i can hit you over the head until you think that's what happened
I owe three different people knitting items of various sorts. Actually, five now that I think about it. I'm going to use my "blame school" card on that one. This week is my last week of my last semester in my masters studies. And the time leading up to this has been big-time busy. So. Friday I am mailing out what I owe, assuming they're all finished being knit. Which most of them are. I'm being vague I guess, but if I owe you something you know about it already.
If you're curious, the non-knitting/crocheting, non-vinyl related things I've been working on for the last few weeks are:
- " 'That Rug Really Tied the Room Together': Popular Music and Authenticity in The Big Lebowski." My grand masterwork for POPC 680 "Genre and Authenticity in World Popular Musics." This is my first attempt at an article that isn't a theory article. How I'm going to fill 20 pages without musical excerpts is beyond me.
- Tomorrow I am doing a seminar presentation on Schenkerian analysis and popular music.
- A (Schenker) graph of R. Schumann's "Warum?" from Fantasiestücke, op. 12, no. 3. Apparently this must be accompanied by 750-1000 words about the analysis. Whatever.
- My thesis: "A Fistful of Drama: Musical Form in the 'Dollars' Trilogy." This is indeed about that Dollars trilogy, directed by Sergio Leone and scored by Ennio Morricone. It should be a good read, once I actually, you know, write it.
I guess I do have one knitting-related thing to say here. I was working on an Adipose before the school business began, and then when I went back to finish the arms and legs the pattern was gone. Apparently someone sold a version of the author's pattern, or the resultant toy from said pattern, and the BBC got mad. I'm currently trying to find someone who has it saved so that I can make the arms and feet. If all else fails I'll have to wing it.
Thanks, BBC.
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