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revolos55

• Every year I end up with several things to do on Hallowe'en and no costume. This year I took initiative and made sure that I would have a costume ready for Sunday, but have nothing to do. It looks like I may be defaulting to going to the parade, which I'd tended to avoid in the past because I went one year and didn't have a great ( Read more... )

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glenniebun

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON


• I mentioned this film in passing a few months ago, focusing how effective the use of 3-D was. This does the film a disservice, especailly as I have found out that it holds up quite well in a two dimensional high definition presentation. I can't deny that the 3-D element was used so well that the film does ( Read more... )

Francis Ford Coppola designed Apocalypse Now as a completely subjective experience. He wanted to immerse the audience into his mythic journey through the eyes and ears of Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), and to that end he created some of the most awe-inspiring imagery and broke new ground in sound design. His maniacal attention to detail and (at ( Read more... )

I am a mean, lean, mixmaking machine.¹ I should have a rough draft of it by the end of the three-day weekend. It is a composer collection, and will be followed shortly by a companion album of the same theme, but with music by another composer! Both of these will be symphonic mixes, which will be something of a return to form for me after the ( Read more... )

My experience on personal networking sites:

• I sign up and try to figure out how best to adapt my profile to the site's format.
• I track down people I know that are on them.
• A bunch of people that I only know peripherally start friending me.
• The service starts recommending people whose names look vaguely familiar but I can't place for the life of me.
• ( Read more... )

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glenniebun!!!

"The Rebels At Bay"I ordered a copy of the original double LP of The Empire Strikes Back after reading a thread about it on the Film Score Monthly Message Board. The score was significantly expanded for the Arista 4 CD set and is available complete in the RCA/Sony "Special Edition" versions (albeit with terrible sound on those ( Read more... )

Last night when I got home from a fruitful meeting with Dan, what should be waiting in my mailbox for me but my pre-ordered Blu-ray edition of The Godfather Collection! Yes, both films lovingly restored (with The Godfather Part II on a single platter for the first time) and a third disc of extras. The set also contains another disc for some ( Read more... )

Yoinked from suitboyskin

Your result for The Sublime Philosophical Crap Test...
R-A-R

You scored 44% Non-Reductionism, 67% Epistemological Absolutism, and 22% Moral Objectivism!


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Now we're cooking with gas! The Godfather has been announced for Blu-ray with a street date of September 23 ( Read more... )

It's interesting that I've had not one but two ideas kind of spring forth at once. Since the inexplicable explosion of mix-making I had earlier this year, the only project that I'd really been working on since was the Alex North epic set. Then Varèse Sarabande had the unmitigated gall¹ to release the long-thought lost score from Les Misérables, ( Read more... )