What are you...

[Alelou]

Oh, I tried one of those when my husband was car shopping and it was my favorite (he picked something else that had more gizmos, of course). It was very peppy!

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

...watching?

I've been watching BBC's 30-year old dramatization of John le Carré's spy novels Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People all weekend. They still hold up extremely well. Alec Guinness plays George Smiley (Obi-Wan Kenobi) and Patrick Stewart (Picard) plays the Soviet master spy Karla.

[Distracted]

...eating? Chicken and sausage gumbo. It's finally gumbo weather down here, meaning the temp outdoors dips below 60 degrees occasionally (mostly at night when it's raining, but still...)

[Aquarius]

...eating? Kit-Kat

...drinking? Prickly pear martini

...watching? some crazy movie on Lifetime.

...doing? decompressing after a long day of learning new haircuts and business tips and shopping and just being WOWed in general.

[Elessar]

Eating: Hershey's mini-bar!

Listening: White Demon Love Song - The Killers

Doing: Preparing Chapter 16 (that would be - THE FINAL CHAPTER) to send to JT

...eating? Chicken and sausage gumbo. It's finally gumbo weather down here, meaning the temp outdoors dips below 60 degrees occasionally (mostly at night when it's raining, but still...)

BTW - that sounds REALLY, really good

[Elessar]

PS: I highly recommend you pick up the New Moon soundtrack if you like indie rock/a little bit of everything. You may not like everything on the cd (I don't), but you will probably like 1 or 2. I had 1 immediate favorite, "The Meadow", a piano-laced instrumental by this French composer name Alexandre Desplat... so I checked up on him. Couldn't find much, except another instrumental from the Painted Veil soundtrack. Also very awesome.

Anyway. The other tracks are growing on me now, so I'd say I really like 2/3 of them.

[WarpGirl]

More Elessar fic... Um I "helped" (ok watched) as my kitchen got painted today.

[Alelou]

Listening to the 2009 movie soundtrack, which I had gotten my kid. Other than the main title and "Labor of Love," which is gorgeous and makes me want to cry, it's just, well, ... a soundtrack. Background music punctuated by pretty little harmonies here and there and loud bombastic noises when intense things are supposed to be happening and odd choral interludes. Soundtracks are just so dull to listen to without the movies attached. Probably that's why Alejandro has already turned back to his The Dark Knight soundtrack.

It's nice for catching up here, though. I had an afternoon workshop at the college on web enhanced courses and distance learning. I'm already doing nearly all the web-enhanced stuff the speakers were introducing, so I guess I dove into that aspect of it quickly. I'm a little underwhelmed at the idea of teaching an online course, though. Not meeting the students face to face -- that's got to be kind of weird.

Sort of like hanging out here...? LOL.

[Escriba]

PS: I highly recommend you pick up the New Moon soundtrack if you like indie rock/a little bit of everything. You may not like everything on the cd (I don't), but you will probably like 1 or 2. I had 1 immediate favorite, "The Meadow", a piano-laced instrumental by this French composer name Alexandre Desplat... so I checked up on him. Couldn't find much, except another instrumental from the Painted Veil soundtrack. Also very awesome.

Oh, no, don't tell me that one of the greatest soundtrack composer (author of "The Queen", "The Painted Veil" or "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button") has composed the soundtrack for New Moon That's so unfair... It's almost worse than when Hans Zimmer was elected as a composer for "The Da Vinci Code" (dreadful movie and book.) Fact that even got worse when I discovered that the soundtrack rocked big time

Listening to the 2009 movie soundtrack, which I had gotten my kid. Other than the main title and "Labor of Love," which is gorgeous and makes me want to cry, it's just, well, ... a soundtrack. Background music punctuated by pretty little harmonies here and there and loud bombastic noises when intense things are supposed to be happening and odd choral interludes. Soundtracks are just so dull to listen to without the movies attached. Probably that's why Alejandro has already turned back to his The Dark Knight soundtrack.

Well, Michael Giacchino is known for his "emotional crescendos" so no surprise that "Labour of Love" is one of the best tracks. I like "Nice to Meld You" and "Nero Death Experience" too, and that he uses the original music for the original series, not the "Goldsmith variant" that everybody uses. Also, I like the tittles of his tracks

I like soundtracks. In fact, I'm a total soundtrack junkie. I agree that sometimes they're difficult to listen because they're composed to be heard with a movie, but I like that they are able to create atmosphere (which is very useful when writing )

[WarpGirl]

I LOVED the soundtrack to Pride and Prejudice both versions. But I don't remember who did it. It was lush and romantic without being too sugery. But when it comes to TV soundtracks... Bones absolutely is the best right now.

I'm eating cupckes for breakfast!

[Alelou]

I liked the last P&P soundtrack, too, though I thought it was extremely lush and romantic. (Which is the direction the movie erred in, if one wanted to accuse it of anything, so that was appropriate.) But I don't know if I'd ever buy it.

Escriba, on further examination I really liked "That New Car Smell" too, which is really just about the only place we get to hear the Chinese-informed Vulcan music, which was also pretty and haunting. And I agree about his titles. There are some very odd extremely short tracks on this already-short soundtrack. The end credits are nice, but I have to admit I just don't care much for the original Star Trek parts. I mean, I'm glad they're there from a Trekkie reference point of view, but as music I don't really much like it beyond the opening measures with those single notes that signal HERE WE GO, IT'S STAR TREK!

[Escriba]

Escriba, on further examination I really liked "That New Car Smell" too, which is really just about the only place we get to hear the Chinese-informed Vulcan music, which was also pretty and haunting.

Ah, yes, the track with the violin bit. Very Vulcan indeed

I liked the last P&P soundtrack, too, though I thought it was extremely lush and romantic. (Which is the direction the movie erred in, if one wanted to accuse it of anything, so that was appropriate.) But I don't know if I'd ever buy it.

I have it, it's by Dario Marianelli (one of the best composers of the new batch.) I didn't buy it, it was gift.

But when it comes to TV soundtracks... Bones absolutely is the best right now.

In my opinion Bones doesn't stand out nor for its original score, or for its chosen songs. Chuck does much, much better, or even Grey's Anatomy (even if you hate the plot.) Also House, that has some really good ending songs (its trademark.)

If we're talking about original scores, even if I liked Pushing Daisies', the absolutely standouts are the new Battlestar Galactica and Lost (this one of Michael Giacchino.)

[TPoptarts]

Watching: Little Miss Sunshine
And I get to the part of the actual contest, and who do I see sitting as an extra in the audience... it's frelling Helmet Head!! That retarded actor wannabe who used to live here and was obsessed with me and stalked me for a really long time, even invited himself into my BED!! EWWWWW yuck I frelling hate him!! What a way to ruin a movie

[TPoptarts]

Watching the new Star Trek movie (finally )

I didn't follow the movie discussions but I recall someone said something about Porthos being mentioned in the movie... and well now I'm at the part that they meet Scotty and he says like how he tested his transporter on Archer's beagle. I don't know if it's been discussed before but uhhh... aren't they like a hundred years after ENT, like how long is canine life expectancy supposed to be in the future??

Maybe he had another beagle

[WarpGirl]

Good point! I liked it. Did you?