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- Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:09 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Happy Birthday, Bethy!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 198
- Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:24 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Is the World Broke?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 226
But they haven't been accorded the rights of a person. I know that was a popular headline at the time, but that's not really what that decision meant. [And someone, please, correct me if I'm interpreting incorrectly!] What that decision meant was that a group of people - including an incorporated g...
- Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:10 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Creation
- Replies: 23
- Views: 345
Creation
Why do you do it? Why do you create? How do you do it? It's something I have to do. I don't know why, I haven't quite figured it out. But I do know that it is also a very difficult thing to do for me. I'll test and re-test what it is I'm trying to do until I'm actually satisfied with what it is I'm ...
- Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:45 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 16
- Views: 298
The calendar thing! I forgot. If I have something huge coming up, I actually schedule my practice time on the calendar and I treat it like an engagement. If someone else wants to do something then, I physically reschedule the practice spot. I had to learn pretty quickly how to work at home, and it w...
- Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:33 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Is the World Broke?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 226
Would you say that it's Upside Down World because the people who are influencing the mass media (and therefore much of what is said and done in the World today) are interested first in their bottom line, and they want to breed an atmosphere of having more and more and it being a good thing? There ar...
- Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:29 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Motivation
- Replies: 16
- Views: 298
For my music, it's the freaking competition. If I'm not at the best I can possibly be for that performance, there's always someone else who can take my place, and when I'm just starting to find my voice in the damn place, I don't want anyone to take that away. I will never ever be good enough at the...
- Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:26 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: The Death of Animalball
- Replies: 132
- Views: 2368
- Sat Mar 19, 2011 5:13 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Is the World Broke?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 226
Is the World Broke?
So I asked this question over on Animalball about the US being broke. And how we're not really, and Sal posted a lovely graph with all that wonderful information. Now, it's late and I'm tired, but I'm wondering if a similar situation is true for the rest of the world. (Relative) Handfuls of people c...
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:10 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: [United States] Health Care Reform
- Replies: 63
- Views: 1620
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:33 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: [United States] Health Care Reform
- Replies: 63
- Views: 1620
I don't know how this is going to help the discussion, but I'm going to say it for me. Doctors Visits + Medications > What I can afford without insurance and still want to pay for: Food, Mortgage, Instrument Upkeep, Travel, Maintaining my Career. With (the right) insurance I could afford the doctors...
- Sat Jul 25, 2009 12:05 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: "Hard Work"
- Replies: 475
- Views: 7486
- Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:51 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Animalball update
- Replies: 13
- Views: 554
- Wed May 30, 2007 4:52 am
- Forum: Artistic License
- Topic: [OOC] Tandem Writing: Heaven & Hell
- Replies: 60
- Views: 2183
- Tue May 29, 2007 4:01 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: What deodorant do you use?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 887
- Fri May 18, 2007 8:20 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Favicon contest
- Replies: 21
- Views: 599
- Thu May 17, 2007 11:54 pm
- Forum: Bulldrek
- Topic: Thread With the Biggest Disappointment and Greatest Tits!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 625
- Wed May 16, 2007 10:34 pm
- Forum: Bulldrek
- Topic: Thread With the Biggest Disappointment and Greatest Tits!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 625
- Sat May 12, 2007 7:31 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Birth Control
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1308
- Sat May 12, 2007 6:30 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Birth Control
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1308
- Sat May 12, 2007 6:17 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Birth Control
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1308
- Thu May 10, 2007 1:06 am
- Forum: Bulldrek
- Topic: Plain or Peanut M&Ms? (or others)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 644
- Wed May 09, 2007 4:34 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Office Friendships
- Replies: 8
- Views: 245
In my line of work, your office friendships pretty much determine the course of your jobs. If I don't make friends (and then demonstrate a certain amount of talent) with the right people, I don't get called for jobs. Now granted, not all of these have to be close friendships, but you do have to perf...
- Fri May 04, 2007 9:35 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: The Impossible Quiz
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1141
- Fri May 04, 2007 4:55 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: The Impossible Quiz
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1141
- Thu May 03, 2007 6:10 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: The Impossible Quiz
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1141
- Thu May 03, 2007 4:52 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: The Impossible Quiz
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1141
- Tue May 01, 2007 11:54 pm
- Forum: Bulldrek
- Topic: The 'sound off about something that sucked today' thread
- Replies: 134
- Views: 4339
Had to finally deal with crap contractor man. I probably was unprofessional about it, but it's not like he was ever really professional with me. Yet somehow I feel completely guilty about telling him straight up I wasn't working for him anymore. He wrote me an email about how I was 'almost late' to ...
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:42 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Emancipation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 153
Emancipation
This is actually a music project I had the pleasure of working on. It's a piece for String Quartet and Jazz Quintet combined that's based off of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. The writing by the composer is top notch, and we had a lot of fun working on it. It was, however, f...
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:34 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Computer Game Symphonic Concert
- Replies: 7
- Views: 257
It doesn't happen enough, I don't think. There are some musicians who would turn up their nose at the thought of playing 'video game music.' My own compositions, on the occasion when I do write, have been accused of sounding like video game music. Some of it is damn fine music, most of the Final Fan...
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:31 pm
- Forum: Artistic License
- Topic: [OOC] Tandem Writing: Heaven & Hell
- Replies: 60
- Views: 2183
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:15 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: What did you miss?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 876
- Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:33 pm
- Forum: Words Without End
- Topic: [Dungeons and Dragons]Grappling?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 391
- Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:13 am
- Forum: Bulldrek
- Topic: New Tenants (story thread)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1311
On the fifty-fourth story of black glass and cold steel, he stood at the window. He looked out over his domain, or rather, his home for the last told centuries and which will continue to be his for centuries to come. Wings tucked gracefully around himself, cloaking the sharp pin-stripe business suit...
- Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:53 am
- Forum: Artistic License
- Topic: [OOC] Tandem Writing: Heaven & Hell
- Replies: 60
- Views: 2183
- Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:25 am
- Forum: Bulldrek
- Topic: The 'sound off about something that sucked today' thread
- Replies: 134
- Views: 4339
- Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:19 pm
- Forum: Words Without End
- Topic: What RPGs are you/do you want to play these days?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1889
- Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:17 pm
- Forum: Bulldrek
- Topic: The 'sound off about something that sucked today' thread
- Replies: 134
- Views: 4339
- Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:16 pm
- Forum: Bulldrek
- Topic: The 'sound off about something that sucked today' thread
- Replies: 134
- Views: 4339
- Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:44 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: [Question] Music Pirating
- Replies: 10
- Views: 382
- Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:31 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: [Question] Music Pirating
- Replies: 10
- Views: 382
- Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:29 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: So...
- Replies: 35
- Views: 756
- Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:22 am
- Forum: Artistic License
- Topic: [Project] Tandem Writing
- Replies: 16
- Views: 843
- Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:04 am
- Forum: Artistic License
- Topic: [Project] Tandem Writing
- Replies: 16
- Views: 843
- Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:11 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: Just wanted to say
- Replies: 9
- Views: 222
- Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:09 am
- Forum: Bulldrek
- Topic: In the beginning there was a word and that word was...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1131
- Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:06 am
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: The where have you been thread?
- Replies: 109
- Views: 2387
- Tue Apr 24, 2007 11:31 pm
- Forum: Bulldrek
- Topic: Welcome home peeps!
- Replies: 54
- Views: 1693
- Tue Apr 24, 2007 11:19 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: The where have you been thread?
- Replies: 109
- Views: 2387
Um...I'm in a band. I'm recording. I'm teaching. I'm driving, a lot. I'm playing in bunch of orchestras. I quit one crap job that was slowly destroying me. Took a different crap job at much reduced hours and working at slowly destroying it. Need to see how the summers turn out before I can quit it c...
- Tue Apr 24, 2007 11:16 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: And we're back.
- Replies: 116
- Views: 2763
- Tue Apr 24, 2007 11:14 pm
- Forum: Semi-Serious Topics
- Topic: And we're back.
- Replies: 116
- Views: 2763