New Song for Perceival

This song is called "stopping by the woods on a snowy evening." You can use it for your book report kiddies!

Only the following lines are relevant. You have to chose your battles!

He will not see me stopping here,
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
Between the woods and frozen lake,
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake,
The only other sound's the sweep,
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

BY ROBERT FROST (A little bird told me to credit this - thnx)

Yes, only one of the last two lines is relevant. But which one?

Can you hear what I mean? Of course, there are problems with the way it sounds, the balance, peaking and all. But I'm not a music-man like Chet or Dan. That said, I like arpeggios. A lot. And anything that resembles a xylophone.

I woke up, started working on this song, and now it is 11:39. Whoops! I am planning to use it for the next animation, which I am quite excited about indeed! Not all of the animations are going to be set to music (blat isn't), but it is gratifying to put these song somewhere. I've dozens of songs from my psr 550 days. Some more of which can be found here.



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Whew! I'm in an exhaustion trance. I have bits of thoughts flying around.
Music sounds amazing with headphones - computer whirring noises drive me bonkers. Or rather - there certainly are some amazing musicians out there. I wonder if the human mind is equipped to handle recorded music? It is so intense. Sometimes it makes me feel like I'm shrinking down. I could get into the Butthouse then. (I'll explain that sometime - flowers of disgust reference) I sometimes think music can be terribly dangerous. Some of these modern singers especially. What I want to know - has there ever been a study done to see whether you can "catch" depression or other mental illnesses? Because they are just a configuration, a systems-map of mind function. I know I can "catch" people's gestures and this helps me understand who they are... But sometimes I feel music creating these terrible small loops in my mind - I guess that's what holes are, anyway...
What is the difference between singing and playing music? Is that easy? There's a vibration that makes singing honest. Even if you aren't honest, people will see how you are not honest. And it regulates your breathing. That's why you might get really small and go into a hole.
I hope kensho isn't just religious ecstacy. I've never heard anyone compare the two. The descriptions I was reading in "The three pillars of Zen" are the most exciting I've ever heard. But I think they are dramaticized. Or selected by the Western mind of the writer. I thought zen was supposed to be boring and elitist. Why do I want it to be? I just don't want it to have anything to do with speaking in tongues or being high or makyo when I get really confused about what's a dream and what's real and I get panic attacks and deja-vu at the same time and can shoot lazers out of my eyes or anything like that. I understand there are different mental configurations, different states of consciousness. I don't want kensho to be one of these. I want it to be more different than these things.
Now I'm actually asleep.