Hey! cellos kinda fascinate me too! And I also consider learning to play one a goal as well!

I also play the violin, but I have to put it up for repairs *wipes tears*

Rae: Hmm. Mother in law. I'm sure she loves you...in her own little way [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Joy: Doesn't Frank Peretti have a new book series out? Have you read them ? They any good? I found "The Prophet" to be a great book.

Yes, I hate scales and theory. They're the reason I quit piano at grade 7. I want to play cello, but I'm doing too much other stuff right now, and I really have to work on my French horn if I want to play in my town's orchestra next year. Also, the only person who teaches cello (my best friend's dad, and the person I said I admire) is a very scary teacher. I'm sure I'd start crying before every lesson.... [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Woohoo! Now being officially 16, I'll have to go back and edit my last post, or remain 15 forever! Eeek..

Sorry, little bit hyper.

http://plauder-smilies.de/partysmiley.gif Happy Birthday, Varda! http://plauder-smilies.de/party/party.gif

Happy birthday to you, and many happy returns!

VIOLINISTS AND CELLISTS RULE THE WORLD.

Hey, maybe I'll put that in my sig... music is practically what I live for. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Happy Birthday Varda!!! I know it's a day too late... but, ah well... [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
Happy belated birthday [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Cellos ey? Sounds fun, but I mostly like thoose, ehrm, thoose really big thingies, I mean, it's bigger than a Cello... Don't remember the name...... ah arrghh [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img]

[ November 05, 2002: Message edited by: Mlo ]

The "really big ones" are basses.

Ithaeliel, there is a small error in your last post. What you meant to say was:

FRENCH HORN PLAYERS AND CELLISTS RULE THE WORLD!

Just thought I'd mention that. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Edit: French hornists..? French horn players..? Help...?

[ November 05, 2002: Message edited by: Galadrie1 ]

THANK YOU!!!!!

*hugs*

Varda

Anyone play the oboe? It is the most horribly, stupid instument on earth and sometimes I just like to throw it at the wall, and make large, lovely scratches and...Ok, I'll stop now. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

I played the clarinet from 5th to 8th grade. I was good at it, but my mom sold it at our last garage sale for $100. I always said it sounded like a dying cow. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

*****OT******
No, that's a bad bass player. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Hugs are a wondeful thing!

I "play" the flute,(and I use the word in the loosest sense imaginable) I have a playing test on Thursday that I'm going to fail, and I'm thinking of planting a bomb in my flute case and giving it to my band teacher. Ok, enough ranting on how dumb the flute is.

Oh! hope it ain't too late:

Happy Birthday Varda!

Hello everyone, I'm new here. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

Name (that you go by): Sky(fiery)
Age: 17
Occupation: Student
Future Aspirations: Become a writer
Goal in life: To know what I'm doing in this world
Short term goals: Get out of college
Passion: Writing
Hobbies: Writing and reading, martial arts
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Um...nothing. :P

Fave book: The Silmarillion
Fave movie: LotR
Fave sport: Martial arts
Fave store: None
Fave music: Orchestral

What you can't stand: Lateness
What you plain dislike: Hypocrites
Who you admire: Batman
What you most love to do: Daydream
Your self-confessed flaws: Impatient; very violent; short-tempered
What intrigues/fascinates you: The mystries of the world; black holes
What scares you: Fear
Quotation to live by: Education is not the most inportant thing.

Additional comments: Just...a hello to everyone. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] Hope to make some friends here. It's scary by my own. Lol.

Sky

You like Batman? Me too! My whole "group" has Batman identities - I'm Poison Ivy.

Sorry about the nonsequiter - I was just excited to see another "Gotham nut" join.

Name (that you go by): In this context, I perceive myself here as ‘Rimbaud’ or, occasionally, ‘Fluffy-buns’.
Age: Virtually venerable, although vicarious virtues all.
Occupation: Perception.
Future Aspirations: Greater perception.
Goal in life: Ultimate perception.
Short term goals: Immediate perception.
Passion: The pursuit of perception.
Hobbies: He who perceives is lost.
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): Fame is simply an artificial structure of perception.

Fave book: The fragmentation of art is the restriction of perception.
Fave movie: I avoid the poor perception of others.
Fave sport: Perception. Or, soccer.
Fave store: I perceive the mind as a valuable store.
Fave music: Velvet Underground, The Clash, The Jam, The Smiths, The Kinks, The Beatles, The Magnetic Fields, David Bowie, Syd Barrett, Patti Smith, Radiohead, New Order, Joy Division, Stone Roses, Primal Scream, Manic Street Preachers, Mansun, Suede, Pulp, Replacements, Bob Dylan, The Cure, International Noise Conspiracy, Soundtrack of Our Lives, Sigur Ros, Doves, Peter Gabriel, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Nick Drake, Belle & Sebastian, Twinkle, Massive Attack, Frank Zappa, The Verve, Richard Ashcroft. Flaming Lips, Lambchop, Super Furry Animals, The Penguin Cafe Orchestra (hehe), The Ramones, The New York Dolls, MC5, The Rolling Stones, Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell, Bach, Gershwin, Holst, Schubert, Grieg, Profokiev, Tchaikovsky, Edith Piaf, Kraftwerk, Elvis Costello, Stooges, Billy Bragg, The Pogues, Roxy Music, Talking Heads and many, many, many more…

What you can't stand: Misunderstood perception.
What you plain dislike: Incomplete perception.
Who you admire: Admiration is simply the result of an imperfect analysis of original perception.
What you most love to do: Answer these probing questions.
Your self-confessed flaws: Idealistic scepticism is a heady mix.
What intrigues/fascinates you: Ideals, sceptics
What scares you: Ideals, sceptics
Quotation to live by: Don’t live your life by the words of another.

Additional comments: Hypocrisy has a bad reputation, George.

[ November 11, 2002: Message edited by: Rimbaud ]

Rimbaud

Hmmm..... Dare I even ask?

[ November 06, 2002: Message edited by: Maikadilwen ]

He has obviously developed a reputation as a superb baker of fine pastries and breads. (Doffs her hat to the Baker Extraordinaire)

Hmm.. this place doesn't seem too like flutes....
Losthuniel, the arent as dumb as they seem... I've playde for err, 4 or 5 years, it's really not so bad, quite fun when you use bigger flutes, hihi.
Oh, and I used to play piano, had to quit, arrghh [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img]. The piano group closed becouse there wasn't enough money or something...

Pianos are evil instruments!!!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Name: Kathleen
Age: 18
Occupation: Student, artist.
Future Aspirations: Perhaps an animator, though I'm not fully sure yet cause my boyfriend's an animator and I've seen the TON of work he gets and am not sure if that's for me...
Goal in life: To leave a decent life as best I can and to be a good person as much as I can be.
Short term goals: Getting through high school, visiting England. ^_^
Passion: Unicorns. I love unicorns. ^_^
Hobbies: Drawing, singing, nature(I love the creatures of the world and enjoy going for walks in the forest whenever I can).
Famous for: Not much I don't think but I'm quite a good drawer and I am known to have a beautiful singing voice that's as sweet as softly falling rain...or so people say.

Fave book: The Lord of the Rings and The Last Unicorn.
Fave movie: The Lord of the Rings. ^^;
Fave sport: Swimming, Volleyball.
Fave store: Err...I don't really have a favorite store. :/
Fave music: Nothing in particular. Just a mix of stuff probably though I hate anything with a lot of swearing and I'm not fond of country or heavy metal.

What you can't stand: When I have to repeat something I said to a person a bunch of times cause they don't understand or didn't hear me. -_-
What you plain dislike: I dunno, I don't exactly HATE anything really. :/ Probably needles though.
Who you admire: I don't really know...
What you most love to do: Sing, draw, and spend time with my boyfriend. ^_^;
Your self-confessed flaws: I'm often too shy in the real world.
What intrigues/fascinates you: Science, and the way the world is....the universe.
What scares you: Needles, and bees. I also hate the sight of blood when someone gets hurt. I'm squimish(sp?).
Quotation to live by: I don't really have one. :/

Additional comments:

Gah...gotta hate my 1st one...let me do this again.

Name (that you go by): Rachel
Age: 15
Occupation: student
Future Aspirations: well, I want to be an actress, but I may have to settle for fashion designer
Goal in life: to be happy, of course
Short term goals: getting through this school year
Passion: love
Hobbies: singing, drawing, horseback riding, piano playing, acting, writing, coming on here, reading
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): still getting hit on by 25-year old guys...sadly...

Fave book: to be honest, now I do not really have one
Fave movie: so many: "2 Days in the Valley", "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings", "Pulp Fiction", "High Fidelity", and many more comedies...
Fave sport: to do: horseback riding; to watch: baseball...and tennis is getting up there because of Andy Roddick...
Fave store: Awakenings...or Crystal Cove...or that other store...I forget what it's called
Fave music: I don't really have one...Enya and Linkin Park...and *flinches* I did order the new Nick Carter CD: I just have to see what he sounds like alone.

What you can't stand: people who lie to make others think more of them
What you plain dislike: men who cannot get the nerve to say "hi" back when they've obviously been staring at you
Who you admire: anyone out there who works hard and does not get enough credit...and Christina Aguilera for not caring what people think about her
What you most love to do: dream, to be honest
Your self-confessed flaws: I'm a narcissist and somewhat obssessive...
What intrigues/fascinates you: times of romance...and love in general
What scares you: fire, guns, biological warfare, me dying before experiencing true love
Quotation to live by:
"All you need is love."
---John Lennon

"It takes a little time sometimes
To get your feet back on the ground
It takes a little time sometimes
To get the Titanic turned back around."

"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come."
--Julius Caesar in "Julius Caesar"

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vexed, a sea nourished with loveing tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet."
--Romeo Montague in "Romeo And Juliet"

"Work like you have never been tired
Love like you have never been hurt
And dance like no one is watching."

Additional comments:
If love is but a dream, then, when in love, may I never wake.

If life is but a vision and there is more, then let more come when it comes, for I will welcome it with open arms.

You only need to do two things in this life: love and breath. Do most as intensely and as often as you can.

Follow what your heart desires...unless it desires to become a cannibal, ripping out and destroying hearts around you.

[ November 06, 2002: Message edited by: VanimaEdhel ]

Yo! Hi Elenna (sp?). Lol. I totally love Batman. Been writing fan fiction on www.fanfiction.net (under another name) for some time about him. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Sky

Rimbaud is called "fluffy-buns"?
hmmm...

Vanima, dear, for that was quite a rich list of readables in your list...and you don't have a fave book at the moment? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
another hmmm...
[img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ November 07, 2002: Message edited by: Neferchoirwen ]

Ooh la la, Rimbaud, I wonder: what is your take on perception itself if you try to perceive through a thick haze of, um, "pipeweed" smoke? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Vanima, babe, I really dig the quotes you put up. And John Lennon has it right, he really does. But even he himself has said that the song is an over-simplification. Then again, maybe he is too harsh of a judge on himself.

Frieda, you MUST find a quotation to live by. Otherwise, it will find you!

That's so cool! Everyone in my group has alternate Star Wars identities- I'm Dooku [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img].

Galadrie1, French horn players are pretty cool, too.

And now for some puns that only a string player or symphony member would get!

Q:What's the difference in size between a violin and a viola?
A: No difference, just the violin(ist)'s head is bigger.

Q: What does the average bassist get on an I.Q. test?
A: Drool

Q: Why does a director only take 15-minute breaks at rehearsals?
A: So he doesn't have to retune his entire cello section.

Hehe... lame to some, but 'some' I am not!

Not for me, though. It seems that the group ran out of names by the time they realized that I didn't have one yet. :rolleyes: :p

As for the jokes, they're not exactly original. I remember our clinic conducter telling those! :rolleyes:

Not that I mind, though. But you did leave out the violas. So here's one:

Q: What's the difference between an accomplished viola player and a professional viola player?

A: An accomplished viola player doesn't exist. (Ok, I hope no viola players take offense)

Hee hee, those jokes are good (though kind of stupid... but that's the point of jokes [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]). Once someone told me a whole ton of symphony jokes (so many I was screaming at them to stop) but I can't remember any of them! Hmm.... If I remember any I'll post them. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

That's where I got them, though! And yours was from someone else who I can't think of right now!

I believe the viola joke is from either a former orchestra teacher or some other orchestranian who was trying to tease a certain viola player. ;)

Teasing viola players?!
WHO dares tease a viola player? We have enough talent to be the entire orhcetra's inner voice.

I may be retired, but once a viola player always a viola player! [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

Or a musician for that matter.... Musicians teasing musicians, that's terrible (even when I see it happening between trumpets and clarinets everytime. Those darn trumpetplayers think they're so good, while we have to wait for them to do the practicing they didn't do at home.. [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] )

Name (that you go by): Isilya; Emmabug; Emmabean; Bean; Emma, Queen of the Yukon; yukonqueen

Age: 16 on Communist Worker’s Day (May 1st)

Occupation: Student by day, Elven Bounty Hunter by night.

Future Aspirations: Attend a good university (McGill, Queens), get a bad @ss job.

Goal in life: To be loved, deeply and truly.

Short term goals: Pass math, make the rowing team

Passion: Books, LOTR, Henry Cavill (mmm mmm good!), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and soccer

Hobbies: Poking fun at my sister, reading, and trying to emancipate myself from my parents

Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): I’m the goalkeeper for my high school’s varsity soccer team, I’ve won numerous awards for French, and winning every argument I’m in (except those with my parents)

Fave book: It really is fairly pointless to ask me that. I go through two books a week. Right now, I’m reading the Fionavar Tapestry trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay. Other favorite books include:
Crazy for Cornelia
The Crystal Cave Trilogy
The Alienist
To Dance at The Palais Royale
The Princess Bride
Cold Sassy Tree
Oedipus Rex
Julius Caesar
Any Calvin and Hobbes book
Any Foxtrot book
The BFG
The Tattooed Potato and Other Mysteries
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
The Return of the King
The Silmarillion
The Prince
And the list goes on.

Fave movie: This one is a tough choice. I’d have to say either LOTR: FOTR, or Princess Mononoke, or Beauty and the Beast, or The Matrix, or The Count of Monte Cristo.

Fave sport: Soccer and Rowing

Fave store: Chapters

Fave music: My list for this is even longer than my book list.
Bach
Coldplay
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Bugs Bunny: What’s Opera, Doc?
Barenaked Ladies
Dave Matthews Band
Norah Jones
Willie Nelson
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Nina Simone
The Beatles
Like any true Canadian: The Tragically Hip
Eric Clapton
Fastball
Matchbox 20
Howard Shore
Fine Young Cannibals
U2
Disney Music
Great Big Sea
Crambo. If you haven’t heard of them, I can’t blame you
Goo Goo Dolls
Louis Armstrong
George Harrison
Zebda
Radiohead
REM
The Muppets
The Guess Who
Credence Clearwater Revival
Queen
Chemical Brothers
War
No Doubt
Steppenwolf
Led Zeppelin

What you can't stand: Evil and Mean people, People who don’t tolerate differences

What you plain dislike: Tomatoes, Mushrooms, Essays, Romance Novels, the Water Temple in Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Bad Spellers

Who you admire: Tigger. He’s the only one!

What you most love to do: Read and listen to music

Your self-confessed flaws: Procrastination. Terrible Procrastination.

What intrigues/fascinates you: The possibility that there might actually be other worlds out there.

What scares you: Spiders, snakes, and Sheep eyes

Quotation to live by: At 15, I’ve found that the true meaning of life isn’t how much money you have, or what clothes you wear, it’s how far you can get while playing Chubby Bunny and not choke.
-Me
Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens
-Gimli Son of Gloin

Additional comments: www.geocities.com/yukonqueene/index

My website. Still under construction, somewhat, but the majority is done!

[ November 13, 2002: Message edited by: Isilya ]

[ November 13, 2002: Message edited by: Isilya ]

[ November 13, 2002: Message edited by: Isilya ]

*Ducks all the thrown apples, hobbits, arrows, fruit, and bottles*

I'm sorry! I'm sorry! But...while Tolkien is my favorite author, I also greatly enjoy many other authors as well!

Lush I like your signature quote. I love Enya...and have every one of her CD's. My favorite song is probably...either "Book of Days" or "Storms in Africa II".

Isilya, your fave music list looks like the combined cd collection of me and brother!

Coldplay! woohoo!

Just an observation Vanima. I have a hard time listing my favorites, too. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Finally!! Someone else that actually likes Coldplay!! All my friends and family make fun of me for it, but I say "screw them! I'll listen to whatever the hell I like!" I still have to go out and buy their new CD though. I have a couple of the tracks on my Kazaa, and it sounds even better than the last album!!

Name (that you go by):Beruthiel
Age:13
Occupation: what else can i do at my age? (i'm a student in case your really thick)
Future Aspirations: lawyer or doctor
Goal in life: to live it without regrets
Short term goals:to get through school
Passion:lotr
Hobbies: reading, watchin movies
Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): i dunno, i'm not the braggin type

Fave book:the two towers
Fave movie:lotr
Fave sport:soccer/running
Fave store:too many
Fave music:avril lavgine, coldplay, ummm... can't think of anymore but there are

What you can't stand: people who are selfish
What you plain dislike: spiders (sounds kinda sad doesn't it? but i do hate them)
Who you admire:JJR Tolkien (how on earth can any one have such an imagination and put it into words so beautifully?)
What you most love to do: read, be with friends
Your self-confessed flaws: i'm kinda careless and clumsy.
What intrigues/fascinates you:the world and how it came to be i mean its pretty amazing don't u think?
What scares you:i have no idea
Quotation to live by: live like there's no tomorrow!

Er well actually I'm not going to tell you all about me, because personally I just come here to discuss Tolkien. Nosy devils.

I suppose you meant "back you devils"? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]