Monday, April 30, 2007

Remember that game "Telephone"?

I was over at the Forrestier's yesterday afternoon for a big get together that they had, and all the teenagers decided to play telephone. At first they were trying to get it right, and then after that it just became "X loves Y" or "X has a crush on Y" etc etc. Those always made it around. Gossipmongers.

So Seth starts one about me on the other side of the circle. He says, "Karl's favorite TV show is 'Howdy Doody'."

It gets around the circle ... HALFWAY, mind you ... to me, and it has become, "Karl teaches hos how to do it."

....wow. (I stopped that line right then and there, btw.)

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Heck yes I did!

I got a raise.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

What do you get when cross duo piano music with accordions?

Long story (way) short: This is a piece of music I wrote for two pianos for my senior recital arranged for accordion orchestra with percussion and performed in Germany (or close).

http://hosting.thasauce.net/bladiator/salsa.mpg

MPEG2 player, if you don't have one: http://videolan.org

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

It finally happened.

After 3 years of being out of UT Tyler and still working up there as a freelance accompanist, I got my first parking ticket for not having a student sticker AND being in a faculty spot. The last sticker from '05 is still on the car, and the ticket has "unreadable" written on it.

I'm not a student. I'm not faculty. I'm a contracted musician under a professor in the music department, and more importantly, contracted by UT Tyler themselves.

Bwahahahahahahahaha!

...I'm not paying that.

Monday, April 09, 2007

You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together ...

I'm glad I don't have a budget, cause if I did I'd be over it.

Ever felt like everything was working right for you, and that God is just blessing everything you touch, and you still can think of things that you want beyond what you've just been given? Maybe even trade one or two of things you've been given for something else. Sorta like a trade-up.

My car is starting to do weird things. I guess it's time for the old chuggernaut to get a work over.

Collecting money from people isn't fun. I'm not a mean person. But I'm getting angry that people won't pay when they've told me they will.

Computers suck.