This story has no meaning and no end

It's 2:50AM here in South Korea, a fine predicament that is the result of a very long nap midafternoon, and a strong cup of tea at 10pm.

Interesting story, I had been looking for a particular piece of music for about three years since I had heard it back around 2005. Or maybe it was 2006 I don't remember too clearly. In any case, it was a wonderful orchestral piece that I only heard once and I didn't have the foresight back then to write down the stupid name of the piece or at least the composer. So for the longest time, I simply forged on, trying to find the piece by ear and hopefully through sheer luck. Of course, considering the expansive history of classical and romantic music, there is very little chance of me actually locating the piece without devoting an incredible amount of energy towards the project. So for a while I simply had the song in the back of my mind.

Two days ago, I went to see a movie with an acquaintance, and afterward we passed by a music store by chance. Normally I do not buy any CD's at all, but I figured if I spotted some weird anti-Folk or a Miles Davis CD that I could get for like $5, which is very feasible in South Korea, I might as well grab it. Strangely enough, I did end up purchasing a CD, but it wasn't something from the Jazz section or the Weird as Fuck Western Music section always present as alternatives to the ubiquitous music of choice in Korea, K-Pop and it's reluctantly accepted adopted step-half-brother cousin J-Pop. The name of the composer, Sibelius, was strangely familiar, yet I knew I had none of his music in my collection. So I spent the most money I ever had on any music, $8 for the CD, and went along my merry way.

Incidentally, this was the last time I would meet my acquaintance, Grace Yoo, before she left for the US and I for Japan. As of this writing, I hope she remembers to not tag me in any pictures she puts on facebook as I don't want to spend the time to go and untag myself from a bunch of pictures of myself molesting Hello Kitty figures. More on this sometime in the future.

In any case, I went home and I listened to the CD. While none of the pieces were the piece in question from two or three years ago, I did end up reminiscing about the piece after having it reclused in the back of my memory bank like some sock in the dryer that has a couple holes and it's weird that it's still there with all my other laundries. Anyways, the music on the CD made me remember the piece that I recollected with vividness now, and I decided to spend a little effort to find it.

So two emails, abusing Itunes Store's 30 second previews, and dumb luck, I found out that the piece I had heard back in the day was Sibelius's 5th Symphony. Which is funny because I bought a CD with Sibelius's 1st symphony. A few torrents later, I have the piece well within my grasps.

There really is no ending to this stupid story. I got the stupid musical piece now. Try finding it for yourselves, it is a really fantastic music. The End.