Brando

No idea, sadly. Can't find any info on Australia Post's website about it, and no explanation on the USPS website either.
 
I've had an order pending with Intrada for 4 weeks now, and I got an email asking if I wanted to cancel it (due to the USPS suspension) or continue waiting. I'm honestly not sure what to do.
 
It's such a frustrating situation for international buyers right now. We pay a fortune in international shipping rates then wait months for anything to happen, with no idea when the order will even arrive. Obviously I want to continue supporting the labels but, at a certain point, spending hundreds of dollars to order CDs from overseas (with no understanding of when it will even arrive) is going to become untenable.

In case anyone hasn't seen it, here's John practicing his golf swing!
Edit: I thought I recorded it but I guess I didn't, but at some point before this the audience was screaming for more and he made the 'sleeping' hand motion against his face and that was the sad moment we realized it was over.
 
 

"Hey John.  Why have you never written a theme for me?  I mean Dukakis got one, Obama got one, Kobe got one...what gives?"
 
"I tell you what Steven.  Make a movie about yourself, and I'll write your damn theme."
 
"Hmm.  Okay.  Here you go."  
 
"Damn it, Steven.  I'm working on Indy here (plus I have to write a new big piece for the woman, as it will become the new theme for the franchise)." 

It's not confirmed. 
 
But of course he's who Spielberg wants to score it. And I don't think Indy 5 or anything else will prevent him from scoring it. 

It is expected JW will write and record The Fabelmans score starting sometime late this year or early next year, finishing up his duties to that film before his big Carnegie Hall night in April 2022, then write and record the Indiana Jones 5 score after Carnegie Hall, before that film opens in July 2022

The worst is Attack of the Clones, where George Lucas replaced his entire unique end credits piece with the Across the Stars concert arrangement.

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Well, not really.  If you listen to the full interview he mentions that the breakfast consists of a half of a box of Count Chokula and two Krispy Kremes.  This seems also to explain the regular two-hour nap he takes after breakfast.  
 
He skipped the breakfast once.  By the end of the day he had begun and finished America, the Dream Goes On.   

He gets up at the same time every day and eats the same breakfast every day? That's madness!!

He's also said he takes Sundays off, but that might just be when he doesn't have a deadline looming like a Star Wars score that requires millions of notes!

At 0:58
 
 

Does anyone remember any of the interviews where JW has discussed his daily work schedule? Just curious. I remember this interview from 2019: https://www.jwfan.com/?p=12355
 
 
But I feel like there were other articles where he talked about how he likes to schedule his work, when he goes for walks to clear his mind, how he works in solitude for much of the day, etc. I remember being very fascinated by his work flow (which is obviously very different from how most ordinary professionals in other industries work). 

Agreed. The best movies are the ones he scored

In case anyone hasn't seen it, here's John practicing his golf swing!
Edit: I thought I recorded it but I guess I didn't, but at some point before this the audience was screaming for more and he made the 'sleeping' hand motion against his face and that was the sad moment we realized it was over.
 
 

In case anyone hasn't seen it, here's John practicing his golf swing!
Edit: I thought I recorded it but I guess I didn't, but at some point before this the audience was screaming for more and he made the 'sleeping' hand motion against his face and that was the sad moment we realized it was over.
 
 

In case anyone hasn't seen it, here's John practicing his golf swing!
Edit: I thought I recorded it but I guess I didn't, but at some point before this the audience was screaming for more and he made the 'sleeping' hand motion against his face and that was the sad moment we realized it was over.
 
 

In case anyone hasn't seen it, here's John practicing his golf swing!
Edit: I thought I recorded it but I guess I didn't, but at some point before this the audience was screaming for more and he made the 'sleeping' hand motion against his face and that was the sad moment we realized it was over.
 
 

In case anyone hasn't seen it, here's John practicing his golf swing!
Edit: I thought I recorded it but I guess I didn't, but at some point before this the audience was screaming for more and he made the 'sleeping' hand motion against his face and that was the sad moment we realized it was over.
 
 

In case anyone hasn't seen it, here's John practicing his golf swing!
Edit: I thought I recorded it but I guess I didn't, but at some point before this the audience was screaming for more and he made the 'sleeping' hand motion against his face and that was the sad moment we realized it was over.
 
 

In case anyone hasn't seen it, here's John practicing his golf swing!
Edit: I thought I recorded it but I guess I didn't, but at some point before this the audience was screaming for more and he made the 'sleeping' hand motion against his face and that was the sad moment we realized it was over.
 
 

Excellent program selection!
Hope we get something similar in Berlin!

I was at the Sunday concert and it was a lot of fun. Of course, since I have finished my podcast, I knew there would be no new film music for me to hear, but that was fine. The Overture to the Oscars was new, I think? I have to look it up, but it sounded like the music that opened the 2002 Oscars when he was co-musical director. 
 
I enjoyed seeing JW looking so lively at 89 years old. I spoke with a woman after the show, and after I told her John Williams was five months away from turning 90, she said, "He looked like he was in his 70s!"
 
But the highlight of the show was meeting Eduardo Victoria, who was a cohost on my podcast for the "War of the Worlds" episode. It was the first time meeting one of my cohosts in person, and we had a wonderful pre-show conversation.
 
 

It was a marvelous performance!! 10/10 would definitely do again. After he finished his set he walked away 3 times before returning each time to an encore. Just seeing him on stage was magical. At one point he roasted BFG. He was talking about how he was going to perform a piece from it and he goes “it was a movie not a lot of people went to see” and everyone laughed. At one point my wife, upon seeing him walk around as he does, goes “he’s a cute old man” haha. At the end Newman brought him a lightsaber and he practiced his golf swing with it. The entire night was a blast and I’d love to do it again!

Dude... not cool.

I've never met him, and do not need to.  He's got better things to do than meet people like me!  Plus, I know him via his work.  Good enough.

I’ve met him twice, they aren’t terribly interesting stories but here is the first time meeting him:
 
I flew to Boston to see Williams conduct the Boston Pops in 1996, I was 20 years old.  It wasn’t a film music concert or anything and he didn’t conduct any of his own music.  
 
I asked the Pops staff if it would be possible to meet him, and they let me go backstage to meet him (I can’t even remember if it was before/after the concert or during intermission).
 
Keith Lockhart was back there too, though he wasn’t conducting that night.  I said hello and shook his hand. I got to spend a few minutes with JW, I can’t even remember what I said, probably just fanboy gushing.  I was nervous as hell.  Williams was very nice and thanked me for coming all the way from Baltimore to see him.
 
He signed my Star Wars Anthology disc 4, which I then got framed.
 
I didn’t get a picture with him, but I would on my next meeting…