Sometimes I write poems. Tonight happened to be one of those lucky nights where words flowed like wine... Maybe Ill also include some past poems.

If you could see my face when i heard the chords clashing
the sound was more beautiful than a red summer sky
and a disregard for everything important in life
if only there was a message written in those clouds
as i looked into the cacophony
you would see a slight hint of madness
dribbling out of the corner of of my lips
but would you press yourself to join in the adventure
of dying to the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves.
Random Poem 9-30-05

These are from a while ago, but deserve to be Blogged!

So this is the story of a kid with a dream.
Nothing can ever be what it seems.
I look too far and too close in between
To assume something
and its not what it means
is it right or is it wrong
should i worry and fret?
but i always end up back where i started
with one foot ahead
and one stuck to the past.
Random Poem 3-8-05

It taunts me
rips me into shreds
ripped remnants of days so full
expressive and loud
to my eyes that see
I Ignore A d i s p l a y
of a heavenly expression above
Stare out at a lavender gloaming
with hills and a red shining tower
which points like a finger to the
next act.
A sliver of a lunar body
crescendos into my path
wait, hold,
A Disappearing ACT
Random Poem 9-04

Oh the madness of life... So much to do and never enough time...
Now, for more homework.

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Or not. I am random tonight. My writing is coming along, quite well I must say. I am really proud of it, from blogger to quasi-academic yet interesting writing in just a few months. Cha ching. So many amazing things to talk about so little time. I FINALLY got all the papers done for the 100 yr ago concert. Busoni, Ives, Janacek, Scriabin. Now I must turn them into scripts with pictures and a lot of editing. I think October is going to be interesting on the aspect of work, then again when is my life ever not interesting... I shouldn't even talk about interesting. Now I am just confusing myself...

I went to a fabulous lecture on Mycology yesterday with Beth at the Common Ground Fair. I did this in the spirit of John Cage, who was quite the mycologist (though it seems that he might have been going for the more 'experience enhancing' mushrooms -cough-). The lovely gentleman who gave the presentation was very insightful and was passionate about this topic. It really helps to have a person tell you something they are wild about. I know that is not a problem at my college, but in other places in this world I wonder how people can face the day doing jobs they hate. Anyhoo I learned about some incredible fungi and i might get a little basket and go out on a rainy day. One that captured me the most was the Lobster mushroom. It looks like the color of cooked lobster, and smells like the sea! Supposedly it even tastes like lobster. I want to try one since well lobster is just like milk for me, we don't get along well at all. I have always been wild about mushrooms. I have to say the best ones I ever tasted were in this mushroom dish I had in Rome. I don't know if it was the white wine they were sauteed in with olive oil or what, but that dish of pasta was... I will leave it there.

Speaking of food i also had some wonderful food at the Common Ground. See I went to the Farmington Fair the night before (okay now your saying: this was a music blog? I AM getting there!) and they have terrible food there, although I did have a great funnel cake and Maple Cotton Candy (it was almost nirvana!). The CG well has the best fair food EVER. I had Indian - vegetable curry, vegetable fritters, potato pancakes all with wicked hot sauce. Oh it was delightful and I have never had Indian before! And of course to end it a Mainer Pie Cone, strawberry rhubarb... Okay I am done with that. It was a great day for eating.

Beth and I also conducted a little ethnomusicological research at the CG fair. We found some Native American drummers right after the Indian food. (Woah, that sentence really contradicts itself in the weirdest way!!!) This was great and right up the path of research Beth is going to follow for class. I really enjoyed it how the four gentlemen sat around the large drum beating it and singing. All very simplistic but yet what todays music is built on, this very primitive form. One of the drummers was a very small boy probably 6-8 years old. He held a perfect rhythm and was singing right on with the experts. He had such an intensity for what he was doing it was amazing.They called him the 'apprentice' I remember. After this we walked around more and then we observed down in the main amphitheater more modern hand drumming. A crowd of 100 were in front of the stage dancing like crazy to the all girl group. It was the basic run of the mill djembe drummers, much like what i did in highschool but alot faster. This made me really want to get a hand drummer group together on campus like our group in high school. We just took trash, hand drums or whatever and played rhythms on it. When we watched the John Cage video in R2R last monday I noticed they hung different size brake drums and hit them. I remember we did the same thing in our group and they made some amazing sounds. Those were the days, banging on trash... There were alot of folky groups playing around in random places as well. They are good too, but they don't grip me as much as those rhythm groups.

Otherwise other than being fair-ed out and have caught a cold this weekend (its funny cause i remember last year @ the CG having a cold!) the wonderful life as a UMF student has been spec-tack-u-lar! I have a bone to pick with 2D. I plead the 5th at the moment with that class. Music classes are engaging, wish I had the time that I had this summer to put into them (which is like me saying music 24/7/365, someday!!). Ancient Greece and Rome is great. It seems like the class drags at times but it has been much more interactive lately. Ancient Greece was a great place... Maybe when I am in Italy for a semester I can pop over and take a holiday in Greece! I think i would want to go there just to have the food! No, I would love to see the landscape of the country, the pictures we saw in class on friday were incredible. I haven't been playing frisbee as much as I would like, but school comes first! And i will be playing more Oct has a ton of tourneys all in maine too! Our home tourney, Beaver Fest is Oct 15!!! Hopefully my parents might come up to watch (who knows with them!). Yep I love it I love it all. I couldn't ask for much more. I finally realized that life is really good and what could be wrong!? (Am I on drugs... No, I think I am finally leveling out upstairs from adolescents.) Enough with this I need rest for my health to get rid of this cold. Ciao!

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Busy as hell a Meg without a cause...Actually far from, that made no sense thats alright its Friday night end of two crazy busy weeks. I am tired! But now relaxing, and hopefully sleeping in tomorrow! Somethings got to go. I have on me plate: Work, Monteverdi Singers, Sole Expression, Orchestra, Piano lessons, WUMF, frisbee, whatever else that seems to be there! It will all work out!
On another note... This semester is AMAZING. I write and write and write, and yeah its for work not school exactly but its working... By Gosh! Its working really? YEPPERS, somehow after I get myself out of writing blocks and random writing stupidities I actually am turing out something decent. I am impressed, I am like Gumby! I bend and mold and stretch... (okay, ill leave that there. Its def a friday...)
I haven't even mentioned the classes! 2D is cool, I am having a hard time with this concept called studio time. GOSH! I haven't had an art class in like 2.5-3 years! I can't believe I lost my sense of what studio time was.. NOW, on monday I am bringing the iPod and working like mad. Ancient Greece and Rome throws me off. Its odd I haven't really had an ancient history class ever and its different than normal US or Global history. Well now that I think back History of Japan was different too, a whole new culture and distant perspective. I hate being plagued with the American mentality, it ruins the perspective and zeitgeist of history sometimes (screams: Take Me Back To Italy Dammit!). I am enjoying learning about all the ancient systems the founding of democracy the archaic way of life. There has been a mention of machines that the Greeks use, it makes me wonder what they were like (Thinks of the good old PC video game: Indiana Jones - Fate of Atlantis, what a freaking classic! OOOOHHHHHH Did I love the early 90s! WOOT!! I was such a crazy 8yr old!).
AND NOW (HAAAA!) the Music Classes!!! OHHHH MERDA SANTA! Reich 2 Radiohead (Which will be called R2R from this point forward) Is a HELL of a class. Of course I knew about it all along but its still a ball. Got a project on European Heavy Metal... I am def. looking into the Heavy Metal scene in Italy and Germany. This class is going to be absolutely crazy. I am leaving that there if you want to see what I am doing I have an R2R blog just for assignments... Here she blows:

Meg's R2R Blog!

Ohhh and now for the big one, the insane one the crazy pre-Grad school - Drive me crazy- Madness and many many espressos later MUSIC SEMINAR! ( I am playing it up, its not that bad at all... It might get there, who knows) Right now I am starting a project on Mashups which will be progress posted and published on this blog at a later time. Also maybe tomorrow or sunday (gotta draft it a few more times..) I am going to have an abstract-review on John Zorn's Kristallnacht. OHHH more madness will be posted here from that class, this is what I was talking about a few weeks ago and its really going to happen...
MADNESS UMF MADNESS! And not to mention I blazed last tuesday during Monteverdi Singers... We are singing Lauda Jerusalem (every time we sing it total flashbacks of Venezia!) Gave a 5 min bio on Monteverdi after he left Mantua and became Maestro di Cappella etc... DAMN I was on, I really wanted to write after i did that too! Too bad we still had a ton of rehearsal left.
I am leaving this really really really long post here for now. More loggings, and more often, of the crazy meg to come this semester. This ones going to be a hell of a good time!

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