amioneofthem prompted me to "talk about one most important work of fiction in your entire life for you personally, what was a formative/life-changing experience without which you wouldn't be here as you are now regardless of your current feelings about the source material. About what kind of impact it had on you and why ( Read more... )

I only considered character themes from Bahamut Lagoon, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI to X-2, the Kingdom Hearts series, and the two Tales of Symphonia games because I haven't played many other games with character themes. Those games alone added about 70 songs to my collection of video game music because I had to listen to every single ( Read more... )

Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 8:00 Davies Symphony Hall

Distant Worlds:
music from FINAL FANTASY

featuring the music of
Nobuo Uematsu

Arnie Roth
conducting the
San Francisco Symphony

Last night I attended the Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy concert in San Francisco. It blew me away. I had not expected it to be so good, since much of the ( Read more... )