To: The Members of the Acadamy, circa 2004Re: The winner of the 2004 Academy Award for Best Original Score, Finding Neverland by Jan A.P. Kaczmarek What, pray tell, were you all thinking when you voted for this score? You had John Williams' wonderfully quirky and dramatic score for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban … Continue reading Listening to Things: Finding Neverland, original score by Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
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Listening to Things: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon original score by Tan Dun
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon original score composed and conducted by Tan DunShanghai Symphony Orchestra, feat. Yo-Yo Ma, cello Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) was one of a trio of wuxia films I watched repeatedly after college, the other two being Zhang Yimou's Hero (2002) and House of Flying Daggers (2004). Hero is my favorite of … Continue reading Listening to Things: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon original score by Tan Dun
Listening to the Weird Stuff
If you didn’t like Nirvana, were you really a 90s kid? Hi. It’s me again. The person who doesn’t care for the popular thing. I don’t have anything against the popular thing, it’s just not for me. Repeatedly. Through the decades. Reading Alex Ross’s book Listen to This has me thinking about music and where … Continue reading Listening to the Weird Stuff
Random Favorites: Songs I Listened to in High School
I'm a 90s kid. As such, I find it increasingly weird that fashions of the 1990s are popular again. Whenever I see a rack full of plaid flannel, I have flashbacks to school shopping in high school. I've been watching vintage Lindsay Ellis film and pop culture critiques and one of my favorites was Top … Continue reading Random Favorites: Songs I Listened to in High School
Top Five Friday: Five Favorite Works of Classical Music
It's impossible not to think of music when reading a book like Carolina de Robertis's, The Gods of Tango, which revolves around music, specifically the tango. Now, while I grew up in a house that always had some kind of music going on, either on the radio or live while my sister was practicing the … Continue reading Top Five Friday: Five Favorite Works of Classical Music
Top Five Friday: Favorite Albums from High School
It seems like the music you listen to is one of the most important things you use to declare who you are when you're a teenager. It used to be that you could drag a discman to school and let your CDs spill out of your bag at lunch, declaring to the world, "I listen … Continue reading Top Five Friday: Favorite Albums from High School
Top Five Friday: Five Favorite Soundtracks
I like movies. I like music. So it stands to reason that I like movie music, and indeed I do! Film soundtracks are the musical genre I listen to the most, but there are certain ones that I listen to more often than others. So in no particular order, here are my top five favorite … Continue reading Top Five Friday: Five Favorite Soundtracks
Traveling in Books 