October 2005 Archives

Movie Music Piracy

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Saw Elizabethtown with moni last night. Good flick, and I freely admit to enjoying romantic comedies. This is a man who owns a copy of "Love Actually". I swear both testicles are intact.

Anyway.

So one of my problems with movies and their corresponding soundtracks is that they never contain all of the songs that I loved from a show, or as Miles put it, they sometimes contain music "inspired by" the movie. It wasn't long ago though that I discovered the secret codes to unlock this information on the internet. The musical score for a movie. That's the music they use in said movie. Sweet. Bonus. Jerky Bits. Unfortunately trying to find the score for the movie last night revealed a flaw in that plan.

If a show is densly packed with both instrumental background music and "normal" music in the foreground then the score released will be all of the symphonic stuff and the soundtrack will of course be the hamstrung list of whatever small portion RCA records chooses to release. So as we speak Gort - the obsidian cube that is my computer - is obtaining a short clip of the movie that contains just the ending credits. A few small, trivial really, portions of the remainder of the movie may be attached.

I think I'm going slightly insane. That or I've been reading too much Penny Arcade and am subconsiously starting to emulate the writing style. Probably the insanity though.

Airporty goodness

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I was supposed to fly to Idaho this weekend for a wedding but forces conspired against me. Still, it gave me a good 5 hours in the airport to watch and think. 6-11 on a friday night at Seatac yields me:
  • We have wall mounted defibrualtors too, just not as frequently placed as chicago.
  • Just because a cute looking girl is reading harry potter does not mean she is nice. "Excuse me, is that the british version you're reading?", "fuck off". Okay then.
  • I hate flying, a well established fact, but somehow being in the airport is very calming. I sit and read and things go on around me but it's very tranquil. An odd feeling.
  • "Minor technical difficulties, no more than a few minutes to repair" is never true.
  • I saw a family rush to the gate shouting "hold the plane" ala every movie ever made. It was funny because it was our plane and we clearly weren't going anywhere soon.
  • The T-Shirt I have from Threadless where the squirrel is holding up another squirrel makes the TSA security guards laugh. All of them. More than seems natural.
Why do Dick's fries and a chocolate shake taste so good at midnight?

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