#granite state

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[changing-my-username]

It's not over until the bald man breaks into a coughing fit in front of his lawyer

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[tadviv]

On the trail: Hassan tries to put daylight between herself and Biden

As she runs for re-election this year facing a difficult political climate, Democratic U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan wants to spotlight her policy

HASSAN Votes with JOE BIDEN 98% of the time.

[singingninja4]

A new analysis, another Kim parallel! 🙂🙃

This analysis compares the Breaking Bad Main Theme (extended version) and the music cue from the ending scene in 6x06: Axe and Grind. 

The analysis method I used for these cues is a simplified version of the Shenkerian method, which essentially reduces the music down to its simplest layer by removing auxiliary notes and elaborations to show what makes up the primary tonal structure.

For the Breaking Bad Theme (x) I focused on the first few bars. This motif repeats throughout the cue:

This very simple theme is in D minor, and I have labeled the scale degrees below each note. As you can see below, very little reduction was needed to bring this down to its primary tonal structure. The basic structure climbs up the scale from 3 to 6.

Next is the cue from Axe and Grind, called It Happens Today (x) I am focusing on the B section of the cue, which starts in measure 19. 

This cue is in the key of Eb minor, just a half-step above the BrBa theme. As in the BrBa cue, I labeled the scale degrees below the notes. At first glance, these two cues don’t look very similar, but the tonal structure is the same. In the transcription below, I grouped neighboring tones together to show how I found the primary tonal structure. (the second picture shows a structural note in the bass line, which wasn’t included above.)

When the neighboring tones are removed, the primary tonal structure is as follows:

Both cues have the exact same tonal structure when looking at the scale degrees. The basic melody jumps up a third, then returns to 1, jumps up a fourth, then returns to 1 and so on, creating this slow ascent up the scale. Additionally, both cues utilize syncopated rhythm, with movement happening between the strong beats. (It Happens Today uses the syncopated rhythms a little more heavily, but the connection between the two can still be drawn.) The syncopated rhythms plus the climbing scale build tension as the cues progress.

Although many viewers may not have heard the extended BrBa main theme at the start of the each episode, it is also used in 5x15: Granite State (x) In this scene Walter sees Gretchen and Elliot on the TV and makes the crucial decision to go back to Albuquerque to force Gretchen and Elliot to give his money to his son, exact his revenge on Jack and the neo-Nazi’s. This chain of events ultimately led to Jesse's freedom and Walter’s death at the nazi meth lab.

In the Axe and Grind scene, Kim also makes a crucial decision to turn around and head back to Albuquerque so that she and Jimmy can execute their plan against Howard. This chain of events ultimately led to Howard’s death at the hand of Lalo in Kim and Jimmy’s apartment. So not only is there a general parallel between BCS and BrBa, but also a parallel between Kim and Walt (these Kim/Walt parallels are making me absolutely sick 😩)

Let me know what you think of my analysis or if you have any interpretations of your own! I’d love to hear them ☺️

bcs/brba music analysis 3/??

[notcapableofbeingtheguy]

Nobody asked for “Granite State” Walt and Jesse suffering/penance parallelism commentary, but here it is anyways

“Off Jesse and Walt, in their own separate, hot and cold, private hells...”— “ABQ” Script, crackhouse scene (x)

[jllongwrites]

Online Reading from COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems (Anthology)

Online Reading from COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems (Anthology)

On Friday, August 21, at 7 PM, the Poetry Society of New Hampshire will be sponsoring a reading from COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Po

On Friday, August 21, at 7 PM, the Poetry Society of New Hampshire will be sponsoring a reading from COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems (forthcoming early September).

Twelve poets will read from their work published in the anthology and talk about their experiences as writers during the pandemic.

Space is limited and on a first-come-first-serve basis, so log on earlier than 7 PM.

To join this event on Zoom:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/ 3651964289?pwd= MTEvRmIxWUxtL2JIeEhXN3c3RmNnUT 09

Meeting ID: 365 196 4289

Passcode: 878591