Queer bicycle lover, wool sculptor, picture-taker, bird-looker, amateur radio operator, & disaster response volunteer in a love/hate relationship with the computer.
"But what's the point of breathing if somebody already tells you the difference between an apple and a bicycle? If I bite a bicycle and ride an apple, then I'll know the difference." --Arizona Dream
| Pronouns | she/they |
| Location | SF Bay Area |
Only William's prose style aside, it's a good read for some classic 1896 recipes. Really, *all* the books listed in that library collection are pretty great and I want to download and read them all:
Vintage Cocktail Books Free Digital Library The E.U.V.S. stands for Exposition Universelle des Vins et Spiritueux, which refers to a Museum in Bendor Island in south of France. The Museum is dedicated to the History of Wines and Spirits with a beautiful collection of Old Bottles from around the world and Vintage Cocktail Books. This is the on-line access to the EUVS Vintage Cocktail Books Collection
This afternoon I'm installing a show at Cafe Suspiro, the lovely little cafe that's downstairs from my studio space. I'm showing my Sutro Tower series of pieces.
The show art will be discounted for the month of April, and 50% of sales are benefitting Raul, the cafe's equally lovely owner, who is recovering from a recent stroke. You can see and buy the paintings at https://heatherrobinson.com/sutro-tower-art
So since I got my finger blowed up, I can't really play piano, and I have been taking on psychic damage ever since.
However it seems like I might be able to play an accordion, since my blowed up finger is on my left hand and accordion seems like it has much less "ballistic" hits to the finger.
But I can't make heads or tails about what in the fuck kind of accordion to try: I play mostly moody emo Chopin sadgirl tunes, and I love piazzola, so I was reading about bandoneons, but it turns out that you can't actually get one (like literally it seems like they were only mass manufactured pre WWII and now only for like $10k custom made) and the key layout means you can like only play tango on them. And then since its a folk instrument there are like one million other kinds of accordion and I can't tell how much each is specialized for a specific kind of music.
Is there anyone on here I reach who plays #accordion and can help me out knowing what kinda button bag to play? I would be a beginner accordionist but I have been playing piano my whole life and am looking for a long term romance I mean replacement, so I don't need the like "there are 5 notes on this one and you can't go wrong" kind. I would love to be able to play sea shanties and folk punk tunes, but if its also possible to play some Chopin or Debussy arrangements on the thing that would be extremely emotionally valuable to me.
edit: thank you accordionists of the fedi for the information, and non-accordionists of the fedi for helping me reach them. my questions have been largely answered and i am gonna pick one up shortly :)
Today was a nice, sunny day to break out the stained glass protest sign.
Jon Gilbert
Heather Robinson Fine Art
lizzard
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Ride Theory
a libi rose
jonny (good kind)
Matthew Dockrey
Natalie