I started writing what will be my 40th piece of music tonight (not counting reorchestrations of Christmas tunes and not-so-good pieces). I’m not sure what I’ll call it, but probably something with the word “Battle” in it… which of course means you know it’s gonna be a good one. I’ve got this awesome triumphant/dangerous melody that I just can’t wait to orchestrate, it keeps playing over and over again in my head. Oh… it’s so beautiful…
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lulu.com is cool!
Today I got my self-published book (The Game of Gynwig, Part 1) in the mail from lulu.com. Of course I’m not planning to do anything serious with it, I’m not trying to market this self-published book, I just published it for the fun of seeing it in book form, as I already said in an earlier blog post. It’s really cool. I love how… book-ish it is. Everyone should write something and self-publish it just for fun, and lulu’s prices are great, I paid just about the same price I would if this were a normal book. (Well, just a few dollars more I suppose. Still, it’s quite a deal!)
Anyway, I want to read through the book, which includes the first twelve chapters, to refresh my memory on all I’ve written so far since I keep changing the outline of what is yet to be written. In book form, the errors are much easier to notice as well. I sure made a lot of typos…
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100th Blather
Here’s my 100th post to this blog… quite a lot of blathering being done by me. And so today I’d like to blather about changing the world. Don’t just sit there! Get up and do something, go change the world with ideas and stuff. Do your part to make the world a better place. I’m doing my part by telling you to do yours.
Now on to something more important. Movies. At Quicktime.com I caught a glimpse of the Beowulf trailer. At first I thought it was live action and thought “huh, I thought this was supposed to be computer animated.” It is… wow, it looks quite real. Pretty amazing, they actually have live actors playing animated roles that look like themselves. The graphics are amazing. It almost looks like a cut-scene from an RPG computer game… which is just cool. Woohoo! Can’t wait to see it. Hope it has some swashbuckling music.
Now to something even more important. Just kidding, there is nothing more important. Bye.
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The Trio Video…
As promised (well, not really promised):
It’s a Saturday, I hardly ever get anything interesting done on weekends anymore. However, I do have an idea for a podcast… I’m thinking about registering the domain for it. Also, all those notes I had about the plot for my musical… well… I think I might’ve thrown them out when I cleaned my room… and I don’t think I ever typed ’em up. So I’ll probably have to replan it if I ever actually start working on it.
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Trio No 2
I’m making a YouTube video for my second trio for harp, flute, and oboe, so I suppose I’ll post a link to that here tomorrow if I remember. Another Monk came on tonight, but I missed it because I was watching Spongebob, but the Monk rerun comes on in an hour so I’ll have to catch that. I guess that’s all for today.
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Serenity Now
I recently finished watching the science fiction film Serenity. I have to ponder its themes a bit more before giving it a rating (because that’s so important), but I liked it. The dialogue was a bit… unrealistic at times in my opinion, but I guess that’s why it’s fiction. Still, some characters just seemed too blunt in expressing their opinions. But, especially compared to all the other science fiction films I’ve seen, this is definitely one of the best. (And that’s from someone who has no idea what Firefly was.) Fun stuff. Makes me want to work on my novel, which I’m now too tired to do, so good night.
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Phantom of the Opera
My sister and I saw Phantom of the Opera last night during my third trip to the Kennedy Center (it was awful driving around DC trying to find the place, but at least my sister was driving). We had great seats, and I do love the music and the… live-ness of the production. I’m surprised the conductor didn’t go deaf with the loud fire-cracker effects. Ah… what a fun time. It looked like quite an expensive production, with all the special effects, props, sets, etc, but it made the overall musical that much better, quite a change from seeing more… “minimalist” productions in which the audience has to use just as much imagination as the players on stage.
As much as I loved the performance, I must say, it does make me partly very envious of Mr. Lloyd Webber for all his success. Surely I could write catchy tunes like that very easily… anyone want to produce my musical?
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New stuff…
I didn’t want to post while I was busy reading Harry Potter. I’ll post a review of it later if I feel like it, which I probably won’t because I’m lazy. Overall, I’d say it had a wonderful theme with a sloppy plot. But criticism is the easy part.
Anyway, as you might have been able to tell, I’ve redesigned my website with that Dragonfly CMS that I mentioned earlier. Isn’t that great? Doesn’t it look wonderful?
Also, I’ve cheaply self-published the first twelve chapter of the rough draft of The Game of Gynwig. I’m just a dork (or genius, I guess) who wants to see what it looks like bound on paper, and it was cheap: http://www.lulu.com/content/1056066
Bwa ha ha ha ha…
Chromolume #7; Putting it Together… oh yeah…
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Monk
I missed the season’s start of new episodes of Monk last week, but hopefully I can catch the rest of the season… anyway, tonight’s episode with Snoopy Doggy wasn’t one of the better ones, and I hate how they replaced Randy Newman’s theme song with a rap version. Who’s stupid idea was it to have Snoopy guest star? I liked Andy Richter. Oh well, better luck next week.