Geeked out dominos.

Two minutes of hard drives knocking down more hard drives. Only once did the maker have to help out, but the rest is all gravity, baby. I can’t help but wonder if all of them were broken, and if not, why they didn’t milk their modding business a bit more. Oh well, entertainment! Thanks Jeromy for the link!

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Mozart - Sonata KV 332 F major, Allegro assai

A friend saved a tub full of piano music from being thrown away, knowing I would value this “trash” as treasure. It’s been sitting in my closet for months until I pulled it out last weekend, knowing my brother would appreciate this find. He took some pieces, but I still have more music than I know what to do with.

Not sure why, but classical music has yet to grow on me. The only times I would listen to it was when I’d study (as lyric-filled music causes me to dance and sing, er, moreso sing) or when I was getting to know a piece for the piano lessons I took. Thirteen years of piano lessons which meant countless hours of practicing and lying about practicing. I had excellent sightreading skills, so I could pull off reading a piece for the first time and telling my teacher I had practiced. I say this not to brag, but to also expose my flaw of having a peanut memory. I sightread well, but can’t remember most pieces I played. (I can only confidently play the beginning to the “Maple Leaf Rag” and the theme to “Beauty and the Beast!”)

Today I decided to make use of the Tub o’ Music and pulled out some Mozart tunes since I consider them a little easier to pickup than Bach or Beethoven. I filled through a book of Sonatas and ran into one I played in high school. I was amazed at how much my finger muscles had remembered this piece, each little quick run, the highs and lows, each phrase. And I was even moreso impressed with my former self, as I have no idea how I memorized this whole piece and performed it at contests and recitals. Maybe I’ll keep practicing it and add it to my two-piece repertoire soon.

Here’s the song as performed by some dude. He plays it insanely fast, so bump it down a notch or two and that’s how a young Nina played it. (Bump it down fifty notches and add in a bunch of wrong notes and that’s how I played it today!)

“Uh, yes, definitely.”

I know it’s mean to laugh at other people’s misfortunes, but it’s been a bum week so it felt good to laugh at this video of Miss Teen South Carolina on the Today show. The pageant clip was humorous, of course, but my favorite part was when Ann Curry high-fived Miss Upton and she replied with an awkward, “Uh, yes, definitely.”

It’s all about the Hamiltons.

This blog is been mostly full of serious stuff, but if you know me at all, I’m not mostly full of serious stuff. So now, on occasions, I will post on the light side.

The Chronic-What-Cles of Narnia

I saw this on SNL the other night and laughed out loud, so when I saw this on the front page of Relevant Magazine’s site, I was relieved to know I wasn’t the only one that thought this was pretty dadgum funny.