Darth Porkins

This will be wildly unpopular but I maintain TLJ was the best made film of the Disney era

I've made two Star Wars OST covers in the style of the Target Exclusives. I've used Drew Struzan's classic poster art and will eventually be making A New Hope and Episode II as well.
 
I found the process challenging as those posters are very difficult to cutout individual characters and scenes without doing quite heavy editing.
 

 

Modern academia....
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You're not welcome here-😠😵
 
 
 
 
WWeirdo .😉
 
 
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Still #1 on my Williams non Indy/SW wish list for expansion

I'll indulge ya with my experience of rediscovering the pleasure of vinyl. One day I went over to my friends house cause he just bought a turntable to use at his DJ gigs. He was quite excited about it. This was around 2002/2003. He had it connected to his home theater in a box (remember those) set up which was probably around $300 total (receiver and 6 speakers). He played a recording from the 80's that I myself was quite familiar with but only on CD and as the song went on my jaw continued to drop. I heard bass on it for the first time. A warmness. Why did this vinyl record played on a cheap stereo blow away my stereo set up in which I had invested thousands of dollars on?
 
I was hooked and thankfully at the time I could go to used record shops and buy these albums again on vinyl (for like $5) and over the next decade or so I amassed quite the collection plus I still had my records from when I was a kid. Like my beloved Empire soundtrack. 
 
One of my favorite things to do was to have friends come over and I would play them "Processional" from the Sound of Music. First on CD and when that organ kicks they would be very impressed and ask what kind of sub do I have? I'd laugh...then, I would pull out the vinyl that I inherited from my parents and proceed to play the same track at the same volume and they would freak out! One day my friend who came over brought his 7(?) year old son with him just so I could do the same for him. I'll never forget the words that this kid screamed, "make it stop, I'm scared!"
 
I'll take a few snaps and crackles here and there to be able to experience music in a full and robust sound. Unfortunately todays pressed vinyl has the same brickwalled mastering as it's CD equivalent at $29.99 so there's no reason to buy a lot of new records today.

The thing about Temple of Doom is that some can't see past the fact that the film was never supposed to be about representing Indian culture as a whole.  The Thuggees are essentially a terrorist cell using Hinduism as a front to condone what they are doing. They are NO different than radicalized Islamic terrorists, for instance, who blow up buildings in the name of God.  

As for the dinner... of course it was gross.  These aren't normal people and the meal was never indented to represent Indian cuisine as well.

So this notion about racism, sexism and whatnot in Temple of Doom is utter BS. 

And Spielberg speaking ill of the fllm doesn't help the films reputation either. It's a superb piece of entertainment that did what it was supposed to do and did it brilliantly!

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

My 2nd favorite Star Wars movie. Just below A New Hope and just above Empire.

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Not sure but you just reminded me of this video I watched a few days ago.
 

The irony of that being a digital exclusive for the film score fan base that still purchases and relies on physical cds.
 
Ughh.

Just want to take a second here and say to everyone that while yes, hearing this new material is exciting and listening for new themes is fun, lets not forget that this is the last time we will ever hear new Star Wars music from our beloved Mr. Williams. Savor it, take time to sit back and relax and really digest it. Soon it'll be like saying goodbye to an old friend and our Star Wars musical memories for the past 42 years will be all that's left. 

WHAT A FUCKING TIME TO BE AT THE JWFAN FORUMS!!!!

Just want to take a second here and say to everyone that while yes, hearing this new material is exciting and listening for new themes is fun, lets not forget that this is the last time we will ever hear new Star Wars music from our beloved Mr. Williams. Savor it, take time to sit back and relax and really digest it. Soon it'll be like saying goodbye to an old friend and our Star Wars musical memories for the past 42 years will be all that's left. 

Ach I was only in the chorus lads but thanks. Then again how was I to know as an astonished 8 year old bunking off school one Friday afternoon in late January 1978 (and being taken to see Star Wars with my Uncle Jack... he wasn't really my Uncle just one of my Ma's drinking pals...but every adult was either your Uncle or your Auntie in those days) how could I have known I'd end up being a miniscule minion of the Star Wars religion?
      I'd first heard of Star Wars when my Ma and I were briefly living in Blackpool in England (went went down there from Glasgow because she was forever trying to run away...from herself) and she used to work in a hotel at the seafront. I used to sit in the kitchens in the bowels of the place waiting for her to finish whilst I was being fussed over by the head waiter and his wife who was the cook.
       There was a small portable telly that I would watch whilst munching cake and on came an old game show one evening called "The Krypton Factor". There were only three channels to choose from in those days but conversely the telly was a damn sight better than it is now. Anyway The Krypton Factor (!) had pretentions of being a high brow intellectual show and one of the tasks the contestants had to achieve was to study a short clip of a newly released film then answer detailed questions about it. 
          Well on came Han Solo, Luke Skywalker and Ben Kenobi in the Cantina and of course I had no idea what this was. What transfixed me though was the presence of this big hairy thing sitting alongside them.
Anyway that was that. I had been whisked to another universe for all of two minutes. But what an impression it had on me. This would've been late October/early November 1977 just about a week after my 8th birthday.
       By the end of November we were back up in Glasgow living in cheap bedsits again and by December that year there were centre page spreads about this new thing called Star Wars that would soon arrive in Scotland. It was then I remembered the big hairy thing again because his image was plastered all over the newspapers. 
      Seeing the photo of "Lord Darth" as my Ma referred to him was enough to send me stratospheric. So the day came that Friday afternoon when I was let off school to go and see this phenomenon with Uncle Jack. I got sweeties and he bought a few cans and we sat there and witnessed the whole thing. It changed my life. Me and all the millions.
        We left the Odeon Cinema on Renfield Street and on the way home bumped into my father who had been separated from my Ma for the past two years. I begged him to take me to see it again. "But you've already seen it!" he exclaimed. "But I want you to see it Da" came my reply. Ah the nuance of pester power...
        By the time Jedi was released I was 13 so therefore old enough to go on my own. I wept bitterly at the end of the film which may have been a reflection of the truly intolerable conditions I was by then enduring at home. By this time we were squatting in a ramshackle house and my Ma's drinking had reached fever pitch. All alone in the house with her I escaped...into music via the tapes of Star Wars and Empire I had pestered my Ma to buy me for Christmas 1980.
    The minute Jedi was released I knew I HAD TO GET THE MUSIC. So within a week I begged, borrowed and stole and went on as many errands as I could to gather the money for the tape. Within a few days the prize was mine. 
        I had a small mono tape recorder then and I would play those three tapes to death. I still have them. I even bought a Baton (!) from Biggars music shop on Glasgow's famous SauchieHall Street. Biggars was one block away from "Casa Cassettes" (now long gone) which was a great music store where I bought my very first tapes. I would listen to the three Star Wars tapes over and over whilst conducting an imaginary orchestra with my baton. 
       The great Carrie Fisher had this to say about the phenomena of long ago in a galaxy far far away. And I agree with her... 
 
“Movies were meant to stay on the screen, flat and large and colorful, gathering you up into their sweep of story, carrying you rollicking along to the end, then releasing you back into your unchanged life. But this movie (Star Wars) misbehaved. It leaked out of the theater, poured off the screen, affected a lot of people so deeply that they required endless talismans and artifacts to stay connected to it.” Via The Princess Diarist
 
And I think this is what the whole world has been trying to do. Trying to relive and recapture the first time we saw Star Wars as kids but failing to realise that with each new movie we got older and each film got further and further away from that feeling of childlike wonder. 
      What doesn't change though is the quality of the one element that saved me through the most desperate times of my life as a kid (and adult). The music. And here I am at 50 years old listening to the latest and very last incarnation from the pen of a master.  I wish time machines were real. I would hop into that escape pod and go back to that freezing Friday in 1978 and relive it just one more time. A golden little day I'll never forget. 
 
May the Force be with you all friends and music lovers! 

Just want to take a second here and say to everyone that while yes, hearing this new material is exciting and listening for new themes is fun, lets not forget that this is the last time we will ever hear new Star Wars music from our beloved Mr. Williams. Savor it, take time to sit back and relax and really digest it. Soon it'll be like saying goodbye to an old friend and our Star Wars musical memories for the past 42 years will be all that's left. 

Just want to take a second here and say to everyone that while yes, hearing this new material is exciting and listening for new themes is fun, lets not forget that this is the last time we will ever hear new Star Wars music from our beloved Mr. Williams. Savor it, take time to sit back and relax and really digest it. Soon it'll be like saying goodbye to an old friend and our Star Wars musical memories for the past 42 years will be all that's left. 

Phew, glad the cover art is consistent. I'm still annoyed by the change in spine design for ROTS after the first two prequels. 

Just want to take a second here and say to everyone that while yes, hearing this new material is exciting and listening for new themes is fun, lets not forget that this is the last time we will ever hear new Star Wars music from our beloved Mr. Williams. Savor it, take time to sit back and relax and really digest it. Soon it'll be like saying goodbye to an old friend and our Star Wars musical memories for the past 42 years will be all that's left. 

Just want to take a second here and say to everyone that while yes, hearing this new material is exciting and listening for new themes is fun, lets not forget that this is the last time we will ever hear new Star Wars music from our beloved Mr. Williams. Savor it, take time to sit back and relax and really digest it. Soon it'll be like saying goodbye to an old friend and our Star Wars musical memories for the past 42 years will be all that's left. 

Just want to take a second here and say to everyone that while yes, hearing this new material is exciting and listening for new themes is fun, lets not forget that this is the last time we will ever hear new Star Wars music from our beloved Mr. Williams. Savor it, take time to sit back and relax and really digest it. Soon it'll be like saying goodbye to an old friend and our Star Wars musical memories for the past 42 years will be all that's left. 

Just want to take a second here and say to everyone that while yes, hearing this new material is exciting and listening for new themes is fun, lets not forget that this is the last time we will ever hear new Star Wars music from our beloved Mr. Williams. Savor it, take time to sit back and relax and really digest it. Soon it'll be like saying goodbye to an old friend and our Star Wars musical memories for the past 42 years will be all that's left. 

Just want to take a second here and say to everyone that while yes, hearing this new material is exciting and listening for new themes is fun, lets not forget that this is the last time we will ever hear new Star Wars music from our beloved Mr. Williams. Savor it, take time to sit back and relax and really digest it. Soon it'll be like saying goodbye to an old friend and our Star Wars musical memories for the past 42 years will be all that's left. 

How the hell is Tchaikovsky way down at #32?