Nick Parker

I'll start it up this evening when I'm back from the gym.
 
 
Unlike Thor I'm not so crazy about Goa/Trance and 'intelligent dance music' (how I hate that word) acts like FSOL, but I hope to include music from the earliest days of electronic dance, spanning from its emergence in the 80s (New York electro-funk, Detroit techno, Chicago house) to its present day incarnations.

Please guys, I just want some quantifiable data! A hundred, fifty, ten, c'mon! Don't be shy now!...Just don't leave me hanging, please!...I must know the numbers, I must know the Top of everything! Help a poor man out, I'll take anything! Please!
 
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Please?

While I tend to see films and other media as creations from other human beings, and thus tend to look at them from the "creator's angle" ("Why did they do this?" "Interesting choice here!" etc.), I wonder how far down the rabbit hole a person really has to go. We live in the time where it seems like everyone with a YouTube channel know how to analyze a film from that perspective, with countless videos and essays and such titled "Why _____ doesn't work", or "How to make _____ better".
 
While I agree, Chen, that bad products, no matter the medium, serve as great educators (Ray Bradbury wrote his first story 'cause he saw a sucky Tarzan sequel on TV and thought he could write a better one), my question is: of all of these Internet critics, how many of them are actually tearing up these things for educational purposes? How many of them are actually using it to better their "craft", if they even have one?
 
The reasoning can strike me as on the apologetic side, if not disingenuous, like when people defend playing video games because it "enhances their hand-eye coordination".

I wouldn't know. If there are others like me, then they too are likely to watch their Marvel movies at home. 

When I go to the movie theater (which has always been very seldom), I expect and want a social experience of all of us as a crowd reacting to and engaging with this film together. If someone opens up a bag of Skittles, that's just a little noise. But when people are on their phones, I _know_ they're not experiencing the film. The two actions are hardly comparable in my mind.

Extended conversation to be seen in boxset release: 
Finn: "How did you know her name?"
Poe: "She talks in her sleep."

Extended conversation to be seen in boxset release: 
Finn: "How did you know her name?"
Poe: "She talks in her sleep."

Alright!? It's a 10/10 masterpiece! Just don't watch War Horse, that's one of the worst movies ever...I couldn't rate it lowly enough.

Simple: if you don't like the music, then that means they didn't work well with each other, and if you like it, they got along splendidly!

Brings back fond memories of when I joined here 10 years ago and people would get a migraine one word into anything I wrote!
 
 
Don't remind me. I'm a veteran and I have less, which makes me deeply insecure.
 
 
With that CD I was introduced to my favorite score of the Prequels! (Still have it.)
 
This track is one of the many reasons I love the score for Attack of the Clones, and genuinely cannot fathom why it's so disdained, even in a "It's not bad, it's just the least good one" way. You ever have a day where you wake up and just feel "off" somehow, and it ends up setting the tone for the rest of the day as it keeps getting weirder and more out of control? That's what this track captures really well, that descent into the bizarre.
 

Well here's a hint: Monty Norman, unadorned and playing his original theme. 
 
It's okay, you don't have to watch all of it.
 

Simple: if you don't like the music, then that means they didn't work well with each other, and if you like it, they got along splendidly!

Brings back fond memories of when I joined here 10 years ago and people would get a migraine one word into anything I wrote!
 
 
Don't remind me. I'm a veteran and I have less, which makes me deeply insecure.
 
 
With that CD I was introduced to my favorite score of the Prequels! (Still have it.)
 
This track is one of the many reasons I love the score for Attack of the Clones, and genuinely cannot fathom why it's so disdained, even in a "It's not bad, it's just the least good one" way. You ever have a day where you wake up and just feel "off" somehow, and it ends up setting the tone for the rest of the day as it keeps getting weirder and more out of control? That's what this track captures really well, that descent into the bizarre.
 

Simple: if you don't like the music, then that means they didn't work well with each other, and if you like it, they got along splendidly!

Simple: if you don't like the music, then that means they didn't work well with each other, and if you like it, they got along splendidly!

Hey, have you listened to Lalo Schifrin's non-film stuff? Here's one of my favorite pieces of music, his "Latin Jazz Suite" (this is the first movement)
 
 
I'm also a big fan of Chucho Valdez, here's a piece he wrote with his band Irakere:
 
I feel like you'd like these, so I figured I would share them!
 
 

Hey, have you listened to Lalo Schifrin's non-film stuff? Here's one of my favorite pieces of music, his "Latin Jazz Suite" (this is the first movement)
 
 
I'm also a big fan of Chucho Valdez, here's a piece he wrote with his band Irakere:
 
I feel like you'd like these, so I figured I would share them!
 
 

It's not a debate.  It's a bunch of people being confused by a guy being 100% wrong about something.
 
One senses there may be a great many of those.

Emma Stone 
Alicia Vikander

Brings back fond memories of when I joined here 10 years ago and people would get a migraine one word into anything I wrote!
 
 
Don't remind me. I'm a veteran and I have less, which makes me deeply insecure.
 
 
With that CD I was introduced to my favorite score of the Prequels! (Still have it.)
 
This track is one of the many reasons I love the score for Attack of the Clones, and genuinely cannot fathom why it's so disdained, even in a "It's not bad, it's just the least good one" way. You ever have a day where you wake up and just feel "off" somehow, and it ends up setting the tone for the rest of the day as it keeps getting weirder and more out of control? That's what this track captures really well, that descent into the bizarre.
 

That's what I'm talkin' about, Grey! My favorite pieces from Stravinsky are:
 
Rite of Spring
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Oedipus Rex
Symphony in Three Movements
 
Blanking out on others, right now.

Brings back fond memories of when I joined here 10 years ago and people would get a migraine one word into anything I wrote!
 
 
Don't remind me. I'm a veteran and I have less, which makes me deeply insecure.
 
 
With that CD I was introduced to my favorite score of the Prequels! (Still have it.)
 
This track is one of the many reasons I love the score for Attack of the Clones, and genuinely cannot fathom why it's so disdained, even in a "It's not bad, it's just the least good one" way. You ever have a day where you wake up and just feel "off" somehow, and it ends up setting the tone for the rest of the day as it keeps getting weirder and more out of control? That's what this track captures really well, that descent into the bizarre.
 

Brings back fond memories of when I joined here 10 years ago and people would get a migraine one word into anything I wrote!
 
 
Don't remind me. I'm a veteran and I have less, which makes me deeply insecure.
 
 
With that CD I was introduced to my favorite score of the Prequels! (Still have it.)
 
This track is one of the many reasons I love the score for Attack of the Clones, and genuinely cannot fathom why it's so disdained, even in a "It's not bad, it's just the least good one" way. You ever have a day where you wake up and just feel "off" somehow, and it ends up setting the tone for the rest of the day as it keeps getting weirder and more out of control? That's what this track captures really well, that descent into the bizarre.
 

Brings back fond memories of when I joined here 10 years ago and people would get a migraine one word into anything I wrote!
 
 
Don't remind me. I'm a veteran and I have less, which makes me deeply insecure.
 
 
With that CD I was introduced to my favorite score of the Prequels! (Still have it.)
 
This track is one of the many reasons I love the score for Attack of the Clones, and genuinely cannot fathom why it's so disdained, even in a "It's not bad, it's just the least good one" way. You ever have a day where you wake up and just feel "off" somehow, and it ends up setting the tone for the rest of the day as it keeps getting weirder and more out of control? That's what this track captures really well, that descent into the bizarre.
 

Brings back fond memories of when I joined here 10 years ago and people would get a migraine one word into anything I wrote!
 
 
Don't remind me. I'm a veteran and I have less, which makes me deeply insecure.
 
 
With that CD I was introduced to my favorite score of the Prequels! (Still have it.)
 
This track is one of the many reasons I love the score for Attack of the Clones, and genuinely cannot fathom why it's so disdained, even in a "It's not bad, it's just the least good one" way. You ever have a day where you wake up and just feel "off" somehow, and it ends up setting the tone for the rest of the day as it keeps getting weirder and more out of control? That's what this track captures really well, that descent into the bizarre.