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1. As an aside, that recent 30 Day TV Meme - which apparently has an answer 31, which I did not know about, should be called the 30 Day TV Meme of shows that I can actually remember at this moment in time. Sigh. In reading the responses to my take on it, plus readin ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
beergoodfoamy's take - realize how many tv shows I've forgotten. Let's just say, I've forgotten more shows than most people have actually watched and leave it at that. (If it aired in the 70s and 80s, and wasn't a show I was insanely obsessed with, I most likely forgot it.)
Answer 31 for those who haven't figured it out?
Favorite TV Show Original Score.
Okay, I have no idea. Favorite Original TV Song is Suicide is Painless...from MASH.
Score? Has to be BattleStar Galatica - version 2 - with the weird twists on All Along the WatchTower. Although, Buffy does come in a very close second.
But Suicide is Painless is one of those few theme songs that perfectly captures the series as a whole, stands on its own as an anti-war song, and as well just about any other song,
and fits the movie in which it sprung. It's a song with a joke at its center. The joke is A Dentist named Painless - in the Film version of MASH decides to commit suicide. You have to see the film.
BSG manages to do theme music that perfectly captured its arc, and at the same time played homage to the cheesy theme music of the original.
2. What's the nearest book meme?
Okay this is embarrassing a) because I can't quite remember the meme and don't feel like tracking it down and b) it's Scott McLoud's Understanding Comics - which is sitting on a pile on my couch amongst mags and other things, I'm getting around to either throwing out, putting away or actually reading. The Kindle is out of reach, as is the book I am actually reading. Turned to page - what is the page I'm supposed to turn to? Five or is Fifty-One? Oh hell, I'll do both.
Cartoon guy who looks like an arrow says in blurb: Master Comics Artist Will Esiner uses the term Sequential Art when describing comics. Taken individually the pictures below are merely that -- pictures. (We see a picture of a man tilting his hat, and a sun, and a gun going off and a clock and an eye). However when part of a Sequence, even a sequence of only two, the art of the image is transformed into something more - the art of comics. Notice that this definition is strictly neutral on matters of style, quality of subject matter.
(I remember now - supposed to go to page 51 and pick fifth line down, right? What if there isn't a fifth line down and just a page with a huge pyramid, two blurbs of dialogue, and at the bottom a cartoon of Charlie Brown being thrown? Wait there is dialogue. Will attempt to use that. This meme is really hard to do with a comic book, by the way.)
"Most comics art lies near the bottom -- that is along the iconic abstraction side where every line has a meaning. Near the line, but not necessarily on it! For even the most straightforward little cartoon character has a meaningless line or two. If we incorporate language into other icons into the chart, we can begin to build a comprehensive map of the universe called comics."
[It makes sense with the pictures. Not so much without. Comics is a visual form.]
3. And an interesting quote from Michael Caine in that Terry Gross interview book that I'm reading, regarding the difference between American speech and British speech.
I very quickly realized that it wasn't the rhythm of the voice that worried the Americans, it was the speed. The British speak very, very quickly and in a very clipped way. We cut off the end of words. And we talk terribly, terribly quickly.
Hee, and the South US thinks Northerners speak fast. Does explain why I have to put close-captioning on Doctor Who every once and awhile, and find John Barrowman easier to understand than David Tennant. Mark Smith - god bless him, does not speak as fast as David Tennant. I'd say it was a Scottish thing, but Scean Connery always spoke slowly. The French speak fast too - very hard to follow spoken French. Does anyone else?
Then on class...
Well you have a class system here, but you can't tell it by people's accents. In England you can. I can listen to a person for three minutes and I'll tell you how much his house costs, how much he earns, what sort of car he drives.
I don't know - you can tell class in the US to a degree by how people speak. We have our colloquialisms as well, they may just not be as pronounced as the British - because you know bigger country, bigger population. I think you tend to notice it more in a smaller geographical area. But I may be wrong about that.
Oh and Uta Hagen - who I studied in High School, because I had a theater teacher who was obsessed with her and the method - seems to think it best if you study voice to be an actor. (For Theater Teacher - imagine what would happen if Will Shuster, Kurt from Glee, and James Marsters had a child and he was gay. That was Max Brown.) She's upset in the interview because she doesn't believe people truly respect and appreciate the craft of acting. The misunderstandings the laymen have of our craft is profound she states. To which, I roll my eyes and mutter "actors". (Is it just me or are all artists terribly defensive about what they do for a living? Possibly because the vast majority of us do what they do, but in our free time and as a hobby, while we have do something else far less entertaining to make money? I think that's probably at the heart of it. And the fact that only 1% of all the people who make money off art - are actually really successful at it or get acknowledged at all. So the envy factor alone is high. As is the competition.)
beergoodfoamy's take - realize how many tv shows I've forgotten. Let's just say, I've forgotten more shows than most people have actually watched and leave it at that. (If it aired in the 70s and 80s, and wasn't a show I was insanely obsessed with, I most likely forgot it.)Answer 31 for those who haven't figured it out?
Favorite TV Show Original Score.
Okay, I have no idea. Favorite Original TV Song is Suicide is Painless...from MASH.
Score? Has to be BattleStar Galatica - version 2 - with the weird twists on All Along the WatchTower. Although, Buffy does come in a very close second.
But Suicide is Painless is one of those few theme songs that perfectly captures the series as a whole, stands on its own as an anti-war song, and as well just about any other song,
and fits the movie in which it sprung. It's a song with a joke at its center. The joke is A Dentist named Painless - in the Film version of MASH decides to commit suicide. You have to see the film.
BSG manages to do theme music that perfectly captured its arc, and at the same time played homage to the cheesy theme music of the original.
2. What's the nearest book meme?
Okay this is embarrassing a) because I can't quite remember the meme and don't feel like tracking it down and b) it's Scott McLoud's Understanding Comics - which is sitting on a pile on my couch amongst mags and other things, I'm getting around to either throwing out, putting away or actually reading. The Kindle is out of reach, as is the book I am actually reading. Turned to page - what is the page I'm supposed to turn to? Five or is Fifty-One? Oh hell, I'll do both.
Cartoon guy who looks like an arrow says in blurb: Master Comics Artist Will Esiner uses the term Sequential Art when describing comics. Taken individually the pictures below are merely that -- pictures. (We see a picture of a man tilting his hat, and a sun, and a gun going off and a clock and an eye). However when part of a Sequence, even a sequence of only two, the art of the image is transformed into something more - the art of comics. Notice that this definition is strictly neutral on matters of style, quality of subject matter.
(I remember now - supposed to go to page 51 and pick fifth line down, right? What if there isn't a fifth line down and just a page with a huge pyramid, two blurbs of dialogue, and at the bottom a cartoon of Charlie Brown being thrown? Wait there is dialogue. Will attempt to use that. This meme is really hard to do with a comic book, by the way.)
"Most comics art lies near the bottom -- that is along the iconic abstraction side where every line has a meaning. Near the line, but not necessarily on it! For even the most straightforward little cartoon character has a meaningless line or two. If we incorporate language into other icons into the chart, we can begin to build a comprehensive map of the universe called comics."
[It makes sense with the pictures. Not so much without. Comics is a visual form.]
3. And an interesting quote from Michael Caine in that Terry Gross interview book that I'm reading, regarding the difference between American speech and British speech.
I very quickly realized that it wasn't the rhythm of the voice that worried the Americans, it was the speed. The British speak very, very quickly and in a very clipped way. We cut off the end of words. And we talk terribly, terribly quickly.
Hee, and the South US thinks Northerners speak fast. Does explain why I have to put close-captioning on Doctor Who every once and awhile, and find John Barrowman easier to understand than David Tennant. Mark Smith - god bless him, does not speak as fast as David Tennant. I'd say it was a Scottish thing, but Scean Connery always spoke slowly. The French speak fast too - very hard to follow spoken French. Does anyone else?
Then on class...
Well you have a class system here, but you can't tell it by people's accents. In England you can. I can listen to a person for three minutes and I'll tell you how much his house costs, how much he earns, what sort of car he drives.
I don't know - you can tell class in the US to a degree by how people speak. We have our colloquialisms as well, they may just not be as pronounced as the British - because you know bigger country, bigger population. I think you tend to notice it more in a smaller geographical area. But I may be wrong about that.
Oh and Uta Hagen - who I studied in High School, because I had a theater teacher who was obsessed with her and the method - seems to think it best if you study voice to be an actor. (For Theater Teacher - imagine what would happen if Will Shuster, Kurt from Glee, and James Marsters had a child and he was gay. That was Max Brown.) She's upset in the interview because she doesn't believe people truly respect and appreciate the craft of acting. The misunderstandings the laymen have of our craft is profound she states. To which, I roll my eyes and mutter "actors". (Is it just me or are all artists terribly defensive about what they do for a living? Possibly because the vast majority of us do what they do, but in our free time and as a hobby, while we have do something else far less entertaining to make money? I think that's probably at the heart of it. And the fact that only 1% of all the people who make money off art - are actually really successful at it or get acknowledged at all. So the envy factor alone is high. As is the competition.)