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Friday night, after conversing with Watching, I was inspired to write of morals and ethics and when one needs to take action, rather than be a passive bystander. Indeed I was ready to wax, but something interfered--a worthwhile interference, I assure you. What stole my time? Heh...
I stopped by Amazon.com's MP3 Downloads page, merely looking for the artist of a particular song. I spied, however, a new MP3 album featuring a raven against the backdrop of a full moon: The 99 Darkest Pieces Of Classical Music. It was a steal at $5.00. Even downloading it at high speed (at the best quality) took a few hours, so I didn't want to prolong the download time further by using other programs.
I've finally had the time today to begin listening to it, and it is gripping to the core. The hair on the back of my neck constantly rises, and my eyes well up with tears. Excellent mixture of works, some well known and some obscure (or at least new to me).
The music amidst the thickly falling snow outside is utter magic.
Yesterday the boys and I went to see the film The Black Swan. Disturbing, beautiful, and cautionary view into single-minded obsession, the inherent sexism in any arena that objectifies women, and the psychosis that readily breeds when the two meet. I found this insightful review of the movie today at The Feminist Spectator blog. All of the comments furthering the discussion of the movie were helpful, the pro- and the anti-, and what I desired intellectually after mulling it over for awhile in me own brain-pan. The comparison between it and The Wrestler (one of the director's previous stellar works) in some of the comments were illuminating.
My take on The Black Swan? I'm not prepared to go there yet. When a story is told through the perspective of an unstable, repressed, hallucinating character, how can anything that happens be accepted as real? For all we really know, every character could've been aspects of her own mind (id, ego, etc.)
I wouldn't recommend the movie for anyone who dislikes critical thinking or thinking in general while absorbing their entertainment.
And the real-or-imagined sex scene between Nina and Lily? OMG. Frustratingly hot.
I stopped by Amazon.com's MP3 Downloads page, merely looking for the artist of a particular song. I spied, however, a new MP3 album featuring a raven against the backdrop of a full moon: The 99 Darkest Pieces Of Classical Music. It was a steal at $5.00. Even downloading it at high speed (at the best quality) took a few hours, so I didn't want to prolong the download time further by using other programs.
I've finally had the time today to begin listening to it, and it is gripping to the core. The hair on the back of my neck constantly rises, and my eyes well up with tears. Excellent mixture of works, some well known and some obscure (or at least new to me).
The music amidst the thickly falling snow outside is utter magic.
Yesterday the boys and I went to see the film The Black Swan. Disturbing, beautiful, and cautionary view into single-minded obsession, the inherent sexism in any arena that objectifies women, and the psychosis that readily breeds when the two meet. I found this insightful review of the movie today at The Feminist Spectator blog. All of the comments furthering the discussion of the movie were helpful, the pro- and the anti-, and what I desired intellectually after mulling it over for awhile in me own brain-pan. The comparison between it and The Wrestler (one of the director's previous stellar works) in some of the comments were illuminating.
My take on The Black Swan? I'm not prepared to go there yet. When a story is told through the perspective of an unstable, repressed, hallucinating character, how can anything that happens be accepted as real? For all we really know, every character could've been aspects of her own mind (id, ego, etc.)
I wouldn't recommend the movie for anyone who dislikes critical thinking or thinking in general while absorbing their entertainment.
And the real-or-imagined sex scene between Nina and Lily? OMG. Frustratingly hot.
