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The less awards Boyhood wins, the happier I am.

Morbid as it sounds, this is the part I look forward to every year. The one part that has nothing to do with the rest of the show. . . .

Interstellar by Hansu http://youtu.be/IbAPWbV-u9k Karol

Me too! MV tried for years to release it but there is some sort of legal hangups preventing its release (probably to do with the Van Halen material). Big bummer! ~ Woah! The titles were just announced! Nailed both composers! Woo!

One of the tracks is already available, and it's awesome: I listened to live recordings of the FFVII Symphonic Poem and it's not as great, though. EDIT: Well, turns out it's not the LSO recording. But the album will feature the same arrangement, though.

Birdman for best picture, crazy. I just don't get it.

So when the speech is about race the hurry up music doesn't kick in?

Birdman Meh. I really thought I was going to like this, but I just didn't. It was fairly boring, not that compelling, and I didn't really relate to the struggles of any of the characters. I didn't like the gimmicky aspects like the drum score (which didn't work for me) or the "it all seems like one long take" (which didn't make you feel like you are right there with the characters the way that other films have done so; It made you feel more like a stupid floating spirit slowly circling around everyone). Also: What in the bloody hell was the point of having two beats of Emma Stone and Ed Norton getting together, and then have no followup beat to that whatsoever?

Just remembered this site exists. A good number of audio examples. http://www.organstops.org

Not sure but I'll look. These things aren't really standardized so it would be hard.

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I usually can't stand it. I don't think he truly grasped the instrument's unique abilities, and certainly not ways to integrate it organically with acoustic instruments. For the most part, Jerry's synths stand out as a sore thumb in a landscape that may otherwise be brilliant (LEGEND being the prime example). I love Goldsmith, but mostly for his acoustic experimentation. Despite his fascination for synths, especially in the 80s, he never really "got it".