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

[a-mire.livejournal.com]

While normally I don't think the government should be interfering in employment, in this case since the industry can't be trusted to regulate itself something needs to be done. I say good for Israel! I hope it passes. Athletes have to have checkups. Heck, porn stars have to have checkups. Anybody who uses their body for work should have to have a doctor's certificate, IMO.

Although they aren't exactly banning shots of anorexic models, they would be making sure that in order to work the models have a healthy BMI, which means they will have to exercise and body sculpt to get thin and not just stop eating or pump themselves full of stimulants and laxatives.

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/calc-bmi.htm

And thank you, I just went here and calculated again and have been reminded at least in this one area I am completely normal! I never thought I'd be normal in anything. Whoo! :D

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. The funniest quote I've read in a long time, heee! I have deposited it into my Witty Response Bank.

OC can have the same symptoms as concentrated enthusiasm with different causes. A lot of people who can't concentrate assume CE is OC, but hey, if it doesn't make you poor and you aren't washing the skin off your hands, there's no harm in being enthusiastic. Except for the insomnia, but then you fit more life into your day than the "normal" people, so it's not all bad.

"Live life like you're gonna die, because you're gonna."

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.