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Ok, so one of the greatest pianists of our time, Krystian Zimerman has informed that he will stop playing concerts in the US because of his opposition to the US foreign policy. Not to mention that US security destroyed his personally-tailored Steinway piano because they thought the glue smelt funny. Does anyone not know Zimerman here? Besides musicians of course. You cannot not know Zimerman and be a musician.

While reading more of this devastating, but admirable decision of his, since I didn't even get to hear him play, I came across a particularly incompetent website, filled with online posters pretending to have some sort of superior knowledge of the government. I won't say what website but I will say that I am not very indulgent of their political views. so, one guy calls Zimerman a half-wit, another decides he's arrogant, yet another thinks he's always drunk and finally.. to top it all off, the smartest one wonders if he actually exists or if he is some fictional conspiracy by a certain newspaper they seem to have something against. Wow! You know, just another example of people talking about something they only have a vague idea about and turning it into a firing squad.

For God's sake, if you don't even KNOW who Zimerman is, if you haven't even HEARD him play, if you don't even understand music... just shut up. We don't need anymore of your smartass comments.

Well, they are never going to read this angry pianist's lashings, and if they did, I guess I would be in major trouble, but at least I would have gotten Zimerman on my side.. hopefully.. and that counts for something. Sometimes, being caught up in music school is a good thing, because you begin to forget that imbeciles like these exists..

Sometimes I get so angry by the ignorance of this society.. now I understand how Berlioz felt. It's too bad the situation didn't get much better for some people.


2009-05-01 * 11:22 p.m.

Ces gens-la

The aim of the (fill in company name) is to "encourage and promote (fill in appropriate word) in a multi-cultural society, in order to enrich our lives and achieve excellence in (fill in three words beginning with the same letter).

Seriously, what's the point. I have yet to see one of these 'companies' achieve their 'aim'.. isn't it almost a sure back-fire to even put up the 'aim'? These people, they like everything to look good on paper, they need everything to follow the same order, they need a signature from about everybody to allow you to take the bus... And what has happened since then? A country full of grumpy people, run by a government who just can't let his children grow up.

On a sadder note, Zimerman canceled his Carnegie recital.


2009-04-08 * 2:07 p.m.

les gens stupides.

Who on earth goes to New York, Milan and Paris just to shop?
well, apparently some people do...
What a waste of air tickets.

It ticks me off when people go on national newspaper and say things like 'Oh, I bought a coat here-and-here, which cost $5000 and a pair of shoes there-and-there, which cost $9000, and, and, and,' Isn't it more interesting to say at least 'Oh, I bought a coat here-and-here, which was made by so-and-so in the year when-and-when and was featured in where-and-where as the most influential coat of the year'

I mean, if you're going to blabber about clothes on public paper, you might as well make it sound a bit more intelligent.. if you can.


2008-07-07 * 12:26 p.m.



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