All my days are filled

[icepixie]

Still going slightly mad, but I've finished the revisions to my syllabus. HALLELUJAH. (Okay, I'm still debating whether to add in a writing reflection of some sort at the end, but...this is harsh, but I don't want to read them. The kids don't want to write them, and it seems especially futile when I'm already making their last paper due on exam day. Their participation grade is already enough of a gimme, too. I think I'm just going to skip it.)

Still have to reword parts of my last two paper assignments (well...sometime before, uh, October, anyway), and I'd like to get some more done on my thesis before the semester starts. But I feel much better about the syllabus.

In other news, thanks to some finagling by my dad, I got the BSG S4 soundtrack tonight. I haven't gotten to listen to much yet, but the first track, aka the extended and non-acapella version of Gaeta's Lament? HOLY CRAP, THAT IS FANTASTIC. WOW. Alessandro Juliani is amazing.

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[alto2.livejournal.com]

the extended and non-acapella version of Gaeta's Lament? HOLY CRAP, THAT IS FANTASTIC. WOW.

Oooh, really? I can't imagine buying a BSG soundtrack (especially not for just one track), but I'm intrigued by that... Poor Gaeta.

[icepixie]

I can't imagine buying a BSG soundtrack

Oh, but the whole double CD set is just...wow. Fantastic. Unless you really, really hate instrumental soundtracks of any sort, you'd like it, I think. At any rate I'm utterly impressed by every single track. Totally worth $15.

And as awesome as it was in the episode, Gaeta's song is even better here.

[valkyrieks.livejournal.com]

Look at you, talking about "the kids" just like a real professor! ::pinches cheek with irrepressible glee:: I'm so proud I could die.

Sorry, when I'm excited I get condescending. It's a mad habit. But I mean... we're so tooooootally grown-ups now. At least... some of us are...

[alto2.livejournal.com]

Where do you see it for $15? Online it's listed for at least $10 over that. I like instrumental soundtracks quite a lot, I just never really think of TV soundtracks as something I'd buy. Love great film soundtracks, but TV...not often.

That said, not being able to find this track on iTunes, etc, to give it much of a try, I have nevertheless managed to get hold of it and OMGGOOSEBUMPS. Frak me. I thought that was powerful in the episode, but you're right. The episode version has bugger all on this one. Holy shit.

[icepixie]

Look at you, talking about "the kids" just like a real professor! ::pinches cheek with irrepressible glee:: I'm so proud I could die.

*is pinched*

But I mean... we're so tooooootally grown-ups now. At least... some of us are...

Hah, grown-up. I had a student in the 102 class I TAed for last semester ask me for advice on chosing a major and a career, and I was like, "Wait, you expect ME to have answers about this business of being a grown-up? Whaaaaaat?"

[icepixie]

Amazon had it for $15 and some change when I pre-ordered it last month. Looks like it's up to $17 now.

Love great film soundtracks, but TV...not often.

I can sort of see that--most TV soundtracks are not terribly inspiring, at least not in comparison to movies, although I have a couple decent ST series ones. But then again, I'm pretty sure Bear McCreary is some sort of composer god set down among us mortals, so I'm not surprised this is amazing. (I feel so inadequate realizing that he started composing for BSG when he was my age.)

I do wish the soundtracks would go up on iTunes. I'm not sure why they haven't; they have the series itself for sale there.

I have nevertheless managed to get hold of it and OMGGOOSEBUMPS. Frak me. I thought that was powerful in the episode, but you're right. The episode version has bugger all on this one. Holy shit.

See? :) I think my jaw actually just dropped and stayed open for the last minute or so the first time through.

There are several other tracks that give me shivers, too; I think my favorite is "Diaspora Oratorio," which lives up to all the hype Bear made over it in his blog. (This is the choral music from the end of "Revelations," when they're setting course for the first Earth.) Some of the cues from near the end of the "Daybreak" CD are goosebump-inducing as well.