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... )

It's annoying when a score I really like gets nominated for an Oscar. I know it won't win - the two Lord of the Rings wins for Howard Shore being an obvious exception in recent memory - but at least the other nominees are actual scores this year. My personal favorite of the nominees is Marco Beltrami's 3:10 To Yuma, but I expect it will either ( Read more... )

Cross-posted to filmscore:

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)"Atonement" - Dario Marianelli
"The Kite Runner" - Alberto Iglesias
"Michael Clayton" - James Newton Howard
"Ratatouille" - Michael Giacchino
"3:10 to Yuma" - Marco Beltrami

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)"Falling Slowly" from "Once ( Read more... )

There is now more music on my iPod than I've had capacity for in the past. Just for shits and giggles...


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I mentioned in my last post that at the end of the FSM Podcast, Doug played an alternate 'Realm of Gondor' theme version of the Argonath cue. Alex Shore has taken the sample and synched it up to the film:

COMPLETELY WORK SAFEOkay, these samples of the new Varèse Sarabande recording of North by Northwest sound outstanding! "The Wild Ride" sounds ( Read more... )