To buy an acoustic bass guitar and to keep on with my positive addiction to learning the bass and finding the best notes by experimentation. Ok that should be pretty easy, now I have tested out a beautiful Arco 3/4 double bass from Animato, and a cheapo Artist pbass guitar and amp. Something in between. Both the pbass and the Arco have been sold on to happy owners.
Listening to some of the initial music that has drawn me to the sound of the bass, such as Midlife Crisis from the old Faith No More - that I had on tape and played on my walkman!
Diesel was also an early inspiration with the live version of Rhythm of Your Soul being one I heard just a little while ago. Pearl Jam's Ten was an emotional and painfilled musical ear expansion. My dad knew how much I loved Pearl Jam, so one Christmas I got a black Ten t-shirt. Skunkhour have definitely inspired me to explore bass on the funkier side of playing styles, the first CD I bought when I was 16 was Feed.
Also classical will be an interesting genre to persue on the acoustic bass, and Catholic church hymns, choral songs, and all of those haunting and sad funeral pieces such as Faure's Requiem. Or any of the other requiem compositions.
My aunt believes me to be a bass player and she is a Master of music. A friend who plays and makes electric guitars and basses told me I have good rhythm, when I played on one his handmade basses!
I know I have rhythm! It is great to be supported though, as I would be able to hear a mushroom growing in a distant forest if I did not play bass! It would be pretty boring!
I am hoping after a recent hospitalisation for 6 days with a swollen pancreas - of unknown diagnosis, even after blood tests, 2 CT scans, audio and visual ultrasound, an endoscopy through my mouth by a specialist..
Nothing was found, or why I had suddenly thrown up the day before I was hospitalised. I visited my GP, had a CT scan and the next day turned up ready to go to the gym after being at the dentist for some much needed dental work - done for free on a care plan because I have chronic fatigue syndrome, and have had that since winter of 2007. The CT had such alarming results to the GP that they immediatley called for an ambulance to take me to emergency.
I was feeling quite terrible. A similar thing happened out of the blue when I was on the way to the train station on my dual suspesion mountain bike. I suddenly felt dizzy and too hot, and then threw up in the parking lot of the train station. I told myself to ignore it and managed to get the train that took 2 hours to the city. I was studying Digital Animation at JMC Academy, and it was early 2010. I had just begun the Diploma course.
I had sips of an organic ginger tea I bought before class, and was taking charcoal tablets a few days before as I had felt quite congested in my stomach. It was uncomfortable to be in class, but I got through that day. I woke up the next morning and just threw up straight away.
I sought the help of TCM, and had Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture. It helped for me to have herbs and the acupuncture. The therapist diagnosed me as having too much heat. Which I truly did feel, physically, even though the heat he was talking of was of energetic heat.
I could not tolerate the stress of the full time Diploma in Digital Animation, and so I left the course. But because I used an alternative form of medicine and healing, I was not given financial consideration by JMC for leaving after the Census date because the only thing that was seen to be passable as proof of illness was a Medical Certificate from a GP. Which I did not seek, as I was too sick, and also did not see the TCM practitioner until a little while after I had been sick, due to his appointments being full until I was seen.
Some things have to be waited for. Some things are irrelevant to a true state of health. Some things are a choice in this world. I now have a debt to the government and I think it should be erased from the system as I had a relevant health complaint, no matter who I had seen - they are health professionals!
Wow, doesn't the census date debt have something to do with Jesus's birth? I am a Catholic and I have found nothing else but what lies within the spiritual world to be an answer for some things that cannot be explained rationally. I have had many things drawing me into a stronger faith, and I have felt the recent healing power of the Blessed Saint Mary of the Cross, as I knelt at her tomb in North Sydney, in the Mary Mackillop Place Museum and Chapel. My knee has been troubling me for a few years, ever since I slipped in a wet bathroom when dancing Scottish Country Dance rather excitedly! I was learning it at Blackheath, and I ended up on a stretcher going out the door saying to the paramedics, I think I am a Frida Kahlo.
She is one of my favourite artists of all time! I love her dark and exploratory bold work! Her political stance was strong, and she worked so hard even through her worst times in bed with her broken back. Her story is just beautiful, and I love the movie, Frida. A visual feast fit for the artists who love her now, and fitting for her as an artist.
I also want to add another New Years resolution. I will produce more art work, and work on my two oil paintings of The Blessed Saint Mary of the Cross. One was privately commissioned by a rich Catholic man, but I could not properly do the work in time for when it was expected. Nevermind, I di not lose out, that is how I bought the double bass that I had for a little while.
I hope you all have a wonderful New Year celebration, I know I am looking forward to a great party in the tropics - but if there is cyclones, then I will find happiness from some other source. I'll probably just laugh at my imagination, as I always do!
Blessings
Samantha Aungle
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