inspiration for the new layout

Not much happening either.  Recently I have turned 21 and learned a few things about social drinking.  On my birthday (the 20th) my mother and her boyfriend came up to Boston and took Ben and I out for dinner.  We went to this great restaurant in the South End called Sibling Rivalry. My favorite appetizer was the warm parmesan garlic flan wild mushroom, garlic confit in lemon brown butter.  Ben had this entree that I loved also. It was a crispy pressed duck, grilled prosciutto wrapped and stuffed dried apricots on top, in a port sauce with a watercress salad. But my favorite part of the evening out was our visit to Beehive.

Beehive in the South End Boston

Beehive is a funky restaurant and bar that doubles as a late night entertainment venue. When we went, there was a Jazz group/ singer songwriter , Miss Tess, that was performing.  The place was packed and we had to wait to get a table, but the table we got was right in front of this tiny, very personal stage.  It gives off a slight Moulin Rouge vibe but I suppose that’s because of the French influence of La Rouche.  La Rouche was an artists’ residence in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris in the 1920′s, and it literally translates to Beehive.  Overall, this place was a lot of fun.  I had a great night with the people I love and am very excited to revisit this bar again in the near future.

But mostly I have been thinking about processes art and creation.  I am currently working on a cello sonata that I need to finish by the end of break for my composition class.  I’m having difficulty finding a productive way to work on the form of the piece.  Interestingly enough, I think the most logical way is to write the music by hand and be able to physically move the sections around and see them in a large time line as opposed to on my little 12 inch computer screen.  But in defense of technology, I have rediscovered a great quote from a brilliant man that I will leave you with until I post again soon after the holidays.

“We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no
artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all,
and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly”
(Time for real reunification of art and technology is really long overdue)

- Robert M. Pirsig, ZAMM