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[sanura]

I finished the third season again last night. Now I have to do something productive, artistic, or mind-numbing. There are more movies, but look!

LJ Interests meme results

1. brahms:
   The man was a contradiction in terms: hyperromantic classicist. Desperately in love with his friend's wife, and a perfect gentleman, taking care of her and her children after his friend died. He wore his heart on the sleeve of his music, but getting there it must have undergone some kind of purifying refinement, because no matter how desperate, it would fit in on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
2. drama:
   Not just the theatrical kind. Drama in music, drama in art, conversational drama. Life without drama is boring to me, even if it's the dramatic contrast between serenity and chaos. I don't necessarily like to live drama, but to study it when it occurs is almost reflexive. How does an interaction further the dramatic beauty in a relationship? Real drama, I mean. I am not a drama queen, nor do I like them.
3. faure:
   How I hate the language, but how I love the composers. France is an all-or-nothing kind of place, and they got it all in music. With Faure, there's the Requiem, of course, the opposite of the Verdi and winner of the prize for Highest Tranquillity. There are the songs, too, which ennoble idealized emotions with superhumanly expressive and perfect melodic lines. Even badly played and sung, Faure is moving.
4. knives:
   Sharp things in general, really, and metal. Knives in particular because of their history and versatility. They can be incredibly beautiful courtly weapons of chivalry, mundane objects of everyday use, quirky tools of craft and livelihood, brutally ugly means of painful massacre, specialized instruments of professional quality... Knives are useful, helpful, dangerous, and frightening all at once. A lot like fire.
5. metal:
   Partially it is a superficial attraction. Metal is shiny, it is of chemically pure composition and basically elemental, it glows when you melt it. However, it has the same cultural versatility as I explained for knives. Bridle to tank, gong to amplifier, astrolabe to circuitry, nuggets to ingots to coins. It's got history, metal does. I also like how it's the earth's guts we use for everything, smelted and refined.
6. piano:
   I'm seeing a common theme here. Versatility is king. Here, we have nearly the widest range in music, dynamic abilities to put singers to shame, melodically and harmonically capable to equal degrees. Plus I just like how it sounds. Daddy played piano, played it very well. It's the most eloquent voice of my beloved. I am a crack hand at it, and it's very useful for hear-along composition. It looks cool, too.
7. requiems:
   All the cultural ramifications aside, it seems that the most masterful composition of anyone who writes music is a piece for the dead, or for those who survive the dead. It is an opera of one's internal monologue, in a setting of Judaeo-Christian familiarity with death and what happens next, both for the dead and the living. It's a good means of comparison, too; style is obvious when form of composition is similar or identical.
8. shostakovich:
   I don't know as much about him as I should, but anyone who writes satirical music under the barbaric and tyrannical nose of those he satirizes is good in my book. I can only think of one piece he wrote that is approaching sincere, and it's on the death of his son. What can I say? I go for the drama and the sarcasm, and he's got both. I used to listen to his 8th quartet every night before bed, for some reason.
9. the renaissance period:
   In my opinion, visual art has declined since then and never again reached a level anywhere near it. Subjectually, fine. Subtlety is more difficult with realism. But the skill, the skill! And the music, too. Architecture. Concentration on the individual. Combination of romantic monarchy and humanism. Why doesn't the world produce Renaissance men? Why now jacks of all trades, rather than masters of several?
10. yellow submarine:
    It was my favorite movie when I was two years old, long before I understood any of the puns or realized how many references there were to drugs. The trippy animation appealed to me before I knew the meaning of trippy. The songs are catchy enough for a two-year-old. And now that I see how satirical it is, I like it even more. There's something there for both the cynic and the idealist. Plus, hey. A yellow submarine.

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