Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 Just curious, as I've observed several posters writing about book plans. And who will be the first to publish a non-academic biography? For those who answer yes, could you write a few words about your upcoming book? crlbrg and Once 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 No, but I offered my discography for free to use in such a book. Just a thanks in the credits will do! The Illustrious Jerry and LaloCoyoacan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted February 5, 2019 Author Share Posted February 5, 2019 Just now, Bespin said: No, but I offered my discography for free to use in such a book. I'm sure @Thor will include it in his book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 Only the OSTs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted February 5, 2019 Author Share Posted February 5, 2019 1 hour ago, The Illustrious Jerry said: Only the OSTs! John Williams: A Life in OSTs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,524 Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 No, and no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted February 5, 2019 Author Share Posted February 5, 2019 Are you sure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ii2 210 Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 12 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said: Just curious, as I've observed several posters writing about book plans. And who will be the first to publish a non-academic biography? For those who answer yes, could you write a few words about your upcoming book? Not me. I write horribly!!!🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 No Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rough cut 1,714 Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Collecting John Williams: OCDs & OSTs Thor and Jurassic Shark 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 John Williams and Me Jurassic Shark and _deleted_ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 16 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said: John Williams: A Life in OSTs In Swedish and as you well know Norwegian ost means cheese so every time I see that abbreviation I get a cheesy feeling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted February 6, 2019 Author Share Posted February 6, 2019 18 minutes ago, Incanus said: In Swedish and as you well know Norwegian ost means cheese so every time I see that abbreviation I get a cheesy feeling. Yeah, I guess that's why @Thor likes it so much! So, are you one of those Swedish speaking Finns? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,714 Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 14 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said: Yeah, I guess that's why @Thor likes it so much! So, are you one of those Swedish speaking Finn? Swedish is our second official language so we learn it in school so I speak Swedish or rather read it and write it much better than I speak it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted February 6, 2019 Author Share Posted February 6, 2019 32 minutes ago, Incanus said: Swedish is our second official language so we learn it in school so I speak Swedish or rather read it and write it much better than I speak it. I thought it wasn't mandatory anymore in the Finnish language areas. _______________________________ So, to sum up, we've got the following upcoming books: @Thor's book, possibly titled ANTEDILUVIAN. A biography that probably concentrates on JW's earlier years in Hollywood, with focus on obscure scores, and the occasional praise of OSTs. @Falstaft's academic book, probably based on his research papers, PhD thesis, catalogue of SW leitmotifs, and/or web articles. Then there's a rumor that @Doug Adams is writing a book on JW, but that's unconfirmed. I guess he'll first have to publish his silent film book and the Hobbit book. I'm pretty sure that at least one more contributor at JWFan is currently writing a book, but I can't remember the person's user name. Please, come forward! Once 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Once 605 Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 2 hours ago, Incanus said: In Swedish and as you well know Norwegian ost means cheese so every time I see that abbreviation I get a cheesy feeling. Ost means cheese in Danish, as well. That confused me a bit as a kid, when I started getting into online film music discussions. crlbrg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted February 6, 2019 Author Share Posted February 6, 2019 Just now, Once said: Ost means cheese in Danish, as well. That confused me a bit as a kid, when I started getting into online film music discussions. Hehe, I guess you thought soundtrack nerds were mainly into cheesy films! Btw, I didn't know you're Danish! Once 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayesian 1,363 Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 A lovely milestone to be sure! Congrats! To think of all the institutional knowledge contained among the site’s grandees... all the JW minutiae and trivia written here since 1999... makes me wish I’d known about this place before 2015. Once 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,526 Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 What is it with people writing coments in the wrong thread today? Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayesian 1,363 Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 whoops! Beats me how that happened 😬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted February 8, 2019 Author Share Posted February 8, 2019 Bump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted February 8, 2019 Author Share Posted February 8, 2019 Another user is added to the list of authors! He's evidently writing an academic book on JW. @filmmusic, would you like to tell more about your book plans? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted February 8, 2019 Author Share Posted February 8, 2019 @Ludwig, haven't you written academic papers on JW? Are you by any chance planning a book? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post filmmusic 1,827 Posted February 8, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted February 8, 2019 4 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said: Another user is added to the list of authors! He's evidently writing an academic book on JW. @filmmusic, would you like to tell more about your book plans? Well, it's not an actual book, that will be published that is, but it's my PhD dissertation on Williams' style, which is strictly musicological. I had planned it as a 4 chapter (beyond the introductory chapter) dissertation, but it seems it will be 3 in the end. (I've almost abandoned the idea of a melody chapter because it wasn't turning out as I'd like it to be) I have written more than 1,5 chapters till now (around 150 pages) and at this rate I hope to have finished it by the end of the year, because I have already been very very late. it will be unfortunately in Greek. When I finish it and it is accepted, i was planning to upload it here, just for looking at the numerous musical examples and diagrams, so that someone could get an idea of it. SteveMc, Jurassic Shark and crlbrg 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted February 8, 2019 Author Share Posted February 8, 2019 2 minutes ago, filmmusic said: Well, it's not an actual book, that will be published that is, but it's my PhD dissertation on Williams' style, which is strictly musicological. I had planned it as a 4 chapter (beyond the introductory chapter) dissertation, but it seems it will be 3 in the end. I have written more than 1,5 chapters till now (around 150 pages) and at this rate I hope to have finished it by the end of the year, because I have already been very very late. it will be unfortunately in Greek. When I finish it and it is accepted, i was planning to upload it here, just for looking at the numerous musical examples and diagrams, so that someone could get an idea of it. That's interesting! I suppose you don't want to reveal any details about the thesis' content before it's published. But once it is, perhaps you could give a summary here in English! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted February 8, 2019 Author Share Posted February 8, 2019 @Trumpeteer, are you planning to turn your series of podcasts into a book when you're done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ludwig 1,120 Posted February 9, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted February 9, 2019 10 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said: @Ludwig, haven't you written academic papers on JW? Are you by any chance planning a book? I have written academic papers on JW and film music, yes: in this collection, and this article, along with several conference papers. I think writing a book on Williams is probably in the cards for me in the not-insanely-distant future, but life is packed to the brim at the moment. It would likely be aimed at composers and analysts because I feel that a book like this is long overdue. Emilio Audissino, Frank Lehman, myself, and others are beginning to fill this gap, but with Williams' command of so many musical idioms and his reforging of them in original ways, there is just so much to write about. So I can definitely appreciate your enthusiasm to seek out such material. I actually once asked an editor at a publisher that does film music books if they would be interested in a JW book. His response was that they were so afraid of being sued for copyright infringement by printing musical examples (which he said can be as high as $10,000 per example, especially for such a high-profile composer) that they simply refused to take on such a project. That was about 5 years ago now, and fortunately even in that short time span, things have changed and we are getting more written about Williams. I think that's partly because there seems to be more confidence on publishers' part that these writings are educational in nature and so fall within the limits of the fair use law, which permits the reprinting of examples for such purposes. Hopefully this trend continues. Jurassic Shark, Falstaft and Once 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 The archives of this Message Board probably have more info on JW than any book could have crlbrg and Fabulin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 And Star Trek/Titanic quotes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 That's all this forum's good for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 Cyberspace. The final frontier. These are the postings of the forum JWFan. Its continuing mission: To explore OSTs, to seek out new expansions...to boldly quote as no one has quoted before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted February 9, 2019 Author Share Posted February 9, 2019 @TownerFan, any plans of turning your JW writings into a book? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,480 Posted February 9, 2019 Share Posted February 9, 2019 .. and use my discography? I can give you a text version of it. 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TownerFan 4,983 Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 On 2/9/2019 at 9:09 PM, Jurassic Shark said: @TownerFan, any plans of turning your JW writings into a book? I don't think so. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted February 11, 2019 Author Share Posted February 11, 2019 13 minutes ago, TownerFan said: I don't think so. You could team up with @Thor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted February 12, 2019 Author Share Posted February 12, 2019 @Miguel Andrade, any plans for a book? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpeteer 302 Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 On 2/9/2019 at 9:46 AM, Jurassic Shark said: @Trumpeteer, are you planning to turn your series of podcasts into a book when you're done? I did not consider that, but that is an interesting idea. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 Print is dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted February 13, 2019 Author Share Posted February 13, 2019 It will soon become retro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,651 Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 I am formally announcing my intent to launch an exploratory committee to determine the potential value of writing such a book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted February 13, 2019 Author Share Posted February 13, 2019 I'm prepared to offer my services if it pays well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,651 Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 It does not. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted February 20, 2019 Author Share Posted February 20, 2019 I'm currently writing a book on John Williams, the guitarist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,524 Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 On 2/5/2019 at 9:34 PM, Jurassic Shark said: Are you sure? Yes. I checked. Twice. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted February 23, 2019 Author Share Posted February 23, 2019 21 minutes ago, Richard said: Yes. I checked. Twice. I mean, who knows what one does when one's drunk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,524 Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 I am not drunk! Honestly, you lot must think that, now I live in Scotland, all I do is drink whisky, and eat haggis (both very tasty, btw). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted February 23, 2019 Author Share Posted February 23, 2019 No no no. I'm just fascinated by the notion of writing a JW biography while drunk, and then not remember to have published it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted February 25, 2019 Author Share Posted February 25, 2019 On 2/9/2019 at 5:24 AM, Ludwig said: I have written academic papers on JW and film music, yes: in this collection, and this article, along with several conference papers. I think writing a book on Williams is probably in the cards for me in the not-insanely-distant future, but life is packed to the brim at the moment. It would likely be aimed at composers and analysts because I feel that a book like this is long overdue. Good! If such a book would be inspired by the articles on your website, I'd certainly read it. Ludwig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted March 5, 2019 Author Share Posted March 5, 2019 I'm planning to do a JW coloring book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,072 Posted March 31, 2020 Author Share Posted March 31, 2020 About a year has passed since the creation of this thread, and I wonder what's the status of the three book projects. Would you care to give us an update, @Thor, @filmmusic, and @Falstaft? As for myself, the progress on my JW coloring book has been quite nonexistent. crlbrg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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