Adventures and Musings of a Professional Cellist

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Welp. Been a minute. Hey Tumblr, how you doin’?
I’m still throwing cello at people, moved into a new house with my roommate.

Have two very excellent partners who give a shit about me and understand the complexities of dating someone who is a freelance artist who knows nothing but poverty. This poly thing is really excellent, tbh.

I’m going to Paris and Florence later to perform in a experimental theater piece I’ve now presented in Seattle and New York (and it’s nuuuuude). Turns out people paying me and an actor and dancer to be naked and make them feel really bad about toxic masculinity is pretty great.

I get to collaborate with Wu Fei soon, which is pretty excellent. Also might be playing with Bela Fleck, which is marginally mindblowing to me (but seriously holy shit what).

I’ve been getting way more comfortable with my body, which is cool. It’s super weird to have your dietician tell you that no matter how much you change your food/workout regiment, unless you go basically be a crossfit bro (which I have not the time or money for), your body will probably always be like this #lolstarvationforallyourformativeyears

And I guess other things have happened. But also I miss y'all.

Also here’s a recent picture of me.

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When a partner and your mentor meet and you’re just surrounded by all sorts of love and you just can’t handle it but actually you can.

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[tuba-jesus]

dvoryak

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[slow-riot]

Weirdly anti-millennial articles have scraped the bottom of the barrel so hard that they are now two feet down into the topsoil

[tramampoline]

its so wild like “this generation with no fucking money is learning to prioritize essentials” and all these chucklefucks can write is advertisements for these companies

[markrial]

at least our jeans won’t tear at the seams after two washes

[awfullydull]

FUCK FABRIC SOFTENER IT’S UTTERLY POINTLESS

AND FUCK DRYER SHEETS LITERALLY NOBODY EVER HAS ENOUGH OF A PROBLEM WITH STATIC TO WARRANT PAYING OUT THE ASS FOR THAT SHIT

DO YOU WANT CLEAN CLOTHES? YOU DON’T EVEN NEED TO BUY FUCKING DETERGENT JUST MAKE YOUR OWN* IT’S SO GODDAMN EASY AND 80X CHEAPER

FUCK THE ENTIRE LAUNDRY INDUSTRY

*Fuck The Entire Laundry Industry Recipe

1 cup Washing Soda (not Baking Soda. Different things.)

1 cup Borax (not Boric Acid. Also a different thing.)

½ cup - 1 cup grated bar soap (you can use literally anything. I often use Ivory because it’s easy to get and I find it works well, a lot of people like Fels-Naptha, which is an actual laundry bar. Some people use Dr. Bronner’s. Really does not fucking matter.)

After grating your soap, combine all ingredients. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. Use maybe a ¼ cup per load.

[madsciences]

^^^ I’ve done this for years now and it works as well as any store bought detergent

[ghostoftwentysomethingspresent]

WHAT
Thank you, tumblr user awfullydull! Your URL does no justice to the good advice you give!

[kindnessandgoodvibrations]

Also you can MAKE your own washing soda very VERY cheaply.

Step one: acquire $5 bag of baking soda from Costco.

Step two: lay that motherfucking baking soda out on a baking tray.

Step three: bake the baking soda on a tray in an oven at 400° for 1 hour (to make the moisture evaporate, leaving washing soda)

Step four: revel in how easy and cheap it is to make your own washing soda, and maybe take a moment to be angry that the industry upcharges the fuck out of something that is so easy to make.

[kindnessandgoodvibrations]

I see some of y'all complaining about static and/or wanting nice smelling laundry. Go to a craft store, find 100% wool yarn balls. If it doesn’t come in a ball, ask an employee to make it into a tight ball for you. Wash in the washing machine to make it felted. Remove from washer, add a few drops of essential oil to the ball, allow to seep in. Dry with clothing. Doesn’t need to be rewashed ever, and if it stops smelling, add few more drops of essential oil. Bam, reusable dryer sheets.

[organized-studies]

I love this post so much it’s filled with helpful advice, hatred, saving money, and fucking the system all in one

[avatar-dacia]

Keeping this.

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[adventuresinstringrepair]

I call this one “Futility”.

[thesoupofthedayiswhiskey]

What even what. I can’t.

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[stupendousmelody]

When you are one with the music

[thirsty-mind]

Luvs it

[dammit-clint]

WHO IS SHE

[neweyesfromthenearlyblind]

She’s a Mexican-American conductor, her name is Alondra de la Parra and she’s only 36.
She was born in New York, raised in Mexico, went to uni in Manhattan and is currently working with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra on a holiday tour. 

[hervision]

Inspired

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Anonymous asked:

when I first started watching classicaloid I had 0 classical music knowledge and just kind of assumed the characters were like that for comedic effect but the more I learn from people like you the more I realize classical composers were just unhinged as fuck

answered:

i’m laughing os hard oh my god

but yeah no all the composers were pretty out there one way or another. for more ridic shit about some other composers including hte classicaloids

• erik satie refused to eat anything that wasn’t white. he only wore grey suits. he hated the sun. he also named some pieces some of the weirdest shit, like “veritable flabby preludes (for a dog)” or “desiccated embryos”
  
• arnold schoenberg had a fear of the number thirteen. like a ridiculously wild fear, despite being born on the 13th… and dying on friday the 13th on his 76th birthday, 7+6 being 13
  
• hector berlioz was an opium user, so you end up with pieces like “symphonie fantastique” which basically follows the story of an artist who poisoned himself with opium because unrequited love sucks and then experiences witches and Dies irae. this is just like… one of several other things. berlioz did some weird shit
• mozart fucking loved potty jokes. especially about farting and poop. like they’re found everywhere in his letters
• also another thing about mozart, one of his most beloved operas, don giovanni… well, some of it was literally written the day before and day of the premiere because #yolo
• j.s. bach once pulled a sword on a bassoonist who accused him of slander and supposedly called him a “nanny-goat bassoonist”
• he also ended up in jail for a month or so because he pissed off his boss by illegally looking for a job somewhere else while employed
• joseph haydn was cheeky af and wrote a lot of music that kind of showed that (surprise symphony, farewell symphony, to name some)

or there would be some high class drama like

• johannes brahms had the biggest crush on robert schumann’s wife, clara schumann (who to be fair, is a total catch because she was a fab pianist and composer). it was pretty unrequited tho so he was left just pining for her
  
• the ever popular story of how igor stravinksy’s rite of spring starting a riot (literally) on the day of its premiere. people were so angry with the music that they just started… punching and shit
• or the fact that richard wagner went off and married franz liszt’s daughter (and they’re from different schools of thought), and liszt was so livid that this all happened

welcome to classical music :___)

[gretchenamspinnrade]

The fact Richard Wagner bankrupted an opera house and then slept with the owner’s wife because he is t e r r i b l e

The time Beethoven was performing and his piano accidentally caught on fire and he just kept fucking going

Schubert was arrested for backtalking a police officer. Schubert also supposedly met beethoven once. He brought his music along and was so nervous to meet his idol. When bee pointed out a single error in his music Schubert got super flustered and left.

His letters are also a fucking trip and solidify him as “world’s most relatable composer”

Chopin was turned on by the sound of the female voice. He was also Liszt’s drinking buddy even though they could not be more different (exceptionally highlighted in Hark! A vagrant’s Chopin / Liszt comic)

Lisztomania. Just fucking lisztomania. The fact you could tell where the women were seated apparently by the dampness of the seats no i am not kidding. People would try stealing his hair.

Tchaikovsky’s mother fucking CANNONS. Also he hated the nutcracker.

I’m sorry I just
I love composer facts

[bassflutes]

also js bach wrote an entire cantata on coffee addiction, the most notable line being “bring me my coffee or i will turn into a shriveled-up goat”

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A cellist finds a pit bull. Adorbs ensues.

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[cheshicat]

Please join me on twitter in shaming these assholes!

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[blameaspartame]

Jack off!

[libertybill]

Bust a Nut! That’s right! We finally made our pistachio ice cream Nut-Free!

[shitpost-senpai]

Beat that meat! Our new boca burgers now taste better than ever!

[arewehumanafterall]

Stroke a fat cock! Our lovable pet roosters are big, fluffy, and ready to be adopted!

[desbreaux]

Take ya Dick out! Our mayor Richard Dickson will not be running another campaign!!

[ghostclvb]

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

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[pavlovringsabell]

Everybody tag this with their age and the oldest and youngest they would date

[thesoupofthedayiswhiskey]

Man. Reading some of these tags is… disconcerting. Like, yo, if you’re 16 maybe don’t date a 50 year old. I’ve got more problems with the 50 year old, for sure, but like, yeah. When I was 18 i was dating people in their 30s, and even that was probably a bit much, now that I look back if it. It’s a lot different now, being in my late 20’s, insofar as I’m closer to the person I will more or less be (not that growth isn’t a thing, but you feel me nah?).

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Baltimore, MD –> Yellow Springs, OH –> New York, NY –> Nashville, TN

This is what my next 6 or so weeks looks like. I am excited.

Gigs, a cello festival, and ‘sans’ in NYC.

Contrary to my constant state of woe, I’m doing some pretty fulfilling things.