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| Monday, August 10th, 2009 | | 7:31 pm |
Alphabet song meme
From ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dude_isotopes : Comment on this post saying you want a letter. I'll give you one, then post to your journal your five favorite songs that begin with that letter, along with downloads if you like.
My letter L songs:
Love Me Like a Man, Diana Krall Oh they want me to rock them
Like my back ain't got no bone
I want a man to rock me
Like my… backbone was his own Let Me Go, CAKE When she wants
She wants the sun instead of the moon
When she sees
She sees the stars inside of her room Luck Be a Lady, Frank Sinatra A lady never leaves her escort
It isn’t fair, it isn’t nice
A lady doesn’t wander all over the room
And blow on some other guy’s dice Last Night’s Dream, The PushStars Take me home to where I’m whole You say “Well, that’s never easy” But all the wine will change your mind I say… “Let’s not pretend that is does” Little Green, Joni Mitchell Born with the moon in cancer
Choose her a name she will answer to
Call her green and the winters cannot fade her
Call her green for the children whove made her
Little green, be a gypsy dancer | | Sunday, July 26th, 2009 | | 8:17 pm |
| | Friday, July 3rd, 2009 | | 6:37 pm |
Books
I finished two books today. Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King, which is skinny but dense, I have been picking at for a month or so. Bloodhound by Tamora pierce, which is thick but good fun to read, I have polished off in under a week. I was also able to put Namaah's Kiss on hold at the library, which means I have that fun somewhere in my future. Now I am contemplating the thirteen book high pile of things I could read next. I've decided to put it to you, dear friends, as to what I should read next. Poll #1424796 Pile of Books
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7 What should I read next?
View AnswersThe Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
   1 (14.3%) A Room with a View, E. M. Forster
0 (0.0%) The Aeneid, Virgil
0 (0.0%) White Teeth, Zadie Smith
0 (0.0%) The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross
1 (14.3%) Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
1 (14.3%) The World Made Straight, Ron Rash
1 (14.3%) Santa Olivia, Jacqueline Carey
1 (14.3%) Smoke and Mirrors, Neil Gaiman
3 (42.9%) Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes, Neil Gaiman
1 (14.3%) This isn't a complete list of all the unread or unfinished books in my possession, just the ones I want to read this summer. Somehow The Bell Jar doesn't seem like it would suit my mood just now. | | Friday, March 14th, 2008 | | 12:24 pm |
1. Pick 15 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions I realize that most of my favorite movies are ones with oft-quoted lines. I did a little digging in an attempt to make it some fun, but a few are still absurdly easy. | | Saturday, November 17th, 2007 | | 1:31 am |
Tonal Harmony, Stefan Kafka and Dorothy Payne
1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions. 5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1). 6. Tag five people. If possible, you should also hear the example sung and performed my several combinations of instruments. The four parts of the example are presented in what is generally cosidered the order of preference on the part of the composers in tonal music. However, this ordering is not to be interpreted as a rule. The quality of the sonority is affected as much by the spacing as it is by doubling, as you will discover by comparing the last two chords in Example 8-10. (This is my music theory text book. They're talking about using inverted triads in part writing, in case anyone is curious.) Current Mood: epicCurrent Music: Mr. Jones, Counting Crows | | Saturday, November 10th, 2007 | | 11:55 am |
Help?
Okay, I need computer help. I need a way to get all the music from my old desktop computer onto my laptop. I've tried emailing my iTunes library to myself, but I can't figure out where to go from there. Any suggestions? Current Mood:  frustratedCurrent Music: none... that's my problem. | | Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 | | 1:29 pm |
Two things that don't happen very often.
(Conversation re: How was your weekend?) Me: My birthday was on Saturday. Dan: Cool. How old? Nineteen? Twenty? (Conversation re: My Halloween costume) Tyler: So wait, you're supposed to be a dude? Me: A very effeminate dude. Tyler: But you can't do that, you've got tits! Current Mood:  hungry | | Sunday, October 14th, 2007 | | 10:39 pm |
Three books meme.
* Three books that have marked your childhood...
-The Ghost in the Mirror, John Bellairs/Brad Strickland- This is the first book that I remember being unable to put down until I finished. My hands were literally shaking when I finished. Bellairs was such a huge part of my life- at least, the Lewis Barnavelt books were, Johnny Dixon and Anthony Monday I could take or leave. Rose Rita was the first literary character I ever saw myself in, or tried to model myself after, or whatever it is that I do. A quick google just revealed how much of the Bellairs/Strickland canon I have yet to explore. Definately adding those to my list.
-Little House on the Prarie, Laura Ingels Wilder- This one isn't so important for the book themselves as for the fact that my dad read it to me. Actually, he read all of them to me. My parents made a huge point out of reading to me every night before bed, and obviously it had some effect. And I repeat, he read every single one to me... even The Long Winter, which was utter tedium except for that one brilliant line: "Heap big snow come."
-Peter Pan- Now, I can't recall if this was the original J.M. Barrie version or not. It was in a collection of children's stories, mostly fairy tales. At the time I read it, I was only aqquainted with the happy Disney version of the story. When I got to the part where Peter Pan tries to come back home to his mother and finds the windows barred, I was devastated. I cried so hard. My mom found me and hugged me and told me it was okay, because it was a story, and that's the author's job, to make you feel something. And that someday when I wrote books they would make people feel things too. This incident is very vivid, and yet I don't remember when I decided I wanted to write books.
* ... and your teenagehood :
-Kushiel's Dart, Jacquelyn Carey- I read this pretty early on in my (still ongoing, I suppose?) teen years. It set my standard for all future erotica very high- sex is all very well and good, but I've gotten very persistant about demanding there be an underlying plot.
-Sweep, Cate Tiernan- I'm cheating and saying "all of them," because even though there are fourteen books they're all supershort and really just one long story. I like the first six the best, up through "Spellbound." Plots are riddiculous, dialog is occasionally crap, but I just believe the characters so much. I could just walk into the library one day and Morgan could be sitting there, and it wouldn't suprise me. I still reread these when I'm in need of comfort.
-Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson- This is the first book that I ever read that dealt with the horrors of rape, but I don't think that's why it was so important to me. In a lot of ways, it's about high school and not fitting in and teen angst in general. At the same time, parts of it still make me laugh out loud.
* Your three favourite books (only 3, even if it's hard!):
-A Widow for One Year, John Irving- I've actually only read this one once. I should fix that. It's still one of my favorites. Irving's writing is just amazing- beautiful complex plotting, but it never feels contrived or overdone, just perfectly placed and so right. I love writers who write about writers. When I'm driving, I almost never take a left turn without thinking about this book.
-Shade's Children, Garth Nix- I love futuristic, post-apocolyptic type books. This one is just perfect. I think the obsession started when I read The Giver in fifth grade. Evil totalitarian (alien) rulers, a human race reduced to being someone else's livestock, a secret resistance... it has everything.
-Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett- It's just funny and sweet and the perfect thing to put me in a good mood. If you are reading this now, it's quite possible that I've given you this book as a birthday or Christmas gift, because I need to spread the love but I am reluctant to loan out my copy. That's how much I adore it.
* Three books you've read or are reading recently :
-Dune, Frank Herbert- I started reading this when I was stuck in the condo in Vermont, bookless. It turned out to be a lot of fun, and I bought it. Good call.
-Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card- Yeah, I'm on a sci-fi kick lately. I think I liked this better than Ender's Game. Ender just seems so much more human in this one.
-Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen- So amazing- what a plot twist.
* Three books that you'll read soon :
-Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer- I held off reading these for so long, but now I'm hooked. I cannot wait to get my hands on this one.
-Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire- Because I'm a sucker for fairy tales, and this is the last one of Maguire's adult novels that I haven't gotten to.
- Specials, Scott Westerfield- Because WTF, he went and wrote another one, Extras, and I haven't even gotten to this one yet.
* And one special, fetish book that you'd keep with yourself all the time :
Currently it's Page, by Tamora Pierce. It's almost always something by Pierce. A lot of her books fit every category in this meme for me.
These answers will have changed by tomorrow, at the latest. I'm already lamenting a few that I couldn't squeeze in... A Wrinkle in Time... The Sparrow... Cat's Cradle... The Secret Life of Bees... you get the picture. Current Mood:  sleepyCurrent Music: refrigerator | | Saturday, October 13th, 2007 | | 10:23 pm |
Laundry? What laundry?
Wow. Did you know that Gordon Goodwin wrote the score for Fern Gully? Because I totally didn't. | | 1:14 pm |
Tracing my descent into slackerdom.
This morning I woke up 9:45ish and took a shower. I ate breakfast in the DC. Ran into Ryan, had a nice chat with him before he had to go to work. I headed back to brush my teeth and get my books. Shockingly, both my roommates were awake. I grabbed my bag and headed for la bibliotheque. I finished up the history reading that was due.... Tuesday. I thought about going to practice, but I was thirsty. Unfortunate I had no cash and none of the drink machines in the student center took my card, so I went back to the dorms. That's how I ended up here, playing with the computer and making lists (shopping, what I want for my birthday, books to read, things to do) instead of playing trumpet.
Midterms don't really start until the week of the 22nd (I think), but I'm suddenly more swamped with work than usual. Not that I haven't been busy since school started, but most of that's been practicing, and most of that trumpet. Now all of a sudden there are Western Civ exams and sight-singing quizzes, History of Jazz papers and impending listening tests. Not to mention a piano midterm. A novel to read for history, preparing something to play for studio class. As not fun as some of that is, I find that I don't mind so much. This buckling down and getting it done, this stress, this is what I did almost constantly during my last two years of high school. It's what I understand, what I'm good at. In the last week or so I've had a few moments of pure, inexplicable happiness that I think can only be explained by this return to familiar routine.
Of course, that's been tempered by several moments of complete despair. I often wonder just what the hell I think I'm doing here. Then I remind myself that I ought to remain a music major for a little while longer, partly because it's what I've always wanted and I probably shouldn't give it up so soon, and partly because I need to prove to myself that I can do it. That way, if I switch, I know it will be because I want to and not because I have to. Current Mood: determined/depressed/PMS-y.Current Music: Lester Leaps In, Lester Young | | Thursday, October 11th, 2007 | | 12:22 pm |
| | Monday, September 24th, 2007 | | 9:29 pm |
Thoughts from the practice room.
If I were ever to give birth to triplets, the birth announcements I sent out would end up being full of terrible music puns. Current Mood: goofyCurrent Music: the TV is on... CSI, I think? | | Friday, September 21st, 2007 | | 2:58 pm |
I'm practicing for my Academy Award acceptance speech.
I'd like to thank Professor Edward Orgill, for saying on the first day of Big Band, "You don't have to solo in rehearsals. Just play roots or leading tone lines." This becomes significant when some composer/arranger decides to get cute and put a solo in the fourth trumpet part. I'd also like to thank every music teacher I've worked with who has been unnecessarily cruel or has delighted in embarrassing students because they believe that fear = respect. Even if I don't agree with your methods, after you, I can take just about anyone. And a shout-out to Jim Thomas for making me learn my Dorian scales. Because those totally came in handy today. Current Mood: good! really good!Current Music: Lee Morgan | | Monday, September 10th, 2007 | | 7:44 pm |
Attention all potential college students...
...especially potential theatre arts majors. If I told you that Westfield a question and answer session about theatre in college, accompanied by a free show for anyone who participates, would you be interested? It may or may not happen, but I'm curious. | | Saturday, September 8th, 2007 | | 10:48 pm |
Madeleine L'Engle
1918-2007
She's among the stars now. | | Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 | | 6:07 pm |
| | Sunday, August 19th, 2007 | | 11:10 am |
This made made me laugh. From badgods.com. Current Mood: tickledCurrent Music: Someone is taking a shower, so I can't brush my teeth. | | Saturday, June 23rd, 2007 | | 12:29 pm |
Today is a good day.
First construction work on my street, now bikes on 3A. Roads are for cars, people, roads are for cars. I was ten minutes late to my piano lesson, which I had to reschedule for today anyways. God or someone close to him clearly did no want me to learn piano. But I persevered, and Svenja was wonderfully patient with my failings as always. She's the best.
While I'm updating, I want to note that I'm very jealous of my brother's summer reading assignment. Does anyone remember middle school, when reading books got you coupons for the book fair? Did we know how lucky we were? I wish someone still paid me to read. Tomorow night I'm leaving for orientation. I'll be back on Tuesday. Westfield, here I come. Current Mood: beach weather | | Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 | | 7:46 pm |
In other news, I'm sick again. Possibly strep throat. I hope it goes away soon. Current Mood:  sickCurrent Music: Nick watching TV | | Thursday, June 14th, 2007 | | 2:00 pm |
Book review and meta rec
Last night I started To Serve and Submit, by Susan Wright. Cut for length, no spoilers that weren't already printed on the back of the book.  good |
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