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Start here => M.O.-Introductions => Ask Away Threads => Topic started by: Nocturnalist! on August 02, 2008, 01:53:28 PM
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I thought I'd start this since I've posted over 100 times now and it seems the done thing here. You can ask anything if you are remotely interested in doing so, but I might not answer anything though :paperbag:
Be prepared for a short and very boring thread which I appreciate may not extend beyond this first dull post :yawn:
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Are you the sensitive type? (Obligatory McJagger question)
Do you feel you always need to get the last word? And if so, do you know that there are better threads for that than the tit-for-tat you and Sir Les are engaged in elsewhere?
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Hi Nocturnalist.
Do you like nighttime better than daytime?
Would you like to join the Aspie Elite?
For your participation, you get a cool custom title and a Secret Decoder Rng.
Also, just so you know, you don't necessarily have to be technically an Aspie to be part of the Aspie Elite.
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Going to post any nudes :eyebrows:
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Where do you access your smilies, and would I be likely to recognise some tunes you have written? :)
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Are you the sensitive type?
I have been told that I am. I think they are probably correct.
Do you feel you always need to get the last word? And if so, do you know that there are better threads for that than the tit-for-tat you and Sir Les are engaged in elsewhere?
I do have a tendency towards Lastwordism - I have problems letting go however much I may be sickening myself. I was not aware that there are better threads here than the one I'm playing footsie with Sir_Les in - have I been mentioned elsewhere here before I joined? If not, I'll stick with the thread where they chose to name me... or re-name me before I joined I2 :eyebrows:
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Do you like nighttime better than daytime?
Yes. Daytime is difficult on my senses... lots of noise and light. Night time is peaceful and still.
Would you like to join the Aspie Elite?
I have not considered the possibility of the opportunity cropping up.
For your participation, you get a cool custom title and a Secret Decoder Rng.
Also, just so you know, you don't necessarily have to be technically an Aspie to be part of the Aspie Elite.
So HFAs are welcome to join also. Sounds neat ;D
Well, if membership of the Aspie Elite is on offer to me, even though I do not know what the 'Secret Decoder Rng' is, it would seem churlish to turn down the kind offer :green: A cool custom title sounds neat :angel:
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Going to post any nudes :eyebrows:
I don't know that they make envelopes large enough and the cost of the stamps would be astronomical, so probably not :lol:
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Where do you access your smilies...
When posting a message, see the word 'more' under the smilies you can usually see. Click on that and a new range of smilies provided by this forum can bee seen and selected :situp:
...would I be likely to recognise some tunes you have written?
I would say it is quite unlikely. My work is not at all well known. Micro-shorts I have scored have been shown on ITV4, and others entered into festivals. A feature I worked on has found a DVD distributer, but most will not have seen or noticed them, let alone my music :)
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You write songs? Cool! Not really a direct question, but tell us more?
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You write songs? Cool! Not really a direct question, but tell us more?
I don't write songs, I compose musical underscores for micro-budget movies (much less cool - lol), mostly shorts (some for students and some for Directors entering festivals) but I have scored two features ('The Unseen' Dir by Kevin Gates), and one which has been accepted by a small time DVD distributer ('The Jigsaw of Life'). Here's a review of 'The Jigsaw of Life' http://www.microfilmmaker.com/critiques/Issue4/jigsawli.html My musical score is very briefly mentioned on the third page.
'The Unseen' will probably not see the light of day, though its Director's second feature has received wide distribution ('The Zombie Diaries').
(http://blog.dvdpascher.net/media/users/nicore/zombiediariesaffich.jpg)
Unfortunately, Kevin Gates only co-Directed 'The Zombie Diaries' and they used a composer the other Director had previously worked with rather than asking me. The composer has a very different style, and like actors, you have to cast the most suitable composer for what you want in the movie. That's life.
I've been doing this since 2002, but it is strictly small scale... I don't even get paid. On Micro-Budget movies the budget is so low nobody gets paid, but the hope is that it will lead to better things... usually it doesn't. I did get a Director come back to me offering a paid gig once, but that project folded... as so many movie projects very often do.
I was the first composer on board to score 'Freak Out', but got sacked due to creative differences and basically just not getting on very well with the Director. I scored half the movie before I was sacked. It went on to be distributed by a major firm, Anchor Bay.
(http://www.hotmoviesale.com/dvds/26511/1/Freak-Out.jpg)
Sorry no posters for movies I've actually scored... they have either been not distributed or not widely in the least. So far I've missed or been chucked out of the boat each time.
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Damn it all, I so wish I knew you when I was working on my 3d short for my final project in college. I was totally out a sound designer, and too autistic to go find one, so I did it all myself, and it rather sucked.
I would probably even have paid you.
You got any MP3 samples?
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You got any MP3 samples?
I do musical underscore rather than sound design, though I have limited facilities that could be used to do some limited sound design if needed.
I do have some MP3 samples... I'll PM you a link :green: Please do not have great expectations though.
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Sorry, I was using sound design as a general term (spot the noob, I know pretty pictures, not pretty sounds) but the music is what I was really missing. Sound effects were more manageable to add in myself.
I will look for the PM.
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Sorry, I was using sound design as a general term (spot the noob, I know pretty pictures, not pretty sounds) but the music is what I was really missing.
Sorry, that's me coming over all pedantic. Some Micro-budget composers do both regularly. The PM with the link is sent. :)
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I got it, and just listened to them all. They're not as crap as you're making them out to be. And with a little faster pace and tribal overtones, they would have been exactly what I needed. It was a 60-second horror/fantasy short about the apprentice of an Aztec daykeeper - the shamans who kept the calendars. The daykeeper demands the boy's pet as a blood sacrifice.
It's one of my pipe dreams to go back and do it right. A long ways off in the future, of course, but since I'd despaired of ever being able to find a guy to do music at the time, it's kind of a confidence boost to know that people like you do exist.
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Sounds right up my alley. I seem to be at my best scoring Horror :green:
If you do go back and do it again, please feel free to approach me to score it ;D
I'll do it just for the credit and a copy of the completed film on DVD.
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So HFAs are welcome to join also. Sounds neat ;D
No, they're not?
Do you have a pussy?
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So HFAs are welcome to join also. Sounds neat ;D
No, they're not?
Since that is not a question, it should not have a question mark punctuating it.
Do you have a pussy?
I do have a cat.
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Since that is not a question, it should not have a question mark punctuating it.
But it is?
Do you have a pussy?
Are you a female?
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Since that is not a question, it should not have a question mark punctuating it.
But it is?
No it isn't, and neither is that. :green:
Are you a female?
No. I am male.
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Since that is not a question, it should not have a question mark punctuating it.
But it is?
No it isn't, and neither is that?
Now it is.
Are you a female?
No. I am male.
You sound like a bitch.
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You sound like a bitch.
I think you are barking up the wrong tree :lol:
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You sound like a bitch.
I think you are barking up the wrong tree :lol:
Oh, the spaz even uses idioms!
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Oh, the spaz even uses idioms!
Yes. Very often. :eyebrows:
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Are you REALLY a vampire? Or just a marshmallow? :green:
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I am not really a vampire.
I am also not really made of marshmallow.
:lol:
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Oh... :-[
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Oh... :-[
Perhaps now you will stop trying to toast me on the nearest camp fire? ;)
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No, I'll just have completely different expectations as to how you will taste when I'm through cooking you. :eyebrows:
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Have you ever been curious about trying gayness with another man?
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Have you ever been curious about trying gayness with another man?
No. I have never felt that way inclined whatsoever. I did feel somewhat complimented when I was propositioned by a gay man when I was a teen, but its not something that attracts me in any way whatsoever and he went off in a huff when he realised he was not going to get anywhere.
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do you ever look at porno?
(sex and scatological subjects are my aspie obsession)
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do you ever look at porno?
I like the nude human form so long as it is artistically lit and subtle. However, I am not attracted to pornography or anything blatently sexual like that. I have seen some pornography, but I don't seek it out and I find it somewhat repugnant.
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Are you animal, vegetable or mineral? :green:
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I am an animal containing certain minerals that some people are convinced is a bit of a vegetable :green:
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:plus:
That was pretty funny. Don't worry about those nasty people. They haven't discovered your "charm".
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Nah, I don't worry about nasty people. I worry about nice people.
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Why do you worry about nice people?
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Why do you worry about nice people?
Because I often find it difficult to imagine why they would be nice to me. So I often assume they are either being nice to me at face value and in reality dislike me, or that they are simply being polite rather than truthful because they do not wish to hurt a person as disappointing as they find me to be. Alternatively, they may be nice to me because they think I am something I am not... and therefore I am bound to end up as a disappointment to them... and that is something I dread.
I recognise that I have difficulties with my self-esteem, and my son's social worker has given me options as to where I might seek help for this. Bearing this in mind, I appreciate that in some cases I may be mistaken... not to mention the fact my wife and children like me. The children can be explained by the fact that I am their parent, and a parent has to be quite a beast if their own children dislike them. I am a loving parent so, while they are so young, they are not likely to feel that I am a disappointment. I do not have an explaination as to why my wife likes me and has continued to for the 20 years of our marriage. The blindness of love surely cannot explain 20 years of duration. I do not understand it, but I trust my wife enough to believe her.
So, nice people to me are confusing and thus I worry about it. People who are nasty to me are not such a confusing thing, and so worry me much less, if at all. Nastiness does sting because it often affirms what I am... and that is admittedly uncomfortable... but they themselves do not worry me because I know where I stand with them.
Thus I worry about nice people because I often do not know whether to believe them at face value or not.
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Am I nice?
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I've always considered you to be nice.
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so, i've missed all of this, and am probably going to ask stuff everyone else has already: so shoot me.
i'm music-obsessed, so i want to know all about your composing thingamagig. and you're a brit: whereabouts (if you don't mind saying so on the intergeeks)?
that'll do for starters.
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so, i've missed all of this, and am probably going to ask stuff everyone else has already: so shoot me.
I do not mind, and besides I don't own a gun :green:
i'm music-obsessed, so i want to know all about your composing thingamagig.
That's a bit open-ended. Any chance of closing it a bit. I am more movie-obsessed than music-obsessed. My composing is a way for me to be involved in film-projects. I had limited piano lessons as a child but never progressed to any grades because my teacher retired, and we couldn't afford a more expensive one. I started composing as a hobby in 1985 (although I did provide some musical score for an audio drama for Tapes for the Handicapped back then) and in 2002 started composing musical scores for film-makers.
My favourite composers are Bernard Herrmann and Jerry Goldsmith.
...and you're a brit: whereabouts (if you don't mind saying so on the intergeeks)?
I live in the South of the UK :)
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so, i've missed all of this, and am probably going to ask stuff everyone else has already: so shoot me.
I do not mind, and besides I don't own a gun :green:
crossbow? i like crossbows.
i'm music-obsessed, so i want to know all about your composing thingamagig.
That's a bit open-ended. Any chance of closing it a bit. I am more movie-obsessed than music-obsessed. My composing is a way for me to be involved in film-projects. I had limited piano lessons as a child but never progressed to any grades because my teacher retired, and we couldn't afford a more expensive one. I started composing as a hobby in 1985 (although I did provide some musical score for an audio drama for Tapes for the Handicapped back then) and in 2002 started composing musical scores for film-makers.
My favourite composers are Bernard Herrmann and Jerry Goldsmith.
that's a satisfactory answer - ta. ;) i'm just nosy about other musos.
...and you're a brit: whereabouts (if you don't mind saying so on the intergeeks)?
I live in the South of the UK :)
me too. big place, the south. :P
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crossbow? i like crossbows.
I own no weapons - except a few things that could be misused as weapons like cutlery. I'm not opposed to people owning weapons, I just don't happen to have bought anything with that primary use :)
I live in the South of the UK :)
me too. big place, the south. :P
Yes. And an often beautiful place to live. My home is sandwiched between two small local nature reserves. Not a posh area, but natural beauty is within a short walking distance whether I turn left or right ;D
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My favourite composers are Bernard Herrmann and Jerry Goldsmith.
I've always preferred Jerry Goldsmith myself. He was brilliant.
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My favourite composers are Bernard Herrmann and Jerry Goldsmith.
I've always preferred Jerry Goldsmith myself. He was brilliant.
They were both brilliant. I don't favour one above the other.
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Oh, I do love some of Herrmann's work, too, but Goldsmith was fabulous.
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Both were cutting edge composers of movie music :green:
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Oh yes.
My current Goldsmith favourite is "Criminal Law", btw. Only have it on an LP record, though.
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My favourite Goldsmith is 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' simply because of the magnificent range of the music involved. Especially the beautiful V-Ger Cloud theme.
My favourite Herrmann score is 'Vertigo'.
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My favourite Goldsmith is 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' simply because of the magnificent range of the music involved. Especially the beautiful V-Ger Cloud theme.
My favourite Herrmann score is 'Vertigo'.
Oh, I love them both. ST-TMP is terrific, definitely one of his best. Have you heard his score for The Last Run, btw? I love that one.
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Oh, I love them both. ST-TMP is terrific, definitely one of his best. Have you heard his score for The Last Run, btw? I love that one.
I'm afraid I've never heard that one. I have a lot of Goldsmith Soundtracks, but not that one. I don't think I've even seen the movie, the name doesn't ring a bell. :(
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Oh, I love them both. ST-TMP is terrific, definitely one of his best. Have you heard his score for The Last Run, btw? I love that one.
I'm afraid I've never heard that one. I have a lot of Goldsmith Soundtracks, but not that one. I don't think I've even seen the movie, the name doesn't ring a bell. :(
Early 70s George C Scott film. Terrific soundtrack, bad film.
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Oh, I love them both. ST-TMP is terrific, definitely one of his best. Have you heard his score for The Last Run, btw? I love that one.
I'm afraid I've never heard that one. I have a lot of Goldsmith Soundtracks, but not that one. I don't think I've even seen the movie, the name doesn't ring a bell. :(
Early 70s George C Scott film. Terrific soundtrack, bad film.
Oh too often the case with Jerry Goldsmith... fantastic music for a movie that didn't deserve it. He never gave a bad movie half measures... a complete professional.
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Aye. Not like Horner and his ilk.
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Aye. Not like Horner and his ilk.
Horner is preferable to Zimmer :o lol.
Horner started off really well and became known for composing high class scores to low class movies. His score to 'Gorky Park' is a stroke of genius IMHO. My favourite James Horner score is probably 'Krull'. Then Horner seemed to lose his way.
Horner once briefly dated Jerry Goldsmith's daughter BTW, before he found fame (or at least went out with her once). Goldsmith boasted about it apparently (why I do not know) and Horner slighted him claiming not to have heard of him. NB... Of course this is all Chinese whispers like most showbiz gossip and the tale has several variations.
Carrie Goldsmith of course is the most authoritative writer on this matter... 'Dad was talking about composer James Horner, who I’d known in high school through a friend of mine he was dating…Dad loved to exaggerate my one outing with Jamie Horner into boyfriend proportions…'
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Aye. Not like Horner and his ilk.
Horner is preferable to Zimmer :o lol.
Oh, I don't know... I do like Thin Red Line. And Crimson Tide, of course.
Horner started off really well and became known for composing high class scores to low class movies. His score to 'Gorky Park' is a stroke of genius IMHO. My favourite James Horner score is probably 'Krull'. Then Horner seemed to lose his way.
Krull was all right. But so was "Battle Beyond the Stars". And I liked "Star Trek II", even though he'd already started borrowing from himself at that point.
Horner once briefly dated Jerry Goldsmith's daughter BTW, before he found fame (or at least went out with her once). Goldsmith boasted about it apparently (why I do not know) and Horner slighted him claiming not to have heard of him. NB... Of course this is all Chinese whispers like most showbiz gossip and the tale has several variations.
Cool, I didn't know that.
Carrie Goldsmith of course is the most authoritative writer on this matter... 'Dad was talking about composer James Horner, who I’d known in high school through a friend of mine he was dating…Dad loved to exaggerate my one outing with Jamie Horner into boyfriend proportions…'
LOL
Maybe Dad simply thought it was funny. :P
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Maybe Dad simply thought it was funny. :P
Maybe indeed. The part of the biography that I quoted from seems to have quite a humorous tone. Jamie and James, Jerrald and Jerry - success after name changes.
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Maybe Dad simply thought it was funny. :P
Maybe indeed. The part of the biography that I quoted from seems to have quite a humorous tone. Jamie and James, Jerrald and Jerry - success after name changes.
Speaking of which--"Dad" is one of Horner's more decent soundtracks, IMO. :P
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Maybe Dad simply thought it was funny. :P
Maybe indeed. The part of the biography that I quoted from seems to have quite a humorous tone. Jamie and James, Jerrald and Jerry - success after name changes.
Speaking of which--"Dad" is one of Horner's more decent soundtracks, IMO. :P
You're good at mentioning scores I've never heard of before - lol :clap:
Regarding Zimmer, some of what he has done is good, like 'Prince of Egypt' but he, and his team of composers, have blighted the movie business with a wave of empty gloss music in these past few years. I wish there were more chances for singular noteworthy composers rather than Zimmers team.
One composer I am keeping my eye on is Joel McNealy... a very clever composer, but has not been given a stand out movie gig yet.