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Okay, I know Lady Gaga is becoming incredibly mainstream pop right now - but I like this new song.
It's Born This Way, and it's incredibly comforting and reassuring - particularly in a media culture that is pushing the opposite.
( Lady Gaga's new Song Born This Way - to Listen to )
Actually, I like Lady Gaga - she has a great voice and catchy songs. In the music dept - two shows this week had great musical numbers - one was Grey's Anatomy - which was a word song, but I can't remember the name of it or the artist, the other was The Good Wife with the song "and the bells ring no, no, no, no." Possibly the best use of music in a tv show for a long time. Grey's overdoes on the music montage, often making it impossible to understand what people are saying - because they have a habit of playing songs over dialogue. Once they played a song over voice-over and dialogue - causing me to turn on the close captioning in annoyance. Speaking of Grey's - did you know that Nicholas Brendan is playing the nasty rapist on The Private Practice (I don't watch Private Practice - but I see the previews often during my fastforward through commercials.). Found that ironic in a weird way. You'd have to be a Buffy fan, experienced fandom wars during season 6 of that series while it was airing (note fans can be bug-shagging crazy) and be inside my head, I guess, to understand why.
Been listening to music a lot the past few days. Work got so bad, that I decided to bring my i-pod to work with me to a)block out the venting conversations, and to concentrate, and b) lower my blood-pressure. As a result have discovered something - if you want to reduce stress and anxiety? Listen to music. It actually works better than the tv or the internet, both of which can be known to raise blood pressure and stress. Another stress reducer? Glee - combines music and snarky comedy (okay only if you like snarky comedy and musicals, if you don't - you might want to avoid).
Speaking of musicals? Spiderman : Turn off the Dark is getting slammed by the critics all of a sudden.
I guess they finally got tired of waiting for the thing to actually open, and went to previews.
( a NY theater geek's take on the Spiderman musical stuff )
Hmmm..since I have Monday off, maybe I'll stay up late Sunday and watch the Grammy's? Want to see Lady Gaga's performance and the Rolling Stones. I think they are performing.
It's Born This Way, and it's incredibly comforting and reassuring - particularly in a media culture that is pushing the opposite.
( Lady Gaga's new Song Born This Way - to Listen to )
Actually, I like Lady Gaga - she has a great voice and catchy songs. In the music dept - two shows this week had great musical numbers - one was Grey's Anatomy - which was a word song, but I can't remember the name of it or the artist, the other was The Good Wife with the song "and the bells ring no, no, no, no." Possibly the best use of music in a tv show for a long time. Grey's overdoes on the music montage, often making it impossible to understand what people are saying - because they have a habit of playing songs over dialogue. Once they played a song over voice-over and dialogue - causing me to turn on the close captioning in annoyance. Speaking of Grey's - did you know that Nicholas Brendan is playing the nasty rapist on The Private Practice (I don't watch Private Practice - but I see the previews often during my fastforward through commercials.). Found that ironic in a weird way. You'd have to be a Buffy fan, experienced fandom wars during season 6 of that series while it was airing (note fans can be bug-shagging crazy) and be inside my head, I guess, to understand why.
Been listening to music a lot the past few days. Work got so bad, that I decided to bring my i-pod to work with me to a)block out the venting conversations, and to concentrate, and b) lower my blood-pressure. As a result have discovered something - if you want to reduce stress and anxiety? Listen to music. It actually works better than the tv or the internet, both of which can be known to raise blood pressure and stress. Another stress reducer? Glee - combines music and snarky comedy (okay only if you like snarky comedy and musicals, if you don't - you might want to avoid).
Speaking of musicals? Spiderman : Turn off the Dark is getting slammed by the critics all of a sudden.
I guess they finally got tired of waiting for the thing to actually open, and went to previews.
( a NY theater geek's take on the Spiderman musical stuff )
Hmmm..since I have Monday off, maybe I'll stay up late Sunday and watch the Grammy's? Want to see Lady Gaga's performance and the Rolling Stones. I think they are performing.