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Well, for the first time since I started up this jounal, I haven't got anything strongly swaying me in any direction. No wind to blow me, so I guess I'll just walk around in my mind and see what crops up, eh?
It's karaoke night. whee Seriously, this is like the highlight of my week. I don't get drunk though the option is there, but I just have so much fun! The last time I went I was with two of my best pals and one of their girlfriends, and we spent those four hours just gabbing at each other. I love being social like that. I love being able to go out with my best pals and talk, and have a good time, and have my biggest concern be not getting so drunk I can't drive home. Plus it's fun to watch those people who think they've got pipes, or whatnot.
I know I'll sing my standard, which is Trick Pony's On a Night Like This, but I'm also wanting to try another song this go-round. One time or another, I will have to attempt Susan Tedeschi's Rock Me Right (I've been practicing since July), and I think it might be fun to try Hooked on a Feeling. You know, the one with the Ooga Chakas and the scary dancing baby. That's a good song.
Well... I seem to have exhausted that topic, and I don't feel quite like finishing yet.. What else?
Well.. Gilgamesh has struck a few lighting rods in my head. I discovered a Sumerian creation hymn, complete with musical notation. I'd love to use this in my project, but I have no idea how copywright laws will apply to this. The book I found it in was published first in 1937, then reprinted in 1970. But to whom does the copywright belong? The translator, the author of the book (who may or may not be the translator), the publisher? Is it a part of the public domain? One of my profs has said that yes, a folk song may be part of public domain, but the guy that actually sits down and writes out the musical notation and lyrics and stuff owns the copywright on it. Bleh. So that's a thing to look into for me. But that will come later, probably after I've gotten an actual script banged out.
I've got a good picture of how I want it to open, and I've already drawn a primary draft of the set. Very primary. I'll scan it up later, I think, to make everything nice. Because apparently the selected priestess would go up into the top room in the ziggurat every night and commune with the gods, I thought it would be cool to have a raised platform where the priestess would be, and then open it with her climbing to this platform, then have the women of Uruk enter, doing their prayer to the gods. I wonder about having a *sacrifice* onstage, because any prayer would have a sacrifice, but ... I live in freaking Brookings, South Dakota. Audiences are conservative. Even an imitation of the ritualistic killing of an animal to a heathen god might fluff some feathers, so to speak. Ah, well. It's a thing to ponder.
Both my classes on Friday were canceled! Huzzah!
Brain thinky moment:
2769. I've always felt my entrails are entirely happy where they are, not lying on the ground and getting all dirty.
Comic Linky:
Penny Arcade for your gaming pleasure
 Adeiras · Wed Sep 29, 2004 @ 11:42pm · 1 Comments |
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