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[erastes]

Please please please :)  (shameless beggage) vote for Speak Its Name on the Preditors and Editors site for best review site. It would be great to finish in the top five. Unlikely, as the voting hots up, but one can hope.

Dad quite muddled today, couldn't find the cups and saucers—and that's just one thing. I really think it's time he started thinking about a Home, but he changes his mind from one hour to the next—let alone day. One minute he's all "that's a good idea, let's look into it" and then when I get some brochures he's aggressively and angrily against the idea. But I think it's time, but I'm not ready to force him into one. How I'd manage if he did, I don't know – I'd have to sell my house, I think, and move in here, because at least there would be no mortgage to pay, and I'd have to go back to work. It's all a worry. ETA: he's much better this afternoon, sunshine and a good lunch of stew seems to boost him. Just so tired. I could literally fall asleep now. I'll tell the doc when i go, not that he'll care! 

Eye clinic very pleased with my progress though, they asked how often I was wearing the occlusion and they were surprised to hear that I wasn't using it at all. There's still double vision around the edges of my vision, but I can now use the PC, watch the TV and drive without too many problems. i take the glasses off to read.

I'm reading "The Devil's Lieutenant" by M Fagyas which is an enjoyable romp so far, apparently there's a male relationship that shocked and scandalised the Austro-Hungarian Empire in it. Hurrah!

Back to editing Muffled Drum—nothing too terrible so far, and I should be done easily by the end of the month. Then I need to address what I'm going to do. I'm not worried about starting "a month late" – no point in getting stressed about it, but come February I need to go all out on whatever I'm doing next, whether it be a continuance of "I Knew Him" or something new entirely. I feel I'm hiding, sticking my thinking head in a bucket and then burying that bucket in a deep hole to stop me thinking about it.

What do you think of Shostakovich's Jazz Suite 2 for the video of Muffled Drum?  I admit it's anachronistic, but I do like it, and it really brings to mind a glittering ballroom in the Prussian Empire with dashing frogging uniformed officers with exuberant moustaches.  Rudolph is my first moustachioed hero – I wonder if that will put people off?

Comments

[zamaxfield.livejournal.com]

Love that piece of music, but never realized it was Shostakovich. It's everything you say, vastly exuberant mustaches and all. Is it weird that I can't hear it without holding my breath? Has it been used in a film in a particularly tragic scene? Like the grim end of the Romanov dynasty in that basement with the bullets flying around... Or a particularly gruesome Godfather firefight?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It must have done, mustn't it? But I can't think of where!

[zamaxfield.livejournal.com]

Maybe because we've seen how it ends...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

hmm apparantly it was much used in Eyes Wide Shut. No wonder I hadn't heard of that - who saw THAT?

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

Me!

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about your dad. Went through that with my mom. It is almost the sort of thing that feels wrong no matter what decision you all make. Regret, guilt, etc.(Sorry to be a downer.)

As for DNSIN, I will vote. I did not know there was a vote.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

thank you so much (for both thoughts!)

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Good news about the eyes and also that Muffled Drum edits are going well.

I think the music is a super choice. It sounds like, forgive me, film music. What one might choose for a soundtrack. So, since they are hussars and that means derring do with flashing sabres and fast horses, how about using Shostakovich's 5th Symphony, Movement 4, for the charge? Before Howard Shore did his thing it was always my Riders of Rohan music.

I got a book about cavalry in the flea market at lunchtime. The Comte de Lasalle - "Show me a hussar who has reached he age of thirty and I'll show you a blackguard".

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you my dear - it's great to finally be able to walk without wobbling all over the place.

oh that's a great piece - like it, although a bit too busy for a video I think - i chickened out of describing the action much, I have to say.

I like the sound of that book, too. OO - did you see his moustaches!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Lasalle

[essayel.livejournal.com]

YES! Moustachios, no less. There's a full length portrait of him in the book leaning back against a tree and smoking a pipe. Mmmm tasty looking bloke. And lots of interesting ullustrations of how to load a pistol on horseback etc. Best £2.50 I've spent this week.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

What's the name of it? sounds like something I HAVE to have!

[essayel.livejournal.com]

It's called "The Cavalry" but I can't remember the author and can't find it by that name on Amazon. I'll email the details tomorrow.

[suebrownstories.livejournal.com]

Hey honey, sounds like you have a lot on your mind at the moment. I think that the home is a subject you can't put off though.

I really came over to say I should be back to you this week with all three reviews.

Oh and woot for your eyes!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

That is wonderful - thank you - I wanted to get one posted today, but I never got the book finished! LOL.

[baritonejeff.livejournal.com]

Which movement of the Shostakovich?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

no clue - its the music in the link

[baritonejeff.livejournal.com]

See icon.

I've always found the Shostakovich Jazz Suites wonderfully evocative.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

me too, this has been one of my favourites for a long while, it really summons up an image and i'm so glad I never saw Eyes Wide Shut because that would have spoiled my image!