Nothing much has changed from my last post, I am becoming more comfortable with my state in the world. What a gift. Thats about it. I still have a million projects up in the air, due later in the month... Yeah... Maybe i should have used the weekend to get ahead on them... Right like that is in my vocabulary. Oi. I think I will dive into some Beethoven 6th after this until I get too tired then go to bed. So simple. Otherwise... lock and load with NYC plans being made. I have to contact schools this week etc. Brilliant report on Bedbugs in NYC hotels my mother told me about tonight... May I consider sleeping in a rubber suit? HRM how strange... I am sure it will all go off without a hitch, I can't wait (jumping for joy and hopefully it will be warmer then!). I am like a mexican jumping bean today... Its kinda odd... I am also making plans for my birthday that sunday of april break. Nothing too fab just dinner with parents and friends after the frisbee tourney @ Colby that sat and sunday. This year I want to have my birthday around here since its the sunday before the last 2-3 weeks of the semester, and I want my parents to meet all my friends and such it should be good.
Summer is looking wonderful. May term I am taking Creative non-fiction and a Pop culture class. I look forward to them both with great anticipation. Summer term I am taking music and writing which looks to be extra great! (with trips to places and such!) and hopefully an individualized study in traditional music comp. I can't wait to actually compose its probably going to be a headache but thats okay with me! As for work this summer, I am going to do something... yeah.. well I am not quite sure yet. I still have the Stephen Hartke - King of the Sun presentation for May (yip yip!!) and then I believe there is talk of mastering the stuff in the lab (all the toys are FINALLY supposed to come in this week). Then there is something to do with the Joyce concert, not sure what it is or if there is anything. I am sure there will be something really super coming up, just not sure yet. I can't wait to move into my new apartment downtown (less car usage!!! YAY!!!) and be right there. If I want a bagel I can walk across the street, If I want to go to the bar its right there.. So NICE. The apartment has a great view to the south west too so possibly good sunset viewing. So many things...
So, I came up with something interesting last night. If anything this weekend was a weekend for movies. First was V for Vendetta... MY GOODNESS that has been the BEST movie I have seen since Hitchhikers... I want to go see it about ohhh well 10 more times. Incredibly intelligent and witty and highly entertaining. It really caught me little toe! But the entire point of this movie talk is somehow related to music... Yes, V for Vendetta did play some of the classical top 40.. Beethoven's 5th, Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture (funny its on the classical top 10 on iTunes right now, Vendetta related?) and the whole "do you like music line" flash to everything in the movie... Okay now I am out there. Totally unrelated to my new obsession with Vendetta is the movie Good Night and Good Luck. I was at first not so impressed with the movie in terms of breaking ground. However in further assessment I am quite impressed with it and find it to be a throwback to when films were made that way. It will stand in its own right a classic in cinematic brilliance just for trying to be honest and not throwing the viewer thrills by the moment, unlike its counterpart Vendetta. Goodnight really is staying with me now. Good... BUT GETTING TO MY MAIN POINT, Bear with me I am long winded.... I was struck by the scene in the elevator where one of the bosses got on at the Columbia records floor.. There were logos in the background of Columbia records (the pop one, I don't remember the full name) and Columbia Masterworks. Now, it hit me that wow at that time classical and popular music were equal. In fact probably classical sold more records. I being 21 have never lived during a time when classical music had any dominance, only where its market share was very little. Where in a music store its section was bigger than say hip hop or electronica (well... maybe at some stores all depends..). And I shook my head. That the majority of time itself from the middle ages to the mid 20th C this genre we call classical was the the dominant genre and now my entire little life has been spent in the minority of time. Yeah anyway weird thoughts I thought I would share. I live in such a wonderfully strange time in music, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
