likeaphoenixignition: myyearofeverything: Moving on! Right now, I’m about 20 pages into Jasper Rees’ “A Devil To Play: One Man’s Year-Long Quest To Master The Orchestra’s Most Difficult Instrument.” In it, the author picks up the French Horn after 22 years of neglect and gives himself a year to play a solo at the annual British Horn Festival. A goal! A writer who uses humor! Horns! It’s just the thing I needed after “Sundays In America.” One never expects to hear oneself call out the name “Jasper” in ecstasy, but here we are.  The occasion would seem to call for classical-music accompaniment, but someone I follow on MOG just posted a ’90s emo playlist, so I’m getting all Promise Ring with it. Emo wasn’t always a dirty word, kids.  reblogging partly because I’ve been enjoying Dave Holmes’ ongoing project, but mostly because that is one hell of a mixtape.  Then again when you end it with Parking Lot, it’s hard to get the rest of it wrong.  But really, worth a listen if you’re into that kind of thing, or if you think you’d like to be. PS emo was a dirty word, even back then.PPS a lot of the stuff they call emo now is awful good too, just, you know, in very different ways  great emo playlist
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Moving on!

Right now, I’m about 20 pages into Jasper Rees’ “A Devil To Play: One Man’s Year-Long Quest To Master The Orchestra’s Most Difficult Instrument.” In it, the author picks up the French Horn after 22 years of neglect and gives himself a year to play a solo at the annual British Horn Festival. A goal! A writer who uses humor! Horns! It’s just the thing I needed after “Sundays In America.” One never expects to hear oneself call out the name “Jasper” in ecstasy, but here we are. 

The occasion would seem to call for classical-music accompaniment, but someone I follow on MOG just posted a ’90s emo playlist, so I’m getting all Promise Ring with it. Emo wasn’t always a dirty word, kids. 

reblogging partly because I’ve been enjoying Dave Holmes’ ongoing project, but mostly because that is one hell of a mixtape.  Then again when you end it with Parking Lot, it’s hard to get the rest of it wrong.  But really, worth a listen if you’re into that kind of thing, or if you think you’d like to be.

PS emo was a dirty word, even back then.
PPS a lot of the stuff they call emo now is awful good too, just, you know, in very different ways 

great emo playlist

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