I'm through with Playing by the Rules of Someone Else's Game...should "through" be capitalized?

I just finished my first ever college exam. Yay! It's done. I did okay. I missed, like, three questions. One was worded badly, the other was a trick question, and whatever was wrong with the third it wasn't my fault!

To celebrate, I treated myself to writing this blog post. I also treated myself to an early luncheon, and not just any early luncheon, a food-based early luncheon, more expensive than its comparative non-food-based early luncheon. Also, I called it a luncheon.

Here's a song I listened to while studying.



Concerning the filmishness of this video, at 0:20 where it starts at her feet and pans up as she walks? Usually, that would be done in slow motion, but I think it looks even stronger for the fact that it's in regular motion. She's walking normal. It looks cool.

Also, I have a really hard time distinguishing between music genres. What constitutes pop? What constitutes rock? What constitutes hip-hop? I like any music that sounds like music to my ears, and that encompasses a wide range of genre songs that just happen to mesh with my soul. I do find most of them in pop/rock, though. From what I can TELL, the above song is kind of rock, because it's heavy on the guitars and drums. I like that. It meshes with my soul. It's also kind of techno, though, because it repeats itself a lot. Some techno meshes with my soul, too, especially when it repeats CATCHY phrases again and again. I've never heard of rock/techno before, but I bet this would be it.

I have no idea what the lyrics mean. And THAT means, while I can't say they mesh with my soul, I can't say they do the opposite of meshing with my soul. Actually, a word or two may almost certainly not mesh with my soul. Did I say the word "mesh" yet? I hope it means what I think it means.

Anyway, to be honest, I just found this song yesterday, but still.

There's a song I listened to while studying.

Here is a song I listened to while...happily bobbing my head. (It contains a swear word, but I couldn't find a version without it, so just ignore it.)




Here is a song I listened to while psyching myself up to write a terrifyingly long paper last year.



This song actually makes me feel like I can fly. It's the combination of the loud Broadway-style singing, the beautiful high notes, the uplifting and determined lyrics, the euphoric melody, and the instruments in the background. It makes me feel like I can take over the world! "I'm through accepting limits 'cause someone says they're so! . . . To those who ground me, take a message back from me! Tell them how I'm defying gravity! . . . And nobody in all of Oz, no wizard that there is or was, is ever gonna bring me down!" All the sentences earn their exclamation marks. Do any among you love this song as much as I do?

Here's the song set to some neat storyboard sketches at this blog: http://heidigilbert.blogspot.com/2010/09/dear-stephen-schwartz.html


Here's a song that makes my heart burst in the gentlest way.



It is just so, so, so PRETTY. I'd heard Vivaldi's Rain before this of course, but I'd never heard it with words, and the vocals just heaven-ize it.

Here's another pretty song, but one much sadder.




Well, I want to do another post soon. I'll see if I get to it today...But I probably won't.