Perchance to Blog
Let's try the xtra-big print here. Easier on the eyes- especially if those eyes have a few miles on them. The eyes are, of course, one of the first things to go. Besides the fact that your eyeball changes shape in the course of your lifetime(taking you, for instance--most common--from nearsightedness to farsightedness)the picture gets fuzzy. Guess you could adjust your head or your ears, and see what that does, but...
I am having trouble at this point with teeny-tiny type. Gotta hold it at arms' length and then some, being one of those poor slobs who's gone from near to far-sightedeness.Well, these things happen.
Been watching the Kill Bill movies this weekend. Immensely entertaining. I love the retro music in Quentin Tarantino's films, particularly these 2: the "actual tremolo" guitars(I am old enough to remember when tremolo was an actual setting)and 'right on' 70's bigband stuff, plus the epic spaghetti-Western harmonica/pan flute score.
I was thinking of how cheezy many of the sounds really were, particularly the harmonica/pan flute epic ballads- which were usually played as someone got an arm hacked off and blood was spurting like a geyser from their truncated appendage. Nice combination of images there.
But then that's what makes it for me, the very inappropriateness of the sticky-sweet neo-70's soundtrack to what's on the screen(usually dismemberment of some kind..). It raises the kitsch level even higher.
His movies seem to at once honor and satirize such mannerisms of old. Right down to the tremolo guitar..And the sound effects in the fight scenes are also really choice- every blow lands with a resounding SWAK!
A nice place to go for awhile, the movies. Got one room in the house- a small room with a big TV in it- in which you can really get engrossed and lose yourself in the movie, to where it's always a jolt turning the light back on and returning to reality (well, depending on the movie, that could be a relief)..I should probably program in more such excursions during the week.
Also listened to some classical music, all symphonic stuff, by one S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatte`. Russian-born composer(1899-1974), lived in Austria and Canada. SC stands for Sophie-Carmen. Very lush without being syrupy, neo-Romantic stuff written in the quasi-tonality of the time. Cool stuff. Her Piano music sounds like Prokofiev(this is a good thing, at least to me, being someone who loves Prokofiev's Piano stuff).
Okay then. I guess that's all I've got for this end-of-weekend blog. If you like to read, and like adventure stories, go to http://jameshartisley.com and pick yourself up a book.
Damn, these weekends go fast! A few challenges in the coming week, but it'll make that Friday Corona taste that much better..
I am having trouble at this point with teeny-tiny type. Gotta hold it at arms' length and then some, being one of those poor slobs who's gone from near to far-sightedeness.Well, these things happen.
Been watching the Kill Bill movies this weekend. Immensely entertaining. I love the retro music in Quentin Tarantino's films, particularly these 2: the "actual tremolo" guitars(I am old enough to remember when tremolo was an actual setting)and 'right on' 70's bigband stuff, plus the epic spaghetti-Western harmonica/pan flute score.
I was thinking of how cheezy many of the sounds really were, particularly the harmonica/pan flute epic ballads- which were usually played as someone got an arm hacked off and blood was spurting like a geyser from their truncated appendage. Nice combination of images there.
But then that's what makes it for me, the very inappropriateness of the sticky-sweet neo-70's soundtrack to what's on the screen(usually dismemberment of some kind..). It raises the kitsch level even higher.
His movies seem to at once honor and satirize such mannerisms of old. Right down to the tremolo guitar..And the sound effects in the fight scenes are also really choice- every blow lands with a resounding SWAK!
A nice place to go for awhile, the movies. Got one room in the house- a small room with a big TV in it- in which you can really get engrossed and lose yourself in the movie, to where it's always a jolt turning the light back on and returning to reality (well, depending on the movie, that could be a relief)..I should probably program in more such excursions during the week.
Also listened to some classical music, all symphonic stuff, by one S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatte`. Russian-born composer(1899-1974), lived in Austria and Canada. SC stands for Sophie-Carmen. Very lush without being syrupy, neo-Romantic stuff written in the quasi-tonality of the time. Cool stuff. Her Piano music sounds like Prokofiev(this is a good thing, at least to me, being someone who loves Prokofiev's Piano stuff).
Okay then. I guess that's all I've got for this end-of-weekend blog. If you like to read, and like adventure stories, go to http://jameshartisley.com and pick yourself up a book.
Damn, these weekends go fast! A few challenges in the coming week, but it'll make that Friday Corona taste that much better..
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