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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · 19h

Go Canada 🇨🇦

Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · 3d

This harkens back to the time UNT recorded 50 grade 1-3 pieces in 5 days. The March of the Chinchillas was my favorite. There’s also a piece peeking over it called “12873465” by Daniel Bukvich 🤣

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · 3d

This took me out 🤣

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · 6d

Ok, athletes have their rituals that they think help them win games.

Do any of you classical musicians out there have any talismans or rituals you use for performances or auditions?

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · 6d

BF: hey! I’m almost home from rehearsal, and I know we’re going to dinner later, but…. Have you had a snack since I left?

Me *staring at the 4 hyperfixation projects I had today* 🤣 I don’t think I’ve had water since you left.

BF: yeah, that’s what I thought. Go have a snack and some water.

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · 9d

I love doing embroidery, because I can enshrine curse words and weird stuff into handmade glory, and I can design my own stuff.

But my friend was like, “you should learn to spin and dye your own thread!”

I would rather poke all my embroidery needles into my forehead.

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · 26d

Conductor talking about Beethoven 9:

“Does anyone in the orchestra know what they are singing about in this moment?”

Orchestra: 😐

Me: I only know the Sister Act II translation

a group of people standing in front of a crowd with the words what have you done for him lately

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · Sep 24

I know everybody’s gotta make a living. But I swear to god, this damn ice cream truck… if I have to hear “Do your ears hang low” in a chipper calliope sound one more time, I might just find my 13th reason

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · Sep 24

Omg climate change is real. STAHP making pleather pants and skirts! It’s too hot.

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · Sep 17

Look, y’all… I did not like Colin Allred the first time he ran. I still voted for him because Ted can walk to Cancun via the Gulf of Mexico for all I care.

But James Talarico entered the race and I whooped like Howard Dean after the Iowa caucus.

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · Sep 8

What a wildly obtuse take on Mahler.

“Some of the chords are crunchy and it makes me uncomfy!”

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hot tip: going to your vegetarian/vegan friend’s house for dinner and don’t know what to bring?

Bring Alcohol.

It’s possibly vegan, makes everyone happy, and you don’t have to figure out what bulgur is and where to buy it.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · Sep 2

America heartbroken to discover president somehow still alive

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · Sep 2

Me with composition and visual art.

This composers work is their voice!

This visual artist’s voice is crap 🤣

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ok, but if the potion Ursula uses to turn into Vanessa is essentially the same as Polyjuice potion…

Who is this poor woman, and where is Ursula keeping her to harvest her DNA?

JUSTICE FOR VANESSA

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · Sep 1

My BF just told me that not once, in his Elder Millennial life has he ever seen an episode of The Magic School Bus.

I was dumbfounded

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · Aug 28

He does. I just followed him yesterday.

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · Aug 27

He said Cats was his favorite musical. It’s because Cats opened on Broadway in 1982, and that’s the last musical he remembers being a big hit.

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · Aug 22

I will never make fun of any Millennials’ AIM username, because there is a whole generation of Rappers using what would’ve been their AIM username as their performance name.

I will now be performing as JKWunderWoman03 🤣

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · Aug 1

We got to Switzerland today, and we had no idea it was Switzerland Day, which is akin to our Independence Day.

So now Otto Von Hossenfeffer and his family are firing a whole ass cannon down the street from our AirBnB. This has just been the funniest day

On the bright side, the view is great

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · Jul 27

I have a friend that does his scores handwritten and then cleans them up in photoshop. They are really beautiful scores. But he also does sparse minimalism, and sometimes he wants that sparseness felt in the score. He looks at his score as much a work of art as the music itself.

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · Jul 27

I just found out it’s $7000 to be in DCI for the summer. Kids, you could go study with the top eminent brass players in every European country for 2 weeks for that kind of money.

These kids are crazy. That’s a down payment on a car!

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · Jul 17

Ugh don’t let your local Ace Hardwares and Tru Values go out of business! Where else am I going to buy that one random screw for $.27 when the Evil Depot or Loser Lowe’s would make me buy a whole package of them? Like, that’s just more screws for me to misplace.

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · Jul 9

Anyone just think about how Ricky Ricardo’s full name was just… Ricardo Ricardo?

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Jolene @jkmbassoon.bsky.social · Jul 6

How Wimbledon was born…

Rich British man a long time ago at a Cricket Club: hey we love making clubs surrounding fiddly little games with messed up rules, and weird scoring that makes no sense, right?

Other RBM: YEA!

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