So I just realized, leaving the coffee shop means no more Snape impersonations with Andy when we work the espresso bar together!
An update seemed like a good idea.
So I was going to make this grand post about how my life is changing and what not, but I decided not to go that route. Suffice to say I am very happy right now. I’m about to move back to Ohio, I’m moving in with my dream guy, and (hopefully) I’ll start grad school in the fall.
In the mean time, I’ll try to remember I have a tumblr and I will do my best to fill it full of cat pictures or something equally as adorable.
The Science of Why Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’ Makes Everyone Cry
Tension, resolution, and the ever important “buildy-ness” (which is a term I invented but is accurate), these are the characteristics behind the most extreme emotional reactions to songs:
Twenty years ago, the British psychologist John Sloboda conducted a simple experiment. He asked music lovers to identify passages of songs that reliably set off a physical reaction, such as tears or goose bumps. Participants identified 20 tear-triggering passages, and when Dr. Sloboda analyzed their properties, a trend emerged: 18 contained a musical device called an “appoggiatura.”
An appoggiatura is a type of ornamental note that clashes with the melody just enough to create a dissonant sound. “This generates tension in the listener,” said Martin Guhn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia who co-wrote a 2007 study on the subject. “When the notes return to the anticipated melody, the tension resolves, and it feels good.”
Chills often descend on listeners at these moments of resolution. When several appoggiaturas occur next to each other in a melody, it generates a cycle of tension and release. This provokes an even stronger reaction, and that is when the tears start to flow.
There’s just about the most detailed scientific analysis of a Grammy-winning song ever at the link.
(via WSJ.com)
Do ten Hail Tina Feys and your sins shall be absolved.
“Queen of Comedy, rejoice, Tina full of laughs, the viewers are with thee. Blessed art thou amongst 20-some year old women, and blessed is the fruit of thy mind, for thou has given birth to the saviour of our evening nights in.”
I told this guy that he shouldn’t doubt Tina Fey’s comedic genius and that he should do 10 Hail Tina Feys, and this is what he came up with. I think it’s brilliant.
This german dude asks, “Who is naming Daddy Long Legs?”
brb, getting this whole transcript as a tattoo.
This was too precious to not repost.
I have severely improved my predicament.
Lightsabers are cool, let’s just get that part taken care of right away. Now, take a gander through your photo albums/ flickr/ facebook/ what have you. See something missing? Now add lightsabers into those pictures. Suddenly they look spectacular, perhaps the bunch of pictures ever.
I have decided that any picture can be improved upon by adding lightsabers. Que montage of pictures!
