Meme with music sharing.
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List five songs you are currently digging.
a. Confrontation With Count Dooku and Finale, John Williams, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones soundtrack. John Williams rules. The AotC soundtrack is the only one of the six SW films whose finale does not end with the traditional "Dum, DUM! Da-da-da-dum!" notes of triumph. Go listen. It ends with the softest slip of Princess Leia's Theme, and underneath is the deepest, you'll-miss-it-if-you-have-the-wrong-settings-on-your-sound-system bass line of those nine distinctive notes of Darth Vader's Theme. It stays in a minor key. Goosepimples EVERY time.
b. Royal Courtship, by Al Stewart, A Beach Full of Shells. Yes, "Year of the Cat" Al Stewart. He just put out this album earlier this year. It sold itself to me when I heard a snippet of Gina In the King's Road (and that's really the one you should go hear)--but this track has a word in it you rarely see outside a few texts--and I've certainly never heard it as a lyric. The song begins: "I sent my major-domo to your amanuensis/ To ascertain your feelings, and strip away pretenses..." Yes, I was totally tickled.
c. I'm Still Here (Jim's Theme), John Rzeznik, Treasure Planet soundtrack. A lot of people have heard me lament how underrated this film is, in the canon of Disney films. It's marvelous, and this sequence featuring Jim and Silver (and Jim's flashback to his absent father) works perfectly for this song.
d. If Only, Fiction Plane, Holes soundtrack. Those of you who read the Newberry-award-winning Holes by Louis Sachar and then saw the film may know that it's one of those book-to-film translations that works wonderfully. Helps that Sachar wrote the screenplay himself. I love this reworking of the little folk song that runs through Sachar's story.
e. The Drunken Piper, Natalie MacMaster, Women of the World: Celtic II. I never get tired of modern Celtic music. This one's the first track on the album for a reason.
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List five songs you are currently digging.
a. Confrontation With Count Dooku and Finale, John Williams, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones soundtrack. John Williams rules. The AotC soundtrack is the only one of the six SW films whose finale does not end with the traditional "Dum, DUM! Da-da-da-dum!" notes of triumph. Go listen. It ends with the softest slip of Princess Leia's Theme, and underneath is the deepest, you'll-miss-it-if-you-have-the-wrong-settings-on-your-sound-system bass line of those nine distinctive notes of Darth Vader's Theme. It stays in a minor key. Goosepimples EVERY time.
b. Royal Courtship, by Al Stewart, A Beach Full of Shells. Yes, "Year of the Cat" Al Stewart. He just put out this album earlier this year. It sold itself to me when I heard a snippet of Gina In the King's Road (and that's really the one you should go hear)--but this track has a word in it you rarely see outside a few texts--and I've certainly never heard it as a lyric. The song begins: "I sent my major-domo to your amanuensis/ To ascertain your feelings, and strip away pretenses..." Yes, I was totally tickled.
c. I'm Still Here (Jim's Theme), John Rzeznik, Treasure Planet soundtrack. A lot of people have heard me lament how underrated this film is, in the canon of Disney films. It's marvelous, and this sequence featuring Jim and Silver (and Jim's flashback to his absent father) works perfectly for this song.
d. If Only, Fiction Plane, Holes soundtrack. Those of you who read the Newberry-award-winning Holes by Louis Sachar and then saw the film may know that it's one of those book-to-film translations that works wonderfully. Helps that Sachar wrote the screenplay himself. I love this reworking of the little folk song that runs through Sachar's story.
e. The Drunken Piper, Natalie MacMaster, Women of the World: Celtic II. I never get tired of modern Celtic music. This one's the first track on the album for a reason.
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Date: 2005-09-04 02:10 am (UTC)Are you a member of
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Date: 2005-09-04 02:28 am (UTC)And Holes is good? I really liked the book, and when the movie came out I was kind of wary... *snort* But the fact that the screenplay was written by the author does say good things for a movie.
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Date: 2005-09-04 05:59 am (UTC)Shia is not a Nick-at-Niter of the week! Shia LaBeouf was Disney! Ya betta recognize!
I know that was random but I couldn't resist.
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Date: 2005-09-04 02:26 pm (UTC)So if the issue of Stanley's weight rang especially key for the reader, I agree that that's going to bias a viewing of the film. Might make one think the translation of book to film failed. I felt much more at peace with it after I heard Sachar's interviews.
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Date: 2005-09-04 04:46 am (UTC)sorry, it made me remember about this one comic in which JW seemed to 'draw' some 'tips' from Yoko's music. The weird mind processes I have x'D
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Date: 2005-09-04 06:58 pm (UTC)I specially rec the OST of Cowboy Bebop, it doesn't seem to bore me, no matter how many times I play it ♥
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Date: 2005-09-04 07:14 am (UTC)Now I want to put up my favorites for people, but my tastes are so weird that I doubt they'd make sense to anyone else...
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Date: 2005-09-04 12:55 pm (UTC)I'm especially thankful for the last one. :) I love Celtic music but I've listened to very little of it.
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Date: 2005-09-04 11:26 pm (UTC)Very belatedly catching up on my flist...
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