• RIP: George Carlin - may you be stuck on the roof for a great long while
• I’m going to go off on a topic at the moment which is a bit unusual for me - alternative music. I heard a song the other day that immediately piqued my interest. I only heard the first part and did a little research to find out what the song was. Turns out is was a song called New Born by some music group I’d never heard of named Muse (that’s no surprise, as I don’t follow much popular music). Still, I was floored by the simplicity and beauty of what I heard. After tracking down the song, I was immediately impressed again. That is, until it kept playing. I then heard the song butchered, as it disintegrated into something I just wanted to end. It’s sad to heard such a brilliant piece of melody and harmony so completely slaughtered. I also thought it vaguely familiar when I first heard it, and after a bit more research figured out that it had been remixed by Paul Oakenfold for the Swordfish soundtrack, which I was quite familiar with. I like the beginning of the original version best, but overall would definitely prefer Oakenfold’s non-butchered version. Perhaps there could be a cover version with a new arrangement that I could actually enjoy for more than the first minute. Cause that first minute is gorgeous. Reminds me quite a bit of the best qualities of Coldplay, a group who did one great song (”Clocks“) then did a myriad inferior variations on the same thing (one of those CD’s I got suckered into by one song and then was unimpressed by the rest). Anyway, that’s some of my rare non-film score music discussion for the blog. Take it for whatever uneducated value it’s worth.
• “Real Snail Mail” - quite possibly the coolest useless project ever.
• Here’s a well-deserved write-up of composers Michael Giacchino and Bear McCreary, who are correctly singled out as the most impressive composers working in TV today.
• Burma, I mean the Union of Myanmar, just ain’t likely to be a place anyone’s gonna wanna visit any time soon. On top of all their brutally insane internal strife, nature sure ain’t cutting them any slack. Now the rats have been called in.
• Speaking of rats, there sure are a lot of them jumping ship over at Yahoo these days.
• A new Starship Troopers 3 trailer has surfaced. I’m not expecting a whole lot from this one, so I hope to be pleasantly surprised, like I was with the second one. It is amusing that they will finally stop the whining fanboys always complaining about the lack of the marauder suits.
• “Baby tossing.” Who could make this stuff up, anyway? Lunatics.
• On the topic of odd, how about having it rain cement?
• Who says there’s no such thing as bad advertising?

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