And he shows them, pearly white

[cyrano]

So I got dressed in top hat and opera cloak and frock coat and went to the cinema. And I kept having the Hobbes quote about 'nasty brutish and short' drift through my head. This is not a pretty film. Much of the violent acts take place offscreen, which I highly approve of, but there was a lot of filth and gore and unpleasant people doing unpleasant things onscreen. I'm not sure I want to buy the DVD, but I was certainly impressed and feel it was well worth my time. I'm certain I have more coherent comments to make, but this is not the time for me to try and formulate them.
Barry and Megs and Stuart and Amy joined the housemate and I, and afterward I dragged most of them to Avalon for the completion of session three of the one-shot I devised for Alchema these two weeks past. I am very fond of the low-maintenance format of the game and like having something I can sort of fall back on given short notice. Plus, I like being able to say 'It makes a better

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So I got dressed in top hat and opera cloak and frock coat and went to the cinema. And I kept having the Hobbes quote about 'nasty brutish and short' drift through my head. This is not a pretty film. Much of the violent acts take place offscreen, which I highly approve of, but there was a lot of filth and gore and unpleasant people doing unpleasant things onscreen. I'm not sure I want to buy the DVD, but I was certainly impressed and feel it was well worth my time. I'm certain I have more coherent comments to make, but this is not the time for me to try and formulate them.
Barry and Megs and Stuart and Amy joined the housemate and I, and afterward I dragged most of them to Avalon for the completion of session three of the one-shot I devised for <a href="http://www.best.com/~cyrano/rp/alchema.html">Alchema</a> these two weeks past. I am very fond of the low-maintenance format of the game and like having something I can sort of fall back on given short notice. Plus, I like being able to say 'It makes a better <romantic, cinematic, etc> moment if we do it like this' and not have to further justify the results.

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[relsqui.livejournal.com]

"So I got dressed in top hat and opera cloak and frock coat and went to the cinema."

*_* the costumes are about 70% of the reason I want to see that movie. I just realized that when/if I do go, people are going to assume I'm in costume ^_^ not realizing I wear the top hat anyway.

Oh yeah, and I got that subject line too : P mostly because my school did that movie a few years ago.

[relsqui.livejournal.com]

err, musical ^_^;; was thinking one thing and typing another.

Hrm?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of the Louis/Ella/Bobby Darin song. What musical did it show up in?

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[relsqui.livejournal.com]

Same song ^_~ it's in Threepenny Opera.

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[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

Kurt Weill (1900-1950) wrote Die Dreigroschenoper or The Threepenny Opera in 1928. But the plot was stolen lock, stock and barrel from Gay's The Beggar's Opera. Die Dreigroschenoper is notable in that it is neoclassic in style, and is the foremost example of how a German classical composer interpreted American jazz, which was all the rage in Europe at the time. Listen to the orignal sometime it is quite strange, since it doesn't actually swing. "Mac the Knife" was stolen back by jazz musicians, and is now something of a standard, thanks to Armstrong, Ella, et. al.

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[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Ladies and gentlemen, a round of applause please (restrained, and polite, if you will) for the Big Music Brain of this menagerie.
And may I just say that, from what little exposure I've had, I think Kurt Weill was a big weirdo.

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[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

LOL!

He's a big weirdo because he was a walking contradiction. Musical neoclassicism was a French style, and here was this German using it. Plus, at the time, while all of musical Europe was enthralled with jazz, what they primarily heard was not the authentic article. Their attempts at swinging (which all real jazz must) were analagous to the early medieval painters trying to do perspective. They bombed -- big time. The song itself though is still hip.

I'll shut up now.