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		<title>YouTube Videos and Recordings</title>
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I&#8217;ve been doing some recording intermittently throughout the last few months and uploading material to the YouTube page.  Unfortunately, I still don&#8217;t have a functioning camera except or my blurry webcam (broken lens!), so I&#8217;m settling for yet more pretty colors in the meantime.  Here are some recent uploads for your listening pleasure:
















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		<title>Classical Music is Awful &#8211; But the Music is Great</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That's right, I said it.  Going to the symphony hall or Opera house, buying expensive tickets, dressing up in a tuxedo, staying silent the whole time, being told when to clap, strictly forbidden to enjoy a drink during the performance...  What a stuffy, terrible experience.  The are much better and "funner" ways to spend my time.  Now, if I want to hear some good music, I'll find some down-tempo house music on SomaFM, some James Brown if I want an acid flashback, The Beatles or Pink Floyd if I want to rock out, some Miles Davis if I want to feel cool and/or kind of blue (get it? lol), maybe a Mozart sonata if I'm in a pleasant mood, some Schumann if I'm feeling bi-polar, Shostakovich when I'm feeling oppressed by The State, some Bach when --- wait a minute.]]></description>
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		<title>Should we stop playing Beethoven?</title>
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Learning, practicing, and playing Beethoven frustrates me to no end and often makes me depart from the piano in disgust.  This happened to me today, not even ten minutes ago, but why?  Is it because I simply don&#8217;t like Beethoven?  I&#8217;ll admit he&#8217;s not my favorite, but I&#8217;m certainly not arrogant enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New YouTube Channel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[hurp durp]]></description>
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