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[Mar. 22nd, 2008|03:22 am] |
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Elinor Dashwood
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[May. 31st, 2007|12:38 am] |
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| | Carmina Burana: XIII. Ego sum abbas | ] |
Orchestra concert = so much fun. I'm kind of sad that I'll never play Russian Easter Overture again. But everything went so well.
( Meme, complete with huge graphic ) |
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[May. 28th, 2007|11:35 am] |
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| | Carmina Burana: XIV. In taberna quando sumus | ] |
Why do I have so many dreams where I'm playing the French horn? Dangit, subconscious, I don't play the horn. XD |
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[May. 26th, 2007|11:17 pm] |
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| | Carmina Burana: XVI. Dies, nox, et omnia | ] |
I saw this on the DF friends page earlier today; I forget who it was who posted it. I thought it would be amusing to see how much of the alphabet I could do…
( The Favourite Literary Characters Alphabet Meme )
Funny. Q through V were really easy to do; I had to think a lot harder about most of the rest of it. And I managed to do nearly the whole thing without resorting to alphabetising someof the characters by their last names.XD |
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| Not exactly a meme, but… |
[Apr. 4th, 2007|11:03 pm] |
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| | Lots of different songs! | ] |
…it seems like one, especially when I look at my last entry. XD I actually got this from AP Lit–my teacher is going to actually have us do this in some form right before the AP as a review. But anyway, the point is to come up with a song that relates to a character or characters from a work of literature for whatever reason. I've been thinking about it ALL DAY now.
Most of these are Beatles songs for no other reason than that basically the only popular-music CD I have is the Beatles CD "1". XD And musicals (including some Gilbert and Sullivan, LOL). And a few other really famous popular songs (so famous that even I have heard of or even heard them).
This may be updated if I get more good/cool/funny ideas.
Dante's Inferno
Dante: "Let It Be" (The Beatles), "Paperback Writer" (The Beatles), "A Change In Me" (Beauty and the Beast)
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Tess: "Yesterday" (The Beatles), "I Dreamed a Dream" (Les Mis)
Angel: "She Loves You" (The Beatles)
Tess and Angel: "We Can Work It Out" (The Beatles), "The Long and Winding Road" (The Beatles), "A Heart Full Of Love" (Les Mis), "Stonehenge" (Spinal Tap)
Alec: "Me" (Beauty and the Beast), "Lonely Room" (Oklahoma)?
The Things They Carried
All the characters: "Bring Him Home" (Les Mis), "Yellow Submarine" (The Beatles)
Tim, Norman Bowker: "Empty Chairs At Empty Tables" (Les Mis)
The Sound and the Fury
Benjy: "Lift Me Up" (The Secret Garden)?
Quentin: "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" (Green Day), "Eleanor Rigby" (The Beatles), "Javert's Suicide" (Les Mis)–if only for the jumping-off-a-bridge thing, Harvard Alma Mater, "Is life a boon?" (The Yeomen of the Guard)
Jason: "Stars" (Les Mis)–sort of
Caddy: "All You Need Is Love" (The Beatles), "I Can't Say No" (Oklahoma), "A Little Fall Of Rain" (Les Mis)–referring, of course, to the water/rain motif
Quentin-the-girl: "Castle On a Cloud" (Les Mis)?
Beloved
Denver: "The Girl I Mean To Be" (The Secret Garden)
Paul D: "The Long and Winding Road" (The Beatles)
Sethe: "Home" (Beauty and the Beast)
The Great Gatsby
Gatsby: "If I Can't Love Her" (Beauty and the Beast),"Where In the World" (The Secret Garden), "I am the very model of a modern major-general" (The Pirates of Penzance)
Daisy: "Shut Up and Dance" (My Favourite Year)
Nick Carraway: "Mr. Cellophane" (Chicago)
All the characters: "What a Remarkable Age" (Titanic), "Doing the Latest Rag" (Titanic), "Masquerade" (Phantom of the Opera)
The Merchant of Venice
Antonio: "Yesterday" (The Beatles), "Home" (Beauty and the Beast), "On My Own" (Les Mis)
Bassanio: "Can't Buy Me Love" (The Beatles), "I Feel Fine" (The Beatles)
Antonio and Bassanio: "People Will Say We're In Love" (Oklahoma)–for those who think that there's something more than a platonic relationship going on between them…XD
Jessica: "Home" (Beauty and the Beast), "Far From the Home I Love" (Fiddler On the Roof)
Madame Bovary
Emma: "I want adventure in the great wide somewhere" (Beauty and the Beast)
Charles: "A Hard Day's Night" (The Beatles), "Love Me Do" (The Beatles)
Léon: "Something" (The Beatles), "Hey Jude" (The Beatles)
Rodolphe: "Lonely Room" (Oklahoma) |
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[Mar. 27th, 2007|11:15 pm] |
Meme time! XD
Put your playlist on "shuffle" and use the title of each subsequent song as the answer to these questions:
What does this year have in store for me?
Dvorak's Eighth Symphony, 2nd movement
What does your love life look like?
Manhattan Beach (march by Sousa)
What do I say when life gets hard?
Vif et agité (tempo marking for the fourth movement of the Ravel String Quartet)
What do I think of when I get up in the morning?
The Lass of Richmond Hill (o_O)
What song will I dance to at my wedding?
Capriccio Espagnol (by Rimsky-Korsakov XD)
What do you want as a career?
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (by Rachmaninov) !
Your favorite saying?
Suite for Flute and Piano (by Widor)
Favorite place?
"Der Vogelfänger Bin Ich Ja" (from Die Zauberflöte)…yeah, that's really a place
What do you think of your parents?
Clarinet Quartet?
Where would you go on a first date?
Wien, Wien, nur du allein (hey, it actually makes sense! XD)
Drug of choice?
Daphnis and Chloé Suite No. 2: II. Pantomime (by Ravel)
Describe yourself.
A Hard Day's Night (?!)
What is the thing I like doing most?
Chant de Linos (…)
The song that best describes the president?
The National Emblem
What is my state of mind like at the moment?
Potpourri
How will I die?
Prélude à l'aprés-midi d'un faune (by Debussy)
The song that will be played at your funeral?
Pines of Rome (by Respighi)
The song you'll put as the subject?
Valse Triste (by Sibelius) |
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| The sad thing is, I *do* have something better to do. Many, in fact. |
[Mar. 23rd, 2007|12:45 am] |
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| Your Five Factor Personality Profile | 
Extroversion:
You have low extroversion.
You are quiet and reserved in most social situations.
A low key, laid back lifestyle is important to you.
You tend to bond slowly, over time, with one or two people.
Conscientiousness:
You have high conscientiousness.
Intelligent and reliable, you tend to succeed in life.
Most things in your life are organized and planned well.
But you borderline on being a total perfectionist.
Agreeableness:
You have low agreeableness.
Your self interest comes first, and others come later, if at all.
In general, you feel that people are not to be trusted.
And you're skeptical that anyone else really feels differently.
Neuroticism:
You have high neuroticism.
It's easy for you to feel shaken, worried, or depressed.
You often worry, and your worries prevent you from living life fully.
You tend to be emotionally reactive and moody. Your either flying very high or feeling very low.
Openness to experience:
Your openness to new experiences is medium.
You are generally broad minded when it come to new things.
But if something crosses a moral line, there's no way you'll approve of it.
You are suspicious of anything too wacky, though you do still consider creativity a virtue. |
Neuroticism… *is Quentin* XD
| You Are 50% Left Brained, 50% Right Brained | 
The left side of your brain controls verbal ability, attention to detail, and reasoning.
Left brained people are good at communication and persuading others.
If you're left brained, you are likely good at math and logic.
Your left brain prefers dogs, reading, and quiet.
The right side of your brain is all about creativity and flexibility.
Daring and intuitive, right brained people see the world in their unique way.
If you're right brained, you likely have a talent for creative writing and art.
Your right brain prefers day dreaming, philosophy, and sports. |
| You Are 5: The Investigator |
You're independent - and a logical analytical thinker.
You love learning and ideas... and know things no one else does.
Bored by small talk, you refuse to participate in boring conversations.
You are open minded. A visionary. You understand the world and may change it. |
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[Mar. 17th, 2007|11:55 am] |
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"It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers! In fact, I discovered by reading newspapers that these editor/geniuses plainly saw all my strategic defects from the start, yet failed to inform me until it was too late. Accordingly, I'm readily willing to yield my command to these obviously superior intellects, and I'll, in turn, do my best for the Cause by writing editorials - after the fact."
Robert E. Lee, 1863 |
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[Mar. 16th, 2007|09:56 pm] |
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"'Under arrest?' Shreve said. 'Excuse me,' he said. He heaved himself up and climbed over my feet and got out. He had on a pair of my flannel pants, like a glove.…
"…and then Shreve's fat hand touched my knee and Spoade started talking…" (The Sound and the Fury 141, 147)
…Er, Quentin? If he's so fat, how is it that he's wearing your pants? |
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[Mar. 16th, 2007|05:31 pm] |
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General Lamarque is dead!
General Tso's Chicken is dead!
…Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead? |
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| At pit orchestra last night: |
[Mar. 16th, 2007|04:48 pm] |
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| | Ravel again | ] |
(Note of explanation: we're doing Beauty and the Beast and the cast is at the point where they're rehearsing in partial costumes… so when we were on break, we went into the main auditorium to watch them, and this is what transpired…)
My trumpeter friend: "What are those big round things they're wearing? They look like…big…dinner plates…or something…"
Me and my other flute friend: "They're the ENCHANTED PLATES!" |
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| I did not make up that word! |
[Mar. 15th, 2007|11:12 pm] |
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| | Ravel, "Mother Goose" Suite–III. La Belle et la Bête | ] |
While discussing Dante's Inferno:
AP English Lit teacher: "What other literary devices are there in this canto?"
Me: "Well, he says that they'd already gotten into the bolgia without describing them actually arriving… which is a kind of prolepsis, I guess."
AP English Lit teacher: "Right."
Other kid: "…Dude, you just made up that word."
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AP English Lit teacher: "Who knows what metonymy is?" *looking at me* "Not you."
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AP English Lit teacher: "And then there's synecdoche… not to be confused with Schenectady."
Same other kid as before: "They keep making up words!" |
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