Posted on
Jul 10, 2024

Music Loves: Doctor Who – The Greatest Story Never Told

Today has been one of those days when nothing but River Song’s Music will do. I have listened to nothing but The Greatest Story Never Told today! I remember watching Forest of the Dead live and having to sit on my hands once this River scene with this music came on in order not to replay it immediately right after just to make it to the end of the episode. Fabulous scene and fabulous music. Murray Gold outdid himself composing this one. I have accomplished much today and I did all listening to this one!

Posted on
Jul 5, 2024

Friday 5 for July 4: No intersection

Today’s questions over at f.riday5.com

 

1. When did you last read a physical issue of a magazine?

It’s a toss up between a newspaper in the library two weeks ago or the customer magazine my local grocery chain releases every month. One or the other.

2. If someone were going through your wardrobe, which item or items would give the person a good idea of your age?

No idea. My clothes are all pretty much timeless and general because I don’t follow trends or styles or anything. And I don’t care about clothing or fashion to guess what might tell what other people about my age – my likes and dislikes, yes, but not my age. I also think it depends on that other person’s interest in clothing and fashion as well!

3. What is your favorite song released in 2024?

I… don’t know if I’ve even heard a single song released this year! I certainly don’t know the release years of the songs I listen to… mostly I just remember “this is from my childhood, this is from around 2010 and I it heard in The Vampire Diaries first, The Piano movies was made in early/mid-90s. this singer was active in the 1970s…

What I can do is give you my favorite song from all the ones I’ve discovered this year: Night Of The Dancing Flame by Róisin Murphy. I discovered that one last week from Evil episode 4×06 How to Dance in Three Easy Steps and I LOVE it.

Also saw this on YouTube and loved it:

4. What non-food item did you last put in a zippered plastic bag?

Non-food… I can’t think of one. I don’t use zippered plastic bags (I don’t think they’re a thing here) but freezer bags and such are closed with a knot or a clip. Either way, I don’t remember! I use them a lot for food items, but it’s been too long to remember what the last non-food item was!

5. You may know that in Japan there are cafes where you can play with bunnies, cats, hedgehogs, reptiles, owls, and many other kinds of animals. Assuming one hundred percent good faith, which would mean the animals’ safety and mental health are completely assured and the animals are rescues, making it unsafe for them to be released back into the wild, which animal cafe (whether it exists now or not) would you most like to spend time in?

Dog cafe, definitely! I like dogs a lot, and if I could look after a dog the way they should be taken care of, I would have one! So I’d definitely go to a dog cafe.

But I’d also like to go to a bunny or a cat cafe, just because I’ve never have interactions with them in real life… no one I’ve ever known has had a bunny, and a few had cats but cats disappeared whenever there were visitors around, so I never got to interact with one.

So I’d check out a bunny and a cat cafe, too!

I’ve heard that there are at least one or two cat cafes in Finland, but whenever I hear one mentioned, it’s always in a bad way – abuse, breeding etc. Just a week or two there was a minor scandal about a cat cafe chain where lots of outright abuse and just bad habitat situation took place.

Posted on
Dec 26, 2023

Carol of the Bells

Carol of the Bells is one of the songs that I always get stuck on whenever I hear it in a movie or a tv show. Most recently today, right at the start of the Doctor Who Christmas special. The particular version from Home Alone soundtrack is very dark and sinister to me somehow but it is my favorite version!

The original Ukrainian version is also wonderful!

Posted on
Oct 26, 2023

Barber – Adagio for Strings

I have LOVED Barber‘s Adagio for Strings ever since I saw Platoon for the first time in the tv. I’m not sure the year,  but it was probably in the very late 1980s. Adagio for Strings is also probably the very first classical piece of music I ever fell in love with. It’s so beautiful that it makes me cry whenever I listen to it.

Bodies 1×03 features a choir version of the piece at the end of the episode, and somehow I’d never even considered that there could be a choir version with no music! It’s also beautiful!

Bodies also has good score, particularly the opening credits theme by Jon Opstad.