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“Oh, just one more thing,” said Inspector Colombo….

The people in this photo celebrate birthdays today. Well, I’m not sure if George Gershwin is actually celebrating, but I hope he is. Happy birthday to him, Jim Caviezel, Olivia Newton John, and that fourth guy.

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Something for Thursday

Tomorrow The Wife and I set out for our annual trip to the Finger Lakes region, for adventure and food and books and crafts and all sorts of niftiness! In that vein, here’s some adventure music by James Horner. I … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

It’s always been interesting to me that so few great and enduring works of classical music have been inspired by the Arthurian legends (or “the Matter of Britain”). There’s some crossover in the operas of Richard Wagner, mostly in his … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday (Friday edition)

So, they’re talking about a remake of The Princess Bride. This is, of course, a bullshit idea that needs to be lured into a quiet and dark alley someplace and strangled until dead. But that gives me an excuse to … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

The operas of Giacchino Rossini aren’t performed very much today, but they were once all the rage, and the overtures to those operas have remained mainstays of orchestral music even while the operas themselves have lapsed into some neglect. Rossini’s … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday (Happy Birthday Hans Zimmer edition)

Today is the birthday of film composer Hans Zimmer! Zimmer tends to be a rather controversial figure in movie music fandom circles (mainly for the way his style of sound has been influential to the point of making a lot … Continue reading

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Eighteen

Eighteen years. I wonder what we have learned, if anything; how we’ve grown, if at all; if we’ve changed in the ways we needed to change. I wrote this story not long after the events of 9-11-01. It is not … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Time for some film music! One thing that a lot of movie music fans discover is how often it turns out that they love a particular filmscore while disliking the film for which it was written. This is an example … Continue reading

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Recent Adventures

After a hectic (and sick!) couple of weeks at Casa Jaquandor, things are starting to finally settle out a bit! Work at The Store has been going through a crazy patch, but that’s starting to die down at last, and … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

A wonderfully ethereal rendition of one of my favorite classic romance songs, “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square”.

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