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Auf Deutsch, bitte!
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I've skipped town... state... country... And I'm gonna try and make a go of it in Germany. 
That is all, continue about your business,
M
That is all, continue about your business,
M
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Mlarpdate
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Things that have been done:
Got hooked on and then proceeded to watch ALL OF DOCTOR WHO EVER. And what should happen when I meet our new Doctor for Matt Smith's retirement? A guy who I think looks most like the actor to play my version of Sam Vimes.
Played with Lorin Maazel this summer, starting off thinking I'd be playing English horn. Then by (unfortunately for someone else) providence, ended up playing mostly Principal oboe the whole summer. He never chewed me out, which I think means I was... "good enough." hahaha
Will be taking more auditions, as per usual. Please wish me all the luck, because F#%ng ARGLE BARGLE I am DONE with this whole, "so what do you *really* do?" none-sense. Also F#%ing being an adult child. I hate it. So seriously. Send me good vibes, and positive thinking and discipline and tenacity, etc. I got a friend who just moved to Norway to play a dream job until whenever he tires of it. And I want that. I want that so bad.
Just finished reading Terry Pratchett's "Snuff"--holy cow, Terry Pratchett, never die, never surrender your mind to your early onset alzheimers.... he is such an amazing writer. Such good stories. I want to live them, I want to be in those movie-makes of them. I want to be Sybil or Angua or or or...
I have doodled! Expect uploads soon!
-Molly
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Jorbing It Up Hella Hard
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SO HEY THERE.
Thanks y'all for your nice comments and my new watchers! I really do appreciate it, even though I have totally been absent. I AM SO SORRY. I don't even know if I count as a visual artist anymore. I doodle, I still have a painting that's waiting to be revisited... But I really miss getting to *dig* my teeth into something more intense.
After the audition spree, I went to a summer festival for a monthish, and then wouldn't you know it--more auditions. I went to Sweden again, and then the summer festival shipped a bunch of us out to Muscat, Oman to play La Boheme at the Royal Opera house! It was a dream come true! Since August, I've also been attempting a "Plan B" class at a city college. Intro to Statistics, wheeee. I really, really, really don't want a plan B. EFF A PLAN B. I'm gonna win some jorbs, and have a bunch of students, and have health insurance, and I'll still get to be a musician! Yeah! But, despite my best efforts to fail this Statistics class (gone for approx. a month of class, not doing any homework; like, 10% of the studying I'm accustomed to doing in "collegiate" mode, not getting extended times on tests until the last one before the final) I will pull a solid C even if I fail the final. If I pass, I will get a SOLID B. HA. Take that, learning disability. And take that Plan B. I could totes do you, med school. If I WANTED TO.
Currently I am planning for a few more auditions. Santa Barbara's got a 2nd oboe opening (not a full-time job, but a paying one would look good on the ol' CV), another Norwegian orchestra has an English horn opening, and Finland re-opened one that I couldn't plan for this fall... which sounds suspicious, but hell, I'll take all the auditions they'll let me attend.
Again, I am SO sorry for the lack of Art-ing. :/ I'm such a loser. I love drawing, I love painting, I love doodles,... I'm just a lame-o. Forgive me!
And send luck my way for these auditions...
-mjOboe
Thanks y'all for your nice comments and my new watchers! I really do appreciate it, even though I have totally been absent. I AM SO SORRY. I don't even know if I count as a visual artist anymore. I doodle, I still have a painting that's waiting to be revisited... But I really miss getting to *dig* my teeth into something more intense.
After the audition spree, I went to a summer festival for a monthish, and then wouldn't you know it--more auditions. I went to Sweden again, and then the summer festival shipped a bunch of us out to Muscat, Oman to play La Boheme at the Royal Opera house! It was a dream come true! Since August, I've also been attempting a "Plan B" class at a city college. Intro to Statistics, wheeee. I really, really, really don't want a plan B. EFF A PLAN B. I'm gonna win some jorbs, and have a bunch of students, and have health insurance, and I'll still get to be a musician! Yeah! But, despite my best efforts to fail this Statistics class (gone for approx. a month of class, not doing any homework; like, 10% of the studying I'm accustomed to doing in "collegiate" mode, not getting extended times on tests until the last one before the final) I will pull a solid C even if I fail the final. If I pass, I will get a SOLID B. HA. Take that, learning disability. And take that Plan B. I could totes do you, med school. If I WANTED TO.
Currently I am planning for a few more auditions. Santa Barbara's got a 2nd oboe opening (not a full-time job, but a paying one would look good on the ol' CV), another Norwegian orchestra has an English horn opening, and Finland re-opened one that I couldn't plan for this fall... which sounds suspicious, but hell, I'll take all the auditions they'll let me attend.
Again, I am SO sorry for the lack of Art-ing. :/ I'm such a loser. I love drawing, I love painting, I love doodles,... I'm just a lame-o. Forgive me!
And send luck my way for these auditions...
-mjOboe
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Audition Central
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Sorry I have been MIA. It has basically been non-stop auditions since early February. First it was those pesky summer fest auditions. Then I was preparing for the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, but they lost my application. So, in a fit of rebellion I submitted an application for the Long Beach Symphony and did that instead. Only to turn around the VERY NEXT DAY to start preparing for my Transcontinental Audition Tour of Extremeness...
I will be going back to ol' Pittsburgh to audition on one of the four days they have for the assistant principal position (that means there are approximately 30 oboists *each day.* If I was on that audition committee I would probably want to kill myself). Then there is a slight lull for a week or so, and I head to Europe for my first experiences auditioning in the European scene. Hi-ho Scandanavia! I'm actually really grateful to the Bergen, Norway, and the Malmo, Sweden Symphonies for inviting me to come to the live auditions. I am tired of preparing tapes, I want to do the real audition behind the screen or on a stage. It's a completely different arena.
Hopefully I can make some time today to upload the few art pieces I've done for your viewing pleasure (or displeasure, whatever, I don't judge.)
Um, yeah, I feel really badly that I don't draw as much. I never in my life thought I would ... regress? in my frequency of drawings, but alas, I suppose this is what searching for a real job is like. Ugh not being a gainfully employed grown-up. Wargle!
Excited for travel, though! I live for travel!!!
-the oboemeister
I will be going back to ol' Pittsburgh to audition on one of the four days they have for the assistant principal position (that means there are approximately 30 oboists *each day.* If I was on that audition committee I would probably want to kill myself). Then there is a slight lull for a week or so, and I head to Europe for my first experiences auditioning in the European scene. Hi-ho Scandanavia! I'm actually really grateful to the Bergen, Norway, and the Malmo, Sweden Symphonies for inviting me to come to the live auditions. I am tired of preparing tapes, I want to do the real audition behind the screen or on a stage. It's a completely different arena.
Hopefully I can make some time today to upload the few art pieces I've done for your viewing pleasure (or displeasure, whatever, I don't judge.)
Um, yeah, I feel really badly that I don't draw as much. I never in my life thought I would ... regress? in my frequency of drawings, but alas, I suppose this is what searching for a real job is like. Ugh not being a gainfully employed grown-up. Wargle!
Excited for travel, though! I live for travel!!!
-the oboemeister
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not dead yet
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Despite what I would assume would be 'popular belief,' I am not dead yet. I draw, but very little (booo), but I do have a painting in the works. And some doodles are coming. Sawwy fwends, I have been throwing myself into the oboe. Though self-employed, I need to go to some prestigious summer festivals to beef up my resume, and then freakin' win something.
Funny tidbit: I learned from the ever-amusing Brian Williams that the rate of unemployment out of school for Fine Arts majors 12.6%, second highest only to architecture majors. Womp womp.
Funny tidbit: I learned from the ever-amusing Brian Williams that the rate of unemployment out of school for Fine Arts majors 12.6%, second highest only to architecture majors. Womp womp.
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