PSA Update

[icarus]

Pimping this around...

PSA has a long list of authors she needs to hear from in order to reload their stories... Minx, Resonant....

But yay! The PSA is going back up.

In other news, I can't believe it, I'm actually writing Lucius Gen: The Metronome.

The spoiled young Malfoy heir finally meets someone who's not impressed.

Just completed the outline in chat, running it by electricandroid. Now I'm tempted to correct the murdering of Luna's fanfic characterisation. Plus there's the Percy/Snape that's been driving me mad, and another Snape/Peter, I still need to upload stories to the Percyness site, then the sleeping hulk of Snape Manor has been shaken yet stirred by Half-Blood Prince... and I have to be at work tomorrow and must do laundry. *fanfic pipe explodes*

*calls a fanfic plumber, phone rings insistently*

"Hello? Yeah, um... I've got all these stories I tried to cram through, and, um... which should I work on? Because it's, well, I'm up to my knees at this point."

The Metronome is entirely goseaward's fault. We started talking about classical music... Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor... The Firebird Suite... Rhapsody In Blue (in its original form, thank you Goosey, I didn't realise it was originally a player piano piece). *sighs* Takes me back.

I'm surprised how many on my flist are musically talented. cyanei, goseaward, electricandroid. Who else?

ETA: kaci_2005_tide, webbapettigrew, venivincere, juice817, and els_chan are among the musicians (and singers!).

Comments

[juice817.livejournal.com]

sing and play the piano. i'm currently my church's choir director, actually, although directing is a new thing for me. i've played rhapsody in blue before, although it's been years. i've always wanted to play the guitar but can't quite wrap my mind around strings. i can do simple things on the ukelele, though.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

*bobs head* I played Rhapsody In Blue (clarinet) many, many years ago. Clarinet soloist (in an orchestra version that backed up the concert piano -- the piano part was utterly unabridged, but we had a competition-quality pianist. Marcus, from Argentina I think, who had more nose than face but boy he could play.

I didn't deserve the soloist part, it was more a matter of default: our brilliant professional quality clarinetist was gone (she tried out for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra when she was in high school) so I was the next best option. There was someone who was more reliable, but less, hmm, musical. But I was erratic. Just couldn't handle the pressure of a solo, it either pushed me into the best performance I'd ever given, or into complete disaster. You never knew which way my nerves would take me.

Fascinating. I never tried directing, for the same reason I hated solos. :D

Icarus

[juice817.livejournal.com]

oh, directing is a nightmare for me. i was sort of volunteered and have no previous experience or education with it. i hate being the lone center of attention too, so standing in front of a group expecting me to direct them is massively intimidating. i've been doing it for about six months and have relaxed a little, but it's certainly shown me how much i don't know about music. :D

i've always regretted not learning other instruments or doing band in high school.