Tuesday movies & TV update

Dance class was cancelled tonight, so there were an unexpected extra 90 minutes which I was hoping to put to good use by practising or finishing Accio paper revisions or hashing out "Victor's Solo." Has anyone ever attempted to transcribe music? Is it supposed to take an inordinate amount of time? Because last night I spent over two hours at the piano with my laptop and headphones, picking out all the notes I could manage of this little piece from "Corpse Bride," and only made it about 55 seconds in. True, it took probably 15 of those minutes to find the key and dredge my memory for where to put which notes on the bass clef and how to do octave notations, and on the bright side I've learned how to play everything that's written down already thanks to the constant repetition - but still ... it seems excessive. And the poor keys around middle C are dusted with rubber eraser bits.

 

"Corpse Bride" itself was vaguely disappointing, partly because it failed to live up to its predecessor but mostly because it failed to live up to itself. ( A review of sorts. )

 

In other movie news, MirrorMask comes out on Friday, at which time it will be showing at exactly one theatre in all of New York State. On the one hand, I'm glad it's a limited release because that implies a limited audience, which in turn means no crowds and consequently getting to enjoy the special sense that you have been let in on a secret. On the other hand, what is wrong with people that they don't fight to fund, produce, distribute and soak in the genius that is Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman on a 70-foot screen? (Even if one of the main characters' head looks like a Super-Size box of French fries.)

 

synn and Joe P. and I will probably have to sit towards the back of the theatre, though, or risk our brains liquefying from overstimulation.

 

( Last night's dream about Lestat. )

 

In closing, things about today that make me happy:
- Cortland apples are in season again.
- My Chinese co-worker (because without the dash it always looks like "cow orker") wore his crisp white suit shirt today with belted black pants and black loafers, always a favorite, and on break I caught sight of a silver necklace.
- New episode of "House" tonight, followed by the season premiere of "Boston Legal": The only two shows I watch, now back-to-back.