Once again I have just created two mixes in rapid succession. While the most recent, Alone In the Night: The Babylon Project was a completely new project, in this case I was revisiting a compilation I had considered successful. This new assembly is very similar to the old one, but with some minor revisions and alterations in program material.


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BEAM ME UP! BEAM ME DOWN!It is sort of built into the speculative fiction aspect of science-fiction that concepts will sometimes date as either technology advances the state of the art or as science abandons certain concepts. On the other hand, sometimes there are moments where that very speculation is spot-on. A famous example was the stir ( Read more... )

Since the CERN Collider is going to be switched on tomorrow, there is some speculation on the Film Score Monthly message board on what each person would play should the planet start getting sucked into a black hole. My suggestions? Either John Charles' The Quiet Earth or John Barry's The Black Hole. It's actually been making me think about ( Read more... )

I have been issued my company Blackberry and am currently working on the training program for the device.

Between this, my cell phone, my work pager, my Bluetooth and my wireless router at home, I'll be interested to see if I can make it through this weekend without glowing in the dark.
Russ and Jess took me out for sushi last night and then we ( Read more... )

There's something particularly gritty about 70s crime dramas, something that all of the handheld camerawork and 'captured' moments in film and television today that bear the influence of that era nevertheless fail to replicate. Most people would say it's the look, but it's not; many of the films in question were indeed shot on quite grainy film ( Read more... )

The waning of the 60s and the onset of the 70s was one of the most interesting in the history of film. Stripped of the innocence of earlier eras and freed from the restrictive shackles of the Hayes Commission, cinema instead concentrated on harder, grittier material. The result was a cycle of movies that dealt with dark issues, harsh ( Read more... )

Jenga mp3 CD
Version 6.0 - Updated 5/27/07

This is a work in progress, but the current edition of this disc contains 241 tracks, for a total running time of over nine hours. The disc is meant to be inserted into an mp3 capable playback device and played at random. The bulk of the content is film music (including a cue from my own film, Nocturno ( Read more... )