free music/new blog

I've decided to start publishing my arrangements on the internet for free, starting with a Minuet in G that's transposed to F, making the title totally confusing. That's what you get for choosing such a generic title, Johann.

For more on this nerdly musical adventure, click here

Good Question

Oh, Yahoo Answers. I'm so happy that Henry put you to some good use.

Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Entry from Wikipedia:

"The song took three days of overdubbing because McCartney imagined that it could be a future single. John Lennon later recalled, "he did everything to make it into a single, and it never was and it never could have been."
According to Lennon, the band spent more money on that song than any other on Abbey Road, and he derided the song at the time as a prime example of McCartney's "granny-style" writing.
George Harrison described it in 1969 as "one of those instant whistle-along tunes which some people hate, and other people really like. It's a fun song, but it's kind of a drag because Maxwell keeps on destroying everyone like his girlfriend then the school teacher, and then, finally, the judge." In 1977, Harrison would be less charitable, stating "I mean, my God, 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' was so fruity."
Even Ringo Starr recalled in an interview in early 2008: "The worst session ever was 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer.' It was the worst track we ever had to record. It went on for fucking weeks. I thought it was mad."

zombie cats

For the first time ever, the cat actually slept all night, curled up by either my shoulder or elbow. And he only woke me up ONCE in the night, and only because he was muttering in his sleep. Sooooo cute.

Last night I saw Zombieland. It was a thoroughly enjoyable, terrible movie. The beginning was slow. They hired a guy who looked and acted like Michael Cera for the lead role. There were portions of it that went on for too long without any zombies and a lot of mushy heartfelt dialog disguised as plot development. The girls were terribly written, two-dimentional useless characters with too much eyeliner.

But at the half way point things picked up, and it ended up being worth watching. I wouldn't buy the movie or anything, but it made me laugh, and I was glad to have seen it.

So, late last night I had a dream that I lived on the first floor of a building (above the main floor, that is), and could therefore only be friends with other inhabitants of that floor, which were all jellybean coloured zombie cats. But then I discovered that there were zombie cats on stilts outside with whom I could also be friends, because they were tall enough to reach the first floor.

uhhh... yeah.

Bread Pudding

Doesn't this look delicious? hmmmmm.... It's soy milk and eggs. and sugar.

And this is buttered bread, covered in that oh-so-tasty mixture, and layered with thin slices of sweet apple from the neighbour's tree.

Sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg,

raaaaaisins... This is the second layer.

and more bread and goopy mixture. And then it sits until the whole thing is super soggy.

1 hour and 10 minutes in the oven.

vanilla pecan ice cream.



yes.

an important message from Patrick Stewart

Don't worry. This isn't a star trek blog.

I'll have something more interesting another day.

not much to say

what it's really like to serve on the star ship Enterprise: