M.I.A

christmas season and making the kcf banquet video for u dub is going to keep me from blogging for a while.

I'll make sure to take tons of photos and catch up later though.

iTunes Challenge: Day 1

According to itunes, i have 6.4 days worth of music. I havne't listen to all of the songs so I've decided that before the new year, i'm going to listen to everything and blog about my favourites :) It'll be good considering I just downloaded a whole bunch of albums of korean artists that are non-mainstream and I have yet to listen to all of it.

Going to organize everything by file size so I don't listen to the same artist and get sick of them. I'm not expecting much out of the first couple cuz they're all intros or snippets of songs.

chestnuts roasting by the open fire

It's snowing like crazy outside and I took this last year, but it seriously gets me every time how much it can snow in waterloo. And listening to Michael Buble while being toasty in the library

soundtrack in film

I was thinking of what courses to take and I realized I think i want to take some fun non-program related courses. After all isn't university supposed to be about exploring what's out there and broadening your perspectives?

So one of my friends suggested Soundtrack in Film. They're 3 hour lectures (boo) but it sounds pretty cool.

Here's the course syllabus:
Week 1: Course Introduction, What to Listen For in Film
Week 2: Technical Details, How It’s Done
Week 3: Early History, The Silent Era
Week 4: The Birth of Sound, and the Orchestra in Hollywood
Week 5: Film Music Comes of Age (1940-1950)
Week 6: The 1950s and Hitchcock/Herrmann
Week 7: The 1960s/Goldsmith
Week 8: The 1970s/Williams
Week 9: The 1980s/Horner
Week 10: The 90s
Week 11: Music From and Inspired by the film

Considering I used to think of my life in terms of soundtracks, I think this might be a cool course to take hehe

first exam of fall 2010

wrote my first exam today - coronary. It was open book so it was quite okay. My notes were so sick and pro at being tabbed that it was really easy to go through.

Ruth, Sarah and I have been sleeping in the living room (we sleep on mine and ruth's mattresses) and we were supposed to all wake up together and do morning devotions before going into this exam period but 1) i was frantically trying to print all my notes and 2) we woke up quite late.

HOpefully we can do it tomorrow :)


Currently in dwe with a couple friends studying. It's kind of depressing considering there's no windows and there's a huge drawing of mcdonald's on the front chalkboard with "공부하자 - let's study" written right next to it.. WHAT a tease...