Music Monday (and More): The Piano Soundtrack

A couple weeks ago I was at the library trying to find some cds to put on my laptop but the library I was at doesn’t have such a great collection. One I did pick up is the soundtrack to the movie The Piano which I’ve never seen or heard about. But I saw that the music was by Michael Nyman who I know is a great composer. It turned out ot be quite an excellent find and I’ve been listening to it a bunch.

On another note, today the family went up to Geneva Lake in Wisconsin for a good 6 mile walk. The area is sort of the Hamptons of the Midwest with rich Chicago families buying houses around the lake since the 1800s. There is a trail around the edge of the lake that all the way is about 21 miles, but with Susannah there was no way we were going that far. It was quite strange just walking in people’s backyards though. Some peeps had made a good trail for us to walk through and others kind of neglected the path. You could really feel a little bit of a class difference with these huge million-plus dollar homes on the lake. Some were extremely ostentatious, but others were more subtle. I kind of wonder if someday that’ll be me, but then I hope I wouldn’t leave more important things behind for it all.