I have successfully completed my first film collaboration. A 30 minute short film thesis was made by two film students, and I created music and assisted with sound editing... and yes, because I end up getting my hands in everything, some of the normal editing. It will be premiered at the Tilburg Film Foyer on June 21st.
In other news, yesterday I saw a phenomenon I had only seen a couple times before; Rain with sunshine. It feels like the world has turned upside down when this happens... some deep, primitive part of the brain feels very wrong about it. Although it does make for some nice viewing. After it started raining, the sun was eventually blotted out and late afternoon turned to middle evening as a huge thunder and lightening storm buffeted the quint hamlet of Tilburg. Blinding flashbulb strobes of lightning accompanied an instant later by massive, ear-ringing, window shuddering, howitzer-like thunder claps rolling and echoing through the city center while Brobdingnagian globs of rain hurled themselves down onto the unsuspecting, soon-to-be-not-so-dry-ground. This sent aquaphobic inhabitants with perfect hair and non water tolerant, generic brand name clothing scurring about; confused with the mixed messages nature was sending them. "We see the happy face, but we feel the angry face!" was surely what was resounding around the walls of their cavernous minds. This reminds me of what my teacher, Willem Jeths, sometimes does when he finds certain music I write to be not up to part with my capabilities; he does this typical Dutch thing of saying the mean guy things but with the nice guy face. "This music is really naive! :) and you should really not be going down this avenue, its just crap! :) :) You know what I mean? Just really bad writing :) :) :)" My id, ego and superego are thusly disarmed and reduced to babbling advisors, unclear as what to make of this confounding display of dualistic, didactisism.
At any rate, I LOVE storms. I also like roller coasters and scary movies. Paragliding and skiing. Do any of you like these things? *50's narrator voice* Think about it, won't you?
All the best,
-E
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Have you ever seen Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams"? If not, see it! Especially since you love dreams so much! Anyway, there's one dream about how the foxes have their weddings ONLY when the sun shines while it's raining! It happens often here in the Northwest. I showed this film to my kids several years in a row and they all remember about the foxes...
Mummness
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