Author Archives: ksedinger

“Then you may take me to the Faire….”, 2022 edition

Posted on July 31, 2022 by ksedinger

Last weekend we attended the Sterling Renaissance Festival for the first time since 1999! Huzzah!!! Obviously the Festival didn’t happen in 2020, and I’m honestly not sure if it tried to happen last year, but in any event we did … Continue reading →

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Silences and Outages ahoy!

Posted on July 30, 2022 by ksedinger

Hey folks, just a quick check-in here…I’m taking a few days off from work as my sister visits from out-of-town, so posting will likely be scarce here for a bit. Going offline is a good thing! Meanwhile, since it’s summer, … Continue reading →

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“An awful waste of space”: CONTACT at 25

Posted on July 27, 2022 by ksedinger

The movie Contact, based on Carl Sagan’s one and only one novel, came out this month in 1997. Almost ten years ago I posted the following piece about the movie, a film that I’ve always liked and admired but not quite … Continue reading →

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Posted on July 26, 2022 by ksedinger

Going to the Renaissance Faire* always reminds me, among other things, of the music of Camelot, so here is Robert Russell Bennett’s arrangement of that show’s fine tunes. I got to play this in college one year for our orchestra’s Pops … Continue reading →

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“Ninety years ago I was a freak. Today, I’m an amateur.” (David Warner, TIME AFTER TIME)

Posted on July 25, 2022 by ksedinger

Actor David Warner has died. Warner was a very prolific actor; bring up his filmography and you’ll be scrolling for quite a while. While he was usually not a lead, he was more than a “character actor”. Warner brought gravity, … Continue reading →

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And now…

Posted on July 22, 2022 by ksedinger

…a feline being a doofus. Have a great weekend, folks! I have a busy weekend planned so I’ll likely not be posting again until Monday. Cheerio!  

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Something for Thursday

Posted on July 21, 2022 by ksedinger

In 1980 Queen provided one of the best-known examples of a rock band providing significant amounts of music for a genre movie, the grand pulpy-sci-fi flick Flash Gordon. Several years later they did a similar task for an equally pulpy and … Continue reading →

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For no reason other than it makes me laugh every time I watch it….

Posted on July 20, 2022 by ksedinger

 

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Posted on July 19, 2022 by ksedinger

Film music today! It suddenly occurred to me the other day that I haven’t heard anything by Jan A.P. Kaczmarek in a long time, so I gave a bit of his music another listen. My introduction to him was the … Continue reading →

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It’s what’s for dinner!

Posted on July 18, 2022 by ksedinger

I love breakfast sandwiches. Whoever first put eggs and meat and cheese on some kind of bread should be awarded a Nobel Prize. In fact, there should be a Nobel Prize for food. But that’s a thought for another time. … Continue reading →

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