How To Disappear Completely

My Blog Is My Boyfriend

I was informed by a reliable source named Ben that my blog and I are getting too serious too fast. We can't even spend a week apart.
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The satellite radio in my dad's suburban has a 40s station. But caution warned: for every Fletcher Henderson, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald, there is a Guy Lombardo, full of croony dream verse that will leave you in a puddle of sentimental sap if you listen for too long. The scary thing is that after prolonged exposure, I start to enjoy it. Heavens! How can this be???
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Please excuse a moment of academic glee....I finally got my grades back for the past semester. I got an A+ on my Theory of Western Performance (Pop Music Pre-WWII) class!!!! I've never gotten an A+ before, since none of my other schools ever gave them out. (Well, my mom gave A+'s....) I think there is a direct correlation between how much I enjoyed a class and how well I did in it. This was the highest grade I got for the year, and I got more out of it than any other class.

For instance: early musicals (at least, the ones that were trying to integrate the music into the plot instead of just randomly inserting songs wherever) were often self-referential in order to have a reason to have so much music. In other words, the musical would be about a musical, so that the plot could include auditions or numbers from a moment in the play within the play...this practice continued with films that included musicians as actors: Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra often played singers, and Gene Krupa starred in Rhythm Romance (with Bob Hope) as, you guessed it, a drummer in a hot swing band. The practice continues even today: Beyonce recently played a pop music star in Pink Panther. Unfortunately, now I can't watch films without wondering how these trends are all connected.
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Shostakovich gets a turn. Next week: Wedding Music That Does Not Make Your Guests Gag. Conspicuously missing from that list: Pachelbel's Canon in D. And Wagner's Wedding March.

I was inspired because I saw a similar list (Classical Wedding Music) on NPR and noticed that it was largely all the cliched choices. I mean, there is not really anything wrong with Handel's Largo, but...why don't we try something a little off the beaten path? I'm still staunchly a traditionalist: I don't think I would recommend 4'33" as a processional, interesting and amusing as that prospect might be. But there are certainly very appropriate classical pieces that simply get ignored. So stay tuned for next week at Suite101....
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There are some days when I wonder why I have two blogs. But there are other days when I am grateful. When covblogs is down, I can still blog on the back-up plan....

I am this close to closing shop on xanga. Mostly because I am in love with the design of my covblog. It's got better fonts and colours and a cool picture of Alice in Wonderland. I can add sidebar links to obscure sites that outline the proper usage of the hyphen and the apostrophe. And you can listen to my personalized Pandora radio over here. However, empassioned pleas from my xangan constituency have convinced me to stay. :)

Networking is funny, since I seem to run into the same people over and over no matter which network I join. I would like to announce that since the '06 grads have joined InCircle (the network for Covenant Alumni), Evan Donovan is connected to me in every single networking capacity I have except for xanga. Natalie Lodico is connected to me in every single networking capacity I have except for InCircle.

We shall see who wins the race to become The-Most-Connected-To-Sarah-Funke. I have my bets placed already....
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Currently listening to Ray LaMontagne, courtesy of Abbie.