On another note... This semester is AMAZING. I write and write and write, and yeah its for work not school exactly but its working... By Gosh! Its working really? YEPPERS, somehow after I get myself out of writing blocks and random writing stupidities I actually am turing out something decent. I am impressed, I am like Gumby! I bend and mold and stretch... (okay, ill leave that there. Its def a friday...)
I haven't even mentioned the classes! 2D is cool, I am having a hard time with this concept called studio time. GOSH! I haven't had an art class in like 2.5-3 years! I can't believe I lost my sense of what studio time was.. NOW, on monday I am bringing the iPod and working like mad. Ancient Greece and Rome throws me off. Its odd I haven't really had an ancient history class ever and its different than normal US or Global history. Well now that I think back History of Japan was different too, a whole new culture and distant perspective. I hate being plagued with the American mentality, it ruins the perspective and zeitgeist of history sometimes (screams: Take Me Back To Italy Dammit!). I am enjoying learning about all the ancient systems the founding of democracy the archaic way of life. There has been a mention of machines that the Greeks use, it makes me wonder what they were like (Thinks of the good old PC video game: Indiana Jones - Fate of Atlantis, what a freaking classic! OOOOHHHHHH Did I love the early 90s! WOOT!! I was such a crazy 8yr old!).
AND NOW (HAAAA!) the Music Classes!!! OHHHH MERDA SANTA! Reich 2 Radiohead (Which will be called R2R from this point forward) Is a HELL of a class. Of course I knew about it all along but its still a ball. Got a project on European Heavy Metal... I am def. looking into the Heavy Metal scene in Italy and Germany. This class is going to be absolutely crazy. I am leaving that there if you want to see what I am doing I have an R2R blog just for assignments... Here she blows:
Meg's R2R Blog!
Ohhh and now for the big one, the insane one the crazy pre-Grad school - Drive me crazy- Madness and many many espressos later MUSIC SEMINAR! ( I am playing it up, its not that bad at all... It might get there, who knows) Right now I am starting a project on Mashups which will be progress posted and published on this blog at a later time. Also maybe tomorrow or sunday (gotta draft it a few more times..) I am going to have an abstract-review on John Zorn's Kristallnacht. OHHH more madness will be posted here from that class, this is what I was talking about a few weeks ago and its really going to happen...
MADNESS UMF MADNESS! And not to mention I blazed last tuesday during Monteverdi Singers... We are singing Lauda Jerusalem (every time we sing it total flashbacks of Venezia!) Gave a 5 min bio on Monteverdi after he left Mantua and became Maestro di Cappella etc... DAMN I was on, I really wanted to write after i did that too! Too bad we still had a ton of rehearsal left.
I am leaving this really really really long post here for now. More loggings, and more often, of the crazy meg to come this semester. This ones going to be a hell of a good time!
