August 21, 2003 at 2:38 PM

Pain

The pain was only moderate last night so I couldnt resist playing violin last night after a 3 day hiatus. That is ok Ill just practice extra long this weekend. To tell the truth I needed a break - not a break in my back, a break from playing violin that is.
:)

I can not describe the feelings that come over me when I play. I am transformed, the wonderful sound becomes my voice that comes out of me, the vibrations of the violin on your chin: there is nothing like it at all.

I only did about 20 minutes of scale/arpeggio practice including pag 5 beginning and the played the b min for about 2 hours and decided to let my back rest because it was starting to hurt more. The chords are so hard but Im starting to really get to know how it feels for my hand to shape those intervals in the b min. Of course playing with a bad back forces one to rethink the whole concept of posture when playing.

At the end of practice I played the sections of devils trill I have been focusing on, nailing the intonation. I feel confident now playing in 3rd and 4th position.

Maybe Ill work on vivaldis winter this weekend? That will be exciting!

Did we get him yet?

Begin rant:
Every day when I wake up and turn my computer on, the first thing I do is look at the news to see if we got Sadam yet. I cant wait until we get him and BinLaden. It makes me sick knowing they are still out there and how many lives are being lost in the search, I wish people would cooperate more over there, I mean some one knows where they are. I know about the writings on the wall too, how one man who tried to tip off our army about where sadam is and they didnt find him but everyone knew he snitched and they told him kill your son or we will kill you and your whole family, the mans son was dead the next day. What a horrible story but I would probably have done the same thing I guess. Nothing but a complete nightmare that I find terribly disturbing.

Gasoline: A conspiracy or do we really need it as much as we do?

Closer to the truth is Im not completely convinced we need oil, I mean we have hybrid and electric cars. Heifetz had an electric car 30 years ago. It seems to me this whole oil thing is a conspiracy thing the govenrment is in on because politicians are in with the oil companies who will do anything and everything to keep making billions for something i believe we havent needed for 30 years only because the people with all the money dont want the gasoline market to die and keep making their money.

I know that hybrid cars are starting to become more common and the next few years we will see an increase of these on the market. I believe the government should make suv's illegal because they guzzle gas, not only this but automakers should only be allowed to make hybrid cars, phasing out the old gas only cars and forcing change. Of course this will never happen because the oil comanies support political campaigns. It seems to me that we, the taxpayer, are paying to keep an industry we dont need for the sake of greed alone, not to mention unecessary killing and an escalation of racial hatred of arabs and vice versa.
/End Rant

Re: Random Thought 1

I have changed my opinion of the parable I mentioned yesterday. A quiet tongue does indeed reveal a smart head, but a silent tongue reveals someone who is missing out, no decision is a decision in its self.

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