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	Welcome To My Home... September 19, 2002 Face the Music I had casually lost myself in Unreality after finishing an essay for my speech class, when it suddenly occured to me that I had a music test to study for. This included, among other things, becoming familiar with several songs that are even out of my broad range of musical tastes. (Actually I'm okay with classical stuff, but when you put together a playlist composed entirely of Italian opera, Baroque cantatas, and the likes, it can get somewhat tiresome). So, prying myself away from the physcologically harmful display of violence before me, I grabbed my study guide, threw open Winamp, and eagerly flipped through the pages of my textbook. Obviously, the best way to become familiar with the music samples was to listen to them, and what better thing to do while listening to ancient music than to study it? So, to the oh-so-pleasant sounds of opera and Gregorian chants, motets and organums, the studying commenced. Three hours later, I could readily identify any of the sound clips provided. In fact, I had grown more than completely sick of the fourteen minutes of the women wailing and Gregorians chanting that I had been listening to repeatedly this entire time. Jared most likely now believes that seventeenth century vocal arrangements form my usual music preference. I had also, by this time, re-read and outlined the entire Rennaisance period of music into Baroque. (I say "re-read," but considering he had started lecturing the actual test material only two days before, I really hadn't had a lot of exposure to this stuff). I managed to finish going through the Baroque period a while after turning the off the music. The actual test takes its place as my first experience of a college exam. I knew it would be multiple choice, but other than that, I really didn't know what to expect. The "study outline" was basically a list of terms, each of which could have been the subject of dozens of unique questions. The first two questions were of the variety that could not be answered readily regardless of how much time one spent studying. (I'm sure teachers do this on purpose to kill whatever confidence you might have before it can be put to good use). I remember there being several questions of this sort - where the details were so random and specific that one would have needed to have memorized the entire text in order to answer with confidence. Other questions were insultingly obvious - some including as choices terms from completely different time periods. Others asked to match relatively common terms with a definition - often where two or even three of the choices were obviously wrong. On the music recognition portion of the exam, however, I know for a certainty that I earned full credit. The reason for this being that we did not have a music recognition portion of the exam. The professor announced before the test that the study outline was unclear in this area, so he would give everyone full credit for that section. I, of course, would never argue with this, but it would've been nice to have such information beforehand. I could have been listening to good music while studying. Comments September 19, 2002 Now That's Entertainment You are no doubt already aware of Blizzard's latest announcement. Or not. In any case, it appears they are developing third-person MetalgearSolid-esque game exclusively for consoles - a big kick in the shin to PC gamers everywhere. It at least looks cool enough to warrent a trip to the site. If you haven't already, be sure to see Amelie sometime. I just returned from a free showing at our Titan Theater, and I really can't imagine anyone not liking that movie. (Although not for the kiddies. Rated R for sex and nudity, and with reason. I suspect, though, that anyone willing to sit through a foreign film will have reached a level of maturity at which this shouldn't be a problem). There is apparently a new Pixar short on the Monsters Inc. DVD, the preview of which is very good. September 20, 2002 The Parlor I have found a working link to download Geoffrey Haley's short film, The Parlor, here. (The link will allow you to actually save the file to your hard drive). It won honerable mention at a 2002 film festival a while ago, and while it used to be wide-spread across the internet, it is now difficult to find. I can't really say much about it other than I think it's very well done and very funny. It may be innappropriate for some due to sexual references, so don't watch if you think you might fall in that catagory. September 21, 2002 Thanks for the link... Thanks for the link to the Parlor, really been looking for that for the longest time. 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