opus one eighteen: Archive

Dec 29th

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How to Live in New York City →

parachuteshark: symphonyno2inem: “…Encounter a lot of people crying in public. Watch an NYU student cry in Think Coffee, a business woman in midtown sob into her cellphone, an old man whimper on a stoop in Greenpoint. At first, it will feel very jarring but, like everything else, it will become normal. Have your first public cry in front of a Bank of America. Cry so hard and don’t care if...

Dec 29th

Vivaldi Gloria > Handel Messiah

(performance fun factor this year)

Dec 25th

“In August of 1990 I found myself laying on my stomach in the woods with a pair...”

– Kathleen Hanna, Our Hit Parade (via feminismistheshit) my kinda people. (via queerdiddlebot) Well, that’s one way to protest a CPC. Love, Rabble (via rabbleprochoice)

Dec 25th

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“Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is...”

– Stephen Fry (via libraryland)

Dec 25th

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Dec 25th

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at the gas station today

Lady: That'll be $3.00
Me: Okay, I don't need change, thanks. (Smile)
Lady: Okay, Merry Christmas!
Me: Happy Holidays!
Lady: MERRY CHRISTMAS!! (I'm pretty much out the door at this point)
Me: (pause)(walks back to counter) ... Look, I coulda said something else, but I don't think you would appreciate it. 
 sigh...

Dec 24th

Bliss & Zen: Pope's child porn 'normal' claim... →

Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict’s claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn’t considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s. In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI also claimed that…

Dec 24th

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I highly recommend

Johnson String Instrument Cleaner and Polish. For the first time since I got this violin (in high school), I can see my own reflection in the varnish. Not oily, super quick and doesn’t stink. Top that off with an Oasis Microfiber cloth, and I’m good to go.

Dec 22nd

reblog if you want your followers to ask you...

Dec 22nd

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Dec 22nd

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Dec 22nd

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“I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her...”

– Henry and June by Anais Nin (via thechocolatebrigade)

Dec 22nd

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“A performer must have the technical capacity to realize an interpretation, and...”

– Alan Gilbert, considering the question of interpretation in “Layover Thoughts,” his latest Curiously Random blog post on MusicalAmerica.com. (via nyphil)

Dec 22nd

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Dec 21st

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Dec 20th

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Dec 20th

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“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...”

– Sylvia Plath (via thechocolatebrigade) story of my fucking life.

Dec 20th

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Who Will Survive In America Kanye West My...

Dec 20th

Megabus Layover.

Sitting in a Starbux at daybreak in DC. Feeling strangely motivated to continue on this rogue ass trip up to NYC. There was a moment there, somewhere around Richmond, that I thought I had made a mistake. Turns out this was misplaced fear, as the real source of the paranoia was the fact that the bus was hurtling along the highway at what felt like 90mph (I mean really, we were wobbling…snow...

Dec 20th

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Dec 20th

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MEGABUS.

is the shit. I am on my way to DC, then to NYC, on a roundtrip ticket for $66. There is ample legroom, FREE wifi, and (best of all), an OUTLET at each seat.

Dec 20th

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two minutes ago, I had x amount of followers. now...

Dec 19th

Dec 18th

symphonyno2inem: Go Beet, Go Beet, it’s your...

Dec 16th

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blogthoven: oranc: Beethoven: Violin Concerto...

Dec 16th

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summerofmegadeth: I have this theory that white people invented black music. I have this theory that white people love to claim shit that’s not their own, and this is a perfect example. This is bullshit. It’s a stupid joke, anyway.

Dec 16th

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Dec 16th

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“What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are...”

– Ludwig van Beethoven (Happy 240th Birthday!)

Dec 16th

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Dec 16th

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEETHOVEN. I LOVE YOU. OUR GREATEST...

I believe, in the way that I do about 2Pac, and in the way that some people believe about Elvis, that he lives.

Dec 16th

We don't say "dating," we say "talking." Instead...

Dec 16th

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Dec 16th

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So I recorded on a soundtrack for a film. Today I... →

Dec 16th

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having a manhattan while watching Manhattan

now I got a girl woody watching young Woody… haha jk jk.

Dec 16th

“I was told to withhold a six-inch Harry Potter figure, but when I picked up a...”

– A Salvation Army volunteer, who claims Salvation Army officials told him not to include Harry Potter and Twilight toys in his collection for needy children “because they’re incompatible with the charity’s Christian beliefs.” The toys left behind were to be disposed of, and not passed on to other...

Dec 10th

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