Happy and Sad, with Ramblings
I'm having conflicting emotions at the moment.
On the one hand, I'm happy because "I'm found!" (see last post). I talked to Joanna over lunch, and we thought that Fairies would be a good topic to write about for my Occult paper. I also have a topic for my German cinema paper: Sunset Boulevard directed by Billy Wilder. I love that movie. So that's the good stuff. . .
On the other hand, I have so much crap to do for school, it's not even funny. And it's due by Friday, and Joanna has to write a paper for tomorrow night's class, so I won't get any computer time until I take her to school (Not that I'm blaming you for this, Joanna, but it does suck having only one computer for two very computer-needy people). On top of this mess, I just watched nearly all of the most depressing and graphic movies I've ever seen. It was The Passion of the Christ. I missed the beginning, since I had to practice with the choir for Sunday, but I saw most of it, and I'm still pretty moved by it. I don't know if I'd watch it again, simply because it's such a heavy, graphic film.
Speaking of being moved by things, music is amazing. I can watch the saddest thing on tv and not cry, but throw in some heartwrenching music and I'm a goner. Things that really get to me: children singing, SATB choirs a capella, sweeping melodies (the melody usually jumping from I to VI), and unrequited-love songs in musicals. One thing that has gotten to me recently, and every time I hear it, I want to cry because it's so pretty, is Nessun Dorma sung by Sarah Brightman on her Classics CD. At the very end of the song, she sings the last note with no background, it's just her, and then the orchestra and voices come sweeping back in with the melody. The chorus's last note is a capella as well *goosebumps!*, before the orchestra comes back for the final emphatic chord.
I don't know what it is about music, but it moves me. It can make me cry, it can make me smile, it can make me laugh. . . Music is just amazing, and I can not imagine life, not just my life, but Life in general without it.
On the one hand, I'm happy because "I'm found!" (see last post). I talked to Joanna over lunch, and we thought that Fairies would be a good topic to write about for my Occult paper. I also have a topic for my German cinema paper: Sunset Boulevard directed by Billy Wilder. I love that movie. So that's the good stuff. . .
On the other hand, I have so much crap to do for school, it's not even funny. And it's due by Friday, and Joanna has to write a paper for tomorrow night's class, so I won't get any computer time until I take her to school (Not that I'm blaming you for this, Joanna, but it does suck having only one computer for two very computer-needy people). On top of this mess, I just watched nearly all of the most depressing and graphic movies I've ever seen. It was The Passion of the Christ. I missed the beginning, since I had to practice with the choir for Sunday, but I saw most of it, and I'm still pretty moved by it. I don't know if I'd watch it again, simply because it's such a heavy, graphic film.
Speaking of being moved by things, music is amazing. I can watch the saddest thing on tv and not cry, but throw in some heartwrenching music and I'm a goner. Things that really get to me: children singing, SATB choirs a capella, sweeping melodies (the melody usually jumping from I to VI), and unrequited-love songs in musicals. One thing that has gotten to me recently, and every time I hear it, I want to cry because it's so pretty, is Nessun Dorma sung by Sarah Brightman on her Classics CD. At the very end of the song, she sings the last note with no background, it's just her, and then the orchestra and voices come sweeping back in with the melody. The chorus's last note is a capella as well *goosebumps!*, before the orchestra comes back for the final emphatic chord.
I don't know what it is about music, but it moves me. It can make me cry, it can make me smile, it can make me laugh. . . Music is just amazing, and I can not imagine life, not just my life, but Life in general without it.
posted by Nessarose @ 10:17 PM
3 Comments:
At 1:01 PM,
Shirley Zermeno said…
Sometimes when I'm doing random stuff I think "If this were a movie, what song would be playing right now?" I procrastinate too, I have a 25 page paper due tomorrow on The Knights Templar for my Crusades class and yeah, right now I have 0 pages! How close are you to graduating?
At 6:33 PM,
Nessarose said…
Twenty-five pages?! Holy crap, that's a lot of writing! Mine are only five to seven, so I'm feeling pretty grateful right now. :-) I'm hoping to walk in December, provided I pass my last three classes, and can attend 40 recitals by the end of the semester. . . Twenty-five pages?! I just can't get over that. Are you a grad student? And what happened to your blog? The last few times I've gone there, I haven't seen any posts. Or is it because you didn't post that day? Can you change your settings to that? Sorry about the "20 questions".
At 7:44 PM,
Shirley Zermeno said…
No, I'm still working on my BA in psychology. It's a 4000(SR) level class and 10 pages can be pictures. I'm just being dramatic. I thought about making my blog more like a diary type thing. There are so many people out there that know way more about what they're talking about than I do so I decided I'll just stick to commenting on politics! I'm still trying to figure out how everything works though.
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