CJA, on 13 August 2016 - 01:13 AM, said:
Music. I can digest wide swaths of any kind of music or entire video game OSTs nonstop, and I'm noticeably less happy if I end up spending several hours without listening to music (or at least podcasts). Also walking also, I guess? I took a two hour walk yesterday in 90 (Feels Like 109) weather. Goes hand in hand with music. I get excited before a walk knowing that I get to listen to my backlog of podcasts.
I also cannot really read fiction. I do try to. Non-interactive fiction of any kind is just hard for me to consume. I can read instruction manuals, textbooks, bathroom readers, almanacs, all sorts of nonfiction. Fiction is just really hard to get into though. I almost feel like I'm copping out when I want to write things because I feel like I'm trying to take more attention than I give to fictional materials. That's probably why I like to write a lot of music for video games. I'm just well acquainted with a ton of it, I can dissect it and I really love a lot of it. It's one of the few (maybe only) things I can make without feeling like I'm "not allowed to" because I "should" be consuming a form of media that I don't enjoy.
Sorry to be doctor grumpy in the movey thread
Hey, you're good. I like hearing about your passion for music. What kinds of music do you listen to?
And just for the sake of staying on-topic, too: Do you enjoy movies that employ a lot of music?
Like, for example, there are some Stanley Kubrick movies (Clockwork Orange) that use so much music, it's like a symphonic music video at points. Run, Lola, Run actually has techno music almost constantly throughout. Or movies like the Village, too.
Then there are musical movies, like Les Miserable or the Newsies that have music as a centerpiece. What's your take on those?
bramble = curious right now