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Three Things I’m Grateful For Today:
- A new office desk.
- The trees waving in the morning breeze.
- Music
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The song in my head when I woke up: Hemorrhage, by Fuel
Favorite line from the song in my head when I woke up: She cries her life is like/Some movie black and white/Dead actors faking lines/Over and over and over again she cries
Commute Tunes: Last night’s drive home from the concert I attended was done to my John’s Rap playlist. Remember, I’m a rich white kid from the NY suburbs, and my history is dotted with listening to old-school and gangsta rap. Not sure how, but it’s true.
- It Was A Good Day, Ice Cube
- Fuck Tha Police, N.W.A.
- It’s Tricky, Run DMC
- Lowrider, Cypress Hill
- Walk This Way, Run DMC
- She’s Crafty, Beastie Boys
- Paul Revere, Beastie Boys
Something I’m looking forward to today: My every-other-week space trip.
Something I’m looking forward to in the next seven days: My appointment with a pain management doctor next week to figure out the next steps with my neck issues.
Something I’m grateful for from yesterday: Seeing Boy The Younger sing his heart out.
What I’m writing: Yesterday’s Two Crappy Pages involved writing an article about the importance of inclusion in underwriting and not just automatically rejecting certain underserved groups.
What I’ve written: It’s a News Nuggie Thursday! What’s the best way to get back at an annoying neighbor? Why does our brain feel like it is pushing out of our skulls when we slurp a Slurpee too fast? What’s the biggest jerk animal in the sea? And what’s our fascination with catching a tiger by its toe?
Back at good ol’ Pound Ridge Elementary School, one of the first experiences I had with live music is listening to a bunch of first-graders play the violin. Poorly. Very poorly.
Some brilliant education person decided this was a good age at which to hand young people a stringed instrument capable of screeching like a wounded pigeon, and so the school was forced to listen to their rendition of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,” which emulated music like Spam emulates elite cuisine.
Thusly, my opinion of the violin is more as an instrument of pain than one of beautiful music.
Then, BTY got involved.
The kid has loved to sing since he was a small child. Almost every night, he would excuse himself from the dinner table to go to the bathroom. Whether he needed to take care of any biological function was questionable. What was without question was that we’d soon hear singing coming from the bathroom. When we asked him what he was doing, he would tell us he liked the sound of his voice in there.
Bathroom acoustics rock, yo.
Now, BTY sings in the St. Charles Christian Home Educators Choir, and watching him sing is so much fun. The boy gets into it as much as he used to get into his bathroom concerts. So when he had the opportunity to sing a song backing up someone who apparently is pretty famous for being a badass on the electric violin, he jumped at the opportunity.
Abigail Stahlschmidt used to sing in the choir BTY now croons in. Today, though, she’s more known for her violin skillz. So last night, Wifey Poo picked me up from work and we made the drive down to STL to listen to the whole dang experience.
It was pretty amazing. Now, to be fair, most of her original pieces and classical stuff aren’t my cup of tea. But when she banged out a Rush medley? Yes please. And when she played Ecstasy of Gold, which not only is from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly but also serves as the intro to every Metallica concert? Most definitely.
Abby bills herself as a “Fashion Model & International Violinist/Composer, and I appreciate the eclectic nature of the title. She put on a good concert, and her main electric violin resembles a mini metal guitar. BTY’s choir accompanied her on her last song, and he did his thing. It’s so much fun to watch how into it he gets.
The violin is an awkward instrument. It’s like someone didn’t think it all the way through when designing it.
“OK, so one hand holds it, the other hand holds the bow … now how do you keep it steady?”
“Uhhhh… jam it under your chin?”
Anywho, there are things you never think you’ll experience in your life, and “Watch an electric violin concert put on by a Fashion Model & International Violinist/Composer” is definitely one of them. This is why we have kids. They force us out of our own comfort zones and give us culture we’d never get otherwise.
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