This week Varinia had her annual check-up over at the vet's office, and it's official: I have a fat cat ( Read more... )

John Willliams' music for the Star Wars trilogy contains some of the most popular and recognizable film music in history. Much of this is because of the monumental social impact that the film series had, becoming the reigning mythology for an entire generation (and swelling both George Lucas' bank account and ego to Death Star-like proportions). ( Read more... )

I just watched Star Wars.

Not Star Wars: A New Hope. Not Star Wars: Episode anything.

Just plain old Star Wars.

I stumbled by accident across a project by a fan who has created 720p HD editions of the original Star Wars trilogy from various sources. The project is in 720p for several reasons, including both the processing power it would have ( Read more... )

GEEK SNOBBERY OR MOVIE BUFF SNOBBERY?


• The big news is that Star Wars is going Blu next year, but as I expected, only the Special Edition versions will be represented in the new format. George Lucas has confirmed this, saying that it would just cost too much money to restore the original versions. That's fine, I can save MY money and stick with my ( Read more... )

• I came down with something over the course of this weekend, and so I am staying in this week mostly. The sniffling and coughing was a little less obnoxious today, though still quite present. Hopefully it will be gone by the weekend.
• On the other hand, my illness did give me the opportunity to finish up the mastering, artwork and liner notes for my ( Read more... )

It was an extremely busy weekend, although it was chock full of (mostly) good stuff.

• The Fellowship of the Ring at Radio City Music Hall was quite amazing. I wish I had been able to go the second night. When I go see The Two Towers next year, I'm going to spring for the more expensive seats. The sound was THUNDEROUS and there were a couple of ( Read more... )

happy birthday
marinshellstone!!!

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I have begun cataloging my CD collection. This is a daunting task because I have literally thousands of CDs (they take up an entire wall in my apartment). My film music collection is organized by film title to make it more accessible to the lay person, but I am organizing my list by composer. In cases where there is more than one score on a disc ( Read more... )

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This has something of a trying Mothers' Day for me, but I am keeping my head up as always. Luckily, I've had some chuckles today…

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