I don't make it a rule to always search for new music, nor only to support the music of the time when I used to live like "No Music No Life" in my school days. Simply put, nostalgia is not something I like. But this time suddenly I felt like I should turn to 90's alternative rock music to which I listened again and again, for hours, throughout my junior high, high school and college days. Maybe I don't need to explain what it was like to be in the movement and to name the favorites of the special ages. After 20 years+ time, I can honestly say that they remain just great and the heritage of 90's alternatives keeps me excited and delighted.
It is not merely a nostalgia that I still like these great songs. It had a reason to lead us, move us, identify us when we were teenagers listening to them on radio and MTV, and it still has reason to survive the time and change of life. I don't care how it is now theoretically located and described in pop music history, but I just feel it was revolutionarily cool and somewhat bitter but creative (I wish it could have been a bit happier, but that was the air of the time). It still has a reason to be the music with which we live.
I have a friend who knows I'm a huge fan of Star Wars (not for recent works, though) and would like to watch the whole series again, as she actually had seen them but the memory was quite vague. So my friend knows the utmost surprising fact in Episode V, and also knows how young Skywalker cannot help but turning to become Darth Vader in Episode III (vaguely). We fall into the conversation over Star Wars saga and I suggested I could explain all the stories and plots (furthermore, maybe most of the memorable sentences). She welcomed my idea and it ended up I took 2 hours to text all the stories from Episode I to Episode VI.
She was surprised that I had done this without looking any of materials but only by my memory, which is not surprising to SW fans I guess. The thing is, I was surprised to learn simply how great a movie script is, especially in the case of such long and mythic epic. It's carefully structured with indispensable storyline and events and characters all over. It's amazing a script can expand the universe of the galaxy, surprise us, enjoy us, move us, and finally close the story. SW is not actually a huge nor complicated, it's all about a family, faith, and fight against evil, but the work of script is marvelous. I was impressed by the tale of a tragic but mighty father and a genuinely good-faith son and his friends, following the 6 episodes. By texting the whole storyline and plots, for the first time I learned it. Transcribing one of our favorite movies is maybe an awesome training to learn the power of a writing.
