watched league of extraordinary gentlemen, and my was it a wonderful show. simply outstanding. all the villains, the different heroes, and the simple majesty of the setting, the era of the past, the turn of the century, wow. i mean it has to be one of the best action shows this year, coz really there was no time that i decided to start looking at my watch to see how long more this would take and actually enjoyed the show!

ballet was a little bit boring, though the second ballet one that was aboriginally-influenced was really quite funny and quite artistic as well: strauss was usual viennese. wow. i mean. sitting around was quite fun but ultimately i was very tired, argh.

it's really nice to have a nicely-tuned piano again, just finished playing it, writing some tunes, playing other songs, etc. wrote a nice funky jazz chicago-styled piece on thursday night which i'm trying to perform for grad nite, well if we got through, coz it's really fun and jazzy and catchy: oh i don't want to say this, but its catchy indeed. yeah. the thing about listening to music is, none of that pop nonsense. when hearing real music, you hear all the harmonic overtones, the swell that a note brings. a note isn't just a note, la, bland and all that. there's this swell about it, this natural vibrato, the harmonics that swell above it, it's a 'swell', well that's the way i would put it, and unless one hears that swell, music isn't glorious: the note is just a note. but with that swell its a piece of art.
crap i think my ear has seriously gone awry from all the rubbish i hear, coz i seem to have lost that knack for listening to the swell, to really listen and immerse myself in it, and let the notes ring forth, rather then just hear it. coz it seems the sounds-in-my-head are just a little too sharp for the piano, or too-flat, and it's really irritating, because, no wonder all the songs sound off, you get what i mean. has anyone remembered how 'autumn' sounded like? i begin to realise that you have to be musical to understand 'autumn', or to get even a feel of the images and colours of that song, especially the chorus melody, because only when the harmonics are there, and the notes are all perfectly in tune, with just intonation (la and ti are both slightly flatter than the equal temperament, which probably explains why it sounds not-so-good on an equal-tempered piano), then you get a beautiful melody. oh i'm not boasting about it, coz most of the time my ears are too crass to be able to appreciate beauty, and sigh, i want to get back my ears. argh.

and when you listen well, you're not sleepy. nothing really matters to you. you're just enjoying the sounds. not notes, but sounds.

i find lit and music very similar: i'm trying to think of new ways to studying/analysing lit, and it is suspiciously similar to music, not-surprising, of course.
to anaylse lit based on: a)characters/interaction of characters b)themes c)atmosphere/mood/tones/imagery/rhythms d)significance/allusions/historical context e)plot and that is rather similar to music, isn't it, coz in programmatic symphonies you have characters, you definitely have themes, those are the melodies/motifs that run through the music, atmosphere/tones/imagery based on the kinds of tone colours used, which is analogous to the choice of words used, and the rhythms used is akin to the rhythms used in lit, be it shorter words, or a more syncopated rhythm, or longer, more fluid rhythms, to give different effects. ahh that is cool. using music to appreciate lit. haha.