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Joan of Arc, Marge Simpson, Tchaikovsky
Today I listened to some Chopin and filled up page after page in my sketchbook with ....... drawings of Marge Simpson. Just, you know, tons of portraits of Marge Simpson, as you do. And some sketches of Marge as a hiker, Marge at the gym, culminating in Midsommar Marge (painstakingly drawn using references of Florence Pugh).
...Idk... I'm obsessed with her. She's my wife. (Marge, not Florence).
I switched to a playlist of Tchaikovsky, which dug deep into the percolating mess of inspiration in my brain (My Dark Vanessa, Kazeki, the K.M. Claude story that I'm supposed to be writing...) and I opened up a blank doc and wrote 2,000 words for an original story featuring a piano teacher, his newest student, and his nephew. Currently using a Tchaikovsky quote as the title, "Were It Not For Music"... ("Truly there would be reason to go mad, were it not for music.")
This led to a minor Tchaikovsky research rabbit-hole, delighting over the uncle-nephew incest coincidence and getting sucked into articles about his cholera death. (I had a CD of Tchaikovsky's music when I was a kid, with a little portrait of him on the cover, and that's about the extent of my knowledge).
Then I practiced my Japanese flashcards and read a little bit of Lolita. One of my friends texted me about an action movie she likes, and said it made her think of me because there's a sequence where they use a musical composition about Joan of Arc, but she couldn't remember the name. So then I went down ANOTHER rabbit hole re: Joan of Arc and music. Listened to Leonard Cohen's "Joan of Arc" for the first time (somehow didn't know it existed) and found the Honegger opera Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher, which is absolutely harrowing, and THEN my friend got back to me and said she found the composition from the film, it's Richard Einhorn's "Voices of Light," which is sometimes performed live as a soundtrack to the 1916 Joan of Arc silent film. Tchaikovsky also has a Joan opera, though the article I'm reading (The Musical World of Joan of Arc) doesn't have anything nice to say about it XD
So those are two fun things to really dig into tomorrow. I'm having lunch with my grandparents around 2 p.m. as well, at this little river-front restaurant that I saw on the boat ride at work, so I'm excited for that.
...Idk... I'm obsessed with her. She's my wife. (Marge, not Florence).
I switched to a playlist of Tchaikovsky, which dug deep into the percolating mess of inspiration in my brain (My Dark Vanessa, Kazeki, the K.M. Claude story that I'm supposed to be writing...) and I opened up a blank doc and wrote 2,000 words for an original story featuring a piano teacher, his newest student, and his nephew. Currently using a Tchaikovsky quote as the title, "Were It Not For Music"... ("Truly there would be reason to go mad, were it not for music.")
This led to a minor Tchaikovsky research rabbit-hole, delighting over the uncle-nephew incest coincidence and getting sucked into articles about his cholera death. (I had a CD of Tchaikovsky's music when I was a kid, with a little portrait of him on the cover, and that's about the extent of my knowledge).
Then I practiced my Japanese flashcards and read a little bit of Lolita. One of my friends texted me about an action movie she likes, and said it made her think of me because there's a sequence where they use a musical composition about Joan of Arc, but she couldn't remember the name. So then I went down ANOTHER rabbit hole re: Joan of Arc and music. Listened to Leonard Cohen's "Joan of Arc" for the first time (somehow didn't know it existed) and found the Honegger opera Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher, which is absolutely harrowing, and THEN my friend got back to me and said she found the composition from the film, it's Richard Einhorn's "Voices of Light," which is sometimes performed live as a soundtrack to the 1916 Joan of Arc silent film. Tchaikovsky also has a Joan opera, though the article I'm reading (The Musical World of Joan of Arc) doesn't have anything nice to say about it XD
So those are two fun things to really dig into tomorrow. I'm having lunch with my grandparents around 2 p.m. as well, at this little river-front restaurant that I saw on the boat ride at work, so I'm excited for that.