Rocky Mountain High

road trip.

mountains.

music.

a day of whatever we want.

It's gonna be good. No I mean it, it's gonna be extremely good.

well, darn

So I have all these songs on Itunes on my computer. Mostly my own CDs that I imported so I can listen to them here at work. I have just discovered the rating system. 0 to 5 stars. And you can set it up so the ones with more stars get played more often when you hit the party shuffle button. I like this.

However.

Being ever so discerning, anytime a song comes on by an artist I particularly like I say "Oh I like this song!" and hit the rating thing and give it 5 stars. And I imported mostly my favourite artists. So I fear that eventually, as I go through the whole play list, everything will end up with 5 stars. I think I need to work on that.


[note: when I went back to read this after having written it, it said "more stars get layed more often" and "lay list". Freudian slips perhaps?]

must rant

OK so I watched the Golden Globes the other day. The movie awards are divided into two categories: "Drama", and "Musical or Comedy." And because of the order they give them out, you know that they give the drama one a bit more weight.

Walk the Line, the Johnny Cash bio-pic, was nominated in the "Musical or Comedy" category (and ultimately won). Now why is it a musical? I know Johnny and June sing...it's a movie about singers. But it's hardly a musical. A musical uses songs to advance the plot; the action takes place through a variety of song and dance numbers. Walk the Line is pure drama. Drama ABOUT musical people, people who sing. But it's really NOT a musical. And that bugs me. Because it seems to give less weight to the movie - makes it seem fluffy and it's not. The two leads both won in the acting categories for "Musical or Comedy" - let's be serious here.... they're difficult, emotional, dramatic roles; they deserved the nod as dramatic actors. (Joaquin Phoenix actually made a joke about it and he's right).

Admittedly, I was actually kind of happy that Brokeback Mountain won in the drama cataegory. And that Felicity Huffman and Phillip Seymour Hoffman got the acting awards in drama (interesting, meaningful, breakthough performances for both). And it does set it up to be a bit of a duel at the Oscars (which don't make the ridiculous distinction). So Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress will all be interesting and surprising. Which is good.

But the Golden Globes thing still bugs me.

happy post-show glow

sparkly-eyed manchild

I'm such a sucker for Peter Pan with a guitar.