Sunday, December 24
Dec. 25th, 2022 02:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Though it was quite windy, you could still tell that it was warmer than it has been this last week.
My Sweetie and I decorated one of our outside Spruce trees with lights, and a bit around the door, and it looks festive.
We had a lovely quiet day of mainly lounging and reading.
I talked with my Mom for a while. She says she's getting lots of cards and calls and visits from family.
I did some picking up so that the dining table (that we rarely use) was cleared off so we can have a more formal meal tomorrow.
We put up our nice (artificial) tree and decorated it. I already found Hans nestled right in the middle of it, but he's not being too disruptive. I don't use tinsel.
We listened to one of the new CDs, and that was fun (Daft Punk, Alive).
Then we watched "Con Air". I don't know why, but that felt sort of festive to me. Maybe because it's LIKE Die Hard, and it's an old movie so it's kind of nostalgic?
It's crazy to see a movie with those kinds of stunts and explosions and destruction (they actually destroyed the REAL Sands Casino in this movie, as it was slated for demolition) and you know it's all real effects. I get bored with action sequences in most modern movies now (Marvel movies: yawn) because the computer effects never seem to have any sense of realness, no matter how good they look.
Sadly, those stunts and effects killed real people, too. Lots of times I go look up the film on IMDB after I watch it, and the ones with big effects often had people die making them. I know that a lot of animals got killed and hurt for films too. I never feel bad about the use of CGI to do effects that prevent harm to the animals.
I learned that part way through Beethoven's Piano Sonata 32 is a section that is in a time signature and style that many feel is an early predecessor to Ragtime and Jazz music.
It is after the fifteen minute mark.
What is kind of crazy, is that this piece of music was written only about 70 years before Jazz and Ragtime were popular.
https://youtu.be/ccyHT1sFmsg
Though it was quite windy, you could still tell that it was warmer than it has been this last week.
My Sweetie and I decorated one of our outside Spruce trees with lights, and a bit around the door, and it looks festive.
We had a lovely quiet day of mainly lounging and reading.
I talked with my Mom for a while. She says she's getting lots of cards and calls and visits from family.
I did some picking up so that the dining table (that we rarely use) was cleared off so we can have a more formal meal tomorrow.
We put up our nice (artificial) tree and decorated it. I already found Hans nestled right in the middle of it, but he's not being too disruptive. I don't use tinsel.
We listened to one of the new CDs, and that was fun (Daft Punk, Alive).
Then we watched "Con Air". I don't know why, but that felt sort of festive to me. Maybe because it's LIKE Die Hard, and it's an old movie so it's kind of nostalgic?
It's crazy to see a movie with those kinds of stunts and explosions and destruction (they actually destroyed the REAL Sands Casino in this movie, as it was slated for demolition) and you know it's all real effects. I get bored with action sequences in most modern movies now (Marvel movies: yawn) because the computer effects never seem to have any sense of realness, no matter how good they look.
Sadly, those stunts and effects killed real people, too. Lots of times I go look up the film on IMDB after I watch it, and the ones with big effects often had people die making them. I know that a lot of animals got killed and hurt for films too. I never feel bad about the use of CGI to do effects that prevent harm to the animals.
I learned that part way through Beethoven's Piano Sonata 32 is a section that is in a time signature and style that many feel is an early predecessor to Ragtime and Jazz music.
It is after the fifteen minute mark.
What is kind of crazy, is that this piece of music was written only about 70 years before Jazz and Ragtime were popular.
https://youtu.be/ccyHT1sFmsg
