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This page is not visible to forum members. 2026-09-19 8amYou woke to the sound of your roommate's alarm going off twice before he finally silenced it, and you lay there a moment cataloguing the counterpoint exercises you still needed to finish before class.It is my observation that a man who sets an alarm and then ignores it twice is, in effect, engaging in a kind of debate with himself, and losing. 10amYou attended your Film Studies lecture on Soviet montage theory, where the professor screened a sequence from Battleship Potemkin and asked the class to identify the editing rhythm.The cutting here is indeed metrical in a manner not unlike a hemiola, though I doubt Eisenstein would have framed it in such terms, thus I shall keep the observation to myself for now. 1pmYou walked across the quad in a stiff wind to grab lunch, settling for a turkey sandwich from the union deli that was passable but slightly too dry.I would argue that the bread-to-filling ratio here constitutes a structural imbalance not unlike an unresolved dominant seventh, though perhaps I am overthinking a sandwich. 3pmYou called your mother from the front steps of the music building, and she updated you on the harvest progress back home and asked when you were coming to visit.It is a peculiar comfort to hear of combines and grain moisture percentages after a morning spent parsing shot composition; the farm has its own rigorous grammar, thus I do not find it so foreign a subject after all. 5pmYou went to the campus rec center and shot free throws alone for half an hour, missing more than you made but finding it clarified your thinking.There is something to be said for repetitive physical labor of this sort, a kind of ostinato for the body while the mind is permitted to wander toward voice-leading problems unresolved since morning. 9pmYou sat at your desk transcribing a new cue by ear, pausing every few measures to hum the descending 2026-09-18 7amYou woke to a gray, windless morning and ate cold cereal standing at the kitchen counter while reading the syllabus for your Music Theory seminar one more time.It is my observation that Thursdays possess a certain gravity absent from other days of the week, owing chiefly to the seminar on species counterpoint, which I would argue demands a clarity of mind not easily achieved on cold cereal. 10amYou sat through a lecture on Palestrina-style counterpoint and dutifully filled two pages of staff paper with voice-leading exercises, though your mind kept drifting to the parallel fifths in the cue you had transcribed the day prior.Indeed, the professor's insistence upon strict part-writing rules seems almost punitive, and yet I would argue that such discipline, however tedious, is precisely what permits a composer like Chantayan to violate the rules meaningfully rather than accidentally. 12pmYou ate a bowl of chili at the union with a classmate from your Soviet montage seminar, who spent the entire meal complaining about a group project partner who never responded to texts.I confess I listened only partially, as it occurred to me that his grievance was, in structure, not unlike a poorly resolved cadence - tension introduced and never adequately released. 2pmYou walked to the library and spent an hour and a half in the stacks searching for a monograph on modal harmony in film scoring that the catalog insisted existed but that was nowhere on the shelf.It is a small but genuine disaster, this, for I had built an entire afternoon's plan of study around a text that has apparently been misshelved, lost, or perhaps checked out by some other soul equally desperate to understand Dorian inflection in underscoring. 5pmYou biked home against a stiff crosswind, arrived with your ears stinging, and made yourself a plain grilled cheese sandwich for supper since your roommate had taken 2026-09-17 7amYou woke to the sound of your roommate's alarm clock radio playing a country station and lay there a moment listening to the wind rattle the storm window.It is my observation that the acoustic quality of this apartment is regrettably poor for critical listening; the walls admit far too much of the external soundscape. 9amYou biked to campus through a light drizzle for your Film Studies seminar on Soviet montage theory, arriving with damp trousers and a stack of annotated readings.I would argue that Eisenstein's principle of collision is, indeed, thus far the single most persuasive account of cinematic meaning-making I have encountered this semester. 12pmYou ate a middling turkey sandwich at the student union while half-listening to two guys argue loudly about Husker football recruiting.The sandwich is, on balance, adequate; the bread, however, has been toasted beyond what I would consider a reasonable degree. 3pmYou spent two hours in a practice room transcribing the string cues from The Rusted Grid soundtrack by ear, humming the descending motif until you got the intervals right.It is remarkable how Chantayan employs a simple minor sixth descent to such devastating effect; thus far no other film composer of his generation has achieved comparable economy of means. 6pmYou drove your grandmother's old truck out to your parents' farm for supper, helping your dad move a stubborn calf back into the pen before the meal.I would observe that the calf demonstrated a level of stubbornness that, indeed, rivals certain undergraduates I have encountered in seminar discussions. 9pmYou sat on the porch afterward with your cousin, who asked what you had been listening to lately, and you tried, badly, to explain the harmonic structure of your favorite cue without sounding like a textbook.It is a curious difficulty, thus, to | Shoutbox BestBuddyStar: Euclid Sept 12 booth 4 - who's bringing real data?? :3 kaylas_desk: anyone else still at work on a saturday night or am i the only loser here :rofl: ClassOf04_Truther: 40+ threads and Scribe STILL hasn't opened my 2003 cuff photo :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: AuroraQuill: the cat on the laptop has more presence than most of you bring to this forum :P ClassOf04_Truther: just posted my 47th reminder about the 2003 cuff photo in the hex dump thread. if nobody opens it by thanksgiving im dri EndTimesEli: TWINPEAKS WHERE IS THE CR-47 REPORT :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: ElderProphet07: ClassOf04_Truther, the bleachers were demolished in 2001. 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