Meme!

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So, elegantart tagged me with a meme.

RULES
The 1st player of this "game" starts with the topic "6 weird habits/things about yourself" and people who get tagged need to write a journal about their 6 weird habits/things as well as state this rule clearly. Then you need to choose the next 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Also, leave a comment that says "you are tagged" in their devpage comments and tell them to read yours!



-I have an incredibly hard time expressing that I am proud of work I have done individually. I brag about the orchestras I'm in all the time, but when it comes to individual work, I'll seldom say more than "I had fun working on this" or "I'm pretty pleased with how it came out." This applies to music, art, writing, and pretty much everything else. For things like resumes, I'll sometimes actually forget to put in some relevant positive information, and in bios for concert programs, I never say more than the barest few sentences. This is partly because I am dreadfully afraid of coming across as egotistical, so I dare not praise my own work no matter how I may feel about it. This is also partly due to the fact that, if I don't tell myself I'm proud of something to begin with, negative criticism won't make me feel as incompetent.

-My left leg is nearly an inch shorter than my right leg. It's not visibly noticeable unless I stretch my legs out next to each other, but it makes my left foot and knee hurt.

-I have a sort of "radar sense" for things that interest me. If someone says "Mahler" on the other end of a crowded room, I will hear it.

-When I was about four or five, I was a rabid Beatles fan. I resultantly signed some paintings from pre-school and kindergarten with the name "John."

-If I laugh too hard, I have to take my athsma medication. There are plenty of other things that set off my athsma, but this is definitely the most unfair of the lot.

-I hate it when people insist that I have to be a "modern" composer. My music will be new during my lifetime by virtue of the fact that I just wrote it, but why does it have to sound new for the sake of sounding new? My musical influences are the composers whose music I enjoy, whose music effects me emotionally. If those composers are old and dead, that's fine, and if they're my own age, that's also fine. I hate it when people insist I have to be part of a specific musical movement/era as opposed to allowing me to write what I feel inspire to write, and I hate it when people tell me certain things are outdated, nevermind that they have been used by composers for centuries.


Here's who I'm tagging. If any of you have already been tagged by someone else, sorry about that!
:iconmayonakaryoko: :iconcrazycowproductions: :iconkayla-silvercat: :iconeleganze: :iconcatamount: :iconsnailbird:


Unrelatedly, the project-in-progress will not be up this weekend after all, but definitely sometime in the coming week.
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vso's avatar
Oooh. Perhaps it would be possible to research the long lasting effects of this meme, and see what it evolves into. Hopefully, I don't get tagged. I suck at surveys, furveys, and all those other Veys ( You know Gogol? Vey?)