rodin and neil gaiman...

[thoreau]

I did my shift at the legion of honor museum this afternoon - it was organ recital day. the pipe organ at the legion is beautiful. Today's program was baroque - and beautiful. It was remarkable to watch how hearing the pipe organ echo down the hallways - changed the entire way people moved, experienced and interacted with the art. Then a large - and I'm talking HUGE - probably 100+ guests wedding party showed up - and I watched a wedding from the back of the courtyard. Weddings tear me up - such beautiful over the top rituals. Everyone in burgundy - everyone wearing a matching orange rose. The entire event was spoken in mandarin or chinese. but now I'm home and I'm just finishing a viewing of Neil Gaiman and The Jim Henson company's fantasy film MIRRORMASK.... what a bizarre visual journey.

the "close to you" sequence:

Comments

[krypto38801.livejournal.com]

I loved Mirrormask. It was surreal, cubed. The imagery was so wonderful, and Gaiman has always produced some interesting comics. Plus, Valentine loked sorta cute too. <:)

[wrascalbc.livejournal.com]

Mirrormask was amazing! Now if I can only get it back from the person I lent it to, lol!

Just a note on Baroque music...

[blt4success66.livejournal.com]

Baroque music is only 2nd to Classical. I like music from the Romantic period but there is something about Classical period music that is pure (maybe not so many rules like the Baroque period).

So here's my bad music major joke for the day.

"What did the organ teacher say to his student after the student finished playing his recital piece?"

Wait for it.

"If it isn't Ba-roque, don't fix it!"

Okay you can laugh now.

[glarehead.livejournal.com]

Wow. I've got to get that movie. That sequence is nightmare fodder.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

It is TRULY bizarre! I enjoyed the "art" of it - but didn't really enjoy the story much. but there were some brilliant visual moments.

[moved.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. This looks completely up my alley. I love Jim Henson's work across the board. I think I'm one of the few that remembers Dog City.

I became familiar with Neil Gaiman starting with American Gods and then his other novels. I just read the first part of the collection in the Sandman which was the first graphic novel I've ever read.