such as: a swimmer's dad holding the door open for me as i was leaving the pool today...i gestured for him to enter first since he had arrived first, but he refused. as i passed by, saying thank-you, he said "the rules of chivalry demand it." hallelujah, good men still exist in this world!!! all the more exciting is that as i am recording said encounter, i remembered the cute guy held the door open for me as i was leaving work a few days ago...he scored some major brownie points anyways, but even more now that i realize what a precious commodity chivalry is. and he winks. which just makes my heart soften into a gooey mess every time. sigh...
this week is music fest here in ketch, and there are over 500 students from southeast alaska in our building, along with the 450ish ketchikan students. despite the huge overload, i haven't heard of any problems. i love music fest because it is all the music nerds joined together for a few days of performances, adjudications & workshops...music kids are typically pretty nice & intelligent & respectful. i loved music fest when i was in high school, my only regret is the one year i couldn't take choir because of a screwed up class schedule...now if only i could find a reason to "work" the auditoriums instead of trying to prod resistant students to do their work!
on a separate, semi-related (musically) note, i have spent my weekend thus far watching barbara streisand in "funny girl" and marilyn monroe in "gentlemen prefer blondes." i've decided that i love barbara, but marilyn is nothing exciting. i hate whispery voices, they annoy me. peoples' strength is often displayed in their voice. anyways, what's interesting about the "oldies" is that besides the obvious fact that there are (virtually) no special effects, there are often many seconds of no noise...silence. no singing, no background music, no dialogue. just...nothing. "gone with the wind" was especially observant of this trend, which might have been normal back in the day, but nowadays is completely unheard of. it must be considered a box office suicide to have "dead air" during a movie...but i realize, now that i've seen many of the pre-70's movies, that quiet and silence and lack of 3-D and special effects is so much more impactful...there's a reason that all of these movies are "classics" whereas today's movies are crap & will never be watched again once they finish their box office tour. so hats off to the oldies but goodies! i'm off to go watch another one...in silence.
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