Music Nerdiness
It amuses me that I've become the type to go into the kitchen and turn on classical music really loud while I cook. Actually, it kind of makes me feel like the haplessly oblivious character in a movie, whose about to get stabbed in the back. (You know-like the highly cultured villain, whose sits with a glass of wine, passionately listening to opera while someone sneaks up and murders him. Such truly epic death scene music.)
Anyway. I love classical music. I love the way you have to listen to it several times, and get to know it, before you can fully appreciate it (like with a really difficult and complicated-but really good-book). Right now, I'm particularly in love with Albinoni's Adagio for Organ and Strings. For some reason, it keeps reminding me of Percy's capture, in Eldorado, or...I don't know, the unfair, tragic humiliation of a hero. If that makes any sense, whatsoever. :P
I also really like Beethoven's Symphony #7 in A Major, and Abdelazer/Moor's Revenge (Purcell). Gah. But it makes me want to know how to capture music like that and translate it directly into a story somehow. *wistful* (Which probably means I should never attempt to write something while listening to any of the aforementioned music, because it would undoubtedly wind up being hopelessly melodramatic.)
Okay, 'nuff geeking out over not-cool music. ^^ Instead, let me geek out about my latest opportunity to learn graphic design from a woman at our church who does it professionally. She's pregnant with her third child, and working part-time, and is looking for ways to make some income from home. So I get to be her first "guinea pig" student. Which I'm very happy to be. :D While I've enjoyed playing around with graphics for quite some time, I would really, really like to get serious enough about it to start doing freelance work, and I'm excited to be going back to the basics of color theory, ad layout, typography, and such-and learning it from someone who knows how to do it professionally. Plus I'm going to get to go “play” on the computers at the local tech college. *bouncy*
Anyway. I love classical music. I love the way you have to listen to it several times, and get to know it, before you can fully appreciate it (like with a really difficult and complicated-but really good-book). Right now, I'm particularly in love with Albinoni's Adagio for Organ and Strings. For some reason, it keeps reminding me of Percy's capture, in Eldorado, or...I don't know, the unfair, tragic humiliation of a hero. If that makes any sense, whatsoever. :P
I also really like Beethoven's Symphony #7 in A Major, and Abdelazer/Moor's Revenge (Purcell). Gah. But it makes me want to know how to capture music like that and translate it directly into a story somehow. *wistful* (Which probably means I should never attempt to write something while listening to any of the aforementioned music, because it would undoubtedly wind up being hopelessly melodramatic.)
Okay, 'nuff geeking out over not-cool music. ^^ Instead, let me geek out about my latest opportunity to learn graphic design from a woman at our church who does it professionally. She's pregnant with her third child, and working part-time, and is looking for ways to make some income from home. So I get to be her first "guinea pig" student. Which I'm very happy to be. :D While I've enjoyed playing around with graphics for quite some time, I would really, really like to get serious enough about it to start doing freelance work, and I'm excited to be going back to the basics of color theory, ad layout, typography, and such-and learning it from someone who knows how to do it professionally. Plus I'm going to get to go “play” on the computers at the local tech college. *bouncy*