Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

I re-watched all of Carl Sagan’s epochally brilliant series Cosmos last fall and winter, and for a science series that is going on 32 years of age, it’s still moving and poetic and inspiring and, well, all the things that … Continue reading →

I suppose I’m one of a fairly small number of people in that my favorite Ridley Scott movie, by a wide margin, is Kingdom of Heaven, which I consider to be one of the finest epics I’ve seen. (But in … Continue reading →

If I gotta explain why on this one, well, that must be one finely appointed cave you’re livin’ in. That’s all I’m sayin’. Good luck to all the competitors, and GO TEAM USA!

I need to watch this movie again, having only seen it all the way through once on a VHS copy way back in college (and there may have been drinking involved), so my memories of it aren’t the best (although … Continue reading →

An interesting thing happened in the 2004 and the 2005 Academy awards: the first year, the Oscar for Best Original Score went to Howard Shore for his enormously epic score for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the … Continue reading →

Swashbuckling music was a going concern a hundred years before Erich Wolfgang Korngold was writing scores for Errol Flynn’s movies. Here is Hector Berlioz’s overture Le Corsaire.

Apropos of yesterday’s Random Wednesday Conversation Starter, I’ll put a couple favorite country and western songs of mine, as I can’t name just one. Ray Charles and Willie Nelson, “Seven Spanish Angels”. I love this because, in addition to its … Continue reading →

A brief but lovely selection today: a bit of diegetic film music from Princess Mononoke. “Diegetic” film music is music that is actually a part of the narrative, or part of the world which the characters inhabit…by way of example, … Continue reading →

It’s Graduation Time all over America — actually, it has been for a few weeks now, since colleges tend to graduate students in May and high schools send their charges out into the world with a piece of paper in … Continue reading →

Before the series finale episode of House MD aired, FOX played promos for the show, using this song that I’d never heard before, by a group I’d never heard of before. This is one of those spiritually hypnotic songs that, … Continue reading →