What a particularly delightful score David Newman's Jingle All the Way is!!! The music sounds like an impossibly cheerful action movie; it rivals David Shire's Max Dugan Returns in its good-naturedness! While I tend to like Newman's comedy scores, this one is exceptional.

Hopefully someday soon we'll get a release of Newman's score for The ( Read more... )

The DVD set of I, Claudius contains the documentary The Epic that Never Was about the aborted 1937 Alexander Korda production. It is certainly fascinating stuff, and well worth having, but it doesn't address the main feature. I was curious about finding out more about the production of the series, so I looked online and found that there was a ( Read more... )

I took a break from Broughton today, listening to other things over the course of the day and catching up on I, Claudius (one more episode to go). Then I popped open the Broughton mix once more and lined up the candidate tracks, getting a better view of the whole. The project has now become much more manageable. I'll putter about with it ( Read more... )

I have no idea why the gnarled old lady I saw on the subway this morning had a bag from "Spandex World." I'm glad not knowing.
So... Fred and George felt Ron could use a copy of How To Pick Up Trashy Witches, eh? 20 points to anybody who gets that reference.

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