I snuck into my sister Haley's library to borrow this video. She took this video a long time ago when she was learning how to play with pewter. She calls it "Melting the Queen"

Things like this are why I find my sister Haley a little scary, and so fascinating. When she's bored, she melts little figure, in this video a chess queen. She likes the smell of the metal and the sound of the figure hitting the melting pot. 

There's something fascinating about this video, but I can't put my finger on it. The sounds the queen makes as she moves. The way her solid body melds into the liquid metal. The way her face melts at the last moment before she falls in. How she slides into the silver liquid beneath the black carbon. The regal majesty returning to whence she came. 

I guess sister Haley spends her time exploring physical poetry instead of spoken.

Here is my first in a series of Christmas songs! Have to do them now because nobody likes Christmas songs after Christmas, go figure. 

I found the sheet music on 8notes and sang all five versus. If you want to hear words muddying up my beautiful voice, you can sing them yourself ;) 

It's difficult to sing off of Western sheetmusic. The notes are written differently and everything is upside down. My higher notes are towards the bottom, but the sheet music has them towards the top. 

I also got bored of singing the same song, over and over, so I started messing around with it ;) Here's the music and lyrics if you want to play or sing along :)

I have a special project coming up and it requires me to change how I sing, I have to sing only the Western scale. I hate the Western scale. The Western scale is just not as pretty or fluid as the Pentatonic scale that is traditional for my beautiful voice.

Here's my beloved RubyStarfire helping me train my voice. It's kind of a long and boring process, a lot of repeating notes until I get them right.

The Western scale is usually written one of two ways:

• A - B - C - D - E - F - G
• Do - Re - Mi - Fa - So - La - Ti/Si

You have to pay attention to the notes to make sure everything sounds good. My voice also has a very limited range when singing the Western scale, I can only reach three octaves.

The Pentatonic scale that's traditional for my voice uses the following notes:

• A - B - D - E - F#

This scale is much more beautiful and fluid than the Western scale. It's hard to play or sing something that sounds bad, you have to put lots and lots of effort into it. Almost anything you play or sing will sound alright if not beautiful. I can also cover four octaves when singing, this gives my singing a much greater range and lets my voice do more.