Blog of Total Chaos

A thing that happened while I was traveling to New York.

Look ma! I’m a crystal gem!

So me n’ forosha made ourselves some ol gemsonas. I’m Blue Topaz. It’s my birthstone! And I have a bow and arrow because I’m a saggitarius haha.

This is also made in Manga Studio! I love drawing on it now =3

Fun Story: My director kept telling me and my tenor sax buddy to play softer. No matter what we did, it wasn’t soft enough for him. So getting frustrated, I told my buddy “Dont play this time. Just fake it” 

Our Band Director then informed us we sounded perfect. 

To my readers: “p” means quiet, “pp” means really quiet. I’ve never seen “pppp” before haha.

On the contrast, “f” means loud, and “ffff” probably means so loud you go unconscious.

I had ffff in a piece once and my conductor told me to play as loudly as physically possible without falling off my chair…

Me and my trombone buddies had “ffff” and he sat next to me and played so hard that he fell out of his chair.

The lengths we go for music.

Okay yeah so I play the bass clarinet and the amount of air you have to move and the stiffness of the reed means it only has two settings and that is loud and louder, with an optional LOUDEST that includes a 50% probability of HORRIBLE CROAKING NOISE which is the bass equivalent of the ubiquitous clarinet shriek.

One day, when I was in concert band in high school, we got a new piece handed out for the first time, and there was a strange little commotion back in the tuba section — whispering, and pointing at something in the music, and swatting at each other’s hands all shhh don’t call attention to it. And although they did attract the attention of basically everyone else in the band, they managed to avoid being noticed by the band director, who gave us a few minutes to look over our parts and then said, “All right, let’s run through it up to section A.”

And here we are, cheerfully playing along, sounding reasonably competent — but everyone, when they have the attention to spare, is keeping an eye on the tuba players. They don’t come in for the first eight measures or so, and then when they do come in, what we see is:

[stifled giggling]

[reeeeeeally deep breath]

[COLOSSAL FOGHORN NOISE]

The entire band stops dead, in the cacophonous kind of way that a band stops when it hasn’t actually been cued to stop. The band director doesn’t even say anything, just looks straight back at the tubas and makes a helpless sort of why gesture.

In unison, the tuba players defend themselves: “THERE WERE FOUR F’S.”

FFFF is not really a rational dynamic marking for any instrument, but for the love of all that is holy why would you put it in a tuba part.

This is the best band post 

Everyone else go home

Oh man, so I play trombone, and we got this piece called Florentiner Marsch by Julius Fucik, and we saw this

which is 8 fortes. We were shocked until,

that is 24 fortes who the fuck does that

Who does that?

This guy. Take a good look - that is the moustache of a man with nothing to lose.

Julius IdontgivaFucik

More like Julius Fuckit

this post just kept getting better and better

This is my favorite post and always will be.

And that’s why they’re friends.

country music, or as I like to call it, “farm emo”

And that’s why they’re friends.

Hahaha

Stop shaming feminine video game characters for embracing their femininity. Peach is a character that has a deep backstory and just because you do not “consider” any Mario game that varies away from a side scroller “canon” doesn’t mean it is not. Yes, she is kidnapped frequently but when she does she fights like all hell to get out or at least aid her “hero” whom she has saved in her very own game. Weak? She brawls with the top Nintendo stars in the Smash Bros. series, she plays sports from tennis, to golf, to olympic events and is considered a top competitor in all of them. Let us not forget about her top-notch racing. Dumb blonde? Think again, this multi-talented Princess is known as one of the smartest characters in the Mario series especially in the field of real-estate. Stop belittling her character by seeing what you want, all of you arguments are invalid and the fact you have to “ignore” spin-offs and other installments to get your point across only shows how weak your argument is. 

GOD DAMNIT! 

Hey, old man! Are you practicing how to skate too?

After Rosalina I wanted to make more Mario Galaxy sprites. I friggin’ love these penguins <3

Never give up! :)

It’s nice to make art for myself again. -u- If you wait a moment they spin for you!