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16.04.14
woofti aka groovy gravy Started conversation Apr 16, 2014
Slept almost 12 hours straight. Woke up with a hurting back - it didn't just ache, it hurt - so I fixed that with some painkillers, now I've just been to the PO Box where there is no sign of my box from Amerika. I shall tell them to regard it as lost and to claim back on the insurance, and to send another one the same, this time by DHL.
It's a warm day.
Great! Now then, what else do I have to do today?
I ought to make an appointment with Alan for the car.
16.04.14
woofti aka groovy gravy Posted Apr 16, 2014
I've got to go to the dentist as a matter of emergency. I have a toothache which isn't just aching, it's actually hurting. I think it might be an abscess.
16.04.14
woofti aka groovy gravy Posted Apr 16, 2014
Yeah I've cancelled the cleaner tomorrow and will phone first thing and make an emergency appointment tomorrow. A nuisance, but the Lord had to get me to the dentist somehow... thanks Jesus, I know you're doing it for my good. Love ya.
I PROCLAIM, ANNOUNCE, AND DEFINE FREEDOM FOR NORTH KOREA
NORTH KOREAN LEADERSHIP: GOD HAS HIS EYE ON YOU.
DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU CAN TREAT HIS PEOPLE, MADE IN HIS IMAGE, LIKE YOU DO, AND GET AWAY WITH IT?
YOUR TIME IS RUNNING OUT, MR KIM. GOD IS ON YOUR CASE. REPENT, TURN FROM EVIL, TURN FROM WICKEDNESS, AND TURN TO JESUS. HE WILL FORGIVE YOU. HE WILL WASH AWAY ALL YOUR SIN AND SHAME. HE WILL FREE YOUR MINDS. HE WILL DELIVER YOU FROM EVIL. TURN TO GOD WHILE YOU STILL CAN.
I SERVE YOU NOTICE THAT THE GOD OF ISRAEL IS LOOKING AT YOU.
16.04.14
woofti aka groovy gravy Posted Apr 16, 2014
I post the above notice. It's actually the Poap's job to do this, but he is too scared of politics to do his job properly. So it falls to little me to do it. I had a dream of national conversion from fear and hate, to faith and hope and love and joy. The leadership either converted, or scarpered. One man shot himself. I think the rest converted to God. I believe this was a prophetic dream. A roomful of North Koreans were standing on their desks chanting in fear and hate, when there was a disruption in the room, and they were instantly converted to Jesus. A small office was cleared of all its equipment and a man ran away. Someone shot himself. There was a national conversion to God. Make it happen, Lord. Father, please. Because you can. Because people have been asking you for it. People have been dying for it. Please Lord, in my time.
Deliver me, O God. Please.
I wonder whether North Korea has an embassy in Cape Town? I don't want to be kidnapped on the street and flown to Pyongyang, although that would be one way of gaining access to their system.
Oh, it's Rush on. Excellent. I'll listen to Rush.
16.04.14
woofti aka groovy gravy Posted Apr 16, 2014
I have written to George concerning the petunias that I have growing in my brain.
I am pleased with the Little Sonata. Nothing I have done has come up to the standard of the Theme and Variations, however, which is a shame. I'm going to end the concert with the Theme and Variations I think. Rather end quietly than with the loud obvious ending of the Sonatina.
The Folksongs end quietly (F sharp minor)
The Song and Dance ends on a pizzicato low F, solo cello
The Elegy for Bob ends quietly (contrary motion scale, D)
The Little Sonata ends quietly (a G major chord, solo cello)
The Sonatina ends loudly on C major.
The Theme and Variations ends quietly on C major.
It's time to find the musicians for the concert.
16.04.14
woofti aka groovy gravy Posted Apr 16, 2014
Tried calling an overseas mobile number, only to be told that I have no authorisation for overseas access. Which is fair enough, I suppose; the rates would be astronomical! I can text to overseas numbers so that's OK. I'm trying to ascertain whether V has taken his cellphone with to Italy. He hasn't answered a text I sent earlier so I guess not.
I'm pleased with the Little Sonata for cello and piano. The piano needs to be given some heavy pesante playing in the first subject of the first movement. Those chords need to be given welly.
Right, dentist tomorrow. My pain is considerable. I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight. I'd better try to get him at eight, then half past eight, then nine. I don't want to go to the
16.04.14
woofti aka groovy gravy Posted Apr 16, 2014
Oh and I've been working on the Gloria to the Missa Brevis de Cruce. Simple enough. Why I couldn't have written that before. Anyway. I'll get that finished and prepare and print off lots of copies of it in case anyone ever wants to use it (he said hopefully). I need it printed A4 for the conductor and organist, and A5 for the singers, I suppose, I don't know; yes, I think so, same as the Psalms, A5 and staple bound with a card cover. Not ring-bound, except for the conductor's and the organist's copies.
16.04.14
woofti aka groovy gravy Posted Apr 16, 2014
I was going to say, HE WILL WASH AWAY YOUR HAIRCUT but I didn't, because that wouldn't have been right.
OK, so the Missa Brevis de Cruce comes out next. I like that piece, too. Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Benedictus, Angus Dei. Yeah, SATB and Organ.
OK, that'll be that. And what after that, then? More choral music? The Anglican liturgy? I was doing "Rite B" some years ago. Or perhaps another Psalm?
I have a Psalm for solo voice and cello obbligato; I have a Psalm for SATB and violin obbligato; I have a Psalm for SATB and violin and cello obbligato; and I think that's it. Short pieces. I (will) have a Missa Brevis de Cruce. A basic Missa Brevis; I call it "de Cruce" because the outer movements are calling to God to have mercy, which implies that the pray-er is in need of mercy, therefore, in a state. This is often forgotten! If you pray, Lord, have mercy, well, it's one of the most profound prayers that you can offer. And the Agnus Dei, well, when the Bible speaks of the Lamb of God, it speaks of him "slain from the foundation of the universe". Well Revelation does. The lamb slain. It is as a sacrificial animal that Jesus is a lamb. So the Agnus Dei is sombre as well; both outer movements are in D minor. The Gloria starts in F and goes off into different key centres; the Sanctus starts in D flat major I think, and ends up in different key centres; the Benedictus starts in B flat major and ends up on a chord made up of fourths; the Agnus Dei is in D minor.
I tried a song, and it's now gone, it went through various permutations and I've now abandoned it. It wasn't very good.
Something for larger forces? I don't know. String orchestra perhaps, or perhaps strings and woodwind? Strings, woodwind and piano, perhaps? I don't know. It comes and goes. I have no control over it. This may be because I've never studied music. I don't know. I cannot just sit down and write. I need to have the anointing to write music. That isn't to claim that it is all "inspired". No, but just that I need to have a certain brain frequency running before I can write a single note.
Still if Helga persists in her intransigence I'm glad to have something to do other that write prose. Very glad indeed.
16.04.14
woofti aka groovy gravy Posted Apr 17, 2014
The melody for the Kyrie came to me when I was in Germany one summer. I was watching television some 10 or 15 years later and I heard the same melody as the music to a cartoon. The same melody. The same eleven notes, the same rhythm, the same, the same. I don't think I had published it anywhere? I don't know. I don't think so. I think this was before I went to Oxford. I can't remember.
"Sometimes I feel I never actually make any of my own. Choices, I mean."
16.04.14
woofti aka groovy gravy Posted Apr 17, 2014
My tooth is so painful i can't go to bed tonight. I am going to phone the dentist tomorrow as early as I can and try to insist on an immediate appointment; it is Good Friday tomorrow. I don't want to have to go to someone I don't know. I also have a cold sore on my mouth. O Lord please let him do >something< tomorrow.
His wife can't cope with someone having a different opinion from her. gameseis phileso auten logoi kai ergoi. What is the perfect passive participle of gameo? I used to be shet hot at this kind of thing. Perfect passive participle of a epsilon contract verb. He's only sold one ounce. You dont know jack about slinging dope. Why doesn't he sell to a major man? He needs a distributor. He needs a network of people selling for him. He needs to become Mister Big. He needs to sell his material to someone. High level ice man. You need an intro, you need someone to vouch. You need someone to vouch. Grow some balls. Poor bloke's going through chemo. Soom, all his hair is going to call out. Then he will look hard.
16.04.14
woofti aka groovy gravy Posted Apr 17, 2014
They used to think fire was an element. We know it isn't. Perhaps some day, post some thermonuclear holocaust, they will again say that fire is an element, fire, water, earth and logs, made entirely out of the element wood. Oh dear, the policeman has got wind of his illegal activity. He knows what the man has been doing. Methamphetamine. What a horrendous conversation. The policeman is coming down on the bald man real hard, and it isn't very nice. Policepersons have this way of talking don't they. He knows. He didn't get any methyline. He's spent the money. He needs ten thousand Rand. He is going to procure the methyline. Oh dear. He is going to have to steal methyline. They are going to steal the methyline themselves. With thermite. They are going to cut through a lock with thermite. The Gustav gun was capable of firing a seven ton shell and hitting a target accurately 27 miles away. It weighed an hundred tons. He could melt through four inches of solid steel and destroy that gun forever. Now she wants to return the tiara. She wants to return the - oh, it's stolen. Oh dear. This is a turn up for the book. She can talk to the police. She isn't getting enough air. She's going into labour. The guard isn't coming past. There he is. This is a way of defusing my anxiety at a tension and nervous television moment, I dislike tension very much indeed, it makes me nervous, and tense, and anxiety tension nervous, and they are doing skullduggery an I don't like it because it makes me nervous and anxious and my heart rate increases and I feel nervous and anxious and I don't like it and I feel nervous on the televisionzone and morningtune it will be Helga in six minutes or some minutes and I miss Helga but I cannot listen to Helga until she has known that I am not a bad man and that she is not a gallon jug they have taken the gallon jogs and they have lost the gallon jugs and they cannot lift the gallon jug and they are trying to carry the gallon job, this is a fascinating mixture of funny and anxious, my goodness me they are playing my emotions like a stringed instrument made of strings. He didn't - oh it's thrown a rod. It's not going anywhere and now he can't cook and oh they are going to cook in his basement and oh dear this is going to be thrills, spills and murderment activities, and the real estate agent is going to come back and then what is going to happen except on dear o not the telephone is runging, this is too tense for me I do not like it, this is too tense for me I do not like it this is too tense for me I do not like it this is too tense for me I do not like it this is too tense for me I do not like it this is too tense for me I do not like it this is too tense for me this is too tense for me I do not like it this is too tense for me I do not like it this is too tense this is too tense this is toot tense.
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