Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

I must admit that I love a good cheesy hard rock ballad, and this might be the greatest of them all. (And yes, I like the movie that it came from. It’s so gloriously entertaining in its jaw-dropping badness that … Continue reading →

A non-musical item now! I continue to be vexed by Aaron Sorkin, whose faults as a writer and storyteller are legion and yet who, when he manages to get it right, gets it really right. This clip (excuse the video … Continue reading →

The twelfth anniversary of Little Quinn’s passing came, and went, the other day. This song always makes me think of him, and other things.

If anything, the months since the last Thanksgiving have certainly reestablished in my mind how important it is to be centered before one goes forth to fight the good fight. Here’s a bit of Mr. Copland (I don’t usually like … Continue reading →

Heavens, was today busy! Lots of stuff going on between my NaNoWriMo efforts and a seasonal uptick in things at The Store that need my attention. And dogs. Mustn’t forget the dogs. For one thing, if you do, they bark. … Continue reading →

Here’s a piece to which I return many times throughout the years. I’m actually finding that the onward lurch of current events from one awful thing to the next (seriously, humanity, why are we building such an awful future?!) particularly … Continue reading →

Wow, Jerry Goldsmith really did score a lot of bad movies, including The Haunting. Nevertheless, his music is always worth a listen. Here’s the final scary music selection of the month!

Continuing with scary music! Or music for scary movies. Or…you get the idea. Here is a suite from Wojcech Kilar’s wonderful score to the rather uneven film Bram Stoker’s DRACULA. While the film is uneven, the score is a classic … Continue reading →

(Oops…as often happens, saved as draft and forgot to actually publish.) Continuing our month of spooky, scary music…here is a suite from Bernard Herrmann’s seminal filmscore, Psycho. No intro needed other than that!

For the month of scares, here’s one of John Williams’s rare forays into the world of horror: a suite from his score to the movie Dracula.