[TWIN PEAKS]

'Twin Peaks’ Premiere Delivers Only Half a Million Viewers

[The Official Howard Shore Thread]

No Aviator, no deal.

 

This is also when I sadly discover that the Nobody's Fool OST is not available on Spotify.  One of my favorite Shore scores.

[Another Last Jedi scoring session: Mark Hamill and Laura Dern visit]

The person who tweeted at Johnson clearly has not a single clue how film music works.  Reminds me of the Star Wars podcast I recently heard Doug Adams guest on.  The interviewer had no idea that film composers write music to accompany specific parts of the film.  He thought they just recorded a bunch of music and then the editors decide where it goes, like it was a pop song or something.

 

I run into this all the time as a programmer who interacts some with end users of the software I work on: that it's easy to forget how ignorant people can be of subjects you are deeply immersed in.  I'm not saying these people are dumb, just that it's easy to forget that most people do not know or think about how films are put together.

[Another Last Jedi scoring session: Mark Hamill and Laura Dern visit]

It wasn't the pacemaker, it was Beauty revived the Beast

[RIP Roger Moore 1927-2017]

[insert sound of Sideshow Bob stepping on a rake]

[RIP Roger Moore 1927-2017]

I somehow only just realized that he's the first Bond to pass away (unless you count David Niven, in which case you're an irritating pedant).

[The Official Pop and Rock Music thread]

4 minutes ago, Richard said:

They got a lot better, as they got darker.

SOME GREAT REWARD, and BLACK CELEBRATION are dense.

 

Oh I agree, I was speaking only of the initial wave of synth pop.  I consider from 1984 onward the "maturation" of the subgenre, when they moved beyond just imitating Kraftwerk.

[So Ridley Scott is directing a Prometheus sequel... (The official Alien: Covenant Thread)]

Heh, the Special Editions came out when I was 9 and I have no love for them!

[Another Last Jedi scoring session: Mark Hamill and Laura Dern visit]

Unrelated, but recently I thought about how funny it is that next year there's going to be a film about millennial-types playing a VR MMORPG directed by a septuagenarian, scored by an octogenarian.

[RIP Roger Moore 1927-2017]

You just try that in my bayou, boy!

[So Ridley Scott is directing a Prometheus sequel... (The official Alien: Covenant Thread)]

It's true.  In 20 years, people who were obsessed with Marvel movies when they 10 will be calling the next generation idiots for liking whatever the popcorn entertainment du jour is.

[What Is The Last Score You Listened To? (older scores)]

12 hours ago, Selina Kyle said:

Giacchino showed promise at on time, but he's turned out to be a colossal disappointment. Many were hoping he would carry on the torch. What we got instead was the film composer equivalent of Michael Jordan playing for the Washington Wizards.

 

I think he's developed his own voice, and yes it lacks complexity compared to your Goldsmiths, Williamses, Horners, etc., but it is very much his voice, whether you like it or not.

[The Official Howard Shore Thread]

That.... could've used less Middle-Earth.

[RIP Roger Moore 1927-2017]

I like Sheriff JW Pepper.  AND I'M PROUD OF IT!

[The Official Pop and Rock Music thread]

All great music!  Although, my favorite single song of that 1979-1983 era is probably Depeche Mode's "Just Can't Get Enough."

[RIP Roger Moore 1927-2017]

Moore got some of my favorite over-the-top Bond baddies and lead henchmen.  Scaramanga & Nick Nack, Kananga & Baron Samedi, Stromberg & Jaws, Hugo Drax &... Jaws again!  All so ridiculous and fun.

 

Anyway, he's still my favorite Bond to this day!  A golden era of silly action comedies.

[Michael Giacchino's SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING (2017)]

Getting older is weird.  I'm in a community band with amateur musicians ranging from 10 to 85, and I made a "more cowbell" reference at a rehearsal recently and every teenager in the band just gave me a blank look.  I thought more cowbell was universal!!!

[RIP Roger Moore 1927-2017]

2 minutes ago, Stefancos said:

I'll probably be giving Man With The Golden Gun a watch. A film I will defend till my dying breath!

 

It's my personal favorite of his Bonds. Although I love all of them, stupid and daft as they got.

[Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson 2017)]

Domhnall Gleeson is going to age into such a great British character actor (just like his father).  Just that classic look about him.

 

(this was reacting to one of the Vanity Fair covers)

[RIP Roger Moore 1927-2017]

 

[The Official Pop and Rock Music thread]

1 hour ago, Richard said:

I wasn't aware that the first two were combined. Check out the complete ORGANISATION, as there's some great stuff on there: ENOLA GAY, MOTION AND HEART, THE MISUNDERSTANDING, the beautiful STANLOW, and a very sinister version of THE MORE I SEE YOU.

 

Heh, every song you mentioned is on the American self-titled debut except the last one.

[The Official Pop and Rock Music thread]

4 hours ago, Richard said:

 

GEORGIA, if I'm not mistaken.

Nice. DAZZLE SHIPS, is, indeed, a fantastic, and an underrated, album. I'll always prefer A+M, though.

Still GENETIC ENGINEERING (312mm version) is fantastic.

Listen to the title track of JUNK CULTURE; it might sound oddly familiar...

 

Really I love all of that initial phase of OMD pretty equally.  And when I say "first three" albums I really mean "first four" but I actually prefer the American debut for them which combined their first two British albums.

[Another Last Jedi scoring session: Mark Hamill and Laura Dern visit]

Is that Porkins in the background?

[Another Last Jedi scoring session: Mark Hamill and Laura Dern visit]

She gave one of the best performances I've ever seen in the television show Enlightened.

[So Ridley Scott is directing a Prometheus sequel... (The official Alien: Covenant Thread)]

Not that it really matters, but it really sucks that the now canon "explanation" for the precise origin of the xenomorphs is so... dull.   God prequels are the worst.