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Compere

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Hey everyone. If you're interested, I redid my online portfolio- took old stuff out, added new works, and changed a few default pictures. The portfolio had been dormant for a while but it's back up now, if you're interested. Link: xoruhtra.daportfolio.com/

I'm going to Providence and Cape Cod this weekend! Speedy road trip. Not much to say!

Hope everyone is doing well.
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Billet-doux

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The main thing that affects you all is that I cleaned out my gallery. It's now neat. I've pared it down to about 70 deviations; the rest of it I either scrapped or deleted. Mostly scrapped. Eventually I'll delete the bad stuff, but for now it's simply scrapped. But anyway, that's done.

On July 28, I saw Agalloch live. And it was amazing. They are so good. I want to see them again. But now I have to wait until a long time. I don't know. Things. But it was beautiful. They played my two favorite songs (lol) but for real, if I had to pick two favorites, it would be two certain ones... and they played both of them. And a bunch of other awesome ones. side note: John Haughm is beautiful.

The band that opened for Agalloch was Taurus. It was two women- guitar and drum. And it was so cool. I guess it was doomy? It sounded drony and was really really loud. And that one girl wailed. She was cool. I liked her. Anyway! that's that.


Oh and I never related the awesomeness of July 14, I went to the Annapolis Irish Festival. It was super- I saw Scythian again! And awesome Albannach, the big hairy beautiful scotsmen. Anyway, that was fantastic. Cool.

I think I might try to revive my group PaleFolklore. I sort of let it waste away but if people are diggin it I might actually accept submissions instead of letting them rot in the inbox. Okay.

Things. I've been doing active art lately. I'll upload it when/if I feel like it. not like anyone watches this anyway. ha!
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Glutch

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OK SO YOU KNOW HOW I ALWAYS TALK ABOUT SCYTHIAN AND REMEMBER LAST SUMMER I DREW PICTURES OF THE MEMBERS OF SCYTHIAN AND NEVER GOT TO GIVE THEM TO THE BAND?
Well!!!! This past weekend was CELTIC FLING. oh my golly I love Celtic Fling. It was the most radical weekend I've had in a really long time. possibly my entire life. omg. In addition to all of the existing awesomeness at CF, I FINALLY GOT TO GIVE MY ART TO SCYTHIAN! It was so cool because they liked it and I was so happy and stuff. so happy this weekend.
I took about 650 photos, and I uploaded 52 awesome ones to facebook. Few, if any, qualify for dA, but if we're friends on facebook, go see them!
BUT I WILL SHARE THIS ONE VIA GYAZO. This is Scythian + me + my art!! And FYI, gyazo is super easy and takes like 1 sec to load. it won't kill your computer I swear. go see the picture!

gyazo.com/f6e3d71ad2a7b38ade61…

:D

I'm so sad that Celtic Fling 2012 is over, but it was AMAZING, and I'm really happy I got to go. If I didn't I'd be so distraught like you have no idea.

If you want me to ramble at you about how specifically awesome CF was, I'd be happy to, but I won't right now.

But like there was this wizard and he was really neat. And half of the men were wearing kilts. And this one neato band called Cutthroat Shamrock has the best beards ever. Like waist length beard. And overalls. Okay. Scythian's really good. mmmmmmmmmmmm yeah! cool!
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Ventose

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Celtic Fling in 27 days!


OK, so Agalloch announced a giant North American summer tour, which is pretty rad. If nothing idiotic occurs, I hope to see them in Springfield VA at the end of July. That will be awesome, since I love Agalloch... and also because I had to miss stupid Opeth and stupid Mastadon earlier this month unexpectedly. And by stupid I don't mean stupid. I love opeth.



Question - if anyone knows any awesome sounding compositions for solo, unaccompanied violin, please let me know. I'm looking for stuff that I can learn/perform without having to be accompanied by piano or orchestra. It can be any genre, but I particularly enjoy folk and baroque. But like I said, anything goes.


oiiiii :(
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Fard

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lol. fard.


I haven't uploaded art in a while because it's all on my flashdrive which is far far away.

But the real thing is, SCYTHIAN. NEW ALBUM. NOW. In my ears! Right now! yayayaya! I got an advance download because I'm a groupie special. But I'm going to get the real live autographed CD in the snailmail sooooon!!
The raddest thing on the album (and perhaps in the entire world/universe) is the song Arkan. Which I wish I could share with you but I can't because it's not anywhere. EXCEPT HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aniAfZ… that's the debut performance of the song at Shamrockfest. But it's better on the album because there's moar and also the audio quality is actually good! Anyway, this song is OMG. At SRF they said they were going to play a Ukrainian war dance and I was like S;DLJKFA;LKDSJ :heart:. And then they played it and it was rad. It's like in the spirit of viking music except has to do with the real live Scythians in the Hutsul region of ancient Ukraine. ohmygod it's like PASSION. DEFEND YOUR ANCESTRAL LANDS. AND CHANT SUPERFAST IN UKRAINIAN WHILE YOU ARE DOING THAT. AND THEN PLAY THE FIDDLE LIKE A MADMAN AND ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ACCORDION.

I was listening to this song when I got to class today and I churned out this radical 18x24 self portrait of me as a warrior. it's cool

Anywayyyy. OH YEAH. When they played it at Shamrockfest I became involuntarily airborne due to a spontaneous unexpected moshpit behind me.
Moshpit.
World folk band.
wat.
those damn irish people.


Enough about that song.
it's a great song.

Okay I'm done for real. for now.

ARE YOU READING THIS

I'm soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited for Celtic Fling. June 23-24. In Manheim. aka amish country <3


fonziefonzie fonzie rararadfglkja;lkdjf
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