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Favorite Color(s): Purple, Brown, Black
Favorite Flavor(s): Chocolate, Mint
Favorite Music: could not possibly pick one but my most recent Playlist is a mix of Metal, Instrumental, and Showtunes
Favorite Movie(s): 10th Kingdom, A Muppet Christmas Carol, Repo! The Genetic Opera, LadyHawke
Favorite Series: Survivor (does it count?), The Mentalist, Castle, AtLA
Last Song: Santa the Barbarian: Snowpocalypse - Randall Standridge and the Lodge Studio Wind Ensemble
Last Series: that I finished - OG Trigun, that I saw anything of - Undead Murder Farce
Last Movie: White Christmas
Currently Reading: so many books brace yourself:
Fairest of Them All (graphic novel), Tales From the Cafe, Dangerous Spirits, The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy, Spoiler Alert, MonsTaboo, FrankenFran
Currently Watching: Undead Murder Farce, and the HBomberguy video
Currently Working On: 🥹 so many thing... To Love A Gentle Heart (my TavStarion fic), a Durgetash fic, a Rolan Baldursgate fic, an original novel about sentient androids, and I might be starting some kind of podcast or YouTube thing?
I played this for my All Region band in January and IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. 10/10 piece, absolutely loved playing it on bassoon.
Seriously! Like I got the super cool 16th note runs, AND the long notes! And the low brass got the melody in parts and I got to play with them. And I ADORE how the long notes in the lb actually do something for the music instead of just being background noise most of the time.
And the sax solo at the end is heavenly, as one kid said about it, it almost made me bust a nut. IT WAS THAT GOOD. personally, I think the soloist in our band played it better than the original.
OMG while I'm posting about music can I also talk about Fragile by Randall Standridge like omfg actually.
It's part of a project that takes certain aspects of mental heath and shows them through song. This sounds like really cliche but it's actually really cool because Standridge has personal experiences with mental health and isn't just some random dude talking about it. I had the chance to meet him and play this song in an ensemble that he was conducting and like hearing the backstory to this song and playing WHILE BEING IN A REALLY SHITTY PLACE MENTALLY was literally a lifechanging moment.
I can literally talk about my mental state before after and during playing it for hours but I won't. However I will say that I did tear up a little during and after the flute solo. It was so hard to play a long tone and crescendo while I had that tight feeling in my chest like u don't even know. I'm even listening to it rn and I'm re-experiencing all the feelings and its so cathartic. I was still distraught when I walked off that stage (which definitely did not help any other realizations I had that night or on my hour and a half drive home oops).
Anyway I love music so much like it genuinely has had such a huge effect on me both good and bad.