The thing about the UK is the percentage of creative people is much higher. It's still a small minority but it's enough that it really makes a difference. Additionally the extreme verdancy and high latitude combined with the atlantic meridional overturning circulation current. It all combines to make it objectively speaking the nost magical place on earth. Excluding very small areas elsewhere of course.

And of course many of those really creative brits take it completely for granted. They focus on their minority status (which would be the case anywhere and would be even worse anywhere) and focus on all the things that could be better because of course in a lot of ways the UK does suck, just like everywhere else. Which is still quite laughable. It is the best place on the planet. 

I finally reviewed the solution to Masquerade in detail yesterday. I wonder why I hadn't long ago. But I wrote in detail elsewhere. There was something else I had meant to write about here but I've been sidetracked. 

I started Chopin's Funeral March. Used to be i didn't like the somewhat positive turn it took. But in a recent listen i found that to be perfect for death shouldn't be completely terrible. It's important to not see it that way. It's maybe a perfect piece of music for viewing death. Perhaps the darth vader theme which i had heard so much more of made it hard to appreciate.

Just about "finished" with Gladiolus rag. I guess may do Maple leaf but Funeral March takes precedence. 

I started back at performing monkey piano last fall. So far brushed up/perfected/learned:
1. Rach prelude in c sharp minor
2. Moonlight sonata slow movement 
3. Most famous pathetique movement 
4. Beethoven's 19 sonata one movement 
5. Nyman heart asks for pleasure. 
6. 1st 3 pages of Beethoven's 7th symphone 2nd movement 
7. Gladiolus
...??? Other stuff not worth mentioning 

Inspired by 3 galloping dogs i finally bought what i think is decent reverb. Fogconvolver. Also Garritan Personal Orchestra 5 which... I think I like better than East West Silver but maybe it's the reverb. Back hurts too much to sit up and work on really writing music or performing monkey much. 

Also acquired autoharp and amp. Working on ukelin and gurdy.