Bovine Finance


• With all of the misinformation floating around these days (some of it deliberate), it is important to remember the elements that distinguish different economic systems from one another. This "World Economic Model Unit: Cows" will help to explain everything in a concise, accessible manner.

Deadite Lines


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• The snowstorm that blasted through the east coast last week hit my neck of the woods stranded me at my parents' house for several days. I ended up missing not one but two days of work; Queens had not been plowed sufficiently for surface transit to be reliable (in addition to the much-publicized tardiness of the plows there was the ( Read more... )

I actually don't think New Yorkers are rude, exactly, so much as that the sheer density of people in the city cause an individual to have to be gruff in order to just get to work on time. I'm used to people being nicer outside of New York, especially when going to New England. Yet the type of "nice" one finds in, say, Maine, is this sort of eerie ( Read more... )

MOVIES WITH A VIEW


• Last week, I was introduced to this program that presents films on a large inflatable screen in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Viewers can bring blankets or towels (no chairs) and can picnic on the green; a short is presented and a feature presentation. The movie was The Big Lebowski, so it was a very odd experience seeing what is a ( Read more... )

A few weeks (and a lifetime ago) I made a post about the then-upcoming Criterion release of Nicholas Roeg's Walkabout. The film, lensed by the director himself, is visual and aural poetry, and I have to say that even though I had seen it several times, I was struck dumb by how amazing it looks on the new Blu-ray edition. The image is extremely ( Read more... )

• In one of the fastest turnarounds from truncated album to complete score,¹ Varèse Sarabande has just released the complete score to the 2009 Star Trek. Michael Giacchino has said that he was never satisfied with how the album played out, and I myself have lamented that there are huge chunks of the score missing and that the material that is left ( Read more... )

The idea of making a compilation built around hunting music was one that had been kicking around for a while, but only really became solidified with the Varèse Sarabande release of John Corigliano's Revolution, with its energetic fox hunt sequence. A few months ago I asked for suggestions from the good folks over at the Film Score Monthly Message ( Read more... )

I have had an Alien compilation in my possession in one form or another since the early 90s and on various formats, including tape cassette and minidisc before I graduated to CDs, but it really wasn't until the release of Alien on DVD in 1999 with the isolated score tracks that I was able to put together something that truly satisfied me (the ( Read more... )

Most of my recent music listening has consisted either of my Let Me Tell You of the Days of High Adventure and the band Leroy Justice. I received my copy of the remastered and complete Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan on Friday and have been playing it ever since as well. However, there have been a few other records I've listened to over the ( Read more... )

Like an addict waiting for his dealer to come through, I sat refreshing Intrada's home page to make sure that I got a copy of the (easily guessed) release of Bruce Broughton's delightful score for Harry and the Hendersons. Now, when most people think of the term "Harry and the Hendersons" today, it evokes images of male genitalia the tragic Kevin ( Read more... )