Creativity Day 2 - Makeup!
Well, Friday was a bit hard to fit in some creativity. I had to take a little time off work to help the piano mover get the piano inside (you'll see a post about that later!), and then my parents came in town and were here in time to pick me up from work. We did some stuff at our house and then helped a neighbor & her kids put up a trampoline (a big task). After that we saw Get Smart on campus. Joe, my dad and I actually saw it in theaters a while back, but it's fun to watch it with students and we liked it the first time. My mom even admitted to some funny moments. We got out of the movie in time to see the band go by for midnight yell - meaning we got home VERY late.
So I'm making up my Day 2 and I've decided to write! I'll record some random things about myself (I know you're so excited) - things I think I'll forget and find interesting later on. I think a good way of doing this will be by talking about a tv show on ABC that I really like right now and why.
The show is Pushing Daisies. It's real actors, but has some sort of fantasy feel to it (bright colors, some over-the-top characters, a narrator). {You can skip the rest of this paragraph if you want - it's just some background on the show.} One of the actors happens to be Kristen Chenoweth, my favorite Broadway singer. The basic premise is that one man, Ned, has the ability to touch a dead person / animal and bring them back to life. If he ever touches it again, it will go back to death and he can't bring it back. If he keeps something dead alive for more than one minute, something else nearby dies. Ned is a pie maker who has brought back his childhood sweetheart after she was murdered. They both work with a Private Investigator to solve murders - mostly by asking the dead guy who killed him. Olive (Kristen C.) is in love with Ned (and was before the childhood sweetheart became a part of their lives), but she doesn't know his secret ability, and Ned doesn't know she's in love with him. Okay, so now you know what the show is about. Now, how it relates to me!
My favorite part is that in three of the eleven episodes that have been aired, there are songs! Each has struck a chord with me, and I'll tell you why.
I love how Olive randomly sings. I do this, too, when people aren't close enough to hear me. Several times I've been singing in the car when my cell phone rings, and I automatically hit the button to turn off the stereo, only to realize the stereo was off and the backup music was in my head. Really, I can't count how many times I've done that. So, you can tell how I can relate to this scene:
(yikes, one of the videos it gives you as a choice to watch next has a surprising title - it's really not about that - watch it if you don't believe me!)
Another song is Birdhouse in Your Soul by They Might Be Giants (TMBG). In case you didn't know, Joe and I met at a church camp called Pettijohn in Oklahoma. At this camp, I also met Jennifer (my roommate and friend in college) and Wes (already a friend of Joe's - he was in our wedding). We still keep in touch with those two, but I also met Timothy Spain, who I haven't stayed in touch with. (Tim, if you googled your name and found this - tell me!) Timothy introduced me to TMBG and I thought it was great. He was right - it's great music to play while playing spades, something I loved to do. One of their more well-known songs is Birdhouse in Your Soul, and somehow the writers worked it into an episode quite appropriately. No, the situation in the scene below is not as weird as it looks - it's weirder.
Finally, since marrying into a Scottish name, I've become more interested in all things Scottish. To be honest, I can't always tell the different between Scottish and Irish things (I know, that's horrible), but I enjoy them both. Even before Joe, I've loved pretty much any song in 6/8, so Scottish music is mostly beautiful to me. Joe and I bought a tape (those things they used to make before CDs. CDs? You remember - that's what we used before iPods) for $1 at a truck stop, expecting top-notch quality. It was a Scottish Christmas album. Since we like both types of music, it held some promise. After listening to it, we decided that some guy with some recording equipment said "My Scottish uncle is coming in town, and I think I know someone who owns some bagpipes, I should spend the weekend making an album with them!" The one beautiful exception is a song sung by the "uncle" called Morning has Broken / Child in a Manger. I looked it up, and apparently Cat Stevens recorded Morning has Broken and made it famous. Our tape has some of it in Gaelic, and well as this verse "Child in a Manger, Infant of Mary / Outcast and stranger, Lord of All / Child who inherits all our transgressions / All our demerits on his fall." Between the tune, the lyrics, and an old Scottish man's voice, I love that version of the song! So that's what I'm reminded of during this scene:
I think I'd like Pushing Daisies without these songs, but they are what brought back happy memories. Anyone else watch this show? You should! You can even rent the first two DVDs of season one and watch the other 5 episodes so far online (abc.com). They should be paying me for this. ;)
So I'm making up my Day 2 and I've decided to write! I'll record some random things about myself (I know you're so excited) - things I think I'll forget and find interesting later on. I think a good way of doing this will be by talking about a tv show on ABC that I really like right now and why.
The show is Pushing Daisies. It's real actors, but has some sort of fantasy feel to it (bright colors, some over-the-top characters, a narrator). {You can skip the rest of this paragraph if you want - it's just some background on the show.} One of the actors happens to be Kristen Chenoweth, my favorite Broadway singer. The basic premise is that one man, Ned, has the ability to touch a dead person / animal and bring them back to life. If he ever touches it again, it will go back to death and he can't bring it back. If he keeps something dead alive for more than one minute, something else nearby dies. Ned is a pie maker who has brought back his childhood sweetheart after she was murdered. They both work with a Private Investigator to solve murders - mostly by asking the dead guy who killed him. Olive (Kristen C.) is in love with Ned (and was before the childhood sweetheart became a part of their lives), but she doesn't know his secret ability, and Ned doesn't know she's in love with him. Okay, so now you know what the show is about. Now, how it relates to me!
My favorite part is that in three of the eleven episodes that have been aired, there are songs! Each has struck a chord with me, and I'll tell you why.
I love how Olive randomly sings. I do this, too, when people aren't close enough to hear me. Several times I've been singing in the car when my cell phone rings, and I automatically hit the button to turn off the stereo, only to realize the stereo was off and the backup music was in my head. Really, I can't count how many times I've done that. So, you can tell how I can relate to this scene:
(yikes, one of the videos it gives you as a choice to watch next has a surprising title - it's really not about that - watch it if you don't believe me!)
Another song is Birdhouse in Your Soul by They Might Be Giants (TMBG). In case you didn't know, Joe and I met at a church camp called Pettijohn in Oklahoma. At this camp, I also met Jennifer (my roommate and friend in college) and Wes (already a friend of Joe's - he was in our wedding). We still keep in touch with those two, but I also met Timothy Spain, who I haven't stayed in touch with. (Tim, if you googled your name and found this - tell me!) Timothy introduced me to TMBG and I thought it was great. He was right - it's great music to play while playing spades, something I loved to do. One of their more well-known songs is Birdhouse in Your Soul, and somehow the writers worked it into an episode quite appropriately. No, the situation in the scene below is not as weird as it looks - it's weirder.
Finally, since marrying into a Scottish name, I've become more interested in all things Scottish. To be honest, I can't always tell the different between Scottish and Irish things (I know, that's horrible), but I enjoy them both. Even before Joe, I've loved pretty much any song in 6/8, so Scottish music is mostly beautiful to me. Joe and I bought a tape (those things they used to make before CDs. CDs? You remember - that's what we used before iPods) for $1 at a truck stop, expecting top-notch quality. It was a Scottish Christmas album. Since we like both types of music, it held some promise. After listening to it, we decided that some guy with some recording equipment said "My Scottish uncle is coming in town, and I think I know someone who owns some bagpipes, I should spend the weekend making an album with them!" The one beautiful exception is a song sung by the "uncle" called Morning has Broken / Child in a Manger. I looked it up, and apparently Cat Stevens recorded Morning has Broken and made it famous. Our tape has some of it in Gaelic, and well as this verse "Child in a Manger, Infant of Mary / Outcast and stranger, Lord of All / Child who inherits all our transgressions / All our demerits on his fall." Between the tune, the lyrics, and an old Scottish man's voice, I love that version of the song! So that's what I'm reminded of during this scene:
I think I'd like Pushing Daisies without these songs, but they are what brought back happy memories. Anyone else watch this show? You should! You can even rent the first two DVDs of season one and watch the other 5 episodes so far online (abc.com). They should be paying me for this. ;)
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