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not back.

Yeah... :/

Ok... I'm on it right now :/

LOL!! Hmmm... well, I'm insane and have had lot's and lot's of practice.

I dunno though.. that bit on the steak knife to the PS3 was pretty darn epic!

Indeed. I got the Basic () bundle, so I figured it was motivation enough for a new avatar, ha ha.

Heh so true
Right I better sleep. It's almost 5AM, I'm listening to Up, the birds are chirping, it's getting light outsi-------*falls asleep*

Haha okay, I haven't really used the visitor messages thing much so I don't know how much is too much . I should start using it more and adding friends...

Yeah I completely agree about Powell.

I actually watched a featurette thing on a LOST Blu-ray with Giacchino talking about how he makes the music for LOST. He said that he often composes while watching the episode, composing whatever he feels at the time of the scene. Not sure if most film composers go about it that way, but it definitely seems to work for him!
Enterprising Young Men is amazing...

Me and my brother actually blast film music through our home most mornings and evenings. Sometimes when people come to our house they can hear the music from all the way out on the road, and ask us how our neighbors let us play it so loud. Frankly, I'm not sure - but I'm not complaining!

Me and my brother have also gotten into reliving the old times (ie when we were kids ) by listening to songs from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Junglebook, and other kids movies - not sure if you like that, but it's really lots of fun!

Yeah I prefer John William's older scores as well. I think the original three Star Wars are my favorite film score. But the Sinbad score by Harry Gregson-Williams is really really amazing too. Also definitely in my very top favorites.

It's hard to say who I'm most influenced by. I can't really narrow it down to one or two. I think probably that my four most influential are John Williams, Danny Elfman, Michael Giacchino, and my composition teacher David Logan! But I mean, I listen to film music so much now, I think everyone's influencing me at least a bit :P
Hopefully out of all that will come my own style as it evolves a bit more

I think Giacchino for me is the new Williams. Although personally I think the music isn't as good to listen to by itself (although it's still amazing), Giacchino has a great sense for character themes, and when to bring in a new theme or bring back an old one. I also find he likes to reiterate his main theme multiple times in different ways.

...Haha I'm filling up your visitor messages with lengthy film music discussionings! I hope that's OK

That's awesome! Any other suggestions for soundtracks that I didn't have up there?

Also that's probably about the same ratio for me. Although maybe nowadays it's more like 80% to 20% because I'm barreling towards a career in composition, so I'm listening to a lot of orchestral music, trying to really analyze it sometimes.

Good Morning?

Thanks!
Haha, yeah I love film/video game music

If you haven't already, listen to all of those! The playlist is even cooler when you actually listen to it!
Most of those films/video games that are represented there also have plenty of other songs in their soundtracks that are just as awesome too, so if you like the themes, don't stop there!