-I would like to see somebody organize a meaningful way to appreciate and award good film music and its composer. Rather as the Cinematographers or Editors Guild.
-I think there are only five really great composers working for film these days (if they so choose): Elfman, Goldenthal, Shore, Williams and Morricone. They all have a supreme knowledge of the artform, and they have the gift to make their music both recognizable as their respective work and yet (almost always) perfect for the film in question.
-I am probably the most biased and prejudiced person on these boards, despite my repeated claims to the contrary. I do my best to be open-minded, though!
-I love music from people like Patrick Doyle, George Fenton Mark McKenzie or Joe Hisaishi because they are not afraid to actually use melodies.
-I'd like to go see a recording session just one time, but judging from my bad record whenever I met composers or dealt with them personally, this is probably a bad idea.
-On all the recommendations people gave me over the years: I probably bothered in less than 50% of all cases to follow up on these reommendations.
-Over 80% of my purchases are done via Amazon. As much as I'd like to support Intrada or Screen Archives or MovieMusic.com, it makes a difference if I have to pay $13 for a normal CD or $18.
-Special and/or label releases, such as FSM or Intrada, I will always try to buy at their respective labels. I am not afraid to pay higher prices for these items, however (seemingly contradicting the claim above).
-I dislike being called predictable.
-I dislike being called weird when I do something unpredictable.
-I dislike being told to get some perspective for LotR by people who have
no perspective for LotR.
-I dislike being told to get some perspective for adoring Patrick Doyle's music by people who have
no perspective for Patrick Doyle because he is not John Williams.
-James Horner's interview about Troy and how Gabriel Yared isn't a good film composer should have the interviewer pointing out all the short-comings of Horner's music. Oh, how I wish for forthright and controversial interviews!
-The über-enthusiam of some people on the huge LotR-threads over at MovieMusic is starting to get ridiculous.
-I dislike being told to get some perspective for Jerry Goldsmith by people who have like one pre-1990s Goldsmith score.
-I still think that Howard Shore's LotR trilogy is the best thing that ever happened to the art of film music.
-On reflection, I don't think I *hate* Gustavo "Talent Vacuum" Santaolalla. But I loathe the fact that he's "given" his success for something that's not worthy, especially in an artistic sense, of that success. I know that winning back-to-back Oscars is *not* his fault, but I like to think it is.
-I sometimes think that the all-orchestral and intricate approach to film music a la John Williams should be just as criticized as Hans Zimmer's one-dimensional, synth-laden approach.
-Speaking of HanZ et co. I wouldn't mind in the slightest if Remote Control burned to the ground while everybody was still inside. Related: why must 95% of today's animated features that are not being scored by Michael Giacchino scored by somebody from MV/RC? 2006 had two animated films dealing with arctic conditions, and both were scored by John Powell.
-I wish labels, both small and big, would be more discriminating regarding the scores they release. Do we really need something like Michael Clayton out?
-My take on why there hasn't been a big-scale Gathering in almost four years: I didn't take part in organizing them. If people who have been on these boards for years and don't know, for example, that they were living in the same town and could have met up easily, this is always something I cannot understand.
-Related: taking part in these Gathering provided me with some of the most memorable and happy experiences of my life and for that, I want to thank each and every one of you who ever participated!
-The Order of the Phoenix is a score that very enjoyable indeed, both as a film score and on its own. It's just that it doesn't really work in the established Harry Potter world. Not with the magical Williams scores and the glorious Doyle score preceding.
-BTW - Goblet of Fire is a "blare-fest"?! I should remind you, Mr Anderson, that I have a very big geologist's hammer and I will not be hesitating to use it, YES?
-I wish somebody else than Danny Elfman or John Ottman would score super-hero films.
-I hate it when I send out requests for autographs with cover, return envelope and money for postage, which either go unanswered or thrown away, specifically when I'm asking for return of the cover should the composer in question not want to autograph it. Very inconsiderate.
-There are a dozen people on my FSM ignore list: *The_Mark_of_Score-O and every other incarnation of Avie Hern
*Moontrekker
*zippy
*Dan Hobgood (I hope that somebody slaughters his dog and for that person to get away with it, because, as Hobgood said, there can't be laws which would place an animal's welfare over that of a human being)
*Anonie_Mouse aka Kristopher Gentian aka etc.)
*gumdrops1 (His yuk yuk's annoyed me to no end...in retrospect, I sincerely regret my attitude)
*Ford A. Tuba
*DOGBELLE (I can't stand his non-sequiturs)
*SoundtrackNet
*Thor (I read one post of his and according to his moronic philosophy, that's all there is...to anything!)
*LeHah
*Eric Paddon
*SheriffJoe (due to his double standards!)
*scimusicman
-I sometimes wish that there was/were (?) a ignore function on other boards as well.
-With absolute certainty do I know that in such a case I would be placed on many peoples' ignore lists myself.
-I am actually not a bad guy, I usually just say the wrong things at the right time, or the right thing at the wrong time. People usually don't stick around trying to get to know me better; this usually results in many of my "friend"ships being very one-sided (ie, me being the one trying to keep ot going) or being of the character that people come to me when they want some help (old papers/tests/learing materials), but then never making the effort to remember to ask me if I'd like to join them for a movie/party etc. I actually can live with that, but it's kinda depressing.
-I think that the film music fandom is one of the most impossible groups of dysfunctional human beings there is.
-I once slept next to Brendan Gene Anderson in a very small room and he grabbed me. *
That's all for now.
Christian
* Very much out of context, but not completely so.