Yes, we’re still here! I’ve been posting more on social media lately than here, but a return to the longer-form thing is definitely in the offing. Basically the last several weeks have seen a whole bunch of things all come to a head at the same time: a hugely busy period at work as we prepped The Store for a visit from the folks whose name is on the front of the building, followed by my annual getaway with The Wife to Ithaca and the Finger Lakes, and then followed by a surgery for The Wife, which we hope will alleviate some pain and mobility issues that she has been suffering for a while now. And before that was an infamous violent act that dominated the American conversation for a bit (I still haven’t figured out if I want to say anything about that at all in this space).
I’m off from work all this week, partly a vacation and partly a LOA to help care for The Wife in her post-surgery existence. (Oh, she’s doing great, by the way, thanks for asking!) Hopefully this will translate also into a bit more time to pivot my brain back toward some creativity and expression. We’ll get back to my “Moon Music” theme for this series, probably next week. For now, though, here’s a piece I have definitely featured here before and have shared on social media, but I don’t think I’ve shared it here in a while. It’s the concluding track from Hans Zimmer’s score to the 1997 rom-com As Good As It Gets.
Hans Zimmer’s music seems to be achieving higher and higher regard these days, and it definitely seems like the younger set is embracing him as basically their generation’s John Williams. I definitely love a lot of Zimmer’s work, though my John Williams is actually John Williams, so there’s that. I also am not as big a fan of Zimmer’s shift the last decade toward atmospheric music and less melody-driven work. I also miss his scoring of quieter, more intimate films like this. If there was to be a rom-com based in some weird way on my life, I’d want it to sound like this. I love when rom-coms set in NYC use music like this, that make the place sound like the kind of place for Parisian love-magic can happen amidst all the bustle.
Here, from As Good As It Gets, is “The Greatest Woman On Earth”, by Hans Zimmer.
