°°°mEnOtoRia°°° (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ontheboundary) wrote,@ 2009-04-12 16:16:00 |
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| Entry tags: | music, university |
muito bolo
I'm trying something really interesting now. I've wanted to do it for a few years but now I feel courageous enough to jump in at the deep end. Over the years I tried to improve my Spanish until I was somewhat proficient enough to have the confidence to start learning another language. I now signed up for Portuguese at the university (in addition to English and Spanish) and was accepted. It's going to be a lot of work but it will be worth it. It's such a beautiful and melodic language. I've always liked the sound of it.
Last week I started a course on the woman's film from the 1930s. I was a bit worried that I would find myself in some kind of feminist cabaret but fortunately that did not happen. It's part of my literature studies. I voluntarily signed up for the first presentation on the movie "Jezebel" which I'm going to do next week. I'm nearly done with my preparations.
I watched the movie on Friday. It's a great film and fun to watch as it is uncommonly unpredictable but still transparent. I really like Bette Davis in the movie. Her acting draws attention to itself. That is rare and really hard to find these days.
I'm undecided whether to do the advanced written expression course in Spanish already but I did sign up for the grammar course. At first I was a bit afraid but it turned out to be fun. The Spanish are always so full of energy and their methods are totally unconventional. It's very refreshing when the tutor all of a sudden starts to burst into a song by Paulina Rubio.
There are times when I feel the urge to leave the anglophone or Spanish music sphere for a second and I start to look into sounds from other countries (in a completely unpolitical way). It may be phonetic nonsense to me, as I don't necessarily understand the words sometimes, but that can be very invigorating in a way.
I've been listening to a lot of Lebanese music lately. I can't really say why. It seems that when you start looking into Arabic music the majority of artists that come up seem to be from Lebanon. Maybe it's a coincidence.
I've always liked to listen to Fairuz (or Fairouz) who is very popular in the Arabic-speaking world. I also came across a singer named Googoosh from Iran whose music is worth getting into. It's a bit difficult to find contemporary artists of high musical standard. Nonetheless, they're certainly very interesting to listen to, as well, simply because of the language and the foreign sound of the instruments. I think it's important sometimes to look beyond one's own nose and check out what other countries have in store in a cultural sense, especially if the national media does not explicitly focus on them. I think the cultural globalization is still a bit sluggish in some respects. This world has so much more to offer than what MTV wants to show the kids of today.This is sort of an overview of what I've been doing the last two weeks. I'm going to spare the depressing details as I've been feeling anything but good lately.
What else am I meant to do... I have no answer. I wish I did.
