Good MORNING to my EXIGENT (compliment) FOLLOWERS. I have been BUSY lately. However I finally got very SICK of “NETWORKING” and took a weekend, and then some, to recover. BEETHOVEN was very BASED for being COARSE and DISAGREEABLE. I think that’s COOL. Of course he had the TALENT to be so. I do NOT. So I have to go through life SMILING and NODDING a lot.
Jokes aside there are people I do actually like here. A lot of weirdos though. Last weekend I had an Uber driver who began schizobabbling unprompted about the Large Hadron Collider opening a gateway to other dimensions while driving me to the club. Not kidding, that was a REAL smile and nod moment. Don’t do DMT guys, not even once, “expanding” your “consciousness” is not worth being an Uber driver for the rest of your life. Some people will do anything but get square with God, to the point of self-mindrape. MANY SUCH CASES! SAD!
Well, instead of destroying my mind with ayhuasca (sp? who cares) like so many other lost young men, I became a guy who can play chords and scales very fast over 90-year-old 32-bar musical numbers. What a mistake that was. It’s not that there’ll always be someone who can do it faster than you, I’ve made my peace with that, but that it’s just, at bottom, POINTLESS. It’s an INSANE waste of time, literally no different than becoming a video game speedrunner. Oh but at least I can clip through that hitbox with SO MUCH SOVL AND FEELING. Screw off.
So here is another paltry attempt at doing something of more substance with my life, an excerpt from the dance movement of the string quartet I’ve been working on off-and-on. You may not hear it from this bit but it’s actually very FUNNY. There are a lot of JOKES in it that you might get if you play a certain instrument. As I mentioned, this is from the dance movement but I can’t call it a Minuet or Scherzo because it’s not in triple meter. I thought about “Tarantella” but I think that’s one of those Baroque-era things where there’s like a specific rhythm it has to have. So I just went with the “tempo + character” formula, “Vivace Agitato”.
Min’s recommended listening for this week:
Ginastera — String Quartet no. 2
Rachmaninoff — Trio Elegiaque no. 1 in D Minor (A little romanticism as a treat)
Josquin — Missa Di Dadi
Min’s recommended watch for this week:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Min’s recommended smoke for this week:
I have blown so much money on so many good cigars in the past two weeks. The king of them all was the LFD Double Ligero Lancero, holy crap that was a good smoke.
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