Maglorfin

Vetrate di chiesa (The Church Windows) by Respighi. One of the greatest symphonic poems ever! Tam-tam and organ solos rock! Oh, and yesterday I listened to The Cowboys after quite some time. I love that score, it's such fun to listen to, and the movie is also cool, I've even got it on Blu-ray. All the kids did a great job as did The Duke of course, but my favourite performance would have to be Roscoe Lee Browne's.

The Lord of the Rings movie marathon took place yesterday in my living room! I watched all three extended editions on Blu-ray one after the other. Took almost 12 hours. It was awesome! I haven't watched the movies in a while so I've already forgotten a few details, but mosty the experience was like meeting an old friend after a few years. They're great movies, I still like them very much - not to mention Howard's scores! I'm looking forward to making this marathon every 3-4 years - by the next time, we'll already have The Hobbit movies so the marathon can they maybe last 24 hours!

Whew, thank you for the warning, I was just about to order this BR today or tomorrow!

I shall never forget my first viewing of Saving Private Ryan when the shock caused by this masterpiece only hit home when the end credits - and with them Hymn to the Fallen - started rolling, and that was when the tears finally rolled down my cheeks. So it's pretty evident which piece gets my vote.

So do I, and assholeness ain't half bad either!

I'm not sure what you mean, since I don't have the FSM box, but to me it sounds all right, very similar to the miking and mixing of Star Wars. I guess it must've had something to do with acoustic and sonic qualities of the Denham studios and its Anvil stage where a lot of 70s and 80s scores were recorded, many of them by Tomlinson. The Anvil scoring stage possessed a clear and well-defined ambience with dimensions of approximately 65 feet across, 80 feet deep and 50 feet high. 19 Orchestras of up to 120 players could comfortably fit within the space. [...] The studio was readied for recording in half a day during which approximately 23 microphones were carefully positioned at distances ranging from two to ten feet from instruments. Alan Snelling was Eric Tomlinson’s assistant from 1975 to 1979 and recounted “Eric’s order of the day” for miking Star Wars, which included many Neumann and Telefunken tube condenser microphones – see side bar. 20 It was this choice together with prudent placement and Tomlinson’s wide stereo panning that gave Star Wars and the Anvil recordings from the 1970s their distinctive sound. You can find this and a lot of other interesting information here and here.

Does the word assholery actually officially exist in English language?

Ordered yesterday, got an e-mail today saying "Will ship in 1-2 weeks".

A good selection, Karol!

So this book is coming out soon. Has anybody (pre)ordered it yet? I'm very interested and I can't wait to lay my hands on this one, I'm sure I'll like it as least as much as I like Adams's book about LotR music. 007 and his music certainly deserve a book such as this, and no better time to publish it than the 50th anniversary!

Here's a vid of the famous O Fortuna from Orff's Carmina Burana, arranged by yours truly for strings and percussion, and performed by the school orchestra I was playing in at the time (like 4 years ago). The recording is far from perfect but it's the only one I have. Hope y'all like it anyway!

Same here. Man, I hate it when that happens. I don't know why, it's nothing catastrophic and the plastic insert can easily be replaced, but I hate it anyway.

Great stuff, thank you!

Well I'm one of those, and I definitely won't miss this one!

Can't waaait! Do you guys think there's any chance for the pre-concert talk? That would be cool, and it happened on at least two LSO film music concerts in the last few years (although it's true that composers like Arnold, Jones and Doyle were in attendance, and no composers are planned to attend this concert ...)

Oliver Stone's World Trade Center. A great movie and a beautiful tribute to the heroism that happened on 9/11.

John Powell - The Bourne Identity I totally love the main theme (bassoon solo). It's just perfect for Bourne with its melancholic, solitude-evoking character.

Arrived last week:

I did this comparison just for fun, but seems they actually put some effort into "reproducing" London faithfully in CoD: MW3.

OMG! You're rich!! I didn't know that.. Oh come on I've been working for 8 years now so I guess I can afford 90 pounds to buy my very probably favourite boxset of all time! Well it sure ain't cheap, I'll give you that alright but if I could only buy one boxset in life and/or take it to a desert island, this would be it. I take my 007 obsession very seriously!

I actually went to have a look at my The Planets collection and found out I currently have 13 orchestral versions (incl. the one conducted by Holst), 2 versions for two pianos, a version for organ, a version for wind band and the Tomita version! Whew!

For me, the best one I've heard so far (and I've heard many) is Charles Dutoit with Montreal Symphony Orchestra, I guess from 1987.

I went to that concert and it was great but I remember being disappointed because JW wasn't conducting.

As a diehard 007 fan I voted for Skyfall, after all it's Bond 50th anniversary this year! But of course I'm also very much looking forward to The Hobbit, I'm especially interested in hearing what Shore had to say this time around.

But I used to do all that shit. Deal with games that won't install because it's missing some file in DirectX (which won't install anyways even because you already have the "current version") Games that crash every few minutes because you put one graphics setting too high. Spend a week tweaking one by one the graphics settings, anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering and trying to come up with the "least worst" option for your game. Installing a new card and pray to god the computer will at least boot up and drivers will work. Manually edit game folders to gain a few extra frame rates (like the grass draw distance and density in Oblivion). Check every fucking Windows process to see what's taking up precious ressources. "Optimizing" your PC with an online "guide" and turn off stuff in Windows your not sure you should be turning off. Spending hours reading obscure message boards for clues on some error message Haha, gotta love your post, KM Been there, done that, I guess most everybody can say thart. Wojo, thank you for offering helpful tips, in the meantime the problem somehow seems to have resolved "by itself" since I haven't had the blue screen for some time now. Maybe it's because I installed Battlefield: Bad Company 2 in the meantime. And now for something completely different ...