Archive for the ‘Creativity’ Category
Friday, July 17th, 2009
I’ve never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
- Virgil Thompson
Elevator Pitch for Delicate Melody
Tags: belonging, bible, brainwash, creating music, editorial, elevator pitch, Experience, Hope, insanity, journalism, memories, Music, music in recovery, Orchestra, recovery, sane, sanity, sober, sobriety, strength, stringss, symphony, virgil thompson
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
It’s nice to be free and to grow and make my own decisions, which is definitely not something I was able to do a year ago.
A Healthy Balance of School and Work
Tags: AA, act, acts, alcoholics anonymous, blessings, car, college, college now, contrabass, double bass, eleven months, God, interview, job, kontrabass, north texas state university, psat, psats, rice university, sat, sats, school, sobriety, sobriety mileston, string bass, sweepstakes, TAKS, teaching, UIL, university of texas, Work, world music
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Saturday, April 4th, 2009
Apocalyptica, Finnish metal cello quartet, was formed in the early 90’s and is most commonly known for the Metallica cello covers. Being a fan of any string tribute, symphonic metal, or cello rock, I’d have to say Apocalyptica is definitely up there with my favorite bands.
Current band member cellists, Antero Manninen, Eicca Toppinen, Paavo [...]
Apocalyptica Review
Tags: Antero Manninen, Apocalyptica, Apocalyptica Review, cello, Cello Metal, Cello Metal Review, Cello Quartet, Cello Rock, Cello Rock Review, Eicca Toppinen, HIM, Lauri Ylönen, Metallica, Mikko Siren, Music Review, Paavo Lötjönen, Perttu Kivilaakso, review, Symphonic Metal, The Rasmus, Ville Valo, Worlds Collide, Worlds Collide Review
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
I wrote an essay for English last month, and I really enjoyed writing it. I thought I would share it with my viewers as well as do some tweaking of it. I made a Four, which is the highest grade an essay can get. I think the prompt was “Write about the importance of doing [...]
Music – The Universal Language
Tags: classical, contrabass, double bass, english, essay, guitar, kontrabass, language, love, Music, musician, piano, regret, rehab, shame, string bass, upright bass, viola de gamba
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
I wrote a poem while I was still in a maximum security holding center about a week ago. This is the first poem I’ve written in about eight months, as well as my first positive poem.
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I’ve hurt so bad in life.
All I knew before was the knife.
I now know better ways to cope,
When before [...]
Blessings and Healing
Tags: AA, alcoholic, alcoholics anonymous, alcoholics anxiety, aphorisms, blessing, blessings, change, fear, feelings, God, god poem, god poetry, healing, let go and let god, poem, Poetry, positive poem, positive poetry, surgery, tuesdays with morrie
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