Posts by Jasiek

I am writing about The Hunger Games again, this time the film. I think some may have seen this already(the link, not the movie). I ment to post it on Sunday, but instead am doing so now.

So The Hunger Games movie just came out a while ago, I haven't seen it yet, but I heard it's good. But some would disagree about the movie's quality; some might say that racism is no longer a big issue in the world today, that it doesn't occur much. However here... is a little something:

Personaly I don't like sleep, there are so many interesting things to do, learn and read that I don't end up going to sleep at a reasonable time. I understand that I need sleep, that it's important, and so I'm lucky to get that sleep on weekends and on some school days(depends on events of the day). I have such irregular sleeping patterns however, that I don't really have a bed time anymore, and sometimes I can't get to sleep(and I don't know if it's because I have other things to do or because I ruined my schedual.)

Music has came a long way; musical instruments have been found with species like Homo Erectus(one of the species of humans before Homo Sapiens). Speculation here, but before that it may have been hummed, or sung, before instruments were made. Millions of years later, and there are many new forms of musical instruments like a piano. But along with the evolution came a written language with which music could be put on paper. Without this great advancement, probably nobody alive today(unless passed down auraly) would have ever heard the music of Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Chopin, Mahler, etc.

There is this great book called Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks. It is basically how music affects the brain, and is filled with stories about patients who lacked some skill, or had some talent, or disorder that was correlated to music. I really do not give this book enough credit with my words, just read it, it's fantastic!

There is this chapter within however that is about people who have synesthesia; a process in the brain where two perceptions are welded together(such as: sound --> color). Synesthesia has many variations, however Sacks only writes about the musical ones.