my current fascinations

I’m sure most of you know that the final installment of Harry Potter was released this past Friday and if you didn’t know, then it’s probably time you stopped living under that little rock of yours. I was able to see it twice the night it came out and I will admit that I sobbed uncontrollably for the last half of the movie. I thought that I would be prepared to finally let it go and move on after it all ended, but I just can’t do it. I spent most of yesterday watching YouTube videos involving featurettes and behind the scenes stuff and reading character bios on the Harry Potter Wiki page. I already want to see it again and bawl my eyes out like the sap that I am. Eventually I’d like to read through all of the books again, but I have way too many books on my list as it is.

For years, I’ve been trekking through the Chronicles of Narnia series and I am determined to finish it one of these days. It’s not that they are difficult to read, they just start out a bit slow and I am easily distracted. Once I finish those, I’d like to read the rest of Jane Austen’s novels that I started a year ago. I’ve already read Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice and I started on Mansfield Park, but I got sidetracked by school and people so I haven’t picked it up in a while. I’d also like to read the Lord of the Rings trilogy without getting stuck on Bilbo’s birthday celebration, William Shakespeare’s completed works (including all the sonnets), and eventually I would like to find Alexandre Dumas novels including The Count of Monte Cristo and the d’Artagnan Romances. I’m sure there are other books I have come up with, but I’m currently drawing a blank so I’ll leave it at that for now.

As for music, I have been listening to The Swell Season and Mumford and Sons nonstop for the past few weeks and I can’t seem to get enough. I told Calvin that it was my happy music and when he explained that the Mumford and Sons album was a bit too dark to be considered happy music, I then told him that happy music can be any type of music that makes you, of course, happy. I have lots of music that makes me smile; mostly they’re upbeat and happy sounding, but others are just beautiful and give me tingles. The entire Mumford and Sons album I have is just amazing, but I have to say the one song that gives me the best feeling every time is “Sigh No More.” It’s so simple, yet so lovely. Hands down, best line in the whole song:

Love; it will not betray you
Dismay you or enslave you, it will set you free
Be more like the man you were made to be
There is a design, an alignment to cry
Of my heart to see,
The beauty of love as it was made to be

Every time, my heart dances and I smile real big without fail. I can’t help it; I’m a sap. Thankfully, I have spectacular people in my life who love me and tolerate my silliness even at its worst. Can’t imagine what I would do if they didn’t. I’d probably end up a crazy cat lady living in a one room apartment somewhere in the city with only my feline companions for any sort of socialization. Yep, that’s my future. Not really, but it could happen.

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