random stuff

[elvendoll]

weird ageism - there's a few people that are family or family friends that are about 5 years younger then my mom. because my memories of them start from then i was 5 and they were 20, i perpetually think of them as 'young adults' and can't compute that they're 40 now - i just can't picture them aging past 30.

anger management issues? - when i was 7 or 8, the sound of the piano being played* drove me batty - totally spiked an anger response. i must've spent hours daydreaming about finding an axe and tearing it to shreds. once, when i was left home alone, i went looking through all the closets for an axe. i don't know how lucky i am that i never found one, because i probably would have chopped up the piano.
now, i know better then to act on anger like that, but my god - the desire to do serious damage to the air vents here feels very much the same way.

i'm so ready for it to be the weekend.

* my grandmother was a professional piano player, and whenever she wasn't sleeping, cooking or cleaning, she was practicing. and sometimes when she was cooking or cleaning, my great-grandmother was giving piano lessons

Comments

[darxus.livejournal.com]

Open the vents and tape cardboard over the inside of them ? This is something I've been involved in in the past, and it worked out well.

Art project!

[klingonlandlady.livejournal.com]

Hey, performance art! I bet people would pay good money to watch you demolish a grand piano with an axe. (ponders potential musical score for background...)

[klingonlandlady.livejournal.com]

You know, i can't picture ME being past 30, either!!

Re: Art project!

[bloodstones.livejournal.com]

Apropos of strange piano art, there was an exhibit at the tate modern awhile ago that consisted of a grand piano dangling upside down from the ceiling. Every n minutes it would fall several feet, the lid would open, the keys would fall partway off, and it would make a lot of noise, and then hang there for a bit before resetting itself and doing it again.