Everyone's A Critic

[bloodyrosemccoy]

So the only problem with practicing the ocarina is that it continues to agitate the hell out of the cat. Every time I start noodling when Fern’s inside, she appears, climbing into my lap, yawping and turning around and jamming her head into my face, giving off the same confounded air as those dumb bastards did when they were trying to understand Lassie: “What? What do you want? What is the meaning of these noises you’re making? WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT FROM ME?”

The other day I figured if I didn’t have a lap it might help, so I stood up and continued, working on “Sweet Baby James” and “Beware the Forest’s Mushrooms” and “Saria’s Song” and hoping she'd just do the leg-twining thing she does when I'm trying to do tae kwon do forms.

Instead, with a frustrated howl, my big fat old cat wrapped herself around my thigh like a fluffy facehugger.

I am not sure what it is about my playing that upsets her so much. Maybe I sound like a kitten in distress. Maybe those frequencies hurt her ears. Or I’m just that bad, and she’s as much a music critic as my late budgie.*

No matter what, though, it’s a good thing it’s allegedly almost summer, since from now on when I want to practice I’m throwing her ass outside.


*Piners really hated Fats Domino.

Comments

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

The late Koshka and Iniki had that reaction to whenever I practiced recorder. I had to practice in a room with the door shut and the cats on the other side of it if I wanted to get anything useful done.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I tried that and the stupid cat tried to crawl under the door. Poor doofus. I threw her out because I felt sorry for her.

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

Both were inside cats--the only thing that worked was to close both the sewing room door and the doors to the living room and office (it's a ranch-style house, so it goes around in a circle) so there were two doors in between me and them. That way I couldn't hear them crying and scratching at the door quite so much.

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

My family's dog doesn't mind most music, but singing "Happy Birthday" around her sends her into barking, howling fits.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm going to have to side with the dog on this one. I hate that song.

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

I think it's mostly the way that it's almost impossible to have everyone in tune.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Not to mention the lyrics are right on par with a Dora the Explorer tune for originality.

I go with the Beatles' "Birthday." There's a drum solo and everything.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

And the way any given group of adults turns it into a dirge.

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

Pepper hates the harmonica - both recorded and live