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Wednesday, August 09, 2006

updates and responses

Whew...a busy couple weeks.

Our friends Brian and Laura came to visit for a few days and we had a good old time. we went hiking, to the ocean, to the cheese factory, downtown, and too many restaurants to not feel a little ashamed.

i am busy getting school things lined up (which is a mind melter.)

my dad is doing better, and all three assailants have been caught and are now trying not to drop soap.

mikey the pikey gave a challenge to chose the top ten picks of cues/tracks from movie scores...so here are mine. you must remember though that i don't have a gargantuan library, nor do i have a very trained ear. but out of what i do have, these are the songs i could listen to over and over again...in the order they appear in my iTunes:

1. Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis - Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World (Ralph Vaughn Williams)

2. Castle on the hill - Edward Scissorhands (Danny Elfman)

3. The battle - Gladiator (Hans Zimmer) its like the best of 19 different (media ventures) movies.

4. The gravel road - The Village (James Newton Howard)

5. Khazad-Dum - Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the ring (Howard Shore)

6. Rachel's Party - Paycheck (John Powell)

7. Buckbeak's Flight - Harry Potter & the prisoner of Azkaban (John Williams)

8. End Credits - Munich (John Williams) for me its a recapitulation of my favorite themes.

9. The arrival at Tatooine and the flag parade - Star Wars I (John Williams)

10. The Baudelaire orphans - Lemony Snicket's a series of unfortunate events (Thomas Newman)


any questions?

5 comments:

Mikey the Pikey said...

Questions, hmm...yes...eraborate prease!!!

Herr Vogler said...

Not to be a stickler, but the Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis was actually written by Ralph Vaughan Williams. It's a great piece, but not Chris Gordon's.

Reed said...

sorry.
can i still use it?

Herr Vogler said...

Absolutely! It's a great piece. I'm just saying you need to make sure you give credit where it's due. And since Vaughan Williams did write several film scores I certainly am not opposed. You should DEFINITELY check out his (Vaughan Williams') 7th symphony (Sinfonia Antarctica) because it's based on his film score for the film Scott of the Antarctic. I think you would like it. I recommend the Adrian Boult recording with the London Philharmonic Orchestra from the 1960s.

TRES cool.

Reed said...

fixed.