Comments | bookofrebus: Chaper 13 - "They say God made Australia last after he got tired of makin everything else the same."

bookofrebus

Chaper 13 - "They say God made Australia last after he got tired of makin everything else the same."

Oct 21, 2005 10:31

Not sure of the point of submitting any further ramblings into this vacuous space of the interweb but I figred while I'm in the queue for the bathroom I might as well fill my time with something that requires thought. So, I've finally come to Australia after all the bitching and moaning about not being here. The too-extensive email will have ( Read more... )

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grondzilla October 21 2005, 05:39:35 UTC

In Australia and up to the oddest Hijinx at that. You know I was pretty sure that no living thing bothered reading my all but dead (waste-of-a) journal and then you go and comment on a posting pretty well as soon as (more like *while*) I've made it. Needless to say you freaked me right out. Now I only have to sort out why the hell my browser isn't letting me see the image theoretically displayed by LJ.

Super hurricanes = God's Wroth @ the Moron in Chief.

narvi October 21 2005, 14:48:21 UTC

Mmm. I loved Battle Royale. Which, if I recall correctly, had a lovely classical soundtrack as well.

bookofrebus October 22 2005, 04:20:29 UTC

Indeed it did, one of the best Classical Albums nevermind Classical Soundtracks. All the greats in there; Strauss, Bach, Verdi, Schubert, with some great original music by Masamichi Amano. I've been on just a hint of a Classical music binge recently so I could go on....

narvi October 22 2005, 23:56:09 UTC

Please do.

I've been listening to some Zbigniew Preisner.

bookofrebus October 23 2005, 06:02:01 UTC

Well, if you insist, and just because it's you.

I think someone once brought in Requiem For My Freind into work once, I'm almost sure that's what it was. Either way I loved it.My first purchase on my classic-fuelled purchasing trip was Holst's Planets. Nothing better than driving through a country road at speed listening to Mars.

Then the more I worked the more I saved the more I bought and have gone from Mozart to Mendelssohn to Shostakovich to Berlioz. I have to say though, I can't recommend anything greater than Rachmaninov's Piano Concerts 1, 2, 3, and 4. And there is almost no piece of Classical music more hauntingly beautiful than the Danse Macabre of Sans-Saens.

I haven't really gotten into contemporary composers much, except maybe Philip Glass and Bernard Herrmann, actually mostly just film composers like Mark Isham and Clint Mansell, actually quite a few, Howard Shore of course as well. Listen to Glass's 'Facades' though, if you want to listen to something contemporary, it's beautiful.

So yeah, I'm spent.

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