Thursday, February 24, 2005
I Put My Brain in My Purse
And made a horrible mistake when I reached for my wallet.
Well call me a truck and slap me til Wednesday! All the Losers Club boys are starting blogs! How fun! It's one big blogtacular family.
I did something stupid today. I have been slaving away for the past week (possibly longer) on my writing portfolio that I'll sending out to grad schools. (This is why I haven't been updating my blog as much as of late - my writing time has gone elsewhere until now.) Anyway, today I finally finished it, and braved a ridiculous snowstorm in order to get it to Kinko's so I could get it all printed out on nice paper. It took forever to get there between the traffic and the storm, and finally, as I pulled into the parking lot, I realized that I had LEFT MY PURSE AT THE HOUSE. So. Now I had gotten all the way through the storm and had no way to pay for my services at Kinko's. So I dropped the disk off and will pick it up tomorrow. Sigh. I'm such a retard.
Okay, so I have to admit something. I am becoming part of the masses. I like Green Day, (as a lot of people do) but I think most hardcore Green Day fans would be mad at me if I said that Boulevard of Broken Dreams is one of their best songs. Hardcore fans of any group always hate it when somebody likes "the radio song" because "oh oh! but there are so many better songs than that one!" But really, that song is brilliant. And I think the reason why, is that, if you listen to it, at the very beginning there's this distorted guitar thing with effects. And it does this sort of "chika chika chika chika" thing... and even when the music starts, and the singing, the "chika chika" thing keeps playing in the background throughout ALMOST the entire song. It sounds silly, but that little guitar thing MAKES that song, even though it doesn't really change, and is barely noticable. Next time you listen to that song, listen for that. The song wouldn't be half as great without it. I think it's because it adds a constant edge to the song, despite its being melodic and mellower than most Green Day. It also has a sort of progressive feel to it, the little guitar thing is reminiscent of a train, or wheels spinning, or some other form of continuity, and movement. (This is the music analyst side of Claire Whaley hahaha) But, it has a psychology thing to it I think... it makes you think of walking, and progressing down a path... and as walking is a main theme in the lyrics, it just seems to fit. The best part is that the little guitar effect stops suddenly when they introduce the acoustic guitar... and once again there's this little psychological thing I think. All the music stops except acoustic guitar and good ol' Billy Joe... and I think that reinforces the "alone" theme of the song. The music compliments the lyrics so freakin' well, and that is why I think the song is pure genius.
Wow. That took longer than I expected. I kinda just wanted to say that I loved that song... and uh... yeah I got a little carried away. Hah. Look what compiling a creative writing portfolio will do to a person! It'll turn ya into a writer! Hahaha... fortunately I didn't spend hours poring over how exactly to word all of these sentences to provide the best grammatical structure so that it'd be best appreciated by the review panel.
Sigh. It's nice to be writing nonsense again.
Well call me a truck and slap me til Wednesday! All the Losers Club boys are starting blogs! How fun! It's one big blogtacular family.
I did something stupid today. I have been slaving away for the past week (possibly longer) on my writing portfolio that I'll sending out to grad schools. (This is why I haven't been updating my blog as much as of late - my writing time has gone elsewhere until now.) Anyway, today I finally finished it, and braved a ridiculous snowstorm in order to get it to Kinko's so I could get it all printed out on nice paper. It took forever to get there between the traffic and the storm, and finally, as I pulled into the parking lot, I realized that I had LEFT MY PURSE AT THE HOUSE. So. Now I had gotten all the way through the storm and had no way to pay for my services at Kinko's. So I dropped the disk off and will pick it up tomorrow. Sigh. I'm such a retard.
Okay, so I have to admit something. I am becoming part of the masses. I like Green Day, (as a lot of people do) but I think most hardcore Green Day fans would be mad at me if I said that Boulevard of Broken Dreams is one of their best songs. Hardcore fans of any group always hate it when somebody likes "the radio song" because "oh oh! but there are so many better songs than that one!" But really, that song is brilliant. And I think the reason why, is that, if you listen to it, at the very beginning there's this distorted guitar thing with effects. And it does this sort of "chika chika chika chika" thing... and even when the music starts, and the singing, the "chika chika" thing keeps playing in the background throughout ALMOST the entire song. It sounds silly, but that little guitar thing MAKES that song, even though it doesn't really change, and is barely noticable. Next time you listen to that song, listen for that. The song wouldn't be half as great without it. I think it's because it adds a constant edge to the song, despite its being melodic and mellower than most Green Day. It also has a sort of progressive feel to it, the little guitar thing is reminiscent of a train, or wheels spinning, or some other form of continuity, and movement. (This is the music analyst side of Claire Whaley hahaha) But, it has a psychology thing to it I think... it makes you think of walking, and progressing down a path... and as walking is a main theme in the lyrics, it just seems to fit. The best part is that the little guitar effect stops suddenly when they introduce the acoustic guitar... and once again there's this little psychological thing I think. All the music stops except acoustic guitar and good ol' Billy Joe... and I think that reinforces the "alone" theme of the song. The music compliments the lyrics so freakin' well, and that is why I think the song is pure genius.
Wow. That took longer than I expected. I kinda just wanted to say that I loved that song... and uh... yeah I got a little carried away. Hah. Look what compiling a creative writing portfolio will do to a person! It'll turn ya into a writer! Hahaha... fortunately I didn't spend hours poring over how exactly to word all of these sentences to provide the best grammatical structure so that it'd be best appreciated by the review panel.
Sigh. It's nice to be writing nonsense again.
