No Thank You

This evening I received a message on the good old myspace asking if I was available to play a show at Cervantes Ballroom the 29th of May. They said that my sound would be a good fit for the evening. My first question was, "What sound?" I don't think I have a sound quite yet and the songs that are up on myspace are very random as it is. The next question was, "Who else will be playing at this venue?" After a little bit of research, I discovered that other people that are playing is a lot of Hip-Hop Eminem style of music with lyrics that are rather terrible. I chuckled on the inside then wrote a short email making sure that my research is correct, which I thought was a nice way to say no to the show. Maybe I should say yes and bust a rhyme? I think I'll save my breath. I'll leave you with this: Music is like candy. Throw out the rappers.


24 Turned 25 by Denison Witmer

Unlocked Corridors

Interesting what events lead up to doors opening for the future. I am headed to Whitworth University in Spokane, WA to hang out with my good friend David Whitehead and also to look into the music department there. So there is one door that opened. I just finished and sent in an application for the band Showbread. They are in need of a synth player, so I thought I'd let them know that I am interested. Door number two. Summer is here which will involve work and lots of music playing/creating/recording. Door number three. Time will tell what happens next.


Ágaetis Byrjun by Sigur Rós

Two minutes. Please?

Isn't it funny how hard you work for something for hours upon end and when it is time to perform it, they don't even have two minutes to spare? I had my final for voice and piano today, also known as juries. I sang selections from The Marriage of Figaro, South Pacific and also Les Misérables. It went fairly smooth and was really excited to sing 'Bring Him Home' from Les Mis. It was going great. Next up was the piano. I started off playing a Bouree by Handel and a Sonatina by Diabelli, which turned out to be alright, even memorized. Next in line was 'Clair de Lune' by Debussy and I was even a little more excited for his piece than 'Bring Him Home'. I was ready to go, but then they said that I would only have to play the first two pages. It didn't feel too terrible until I was away from the Steinway and outside walking back to my dorm. My favorite section is the third and fourth page when it is D-flat Major with a lot of rolling arpeggios and switches to C-sharp minor with a continuous reverie of melody and harmony. It was the most difficult section in the entire piece. I started this piece back in the first week of January and worked incredibly hard to play the third and fourth page. Incredibly hard meaning well over 80 hours on just those pages alone. As I was walking back to my dorm, I was rather irritated and rather pissed off that I wasn't able to perform what I have worked so hard on. Now I have to study for some other finals and write a paper involving something I don't care about, but it will be rather difficult with Clair de Lune on my mind. Wow, I can't wait for summer. Only a few more days.

Tabula Rasa

"I could sleep
I could sleep
I could sleep
I could sleep
when I lived alone
Is there a ghost in my house?
when I lived alone
Is there a ghost in my house?
my house..."

'Is there a Ghost' by Band of Horses

Simple? Yes.
Catchy? Very.

I find it rather amusing how something so simple can be turned into art that is extraordinary. While sitting with my guitar this evening, I became a little frustrated trying to find lyrics with the music I have created. Music is easy to create when it is just me with the guitar/piano/various instruments. Poetry is easy when it just me with a pen and paper. To combine the two seems like a simple task, but most of the time it is extremely difficult. Maybe I think too hard about it? Maybe I am not thinking hard enough? Maybe I just need to wait until summer starts in order to have time for ideas to come together? Hopefully these ideas come hand in hand. For now, I will play. For now, I will write. Let them both come as one. Someday.


'You're a Wolf' by Sea Wolf

Pass Until Dark

Light the places that are far gone
Ships sail, but are quick to sink
It's the ocean that breaks time
Time away from land
Light away from dry

Pictures are painted on sheets of wood
Rigid and rough thoughts might be
It is the sun that gives another day
Another painting to store
In the ocean

Colors through a wreck
Storms are quiet
but they cease to exist
they cease to become
one

Hands are no longer on deck
Overboard is the only safety
For now
Ocean is home
Home is quick to sink

Where is light now

To All Who Listen

Look forward to where you are going, not have gone
It is the strong that should be afraid
The weak has won
Shadows disperse
Light will come
We have won

It is these questions of future, not of a past
The rich are growing weary
It is the poor that will rise
Turn away the old
Joy will come
We have won

New thoughts are longed for, burn away the old
Aren't we all the same?
Whisper in ears of your brother and sister
"Together, we have won."

Now Rest

Bring the torches
Ring the bell
Silhouettes of a shadow creeps over shoulders on that distant wall
Heavy it may fall, but falls to the side as if it were true
Run and hide
Run and hide
Faster
Faster
Trip if you will, together we fall
Just don't fall to that distant wall

Light the torch
To unknown
Let's hurry
Let's hurry
Time will stop
Only for you

No going back
Please, don't go back
Forward now
Together now
Forever now

Dinner With the MacGuffins

by Chris Sheppard and Jeff Grove.

GENRE Comedy
LENGTH Short, 20-25 minutes
CAST 2 females, 3 males, 3 either (7-8 actors possible: 2-5 females, 3-6 males)
SET Living room set -- either minimal or elaborate

At first glance, this is a typical family comedy: teenage James and girlfriend Karen try to make out one afternoon, only to face repeated interruptions by other members of James' family. But the ultimate interruption comes when a cell phone goes off in the audience, breaking the "fourth wall" so that James can see the spectators. As James tries to convince his increasingly worried family that a wall is missing from their house, and that people are watching them, the play takes more left turns than Bugs Bunny should have taken at Albuquerque -- until it reaches a happy (if twisted) ending.

(Taken from playscripts.com)

I will be playing James. It is once act paying tribute to Alfred Hitchcock. I think all the characters are related in some way to his movies. My character James meaning James Stewart and the MacGuffin being a plot device that Hitchcock created. More than I thought goes into a one act. It shall be interesting, partly because I have never been involved in a play before and that I was also casted as the lead role. Interesting, but rehearsals have been a blast. The show is this Friday along with five other one act's.



'I'm Going to Make a Cake' by Philip Glass

Is this me.?,!

Acting is an adrenaline rush. Quite amazing actually.

Maybe I should act like a different person from here on out? We'll see.



At the end of each blog, I think I will post a song that currently is a favorite at the moment. Yes, I will do that.


'Eyes' by Rogue Wave