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Topanga and more (the weekend in review)
May. 21st, 2006 10:29 pm1) No, it wasn't Topanga from Boy Meets World. Sorry, Paddy.... Topanga like the city. More on that in (5)
2) I just walked back from Schoenberg barefoot in the rain, with Dena and Chloe. My pant cuffs are pretty well soaked, but I didn't get too wet otherwise -- it only sprinkled until a minute ago when I was walking through DeNeve Plaza. Today I have so far done no homework, practised for about 45 minutes, and attended three recitals, all of which were for people whom I barely even know, only one of whom even recognizes me in the halls as Someone Who Goes Here (And Plays Bassoon) -- but that's okay... They were all really good. Yay! Right now I'm procrastinating a bit, then I'll probably do homework and procrastinate some more, then maybe sleep. I haven't seen Sonja since maybe 2:00 last night... She, Elliott, Aidan, and Liz came back here after Dormal, then they decided to go out to a restaurant somewhere and then retire at Hedrick. She's apparently been back since I left this afternoon, but now she's gone again. But, yeah, today's been fun.
3) I ended up not going to Dormal after all -- instead, I saw the LA Phil play Beethoven 5 and 8, and also some new piece the name and composer of which I cannot recall, since I left my program in Cory's car... Anyway, it was amazing and wonderful and I love the way Esa-Pekka conducts. It's so energetic and... flicky! I want to conduct like Esa-Pekka when I grow up. So, yeah, I was planning to just stay in my room doinghomework fuck-all and then maybe sleeping, but then Cory called and asked if I wanted to go see the Phil at 7:25, so I said fuck yeah and we were almost late... afterwards we went to Denny's with The Famous Kay & her fiance Chris and David Diaz, because Kay, Cory, and Chris wanted to catch up and David was kind of hanging about awkwardly so they couldn't not invite him and I was just along for the ride... we ended up getting back at 12:30ish. It was fun. Cory and I decided it was a reward for us, for doing that awful gig.
4) I just discovered that Friday night was this quarter's undergrad composers recital, and I missed it -- to sub for Heather in Debut, fumbling the third bassoon and contra lines in Mahler 4 while reading of the score. Fuck! I knew I had something that night, but I didn't have it written down so I didn't remember. I totally would rather have been at that concert. Fuck! Fuck. *sigh*
5) Except for between 5:30 and 7:30, I pretty much spent all of Saturday with Cory. She picked me up at eight to go to the gig in Topanga... it was only a 40 minute drive away from UCLA, but it was totally winding mountain roads and wilderness at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga. Craziness. ( A lengthy account of the Topanga gig and why it SUCKED BALLS ensues. ) So, in all, DEFINITELY not worth having to miss Laura Kling's recital (about which I am very bitter). But hanging out with Cory was cool... (we've been seeing a lot of each other lately, and all of a sudden. it's fun)
6) Anyway, as I said, Friday night I subbed in Debut for Heather, playing third/contra on Mahler 4, and reading off of a score because she didn't leave her part. It was okay, I guess -- good score-reading practise, and I was happy to meet Kay at last. We only worked on the third and fourth movements, which was a definite relief... But, I dunno, I didn't like the conductor very much (though in retrospect, he was much more competent that Guido), and now that I know I missed the undergrad composers concert, I'm really bitter.
7) And now it's twenty past midnight and I still haven't done homework or any of the other things I had meant to. Crap. Well, at least the ranting is off my chest, yeah? Off I go now to be a good student...
2) I just walked back from Schoenberg barefoot in the rain, with Dena and Chloe. My pant cuffs are pretty well soaked, but I didn't get too wet otherwise -- it only sprinkled until a minute ago when I was walking through DeNeve Plaza. Today I have so far done no homework, practised for about 45 minutes, and attended three recitals, all of which were for people whom I barely even know, only one of whom even recognizes me in the halls as Someone Who Goes Here (And Plays Bassoon) -- but that's okay... They were all really good. Yay! Right now I'm procrastinating a bit, then I'll probably do homework and procrastinate some more, then maybe sleep. I haven't seen Sonja since maybe 2:00 last night... She, Elliott, Aidan, and Liz came back here after Dormal, then they decided to go out to a restaurant somewhere and then retire at Hedrick. She's apparently been back since I left this afternoon, but now she's gone again. But, yeah, today's been fun.
3) I ended up not going to Dormal after all -- instead, I saw the LA Phil play Beethoven 5 and 8, and also some new piece the name and composer of which I cannot recall, since I left my program in Cory's car... Anyway, it was amazing and wonderful and I love the way Esa-Pekka conducts. It's so energetic and... flicky! I want to conduct like Esa-Pekka when I grow up. So, yeah, I was planning to just stay in my room doing
4) I just discovered that Friday night was this quarter's undergrad composers recital, and I missed it -- to sub for Heather in Debut, fumbling the third bassoon and contra lines in Mahler 4 while reading of the score. Fuck! I knew I had something that night, but I didn't have it written down so I didn't remember. I totally would rather have been at that concert. Fuck! Fuck. *sigh*
5) Except for between 5:30 and 7:30, I pretty much spent all of Saturday with Cory. She picked me up at eight to go to the gig in Topanga... it was only a 40 minute drive away from UCLA, but it was totally winding mountain roads and wilderness at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga. Craziness. ( A lengthy account of the Topanga gig and why it SUCKED BALLS ensues. ) So, in all, DEFINITELY not worth having to miss Laura Kling's recital (about which I am very bitter). But hanging out with Cory was cool... (we've been seeing a lot of each other lately, and all of a sudden. it's fun)
6) Anyway, as I said, Friday night I subbed in Debut for Heather, playing third/contra on Mahler 4, and reading off of a score because she didn't leave her part. It was okay, I guess -- good score-reading practise, and I was happy to meet Kay at last. We only worked on the third and fourth movements, which was a definite relief... But, I dunno, I didn't like the conductor very much (though in retrospect, he was much more competent that Guido), and now that I know I missed the undergrad composers concert, I'm really bitter.
7) And now it's twenty past midnight and I still haven't done homework or any of the other things I had meant to. Crap. Well, at least the ranting is off my chest, yeah? Off I go now to be a good student...
