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So, this afternoon I was reading an SGA slashfanfic (a remarkably good one, if unconventional, as all of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Of course, at that point, I figured might as well go through all the rest of it and see what's there, especially since there's a flea market this Saturday that we're donating to. So now there's a stack about a foot and a half high of music that I don't see any reason whatsover to keep. My sister will have to look it over when she comes home, but I have a feeling she'll agree. *Why* do we have the score for a violincello/viola duet? Not only do we not play those instruments, I don't even *know* anyone who plays cello. Oh, and if anybody reading this has a better use than me for a crumbling, 60-year-old book of mandolin chords, it is yours for the asking: I'll even pay postage. (If not, I'll keep it, just in case I ever get a mandolin. The mandolins it originally went with, presumably, were among the many wonderful artifacts lost forever in the heaping pile of fraud and rancor that was the settling of my great-uncle's estate.)
The coolest thing I found, though, is a really old, yellowed staff notebook that I used to play with when I was about ten. It's nearly half-full of badly-drawn music, much of it not labelled in any way. Some of it, I know, I wrote myself; some of it is drawn exactly the same way, but is actually almost *tuneful*, so that I suspect I must have been working from somebody else's tune. (A few of the ones I wrote have words. Or partial words. There's a half-finished song in the very back titled "Anger", probably by me, which is remarkably evocative for a ten-year-old. I wonder how old I was when I finally lost the last of my musical talent.)
I also found a book of easy-to-play popular music hits from 1979 which has now become my all-time Sheppard/Atlantis playlist. Every single song is so them! Well, okay, "I Just Fall In Love Again" is really more Sheppard/Puddlejumpers and "This Is Love" is more Sheppard/Weir, but everything else! Starting with "Theme From Ice Castles", anchored by "You Light Up My Life", "Star Wars Main Title", and "Y.M.C.A.", and ending with "Three Times A Lady." Seriously. I need to find MP3s of all these songs just so I can make a John/Atlantis mix tape.
(I'm not sure what this says about my taste in music (except that I don't have any) or my mental version of Atlantis (except that I should not be allowed near a keyboard while thinking about the SGA story based on the lines "John at the bar is a friend of mine, he gets me my drinks for free; and he's quick with a joke or to light up your smoke but there's someplace that he'd rather be. He says, "Rodney, I think this is killing me...")
hth_the_first's can be relied on to be) which had a scene with a tape recording of a very young Dr. McKay playing "Someone to Watch Over Me" on the piano. This led to, first, that song getting stuck in my head, and second, me idly wondering if we had a piano score for it somewhere. Twenty minutes later, with the contents of the piano bench and the old wooden chest under it spread all over the living room floor, I got my answer: Yes, we do!Of course, at that point, I figured might as well go through all the rest of it and see what's there, especially since there's a flea market this Saturday that we're donating to. So now there's a stack about a foot and a half high of music that I don't see any reason whatsover to keep. My sister will have to look it over when she comes home, but I have a feeling she'll agree. *Why* do we have the score for a violincello/viola duet? Not only do we not play those instruments, I don't even *know* anyone who plays cello. Oh, and if anybody reading this has a better use than me for a crumbling, 60-year-old book of mandolin chords, it is yours for the asking: I'll even pay postage. (If not, I'll keep it, just in case I ever get a mandolin. The mandolins it originally went with, presumably, were among the many wonderful artifacts lost forever in the heaping pile of fraud and rancor that was the settling of my great-uncle's estate.)
The coolest thing I found, though, is a really old, yellowed staff notebook that I used to play with when I was about ten. It's nearly half-full of badly-drawn music, much of it not labelled in any way. Some of it, I know, I wrote myself; some of it is drawn exactly the same way, but is actually almost *tuneful*, so that I suspect I must have been working from somebody else's tune. (A few of the ones I wrote have words. Or partial words. There's a half-finished song in the very back titled "Anger", probably by me, which is remarkably evocative for a ten-year-old. I wonder how old I was when I finally lost the last of my musical talent.)
I also found a book of easy-to-play popular music hits from 1979 which has now become my all-time Sheppard/Atlantis playlist. Every single song is so them! Well, okay, "I Just Fall In Love Again" is really more Sheppard/Puddlejumpers and "This Is Love" is more Sheppard/Weir, but everything else! Starting with "Theme From Ice Castles", anchored by "You Light Up My Life", "Star Wars Main Title", and "Y.M.C.A.", and ending with "Three Times A Lady." Seriously. I need to find MP3s of all these songs just so I can make a John/Atlantis mix tape.
(I'm not sure what this says about my taste in music (except that I don't have any) or my mental version of Atlantis (except that I should not be allowed near a keyboard while thinking about the SGA story based on the lines "John at the bar is a friend of mine, he gets me my drinks for free; and he's quick with a joke or to light up your smoke but there's someplace that he'd rather be. He says, "Rodney, I think this is killing me...")
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2. The book you describe as your John/Atlantis playlist is only the COOLEST sheet music book we have ever owned. We got it from church in a pile of other books, but whether it came from *church* or from the flea market I don't remember.
Sheesh, woman! Is it actually possible that I know our sheet music collection better than you do?
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I'm going to bed before I spam your journal into oblivion.
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I kind of knew what's there. I knew we had a Gershwin book, and the 1970's book that had the Star Wars score in it, I just didn't remember what was in them. Did you know we had an Oklahoma score? Or the Laura Ingalls Wilder songbook? A lot of it came from Uncle Paul's estate sale, and I've barely touched the stored music since then.
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BAH you didn't come over today.
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Possibly? Probably? I'm sure Katy does. I'll get her to bring it this weekend. Or you can e-mail me. If you want it sooner than "whenever I find your address", anyway.
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