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[greg]

I read it in Jan Swafford's Bio of Brahms.

[quote author = Wikipedia]Jan Swafford (born 1946) is an American composer and author who teaches composition, theory, and musicology at the Boston Conservatory and writing at Tufts University. He earned his B.A. from Harvard College and his M.M.A. and D.M.A. from the Yale School of Music. He has written respected musical biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms, as well as the introductory Vintage Guide to Classical Music, and is often heard as a musical commentator on NPR.[/quote]
Maybe he's a time traveler? Or a reincarnation of Brahms?

[Lady Chatterley]

Maybe he's a time traveler? Or a reincarnation of Brahms?

Greg, have you read Swafford on Brahms or Ives,I think the Ives would be more to your taste.You do read books don't you?

[BachQ]

You do read books don't you?

Greg's favorite books:  "A Concise History of Video Gaming" and "An Anthology of Video Game Music"

[greg]

Greg's favorite books:  "A Concise History of Video Gaming" and "An Anthology of Video Game Music"

actually, I've never heard of them

Greg, have you read Swafford on Brahms or Ives,I think the Ives would be more to your taste.You do read books don't you?

well, there are a few types of books I read out of interest.
That does include books about composers....... i've read only a few, though..... 2 about Prokofiev (including his autobiography), 1 about Mahler (unfortunately a very boring one), and 1 that was a collection of correspondences btwn Schoenberg and Berg (which was somewhat boring, especially due to Berg taking up pages and pages of butt kissing). A book about Shostakovich would be very interesting..... the Prokofiev books I couldn't put down.

but yeah, i don't read much because in my spare time i could be composing or studying scores, for example, and reading a lot of books can take a while..... although sometimes it may be tempting.... I've never read the Chronicles of Narnia, but it looks fun, and my little brother has the whole set. But time is valuable......

i'll see if the library has the Brahms book...... usually they don't have much, and i don't expect anything since i've moved out into hillbilly county now 


edit: just checked the catalog.... they don't have it, of course, the Brahms of the Ives. 
Wouldn't be surprised if they had it in the library in Orlando, where I used to get the composer bios....

[Lady Chatterley]

actually, I've never heard of them
well, there are a few types of books I read out of interest.
That does include books about composers....... i've read only a few, though..... 2 about Prokofiev (including his autobiography), 1 about Mahler (unfortunately a very boring one), and 1 that was a collection of correspondences btwn Schoenberg and Berg (which was somewhat boring, especially due to Berg taking up pages and pages of butt kissing). A book about Shostakovich would be very interesting..... the Prokofiev books I couldn't put down.

but yeah, i don't read much because in my spare time i could be composing or studying scores, for example, and reading a lot of books can take a while..... although sometimes it may be tempting.... I've never read the Chronicles of Narnia, but it looks fun, and my little brother has the whole set. But time is valuable......

i'll see if the library has the Brahms book...... usually they don't have much, and i don't expect anything since i've moved out into hillbilly county now 


edit: just checked the catalog.... they don't have it, of course, the Brahms of the Ives. 
Wouldn't be surprised if they had it in the library in Orlando, where I used to get the composer bios....

Oh good I'm glad that you will read books on composers.I quite understand that your time is valuable,I struggle to find enough time for reading myself .
Regarding Prokofiev,did you read in the bio of his car accident poor darling nearly killed himself and his wife and kids in a bad one in Paris.Couldn't play piano for months!

[greg]

Oh good I'm glad that you will read books on composers.I quite understand that your time is valuable,I struggle to find enough time for reading myself .
Regarding Prokofiev,did you read in the bio of his car accident poor darling nearly killed himself and his wife and kids in a bad one in Paris.Couldn't play piano for months!

aggggghhhhh...... i actually don't remember that part. You got me with that one. But still, there are so many things I remember reading in those 2 books.

this is the bio that I REALLY REALLY REALLY like: 



there's so so so many fascinating moments in these two books, i'll try to think of a few....

-His autobiography leaves out important stuff, including the rest of his life..... he also never mentions any of his wives, just once that he "got married". (maybe it was written before his second marriage?)
His relationship with the ladies was one of the most interesting things in the biography. At first he seems like an alien, but then he gets a girl to argue with her parents, trying to convince them to let her marry him (though they never do).
-Then there's the part where someone reports seeing Prokofiev alone on stage, sitting down and then all of a sudden bursting with energy and in a panic and he just runs out. Kinda weird lol.
-In his autobio, he arrives in America and has so much change in his pockets that's he scared they might burst open, and then he'd be the "laughing stock of America."
-When he remarried, he called his ex-wife a "beautiful desert"....... love that description lol.


so much more to that, too...... amazing stuff, now i feel like reading it again (even though i can't) 

[greg]

last night, had what they classify as an "epic" dream (happens to me maybe 3 or 4 times a year?), which is just one reeeeeeeeaaaaalllly long, detailed dream. It was also extremely symbolic, and i think it was partly influenced by reading posts here. 
Also, I'll try to do my own system of interpretation by references.......



Starts off with a bright, sunny day, I'm outside with one or two other people. (The scenery is my house and a huge, endless field in front.) To the right of my house, me and the other people (either posters here or coworkers) were disputing about something, i think it was possibly a cup on a dishwasher, and someone might've taken it. Then the sky starts turning dark.

We go inside and shut all the windows but some apocalyptic chemical reaction in the sky takes place, it's like it turns into this brown (with black spots) color, while exploding like popcorn in a microwave, and eventually becomes daytime, and light, again.

And so, we get to go back outside but we notice that far away there is still some darkness, in a certain area, so we shouldn't go there. THEND


Prologue: driving down the interstate with my parents, noticing the sky is mostly clear, but to the left there is some type of big, black (yet transparent) cloud hovering over a building. It might've turned into a storm or tornado or something.

Scenery: looked a lot like a Final Fantasy game, except the house was clearly my old house that i used to live in until a year ago. It's like I just imagined looking from the front of it, but deleted the other houses nearby and replaced it with a huge field.

Neighbors: they were my old Muslim neighbors, that had a huge family.... they weren't really bad, but in that scenario getting into a dispute was comparable to getting into a dispute at work with a customer. Obviously, not something pleasant, and I think that's what triggered the

Darkness: darkness in the sky, which represents negative emotions.

Chemical reaction in the sky: the colors were exactly like that of the last boss in a favorite game of mine, the boss named "Juggernaut". Exact same pattern.

Faraway darkness: Reminds me right away of M.Night Shamalan's The Village, where you "can't play in the woods". In this case, you "can't play in the darkness", although a couple of kids go for it anyways. There's also wolves that walk around, obviously I got that from Final Fantasy.

[BachQ]

but some apocalyptic chemical reaction in the sky takes place, it's like it turns into this brown (with black spots) color, while exploding like popcorn in a microwave, and eventually becomes daytime, and light, again.

Probably an electro-chemical reaction, to the extent that lightening was involved ...........

[greg]

Probably an electro-chemical reaction, to the extent that lightening was involved ...........

that's probably what it should've been......

but it was like this instead:


http://videos.emule.com/play/legend-of-legaia-31---lets-take-juggernaut-for-a-walk-(ZgJkQAmeAQE

play the video, and by the 13 second mark, you can see the brown texture that is what I dreamed of that was flashing outside. By about 9'30" it's the clearest, all around, when they go inside the thing......

I think "Juggernaut" would be a possible orchestral work that i'd write someday, to describe this beast- the most hideous out there. And of course, it'd have a big, thrashing, mysterious sound to it. 

[greg]

another dream of me playing a violin! 

I might have to ask for one this Christmas, even if it's really cheap and I have to pay for half of it. Reminds me of years ago when I dreamed of playing Final Fantasy IX 7 different times! 
That was after renting the game, so I had no choice but to ask for it for Christmas just so the dreams would stop! (and they did)

also dreamed about meeting a couple people here. 

[greg]

this wasn't a dream.... but it seemed like it.

i was thinking over some Russian (from the "Teach Yourself" book from the library i just picked up for fun), when these people who were speaking Russian came over to check out at my register! 
(ok, it could've been Ukrainian, too, maybe Polish though it didn't sound like it to me)

it was like 2 different couples one after another...... i guess Mexicans hang out in 3s and Russians hang out in 4s (split by 2), maybe?

the guy needed an English grammar book, too... he was like, "it no read?" and the way he said a couple of phrases was actually, if you think about it, pretty hilarious. But of course, he might've talked that way to show me he has some difficulties understanding, which is in my opinion, a good move.

[BachQ]

the guy needed an English grammar book, too...

Imagine that ..........

[c#minor]

I never remember any of my dreams. I really would like to but i go blank the second i get out of bed.

[Mozart]

I really think I just don't have dreams most of the time. I woke up a few days ago and finished a thought I had before going to sleep, like while sleeping my thinking was on pause.

[c#minor]

i am pretty sure everyone has dreams every night. Some of us just do not remember them.

[greg]

i am pretty sure everyone has dreams every night. Some of us just do not remember them.

Exactly, that's what they say.
And sometimes you don't even remember them until later in the day when something triggers the thought (an association that leads to the thought). (Usually, though, the memory of the dreams just fade throughout the day and you can only remember by reminding yourself several times.)

So it's weird how it can be in your working memory, but if try to recall the dream, it doesn't work by asking yourself, "What'd I dream last night?" but instead by thinking of something related to the actual content of the dream.

[greg]

Two interesting dreams, with the same overall theme.

1) Last night: not quite a full dream, but I imagined being in the NW US...... why? Because I recalled the taxi driver a few months ago telling me about how Wyoming was his favorite state to drive in. I remembered that and thought that I don't really know much at all about the northwest US, so I dreamed of being there somehow. Same theme as previous dreams.... going to places I've never seen, or hardly thought of before- even if I have to make up places, i'll do it.

2) mmmmm maybe i'll post this one later. I made up the word "Kokoyoyododo" in my dream. That's all I'll say for now. If you do a google search, it's nowhere else on the internet.

[BorisG]

[greg]

I like black.

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

Last night I dreamt, Till Lindemann of Rammstein died. Now at least we know why no new Rammstein album appeared for pretty long time now...