Showing posts with label looking for a song to sing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label looking for a song to sing. Show all posts

Saturday, January 18, 2014

No show for me

Got up in the middle of the night and watched the Japanese movie "Departures."  Totally wide awake now.  It's about a cellist in Tokyo who moves back to his hometown after his orchestra disbands.  He answers a job for "departures" thinking it's related to travel, but ends up preparing the deceased for "departing."  A lovely, gentle film...a three-hanky experience, but perfect.  Ranks up there with "Ice Fever" (an Icelandic film about a Japanese man, also dealing with death ritual) as one of my favorite films.  I usually fall asleep when I watch films on my computer, but this was quiet and engaging, completely awake. (It's 5:30 am.  It's due back at the library today.)

Now I guess I'm not going to 14/48 tonight either (disappointed, I really want to go), my scene partner doesn't want to go because it runs pretty late (I only had a late night 2/1 comp left), which is true, if I take the bus, I'll get home after 1 am.  We need to do chair work.  I started writing on both the things for tomorrow (prep work for my emotional task, and general ideas of what I'd do if I suddenly had $100 million.  It's not "juicy" enough, but it's a start.)  Now, I'm trying to find a song to sing that "makes me alive."  Music pretty much always makes me alive, and my best exercises involved music in some form or another, but...now that I have to do it, it's sent my emotional response into "rebellion" mode.  Sigh.  Most of my Finnish music is at work because I left suddenly, and I was thinking of using something from that, but I need to memorize it...I need to look up the structure of a sonnet as well.  Probably will end up singing part of the Kermit the Frog song or Finlandia...I know I have that buried here somewhere, I sang it recently.

Meant to go out again, but I didn't.  So, here's my daily picture.  Coffee foam heart.
Coffee-foam Heart, Jan 18/L Herlevi 2014