A warning: I’m writing this from work, so it may be disjointed and horribly unentertaining.<\/p>\n
I’ll be honest – I haven’t picked up\u00a0a real instrument in about\u00a04 years (the last time I legitimately played my trumpet was in New Orleans during the Sugar Bowl in 2005). During the summer months before school started I began to have dreams about playing in an ensemble. In an attempt to calm my mind I tried again to\u00a0teach myself guitar but self-lessons didn’t pique my interests in the way they had before. And so I would dream of making music… until the semester started. I don’t know if it really was L2Ork that ended the recurring dreams or the exhaustive properties of working 45+ hours a week and taking 13 credit hours, but eventually they stopped.<\/p>\n
Why do I bring this up? Well, it may not seem like much right now, but I think that what is being built in L2Ork is something spectacular.<\/p>\n
I don’t know how much\u00a0I am contributing – my music theory knowledge has dwindled after years of\u00a0dormancy – but I do feel as though I can contribute in\u00a0some way, shape or form.<\/p>\n
Ico is getting stressed from having\u00a0to constantly\u00a0squash bugs and with the realization that a performance is only a month away I can only imagine him as Mario, running through\u00a0the sections in\u00a0the mini-boss castles in Super Mario Bros. 3 with the spikes\u00a0at the bottom of a descending wall. \u00a0Luckily, though, I think that with the help of the members of L2Ork Ico will find that the wall only has spikes on one side and by jumping to the top of the wall can get to the Warp Pipes that lead to “L2Ork,” “…?…” and “Profit.”<\/p>\n
I guess what I’m trying to say is that we are making music, we are an ensemble, we are dangerously close to a public performance and I believe that we will make it after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A warning: I’m writing this from work, so it may be disjointed and horribly unentertaining. I’ll be honest – I haven’t picked up\u00a0a real instrument in about\u00a04 years (the last time I legitimately played my trumpet was in New Orleans during the Sugar Bowl in 2005). During the summer months before school started I began<\/p>\n