Andy

Santa hat avatar?  I gotchu

16th - dinner catch-up with buddies. 

17th - https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/alternativeulstours/terror-talks-krampus-co-an-a-z-of-creepy-christmas-characters/e-yjpgay

Christmas Eve - lots of 'me-friendly' telly and booze (some of which, I suspect, may be of a mulled nature). 

Christmas Day - spent with Mum. Lunch out at a hotel, as we have done for quite a few years now. 

Boxing Day - back up at Mum's in the evening. 

Either 29th/30th - drinks catch-up with different buddies to the 16th. 

New Year's Eve - spent by myself, as it has been for quite a few years now. Might stay up until midnight, might not. We'll see.  



 

Since I moved to where I'm now staying, Christmas has been the very definition of 'quiet'.
This year, the 24th will be my Christmas dinner, and the day itself will be spent on my own, reading, listening to a CD which I have bought for myself as a wee pressie, and possibly going for a walk, if it's not too bad.
The evening will be a showing of 'The Christmas Invasion', in honour of its 20th anniversary (!).
Food will consist of cold-cuts, and whatever is left over from Christmas Eve, probably made into bubble and squeak.
 
 
Agreed. There are many Christmases that resonate for me: 1977, 1981, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996, 2005, and 2015 all bring back very happy memories, for one reason or another.
One year I would prefer to forget, is 1999. In mid-November, I caught a wee cold. Over the next six weeks, it developed into a chest infection, so much that, after work on the 27th of December, my friend drove me the half-mile to my local G.P. (I simply could not walk), who diagnosed pleurisy. Ouch! Four weeks and two lots of - different - antibiotics later, and I returned to work.
 

The Child Returns alternate beginning isolated: The Child Returns Alternate Beginning Clean Opening-0 jwfan.mp3  
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British Relief isolated experiment:
  23 The Broken Bridge - British Relief discrete jwfan.mp3  
 

You broke your little ships.

Sigh. That was one of my many posters that did not make the last few moves. It's Andy Probert's painting that hung in Picard's... Ready room? Right?

Promotion for TNG was wonderful… thanks to Honey Nut Cheerios! I must’ve gone through more than a dozen boxes trying to collect all six stickers.  I got the mail away poster, and I did end up winning one of the little plastic Enterprise D toys.  Probably the first ever made.  I don’t know who ended up winning a spot on the show. 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

Promotion for TNG was wonderful… thanks to Honey Nut Cheerios! I must’ve gone through more than a dozen boxes trying to collect all six stickers.  I got the mail away poster, and I did end up winning one of the little plastic Enterprise D toys.  Probably the first ever made.  I don’t know who ended up winning a spot on the show. 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

Promotion for TNG was wonderful… thanks to Honey Nut Cheerios! I must’ve gone through more than a dozen boxes trying to collect all six stickers.  I got the mail away poster, and I did end up winning one of the little plastic Enterprise D toys.  Probably the first ever made.  I don’t know who ended up winning a spot on the show. 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

I think it's a very good score, but most days it's not in my top 5 of Williams Star Wars scores. It has strong qualities, the best of which being Rey's Theme ; but also March of the Resistance which is catchy and propulsive, and an excellent final stretch with Farewell, The Trip, Jedi Steps and the wonderful end credits.
 
On the other hand, there is too much in the album that does too little for me, unremarkable underscore or action pieces that are too erratic (Attack on the Village, Rathtars, The Falcon, The Way of the Force). Even Scherzo for X-Wings I don't find as rousing as its title makes it sound.
Overall the action writing is the main weakness of the score IMO, as half of it fails to make much of an impression. Although I do find plenty to enjoy in the other half, with cues like I Can Fly Anything, Kylo Ren Arrives at the Battle, The Abduction, and Torn Apart (which I think for a moment recaptures the vintage sound of something like The Miracle of the Ark). 

10 years old already?  Good lord, time really flies the older you get.
 
The score is a masterpiece, though that isn't apparent from only the OST album + watching the film.  The loads of unreleased music paint the whole picture.  An eventual expanded release will undoubtedly increase people's view on this score.

It's my 7th favorite Star Wars score,  there are a lot of fun moments, and i love Rey's theme. 
 
The action music didn't connect with me as much as the previous scores. 
 
Still,  many fun moments that I really enjoy.  Also,  it's clear based on some of the great Mockups I've heard,  there's great unreleased music to be enjoyed on an eventual 3 or 4 disc expansion,  some cool stuff is probably unrecorded though (which would be a big bummer).
 
What I remember most fondly about this time,  10 years ago,  is the pure excitement of the fact that we actually got new star wars music from John Williams,  which was and is such a gift.  I remember excitedly going to a local store and buying the OST the day it released,  so excited to hold new star wars music in my hands. 
 
Weird to think of this newer star wars movie as nostalgic, but I guess it is at this point,  im remembering how fun this was 10 years ago. 

It's excellent, but I can't give it masterpiece level on account of the action music from The Falcon to The Rathtars only being "pretty good".

I enjoyed that more than I should have 
 

This is almost always how my kid watches movies at home.  The family gets annoyed if I declare “No Phone watching!” when it’s something I think they should really truly watch. 

I love the lead up to Christmas.  I feel fortunate enough to have really good memories as a kid that this time of year is always special to me no matter how much other drama might be going on in my life.

Anyone else get annoyed by people who have a movie on but they're just scrolling their phones while it's on? I'd been thinking this for years that modern movies and shows are designed to feature so much dead air time to encourage phone use.
 
 
 

The Emperor's Entrance clean ending and the Supper Overlays isolated:
  Emperor's Entrance Supper Overlays Clean jwfan.mp3  
 

truly is the score cleaner

Here you go! both with and without the Timpani bump!

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Supper Part II Overlays Clean jwfan.mp3

Well, we know the album cue is a separate recording done some time before the main recording sessions for on set playback, and I think about this often, but I really wonder how the best way to present this section of music on a hypothetical expansion would go. Two separate tracks, so one is the album one we have currently, and then another one for the unreleased cues? Portions of the album track are heard in the film, but there are several edit points between album + unreleased bits. Or one whole track altogether? 

Some Maury Laws ROTK music ripped from the Read Along storybook:
  ROTK-ReadAlong AI jwfan.mp3  
 


@Andy @Tallguy some of it kind of reminds me of ST: TAS

I would if I weren't sure that it'll be just the OSTs with a new remaster to be uploaded on streaming services and released on vinyl.

wonder what the popcorn bucket will be for this release 
 
those are all the rave now