storm song

My name's Calix Young. One day, I'm going to play cello for the New York City Symphony. Don't try to take that from me. I'll send a storm to capture your heart and bring you home.

[eleanorshorter]

Whoever touched my violin will regret it.

[calixyoung]

That's a sin.

[calixyoung]

Locked myself away in a practice room.

[orionxmarin-blog]

I’m a music freshman. There surely must be something I can help with.

[calixyoung]

Probably not.

[calixyoung]

Locked myself away in a practice room.

[orionxmarin-blog]

The memorizing, genius.

[calixyoung]

How can you help me memorize a cello piece?

[calixyoung]

Locked myself away in a practice room.

[orionxmarin-blog]

Need some help with that?

[calixyoung]

With playing the cello? No thanks.

[calixyoung]

Locked myself away in a practice room.

But I'm slowly memorizing Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor. Emphasis on slowly.

[insaticble-blog]

I'm pretty sure I just heard one of my professors say that they needed to fart.

[insaticble-blog]

I agree with all my heart.

[calixyoung]

That's just...disgusting.

[lettie-hightower]

I give up.

[lettie-hightower]

Being nice doesn’t do you any favors, darling. It doesn’t come naturally to you. And I told you to shoo.

[calixyoung]

Do you want to do this right now?

[shroudedexcitement-deactivated2]

[jo-weston-blog]

There goes my professional comedian dream….

[calixyoung]

Don't quit your day job. 

[lettie-hightower]

I give up.

[lettie-hightower]

Ah, but I do hate performance. Because it’s just full of egotistical assholes like yourself jockeying for power against people who are just as untalented and arrogant as themselves. People who have been coddled and pampered their whole life into believing they’re special when they’re really not. Sure, it takes a certain amount of skill to play whatever stringed instrument has screwed up your hands this week, but it doesn’t take a brain. All it takes is a body. You’re barely more than a dime a dozen, sweetheart.

And I don’t waste my time on names of people who don’t deserve it. 

[calixyoung]

Now I'm going to be nice here and assume that you've had a momentary lapse of judgement or that you're just too fucking stupid to realize just how much energy, intelligence, and pure talent it takes to sit and play any instrument there is out there. Being able to play an instrument is not a skill that you're born with, in case you passed out in your high school health classes. It's something that is learned, is harnessed. Hours upon hours are spent honing that skill. If it were for us "brainless" performers, all of your shitty films would be flat and two dimensional and you know it. That's why you compose, right? Last I checked it doesn't take a brain to record a video. 

You can piss off, now. Before I drown you. 

[dyslectic-deactivated20161112]

[jo-weston-blog]

I was just… joking…

[calixyoung]

Your jokes aren't funny. 

[lettie-hightower]

I give up.

[lettie-hightower]

Look, chica, I don’t give a damn what you think of me but your incessant whining about how obviously crappy you think my department is getting obnoxious. You don’t here me walking around ranting about how much I hate performance, do you? 

Shoo.

[calixyoung]

That's because you don't hate performance. If you hated performance, you'd have no one playing your little pieces and making your dreams a reality. I hate your department because it forces me to waste my time and talent on high school pieces for shitty indie films that will never make it to Sundance. 

And my name is Calix. Not "chica". 

[mika-st-germain]

Christmas!

Great holiday. Love it. And I look totally awesome in red. 

[calixyoung]

Is that it?

[workof-ace]

calixyoung liked your photo

[workof-ace]

Someones eager for 7.

[calixyoung]

Keep telling yourself that, bub.

[andkissmyface]

[jo-weston-blog]

That’s what the doctor says.

[calixyoung]