Show us a musical genius.
Geoffrey Lancaster: Australian pianist, fortepianist, scholar, conductor, teacher, and all-round musical genius.
Video: Show us a video that makes you want to dance.
Audio: Share the most embarrassing song on your mp3 player.
Show us your favorite album cover.
Audio: Share a song you could listen to all day on repeat.
Show us a photo of somewhere you want to go.
I want to visit the Drottningholm Court Theatre, just outside Stockholm in Sweden. It was built in 1766 and is still in use for baroque style productions of opera and ballet. This is the interior; the buildings and grounds of the palace are just as elegant.
I have been in Stockholm twice in my life and both times it was just outside the opening season for the Drottningholm palace and the theatre. Sooo frustrating! But I WILL get there one day - and, I hope, see a production.
CREDIT: This photo by Bengt Wanselius and Bo Ljungblom. More by them at the site linked above.
What are you most grateful for in your life right now?
Submitted by Becca-Pink.
I'm supremely grateful that I spent the first 14 years of my life without a television.
I've endured enough CD cover design meetings to know just how angst-filled and generally traumatic they can be.
The following is just a creative game, but boy would it make life easy to adopt a method like this! As the friend who gave me the link says, he can't imagine the following steps ever yielding an implausible cover design.
1 - Go to wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article title that you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to Random quotations:
http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 - Go to flickr and click on "explore the last seven days"
http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 - Use Photoshop or similar to mix it all up. Post it.
My efforts:
EDIT: credit where credit's due - it appears the original source for this was the discussion board on Mess+Noise, an Australian music site.
What are five words you really like?
Submitted by purplesque.
wherewithal,
concatenation,
encyclopædia [yes, spelled that way and with the ligature; "mediæval" too],
queue,
parallel
What are you saving up for?
Submitted by Star.
I'm saving up for a piano!
Although flute is my major instrument, piano has always been the instrument that gives me the purest pleasure. I can play anything and have all the music, not just the melody; I can accompany myself singing (or others); I can use it to get to know a piece inside out or just to amuse myself. It's been two years since I had a piano in my home, and I'm really missing it.
