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What is it about starting school that leaves me so wiped out? ( I wonder. )
Also, I saw 9 last night after giving blood, which might explain some of the physical and mental exhaustion. Blood donation was fine, but I was already tired from not sleeping well the night before and I get cranky when they insist on taking blood from my right arm. (I need that for stuff!) Not to mention that something broke with the tubing so the guy splattered my blood on the floor after he finished filling up the test tubes. (I'm fine! Nothing went wrong with the blood bag itself, just the other half of the Y-junction tubing where they collect a smaller pouch of blood for tests.) That was just gross and grossly wasteful. I also wasn't pleased that he ignored my request to have tourniquet loosened. (Had to do it myself.) I need to figure out the right place to donate blood at this hospital. It's too easy for them to get distracted when I go in the large building.
As for 9, meh. Fine to look at, but it was painful to think about for even a few minutes. It felt inordinately long at about 80 minutes, and it had neither the plot nor the characterization to carry it even if it had been 40 minutes. I wasn't terribly excited by it, so I'm not disappointed, just annoyed that it turned out so poorly when it could have been cool. I'm always irritated when people set up awesome things that just don't materialize into anything coherently interesting.
Thank God for Beatles Rock Band, though. That shit is gorgeous. I'm with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
moonlightalice, though: I really want to watch the animations! When feiran stopped singing, you could see more of it, but you're so busy with the playing, you miss out. It boggles the mind, however, how many songs I can only vaguely recognize. I mean, this is The Beatles we're talking about. Not recognizing one of their songs is like not knowing which days of the week end in Y.
(Interesting note: in Hawai'ian, none of the days do! Hawai'ians don't believe in your crazy Ys. I know this because I bought my wall calendar--one of them--in Hawai'i and it has all the months/days in both English and Hawai'ian.)
Nonetheless, I look forward to playing around with the harmonized singing, though I know I'll be crap at it because I can never remember a specific part, especially not if it's a subtle one. I tend to go with whatever melody is dominant when I sing. Oh well. Half the fun is seeing stuff you didn't even recognize was there, like who plays what part in what song. I have never watched any Beatles films or filmed appearances, only ever listened to them, so I never really recognized which songs were sung by which person, or who took lead on which guitar part. I am not a Beatlemaniac either, so a lot of that stuff I wouldn't have investigated on my own regardless, but here it's presented to me with no research on my part necessary. I'm getting better, though, thanks to the dissertations of the Beatles cover band I follow as they do each individual song. Now Rock Band will help with that, too.
...I need to post more often because this became an info dump of exceedingly and unnecessarily prodigious length.
Also, I saw 9 last night after giving blood, which might explain some of the physical and mental exhaustion. Blood donation was fine, but I was already tired from not sleeping well the night before and I get cranky when they insist on taking blood from my right arm. (I need that for stuff!) Not to mention that something broke with the tubing so the guy splattered my blood on the floor after he finished filling up the test tubes. (I'm fine! Nothing went wrong with the blood bag itself, just the other half of the Y-junction tubing where they collect a smaller pouch of blood for tests.) That was just gross and grossly wasteful. I also wasn't pleased that he ignored my request to have tourniquet loosened. (Had to do it myself.) I need to figure out the right place to donate blood at this hospital. It's too easy for them to get distracted when I go in the large building.
As for 9, meh. Fine to look at, but it was painful to think about for even a few minutes. It felt inordinately long at about 80 minutes, and it had neither the plot nor the characterization to carry it even if it had been 40 minutes. I wasn't terribly excited by it, so I'm not disappointed, just annoyed that it turned out so poorly when it could have been cool. I'm always irritated when people set up awesome things that just don't materialize into anything coherently interesting.
Thank God for Beatles Rock Band, though. That shit is gorgeous. I'm with
moonlightalice, though: I really want to watch the animations! When feiran stopped singing, you could see more of it, but you're so busy with the playing, you miss out. It boggles the mind, however, how many songs I can only vaguely recognize. I mean, this is The Beatles we're talking about. Not recognizing one of their songs is like not knowing which days of the week end in Y.(Interesting note: in Hawai'ian, none of the days do! Hawai'ians don't believe in your crazy Ys. I know this because I bought my wall calendar--one of them--in Hawai'i and it has all the months/days in both English and Hawai'ian.)
Nonetheless, I look forward to playing around with the harmonized singing, though I know I'll be crap at it because I can never remember a specific part, especially not if it's a subtle one. I tend to go with whatever melody is dominant when I sing. Oh well. Half the fun is seeing stuff you didn't even recognize was there, like who plays what part in what song. I have never watched any Beatles films or filmed appearances, only ever listened to them, so I never really recognized which songs were sung by which person, or who took lead on which guitar part. I am not a Beatlemaniac either, so a lot of that stuff I wouldn't have investigated on my own regardless, but here it's presented to me with no research on my part necessary. I'm getting better, though, thanks to the dissertations of the Beatles cover band I follow as they do each individual song. Now Rock Band will help with that, too.
...I need to post more often because this became an info dump of exceedingly and unnecessarily prodigious length.
