Music attention deficit disorder. You can’t find a good song to listen to. You might find one you like but about 30 seconds into the song you’re sick of it and turn it. (definition from urbandictionary.com)
I suffer from this. It’s a serious problem. I need to find a cure. If anyone finds one, please let me know!
-Christian from Moulin Rouge!
I thought I’d let you know that I am doing roughly 4 blog posts a week for my class blogs, so that is why this site has been sadly neglected! Also, I have changed how I want to do this blog…it will still remain “personal” whatever that means…but it will be more of a random collection of thoughts/quotes/pictures/ideas/garbage/kitties that I find! Feel free to add reading it to your list of pointless things you do during the day!
a strong desire to know something or learn something
This could be the story of my life. Curiosity. I have found myself asking a lot of questions lately, mostly out loud and concerning nothing of true importance. I’m curious about the curiosity of a child. I’ll only ask one question right now, I promise, but how is that right around age two babies ask “why?” all the time. I mean their vocabulary is so small, but somehow that question makes sense to them. There are other question words like, how, who, where, etc, but how come two year olds use “why” constantly? Okay, that’s enough nonsense….
This all ties into how I saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button today. It was a very unique movie! I have never thought about what life would be like going from old to young. The concept was very intriguing to me and even though the movie is just under 3 hours, it kept my attention because of this very foreign idea. I have yet to wrap my head around what it all meant. Go see it!
After watching this somewhat heartwarming story about the entirety of life, I watched a very different movie titled Rules of Attraction, which was made in 2002, but I had never seen. It was possibly the kinkiest movie ever. I paid a lot of attention to the music in the movie. It is so crazy to me how much music plays a role. For instance, in this movie, a girl ends up cutting herself and bleeding to death in a bathtub and this nonchalant song that was familiar to me was playing. I looked it up and it is “Without You” by Harry Nilsson. It was originally by the group Badfinger, but Nilsson’s version ended up winning a Grammy for Best Pop Song of 1973. All of this matters because it just didn’t feel like a song to be playing while some girl is committing suicide. It made the scene so light-hearted almost. Usually there is something real dark over a suicide in a film, but this was different, so different that I kind of chuckled. It was interesting to say the least. Did the filmmaker intend for the pop song to do this, or was he thinking it was actually a great song that would move the audience to tears during the scene? Anyway, the whole soundtrack kind of did this sort of thing, so maybe it was intentional by the filmmaker to add songs that would dumb things down a bit. After all, it is a movie about college students making awful decisions and showing that these decisions lead nowhere.
Did I mention the all-star cast? Dawson from Dawson’s Creek, Boone from Lost, Sunshine from Remember the Titans, Jessica Biel, etc…
Okay, so after saying all of this, I realize that today I lived almost completely in a world that is not real. I sat and watched two movies, and am about to start diving in to my current book, New Moon. I have experience a world where people go from old to young, then to a world of drugs, sex, and death, and about to be in a world of vampires and werewolves. Talk about the ultimate escape from my reality!
I deleted the first post I ever made on wordpress because it was from almost a year ago. So, this marks a new beginning, at least for this blog. I have been wrestling back and forth if I want this blog to be worth something, or simply a personal diary. Perhaps it can be both. For instance, maybe I’ll review movies, or maybe even music, but then how will I feel when people do not find what I have to say about these topics interesting…or even worse, how will I feel when no one reads it.
Therefore, I have concluded it will be a little bit of both. On that I will start with a mini movie review. I saw the movie Australia. It was epic, no question about that. Not completely what I was expecting. It was epic in a fairy tale way, not in a realistic way. It was no doubt a more expressionistic movie, versus a realist movie. The music is what made is this way, in my opinion. Obviously, almost every movie has some sort of score or soundtrack, which makes it distinguishable from the “real world,” however, the music in Australia exaggerated the fact that this movie was more imaginative. The music was super cinematic, and rather light-hearted. I really enjoyed how they incorporated the song “Over the Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz. Well at this point I could go on a rant about how adorable Nicole Kidman was and how freaking hot Hugh Jackman is, but I’d rather just talk about the music.
This movie was important for me because it really opened my eyes to music in the movies. Therefore, a new goal for me is to work toward becoming a music supervisor for either TV or film. I would love to oversee the soundtrack of a movie. It’s two of my favorite things in one career! PERFECT! However, I researched the demand for this job and the outlook was not so good. If anyone reads this and can hook me up with some sort of apprenticeship that’d be great! HA!
Well, this was a good day to start my blog because I am currently snowed in at my house in Chaska, MN. I attempted to make a break for it, but got about two miles from my house and realized I could barely see what was in front of me so I decided it was best to head back home before I ended up in the ditch. I hate cold weather, and the snow when it stops me!
Just remember, “love is not a victory march.”
Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright
P.S. I’m in a dilemma.
