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Chase

About Me

Soooo... i don't really think you can get to know someone just by reading something over the internet, but do know this: i am an individual. I have not been sent here to conform to the ways of the world and i don't plan to anytime soon. Love me for who i am now and we'll get along fine. Try to change who i am and... well, we just won't get along quite as well...
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. "Steven edited my profile with Mind powers and vegetable oil
Your Seduction Style: The Charmer
You're a master at intimate conversation and verbal enticement
You seduce with words, by getting people to open up to you.
By establishing this deep connection quickly, people feel under your power.
And then you've got them exactly where you want them! What Is Your Seduction Style?
YOU KNOW YOU'RE A MUSIC MAJOR IF:
... you try to talk to your non-music major friends about your classes but you give up because they just don't understand.
... you had to convince your parents that your life would be OK if you majored in music instead of business.
... you're pretty sure you're probably going to be kind of broke for the rest of your life because you majored in something you actually liked.
... you've ever had to sing to yourself in class to understand the point the teacher was trying to make.
... someone's cell phone goes off in class and people try to name the interval, including the professor.
... you took more semesters of keyboarding than you can count, and you STILL can't play the piano.
... you're pretty sure it's going to take you more than four years to graduate college.
... everybody in your department knows everyone else, if not by name then at least by face and instrument.
... two people in your department start dating, and it's all anyone can talk about for the next week.
... you've ever turned down a good time because you had to practice
... you actually know what "juries" mean, and no, it has nothing to do with the law.
... recital attendance credit will be the death of you.
... you actually have some classical music and show tunes on your iPod.
... you know the difference in between baroque, classical, and romantic music, and that Beethoven did not write all three.
... you know the beauty of manuscript of paper, one packet can last you for years.
... your reputation has become defined by your instrument or voice part.
... you understand there is a silent war between the vocalists and the instrumentalists.
... you've wondered if God created more than one semester of music theory simply to torture you.
... your classes are randomly interrupted by the sound of someone loudly practicing down the hallway.
... someone says the words "sight-singing and ear training" and you feel a sudden urge to cry.
... even if you try to stay under the radar, most of the professors in your department actually know who you are.
... you decided to skip one of your classes for the day, so you had to skip them all. They were all in the music building and you would get caught by the professor who's class you were originally skipping.
... you have more than one class with the same professor on the same day.
... you've ever turned a pop song into an opera or classical piece.
... you get excited when key modulations occur.
... you know what a key modulation is.
... you've ever had to write a paper that was more than five pages long on a freakin' piece of music.
... you feel like less of a musician just because you'll be getting a B.A. in Music instead of a B.M. in whatever.
... you understood what that just meant.
... you're brave enough to eat lunch in the music building when you're skipping a music class to eat your lunch. You don't know where else to go.
... you've pretty much been in classes with all the same people since your freshman year.
... you would count your private instructor as one of the people who know you best in this world.
... you've been in music history for a few semesters now and you still haven't bought those NAWM cds.
... you know what NAWM means.
... sometimes you pretty much hate making music, but it's such a part of you that you know you're not changing your major.
... you could consider the music building as one of your residencies
... when you tell people you're a music major they give you a skeptical look and ask, "What do you plan on doing with that... teaching?" If you say no, they look kind of sad for you.
... you keep catching yourself randomly conducting music, even if it's "Money Maker" or "Bye, Bye, Bye".
... you've ever laughed at a really corny joke that used a musical term.
... you've ever MADE a really corny joke that used a musical term, then actually laughed at your own stupid joke.
... meter changes in pop music make you cheer.
... you even realize a pop song just had a meter change.
... you associate Beethoven Symphonies with certain moods during your day.
... you laugh when TV ads come on that have instruments in them and you know that the person is holding it wrong.
... you know that the person on TV playing the music but rather, Joshua Bell, or Yo-Yo Ma dubbed over the person.
... you've ever spent more than an hour in the music reference/musical scores section of the library.
... you know where the music reference/musical scores section is.
... you and your library's local copy machine are very, very good friends.
...There's all kinds of randomly assorted furniture around your department's building.
... you own some type of clothing or accessory that clearly indicates that you are a musician: anything with a musical note or symbol all over it; anything that says, "Rock on;" a guitar T-shirt, and you're a freakin' singer!
... if you're in class and hear a muffled but insistent ticking coming from somewhere. Eventually everyone starts noticing and looking around, and diving for cover screaming, "Bomb!" and you are so used to the noise that it takes long awkward moments for you to finally realize... "Oh yeah, um, sorry guys. That's my metronome in my book bag. It must have been bumped accidentally...."
... you take some empty bottles and make seventh chords out of them.
... you see a sheet music mural and think it is just about the coolest thing ever, but mostly you just sit there trying to figure out composer/piece.
... the only things you can spell are chords.
... you would rather practice piano than go to dinner and eat crappy cafeteria food.
... you get to the music building at the crack of dawn. DEDICATION!
... you and everybody else spends quality time in the lounge between classes, practice, and rehearsals.
...when listening to music as you walk, you automatically fall into step.
... your professors are like a second set of parents.
... you cringe every time somebody says their favorite movie is Drumline.
... you whistle in style brisé.
... you've tried to hum and whistle at the same time.
... at lunch, you and a bunch of other music students grabbed glasses of water, straws, and actually practiced circular breathing.
... you can answer the phone with a real or tonal answer.
... you have had to be forced to stop labeling motives.
... you enjoy the tang of a tri-tone whenever you can.
... you wish you had twelve fingers.
Danny Boy
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Johnny Depp oh and the Dali Lama (is that how you spell it?)

My Blog

Broken Ballad

Here I satin a moment broken from the presentlight buzzing past me45 mphand all the while I'm drinking painand smoking blissYou're going to crashwell the water looks inviting anywayScratchy writingwhe...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:39:00 GMT

Torn

Torn apart between two loves, you or you,    the lesser of two evils.Now showing attention to each other,    attention I wish was directed toward me.On the verge of tears, but holding them back to be ...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:30:00 GMT

Poems in Late November

a raincloud its right that there is rain todaythe atmosphere extolling my moodhas a certain magic and melancholy in itas if the world weeps with me i think i will walk todaythe rain can mimic the tea...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:19:00 GMT

The Picture of Dorian Gray - by Oscar Wilde

"Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such th...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:25:00 GMT

some from yesterday

Sonnet XII am not afraid to sayThat long ago I loved you.Apparently not enough to stayBut then, of course, you never knewHow much love I harbouredIn my heart for you, my one,And just how much I labour...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:42:00 GMT

One Evening

the music floats softly just above my head spinning a sad, but truthful story and as i gaze out across the field in front of me i watch a thousand stars dancing together one approaches me directly as ...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:07:00 GMT

can You tell me?...

as i walk down the hall i realize that my legs are barely moving, as if each is weighted down by concrete blocks. where is the light and easy step?oppression is never a fun thing, especially when one ...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:35:00 GMT

Cancion

Mas cerca de mi te siento           Cuanto mas huyo de tiPues tu imagen es en miSombra de mi pensamiento. Vuelvemelo a decirPues embelesado ayerTe escu...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:32:00 GMT

Some Sonnets

Sonnet IWhen all these days grind slowly to a haltAnd our eyes are full of ashes within,When time has washed us clean of every faultAnd the light inside has at last grown dim,When all our words have f...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:14:00 GMT

This... I Like This...

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your ...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 22:20:00 GMT