no boys allowed in the room!!!!

i had my own space that was just mine because i was kinda self-conscious about playing/rocking out, until i became single & started living alone and couldn't afford it. hearing the people in the other rooms, and basically being equal to the other dudes in my space (because they're all dudes, except for the bass player in one band) - really made me just say fuck it, i'm a musician too.

also lol - said sole other female occupant of practice space used to post on ilx

Jenny! Amanda! Did you have screenings of Free to Be You And Me when you were in grade school?
Like Jenny, I never heard of it until someone mentioned it in college. Honestly, I still don't really know what it was. Drums were not an option for anyone when I was in gradeschool (all girls school) so I played the clarinet. In high school everyone who played drums was a guy, and they were really good already, so I thought I had missed my window. Also I was very small.

When I was 19 I almost bought a drum kit during the summer between my first and second year of college, but my mom asked where I was going to put it and I was like uhhhhhhhh, so I didn't buy it.

REGRETS, I'VE HAD A FEW

drums are great if you're small though! everything's totally modular.

well, i was referring to the high school marching band drum corps -- some serious egos there iirc -- and they had to carry the drums and march around in 90+ degree heat and i just was not built for that, small or not.

if being small helps a person play indoors drums that one does not have to tote all over a football field, then sign me up.

it doesn't hurt - because everything's adjustable. you might want to get smaller sticks if you have small hands.

I can play concert snare and clarinet for the orchestral versions! When you're playing at the oscars or the VMAs!

oh jees you aren't even talking about starting a band anymore. I should go back to work.

what are your thoughts on Age of Consent, K?

what's the difference between a concert snare and a regular snare? do you use trad grip with it or matched, or is that not an issue?

i was never in school band - but there always seemed to be a difference between flute girls and clarinet girls.

In my high school, clarinet girls were more likely to play field hockey and flute girls were more likely to be cheerleaders. Sax players were more likely to get shitfaced before halftime shows.

of my current friends, quite a few were clarinet girls, i don't think any were flute girls

only the truly bold played trumpet, male or female
i always admired them

we had a female trombone player

i just never understood why there were so many flute players. i also am not a fan of the flute as a musical instrument, in general.

just today i enjoyed the flute interlude during "the court of the crimson king"
flute is ok but kinda wussy

i do like that song - but i'd like that interlude more if played on bassoon or violin ... god flute is wussy!

the toy piano (or whatever it is) interlude is the better of the two little quiet interludes
i like the flute organ when it's being used in early music-type arrangements, though

Aw I always miss all the best bits while I'm asleep, you gals!

you know you can revive any slept on topic, Trayce! <3

clarinet players are the weirdos of the whole band, one of my band teachers once said. I agree with that having been one.

yeah, but there are almost as many clarinet players as flute players - how can they all be the "weirdos"?

i was a clarinet player in grade school and definitely not field hockey type
but the only reason i played the clarinet is because i literally had no other choice. was at the end of the line.

know what i rather like? the recorder.

i can play "fire leap" from wicker man on my recorder
it's one of my many self-taught skills

(that song is only like 6 notes long but it is a victory nevertheless)

have you ever considered playing bagpipes?

!!! That's a pretty good idea, Amanda.

yes, but they are very expensive
i always wanted to pursue drumming because it's like seated dancing that makes awesome noises

Take the flame inside you!

i knew you would know!
make the baby groooooooooooooooooooow

I wanted to say "take the drums inside you" but that kind of sounds like drums are making you pregnant, which isn't very encouraging.

i don't want anything to make me pregnant but that would have been funny nevertheless

I wrote a big rambly post on my blog about being angry all the time, this morning (and how I hate it when men IGNORE YOU when you just want someone to listen, but thats a whole nother thing). And I'm starting to think I need to redirect all my crank into some kind of energetic thing.

Not drums tho, haha. I'm way too uncoordinated :D Bashing away at a bass and hollering into a mic are fun though. Should do it more often. Fuck the neighs.

seated dancing that makes awesome noises

I am really digging this phrase.

Pretty in Pink means a lot to me, guys.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, July 20, 2010 3:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

:D

must have posted about this on ilx before, maybe multiple times, but the summer i was 13 i watched Pretty in Pink every day. that's not hyperbole.

awwwww. I don't even know how many times I must have seen it but damn HS, that's pretty impressive.

Pretty In Pink was always my least favorite of those movies. I went from age 13 and hating how mean she was to ducky and choosing that whine-y a-hole to age 25 and thinking ducky was kind of stalker-y and overly possessive and still hating the whine-y a hole. Also her dress at the end makes me want to puke. Ducky is really cute though.

i am the rare viewer of Pretty in Pink who did not have a problem with her not picking Duckie. figured hughes was committed to his across-the-tracks romance and also Duckie read as gay to me.

When I was little I really loved (still do tbh) the OMD song that is played during the prom scene. I wanted it on tape so I held a tape recorder up to the TV when it was on once and taped the whole scene. I know the last 10 mins by heart because I listened to that recording so much.

"This is a very romantic moment and you're ruining it for me . . . "

i still listen to the pretty in pink soundtrack from time to time. whatever, y'all, it's good!

It's excellent!!!

<3

kristy swanson rules as girl who beckons duckie
that soundtrack was super awesome and i still have my cassette and play it occasionally

Smiths, New Order, OMD, Psych Furs - these are a few of my favorite things

I never said anything bad about the soundtrack!

oh i know i am just defensive about my embarrassing pretty in pink love

also, guys, james spader as stef one of the top 5 villain performances of all time. so hot!

"i've been out with a lot of girls at this school. i don't see what makes you so different."

So when L and I lived in England he tried for a while to find P in P for me on DVD but it hadn't been released in the UK. He finally found it and excitedly ordered it for me and had it delivered to his office as we did with all packages. The day it was delivered he was talking to a bunch of people while opening his mail and they all saw him take Pretty in Pink out of the envelope only it wasn't the P in P we're talking about here. It was a porn that he'd just opened in front of his manager.

!!!