Wednesday, March 12, 2008
i want space, not just air
What a day. Mother has still not gone into surgery. 5 hours late. My goodness. Why can't hospitals run like you see them run in Grey's Anatomy, House, ER, etc. etc.?
Recently seen movies:
La Vie en Rose: Oh my goodness. What an amazing movie. It was beautiful, tragic, exhilarating, and dramatic, among other things. I wish there was something even more important than an Oscar for Marion Cotillard. Her performance was outstanding.
Gone Baby Gone: An incredible crime drama. Casey Afflek has serious talent. A very intense story that is devastating in parts, but well worth it to see the redemption.
The Pianist: What I'm wondering is why I didn't see it until two nights ago. This film has definitely become one of my favorites. Adrien Brody was outstanding as Wladislaw Szpilman. I can't even describe how much I loved it. Very hard to watch in parts, which made it all the more real.
My grandparents are here for two days. I may have said this before, but it gets truer every day: there are no greater people in all the world.
New piano pieces: Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Chopin's Ballad in G Minor, Holst's Jupiter, Pachebel's Canon in D, Beethoven's 3rd Symphony (1st movement excerpt).
Have you ever noticed that the most beautiful songs in musicals usually go to the male characters? Examples:
Music of the Night - Phantom of the Opera (Phantom)
Giants in the Sky - Into the Woods (Jack)
Dancing Through Life - Wicked (Fiyero)
Miracle of Miracles - The Fiddler on the Roof (Motel)
Any Day Now - The Fiddler on the Roof (Perchik)
Santa Fe - Newsies (Jack)
On the Street Where You Live - My Fair Lady (Freddie)
Snoopy - You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Snoopy)
Stars - Les Miserables (Javert)
Bring Him Home - Les Miserables (Jean Valjean)
Who Am I? - Les Miserables (Jean Valjean)
Oh, What a Beautiful Morning - Oklahoma! (Curly)
Your Song - Moulin Rouge! (Christian)
My Friends - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Sweeney)
Johanna - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Anthony)
Old Deuteronomy - Cats (Munkustrap and Rum Tum Tugger)
It Takes Two - Hairspray (Link)
Le Temps de Catedrali - Notre Dame de Paris (Gringiore)
Where Is Love? - Oliver! (Oliver)
"Stars in your multitudes
Scarce to be counted
Filling the darkness
With order and light
You are the sentinels
Silent and Sure
Keeping watch in the night"
Recently seen movies:
La Vie en Rose: Oh my goodness. What an amazing movie. It was beautiful, tragic, exhilarating, and dramatic, among other things. I wish there was something even more important than an Oscar for Marion Cotillard. Her performance was outstanding.
Gone Baby Gone: An incredible crime drama. Casey Afflek has serious talent. A very intense story that is devastating in parts, but well worth it to see the redemption.
The Pianist: What I'm wondering is why I didn't see it until two nights ago. This film has definitely become one of my favorites. Adrien Brody was outstanding as Wladislaw Szpilman. I can't even describe how much I loved it. Very hard to watch in parts, which made it all the more real.
My grandparents are here for two days. I may have said this before, but it gets truer every day: there are no greater people in all the world.
New piano pieces: Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Chopin's Ballad in G Minor, Holst's Jupiter, Pachebel's Canon in D, Beethoven's 3rd Symphony (1st movement excerpt).
Have you ever noticed that the most beautiful songs in musicals usually go to the male characters? Examples:
Music of the Night - Phantom of the Opera (Phantom)
Giants in the Sky - Into the Woods (Jack)
Dancing Through Life - Wicked (Fiyero)
Miracle of Miracles - The Fiddler on the Roof (Motel)
Any Day Now - The Fiddler on the Roof (Perchik)
Santa Fe - Newsies (Jack)
On the Street Where You Live - My Fair Lady (Freddie)
Snoopy - You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Snoopy)
Stars - Les Miserables (Javert)
Bring Him Home - Les Miserables (Jean Valjean)
Who Am I? - Les Miserables (Jean Valjean)
Oh, What a Beautiful Morning - Oklahoma! (Curly)
Your Song - Moulin Rouge! (Christian)
My Friends - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Sweeney)
Johanna - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Anthony)
Old Deuteronomy - Cats (Munkustrap and Rum Tum Tugger)
It Takes Two - Hairspray (Link)
Le Temps de Catedrali - Notre Dame de Paris (Gringiore)
Where Is Love? - Oliver! (Oliver)
"Stars in your multitudes
Scarce to be counted
Filling the darkness
With order and light
You are the sentinels
Silent and Sure
Keeping watch in the night"
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6 Comments:
OK, I officially want to see all of those movies.
...let 'em laugh in my face, i don't care...
i need that soundtrack
don't we all.
Are you a Sweeney Todd fan (of the stage version I mean)? cause so far I'm the only one I know. I hear it's coming to Houston, but I prolly won't go unless I can group in someone's vehicle.
Can I disagree about one thing...while I did love "Gone Baby Gone" and would highly recommend it, there was certainly no satisfaction of redemption. There was no redemption. In that scenario, neither outcome can be celebrated.
I beg to differ. While it was slightly hidden, the redemption is that Casey Afflek's character essentially did the right thing. If he had made the opposite decision, then there would definitely have been no redemption.
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