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Katya

Art is not a mirror held up to the world, it's a hammer with which to shape it -- Berthold Brecht

About Me

I never get tired of looking out the window on a train. I feel happiest when I play music, read words, experience live theatre, and write music/words to create live theater. I never get tired of telling-- and hearing--good stories. I believe in love, friendship, understanding, forgiveness, kindness, self-improvement, ethics, and equality. So why would I need to belong to a religion?
Your Personality Is
Idealist (NF)
You are a passionate, caring, and unique person.
You are good at expressing yourself and sharing your ideals.
You are the most compassionate of all types and connect with others easily.
Your heart tends to rule you. You can't make decisions without considering feelings.
You seek out other empathetic people to befriend.
Truth and authenticity matters in your friendships.
In love, you give everything you have to relationships. You fall in love easily.
At work, you crave personal expression and meaning in your career.
With others, you communicate well. You can spend all night talking with someone.
As far as your looks go, you've likely taken the time to develop your own personal style.
On weekends, you like to be with others. Charity work is also a favorite pastime of yours. The Three Question Personality Test
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My Interests

MUSIC. THEATRE. POETRY. LITERATURE. Being creative. Great conversations and fun games with great friends. reading, writing, making music. Love, in all its forms. Believing in something and staying true to yourself. Living the dream... and remembering to enjoy it.

I'd like to meet:

Like-minded people: musicians, artists, poets, novelists, crazy liberals, hopeless romantics, unjaded optimists, and eternal dreamers.

Music:

Brahms, Sondheim, Bill Evans, Regina Spektor, Michael Brecker, Joni Mitchell, Samuel Barber, W.A. Mozart, Ani DiFranco, Jason Robert Brown, Adam Guettel, Tori Amos, Ben Folds, Michael John LaChiusa, William Finn, Beethoven, Schubert, Prokofiev, Oscar Peterson, Dave Grusin, Maltby and Shire, Dave Matthews Band, Bela Fleck, Allison Kraus, Chick Corea, Gabe Dixon, John Mayer, and much more...

Movies:

Amadeus, Adaptation, Mullholland Drive, The Hours, Garden State, Waiting for Guffman, My best friend's wedding, Lolita (the new one)

Television:

This year I had to give up 24 :( But, I still had Big Love, Will and Grace, Seinfeld, Project Runway, and reruns of Full House.

Books:

Atlas Shrugged, the Fountainhead, Lolita, Gone with the wind, Catcher in the Rye, Great Gatsby, The Secret history, Frida, The Sacred and the Profane (bio of Mozart), The Agony and the Ecstasy (bio of Michelangelo, The Bell Jar, A heartbreaking work of a staggering genius, The Art of Loving, anything by Chekhov, The Moon and the Sixpence (and anything else by Maugham), The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway), Anna Karenina, anything by Leon Feuchtwanger, etc.

Heroes:

People who realize that the learning never stops. For example, my parents, and all other immigrants who weren't afraid to start anew.

My Blog

Songs about coffee

Coffee is addictive. Coffee is rad. Coffee is the new cigarette. People with deadlines drink coffee. Insomniacs, much to their own detriment, drink coffee. And I guess songwriters drink it too. I'm...
Posted by Katya on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:32:00 PST

"Bus from Boston" song

I started writing "just 'cause" again, and I'm thanking my luck stars in that 1) I'm still inspired, 2) I'm still who I am, and 3) I learned so much this year that I am constantly questioning and revi...
Posted by Katya on Tue, 29 May 2007 10:54:00 PST

My top 7 collaborators

This week my classmates and I had to turn in our collaborative documents, assessing our personal growth and listing who we would like to collaborate with next year.I thought I'd share this list with a...
Posted by Katya on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:02:00 PST

Philly

I'm rarely 100 % happy with what I write, but this one is really personal, really true, and once I fix up the music a little bit, this will be a good song.I wrote these lyrics during Spring Break a fe...
Posted by Katya on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:35:00 PST

Love

I am thinking about Love tonight. It's brought on by little things -- and big things: a doorbell ringing in the night -- a walk in Central park -- a denial bustng open -- an hour in Tribeca -- and a s...
Posted by Katya on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:04:00 PST

Call it what you will...

...sometimes you start out writing lyrics, but a poem comes out instead.  Here's what came out of me today (among other things, and by that I mean words and music, you sick-minded bastards). P.S....
Posted by Katya on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:57:00 PST

Lucky Seven

I had to write a song about New Years' Eve, so I cheated and wrote this one on December 27-sh.  Not only is it [mostly] a true story, but it's proven to be a self-fulfilling prophesy.  A cer...
Posted by Katya on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:55:00 PST

The blues

I just found out that Michael Brecker passed away yesterday in New York.  I take my hat off to this great musician. May he rest in peace.I once fell in love with a great man (boy, I should s...
Posted by Katya on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:32:00 PST

"Instead"

I gave myself a "music-first" assignment, just for fun.  I had come up with some beautiful accompaniment a few weeks ago and needed melody and words to go with it.  Over-dramatizing a true s...
Posted by Katya on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:00:00 PST

Spring Awakening

Ah, the blessed student discount, how I love thee.  Amy, Jess, Brandon, and I got to sit in a box (for the first time in my Broadway-attending life!) at the Eugene O'Neill theater.  I was as...
Posted by Katya on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:09:00 PST