Don’t Forget Your Mouthpiece

I have decided given that my cab arrives in 2 hours it’s not worth going to bed.

I’m figuring out what work to take with me. Unfortunately the horn has to come as I have the Mendelssohn Nocturne as well as possibly a 1st horn audition in Spain coming up, so have removed all sharp objects (except the top A) from the case.

I’ve also just remembered I’m supposed to be doing an arrangement for the horn department at Juillard, which I blithely said on April 12th would be ready in about a month, so that’s coming too.

The OU course materials are in the suitcase as well. At the moment it basically involves digesting large chunks of JavaScript and then being told “this affects accessibility, so you probably shouldn’t use it. Probably.”

I’m not going to take any music, but am taking the Godfather trilogy and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest on DVD to cross off on my List of Great Films I Haven’t Seen (Battle of Britain didn’t arrive in time).

I tend not to be a big Walkman person, nor do I have an iPod yet. I read a letter in Time Out a while ago in response to someone asking what the verb was for the process of copying CDs on to an iPod. The reply was something like as follows:

To copy music from CD onto an mp3 player is to ‘rip’. To do same onto an iPod is to ‘be a cloth-eared style victim’.

This made me smile. In truth that’s not why I don’t have one, I’m sure they’re good and all, I just don’t tend to listen to a lot of music when on the move. I do have iTunes (admittedly a pretty nifty piece of software) on my desktop and have a fairly large collection on there. It’s all moved on a bit since the day when aged about 8 I got my first personal stereo, which bewitched me with its ability to play Side B without having to turn the tape over.

This entry was posted on Monday, May 30th, 2005 at 2:50 am and is filed under General Musings. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.