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So, umm, happy valentines day. I hope everyone buys eachother things to affirm their love. It's the only way.

Speaking of buying things, The People's Bureau opened today with many new mitDR products at 12:00AM GMT and everything cool is already sold out. Hopefully they'll get new stock, it's likely. Their shirts rock, there's even an Angry Man (see user pic) key chain guy. Neato.

PS. I'm wearing black

I am spending my valentines cleaning the office and rehearsing with my chamber orchestra. I will be romancing the one inanimate object I love, my viola.

Which is cool, because I'm totally broke. But, have bus pass will travel.

imattv has some really keen things to say about today's holiday.

Get loud when it should get soft.

I often wonder about the way people feel and how that influences their thinking. One thing in particular that struck me today was the idea of popular dynamic, that is to say, why do people enjoy so much loud, rhythm oriented music these days? Using electronic music as a microcosm and the invention of the sampler as the genesis of it's modern forms you can see a distinct trend from the dreamy, ambience of, well, ambient and trance. The quick succession in the 90s towards more intense house sounds (deep/tech house), drum&bass and hardcore (gabber).

Now, my point is that I feel my musical intuition is very inverted dynamically from what would seem appropriate for classical. I want to phrase things.. not incorrectly.. but not traditionally. Everybody I know in my generation seems to be that way, and it's a large part of what we learn as aspiring classical musicians. We learn to play stylistically, just like fine arts students reproduce Impressionist or Rococo pieces Today the popular opinion of musical style has changed so much, and music just like visual arts is such an integral part of all of us, if we like to admit it or not. So we've all changed a lot. For the better?