizeable lake.

Again in less-than-p[erfect order, this was my first lunch in NZ. It was Curried lamb and it was very very good -- we went to a Thai restaurant in Rotorua.

I liked this sign, it was at the head of a trail near the Lake Plaza Hotel in Rotorua NZ the first place we stayed after leaving the Auckland airport. It is referring to Sulphur springs that were near the hotel and in the crater lake next to the hotel. It really stank.

My trombone

This is a picture of the Waikato river in NZ right after coming out of a hydroelectric dam that we stopped to observe. It was very scenic.

I'm now realizing that these pictures are not in exact order. Here we have Glenn and Vanessa at the KCI Airport before we left. A couple of pictures up is my Trombone case wrapped in a protective cover Hannah made also at KCI.

Of course this is when we arrived in Auckland -- much of our travel took place at night.

we start with the "lego" trees, a name Hannah coined on her first trip to NZ. Simon, the husband in our host family, said they are norfolk pines. It's interesting to see pines and tropical plants in the same forests.

Click on any of the pictures to enlarge them.

Graduation Pictures

2006-05-28T11:06:00.000-07:00

They played bagpipes before everyone came out. I think the piece he played was a traditional piece (it's also a Scotish song I beilieve) called "Scotland the Brave". I'm not sure which came first since the lyrics of that song talk about listening to the bagpipes playing, anyway...

This is my mom and me after I graduated -- no diploma yet just the cover.

me and my parents

Everyone went out to lunch and I opened some presents there

Hannah's family was there

I got some cool stuff

my sister was there too

since 23

2006-05-28T11:03:00.000-07:00

Well,
A lot has hap-end since my birthday. I graduated college and I went to New Zealand, Sydney, and Fiji. I had a great time and I am now getting ready to plan my wedding. Check out some pictures of my graduation and time in the south pacific. PEACE!!

23

2006-04-26T22:01:00.000-07:00

Well I've had a pretty good 23rd birthday party.
My sister called me from France, Hannah took me out after my Symphony Band concert and I got a job teaching middle school band next year.
Hannah also got a call inviting her to an awards ceremony for being the most outstanding senior of the 2006 class. She gets $100!! and she was inducted into a music honors society. :) I'm proud. Well nose back to the grindstone -- I'm almost done student teaching and then I'll be able to start blogging again.

Sony Qrio

2006-03-30T18:19:00.000-08:00

This is the most awesome robot yet go the website and check it out. Qrio

Playlist

2006-03-30T15:00:00.000-08:00

Currently Playing:
Artist Lara Viers
Album Carbon Glacier
Song Shadow Blues
It’s an awesome dark song

Here's a thought: I get to post whatever I want so I will now post something that is probably really boring, but I don't care because it's my blog and I can tell you whatever I want!

I thought I would post a list of all the musicians that I have listened to that I have really investigated.

Why? Well I have seen lots of playlists from iTunes shared music with the use of a laptop going to different places in Manhattan and a lot of people have these enormous shared song lists that are so diverse that I find it hard to believe that they really like to listen to everything as much as it's just cool to have certain artists on your playlist. One can find a range in one shared music list from Leonard Bernstien (West Side Story or something) to Kanye West (rap) to Something Corporate (EMO) to Celine Dion -- ?? I think...Really? So here's my list, but I'm only listing artists here that fit the following criteria:

-- I have listened to the artist's music multiple times (usually hours upon hours of listening)

-- I truly appreciate listening to the music they create

-- I usually enjoy listening to it (why differentiate between enjoyment and appreciation?: here's why)
I usually enjoy something for it's beat or the emotional response I have to it, but my Music Education background has enabled me to truly appreciate the technical ability of some artists or admire the oringinality or interesting composition of some of these artists, so I distinguish between something that's just cool for me versus something quality that can be appreciated based on a knowledgeable palette developed from my undergraduate study of music

-- I have spent time listening to this music without distraction (like other people, homework, driving, or other tasks ... my task at one time for all these artists was purely to focus in on their work).

I will probably be editing this post for spelling and other grammtical errors as well as adding musicians to it as I investigate them further, for now I will limit myself to popular music.

Artists:

Radiohead
Tori Amos
Modest Mouse
Jimi Hendrix
Death Cab for Cutie
Waterdeep
Tommy Emmanuel
Shane Barnard
Elliot Smith
Brad Mehaldau
Pat Metheney
Bela Fleck
Nick Drake
Smashing Pumkins
Our Lady Peace
Nirvana
Ryan Adams
The Postal Service
Nine Inch Nails
Ben Folds
Tegan and Sara
The Indigo Girls
The Squirrell Nut Zippers
Eric Clapton
Tom Petty
Travis
Jennifer Knapp
Pete Yorn
Bjork
Rage Against the Machine
Wilco
Toad the Wet Sproket
Sublime
Crash Test Dummies
The Appleseed Cast
U2
Tenacious D
Bright Eyes
Coldplay
Portishead
Greg LaFollet
Billie Holiday
A Perfect Circle
Iron and Wine
Fiona Apple
Bonnie Raitt
Peral Jam
Dwight Yokham
Bush
Wynton Marcellus
Pavement
Billy Bragg
Sigur Ros

again, these are my favorite artists of whom I listen regularly. I enjoy listening to the music they create and I probably own a CD from each listed.
more to come...

an update

2006-03-29T21:36:00.001-08:00

so I'm currently listening to Lara Viers: Carbon Glacier -- a dark, cold, grey, awesome album
I'm also listening to Modest Mouse: The Moon and Antarctica another dark but good album
and finally Troi Amos: Scarlet's Walk: This is not so dark and beautiful -- full of good tunes

All these I would recommend

Hannah is getting to come with me on the South Pacific Symphony Band Tour.

I'm hanging out with a friend of mine Ben, at 6am at a place called DK Doughnuts tomorrow morning just because we haven't had time to talk or catch up in a while. I always look forward to times when I get to hang out with this dude because he is so similar to me in the way his mind views the world. We conclude different things from the same prespective however and that gives us lots to talk about (though we don't disagree too much).

I think a personal goal for my future blogs would be to make less use of the parenthesis.

Pictures

2006-03-15T18:04:00.000-08:00

Hannah wanted to take some pictures of us now that we are engaged -- I guess it's just one of those things that you do -- her cousin is a visual artist and took our pictures using an old SLR camera with film. I think they turned out pretty well.

Finally Some Words

2006-03-12T21:31:00.000-08:00

Hey,
I'm getting reddy to take a shower and then I'll be back to post somemore before I go to sleep -- I should be doing something else beside blogging -- like preparing to teach tomorrow or resting, but I want to write finally so I will...

I feel so much better -- here's the state I'm i, I had to search a while to find a clean pair of underwear before I took that shower:)

Right now I'm listening to Lonely Monster and Electrohome -- music and musicians I am in some way aquainted with -- one of them is Jane, Hannah's sister-in-law. You can visit their web-site where the music is stored here.
Tonight my finace and I talked about how nice it is to know each other because it is nice to be able to talk to someone who shares the same ability to understand certain things like the music we listen to and the food we eat -- we both like to talk about this or that musical phrase that really puts a tingle down our backs or how I can tast the ingedients and talk about the quality of the food we are eating. -- I am currently enjoying PLANS by a band named Death Cab for Cutie. This is their most recent album and we were listening to it in the car and appreciating the skill of the musicians and the freshness of gibbard's lyrics. Of Death Cab's stuff I really like Transatlanticism and The Photo Album equally and PLANS most of all I think but I could probably take my favorite songs from each and make my favorite album -- something I still cannot due with any Radiohead album

When their (radiohead) next CD comes out I plan to buy and when they go on tour I plan to buy a ticket and take Hannah with me to see them.

I'm planning on going on tour with the KSU Symphony Band this summer to NZ Australia and FIJI. the SB Band Director gave Hannah permission to come along if she can afford it and we are talking over it right now. I hope she can come.

I'm sorry that this isn't going anywhere -- it's more like an update than anything else I'll never be a writer, I can't even keep a journal

Well in the mean-time check this out... BYE

The Proposal

2006-01-15T17:58:00.000-08:00

It took about a week to plan this proposal. I took Hannah out for a ride on a horse-drawn carriage the Saturday night before as a graduation present. Later she admitted thinking that I might propose to her then. At the beginning of that week I called her parents and mine to solidify how they felt about us marrying. After I was for sure that everyone was in agreement, I went ahead with my plan. I went to our favorite house to see when we drive around looking at Christmas lights. I walked up to the front door and waited for someone to answer my knock. When Dr. Wall came to the door I explained that I had an odd request and asked him if I could put up a lights display in his yard that asked Hannah to marry me. He was all for it. After some planning with him, I went home and began making my sign. I spent roughly four hours making the sign with red Christmas lights, a hardwood board, a staple gun, and black electrical tape. The tape helped me to black out the lights that I didn't want to show. After I made the sign, I drove it over to Dr. Wall's house and set it up for a practice to see if it would work and be visible. Everything worked so I talked to him and his family about how the timing would work. They let me know that they had invited interested coworkers and the Manhattan Mercury (newspaper) to come that night. I gave them a sheet detailing how it would happen. I would leave with Hannah to look at lights and roughly around 8:00--8:30 we would arrive. To be sure I would call secretly, on my cell phone and when the Walls saw my number on their caller ID they would know that I was here. I would then park and turn my lights off while they got ready and while I talked to Hannah about our imminent furtures. Then I would flash my lights and they would turn on the sign. Well it all went according to plan and I even had friends show up at the Walls to celebrate with us afterward. Once I proposed we hung out at the Wall residence for a while and I talked to the mercury. Then we went to our friend's house and had snacks and hungout some more. -- That's basically it.

Family and Friends 2

2005-12-19T20:46:00.000-08:00

Family and Friends

2005-12-19T20:39:00.000-08:00

This is the family whose house I "borrowed". Then Hannah and I retired to our friends house to party.

Signs

2005-12-19T20:28:00.000-08:00

I made this sign and Hannah was quite impressed with it. I think it is still at the house.

The Blue House

2005-12-19T20:22:00.000-08:00

The Blue House is awesome and here are some pics of it from the street. I think that it's hard to capture the house at night.

Kevin and I hangout

2005-12-18T21:27:00.000-08:00

we are dorks that is why...

Lost in Translation

2005-12-18T21:24:00.000-08:00

Well I tried to post picture of rings but they are really small up in the lefthand corner of the post -- it's kinda coll though so I think I'll leave it : )

The wedding band

Music

2005-10-07T21:50:00.000-07:00

So I can't seem to keep this damn thing going -- I guess that's how I feel with lots of things.

I don't seem to have much sticktoitiveness when it comes to a real passion of mine -- writing music (why would I call it a passion if I never really make time for it -- good question). I guess it's the only thing that I really see myself fullying enjoying. Maybe that means it needs to stay just a hobby, but I'd really like to have a record one day.

Well if you didn't know my biggest dreams before you do now. I do commit a lot of time to practicing the trombone, but that's not my main desire. I love to play it though -- but I have a hard time creating anything with it since I can't do chords with it. I mainly take enjoyment at being good at it.

Here's a cool website/magazine that I read the other day -- I like it a lot. PASTE is a music review magazine and it also has film and various other stuff in it. PASTE

check ya later

Well it's been awhile so I thought I'd post

2005-09-20T14:56:00.000-07:00

I lost my computer -- died on me so it's been awhile since i had my own place. Here's what I've been up to lately. Photo blog time!!

Fire Workers

2005-07-31T21:19:00.000-07:00

When you don't have much to say... post a pic

The Truth That Tells a Lie

2005-07-31T20:35:00.000-07:00

Admittedly the title is a little funky and the author can be also, but I'm reading his book right now. So far it's good and it applies (like any motivational/finding your inner child and making a date with it -- book does) to my field quite nicely (music). It's also reading it for it's original purpose and I think I may try some of things it has for my actual writing as well.

Last night was the second night in a row that I played in aggieville. Made 40 bucks both times. had a friend with me both times so my net profit was 40 bucks. Not bad for 5 hours of jammin and having fun with the drunks.

here's a thought: after two nights of staying up till 2 I'm tired -- night

Check out this comic strip

2005-07-29T12:14:00.001-07:00

It's pretty funnny all done with .'s \\ and the like
The boy with the immovable hair

The Lair

2005-07-26T10:02:00.000-07:00

check out my firend Kevin's Goth Poetry Lair it's ... uplifting?

http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=jacksheart

On the subject of the writers block that is my life...

2005-07-26T06:56:00.000-07:00

this entry is in reference to my earlier entry called "...efforts always blocked by lack of dopamine..."

today I'm going to the ksu library to try to kick myself into gear and get some music recorded...kevin's coming with me and Hannah has asked me several times about collaborating to write some songs.

I'm afraid I just don't want to put in the time and effort requred to do this stuff -- I never finish the songs I start to write, and I've always blamed it on a lack of creativity or something else but I think it just boils down to motivation and work ethic

sigh........

My sister lives in france AND she has a Boyfriend, but he's not French -- Does that mean he's immortal?

2005-07-19T08:18:00.000-07:00

His name is Roger

France -- some people are grossed out by frogs, as for me? well...

2005-07-19T08:14:00.000-07:00

My sister lives in France (well actually right now she lives in a small room on a yacht in the Medditerannean) so my mom went to see her

This is a picture of my mom when she was visiting my sister in Paris

You know I'm not lying because there are clues in the picture that prove she's in France

The Pilgrims; Texas Gothic

2005-07-19T07:50:00.000-07:00

2004

When my Family Comes Together...We Canoe

2005-07-18T20:13:00.000-07:00

We load our canoes into the water at 9am in a local state park southwest of Junction TX.
We make our way down the river into town stopping at the damn where the North and South Llano rivers meet.

2004

My extended family (not too much)

2005-07-18T20:09:00.000-07:00

group pictures happen every year and every year they're just as tedious

Hannah and Me

2005-07-18T20:06:00.000-07:00

She had a great time

Family Reunion

2005-07-18T20:04:00.000-07:00

So I went to my family reunion.

You can visit our Family reunion at this website:
cowsert
go ahead and copy and paste it into the browser for now

Now for some fam reunion pics

My efforts to create are always sidetracked by a lack of dopamine

2005-07-13T15:01:00.000-07:00

My friend kevin has posted a website featuring his latest song. I've also included it on my links sidebar.

jacksheart -- Kevin's and my website for our music

Apparently he has made this website to feature both of us in our efforts to create music both separately and together. I'm not sure how well that will go, but I will say this:

I have always wanted to play and make music more than I have wanted to be an adult and work. I wish I had the time and resources and most importantly the assurance that it's ok to spend my time so selfishly to be able to devote my life to this dream.

ps

Here's a link I added a while back that I thought I'd remind you of -- it's my gf's sister-in-law

lonleymonster -- Jane's music website

Weekend Update

2005-07-08T21:51:00.000-07:00

I got invited to a place called the 4 Olives; It's a new restaurant in Manhattan and the person who was going couldn't and they party had already paid for their plate so I'm going :)

I'm sitting in my boxers right now

Lately I have been disillusioned with the trombone and I've been devloping my voice (by the way I'm getting free voice lessons from a K-State instructor)

I went camping and I caught a bullfrog who thought he could outsmart me by waiting until I walked past him to start ribbiting again. It was sooooo good to hear it!! He OBVIOUSLY didn't know that I used to practice catching toads and frogs since the age of seven. There he was floating in the weeds and I shined my flashinglight in his huge eyes temporarily blinding him and wham! I almost ate him for dinner, but I had mercy on him. I also caught a crawdad (crayfish) and I thought about eating him too, but I didn't think it would be worth it since there was only one.

and finally visit this blog its cool
musicthing

Who's eating who?

2005-07-08T21:48:00.000-07:00

Hey a crawdad they're soo scary to catch

2005-07-08T21:47:00.000-07:00

I love me some frog legs

2005-07-08T21:46:00.000-07:00

What a Frog!!!!!

2005-07-08T15:17:00.000-07:00

This is Ben Deaver and I and a cool bullfrog (ben left me right)

some good blogs/websites

2005-07-03T17:56:00.000-07:00

Here are some good links to follow for you

My Ex: she's an architecht

My pastor: he's cool too

my roomate: I guess so

This is about New Zealand

The last link is about Wellington and I put it on here because my gfs sister-in-law is from NZ

So I saw The Grudge, it was one of the most suspenseful movies I've seen in a couple of years. I don't know why everyone
gave it such a bad rap.

Alright I'm going to go in keeping with my new theme

My roomate is single?! ; P

2005-07-03T17:44:00.000-07:00

I finally figured out how to post pictures -- well that is Blogger finally made it easy enough for me to post pictures -- ya I'm not that great with computers but I'm ok with that anyway here's a picture of my roomate (who's letting me use his computer right now) isn't he hot?!? I can't help but unintentionally lean toward the image everytime I view it. He's sooo suave.

heyheyhey

2005-07-01T22:58:00.000-07:00

my roomate has a

Talking

Tire

Pressure

Gage

:)

Is the Endagered Manatee Really Just a Retired Football Player?

2005-07-01T22:27:00.000-07:00

I'm done with Block One and can finally relax I don't know why I'm still awake after all the testing and essay/reaction paper
writing I have done

I've started taking voice lessons and it's pretty interesting -- I didn't realize it could be so hard to sing

The teacher I have is really good and I learn a lot jsut by observing him teach (now that I've had a block of education courses)

I start another class on July 5th and I work this weekend so no July 4th partying for me (unless I want to party on Mon when everyone else is working)

I think I will capitolize on the event and play my guitar in aggieville tmorrow there should be plenty of people out getting drunk for freedom Priase the Lord and Pass the Amunition

my computer is still busted and I need to get it fixed It won't get past the boot screen

well I need to go to bed

Block One

2005-06-30T23:26:00.000-07:00

Crap it's 1:23 in the morning and I have a final tomorrow what am I still doing up?

This is my new entry format

Minimalistic

Tomorrow I finish three weeks of five-day-a-week 8hrs of class, I'll have gotten 9hrs of credit in four weeks

I have researched dyslexia and it sounds interesting

I find that more and more the bulk of my inner thoughts are consumed by other people and I find my asthetic apreciation inside relationships

go figure -- I taught 8th graders algebra today

Blogs Resumed

2005-06-03T16:00:00.000-07:00

Hello to my friends abroad,
I haven't entered anything in a long time b/c I haven't thought of anything really good to write and I think that's my problem. So I though I at least owe a brief update to those few who actually visit my website.
I'm about to start summer school next monday and that will take up a lot of my time (hopefully I will be able to get in a blog once in a while). I just finished practicing my trombone. I haven't been working on anything too seriously b/c I have taken a small break from it, but I know I need to keep in shape so I've been playing through (cover to cover) the Arban's method (it's a technique book for brass players).
I've also played my guitar in aggieville recently (I made $20) and I've been mountain biking which has been great for me (school can be really crappy without these things). I took my bike apart -- it's a GT --, and now I can't figure out how to get the derailer back on, but luckily I have a friend who's a Mechanical Engineer and he offered to help me figure it out. that bike was really dirty though, and it needed a major cleaning.
I'm trying to balance Municipal Band, School, Biking, Recording covers and orginal songs in the K-Sate Library's Studio, and my upcoming Sr. Trombone recital this summer. I really need to figure out how to cut back, but I love doing all that stuff (I also need to figure out how to get a picture on here).
Well I hope that's informative; if you have questions e-mail me or leave a comment (which subsequently goes to my email anyway). And as always you can ask me via email and I'll let you post directly to my site.

Steve Peterson Presents!!!!!

2005-04-13T23:14:00.000-07:00

Check it out it's almost as good as the dancing trombone guy on Steve Harvey's Big Time!

Freestyle Trombone

Is Posting in an Inverse Proportion to Homework Completed?

2005-03-28T21:26:00.000-08:00

I hate to admit it but no probably not. Sorry mom, Bill. However, I have been getting things done and over spring break I definately relaxed and took a needed break. I also switched over to a twevle-hour sleep schedule for a few days (until my dad came to visit).
Right now I'm listening to Tori Amos, The Beekeeper and I like it. Does that say anything about my masculinity? I'll let you answer that one. I don't think it's Amos' best work by far, but it's mature and that's something that she definately lacked in other albums. Unfortunately her maturity has also meant a mellowing of her style which I like a lot. She is generally softer on this album (musically), but her words are still sharp - you just have to listen.
I wish I could post pictures and stuff, but I don't have the time to figure it out on my archaic computer, so I suppose the only attraction this blog really offers is my writing and web findings. (interesting note: I missed a cell call from my mom tonight at 1030, but no message and I heard from my dad that she missed her flight out of Paris so I hope she's not in some french prison and trying to call me or something)
I have been thinking a lot about how much I talk about myself to other people and how much I think about things. I've been accused of hyperanalysing everything many times and I think that I can, but I'm not sure that's aviodable for me. What I'm more concerened with is my tendancy to follow my own generation's self-proclaiming way of realating to others. I'm pretty sure that I don't live my life like a video testimonial on MTV's the Real World, but I do see it happening all around me. Just the other day I was talking to some of my fellow students in a courtyard on campus and one of the girls was entertaining everyone with a full disclosure of her menstural cycle in a half comedic stand-up kinda way. I was confused to say the least and reminded of so many reality tv shows. What's my point? I think that has lead to the complete halt on posting recently. I have a hard time feeling relevant enough to post anything now that the novelty of having my own web-site has worn off.

But at least I don't post song lyrics.

Salad Fingers!

2005-03-03T20:46:00.000-08:00

Don't ask...
Salad Fingers

File Under: Delicious

2005-02-23T20:03:00.000-08:00

Here's some Radohead for the masses. Take your pick.

What we need is a Montage!
Rodeohead

here's the band website:
Hard'n'Phrim

A Radiohead site similar to Greenplastic check out the upcoming 2nd Christopher o Riley and Phantom Planet's cover of Paranoid Andriod:
at ease

Here's a percussion ensemble version of PA:
Paranoid Andriod

Enjoy:
John Biron

i just realized that I haven't posted anything worthwile ... in a while

2005-02-22T16:44:00.000-08:00

Not sure what's worthwhile, but here goes,
I just got back from the library. I was there looking for the translation to a German song that I was assigned to transcribe for Trombone. I was asking the reference librarian if she could help me find a translation book and we searched for a while but she couldn't find one (that's because she wasn't very good at using the library's online catalouge). I kept asking her to trying different search limits and keywords and she would correct my German a little here and there - and then it hit me. I asked, "Can you speak German?" She said yes, her husband is from Germany. So I asked her to translate my song (she thought I needed a lengthy translation). I also forgot that my dad knows German fairly well and I could have asked him. Anyway we figured it out pretty roughly and it was a lot more interesting than looking it up in a book. I'm thinking about going to a ITA conference this summer in New Orleans (International Trombone Association) yes they don't always meet in America. It's supposed to be fairly low cost for students.

Well to help you refresh, here's a summary of posts for your reference:

1. I wrote about starting a blog (yeah I know it's dumb)
2. I posted my homework (it's not that good, but if you're interested...)
3. I had dumb moments with figuring out how to make blogger work
4. ibid
5. I played my guitar for money downtown
6. Helpful hints when commenting on my site
7. about that week
8. I posted an update
9. Create your own southpark
10. Jane's site
11. My thought's on that site
12. I cool post I did on free-running
13. A cool blog
14. I posted commentary on my college nespaper
15. my friend posted
16. I posted about my friend's post
17. Erin's blog
18. this post, wow I didn't realize how lame my blog is!

one of my "roomies" has a blog

2005-02-22T15:59:00.000-08:00

http://ahazyshadeofgreen.blogspot.com/

she's a cool chick and she has a pet chinchilla

I just added Kevin and he's already posted something retarded! :)

2005-02-21T21:15:00.000-08:00

Yeah so that last post was my best fiend Kevin. I'll probably file it away sometime, but for now I like having some diversity on my page. I wish I actually had time to write on it and aruge with people who comment (by the way, you can still post if you want just drop me an e-mail).

I wish my sister in france would email me!

So I'm doing the usual -- playing trombone and wishing I could jump off my roof see you later...

Eternal Darkness

2005-02-21T20:53:00.000-08:00

A SHADOW
SO DEEP
SO MUCH PAIN
AND SORROW
I TURN
A TEAR
IM SO DEEP RIGHT NOW

-Kevin

Here is the answer to Hermeus's Question

2005-02-18T22:06:00.000-08:00

So I feel like lately I have been on this independent thinking kick and it's been getting everyone upset, but here seems to be at one person who's brain releases chemicals the same way mine does. This guy doesn't really represent all my beliefs (obviously), but he THINKS about things and doesn't make as many assumptions and doesn't seem to be so misguided as most everyone else.

I very apt couple of articles I have read are these check'em out:
Vagina Monolouges
Diversity

While I'm on a K-State collegian kick I might as well include this article -- it's about a wacked out musical artist:
Wesley Willis

" Whatever your opinion, I ask only that you question it." Don't tune out you dweeb!

Geckoblue

2005-02-18T08:40:00.000-08:00

This is a cool website that I will be adding a link to on my page.

www.geckoblue.org

This guy shares a lot of my musical interests, and he also has a pretty neat-looking page layout.
About the f entry and other entires that seem to be outdated -- those were ones that I tried to post via e-mail and it took a really long for them to post I guess, I don't think that I will try that anymore, however, that is still the way for others to post to my website, so if you do decide to post via e-mail (which is something you have to contact me about), then you'll need to know that it can take a few days so don't be too time specific (I guess?).

Lately I have really enjoyed listening to these songs:
TiKiBaBaDiDo by Sigur Ros
Everything Means Nothing to Me by Elliot Smith
Love is Hell (the album) Ryan Adams
Made for TV Movie by Incubus
True by Ryan Caberera

yeah yeah I know that the last one is a cheesy pop song and I apologise, I really do, but I think I just identify with it a lot now that my gf of 1 1/2 years and I are not together anymore :(

Well I'm also sorry that I haven't posted in a while, but I have been really busy and I still am so myabe I'll post something cool soon

Parkouristes, modern-day samuri

2005-02-10T23:27:00.000-08:00

Well here are some links I researched on the topic of Le Parkour or free-running,

Apparently some guys in France got real excited after watching Ocean's 12 and The Matrix trilogy and went around enacting their own chase scenes and rooftop getaways. They even have a philosophy. These levity-obsessed dudes jump from rooftop to rooftop and scale walls check it out!

Here's the site:
Le Parkour

this is an awesome vidoe clip:
David Belle

this is a good overview
BBC Review

Here are two websites devoted to the "sport":
http://www.parkour.org.uk/
http://www.screwgravity.com/

Here's a couple of movies:
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=11935
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267129/

Watch for me in the Obituaries, I'm about to jump off my roof - holy crap!

About Lonely Monster

2005-02-10T22:54:00.000-08:00

I just read a little about Jane's site. It's interesting to hear what she and (that other dude) think about music. I agree and disagree. Music is becoming, in many ways, way over-produced (in the studio) to the point where the highest grossing and most popular musicians are the most pro-tooled pieces of crap you could find under your shoe. I also have the outlook of a band-geek, in that I see that it takes a ton of skill and musicianship to really master any instrument (esp the traditional classical ones), and appreciation of that is almost non-existent nowadays. It used to be that bands and orchestras had rock-show status and it was a sign of wealth and taste if you attended these concerts. People didn't always have the luxury of listening to music - it had to be played by someone, not a cd player or a radio.
On the flip-side, I feel that there is a lot to be said for the creativity that is found in the manipulation of sound electronically. I'm a huge radiohead fan so that's probably why I feel this way, but there is a lot of quality stuff being done by guys (and gals) who lock themselves in their basements for weeks on end mastering software and hardware and endless mixing and remixing until they find what they have been listening for. I have done a fair amount of fooling around with aural effects. It's fun to me and I like that style of music (if it's quality) so I don't see much wrong with using a computer as your instrument. It takes me hours to mix a song together for lots of reasons but primarily b/c the software that I use (garageband and fruity loops) is not easily mastered (like the trombone which I have already worn away too much of my life practicing). Electronic music is still an art to me, but brittany spears is not.

My GF has a cool sister-in-law

2005-02-10T22:26:00.000-08:00

Visit this link to hear Jane, my GF's sister-in-law. She is a pretty folkish type gal and listens to lots of Patty Giffin, and Bonniet Rait, and stuff like that.

envious.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

Create you own southpark dude!

2005-02-10T18:43:00.000-08:00

Hey check this out, :)
sp_game.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)

Update

2005-02-09T09:51:00.000-08:00

I finally remebered to change the timestamp on my posts so that it always gives the correct time of when anyone posts (yes this was a problem for awhile) so sorry that a lot of the times on some my other posts are not accurate (maybe when I changed the timestamp format that retroactively changes them all - probably not though).

If you would like to learn how to post to my page send me an e-mail and I'll let you know how to post to the page so that it looks like this entry.

This week

2005-02-07T23:29:00.000-08:00

well it looks like I'm in for a hell of a week I have to teach some classes (stringed instruments and beggining band), and I have lots of papers that still need writing. I also have work this weekend a concert sunday night brass ensemble rehearsal and a trombone lesson to schedule. Dr. Hunt's dad has passed away so I won't be having a lesson with him. We'll see if I make it through this week without loosing some years of my life:)

A clarification

2005-02-07T09:50:00.000-08:00

he knows your eyes are blue, but it was dark that night and you were new to him

If you're anoymous you might want to sign you name at the bottom of your comments unless you really want to be anonymous, but I can usuallly tell whos who, yes there's a place for rebuttal it these pages here before if you wish to learn more about commenting or even posting a blog to my pages contact me via e-mail

Playing guitar in the local bar district

2005-02-05T01:26:00.000-08:00

Yeah tonight I went to the local bar district and played some songs with my friend Kevin. We played Radiohead (of course), and Bob Marley, Sublime, and Tenacious D and other stuff. We made about $35. Some people asked us if we were in it for the money, but we said no (we were serious). I like doing stuff like that because you can meet a lot of interesting people really fast; a guy came and break danced in front of us for a while, and we talked to him.
I'm still working on this site as far as what links I want here and getting the pic at the top to look right -- it's an Anti-Patriotic string of pictures that I thought was interesting -- I found it on Deviantart.com. I watched a Movie called THX ### or something like that with Kevin his girlfriend and my friend Matt, it was a pretty good movie. There were lots of references to Soilent Green, 1984, Equilibrium, and Logan's Run mixed in with the scenes and plot -- cool film. Well I needed to write a little, but I'll have to stop for now so that I can get some rest.

So I'm Not So Dumb Afterall ... or Am I?

2005-02-01T17:25:00.000-08:00

So the e-mail thing is working now, and I figured out that the links are ok. The only thing still eluding me at this point is the show/hide problem. Someday I'll have time to really write.

Problems with This Web Site

2005-02-01T07:09:00.000-08:00

Well I'm guessing as with any website there are going to be bugs. So far I have tried to post a blog via e-mail and that hasn't worked (three times actually), I tried to edit the color of the links and now it seems that they want to stay in the "visited" state all the time now, and I can't seem to figure out how to show/hide my blog entries so that only the titles apppear until clicked on. Sorry for yet another boring e-mail; maybe sometime soon I will think some deep philosophical thoughts and remember them long enough to post them here

in any case check out the quote for today, it's a good one (from a friend)

I did my homework!

2005-01-31T11:31:00.000-08:00

Here's a boring post for you I did my homework. Life is full of homwork these days, and I don't hardly have time to even write this, but what the heck. If you want to check out my homework it's kinda cool I guess.

Music 511
1/31/05

Reinforcement Game
Writing on the Borad in Front of the Class Can Be Fun

I remember playing this game in Spanish class, and I encourage you to adapt it, as I have, to your own specifications. This game mainly reinforces material already learned in class; however, it can add some new material. It helps those students who might not catch on as quickly as others to practice what the class is learning

Things that can be taught/reinforced with this game:
∑ Listening to music
∑ Rhythms
∑ Notation
∑ Instrument families
∑ Time signatures
∑ Rhythmic dictation

Main concept:
Students belong to rows that face the chalkboard. You can either have them form rows or just keep them in their chairs (depending on how your classroom is set up). The student nearest the chalkboard in each row will go up in front of the class, and write a rhythm you dictate to them. I plan to use both verbal instruction (write two eighths, and three quarters in 4/4 time), and rhythm dictation by playing the rhythm for them with a pair of sticks, my instrument, or a CD. Once the students are done check their work and those that are right stay up at the board and those that are wrong sit down at the back of the row. The students still seated move up to keep the rotation going (this is always fun because you get to sit somewhere new).

Other Ideas
After the students' work has been scrutinized I plan on asking the whole class to join me and play the rhythm on an "air" instrument. I also plan to supplement this part with sounds from the instrument we are "playing." For example, the students have written the rhythm on the board and now the instructor says, "Ok, Lets play this rhythm on air violin!", the instructor plays a little violin music (this helps to incorporate listening and can grab their attention if it is waning), then the class says the rhythm (1-and-2, or 1-ta-2-ta) while air violining. This same idea can be used for percussion, brass, keyboard, etc., and would really be effective if the listening matched up with the specific rhythm (like Beethoven's Fifth or something).
I might also write the notes in a 'note value bank' on the board before class if I think students will need it to remember how to draw the notes. It might also be good to have time signatures written on the board as well. I would tell students that we are working in 4/4 or 6/8 and change it periodically.

Until I figure out how to create another page so that I could have just that assignment a link I'm afraid this is all the skill I have. I still don't have it figured out how to post pics but that's seems like it'll be easy ok bye.

Well Shouldn't You Ask Why?

2005-01-29T23:31:00.000-08:00

Yes I have started an online journal-page, and I'm guessing that means sell-out to all of my friends (esp. Emily since she tried to get me to create a Xzanga site). At least my parents and my sis (bonjour:) will be able to feel more in touch. Hopefully you won't find this too trite, Hannah, or too much a waste of my time -- I figure it might motivate me to write/journal more. Hopefully this isn't my only entry.