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Sep. 18th, 2012 08:19 amThings:
- Okay, the thing is, it is September 18th and it's still going to be nearly 80 today. I feel like this is unacceptable.
- But! In good news, choir has started and I was in really good voice at rehearsal tonight, which is pleasant. Our director has this conception of our Christmas concert being something reminiscent of a medieval feast (though there won't be food), so we're doing a lot of acapella stuff with wassailing. So that's cool. Also, he has apparently found the only worthwhile arrangement of The 12 Days of Christmas ever. It is called "A Musicological Journey Through the 12 Days of Christmas" and each day is done in a different style of music, going from chant to Sousa marches. It is hilarious.
- We're planning this horror movie marathon for the Friday before Halloween at the Bainbridge library and now every time I go in to work there, people talk to me about horror film. It's pretty great. So far, the proposed lineup is Freaks, The Black Cat, Brides of Dracula, and Masque of the Red Death. There might eventually be more movies - one of my more enthusiastic coworkers wants to set up two screens - but I'm pretty happy with the program right now. Though I am a little sad that we can't show The Tingler. We had talked about it, at one point, but apparently we don't have the performance rights. People will just have to watch it on their own.
- Which they should totally do, by the way. Have you seen The Tingler? It is amazing. ( Brief ridiculous plot description within. ) It is absurd and hilarious and totally fun. I wholeheartedly recommend it. (My parents first saw it in a theater in New York which had been set up with all the original William Castle gimmicks that went with the film, like a Tingler on a string that got pulled up the aisle at certain points, and tiny electric shocks in the seats to make your spine tingle. I, alas, did not accompany them and have been forever jealous.)
- And now I am a little sad that I don't have time to watch The Tingler before work today.
- Okay, the thing is, it is September 18th and it's still going to be nearly 80 today. I feel like this is unacceptable.
- But! In good news, choir has started and I was in really good voice at rehearsal tonight, which is pleasant. Our director has this conception of our Christmas concert being something reminiscent of a medieval feast (though there won't be food), so we're doing a lot of acapella stuff with wassailing. So that's cool. Also, he has apparently found the only worthwhile arrangement of The 12 Days of Christmas ever. It is called "A Musicological Journey Through the 12 Days of Christmas" and each day is done in a different style of music, going from chant to Sousa marches. It is hilarious.
- We're planning this horror movie marathon for the Friday before Halloween at the Bainbridge library and now every time I go in to work there, people talk to me about horror film. It's pretty great. So far, the proposed lineup is Freaks, The Black Cat, Brides of Dracula, and Masque of the Red Death. There might eventually be more movies - one of my more enthusiastic coworkers wants to set up two screens - but I'm pretty happy with the program right now. Though I am a little sad that we can't show The Tingler. We had talked about it, at one point, but apparently we don't have the performance rights. People will just have to watch it on their own.
- Which they should totally do, by the way. Have you seen The Tingler? It is amazing. ( Brief ridiculous plot description within. ) It is absurd and hilarious and totally fun. I wholeheartedly recommend it. (My parents first saw it in a theater in New York which had been set up with all the original William Castle gimmicks that went with the film, like a Tingler on a string that got pulled up the aisle at certain points, and tiny electric shocks in the seats to make your spine tingle. I, alas, did not accompany them and have been forever jealous.)
- And now I am a little sad that I don't have time to watch The Tingler before work today.
