Old School and the Funk

Good day to all,

  I’m sad now.  No one did the little survey thing or left me any notes.    Oh well, I’ll get over it.    Anyway, I’m here at work, it’s nearing the end of the day, but I don’t really have much else to do.  So I’m just bumming around online and the like.  If I have time after this I’ll probably try and write some more of my stories.  I’m working on my DR series, which has branched out into three different stories that I’m working on all at the same time.  I’m trying to buy a new computer.  My mother’s boss at work is selling a fairly new and actually pretty nice computer.  He said to make him an offer so I told my mom an offer.  It’s pretty low and I know that he’s not going to take it, but at least then when he counter offers I’ll get a better idea of what he’s willing to sell at.  If he ends up selling it to someone else I’ll have to buy a brand new computer, which I’m not really looking forward to.  I know it’s going to be expensive and then I’ll have to make payments on it because I know I won’t be able to buy a new computer in full.  Anyway, the concert went alright.  Now I’m more concentrating on the new song I have to sing for voice class and a couple of solos that I’m going to sing for church for holy week.  I got one of the senior choir members mad the other day, which I found greatly funny.

  The choir director (who is one of the most awful directors and most unprofessional directors to boot) was trying to explain the sound dynamics from one part of the song to another.  Now, this is a volunteer choir, which means that most of the members can’t really read music, much less figure out dynamics of a song.  It’s not that hard to learn though.  I think that the director thinks the choir is too stupid to learn, which shows me who the real stupid person is.  Anyway…  Instead, the choir director is trying to make this thing out to be all philosophical and uplifting and ended up confusing the person even more.  So I’m listening to this going on and I lean over to the choir member next to me, IR, and said, “or it could just mean that the song says start soft and gradually get loud.” Which is all the choir director could have told her, I mean she didn’t have to use music terms or anything (which would end up being start the phrase piano and cresendo to forte).  Anyway, when I said that the person next to me just cracked up.  One of the “senior” choir members overhead though (senior just means she’s been there long enough to feel she can tell most of the rest of the choir what to do, even though she has the musical knowledge of a sixth grade band student) and kinda got mad, but I just told her what I said was true.  To learn the basics of a song start with beat and notes, then to singing syllables, then to words.  Once they have the song pretty strongly, then maybe you can start with the philosophy of it.  She just glared at me, but didn’t say anything back.  Hehe.  Moving on…

  I recently ordered some songbooks and recieved them the other day.  One of them has that song Hallelujah by Cohen.  It was in the movie Shrek, it’s the song that’s playing after Fiona has gone off with Lord Farquaad and Shrek has gone back to his house in the swamp.  I’m learning to sing it when I have the time to practice.  So that way I can just start singing that at an opportune moment and watch the swooning begin.  Haha, yeah right!  Anyway…

  I almost forgot…the title is there because I was just remembering all this stuff that I grew up with that keeps popping up again now.  Here’s my list of old school stuff, hehe.

He-Man (which I think I still have toys of in a box in our shed somewhere), the Goonies (does anyone remember the video game for the Nintendo and how hard it was to beat that game)  Double Dragon (which was a really cool video game and was then made into one of the most awful movies of all time)  Neon spandix shorts (which is definately something that should not come back from the 80s, in fact America should apologize to the world for neon spandix shorts, because there was some people who loved wearing those that really should never have even looked at them sideways *shudder*), Rocky (the one movie series that is great and awful at the same time!), the Ewok Adventures (does anyone remember those two movies?  I heard that Lucus was going to put them on DVD)

There’s lots more, but I’d better get back to work for classes.  Note me and tell me what you remember from growing up.  Good day to all.

-Damien