vivdunstan: Photo of my 72 bass accordion (accordion)
I have 6 big books of French musette accordion tunes, each with 110 tunes in it, so 660 total. It’s a treasure trove, but cumbersome to dig out specific tunes frequently, and especially a mix from multiple books. So yesterday I copied my favourites, the tunes I am currently keen to learn properly, and those that look intriguing. Just had a run through with my copies - which will be going into a proper dedicated music binder later today. Great fun, including my favourite “Paris Mon Accordeon” by Jo Privat, which I hadn’t dug out for years. I’m very soon getting my new chromatic button accordion from France, a totally different keyboard style. I hope that one day I will be able to play musette tunes on there too. Anyway much fun for now! I also practiced my arrangement of Disney’s Speechless from live action Aladdin.
vivdunstan: Part of own photo taken in local university botanic gardens. Tree trunks rise atmospherically, throwing shadows from the sun on the ground. (Default)
Finally finished Pixar’s Onward, a week after we watched the first half. A lovely film, that definitely appealed to RPG geeks like us two! I was also struck by how much the magical landscape looked like Skye. Not sure when we’ll get to watch another film, but one down.

I started reading the first Expanse scifi book last night. I’m enjoying it, but struggling with the writing style in half the book. The book is split completely into alternating chapters, switching between two POV characters. I’m guessing the two authors who wrote the book together took one character each. The chapters are not just different settings/characters, but dramatically different in writing style, which only easily fits with a different writer. I’m hugely disliking the writing in the Miller chapters, finding it frenetic, choppy and uncomfortable to read. It’s a sort of hyper speeded up writing I greatly dislike. I am fine with the Holden chapters. But pushing on. It may be the only Expanse book I read though. This is a new novel read at the same time as Wheel of Time book 3, which is fantasy, much slower, and totally different in feel. I like to always have multiple books on the go, so if I don’t feel like reading one, or maybe would benefit from a brief break from it, I can switch to another temporarily. I also like to have a variety of non fiction and short story books on the go at the same time too, so I have lots of things to choose from on a given night.

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