My Fingers and what happened to them.

Hey all,
So I was at home yesterday, in Geelong, and practising, and getting all nostalgic, and the thought occured to me I could look in some photo albums for something to do. So I did, and here are the photos I found.
Those of you that know me well enough, which is pretty much the only [...]

Riding

It’s night time, raining gently and he rides his bike amongst the giant buildings in the city.  The wet hiss of the tires on the glistening road gets louder as he speeds down the hill. There’s the occasional crackle and ping of loose stones and pebbles. Creaking and groaning of the old bike protesting. The [...]

Sunshower

So, I wrote this just after I was in a sunshower the other day. It’s also very naturey. Try not to think of it as a finished work. This and the other thing I wrote about Anglesea are really just part of a folio of writing experiments, and I guess I’m feeling naturey at the [...]

Feeling a little weird, and a little weird.

Yeah,
So I’ve got the internet in my room. Bad idea, really. Wireless. But, it freaking crawls so I won’t be able to waste too much time on it before I have a melt down. Like, dial-up would be faster. Meh.
Matt told me I should go to his myspace to listen to a song he’d posted, [...]

Dreams ‘n’ that

Hey,
So I had a cool dream which I thought I’d share with ya’ll.
I’d just had a recital or something, and was walking through some sort of suburbia with Matt Kenneally. (Is it to “n”s?) Anyway, it was a sunny sort of arvo and there were gum trees. Matt had his guitar and I had my [...]

Yeh-hello

Yeah,
When I said in the previous blog that I would be doing “an actual blog SOON”, I meant whatever you’d call the amount of time between then and now… Not what I’d call “SOON”, but rather “eventually”. For this misinformation, I apologise.
An update on my situation is that tomorrow, after having the week off practicing, [...]

RSI And An Old TONIC Fable

Yes, I have shat myself. Not literally. Yesterday, I went to play a complicated passage and the most freaking intense pain decided to shoot up my right arm. It stemmed from where my pinky joins my wrist, right up to that muscular bump on the top of one’s forearm, near the elbow. Ow, it hurt. [...]

Nngth!

That’s right, “Nngth!”
I have no time for titles. This has turned out to be a long blog, but please commit. It’s …worth …it?
Today I have my audition for the concerto competition at the V.C.A. There are three or four winners selected from 24 applicants (of which I am the 23rd in line, at 4:20pm, after [...]

Autumn…

…is probably my most favourite season.
Personally, I’ve always found autumn to have a cooler vibe than other seasons. It’s more sophisticated. It’s got class. Autumn has log fires, with red wine and a roast dinner.
Autumn has breath laden with condensation outside in the morning and then, during the day, chilled breezes and the relief of [...]