Friday, 9 April 2010
Took some photos of the spring
Sudden Ealing nostalgia meets delight in new camera.
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Sudden Ealing nostalgia meets delight in new camera.
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and thought about my sheet-music shopping list: thinking Telemann solo Fantasias, Poulenc Sonata, Chaminade Concertino, the Roussel Jouers de flute – and maybe a little Bach? That ought to keep me occupied for a while 
Oh and I cleared a hole in my to-do list too – no more overdues!!
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Found an interesting-looking graffittied gate on Brick Lane on my way to the station and just had to pull out my new camera and have a play.
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from the library – and played my new flute, of course!
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Looked at the first song again today and fixed up the accompaniment a bit. It felt a bit strange trying to get back into the soundworld of it because the accompaniment is really quite ’straight’ whereas the vocal line is more like my usual style with peculiar accidentals everywhere. I had a listen too to the two-part inventions I wrote just before I started this, which helped quite a bit and reminded me that I really like those pieces and should get back to laying them out and publishing them properly. Doing some nice MIDI recordings of them too (must install Garritan Personal Orchestra again). So once that was done, I went through both songs and pulled a couple of snippets out to use as a base for thinking about the piano part which will make up the greater part of the third song (only a line or two of text to work with there and I want to balance out the total lack of accompaniment in the second song) so I hooked the laptop up to the piano and doodled about for a bit, gleaning a quite nice rhythmic/harmonic fragment which I think could become useful… at some point in the future.
Oh, and I also got to the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark in Lego Indiana Jones on the Wii – go me!
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Broke out Lego Star Wars today, and I’m pleased to find it’s every bit as fun as the Lego Indiana Jones. I wasn’t too sure about having to start with Episode 1 because I hated all the new films, but it’s heaps of fun, not too hard and has the added bonus of being able to inflict grevious bodily harm ‘by accident’ on JarJar Binks on a regular basis. Very satisfying
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One of my Christmas presents and the first chance I’ve really had to unwind and just play – for three hours. Just what was needed.
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with a much-needed 4-hour nap. Also had a massage to counter the tension headache, which has been quite horrific this week, baked oatmeal scones again, did a bit of work on djeli’s new hat (I’ve passed the turn-up and am on to the hat proper now!) and received the first part of my Amazon order – Wii Fit Plus (which obviously I can’t use until the sprained ankle is sorted out) and 3 Beatles albums – Magical Mystery Tour, Revolver and A Hard Day’s Night – woo! Also had a bash at one of my new Wii games – Lego Indiana Jones – which looks like a heap of fun. A lovely, relaxing day – can’t remember the last time I had one of those!
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After having sprained my ankle badly on Tuesday and struggling through the rest of the week, I took today off and slept in, then spent most of what was left watching movies and playing computer games (The Settlers, first on my iPod, then on the computer after the iPod ran out of power)
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