Music

Woke up at 5 this morning; not due to any inherent sleeplessness, for once, but because Dad let the dog out and she came running back in to slobber on me.

Syd started singing at around 8, and it's futile to go back to sleep once he starts his screeching, so...

I am downstairs on the couch. Syd, you see, possibly has some sort of avian disease (shorthand is PDD) that he is being treated for. No one is sure whether or not he has it, but understandably we need to keep him quarantined. So he's up on the third floor while Juno and I cohabitate in the living room. The couch is fine; it's a big, comfy piece of furniture. It just puts me right next to the dog, who assumes that since I'm basically on her level, I'm fair game whenever she wants to play.

This is particularly depressing, as Syd is a cheerful, gregarious bird who loves to play, and I can't go within twenty feet of him.

So I waved to him from the doorway.

Juno is sitting on my shoulder preening at the moment. She's been very charming for the most part (seeing the bluejay in the backyard startled her briefly). Getting down here was an interesting expedition; I had to load up the car, and Juno was quite offended when I put her in her travel cage so I could put her big one in the backseat. She seemed nonplussed by the car ride; she spent most of it pigging out on the snacks I gave her.

I did manage to find some inspiring music last night -- I went for trailer music on YouTube. Trailer music, sadly, is often better than the actual soundtracks that are released -- I wonder if it's because they have to cram so much punch into a two-minute piece of music. After some judicious searching, I found "Fatal Fantasy" by Immediate Music, which AMC has been using for their January movie trailers (I first heard it in the "Jeremiah Johnson" trailer last night). The track reminds me of gearing up for something epic. One poster commented, "This is so inspiring I want to go finish my homework right now."

It makes me want to write something epic. Just not sure what.