as many lists as are filling my brain

egoic art:
-memoirs (including 'my experience of alcoholism/anorexia/raising a child with adhd and gayness' for your commiseration) and books of personal philosophy
-guys and their guitars and their solo careers
-front men, often
-personal professional websites, blogs
-facebook timeline (well maintained)
-poetry about feelings, especially ex-boyfriends
-journalism without specialty
-maestros, virtuosos, castratos, sopranos
-social climbing 

non-egoic art
-dance, usually
-blogs with no readers (joke)
-performances with an ensemble, especially collaborative or of another's vision
-musical accompaniment
-fiction
-biographical sketches
-satire
-art unadvertised or dispersed or fleeting and unrecorded
-dinner party

indirect memory triggers:
-playing a sequence on the 2nd page of Chaminade Op. 61 reminds me of a walk on fickle hill with a boyfriend when a high school girl honks at him and I get into a minor jealous meltdown 
-breaking apart dried cranberries at my baking job makes me think of the time my boss was being spied on by a guy through her window.  She knew for certain because she snuck to his house immediately after and his truck was warm but he said he'd been home all evening.
-playing a sequence in a little handel piano piece makes me think of my grandpa heine, and when my old roommate nick texted me to tell me our property manager had died, and also of the $10,000 steeple she had crane-lifted on a barn
-a particular pair of tennis shoes makes me think of jumping on dave's rabbit (car) in front of japhys and him pulling me down and throwing me in the car, all in very great fun, and a confused friend recently returned from Europe walking by


what I know about people based on the instruments they play
Violin - guarded and aloof, from another era perhaps
Drummers - hedonistic spiritualists
Piano - exclusive and sensitive, attached to smart phones.  then there's a divergence between assholes and religious zealots.  (I am part asshole and part drummer.)
Most brass- dabble also in science or politics or advocacy for women
Bass - dependable and grinning
Guitarists - dream real big
Saxophone - hipsters, usually horny
Cellists - each the center of the universe.  Can you imagine several in one room?
Oboe - effortlessly the best at most things academic; lack emotional complexity
Sopranos - at first I thought there were too many sopranos in the world and my life to categorize, but my coworker Emma said "chatty"