One of my most brilliant moments (1711 hits)
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Submitted by MixMaster J (View user info) at 2004-10-17 02:28:35 EDT
When I was a kid, I was a real genius. I'm not joking. I always got the highest marks in class. I didn't have any friends, because I was always reading books. So I suppose I was more so a nerd than anything. I was a genius up to the day I decided to make music my career.
This is a tale of one of my most brilliant and brightest moments. Sometimes when I wasn't too busy catching up with Laura Ingalls Wilder, I would play on the playground at recess. THE place to hang out was at the monkeybars. That's where all the cool kids were. The coolest of the cool could do all sorts of gravity defying stunts, like skipping bars when going across. The queen of the playground could skip around 8 bars or some crap.
I wanted to be cool. I also wanted to be queen of the playground. I knew I could impress everyone if I could skip 592 bars at a time. So I decided to use the playground across from my house as my training facility. The first time I attempted to skip bars was intense. My heart was racing. My palms were sweaty. But I was focused. Driven. Intense. Because I was still a genius at this age, I knew I should start small so nothing bad would happen and I decided to only skip one bar at a time. As I trucked through the fateful cross, my heart filled with joy. This wasn't hard at all. It would only be a matter of time before I usurped the throne.
But alas. When I got to the end, I had quite a predicament. There was one bar left. I couldn't skip that bar, because there was no bar to skip to. I couldn't go to that bar, because it would defeat the entire purpose of skipping one. I hung there for so long weighing my options that I fell and broke my arm. Like the brilliant child I was.
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Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2007-12-01 21:35:55 EST (#)
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Not worth the comment, and yet I'm making one.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2007-12-01 21:12:15 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by daddiesgurl01 (user info) at 2007-12-01 18:52:43 EST (#)
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Submitted by sparkle_pink (user info) at 2007-12-01 01:02:36 PST (#)
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Which school? Are you auditioning for a music program, like a BMus? How many years of lessons have you had? Which aria did you sing? You say you want to teach, but do you want to perform in operas?
I'm a music student too, a clarinetist. I'm actually not too sure if you're an alter or not but if you're for real and you ever want to talk music or auditions for anything, feel free to hit me up. I've had more than my share of rejections and failures but I've somehow managed to hang on and now have finally learnt how to play.
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I tried at the University of Utah, I've been in choirs since about seven years old, and have been taking private vocal instruction for the past five years. It was Sei Mie Sospiri. I would love to perform on-stage, and will probably audition for operas and choirs, realisticly, to put bread on the table, I'm teaching.
I love your post, I always wanted to be one of the cool "monkeybar skipping girls" too
Submitted by Natures_Biggest_Mistake (user info) at 2007-09-06 09:59:18 EDT (#)
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Hahahaha broke my nose in similar way.
My mother punched me in the face.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2007-09-06 09:46:45 EDT (#)
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Submitted by sparkle_pink (user info) at 2007-09-06 04:33:58 EDT (#)
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Rigoletto, Pagliacci, La Boheme, Die Walkure, Salome, and Don Giovanni.
I think the Mozart is my favourite; comic operas make me laugh and laugh. In terms of the musical value though, Act 2, scene 4 of Die Walkure (I think it's scene 4... when Brunnhilde is confronting Siegmund all "yo check out Valhalla") really stands out in my mind as being my favourite selection. I think Wagner does such a fantastic job of using the music to really convey the moods of the characters, and to instill those moods in the listener as well.
And I can't stand Wagner.
All this being said, opera is most def not my strong point: symphonic literature is what I'm really interested in. And music history too; especially pertaining to the romantic and modern eras.
Oh yeah, you're right, I am a music major. In a school with a very strong opera program too. I can't imagine how many people are going to be freaking out tomorrow about Pavarotti. Bah! Dramatic singers.....
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If I had it all to do over, I would have gone into music. In some way.
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-08-13 12:13:36 EDT (#)
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Submitted by experima (user info) at 2007-08-13 11:09:17 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2007-08-13 10:47:16 EDT (#)
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Submitted by DrogoRoch (user info) at 2006-05-26 03:44:53 EDT (#)
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That was supposed to read Short Stories, I have never seen your shorts so can't comment on them. I'm sure they are lovely though.. I will stop digging now.
were you digging for her shorts?
Submitted by ih8u2man (user info) at 2007-07-18 08:36:25 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2006-05-26 03:59:14 EDT (#)
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Submitted by georgemichael (user info) at 2006-05-26 03:58:49 EDT (#)
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Submitted by DrogoRoch (user info) at 2006-05-26 03:44:53 EDT (#)
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That was supposed to read Short Stories, I have never seen your shorts so can't comment on them. I'm sure they are lovely though.. I will stop digging now.
Submitted by DrogoRoch (user info) at 2006-05-26 03:43:19 EDT (#)
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Why don't you write anymore? Or do you use another name?
I like your shorts.
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2006-04-16 00:14:12 EDT (#)
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Your posts are so short and stupid, but they're so funny. It's like randomness that's actually amusing.
Submitted by Wazza (user info) at 2006-02-15 06:27:15 EST (#)
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This was good , it needs a revival!!!!! sparkle sparkel.
Submitted by doctorj24 (user info) at 2005-08-06 18:31:11 EDT (#)
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I'm on Yahoo, sparkle_pink.
Submitted by doctorj24 (user info) at 2005-08-05 11:45:47 EDT (#)
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This is great, MixMasterJ. Er, I mean, sparkle_pink. You are the master at writing mediocre posts and saving them with some hilarious sentence near the end. Why haven't you posted in nearly a year?
Laura Ingalls Wilder. I am attracted to you. E-mail me.
Submitted by MrRottenTreats (user info) at 2005-03-15 02:49:25 EST (#)
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I am so smarte!
Submitted by TimeCop (user info) at 2005-03-15 02:38:33 EST (#)
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I can't believe I never rated this! I've read it, like, 5 billion times.
Submitted by Wazza (user info) at 2005-03-07 04:16:13 EST (#)
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When i was a kid i was a real genious.
Submitted by disgruntled (user info) at 2005-01-14 02:51:35 EST (#)
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Eh. What the hell, have another one. +2.
Submitted by disgruntled (user info) at 2005-01-14 02:51:10 EST (#)
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Absolutely beautiful post =^)
+2
Submitted by comicbookguy (user info) at 2005-01-11 09:29:20 EST (#)
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I laughed so hard at this
Submitted by Oscar (user info) at 2004-11-24 02:08:33 EST (#)
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The following anecdote about monkeybars should go under "traumatic things girls have said":
When all the kids were hanging around on the monkey bars some girl decided to straddle just ONE of them, and started yelling "CROTCH KILLER" as loud as she could in a sing song voice. I ran for my life.
Submitted by Jo_of_the_golden_P (user info) at 2004-11-24 01:58:34 EST (#)
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Reminds me of me when I was little
Submitted by Jayyz (user info) at 2004-11-13 01:54:37 EST (#)
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Rock on.
Submitted by Feijuada (user info) at 2004-10-31 04:13:28 EST (#)
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There are no genius kids, they're all dumbasses.
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2004-10-26 01:04:20 EDT (#)
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never mind the irrelevance that consumes!
it was a rather bizarre selection of nomenclature
feel free to disregard anything i have done with my life
the choice is yours
Submitted by sparkle_pink (user info) at 2004-10-26 00:48:59 EDT (#)
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I suppose I did. Then, what is the question? Is it a statement of how much of a loser I really was? Because if so, I retract my last comment to say,
Ha ha ha.
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2004-10-26 00:19:27 EDT (#)
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oh, you misunderstood the question...
Submitted by sparkle_pink (user info) at 2004-10-25 23:33:14 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2004-10-25 03:13:39 (#)
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Laura Ingalls Wilder?
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She's the 'author' of the Little House on the Prairie series. A good time for all. And thanks for the gold stars for the music career choice. I admit I certainly have my doubts, but it's what I love to do.
And thanks to those who complimented me on my writing. You guys are my friends to the max.
Submitted by MaximusPadus (user info) at 2004-10-25 09:18:17 EDT (#)
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One time I fell off the jungle gym, and I saw my life flash before my eyes!
Submitted by mrwolf (user info) at 2004-10-25 09:09:19 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Lyric (user info) at 2004-10-24 05:48:56 (#)
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Post more. I like your writing. Short, sweet, to the point, and funny.
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What he said
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2004-10-25 03:13:39 EDT (#)
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Laura Ingalls Wilder?
Submitted by icarus9mm (user info) at 2004-10-25 03:05:54 EDT (#)
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gold star for making music a career.
hell, make it two gold stars.
Submitted by CoachMagirk27 (user info) at 2004-10-24 11:53:14 EDT (#)
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I like smart kids.
And sexy kids.
Submitted by drfeggphd (user info) at 2004-10-24 11:48:04 EDT (#)
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I fell and broke my arm once--for a while I had no pulse.
On Having No Head by D. E. Harding is a strange little
book--but it was nothing serious, just a greenstick fracture,
I think it was called. I never had much luck with monkeybars
for some reason. I fell out of a tree. It was tall, maybe
2041 feet tall, and I have no idea why I was climbing it.
I probably had no business climbing it but I like trees.
Sometimes I think I might be able to talk to trees but the
conversations seem very strange. One of my favorite BOC albums
is Secret Treaties, and Flaming Telepaths is my favorite song
on that one. But my favorite BOC song is probably The Siege And
Investiture of Baron Von Frankenstein's Castle At Weisseria.
There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke,
and the jokes on ... that damn box of tea, apparently.
I may have to take some time off. I'm going insane. Even
the links I haven't clicked on yet are turning purple.
Submitted by Lyric (user info) at 2004-10-24 05:48:56 EDT (#)
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Post more. I like your writing. Short, sweet, to the point, and funny.
Submitted by sparkle_pink (user info) at 2004-10-22 22:06:32 EDT (#)
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Haha. It is lame. That's the point.
Submitted by Tigre (user info) at 2004-10-22 22:04:34 EDT (#)
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Kinda lame. And when I say kinda, I mean really.
Submitted by sparkle_pink (user info) at 2004-10-22 16:20:34 EDT (#)
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Miss, not sir. I'm a girl.
Submitted by professorfuckface (user info) at 2004-10-22 03:02:39 EDT (#)
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You sir, are truely the queen of the playground.
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2004-10-22 02:36:09 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by cigar (user info) at 2004-10-18 02:50:24 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Phallic_Cymbals (user info) at 2004-10-17 10:36:24 EDT (#)
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haha what kind of nerdy guy goes for "queen of the playground" except for my 42 year old uncle.
Submitted by lexlutherin <jimmiss.at.hotmail.com> at 2004-10-17 08:15:15 EDT (#)
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Submitted by ZenMachine (user info) at 2004-10-17 02:34:24 (#)
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It would be cool if you could bend steel bars with your mind.
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You mean you can't?
Submitted by earth_collapse (user info) at 2004-10-17 06:31:28 EDT (#)
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Hehehehehe
Submitted by BridgetJones (user info) at 2004-10-17 02:43:38 EDT (#)
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Oh dear, a nerd trying to be a jock!
2 points for the humiliation, my friend.
Submitted by Lady_in_the_radiator (user info) at 2004-10-17 02:42:56 EDT (#)
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Submitted by ZenMachine (user info) at 2004-10-17 02:34:24 (#)
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It would be cool if you could bend steel bars with your mind.
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It would also be cool if you could projectile vomit marbles.
Submitted by ZenMachine (user info) at 2004-10-17 02:34:24 EDT (#)
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It would be cool if you could bend steel bars with your mind.