writing sample, Beatles page, movie review
Sandra Dodd
Here's a sample of the writing of a 15 year old who never had any
lessons at all in how to write, and who didn't read until she was 11
(12 she said the other day, and she's usually right):
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From: blazingoranges@...
Subject: Beatles page
Date: October 9, 2007 12:51:27 AM MDT
To: sandra@...
That playlist is magnificent! thank you for creating it.
"It won't be long" is skippy between each chorus, and "I've just seen
a face" is only an 11 second recording. So those could be replaced,
and I'll do it tomorrow, if you want.
I'm really glad we saw that movie. THAT's the kind of movie that will
make good birthday-gifts for years !
Holly
=================================
There are five or six minor changes I would recommend if she were
going to publish it, but for casual e-mail it's... magnificent!
The page to which she refers is one I started last night and will
continue to add to here: http://sandradodd.com/acrosstheuniverse
There were only three songs that Project Playlist didn't have at all.
Holly and I saw "Across the Universe" Sunday afternoon. It's still
not in full release, but will be next week. It's an art film in the
finest sense, and it's a musical but not in the classic way, and it's
a period drama with good attention to physicalities, and the
characters are either likable or trippy or both. It's a picture of a
slice of the 60's showing a connectedness between the U.K. and the
U.S. (or probably more like the suggestion that the same thoughts
were being thought in the whole English speaking world).
There are some pieces of art my kids have had as desktops or
screensavers--paintings that show names of bands, in pictures, or
movie titles. They're very intricate puzzles, kind of--"find the
picture" but much more. This is a little like that. In any moment,
in the film, there might be reference to several things, in what's
shown, the music that's played and the way it's done, and musically
there's something wonderful about it too, in the concept.
Younger kids probably would have no interest because it's hard to
follow, though on DVD at home it wouldn't be so bad, because they
could come for whatever they thought were the good parts and ignore
the rest. Those my age who have Viet Nam sensitivities might want to
wait for DVD too. It's not too bad, but some who've had loved ones
in in stupid wars might be warned.
Dance! There are some choreographed large-group dance moments, and
Holly was able to name off references to choreography in other movie
musicals, so those will be fun for those with that knowledge.
My biggest concern is that now some people will have heard Beatles
songs in cover before hearing the originals, but that's already
happening from things like the Cirque de Soleil musical and the Black
and White album. But never hearing the originals at all would be
rough. "Hold Me Tight" wasn't available on Playlist, but I have Meet
the Beatles on vinyl (both my original 60's copy and a replacement I
bought in the 70's because the first was so worn), so I was able to
play it for Holly in moments. Not every mom has all the Beatles
albums along with the memory of buying them new.
Feel free to use and share that page. It won't be a permanent thing,
because Project Playist is a fluxxy deal.
Sandra
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lessons at all in how to write, and who didn't read until she was 11
(12 she said the other day, and she's usually right):
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From: blazingoranges@...
Subject: Beatles page
Date: October 9, 2007 12:51:27 AM MDT
To: sandra@...
That playlist is magnificent! thank you for creating it.
"It won't be long" is skippy between each chorus, and "I've just seen
a face" is only an 11 second recording. So those could be replaced,
and I'll do it tomorrow, if you want.
I'm really glad we saw that movie. THAT's the kind of movie that will
make good birthday-gifts for years !
Holly
=================================
There are five or six minor changes I would recommend if she were
going to publish it, but for casual e-mail it's... magnificent!
The page to which she refers is one I started last night and will
continue to add to here: http://sandradodd.com/acrosstheuniverse
There were only three songs that Project Playlist didn't have at all.
Holly and I saw "Across the Universe" Sunday afternoon. It's still
not in full release, but will be next week. It's an art film in the
finest sense, and it's a musical but not in the classic way, and it's
a period drama with good attention to physicalities, and the
characters are either likable or trippy or both. It's a picture of a
slice of the 60's showing a connectedness between the U.K. and the
U.S. (or probably more like the suggestion that the same thoughts
were being thought in the whole English speaking world).
There are some pieces of art my kids have had as desktops or
screensavers--paintings that show names of bands, in pictures, or
movie titles. They're very intricate puzzles, kind of--"find the
picture" but much more. This is a little like that. In any moment,
in the film, there might be reference to several things, in what's
shown, the music that's played and the way it's done, and musically
there's something wonderful about it too, in the concept.
Younger kids probably would have no interest because it's hard to
follow, though on DVD at home it wouldn't be so bad, because they
could come for whatever they thought were the good parts and ignore
the rest. Those my age who have Viet Nam sensitivities might want to
wait for DVD too. It's not too bad, but some who've had loved ones
in in stupid wars might be warned.
Dance! There are some choreographed large-group dance moments, and
Holly was able to name off references to choreography in other movie
musicals, so those will be fun for those with that knowledge.
My biggest concern is that now some people will have heard Beatles
songs in cover before hearing the originals, but that's already
happening from things like the Cirque de Soleil musical and the Black
and White album. But never hearing the originals at all would be
rough. "Hold Me Tight" wasn't available on Playlist, but I have Meet
the Beatles on vinyl (both my original 60's copy and a replacement I
bought in the 70's because the first was so worn), so I was able to
play it for Holly in moments. Not every mom has all the Beatles
albums along with the memory of buying them new.
Feel free to use and share that page. It won't be a permanent thing,
because Project Playist is a fluxxy deal.
Sandra
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Pamela Sorooshian
We saw Across the Universe when it was released here on September
14th. I couldn't figure out why it wasn't being talked about
EVERYWHERE - it is so wonderful - enjoyable on so many levels and so
much food for thought and conversation! I didn't realize it had had
such a small release - only 27 theaters in the whole country on 9/14.
So, when I read Sandra's post, I wondered about the release schedule
and I looked it up.
********The film received its world premiere on Monday September 10,
2007 at the Toronto Film Festival. The film was then given a very
limited "platform release" on 27 screens in the US on Friday
September 14. The film had the second-highest "per-screen" average on
its opening weekend. In the following weeks, the release was
expanded, with the second week of release expanding to 276 locations
in select regions. [3]. The film is scheduled to go into broad
general release in the U.S. on October 12.[6]********
We've seen it multiple times - will be first in line to buy the DVD
when it comes out, and we've been listening to the soundtrack of the
movie AND to the original Beatles' songs, over and over and over. I
am surprised at how much I like the covers of the original songs -
I'd have thought I'd have been a Beatles purist <G> but they do a
really good job on the songs in the movie and I am enjoying listening
to them. A lot.
I'm really taken by the movie - it so perfectly captured the tone of
the times - in a very artistic sense. It all seemed to me to evoke
exactly the way the world sort of "felt" to me in those days. These
were my high school years.
This has been my favorite year for movies in a long time -
"Stardust," "Hairspray," and now "Across the Universe" - three great
movies one right after another! Groovy! <G>
-pam
14th. I couldn't figure out why it wasn't being talked about
EVERYWHERE - it is so wonderful - enjoyable on so many levels and so
much food for thought and conversation! I didn't realize it had had
such a small release - only 27 theaters in the whole country on 9/14.
So, when I read Sandra's post, I wondered about the release schedule
and I looked it up.
********The film received its world premiere on Monday September 10,
2007 at the Toronto Film Festival. The film was then given a very
limited "platform release" on 27 screens in the US on Friday
September 14. The film had the second-highest "per-screen" average on
its opening weekend. In the following weeks, the release was
expanded, with the second week of release expanding to 276 locations
in select regions. [3]. The film is scheduled to go into broad
general release in the U.S. on October 12.[6]********
We've seen it multiple times - will be first in line to buy the DVD
when it comes out, and we've been listening to the soundtrack of the
movie AND to the original Beatles' songs, over and over and over. I
am surprised at how much I like the covers of the original songs -
I'd have thought I'd have been a Beatles purist <G> but they do a
really good job on the songs in the movie and I am enjoying listening
to them. A lot.
I'm really taken by the movie - it so perfectly captured the tone of
the times - in a very artistic sense. It all seemed to me to evoke
exactly the way the world sort of "felt" to me in those days. These
were my high school years.
This has been my favorite year for movies in a long time -
"Stardust," "Hairspray," and now "Across the Universe" - three great
movies one right after another! Groovy! <G>
-pam
On Oct 9, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Sandra Dodd wrote:
> Here's a sample of the writing of a 15 year old who never had any
> lessons at all in how to write, and who didn't read until she was 11
> (12 she said the other day, and she's usually right):
> ================================
>
> From: blazingoranges@...
> Subject: Beatles page
> Date: October 9, 2007 12:51:27 AM MDT
> To: sandra@...
>
> That playlist is magnificent! thank you for creating it.
>
> "It won't be long" is skippy between each chorus, and "I've just seen
> a face" is only an 11 second recording. So those could be replaced,
> and I'll do it tomorrow, if you want.
>
> I'm really glad we saw that movie. THAT's the kind of movie that will
> make good birthday-gifts for years !
>
> Holly
> =================================
>
> There are five or six minor changes I would recommend if she were
> going to publish it, but for casual e-mail it's... magnificent!
>
> The page to which she refers is one I started last night and will
> continue to add to here: http://sandradodd.com/acrosstheuniverse
>
> There were only three songs that Project Playlist didn't have at all.
>
> Holly and I saw "Across the Universe" Sunday afternoon. It's still
> not in full release, but will be next week. It's an art film in the
> finest sense, and it's a musical but not in the classic way, and it's
> a period drama with good attention to physicalities, and the
> characters are either likable or trippy or both. It's a picture of a
> slice of the 60's showing a connectedness between the U.K. and the
> U.S. (or probably more like the suggestion that the same thoughts
> were being thought in the whole English speaking world).
>
> There are some pieces of art my kids have had as desktops or
> screensavers--paintings that show names of bands, in pictures, or
> movie titles. They're very intricate puzzles, kind of--"find the
> picture" but much more. This is a little like that. In any moment,
> in the film, there might be reference to several things, in what's
> shown, the music that's played and the way it's done, and musically
> there's something wonderful about it too, in the concept.
>
> Younger kids probably would have no interest because it's hard to
> follow, though on DVD at home it wouldn't be so bad, because they
> could come for whatever they thought were the good parts and ignore
> the rest. Those my age who have Viet Nam sensitivities might want to
> wait for DVD too. It's not too bad, but some who've had loved ones
> in in stupid wars might be warned.
>
> Dance! There are some choreographed large-group dance moments, and
> Holly was able to name off references to choreography in other movie
> musicals, so those will be fun for those with that knowledge.
>
> My biggest concern is that now some people will have heard Beatles
> songs in cover before hearing the originals, but that's already
> happening from things like the Cirque de Soleil musical and the Black
> and White album. But never hearing the originals at all would be
> rough. "Hold Me Tight" wasn't available on Playlist, but I have Meet
> the Beatles on vinyl (both my original 60's copy and a replacement I
> bought in the 70's because the first was so worn), so I was able to
> play it for Holly in moments. Not every mom has all the Beatles
> albums along with the memory of buying them new.
>
> Feel free to use and share that page. It won't be a permanent thing,
> because Project Playist is a fluxxy deal.
>
> Sandra
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
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Sandra Dodd
-=-they do a
really good job on the songs in the movie and I am enjoying listening
to them. A lot.-=-
Yes. Beautiful.
I'm just going to pre-order the DVD from Amazon when we can so I
won't have to think about it. It would be kind of cool to have it
on a big TV as a piece of wall art, just playing over and over.
I've never seen a movie do that three-level release before. We tried
to find it in northern Minnesota but no luck. I thought maybe it was
already gone, but it hasn't gotten there. It's on two screens at the
same theater in Albuquerque, and it's expensive (relatively), $19 for
two of us for a matinee. Holly wants to wait until it's less
expensive to go back. Maybe the 14th in an afternoon matinee at a
cheaper theater. I've been ready to go back since the credits
started when I saw it the first time.
Sandra
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really good job on the songs in the movie and I am enjoying listening
to them. A lot.-=-
Yes. Beautiful.
I'm just going to pre-order the DVD from Amazon when we can so I
won't have to think about it. It would be kind of cool to have it
on a big TV as a piece of wall art, just playing over and over.
I've never seen a movie do that three-level release before. We tried
to find it in northern Minnesota but no luck. I thought maybe it was
already gone, but it hasn't gotten there. It's on two screens at the
same theater in Albuquerque, and it's expensive (relatively), $19 for
two of us for a matinee. Holly wants to wait until it's less
expensive to go back. Maybe the 14th in an afternoon matinee at a
cheaper theater. I've been ready to go back since the credits
started when I saw it the first time.
Sandra
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Sandra Dodd
I wrote this but I was wrong: "and the Black
Beatles White Album and the guy from Gnarles Barkley made it and
there were lawsuits because he did it without permission from either
side.
(End of channeling Marty. <g>)
Sandra
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> and White album."Marty says it's called The Grey Album--Jay Z's Black album over The
Beatles White Album and the guy from Gnarles Barkley made it and
there were lawsuits because he did it without permission from either
side.
(End of channeling Marty. <g>)
Sandra
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g-liberatedlearning
Yahoo has the trailer and 7 musical clips from the movie here: http://
tinyurl.com/2c9f2u
It's playing in my town - I hope to take ds to it this weekend!
Chris
Radically Unschooling in Iowa
Learning in the (F)unzone
tinyurl.com/2c9f2u
It's playing in my town - I hope to take ds to it this weekend!
Chris
Radically Unschooling in Iowa
Learning in the (F)unzone
On Oct 10, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Sandra Dodd wrote:
> -=-they do a
> really good job on the songs in the movie and I am enjoying listening
> to them. A lot.-=-
>
> Yes. Beautiful.
>
> I'm just going to pre-order the DVD from Amazon when we can so I
> won't have to think about it. It would be kind of cool to have it
> on a big TV as a piece of wall art, just playing over and over.
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Pamela Sorooshian
Costco has a bunch of Beatles CD's right now. Rubber Soul, Revolver,
Abbey Road, Let it Be, HELP!, Sgt Pepper, and maybe a couple of
others I've forgotten. I think they were $12.99 each.
-pam
Abbey Road, Let it Be, HELP!, Sgt Pepper, and maybe a couple of
others I've forgotten. I think they were $12.99 each.
-pam
On Oct 12, 2007, at 4:19 PM, g-liberatedlearning wrote:
> Yahoo has the trailer and 7 musical clips from the movie here: http://
> tinyurl.com/2c9f2u
>
> It's playing in my town - I hope to take ds to it this weekend!
>
> Chris
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Susan
Wow! I haven't even watched the movie yet and already I love it - from
viewing the trailers and listening to the soundtrack I'm wowed - the
cinematography is great and the music is *excellent*. It sounds and
looks fascinating! I saw a snippet of a trailer about this a few
months ago and it caught my eye but didn't get the name of the movie.
How awesome to get this message - now I know what it is! I've hunted
down a theater about an hour away that is showing it this weekend.
I was reading the production notes and other stuff on the site and I'm
amazed by how much creative artistry and intelligent storytelling has
been put into this movie. Also, I found a few things that really
tickled me: The director is the same person who did Frida, which is
one of my all-time favorite movies. There are cameos by several people
including Eddie Izzard, whom I adore. And the musician who plays Jo-Jo
found found his sound by listening to (and later playing with)
Parliament Funkadelic, which is really high up there on my list of
incredible music.
~ Susan
viewing the trailers and listening to the soundtrack I'm wowed - the
cinematography is great and the music is *excellent*. It sounds and
looks fascinating! I saw a snippet of a trailer about this a few
months ago and it caught my eye but didn't get the name of the movie.
How awesome to get this message - now I know what it is! I've hunted
down a theater about an hour away that is showing it this weekend.
I was reading the production notes and other stuff on the site and I'm
amazed by how much creative artistry and intelligent storytelling has
been put into this movie. Also, I found a few things that really
tickled me: The director is the same person who did Frida, which is
one of my all-time favorite movies. There are cameos by several people
including Eddie Izzard, whom I adore. And the musician who plays Jo-Jo
found found his sound by listening to (and later playing with)
Parliament Funkadelic, which is really high up there on my list of
incredible music.
~ Susan