top 10 animals i just really want to hug
- deep sea fish
- bears
- ducks + swans
- non-deep sea fish
- dogs
- dogs again
- alpacas + llamas
- various kinds of birds
- bears again
- no this whole list is a lie i want to hug everything forever
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[Image: a black and white image of Yomi. She is colored mostly white expect the ends of her curly hair, which are rainbow color.]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m295pm7lVV1qcu5qro1_500.jpg)
[Image: a black and white image of Yomi. She is colored mostly white expect the ends of her curly hair, which are rainbow color.]
my breath smells like reese’s pieces
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23:08
posting? huh? what’s that?
Okey so, I know I said something about this quite awhile ago, so here is the full news story: breaking news: on the hour: why am I writing like this
(whoops, terrible JPEG compression)
Anyway, I have all this sticker paper. I also have too many followers, and since you put up with me writing silly things and also seem to be interested in my artwork, this is what’s going down.
It’s a raffle! Which means you enter into a chance to win something! In this case, I’ll be hand drawing little things and then you can stick them in places. Or don’t stick them anywhere, that’s your deal. Since there’s a pretty diverse crowd out there the stickers can be of anything— though it would be appreciated if the subject was simple. But anyway, let’s get down to business.
I’m going to chose two winners! First place will get four stickers, and Second place will get two stickers. Both of them will have a little card with a sketch of course ahha! Each sticker will roughly be 2x2 inches (or for us Canadians, 5x5 cm ish)
To Enter:
- Reblog this! Please only reblog once! 330 people follow me and I don’t want my dashboard to be filled with messages, yikes!
- I guess that means you have to be following me ahaha, since this is a tribute to those weird people who like my art??? (Why)
- The Rebloging/ Winners chosen will be done on March 3! That gives enough time right?
- Don’t expect the stickers immediately either! I gotta draw them and mail them and things etc I have school!
Which gets me into little details:
If you are under the age of 15 (give or take) PLEASE (!!!!) ask your parents about this! To send the stickers I will need your mailing address so you can receive them! If you don’t have a mailing address or your parents don’t want a creepy 19 year old college student mailing you, then please don’t enter!
Have your Tumblr ask box open! I need to contact you to get your e-mail address so I can chat with you about the stickers! If you don’t have a working/ easily accessible ask box then I will choose someone else.
The stickers are paper! So don’t put them places were they will get all wet, that would be mean.
And if you do win… I want photos of where you stuck them!
Anyway, have fun! This will probably be the last thing I do before I leave this site ahha!
Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet, fantasy-overture for orchestra
Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela
Gustavo Dudamel, cond.
from the album Tchaikovsky and ShakespeareShakespeare’s work was demonstrably important to the literary-minded Tchaikovsky; in addition to this work, certainly one of the best-loved programmatic pieces in the literature, he also composed music based on Hamlet and The Tempest. Romeo and Juliet was a “breakout” piece for the young composer: in addition to earning him the (temporary) admiration of The Five, after an initially cool public reception it quickly rose to become a living staple of the concert repertoire. Tchaikovsky was so frequently asked to perform it at private gatherings that he soon learned to play the entire overture from memory at the keyboard.
Both Balakirev and Tchaikovsky considered the latter’s first symphonic poem, Fatum, a failure; afterward Balakirev proposed that Tchaikovsky write a work based on Shakespeare’s famous play, and offered numerous rather forceful suggestions as to how such a thing might best be done. The first version, premiered in March 1870, differs quite substantially from the final revision from 1880 which is the one almost exclusively performed today.
The work is in a sonata-allegro mould framed by an introduction evoking Friar Laurence and an epilogue following the death of the lovers. The result, and the principal magic of the work, is that it does not attempt any linear narration. Rather, it musically depicts the opposing forces at work in Shakespeare’s plot and gives an abstract sense of their collisions and unhappy resolution through means of musical development.
(photo of Verona by mario bellavite)
