The Great Jackson Returns!

Ahem.

Well I haven't posted for AAAGES now so it would have to be a very long post to recap most of 2007. So here it is in abbreviated form.

Ward. Reading Journal. Screaming. HWC. Ward Leaving. Celebration. Cas. Yay. Mr. Mark. Poke. Him-EESH. Intermediate Concert Band going wwaaaaaay downhill. Subject Selections. English Language. Maths Methods. Chemistry. Politics. Music Performance. Music Styles by distance ed. Finished Symphony. Happy Face. Exams. Sad Face. Good Marks. Happy Face. AAARGH PRESENTATION NIGHT. Sad Face. Mr. Armstrong. Sadder Face. 983274934 hours personalised learning speech. Rather Bored Face. Medley. Laughing Face. Constanter Ac Fideliter. Constanter Ac Fideliter! CONSTANTER AC FIDELITER!!!1!1!!! Christmas. Saxophone Mouthpiece. Holiday in Sorrento. Face.

That was an incredibly coherent and well structured sequence of sentences now wasn't it? Now seeing as I am so incredibly bored, I will go into more detail about what has happened during the school holidays.

Well we went into the city before christmas... I can't really remember what I bought so stuff. Yeah... I think I bought that 2CD think of Penderecki's early works... Including that awesome cappriccio for violin and orchestra. Hooyay for that. Then we had christmas, and I got a decent saxophone mouthpiece (Selmer) a book (Six sacred stones, Matthew Reilly), various gift vouchers and money, and a few other things which escape me right now. They probably weren't worth remembering anyway. Then a couple of days after christmas we went into the city again and I spent my $100 ALLANS VOUCHER. And they had 20% off too. So now i have a lot of sheet music which is mostly too hard for me and I need to learn some stuff in the next couple of weeks because I'm going to have to play pieces at various auditions. Ah crap. I'm trying to learn my grade 7 list B, which is proving very difficult because half of it is written in A# major, which is very hard to read and has double sharps everywhere. And its at dotted crotchet = 152. Back to the city, I also bought some CDS - Stravinsky L'histoire du soldat - which is good, and it also had Renard, which is a comic pantomime-y thingo. And its in english. and it starts with a rant about death. which is odd. And i also bought that $35 CD of penderecki's flute concerto and clarinet concerto. Which was a waste of money. They aren't that good and are entirely based on other pieces. Grrrrrrr...
Then we went to sorrento for two weeks. I think I can sum up the entire holiday in a few words:
Sleep, Eat, Listen to music, compose, play scrabble.
How exciting. The food was good anyway and I wrote 3 WHOLE MINUTES OF SAXOPHONE CONCERTO! WOOOOOT! Which is 25 pages so it's more than it sounds.
Now I'm back, I'm very bored, and looking for an excuse to insult dvorak.