Richard Penna

What absolute bollocks It really does sound like he got up at 8am yesterday morning, noodled on his keyboards for 3 hours and came up with that. It's so uninspiring. It goes with my belief that when he's given some inspirational, life-affirming project he comes up with some tat like this, but when given 4 weeks and a film to just.... score, he does a really great job.

I listened to Djawadi's Fallout the last few evenings and it seems to fall right into my taste range. Very little going on thematically at surface level but it's one of those scores where he manages to keep me engaged for the full 70 minutes without ever being new or very distinct. A bit like Eternals, anyone completely allergic to the vaguest RCP influence should run holding their noses, but Djawadi has clearly got some chops in some extended rhythmic and melodic ideas.

I love the TTRL OST but in this case I'm not really interested in the additional material.

I got an e-mail about 12 hours or so ago. I use gmail but we also have a family domain so it doesn't go directly there. Doesn't seem like they're in the remotest urge to get TLW back in stock. I wonder if sales slowed after the initial buzz?

I have tens of Blu-rays but only around 10 ripped, and a few of them were more so I could skim a few bits without needing the disc in the drive. Essentially I narrow it down to those that are either particularly important to me or are hard to find in physical format and therefore I want the digital copy. Far more DVDs fall into that category for me, particularly TV shows. I'm not quite picturing a full dystopian future where nothing is available to own, but I want a PC-based copy of important stuff that no studio can suddenly decide to pull. This is visual media only, of course. I rip all CDs on receipt - there should be nothing that isn't in my flac archive.

Now playing: Nightwing. Beautiful score and Varese club album, which I purchased blind entirely based on samples.

I've had degradation too - I got a Jurassic trilogy Blu-ray set a few years ago and TLW now refuses to play, full stop. I can see some colouring on the outside so it's evidently worn or rotted away. Thankfully I have the DVD and it's my least fave of the three by miles so I'm not actually that bothered. I'm finding an urge with my absolute favourites to rip the entire disc to my PC, which is also a mega-convenient way to watch it.

I have the previous release and find it overlong. Chances of my buying an even longer one without samples are zero.

Woah. I tend to give up and settle for DVD at those sorts of prices. I think the only movie I'd kind of like to own on Blu-ray but have never seen a domestic version, is Sphere. I can get the DVD for £1.

If working in a large corporation has taught me anything, some web interface used by the entire company could be in the sole charge of a bunch of grads and someone half competent keeping an eye on them. Also, no one who's actually in charge of the money ever thinks the 'front end' bits are much more than nice-to-haves. It it doesn't actively crash all the time, it must be fine, surely.

I too hope that they've managed to get things arranged with Disney as The 13th Warrior would be a notable expansion for my nostalgic side. I don't think 'scary' needs to mean straight up horror though - just some character or element of it. Unfortunately I don't think Ice Age or I, Robot qualify. Sphere would of course, but that would take a miracle. What about Evolution, if Powell is continuing his expansion quest?

Ah yes... Murray "I upload entire albums to my agent's website with no security, then get angry when fans love my music" Gold.

I keep forgetting about Spidey 3. The annoying thing is that 99% of it has leaked but that 1% contains a really beautiful cue. The whole thing is a mess - we ideally want Young's complete intended score plus whatever Lurie (and Debney?) did. I have to believe that its problems stem more from the studios being twats than Elfman still not allowing a release of material with his themes. I wonder if anyone's told him that we've all got it anyway....

I don't see where any ideas come from about this not being a "blockbuster release" or a big name composer. Goldsmith's Love Field arrived after precisely zero fanfare back in 2021, as did Williams' Presumed Innocent. Similar with the complete Matrix a while back - they all just use the standard clue game. If they do the emoticon thing again it's probably going to take us 20 minutes to guess them. Oh, and just in time for HTTYD 3 to finally grace us with its presence on streaming (everyone has their CD, right? Otherwise Powell will be mad... )

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