Is this me?
Wednesday, 9 March 2005 12:59 pmI do love Hoffnung.
I have a new bookcase standing proudly in the hall (albeit looking like a bit of overpriced and warped pine and chipboard, but it was the right size), and like an idiot I promptly rearranged all my books instead of getting someone who doesn't have ME and therefore won't be knocked flat to do it. It is a three-tier shelf about two feet wide. What I can't understand is that the total amount of bookshelf space I now have left isn't even half of that. I think the books expand to fit the shelves. I've got space for another little one like that on that wall, then I'm going to have to find a carpenter and get the long wall in the hall properly shelved, as I've done in my bedroom. Not yet, dammit, I can't afford it. I reckon I've got a year's grace at most.
And yes, that is what most percussionists want to do to the conductor. Especially those who make women who are five feet tall play crash cymbals for four hours straight, and also complain that you're not playing the triangle loud enough. More Hoffnung here, and one must not forget his wonderful rendition of the Trout Quintet.
I have a new bookcase standing proudly in the hall (albeit looking like a bit of overpriced and warped pine and chipboard, but it was the right size), and like an idiot I promptly rearranged all my books instead of getting someone who doesn't have ME and therefore won't be knocked flat to do it. It is a three-tier shelf about two feet wide. What I can't understand is that the total amount of bookshelf space I now have left isn't even half of that. I think the books expand to fit the shelves. I've got space for another little one like that on that wall, then I'm going to have to find a carpenter and get the long wall in the hall properly shelved, as I've done in my bedroom. Not yet, dammit, I can't afford it. I reckon I've got a year's grace at most.
And yes, that is what most percussionists want to do to the conductor. Especially those who make women who are five feet tall play crash cymbals for four hours straight, and also complain that you're not playing the triangle loud enough. More Hoffnung here, and one must not forget his wonderful rendition of the Trout Quintet.
