…does that make me pretentious…?

• OUT WITH DAD
  
  Out With Dad, heybishop's web series, debuted this week with its premiere episode! Check it out and show your support!
• HEAT KNAVEIt is damn hot out there. Temperatures are reaching record highs in New York, and the stifling heat is a major topic of conversation for small talk (a surprisingly prominent aspect of ( Read more... )

• CHROMIUM DIOXIDEI am experimenting with Chrome. I had it installed on my computer about two years ago, but I had some problems with it. I just downloaded the new version and am working on customizing it. It hasn't had enough time to build up the impressive array of plug-ins that Firefox has, but I'm finding that the browser itself seems to be very ( 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 am currently taking a short respite after the four mixes I just made in rapid succession, but I have two ideas for two concept album mixes. One was inspired by the other, but which one gets completed first is anybody's guess (some of you may be able to guess the subject of one of these projects from some recent posts I made over at the FSM, MM. ( Read more... )

I have completed the first draft of Jerry Goldsmith Scores the Middle Ages, but it still needs some work. I am going to be fiddling with it tonight, as I would like to have the disc completed by the weekend. I don't think that will be much of a problem, as the structure of the disc is sound, just some minor specifics with Lionheart (those "minor ( Read more... )

While John Barry got into scoring films through the composition arrangment of "The James Bond Theme" and his subsequent scoring of the bulk of that Eon film series, over the course of the 60s he broke away from being typecast as a composer of jazzy adventure scores with such works as Zulu (1964) and King Rat (1965), but it was The Lion In Winter, ( Read more... )

As some of you may already have noticed, I have posted the cover art and updated the composer compilations section or my mix list to reflect my newest project, which is now complete. I was trying to come up with a wittier title than John Barry Scores the Middle Ages, but found that none of the track titles lent themselves well to being an all- ( Read more... )

This year has been a pretty good one for me on several different levels. There were some rocky patches here and there, but they were transitory and, in the end, ended up making me a better person for it.

• FILMMAKING
  Working on The Early Mixes has been incredibly rewarding. In addition to getting back into something that I love doing, I have been ( Read more... )

I just skimmed over my LJ and was surprised to see how many of my recent postings didn't really have much in the way of real content. Much of this is due to the holiday season, which had been absorbing quite a bit of my time of late. This is, of course, over with, and I now face the beginning of the first full week of work that I've had in quite ( Read more... )

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