{"id":332,"date":"2007-10-20T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=332"},"modified":"2007-10-20T23:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T03:26:00","slug":"long-time-no-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Long Time, No Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can finally blog again! I went weeks without the Internet, then I had midterms and a cold and many emails to catch up on, but now things are finally settling back to chaos.<\/p>\n

I’ve been reading a short biography of Mahler<\/a>. Although I love his music, he doesn’t seem like the kind of guy I’d get along with… he seems very prideful, and not in the honest Roark kind of way, but in the bloated and wrong Toohey way. I’m about half-way through the book.<\/p>\n

The other day I bought three books (bound as one)<\/a> by Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers, The Count of Montecristo, and The Man in the Iron Mask. I was mostly interested in the books because of how good the stories seem in the movies, and the collection was a mere $13. That price for 1400 pages of fiction sounds good to me!<\/p>\n

I finished writing my Opus 40, “The King’s Assassin”, but I still have some orchestrational editing to do. However, that will have to wait since I must now focus my musical energy on an orchestration of The Cornish Wassail for a Christmas CD. I started working on it a while ago, but I’m seriously considering scrapping my work on it thus far (I was almost about half way done) and starting anew with a different… “outlook” I suppose you could say. What I have now isn’t really bad, but it sounds too simple orchestrationally. It needs more umph. More power. Orchestrating is hard!<\/p>\n

The preview for Sweeney Todd<\/a> is out! It looks like fun, but I’d rather Sweeney and his world didn’t seem so dark on the outside. I think Sweeney is more of a normal looking man with inside darkness. He shouldn’t look like a crazy murderer on the outside. He’s not supposed to be that<\/em> kind of crazy. Oh well, I still look forward to it. What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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