Recent Posts Tagged With 'mozart'

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  Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 10:18 in mozart, everything piano

  One of the pieces I'm learning to play, and my favourite. Performed here by Mitsuko Uchida....

• Comparisons and Japanese Phone Novels

  Posted on Thursday September 3rd, 2009 at 09:03 in mozart, bret easton ellis, lord byron, chopin, daily scripture, claire kilroy, japanese phone novels, comparing myself to other people

  I subscribe to this Daily Scripture e-mail thing and today they sent me this:No wonder you can't believe! For you gladly honor each other,but you don't care about the honor that comes from the one whoalone is God.What I'm choosing to take from this i...

• Tricked into Writing, or How I Learned To Slack

  Posted on Tuesday August 11th, 2009 at 10:58 in tricks, mozart, bach, pretending

  Tools to trick oneself into wordcounting:pretend the chapter you're working on is something else, and write it like that ie flash fiction, journalism, poetry.pretend you're Dickens.unsure where to go? write down 6 options and roll a dice.ask the taro...

• That Pumped Up Feeling

  Posted on Sunday August 2nd, 2009 at 07:40 in piano, writing, mozart, pumped-up feeling

  There comes a stage learning new piano pieces when it stops becoming a pain in the ass; when you can play the hard parts all fast; when you feel an unmistakable sense of mastery and general rockingness, even if it's Mozart....Sometimes this happens w...

• Adagio and E-mails

  Posted on Wednesday May 13th, 2009 at 10:26 in adagio, mozart, fred patella

  Here's something I thought I'd add in. I was writing an e-mail to Fred Patella (click here and here) last night, and in it was discussing the different composers I liked to play and why. Here's an extract that's useful for this blog:I find I'm very, ...