ok, so hopefully most of you got that the title is a song and a fairly recognizable one at that. If your heartbeat quickened as you thought of the movie and a chill ran down your spine as you thought of how scary it is to swim in dark water etc, then I acurately recreated the feelings we had during our totally cool night this past weekend.
We went to the Houston Pops who performed john williams' music from spielberg films including: E.T., Jaws, Close Encounters of the 3rd kind, Jurrasic Park, 1941, saving private ryan, schindler's list, Indianal Jones, the NBC Nightly News theme that is actually a full march, Hook, Terminal, and Catch Me if You Can.
My Personal favorites were definitely JAWS-they had a helium shark float out and swim above the orchestra as they played the theme-so ridiculous how effective that theme is and there's so much more than just a minor second going back and forth. They said that when Williams played the shark theme for Spielberg on the piano-spielberg laughed and said, no really- what is it? Yeah...Williams later won an oscar for that score.; Hook was really good, during close encounters they played with the track lighting above the orchestra like they do in the movie to comunicate with the aliens and shined a concentrated beam down on the conductor like they were opening up etc.; of course saving private ryan's hymn to the fallen and schindler's list's themes are way moving and make you want to cry; Jurrassic park was awesome and the original Indiana Jones was good-though they played a bunch from the newest one that was frankly a little overkill, for the encore they played the starwars main theme which was of course not Spielberg. Apparently Lucas had gone to Spielberg asking for a good symphonic composer for a score and he recommended Williams. Everyone clapped and cheered for that one.
It was an AMAZING night and I really enjoyed the quality of the theatre and the demographic (though we were prolly close to the youngest there not counting teens who came with their parents)
Other things that we've been doing to keep busy-way back in the day we went to a Rockets' game here in houston when the Kings came and got to see Jimmer play for about 5 minutes so that was pretty cool.
Cody and some friends started some blogs that I REALLY like and think are helpful: notintosports.com and notintotech.com
so you can find daily highlights of the MAIN things going on in the sports world that will be the most useful to use in a conversation with your peers/coworkers etc so you atleast have an idea of what they're talking about. There are also some interesting basic explinations of different concepts, rules, organization, etc so you can understand, for example, the basic differences between the NBA and NCAA basketball etc. It's updated every day so you can check it and get the most info with the least amount of effort-which is what I like about it. Sites like ESPN etc can be intimidating and overload to people who are casually interested in sports OR who are married to, dating, etc sports fanatics and want to have stuff to bond over without having to learn EVERY little minutia about sports.
anywho, and it's the same with notintotech-tech sites are notorious for using crazy hard jargon and being specific to people who actually understand and love tech-is that me? no, but I'm married to a tech guy and tech does come up in every day conversations whether it's news or ideas for future ventures that I need to be the sounding board for, so this is helpful to me.
Feel free to check them out! and tell your friends :)
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