first lady of film score-yeah right

I'm in a random obsessive score-reviewing mood at the moment. Strange but true. I think it might be because my parents got me a really really really lovely "John Barry: The Collection: 40 Years of Film Music" 4 CD boxed set. Whee! I've been listening it to it just slightly obsessively for the last week or so. Alas, it's conducted by Nic Raine, and I really don't like Nic Raine that much because he has some really lousy orchestrations in there. For example: a violin is not the same as a harmonica, and a harmonica is not the same as a piano. You'd think that would be fairly obvious. But for some reason on the Midnight Cowboy main title theme, the violins are playing the harmonica's part and the harmonica's playing the piano part. Did I mention it sounds seriously messed? And with the The Lion in Winter suite, they seriously messed up the rhythmn and the dynamics are really way off; you can barely hear the chorus on "Eleanor's Arrival" but then everyone starts shouting for "We're All Jungle Creatures." It's very annoying, but they got the main title theme done right mostly. But generally it's a pretty damned good compilation work. There are quite a few more obscure scores in there that I've never heard of before, which is absolutely lovely. Writing an essay for fun and hopefully SiCo will be nice and publish it as an article on the forums. That would be absolutely lovely, as I've been meaning to write an article for the forums for ages but haven't had time/willpower to do it. Blame my deranged thoughts on the painkillers I took last week.

Oh, and I have just one more error to analyse and the conclusion to write on my big Fe 2+ or 3+ lab. Whee! Problem is, I can't think of a 3rd error. Argh.

blame it all on the painkillers....o_O

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I got to see my godparents on Tuesday, which was really nice as I usually get to see them on Thanksgiving but couldn't this year. I taught Kathleen and Sarah how to play Clue. Hee hee. It was really quite funny as they kept on giving away their cards and I managed to trick them into thinking that the murderer was Mrs. White so I won the game ^_^. Then, of course, they wanted to play something else and we ended up playing Monopoly simply because Clue and Monopoly are the only two board games in the house besides Trivial Pursuit, which is way too difficult for a 4th and 2nd grader, however precocious they may be.

On the old clue slips I saw the game that Sterling, Alex, and I played when they slept over at my place to go to the bus that took us to the airport to Washington, DC in 8th grade. I remember that it was the funniest game of clue that I ever played simply because Alex and Sterling were there and we were playing hideously late into the night and all of us had sugar and became rather hyper. Hee hee. I wish that our class could have a chance to go on another DC type trip to New York or something or a mandatory sort of England trip that doesn't involve choral performances. Happy memories ^_^.

murder, she wrote

It's very unpleasant when people casually discussing murdering you in front of you. If you plan on murdering someone, you should at least give that person the courtesy of not discussing your plans in front of that person. Alas, being grammatically correct can be so boring.