happy early lunar new year!
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theladyroseGreen tea is my friend. I've been drinking it in the mornings during break, and it really seems to help in that I have an easier time paying attention in class, I feel pretty mellow for the rest of the day, and I don't feel so tired in the mornings even though there's no caffeine in it. I should drink this stuff more often.
CrWr was tremendously fun. My little group,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
evilviolet and a_mary_death (zedhaus wasn't there to join us), and I were supposed to rewrite the first thirteen lines of Hamlet in three different ways. We ended up rewriting it as a conversation between two girls guarding a secret treehouse, two vapid wannabe-gangster members of the Secret Asian mafia, and two museum security guards with the guy attempting to hit on the girl. I hope we get to do stuff like this more often...
I've been listening to the Prisoner soundtrack in my ever-abundant spare time, and I'm only realizing how funny it can be. I listened to all of the dialogue clips in a row, and the effect is hilarious! You don't get a very good sense of the show at all because the P is mostly shouting angsty individualistic things and we get various Village operatives not-so-suavely attempting to get information out of him. And the music is either really classy classical stuff (tons of it, actually; when watching the series I assumed that there was a lot more original material), paranoid/driven synthesizer/harpsicord tunes, or trippy stuff. There's this one piece that I think of as a bunch of caffeine-buzzed rats dancing on a harpsicord, but it's such a fun piece. I'm becoming much more fond of "The Girl Who Was Death" just because I love the music so much.
Must go finish my CrWr piece. Gah! I must stop procrastinating on it. The weird thing is that it's evolved into a story inspired by "A Childhood Memory" from John Barry's non-soundtrack album, The Beyondness of Things, Yann Tiersen's score for Goodbye, Lenin!, and parts of Barry's Dances with Wolves. Perhaps I'll bring in Beyondness of Things just as a sort of explanation.
CrWr was tremendously fun. My little group,
evilviolet and a_mary_death (zedhaus wasn't there to join us), and I were supposed to rewrite the first thirteen lines of Hamlet in three different ways. We ended up rewriting it as a conversation between two girls guarding a secret treehouse, two vapid wannabe-gangster members of the Secret Asian mafia, and two museum security guards with the guy attempting to hit on the girl. I hope we get to do stuff like this more often...I've been listening to the Prisoner soundtrack in my ever-abundant spare time, and I'm only realizing how funny it can be. I listened to all of the dialogue clips in a row, and the effect is hilarious! You don't get a very good sense of the show at all because the P is mostly shouting angsty individualistic things and we get various Village operatives not-so-suavely attempting to get information out of him. And the music is either really classy classical stuff (tons of it, actually; when watching the series I assumed that there was a lot more original material), paranoid/driven synthesizer/harpsicord tunes, or trippy stuff. There's this one piece that I think of as a bunch of caffeine-buzzed rats dancing on a harpsicord, but it's such a fun piece. I'm becoming much more fond of "The Girl Who Was Death" just because I love the music so much.
Must go finish my CrWr piece. Gah! I must stop procrastinating on it. The weird thing is that it's evolved into a story inspired by "A Childhood Memory" from John Barry's non-soundtrack album, The Beyondness of Things, Yann Tiersen's score for Goodbye, Lenin!, and parts of Barry's Dances with Wolves. Perhaps I'll bring in Beyondness of Things just as a sort of explanation.
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Date: 2005-02-09 05:10 pm (UTC)Dances with Wolves has to be Barry's masterpiece. Sure, Lion in Winter was great, and so was Out of Africa, but Dances With Wolves...*dreamy stare* It's a pity that he hasn't done much lately; the last film he scored in its entirety was 2001's Enigma, and Michael Giacchino took over the Incredibles.