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There is an old curse: may you have to watch a Wagner opera without a sandwich. Or, something to that extent. When I was in college multiple professors expressed their hatred of Wagner, stating that he "destroyed harmony" and apparently Western music in general. It was really bad. Poor Bruckner got painted with, "He wrote one symphony, nine times." Pretty tame compared to old Richie. After reading analysis of Williams' Star Wars and how it was influenced by the two, I took a listen and decided I liked them. Though both composers (especially Bruckner) are performance dependent. If you don't like them, fine. Back to the disappointing movies: There have been portions of movies that have disappointed me. For instance: The Dark Knight. I didn't see it until The Dark Knight Rises came out. I avoided it because of all of the praise the Heath Ledger got. From the clips I saw, I thought it was role that Paul Giamatti could have easily played. And having seen the movie, I still think that. The prequels: nobody had the strength of character to tell Lucas: this sucks. Get a writer, get a director, and stick to the technical aspects, George. The sequels: plan the damn thing out before shooting frame one. After The Force Awakens, I told a guy in the theater that it was an okay remake of Star Wars. And after The Last Jedi, "Where in the hell do they go from here?" Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: too many characters and no reason to care about any of the new ones. And Highlander II really is in the argument for worst movie ever. Right up there with Up the Academy.

At least it wasn't a sex dream.

This was back when the internet was still somewhat new and we still had dial-up modems. Before the dark times. Before the empire social media. The track title was "The Princess Appears", so that's what we called it. Or we got specific and referred to it as the music from when Luke is looking out at the sunsets. Then we'd get into a discussion if "sunsset" was correct or "sunsets". And then one day a sage said the magic words "binary sunset", thus killing the sunsset/sunsets debate. Truly, a sad day.

Isn't that the release date of the MM complete JW Star Wars boxed set? I heard someone's birth year as being in 2027 last night, no maybe time is more fluid than I think.

I was pleased that I was able to order both a physical and e-book. The cover photo of the "modern" Jerry needs to be fixed-- he did not suddenly become left-handed!

Yeah, it could be Moonraker, but wouldn't it be more interesting if it turned out to be GoldenEye? With the Williams quote being how he always wanted to score a Bond film and it turns out that he was approached to do GoldenEye, but his agent said he wasn't available. If you're gonna speculate, speculate!

Sounds like he's admitting to malpractice. He talking about editing the masters instead of making a copy first and tossing anything that got edited out. When I worked in radio, back in the 90s, and edited commercials using a razor blade, I would always make a copy of the original and use the copy to edit. The very thought of trying to reinsert a piece of tape less than a couple of inches long (and don't let it get inserted backwards!) makes me shudder even all these years later. On something like ST:TMP, where the post-production was such a time crunch, that might happen, but still... (ST:TMP made it easy by editing to the music in places.)

Winning an Oscar is nice, but having this guy compose a theme for my character: fuckin’ awesome!

Do you think he ever made it to San Jose?

Happy Birthday to the Maestro. Got the John Williams playlist going on shuffle today. "Han Solo and the Princess" currently. Thought about wearing a turtleneck, but with my neck being as thick as it is... That and the fact that there's only one man who can rock a turtleneck and make the ladies swoon. And he's 91 today.

In Jay’s defense, the typo is in the original material. An important score by Homer? Um, Beerfest?

While I remember watching the original British episodes on Comedy Central 30+ years ago and would have loved to see some of the old regulars pop in for these final tapings, I can understand why they aren’t. Pay how much to fly them over and stay here for a few days for how much potential screen time? With how rusty they would be? And how many Americans would even recognize them? Besides, this is only the end of this iteration of Whose Line. It’ll be back. Really cheap to make; practically designed for the streaming era. Most memorable line— from “Scenes from a Hat”: The Good News and the Bad News, “We’re going to name a disease after you.”

Gotta get into how his turtlenecks make all the ladies swoon and don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Yeah. Back then, the dollar was not strong compared to the pound. And the possibility of being made to take redundancy, J-Dubs needed all the spare cash he could get.

I'm surprised that Chris Siddall doesn't post his updates here. Not everyone goes on Facebook. In addition to posting on Nov 30 that Braveheart is coming in 2023, he followed it up on Dec 09 with The Rocketeer as a title to be published in 2023. Braveheart: https://www.facebook.com/chrissiddallmusic/posts/pfbid0VHCifRH2VhEuQVzGPNqC6gncY1x2UmJxxLfBGtNifXkiLEDX2dehDQZVynPvn9PKl?__cft__[0]=AZXo5spSqGMFzyhB1qLyI2m9n0EnQQEFioRxtDqha8qrt-3Nyphq7GJxPXrFBqIfWVgeUZFII77FfzEZrj2weu-g2eVI2EfuwnEQ82jO0aIroDs8CyZsHcgUv8S57vlvn-rnMUigJzpKjnvsGjIx-SLaF01ZuoL3l2T-8kzeC0sMmxAsDEU4GDx3VZWiqDD-ZX6V4OSHrAKikXoQBuFoi2W3&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R Rocekteer: https://www.facebook.com/chrissiddallmusic/posts/pfbid0SWLTntZ11NZxfog4WhjG6FMZA2zGLECMm8igFhymgmCz6VBaB7f4Ndo5yWaNRYoWl?__cft__[0]=AZWChHimcIT7nVbFHg6Nu2a_Sr2pzLM7td7tVaVIupOYvE3JrZumQ8E-7b1tVnctNecNDP8kHHi4h_9_oPLJtDgheJn8K0bt0c6E1jI31vguX9CU6sZBBqISGOsT2u0BjeX-MtAvlFbnLmwRlRTGuqYP_Opb8ZdBrrF578Pcbuzju8trrsyHcoprviru0N3iv3Qkqq65wvHJ6Vl-WZpzIwjE&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R His shop website page still indicates that Gremlins is next. Also, that there's only a few copies left of Aliens. https://www.chrissiddallmusic.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html With the rate that these publishers put out new titles, I figure that's his 2023 slate: Gremlins, Braveheart, and The Rocketeer. Pretty solid. Could be one more, but I don't wanna come off as being unappreciative of the current efforts.