Is That a Weed In My Fescue?!

I always have this list of movies that I want to see or can't wait to see.  Right now it's at record length.

Let's see, there's:

1) Inception

2) Robin Hood

3) Despicable Me

4) Toy Story 3

5) Tangled

6) The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

7) Batman Begins

8) The Dark Knight (Yeah, I havent seen either of these, although I did see the Prestige which was pretty awesome)

There's more, but I can't think of them at the moment.

I've been working on some pretty awesome music these days.  I should post it on my music blog (which by the way I am making some changes to) sometime around here.

Just saw this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZa7hU6tP_s

How to Train Your Dragon

Yesterday . . . no, the day before yesterday the family and I went and saw How to Train Your Dragon at the [two] dollar theater.  I have to say, I loved it.  Great story, great soundtrack, other than a very few things here and there, it is now one of my favorite animated movies yet.  I was thinking of writing my own review of the movie but after reading an article by N. D. Wilson on it which pretty much says everything I would've, I decided to just post a link to his article.

Here's the article.

And here's the awesome trailer:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHUhygdAZIw

My new blog.

Hey guys, check out my new music blog!


http://compositioncrescendo.blogspot.com/?zx=a7d313302e0b9def

Note: for copyright concerns, the blog is only visible to people I have invited.

Beethoven's Violin Sonata no. 5

The Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Opus 24, is a violin sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. It is often known as the "Spring" sonata, and was published in 1801. Its dedicatee was Count Moritz von Fries, a patron to whom the fourth violin sonata, the string quintet of the same year, and the seventh symphony were also dedicated.


The work is in four movements:


Allegro


Adagio molto espressivo


Scherzo: Allegro molto


Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo


The Scherzo and its trio are particularly brief (and as pointed out here the scherzo is canonic).

~Wikipedia
 
To you music people out there, this probably makes sense.  But not everybody is a music people, I will explain.
 
Basically what the previous quote means is that Beethoven's 5th violin sonata is a sonata (duh) with four totally awesome movements.  It really is sweet sounding.
 
To show you how awesome it actually is, I have imbedded videos of all four movements.
 








 
By the way, I have a recital coming up in about a week and I'm planning on learning this after it.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKf043MXTYA
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qLMxTWxcIQ&feature=related
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrRX5iyqS7g&feature=related
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LKYLP-zvHA&feature=related

Gladiator: The Score

I have recently been listening to the score for the movie Gladiator.  It was written by Hans Zimmer so naturally, it's amazing.  One of my personal favorites.  I love how he uses a lot of sweeping and flowing melodies in comparison with many of his other scores.

Here are three of my favorite songs from the soundtrack.







http://www.youtube.com/user/ShabahSaz02#p/u/67/ZAOTSO9ioZk

http://www.youtube.com/user/ShabahSaz02#p/u/56/naovSOqgkJE

http://www.youtube.com/user/ShabahSaz02#p/u/55/vHAvjaHtlMA

My mouth hurts . . .

Ack!  I can't stop laughing!  I found this video on another guys blog I was reading.  He couldn't stop laughing either.  I feel crazy now . . .



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRcI-mFr6aQ&feature=player_embedded

Charlie Byers

Okay, where to start?

My little brother Benjamin is into to yo-yoing and has been so for about a year now. Benjamin also has a friend named Charlie Byers who is also a yo-er and is Benjamin's so called "yoyo teacher" (Charlie is the same age as my little brother). The thing is both Benjamin and Charlie started yo-yoing at the same time. It's an interesting story how they got all into spinning wheels attached to the ends of strings, but that's another story I don't have time to tell right now. As you can tell Charlie either spends all day yo-yoing or has some serious talent. Anyhow, what's the point of having an awesome story about a child prodigy if I don't have any evidence or some sort of proof to impress you with? Well, keep reading and you'll get just that.

Around this time last year Charlie headed down to Florida to see if he could place in the Florida State Yoyo Competition. At that time he had only been yo-yoing for a few months. Unfortunately he didn't place anything but was sure to try again next year. Try again he did . . . and placed third. Now, just in case you're wondering, he wasn't competing with guys his age, he was facing professional adult yo-ers. Pretty awesome. And now for the proof: below is a video his mom took of him doing his performance.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSZhrqFnnuM

Voice Impressionists, Nurds, and Shakespearean Thespians.

These guys are great: