Monday, March 19, 2007

FROMG! IT'S THE POSTY POST OF POSTYNESS! AND I'M AN NOT STEALING THE TITLE OF THE BLOG AT ALL!

Now stuart says I either have to not mention dvorak or be super praiseful of him if I want to continue blogging FROMG I TYPED BLODDING because he is the 'ALMIGHTY ADMIN *INSERT DEVIL EMOTICON HERE*. I WAS an almighty admin until he deleted my admin status. damn him.

Now i shall PRAISE GLAZUNOV. YOU SHOULD ALL LISTEN TO HIS SAXOPHONE CONCERTO. AND I'M GETTING THE SCORE AND THE SOLO PART!! SO I CAN ATTEMPT TO PLAY IT!! IT DOESN'T SOUND TOO HARD!!! YEYst!!! except it's taking 3-6 weeks to arrive *grumbles* AND THEN I CAN PLAY IT TO EVERYONE OVER AND OVER TO ANNOY YOU BWAHAHAHAHAHA AS SOON AS I GET MY SAXOPHONE SERVICED AND I GET A GOOD MOUTHPIECE AND SOME GOOD REEDS!!!!

I was writing the scherzo from my symphony today. It is in retarded form. Scherzo that technically isn't scherzo - Almost completely unrelated section - Trio that technically isn't trio - Short retarded waltz thing that TECHNICALLY IS A WALTZ WOOT!!!! - Another completely unrelated section - And I haven't finished yet but I play on having a transition back into the scherzo and then a return of the scherzo to finish off. As you can tell it's completely retarded and doesn't fit in with the rest of the symphony because the orchestration is very shostakovichy, but for the rest of the symphony the orchestration is very mahlery.

My fingers smell like seafood. That was random.

I should really do some homework now. I might do a reading journal entry for english. I'm not sure why because **** is a bitch with a retarded accent and she can't teach and ai9oeeaoseweoiwrewrweiurohweirewoiruweorue...... Damn Dvorak! OOPS TYPO AND I CAN'T BE BOTHERED CORRECTING IT!

YAY BIG FONT! yay random font changes! woot!

LISTEN TO GLAZUNOV.

Thursday, March 08, 2007

FROMG! ANOTHER "FROMG! ANOTHER POST!" POST!!

Wow, February has been HECTIC. I haven't had any time to blog about it. Now I shall start with what I remember.
School started on the 31st of Jan, so that is really close to Feb, which means I can talk about it. Melbourne High is soooo much busier than Balwyn (and one of the co-ords is worse than Ms Tweedie *eyes fall out of head in surprise*, but I will talk about that later), but the best thing is we have so much LESS homework, we only get 3 assessment tasks a SEMESTER!!! WOOT!!
So far we've had a maths test on Surds *falls asleep*, a French test on the most basic of all basic French *snores*, a crappy science assignment, where we have to grow PLANTS, and a history assignment, which isn't too bad. My history teacher has SUCCEEDED in MAKING AUSTRALIAN HISTORY ACTUALLY INTERESTING!!! AND SHE'S NICE!!! AND RATHER GOOD LOOKING!!! WHAT MORE CAN YOU WANT IN A HISTORY TEACHER AFTER HAVING DE PETRO AND MENKE!!!
Later in the month, I auditioned for the pit orchestra for South Pacific, which the music is good, but hard in spots. AND THERE ARE BASSOON SOLOS!! WHICH I GET TO PLAY!!! BECAUSE THE OTHER GUY IS PLAYING THE CELLO PART!!! :D AND I THINK I'M LIKE THE ONLY YEAR 9!! AND I'M ALSO THE ONLY YEAR 9 IN SENIOR STAGE!!! :D AND WE'RE PLAYING WILLIAM TELL IN ORCHESTRA!!! Wait that last one isn't good, William Tell sucks (and tries to shoot an apple off someone's head (I mean how stupid can you be!) WAIT!! IT WAS ALL ROSSINI'S FAULT!!! KILL ROSSINI!!! Wait!!! He's DEAD!!! WELL KILL HIM SOME MORE!!!
Anyway even later in the month, I caught up with Matthew and Harry, which was good. We talked and ate and bagged people and listened to music and watched Harry play his first composition ever (or one of his first), it was really funny.
After that on the 23rd of Feb, it was my brother's birthday! He had his usual Futsal game, then he went for a swim. I saw Simone Santos *starts vomiting* and some other bogans there. Then we came back to my house, where 12 screaming under 10s went crazy and ate high-calorie food for an hour and went really crazy.
Now getting more recent, a few days ago, two screws fell out of my bassoon, and I COULDN'T FIND THEM!!! My bassoon teacher is going to kill me.
Now to today, over the Tuesday this week and Thursday this week, we have had Athletics, I was in a massive NOTHING!!! AND MY HOUSE CAME LAST BY ABOUT 100 POINTS!!! YAY!! WHAT A WASTE OF TIME!!!
And finally today, the stupid evil sadistic coordinator (there are two and the other one is reasonably nice) made me shave or otherwise I would be suspended. Doesn't that seem just a bit over the top? Maybe a detention if I didn't shave it by tomorrow but a SUSPENSION!! How retarded! STUPID MR KEYTE!!!
Anyway this wouldn't be a post if it didn't have anything about Dvorak!!
YAY!!! DVORAK!!!! DVORAK IS SOOO MUCH BETTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE AT COMPOSING!!!!! HE MAKES MOZART LOOK LIKE A COMPOSING NOOB!!!

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

DAHAHAH

Jackson, when will you realise that bagging Dvorak on this blog is pointless. Your posts will just get deleted, because I AM THE ALL MIGHTY ADMIN!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHH!!!! AND I HAVE POWER OVER ALL OF YOUR POSTS!!!
Anyway back to nicer stuff.
Watch this...


Hilarious isn't it.
Listen to the mother say "I think they're excited". Tee hee hee.
Now to something less interesting.
Yesterday I bought all my school stationery.
It was rather fun. At Officeworks, I always seem to end up buying more than I planned. For example, I bought POST IT NOTES !!!!! I LOVE POST IT NOTES!!!!
Now I'm going to download a Windows version of Stickies. Its like POST IT NOTES for your computer screen. HOOYAY!!!
I still haven't found out what hooyay means yet. Even though I did go to the state library, I didn't look for any Somali dictionaries. The state library is really good. They even have scores! Lots of scores, except for Dvorak and Mahler. Masses of Rimsky-Korsikov and Tchaikovsky. Loads of scores. When I went to the state library with Harry and Matthew, we also went to two JB HiFis, Allan's and Thomas' Music. I bought 3 DVORAK CDs. HOOYAY!!!! A CD of his Serenade for Strings and Serenade for Winds. I found out later that it got 3 stars from Penguin, which is the best. Another CD of chamber works and some light on orchestral pieces. And the third CD was of his Slavonic Rhapsodies and the first set of his Slavonic Dances. The day we went into the city was really good.

Friday, January 19, 2007

Tennis and Dvorak

Today I went to the tennis. It was good except for 4 things.
  1. We only got to watch one full match.
  2. One of the women in the match we watched grunted and screamed with her shots. AARGH!!
  3. The match we waited to watch for the whole day, which was Wayne Arthurs' retiring match, was forfeited by Arthurs. AARGH!!
  4. It rained for 4 hours after the first 15 minutes of the first match.
So it was a pretty bad day all in all.

Anyway, Jackson your feeble attempt to attack Dvorák, (which by the way was deleted by me), was baseless and had absolutely no evidence what so ever.

Lets dissect it statement by statement.

Dvorák is crap.
Umm. This sentence is crap. And has no evidence.
His melodies are incredibly simple and annoying.
This statement is based 1 or 2 melodies. Not a very good sample size for a composer who lived for 70 years.
Look at me! I'm Dvorak!
I'm going to use a pentatonic scale to make a famous cor anglais solo, which will be crap like nearly every other famous melody ever written!
Most famous melodies are famous for being incredibly emotionally powerful or very catchy. That melody even though it was simple was a BRILLIANT melody. A melody is not great because it is complex. In fact incredibly complex melodies are totally forgettable. How come Pachebel's Canon is so popular, it was very simple. Anyway there is nothing wrong with the pentatonic scale. In fact, have you ever tried I Iaug ii V I. Answer: NO!!!!! That was more original than most of your chord progressions. In fact most of them are Mahler rip-offs. You could never be as good as Mahler or Dvorák.
But i'll make it Db pentatonic so that it's original!
I'm not sure why that part was in Db but it most certainly was NOT to be original.
Haw Haw Haw Haw! I'm better than all those people like Mahler who are ORIGINAL!
Dvorak was composing before Mahler so he couldn't have said that and if you are going to say stuff like this, use QUOTES. QUOTES!!!!
Haw Haw Haw Haw! Now I'm going to write some more Slavonic Dances! Look at me! I can write music that's supposed to sound patriotic!
THE SLAVONIC DANCES WERE NOT PATRIOTIC!!!! THEY WERE NATIONALISTIC!!!! VERY DIFFERENT!!! PATRIOTIC MUSIC IS SAYING HOW GREAT THE COUNTRY IS AND NATIONALISTIC MUSIC IS A DEVELOPMENT OF FOLK THEMES TO ORCHESTRAL AND CHAMBER MUSIC!!!! AAAAAAAARGGGHHH!!!!!
Haw Haw Haw Haw! I wrote Advance Australia Fair! That's how crap I am! Well, I didn't really write the Australian national anthem but I've written worse!
NO ONE NOT EVEN YOU JACKSON CAN WRITE SOMETHING WORSE THAN ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR. It has an absolutely crap melody. Huge jumps of an octave or more are not very good melody writing.
Haw Haw Haw Haw! I wrote Daniel Riley's Elegie In B Minor!
No that was Daniel and even he thinks that was crap.
Haw Haw Haw Haw! And I also write Die Schlittenfahrt, which is ALLEGEDLY by Mozart!
If you haven't realised composers have their own unique style of writing music. Die Schlittenfahrt was almost certainly Mozart. Mozart has never put his name to anything else he didn't write, so why would he for something that you say is appalling.
It's just scales and arpeggios! HOW ORIGINAL!
Originality is subjective. What may have been original then, may not be original now.
Haw Haw Haw Haw! I also wrote the AMEB technical workbook! I would never be unoriginal!
The AMEB technical book is in a category exempt from originality. It is a comprehensive list of what technical work should be achieved by a certain grade. And Dvorák came only a few HUNDRED years before the AMEB!!!
I'm just CRAP!
You are crap, Jackson. Thanks for noticing. Anyway, you sound more like you are jealous!

FROMG! ANOTHER POST!

That does sound like an awful week.

And my sister's birthday was also on January 11, meaning all her horrible friends came over to annoy everyone, although the cake was good... mmm... cake...

And Jetstar are stupid! JETSTAR HAS BEEN EATING OOBLECK!!!!!!

NOW I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE TO SAY!!!! BWAAAHAHHAHAHAH!!!! SO I SHALL NOW PUBLISH MY BLOG ENTRY!!!!!

Thursday, January 18, 2007

WORST WEEK OF MY LIFE

This week has probably been the worst week of my life.
I'll start at the start.
On the 11th of January was my mum's birthday. It was a great day until about 9 o'clock.
My Nanna died. :' (
That was the first bad thing. We saw the body and said the rosary (the rosary was really boring). That was the first time I cried about it.
Then my family started to organise the funeral (which is an anagram of "real fun", which funerals are anything but) and my cousins from Dubai and my half-sister and her son came from Queensland.
After at least 10 slabs, it was finally ready.
The funeral was held at Saint Mark's in Faulkner on Wednesday. The funeral was incredibly sad. We had a bagpiper at the funeral, as my Nanna was born in Glasgow. Apart from the fact that it sounded bad, it really reminded everyone of Nanna. That was the second time I cried.
At the gravesite, we threw rose petals into the grave. That was the third time I cried. It was really the final goodbye.
After the funeral, we went back to my Grandpa's retirement village. There we had a big party to celebrate her life, where all my uncles and most of my aunties got blind drunk, which was rather entertaining. While we were there some grumpy old Scrooge called the manager and complained that the kids were being too noisy, even though they had been absolutely brilliantly behaved.
Fast forward to today, we had my half-sister and her son over for lunch, as we were taking them back to the airport. We had a nice lunch and then we took her to the airport.
As we were driving to the airport, we were involved in a 7-BLOODY-CAR PILE UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was caused by an unsecured load on a truck, which had a blow out, throwing sheet metal all over the Western Ring Road. A builder's truck lost control crashing into numerous cars. My dad quickly swerved into the left lane which THANK GOD was empty. A car just clipped the back of our car THANK GOD!!!!
Then when we finally got the airport. It was 25 minutes before my sister's fight, but guess what. JETSTAR WOULDN'T BLOODY LET HER ON THE PLANE BECAUSE SHE WAS TOO LATE. WTF!!!!! WHAT KIND OF CRUEL EVIL HEARTLESS COMPANY WOULD DO THAT WITH A 9 MONTH OLD CHILD AFTER A BLOODY 7 CAR PILE UP!!!!!!! Then they proceeded to tell us that they couldn't get another ticket, because we were late. She was in tears with a crying baby. Then we finally could get a ticket with Virgin Blue, they even held a seat for Caleb, my 9 month old nephew. The moral of that story is "Jetstar are an evil heartless company that don't care about their customers".
That pretty much sums up the worst week of my life, but I can't be bothered rebutting Jackson's senseless and baseless anti-Dvorak claims.

Sunday, January 14, 2007

In response to the "anonymous" person (RACHEL)

What, you want us to talk about heavy metal? Here is a visual depiction of heavy metal: *&$(RNH#QYRC(8cnhey5(*8$C(*&$%(*H%&)($JT)$.

IT'S UGLY AND STUPID AND IT SOUNDS TERRIBLE. C - F# C# - G (REPEAT 98743528032850932874093284032 TIMES)

Whereas classical (20th century/romantic) is far more complex and emotionally deep.

Now in response to those dvorak rants, we will have a DEREK BOURGEOIS RANT!!!!11

BOURGEOIS IS SOOO BRILLIANT. HE WROTE CHAMBER OF HORRORS. CHAMBER OF HORRORS IS SOOOO BRILLIANT!!! ESPECIALLY THE 4TH MOVEMENT!!! IT'S SOOO ANNOYING BUT STILL SCARY (IN A WAY) AND THAT MAKES IT GOOD!!! HOORAY FOR DANCING VAMPIRES!!! AND THE FIRST MOVEMENT IS GOOD TOO!!! HOORAY FOR ANNOYING BUT GOOD AND SCARY OSTINATOS!!!!! AND THE 2ND MOVEMENT IS GOOD ASWELL, ALTHOUGH I'M ONE OF A VERY SMALL MINORITY WHO WOULD LIKE IT!!! IT'S REALLY WEIRD, BUT THE ORCHESTRATION IS UBER AND IT HAS LOTS OF DISSONANCE!!! DISSONNNAANNNCCEEE!!!!!!! BUT NOT HEAVY METAL DISSONNAANNCEEE!!! AND IT'S MODERN WITHOUT BEING MINIMALIST!!! THE THIRD MOVEMENT IS A BIT BORING BUT IT'S SLOW AND NEARLY ALL SLOW MOVEMENTS ARE BORING!!!

HERE IT IS http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/show_score.pl?scoreid=12171

NOW FOR A RANT ABOUT THE 2ND MOVEMENT OF SYMPHONY NO. 11!! BY BOURGEOIS!!!! IT'S AN INSANE SCHERZO!!! AND IT'S BRILLIANT!!!! AND HAS ONE SECTION WITH THE PICCOLO PLAYING AN ANNOYING MELODY IN THE WRONG KEY!!! IT'S FUNNY!!! BUT THE REST OF THE MOVEMENT IS NOT ANNOYING!!!! IT'S WEIRD BUT GOOD!!!

HERE IT IS http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/show_score.pl?scoreid=38647

AND HERE'S HIS SIBMUSIC PAGE http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/user_page.pl?url=dbourgeois

LISTEN TO ALL 36 OF HIS SYMPHONIES!!!!!

Friday, December 29, 2006

Today

Today I'm going to see Casino Royale with Jackson.
Leo gave us the full description of the torture scene, which sounds gross but excitingly gruesome. WTF! Excitingly GRUESOME!! What am I thinking!?!?!? I think I'm nuts, but not as crazy as the CrAZy Viv, otherwise known as Viv La. Viv Lau is the scary Viv. FROMG!!! I keep typing bib instead of Viv. Now its time for the DVORAK RANT as has been in every other blog entry by me!!!!
Dvorak is soooo much better than your crappy Keelhaul or what ever it is. It feels like its been smashed into six bajillion pieces and put back together in the wrong way.
Anyway yesterday I saw Happy Feet with Tulliq.
It was pretty good except for the blatant statements about global warming and overfishing of the Antarctic. It was reasonably emotional, but I didnt cry. In fact I dont think anyone did. The poor little penguin went insane in the zoo, but then he did some dancing and the next scene was people jabbering on about fishing in the Antarctic, and then he was back in Antarctica. WTF!!!!
NOW FOR ANOTHER DVORAK RANT!!! YAY!!!! (OR NOOOOOOO FOR MOST PEOPLE)
Dvorak is soooo much better than Happy Feet! HE IS THE BEST COMPOSER!!! EVER!!!!! Mahler's symphonies are CRAP compared to Dvorak's. YAY FOR DVORAK!!!!

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Christmas

Today I went to the SECOND family party in two days.
Yesterday was my mum's family side. I got $90 worth of Borders book vouchers, $30 of Angus & Robertson book vouchers, a shirt (BORING), Yahtzee, a pack of cards and to top it off DEODORANT (EXTRA-SUPER-DUPER BORING!!!).
Today was my dad's family's party. I got 2 music books and a box of reeds. Much better than deodorant.
For Christmas, from "Santa", I got a bag, a watch, Kath and Kim (Yay!), a Wagner CD and a Bach CD, some stationery (maths set and coloured pencils (Derwents)) and possibly something else, but I can't remember.
From my brother, I got Eldest, which was good.
On the whole, I had a pretty good Christmas, but there was no Dvorák! SHOCK HORROR!!! Oh well, I can buy some Dvorák CDs at Borders. Borders also have this book on orchestration by Rimsky-Korsikov. I'm going to buy that and the Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory. Then I will buy some Dvorák CDs with the money left over. YAY DVORAK!!!!

Saturday, December 16, 2006

I GOT A NEW SAXOPHONE! AND CHANCES ARE YOU DIDN'T!

AND IT'S A PROFESSIONAL KEILWERTH (en.wikipedia.org/Keilwerth)! Keilwerth is good! BECAUSE IT'S GERMAN AND MADE FOR BIG GERMAN PEOPLE WITH HITLER MOUSTACHES. Ok, maybe not the moustaches but IT'S DEFINITELY MADE FOR BIG GERMANS. BUT IT'S STILL GOOD. IT'S MUCH BETTER THAN THAT GOD DARNED YAMAHA! YOU CAN'T EVEN SLUR FROM LOW B FLAT TO LOW B. STUPID CRAPPY YAMAHA. NOW I SHALL PLAY MY KEILWERTH SOME MORE! BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAH! *PLAYS AUG 4THS FOR A FEW HOURS*

AH YES! MUCH BETTER!

AND THE TEMBY WAS CRAP TOO. THE LOW NOTES SOUNDED LIKE SOMEONE GROWLING LIKE A BEAR. AND THE SELMER WAS GOOD, BUT IT COST $47865398475943593485092598432793759843702852345! (PLUS INSURANCE AND WALKING STICK)

AND I ALSO NOW HAVE A BETTER SAXOPHONE CASE THAN YOU! IT'S ONE OF THE FEW CASES IN THE WORLD THAT YOU CAN FIT A KEILWERTH INTO (Literally!) AND IT IS FAR BETTER LOOKING THAN ALL OF YOU PEOPLE WHO THINK YOU ARE GOOD LOOKING! AS A MATTER OF FACT, MY OLD CASE WAS BETTER LOOKING THAN A LOT OF YOU PEOPLE! AND I ALSO HAVE A NEW MOUTHPIECE. IT'S PROFESSIONAL ASWELL! AND I HAVE A NEW NECKSTRAP! WHICH IS CLASSED AS UBER!

ACTUALLY, THEY NEED A NEW CATEGORY FOR SAXOPHONES CALLED 'FROMG THIS SAXOPHONE IS SO UBER THAT ONLY JACKSON SWEENEY CAN USE IT!' AND MY UBER KEILWERTH FALLS INTO THIS CATEGORY!

UBER UBER UBER UBER

AND THE GUY IN THE SHOP CLASSIFIED SAXOPHONE SOUND: 'CLASSICAL, AND EVERYTHING ELSE'. I THINK HE MEANT 'GOOD, AND ABSOLUTE CRAP'. EVERYBODY HATES THE ABSOLUTE CRAP CATEGORY. AND IF YOU DON'T, YOOOUUUUU AAARRREEEE AAAAA PPPOOOLLLAARRR BEEAAARRR!!!!!!!!!

AND I WAS PLAYING MEDIEVAL II! I TOOK OVER PARIS AND RHEIMS AND THEN FORCED THOSE FRENCHIES INTO A CEASEFIRE! THE FRENCH SOUND FUNNY. SO DO THE SCOTTISH. AND THE AFRICANS SOUND FUNNY TOO. AND MY CARDINAL WAS ALMOST ELECTED POPE. BUT THEN ALONG CAME SOME OTHER CRAPPY CARDINAL AND HE GOT ELECTED POPE BECAUSE MY OFFICIAL REPUTATION IS 'DUBIOUS'. JUST BECAUSE I MADE SEVERAL ALLIANCES AND THEN DECLARED WAR ON THOSE NATIONS! FLARRRRGGGHHHH!!!! NOW TO KILL MORE FRENCHIES!