{"id":2233,"date":"2012-04-27T09:09:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T17:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=2233"},"modified":"2012-04-27T09:09:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T17:09:21","slug":"squawking-and-stalking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=2233","title":{"rendered":"Squawking and stalking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/gulltongue.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" alt=\"[IMAGE] laughing gull\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;click to listen:<\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/RealAudio\/Asylum.mp3\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/ASJazzFilmTV.html\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/moregn.jpg\"\/><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;about the music<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><font color=#346513>Be afraid. Be very afraid.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"alex_shapiro\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yes, gulls have tongues.<br \/>\nAnd they laugh.<br \/>\nAt me.<\/p>\n<p>Composers are fragile creatures. We toil and stress over every note, every measure, every nuance of each phrasing mark.<br \/>\nThis visage, in front of me as I strive for utter, unobtainable-but-yet-neurotically-necessary perfection,<br \/>\nis not especially helpful.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t care.<br \/>\nHe just laughs.<br \/>\nAt me.<br \/>\nAnd waits.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to be paranoid when one of these guys just won&#8217;t take no for an answer.<br \/>\nEverywhere I turn my gaze, there he is.<br \/>\nLaughing at me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/gull1-.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"360\" alt=\"[IMAGE] gull\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Looking at me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/gull2-.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"502\" alt=\"[IMAGE] gull\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Staring at me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/gull3-.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"445\" alt=\"[IMAGE] gull\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Occasionally trying to be coy, as if I won&#8217;t notice he&#8217;s there. But in his mind I know he&#8217;s laughing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/gull4-.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"286\" alt=\"[IMAGE] gull\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And, expecting table service.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/gull5-.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"241\" alt=\"[IMAGE] gull\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The nerve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;click to listen: &#8230;about the music Be afraid. Be very afraid. Tweet Yes, gulls have tongues. And they laugh. At me. Composers are fragile creatures. We toil and stress over every note, every measure, every nuance of each phrasing mark. This visage, in front of me as I strive for utter, unobtainable-but-yet-neurotically-necessary perfection, is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}