I realized that I do not come on here often enough to keep up certain pages (such as my "friends pages") so I just deleted a bunch of stuff.  What I do want is just a little corner where I can come and maybe take a few moments out of my busy life to write so that you guys can take a moment out of your busy lives to read (that is if you're really bored).  So this section is Fiddler's corner where you find weird and fun things that I like to do and people I encounter.  Here, I'll give it a shot.

Weird things: Many people think I'm Canadian.  How this rumour got started I have no idea.  I did grow up in North Dakota and Minnesota and therefore have a slight accent (primarily when I say 'bag').  Really when I was in advanced World History though my teacher was convinced I was Canadian and no matter how many times I said otherwise she did not believe me so I think I will just say I am Canadian and join my Canadian brothers and sisters.

Funny fact: I love older men.  I just always have and again (like the Canadian ordeal) I don't know how this started.  The first man I ever "fell in love with" was Mel Gibson and I was ten years old.  Since then I have acquired a small amount of men (all, at least over thirty excluding Orlando Bloom) who I have fallen in love with.  So, if you are one of these men, send me an e-mail.  ;)  They are: Mel Gibson, 48, Ian McKellen, 67, Alan Rickman, 58, Johnny Depp, 40, Eric Whitacre, 33, Orlando Bloom, 26 and lastly Eugene Levy, 56 (with whom our children would have the most spectacular eyebrows, mine being the exact same colour but shaped really 'loverly').  I suppose I will marry an older man.

Random Ramblings: I'm in a play right now called The Gospel... Accordin' to Texas and it's really quite fun.  I did it in 1998 and played the fiddler, which is the part I'm playing again.  I pretty much play by ear for the whole thing except Cotton-Eye Joe.  Sunday night I was resting and getting ready to play Cotton Eyed Joe.  I was leaning against a wall, holding my precious baby (violin) in my arms when I felt and heard a pop.  I looked down and my beloved A string had popped!  I have no clue why, but I informed the piano player and I got off as soon as I could.  It's hard to play Cotton-Eyed Joe when you have no A string!  Well, I got a new one, but I thought that was pretty funny.  hehehe. 

Really Bizarre: Two friends of mine, Ashley and Rachael and I started a band called Done by Brutus.  Rachael sings lead vocals, Ashley plays the banjo and I play the accordian and the autoharp.  Our first album will be called "Et tu, Brute?" and pretty much our music is thrash lyrics (like, "I wanna kill, you suck") set to polka music.  Hahahaha, it's one big, giant joke!  :D

I love quotes for numerous reasons, but for one I find that they are a good source of wisdom.  I'm starting this page for all of those out there who also love quotes!

By Jonathan Swift (most likely my favourite author)

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo (therefore), learning is nothing but the wind.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he will never be disappointed.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

Laws are like cobwebs which may catch simple flies, but let the wasp and hornets break through.

May you live every day of your life.

Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing more than corruptions.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

Isaac Stern:

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

There are more bad musicians then there is bad music.

Listen, I will now tell you the truth and there is no other.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

Victor Borge:

I only know two piece of music; one is 'Claire de Lune' and the other one isn't.

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.  (The rest goes to the government)

Santa Clause has the right idea- visit people only once a year.

Humour is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations.  There is more logic in humour than in anything else.  Because, you see, humour is truth.

Mel Brooks:

Humour is just another defense against the Universe.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger.  Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God enters through a private door into every individual.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.  Take which you please- you can never have both.

Tolkien:

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Not all who wander are lost.

The following are favourite quotes about music:

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto. Ralph Waldo Emerson

In music the passions enjoy themselves. Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music, life would be an error.  The German imagines even gods singing songs. Friedrich Nietzsche

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Victor Hugo

What passions cannot music raise or quell? John Dryden

Music was my refuge.  I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to the loneliness. Maya Angelou

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.  Walter Savage Landor

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead. Igor Stravinsky

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.  Edward W. Howe

Musicians own music because music owns them.  Virgil Thomson

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.  Frank Zappa

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work.  We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.  Lewis Thomas

Music is the mediator between spiritual and sensual life.  Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is a higher revelation than all widsom and philosophy.  Ludwig van Beethoven