Muad'Dib

Ron Howard

Tintin, for me. It's the one I'm revisiting the most, right now... War Horse comes a close second, and KOTCS third.

You picked my favorite JW piece of all time

If anyone is in the area on July 8th, Christopher McFarlane will be performing the Five Sacred Trees (with piano accompaniment) at 8:00 p.m. at Hall Auditorium at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. McFarlane is the principal bassoonist of the United States Marine Band, one of the finest musical organizations in the country.
The concert is free and no tickets are required. The performance is part of the International Double Reed Society’s Annual Conference.
You can read the official announcement here.

Music critic Richard Dyer said it more eloquently than any other could:

Damn I hate songs, words. Popular music.
Nothing happened to Star Wars. They are just movies for kids.

I just want to say how thankful I am for a forum like this one. It is so amazingly wonderful to know that there are people out there that are as artfully passionate as myself. You guys totally "get it" and I just want to say thank you for coming together. :-)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
There's just something magical and simple about this film that makes it a joy to revisit over and over again. Basil Wrathbone is a deliciously evil Gisbourne, Claude Rains is a fun, hammy Sheriff, and Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn are a magnetic screen couple. Korngold's score isn't just a valuable asset to the film, but a character onto itself. A great Golden Age film.
And I think this movie epitomizes what is so great about the early Technicolor films. Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz get most of that credit, but not enough goes to Robin Hood.

Well, as of right now Robopocalypse is still "A Steven Spielberg Film"....
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La Strada. I swear that ending can make grown men cry like babies

Just like drums are unmistakably drummer.

Les Luthiers are brilliant.

The meetup was a huge success!
In the afternoon myself, my girlfriend Marcy, and Ren hung out around Boston. We walked to the Trinity Church and then down Newbury street, going in and out of some shops, before returning to the Symphony Hall area and getting a big table for 12 people at Uno's, which they nicely put for us in this kind of side room away from the main area.
There people came in one or 2 at a time for the next few hours: First slambodog and his mother, then obiwan71, then ET&Elliot4Ever with the guy he had bought his ticket from - a guy named Jordan from Ottawa, who used to post around 2004ish apparently. Then foxfan with a guest, then rpvee with someone (his mother?), and finally another frenchman named Regis (I never found out if he posted here).
So there was 4 New Englanders (me, Marcy, Justin/ET&Elliot Forever, and Ren), 2 Parisians (obiwan71, Regis), 2 Canadians (Jordan from Ottawa, and Foxfan), slambodog and his mother from New York..... an eclectic group to be sure! We discussed Williams, Goldsmith, Courage, the new guitar concerto (which we thought was premiering at the concert we were going to), Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, and the previous night's concert (which obiwan71 had attended). And a lot of talk about autographs - how to get them, who's gotten them from Williams, what other autograph's people have, whether or not we'd be able to get them tonight, etc. The server, Christopher was awesome, multiple drink and food orders constantly over a 3 hour period, splitting everything into different checks for each group, etc. The food at Uno's seemed to be universally liked (its definitely one of the better American chain restaurants). A super-success over all!
I had the waiter take a bunch of pics of all of us at the table, so I'll be sure to post them asap!
I'll post my thoughts on the concert itself in the concert thread, but the quick version is I thought it was one of the best ones out of the 5 I've been to!

Try 'em out, they work now!