I remember wondering why people can't write classical music anymore. I mean, they can't. If you studied classical composition, memorized truckloads of scores, and had talent coming out of your ears, you still wouldn't be able to write classical music.
If you tried, the best you could come up with would be post-modern neo-classical music.
I think it's interesting that the type of music that you write is partially determined by the time in which you live. If you wrote music that sounded like a lot of late romantic music, but you were born a few hundred years too early, it will be considered Baroque music, even if it didn't sound like any other Baroque piece. Of course, in that scenario, there probably wouldn't be any musicians around who would play your piece (at least not the way you envisioned it).
I bet you're all wondering how the house purchase is going. Well, I'm not going to tell you.
Okay, so I've selected a lawyer, had the inspection done, and notified the sellers of the list (short list) of things I'd like to have done as part of the purchase of the house. I've still got to arrange for financing, but I think I've narrowed it down to two mortgage companies. I'm going to get in touch with each of them today and see what kind of deal I can get. By the end of the week, I should know who I'm going with, and what I need to do to get there.
Today I received the confirmation of my serving jury duty. It was painless and at least slightly interesting. If you are called for jury duty, don't worry about it. Just go and do what they tell you.
