1 post tagged “the great new wonderful”

What method do you use to prepare your coffee or tea? 
Submitted by AgentBouche.

I get out a mug, pour the coffee into said mug, clean up the inevitable spill (apparently leaky pot + Joie is a klutz = not good for counters), and proceed to drink.  It's a complicated process, I know.

A quick morning post because for whatever reason, for the past 24 hours I've cared nothing about homework and am suddenly madly in love with music the way I used to be.  Honestly, sometimes I feel like I've recently married music, but now we're hitting that point where our relationship is starting to lose its spark because you know, we see each other all the time and are becoming accustomed to one another's idiosyncrasies (which have turned from endearing to annoying).  And maybe music is a little worried because I've renewed my supposedly platonic relationship with English, and music is like, "Hey?  What are you doing?"  And I'm like, "Music, calm down.  You are my first major, English and I are just friends.  It's you that I'm going to do graduate work in.  And I can't imagine pursuing a doctorate for anyone but you, my dear."  And then music is all relieved and our relationship is at least temporarily revitalized, and we shirk all of our responsibilities to make sweet lovin'.

Translation of the Previous Paragraph:  I blew off all homework in favor of listening to and playing music, and it felt good.  (...Clearly I should not be allowed to drink coffee, as doing so results in bizarre metaphors in which I "make sweet love" to an abstract concept [the music major].  It also apparently makes me unable to resist the temptation to put subthoughts in my subthoughts.)

The whole purpose of this post (can anyone else tell I used QotD as an excuse to write a long, stupid entry?) is that while tooling around on the piano this morning, I remembered a little theme I absolutely loved from the movie The Great New Wonderful.  It's so simple and cute (without being sugary and silly), and if I remember correctly it plays throughout the movie's opening scene.  I couldn't find a video of that, so please enjoy this link to the movie trailer (if you have Quicktime).  The particular theme I'm talking about comes in towards the end, right where it says "Rebuilding is a process," but I recommend you watch the whole trailer--I enjoyed the movie, although it was by no means a comedy (as the DVD case and the presence of both Stephen Colbert and Jim Gaffigan would have you believe).

Aaaaand I'm done now.