It has been many years since I originally compiled one of my first concept albums Flight. Along with Songs of the Heavens and The Farthest Reaches, this remained a personal favorite of mine of that particular vintage. However, due to some of the complications involved with the Great Computer Crash of 2010, it never made it on to my iPod. I wanted ( Read more... )

DICHOTOMY REWARDS


• Last Sunday was the Academy Awards. I saw an interesting split on my Facebook news feed: half of my friends were ecstatic that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won the Oscar for best original score for The Social Network while the other half were furious ( 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... )

• In case you've been wondering (and let's face it, who hasn't?), work on The Early Mixes is proceeding. There is a major shoot Sunday morning for which preparation is underway. We met with Darren last night ostensibly to go over the material we'll be covering on Sunday, but due to scheduling issues we weren't able to get the other actors. It was, ( Read more... )

I had originally compiled a mix titled The Uncanny X-Men three years ago. While I had access to Kamen's complete score and most of Ottman's (as well as their respective albums), when I put the original disc together I only had the soundtrack album of Powell's contribution. In the interim, I have procured the complete version of X-Men: The Last ( Read more... )

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waystone!!!
While I haven't been posting much of late for obvious reasons, I have been listening to quite a bit of music. Some of it has been giving me some pretty interesting ideas, some of which turned out to be not so viable (although they'd have been cool if they could have worked). There are two projects I'm working on right now that ( Read more... )

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This genesis of this project was a conversation with melancthe, in which she mentioned that listening to "Building the Crate" from Chicken Run was one of the few things that could cut through the tedium of washing dishes. It occurred to me that there are several cues I could think of offhand that had that same sort of "can do" aspect to them. In fact, ( Read more... )

Art, Brad, Nate, Russ and I were supposed to get together and play Risk this weekend, but there were too many scheduling conflicts. However, over the course of the week I had started working on this project, which was an idea I had been playing with for many years.


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THIS COMPILATION HAS BEEN REVISED
The entry for the current version can be found here.

It was inevitable that I would compile an X-Men disc, although even I was surprised at how quickly it took shape. Yes, I only just saw the third movie on Thursday, but I'd been listening to the score since I first gotten ahold of it and was rather familiar with ( Read more... )