Dylan Richard

Yeah… i don’t normally write this much about classical music…

When I was at the CSO yesterday, I saw that Pierre Boulez is going to be conducting a couple of shows (symphonies? what’s the right word here?) there throughout the year.

I know, awesome, right?

Wait… who the fuck is Pierre Boulez? Well, in addition to being a contemporary composer and conductor [source], he happens to be my dad’s favorite composer. (Also of note, he conducted Zappa…)

So, couple quick phone calls to the family and it looks like my dad is going to be coming out to see a show!

Awesome!

-d.

I went to the symphony today.

Weird.

Here’s what I learned.

Tchaikovsky was gay.
When he was writing his 4th symphony (which is what they were playing today) he decided to get married. Kinda for the hell of it.
He got fan mail from some chick. She essentially said “Marry me or I will kill myself.” Tchaikovsky was like, “Okay. I love the life I have, but Ive been feeling kinda selfish.. So, sure let’s get hitched.”

Weird.

Next concert on my agenda: Earth Crisis reunion show.

Fucking hilarious.

-d.

So… a year ago life was weird. I had a job that I kind of hated. I’d been there for years. I was tired of it. I felt stagnant and bored almost all the time.

So, I came up with a solution.

I would move (back) to California and start over. Again.

Cut to today.

I have a new job, that I love and enjoy.

I walk and take the bus to work.

I have a great group of friends that constantly challenge me to better myself.

I’m working on quitting smoking (my worst habit that I’ve been doing for almost as long as I can remember…)

I’m planning out a wedding (to my wonderful techno-phobic partner of 9 years[next week]).

All in all, life kinda rules right now.

Guess what. I’m not in California.

This might be the first time in my life I can say that I was planning on bailing on life and actually stuck with it. Hooray for me!

Turns out, that if something in your life is sapping your will to live… you can change just that one thing. Shocking!

Onwards and upwards.

-d.

so.

I decided I needed to separate out my personal stuff from my (soon to be exclusively) tech oriented blog.

Since that blog is my “online” name, I figured what better name for my personal blog than my name? So, here’s me. Dylan Richard: more than just a nerd.

werd.

-d.