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[17 Dec 2008|12:48am] |
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Since I'm done with finals and my jury, I'm watching Return of the King tonight. Anyone who wants to join me is welcome to do so.
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| To Do Over Break |
[15 Dec 2008|01:04am] |
Over Christmas break I will:
-Play a scale pattern a day.
-Spend one hour on fundamentals, one hour on etudes, one hour on Mozart, and one hour on excerpts
-Fix my lip trills
-Convince my parents that their Christmas party is just a bourgeois exercise in snobbery.
-Avoid going to church.
-see if Eliza is available See best friend from high school.
-Come back to school as soon as possible.
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[12 Dec 2008|11:22pm] |
OOC:
Hello, my name is Kat
I am twenty.
I did Stuckinthe70s as Lily and Veronica (Lovegood) Sparks, and various characters on Stage Left.
You can contact me at harmony_kat06@hotmail.com or tarbukass on AIM.
IN CHARACTER:
Hello, my name is Karl Sigurd. My elvish name is Amras Séregon.
I'm eighteen and a freshman in horn performance.
I was born in Berlin and moved to Chicago when I was four.
In Caer Anwas ar i Nulda:
1. Karl's first love is music. His mother was a soprano and sang lieder around the house whenever she could. He learned to accompany his mother on piano before she encouraged him to pick up an orchestral instrument.
2. When Karl was eight, he watched Lord of the Rings in full and fell in love. He struggled his way through the books for three months after devouring The Hobbit in a single sitting. He also hummed the soundtrack wherever he went, annoying his mother to no end.
3. When he was ten, he decided to play the horn in band, since he knew it played the heroic themes he loved from Lord of the Rings and Star Wars. The first time he tried to play he was furious with the instrument, since he couldn't get the sound he'd heard on his CDs. He locked himself in his bedroom, trying to make a better sound until he could barely feel his face. He signed up for private lessons the next day.
4. Karl read Das Kapital and the Silmarillion the summer before he started high school. Das Kapital helped him channel his hatred of the popular, rich kids at school, and the Silmarillion motivated him to learn Elvish. He still claims that summer changed his life.
5. He was never popular in school, combination band geek and frequent gamemaster of the D&D club certainly not helping that. Even so, he lost his virginity in the back of his dad's old car to a girl from his math class at sixteen.
6. He broke up with her two weeks later and invited her best friend to his youth symphony concert to hear Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. He quickly gained a reputation as a serial dater.
7. Karl thinks out loud a lot, spewing thoughts to whoever will listen, and often at great length, whether it's about the damn bourgeoisie or some film he's seen recently. He plays the same way, in long phrases without pause. He sometimes forgets to breathe and finds himself stuck at the end of a phrase.
8. He is hyper-competitive, a spirit driven by his own desperation for the perfection he wants, as well as it being a horn player thing. He's been principal horn since it entered his mind that he could be principal.
9. He watched Siegfried from the Ring Cycle when he was sixteen. Any doubts about his career left him at that moment, and the only question he had left was whether he wanted to be principal horn in the Berliner Philharmoniker or at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
10. Allegro School of Music was his second choice. He wanted to study in Vienna but his parents wouldn't let him go so far away from home. His plan is to get a job and study abroad on his own terms. Even so, he plays everything he can on the F side of the horn, a fact that has made him a formidable force in the orchestra.
I Nulda:
Karl fell in love with his best friend's sister when he was fifteen and never admitted to it. He also never got over it. He serial dates to try to forget about her, but when he hears Tristan und Isolde or the beloved theme from Symphonie Fantastique he thinks of her.
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