The hurricane / war path that frequents my room has vanished for the present moment. Last weekend, I not only cleaned my room but rearranged it as well. Now, this may not sound like much but it was quite an undertaking, enough to take up my whole day. I even used those mover-plastic disk things under my dressers so I could move them heavy things by myself. So I am very happy with my room now, but isn’t it strange- even when I make space on my desk, I prefer to work on my computer in bed?
Currently listening to Boston and remembering alphabetizing my mum’s CD’s in the basement. Yes, I love alphabetizing! It was also a great way to improve my iTunes selection. But, the Boston’s CD insert was really funny. Here’s an excerpt:
“If you’re looking for something to tell you that the band in question is composed of nearly notable former members of various bands, or how many jam sessions the drummer sat in on with rock superstars who are now dead or disabled or retired, forget it. Unless the names Mother’s Milk, Middle Earth, or the Revolting Tones Revue ring any particular bells, where the people who make up this band Boston came from is irrelevant to who and where they are now.
Listen to the record!
As to how the band came together, we’ll let lead singer Bradley Delp tell the story: ‘Fran knew Barry, and I knew Fran, and Fran had played with Sib, and Sib had played with Tom, and Barry knew Tom, and Tom knew me, but Fran didn’t know that I knew that he knew Barry too, so what happened was…’
Listen to the record!”
And then they go on to talk about their music technology and I really know nothing about that. But apparently it is very important as my mum gave me a briefing on it when she called me from my room where I was happily listening to Pink Floyd the other day. She said that she found it odd to be listening to Pink Floyd from my laptop’s speakers. It sounded BAD?!? Yes because I have Bose speakers and never plug them in. (should get on that) I guess that without a good stereo system I will miss out on whole sections of the songs because in the mixing room the band played around with the front, back, and side speakers to give the impression that the music was coming from places when you play it with proper sound equipment. (hehe mummy, did I get it right?) I will try to listen to it properly but I also know that I am content now to play it on the laptop. I’ll let you know when I finally cave in the better stereo quality. :)
News:
One more day until school begins again. I received an interesting e-mail from my college’s vp of student affairs stating that some professors may be on strike tomorrow. We shall see how that turns out. Finished shopping for my grandma’s birthday presents… she’s turning 70. Part of the present is a basket full of 1939 things: coffee percolator, Rudolph ornament, and many movies!!! However, most of the classics are not stocked because the 70th anniversary editions are coming out in November. Doesn’t really help for a September baby, eh? But, I was able to get Stagecoach, Goodbye Mr. Chips, The Little Princess, and The Women. (alas, no Victor Fleming representation: Gone With the Wind or Wizard of Oz)
Currently listening to Boston and remembering alphabetizing my mum’s CD’s in the basement. Yes, I love alphabetizing! It was also a great way to improve my iTunes selection. But, the Boston’s CD insert was really funny. Here’s an excerpt:
“If you’re looking for something to tell you that the band in question is composed of nearly notable former members of various bands, or how many jam sessions the drummer sat in on with rock superstars who are now dead or disabled or retired, forget it. Unless the names Mother’s Milk, Middle Earth, or the Revolting Tones Revue ring any particular bells, where the people who make up this band Boston came from is irrelevant to who and where they are now.
Listen to the record!
As to how the band came together, we’ll let lead singer Bradley Delp tell the story: ‘Fran knew Barry, and I knew Fran, and Fran had played with Sib, and Sib had played with Tom, and Barry knew Tom, and Tom knew me, but Fran didn’t know that I knew that he knew Barry too, so what happened was…’
Listen to the record!”
And then they go on to talk about their music technology and I really know nothing about that. But apparently it is very important as my mum gave me a briefing on it when she called me from my room where I was happily listening to Pink Floyd the other day. She said that she found it odd to be listening to Pink Floyd from my laptop’s speakers. It sounded BAD?!? Yes because I have Bose speakers and never plug them in. (should get on that) I guess that without a good stereo system I will miss out on whole sections of the songs because in the mixing room the band played around with the front, back, and side speakers to give the impression that the music was coming from places when you play it with proper sound equipment. (hehe mummy, did I get it right?) I will try to listen to it properly but I also know that I am content now to play it on the laptop. I’ll let you know when I finally cave in the better stereo quality. :)
News:
One more day until school begins again. I received an interesting e-mail from my college’s vp of student affairs stating that some professors may be on strike tomorrow. We shall see how that turns out. Finished shopping for my grandma’s birthday presents… she’s turning 70. Part of the present is a basket full of 1939 things: coffee percolator, Rudolph ornament, and many movies!!! However, most of the classics are not stocked because the 70th anniversary editions are coming out in November. Doesn’t really help for a September baby, eh? But, I was able to get Stagecoach, Goodbye Mr. Chips, The Little Princess, and The Women. (alas, no Victor Fleming representation: Gone With the Wind or Wizard of Oz)
I saw a TCM documentary on the studio system in 1939 and it was just amazing to realize how many incredible films came from that year: (it’s known as the “greatest year in film history”) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Babes in Arms, Gone With the Wind, Goodbye Mr. Chips, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Love Affair, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Of Mice and Men, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The Rules of the Game, Son of Frankenstein, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, The Women, Wuthering Heights, and Young Mr. Lincoln just to name a few.Books on the roster: Mill & Flesh
I’m in book 2 of The Mill on the Floss. Mae, you would be outraged (and I know others would be too) to read what the clergyman/tutor says about women and education: “They’ve a great deal of superficial cleverness, but they couldn’t go far into anything. They’re quick and shallow” (Eliot 170). However, in the following scene, Tom, the scholar, is sad when his sister, Maggie, must return home, so I don't mind that he shares his teacher's thinking, at the moment, he is just a boy. I really am enjoying the book because it just portrays the prejudice belief system and hilarious (in its seriousness) social conduct of the day (in 1860). Yet I also love much of the charm of that era and wish that we could retain some of that today. I guess that no matter what society as a whole does, my friends and I continue share elements of that time in our writings, movie watching, and often, speech. :)
That's hilariously outrageous. I kind of want to read that book now.
ReplyDeleteWhen I owned CDs (yeah, gave up on keeping track of them), I would always alphabetize them. My bookshelf and DVD shelf gets the anal retentive attitude with organization. My books are sorted by genre and then author. :P
My parents own what seems like thousands of CDs. I never alphabetized them, but I put them into different genres: world, classical, jazz, rock, and some others. That took forever. Amazingly we had enough containers for them all.
ReplyDeleteAnother note: I just read the comment you left on my blog. Yes, I do have a Draco Malfoy crush. It began the second time I saw Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Weird fact: the actor's birthday is September 22nd, 1987, and mine is September 23rd, 1988. Yay almost-birthday buddy!
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