another look at harmony

[theladyrose]

I am starting to see why people claim that I am obsessive compulsive, except I'm not. Right.

There's a lot of Harry Potter madness over at the Harvard Coop; there must have been at least 150 people crowded into the bookstore at 11 tonight. Danielle, Sophia, Sophia's roommates, and Filippe (Sophia's roommate's boyfriend or unofficial 3rd roommate) and I waited outside just to see what people were doing. We noticed that quite a few people had arrived in costume (the best one was of Professor Trelwaney whose name I am sure I have misspelled) and many more arrived with painted lightning bolt "scars." The line was ridiculously long, so I'll probably get the book tomorrow or later this week as I still have other required reading to do.

Ellie got me a Phillip Glass compilation from the NY Metropolitain Museum of Art, Up Close, and I've got to say that the more I listen to it the more I believe Glass to be an absolute genius. There are composers who experiment for the sake of trying to attract attention, and there are composers who experiment in order to redefine the elements of musical composition while paying homage to the work of past masters. Glass is of the latter category, but he's the sort of composer whom people immediately worship or hate. Personally I'm intrigued by his redefinition of Impressionism as minimalism in exploring the development of harmonic fragments. To oversimplify somewhat, minimalism is just Impressionism taken to the extreme.

I never cease to be amazed by how pretentious I can sound despite the fact that I have no idea what I'm talking about.

And as a random note: I thought that this article was pretty cool about Israel monitoring the health of models (thanks to horosha for the link):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1528862,00.html#article_continue

Comments

I must banish this buddha belly

[horosha.livejournal.com]

Huh, wow, I'm on the cusp between being overweight and normal (25). I never realized just how big I am for my height before. It's time for more DDR!

Philip Glass is indeed a golden god. Worship the Cocteau Trilogy!

Tell Sophia I send my love and other such emotions.

Bush: fight the extremists! I dunno what they're talkin' about, but they're usin' big words and lemme tell ya it's scary.

Re: I must banish this buddha belly

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Exercise is always good, although I've never really gotten the hang of DDR. I just went to my new age aerobics for dummies class (well, it's not *exactly* called that but you get the point) yesterday afternoon, and the occasional dance steps thrown in completely bewildered me.

I'm an Hours devotee, but it's hard for me to say that I dislike anything I've heard of his so far. Did you know that he was a philosophy major?

I'll tell Sophia once she gets back from the Red Socks v. Yankees game and dinner.