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Eh, they're kids. What do you expect. I prefer this handbell performance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW34kHnpo1g

Full Metal Jacket stuck with me for weeks after watching it for the first time. The end of Act 1 blew me away, so to speak. Do you also want to mention Independence Day, Wild, Wild West, Men In Black, and Men In Black: II on that list? Or do only hate a select few Will Smith movies?

I voted for ET to contribute to the growing naughtiness of the graphic image.

I just whistled the main theme, and it's not too much of a stretch to hear the similarity. It's not close enough, though, to accuse Williams of copying.

I've never seen the Lynch version at all. I saw the Sci-Fi Channel reinterpretation, which I enjoyed and which inspired me to read the books (I'm about 10 pages from the end of Children). And I read somewhere they're working to make another big screen version of the books. I'd rather see this book series set to film more than see the Dark Materials film series completed. But you've now intrigued me to rent the Lynch movie.

Oh, is that all? Yikes. I'm building a totally new system this weekend so I may be able to knock out most if not all of those symptoms.

I make notes if I think that tracks should be split or combined, because I don't listen to anything before I've ripped it to MP3, but I can always go back and fix stuff later. And I note which tracks get blippy, but mostly technical stuff like this. I don't write reviews so I don't take academic notes.

I think it's really clever how the man who portrayed Captain Hook also played the part of Wendy Darling's father. Cyril Ritchard gave a very sinister and delicious performance. Though some of those songs get stuck in your head all day and don't leave, which is why I've chosen not to watch it for many years.

I usually just put my recently ripped music onto my thumbdrive and listen to it at work, keeping track of the musical anomalies that pop up. I've also had some MP3 files decay over time, like they're ok today but in a year or so they develop beeps and skips, which I don't understand at all. I've thought about write-protecting the whole shebang but I'm not to the point where I've stopped fiddling with everything, because most of my older files need to be retagged in order for my car's MP3 player to read the tags properly. Again, no idea why that happened.

I love the music in this score and as heard in the film, but I don't know if I actually have the best album representation. I still have a hodgepodge of tracks that I got when Napster was legal, and was just waiting to find an extended album for purchase somewhere. I did buy Doctor Zhivago, but enjoy this score a lot more.

Charlie, is that a real album?!

I've never heard or watched AI, and only did both for PoA once. I abstain.

I would've thought it would go the other way. Perhaps it's because the Force theme is more versatile. Its moments of grandeur (Throne Room), reflection (double sunset) and beauty (Vader's Funeral; Luke pages Leia under Bespin) provided more opportunities for Williams to flex his musical muscle than with the Imperial March. With that theme, we did have moments of grandeur, pomp, and raw sinisterness, but there were less opportunities to be creative or spread the theme out. Aside from Vader's death, the only opportunities for the Imperial March to be flexed into another mood usually required its transmogrification into another theme, i.e. Anakin and Across the Stars. The Imperial March loses because it's absent from IV and most of the prequel trilogy, while the Force theme is ubiquitous to every Jedi and Jedi sympathizer seen onscreen. There is only one Vader but there were many Jedi. Yes, I know, everything I wrote above is BS.

I can't hear you, I've got Green Day's "Dookie" running full blast.

I want to know what Spielberg was smoking when he filmed the name calling sequence right before the food fight starts in Hook. There's no reason that "fart factory" should ever be stated in a Spielberg movie. That's the part of the movie that makes the whole thing the most embarrassing to be caught watching.

I've got the entire Kent family chronicles by John Jakes in one corner, and every Jack Ryan book in the other, with no desire to read either series. But I hate parting with books so much.

Crap, I did.

Then I bet "Throne Room" and "Final Duel" sound absolutely devastating.

It took me as long as...well, as long as it took to load most of the 36x6 WAV files into Audacity, and listen to them chapter by chapter to come to that same conclusion. It's rough "watching" The Last Crusade without getting to see Allison Doody...

I'll have to go back into my Indy WIP folder and see if I can fix up your Child Returns music, and then get at least two Indy scores ready to go. Are there clean versions of the major boot tracks from TLC out there? I tried to get Dad's Study / Inscription / Catacombs / Henry Is Shot from the DVD, but they're either too subdued to be worth it or the SFX would be too much for me to edit out. What's in the editing package is good enough, but sounds a tad too quivery.

Is that first pic of the sextet before or after their inevitable dance number?

Wow, that A Tribute to Vernon MP3 is awesome! That blip's barely noticeable.

Thanks, I did not know that. It's not easy being stupid, but I manage.

Have fun

Huh. Stefan would have just pasted it for me directly...