Dixon Hill

Jeez. Guy can't catch a break with this song.

Yes, you can have him back. America has paid for its sins.

That's what I said about Justin Bieber. (too soon?)

They didn't know there'd be more than one at the time.

Oh dear....

Hello ladies. This is a really good idea.

I wanted to be vulgar. I actually drink tea.

This is becoming scandalous!

Yes. Next.

Can't hear you, I'm sipping espresso with my pinky raised.

What's Star Wars?

Damn. I thought I'd at least bid, and see what happens, because this is a bit of a big deal... but I got slapped around for even thinking that.

Film is dead. Long live film.

I am a proud clueless mental wanker.

Odd experience. I liked it as a whole I think. But almost every individual element, I had mixed feelings about. Should probably watch it again.

Good.

I haven't. And I have no issue with it being difficult, I like that. My only reservations are that it'll fall short of my expectations, or I'll find it preachy or something. But that's nonsense. I'm going to watch it right now.

And I quote, a comment from a YouTube video of Ottman's Superman Returns score. "I like John William's Superman march, but it was more lighthearted and jumpy. I like Hans Zimmer's score better because it was more darker and epic." Now I liked what Zimmer did. But this is not exactly the kind of advocacy the score needs.

Oh. I prefer Steve Jablonsky, he makes more epic songs.

Someone convince me to watch The Tree of Life. I've seen most of the cosmicy bits, I love Chastain, and I dig Malick based on The Thin Red Line. But I have reservations about getting into this one.

North's score makes a nice concert piece, and a good excuse to hear Jerry conduct someone else's music.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence - John Williams (my personal edit of the score, thanks to the help of both Incanus and Faleel) This is John's masterpiece. Nowhere else (in my own experience) does he reach the level of spirituality that this score is radiant with. Kubrick would certainly have been pleased with it; no last-minute replacements would have happened with this one, heh. It's a journey through a bleak and cold future, with an undercurrent of the most sincere humanity which is allowed to come through in all its warmth by the journey's end. The result is one of the finest efforts of a human being to capture and meditate on the strange marriage of light and darkness that defines our existence. I sat and listened to this straight through with my family. I don't want to listen to it any other way from now on.

I wouldn't dare try to do that. It should be left as is for eternity.

The amount that this is tickling my brain is really enjoyable.

Who?