Beethoven rocks! You know, ever since I got hooked on the 5th symphony after mistakenly thinking the Peter Pan soundtrack by James Newton Howard was imitating it - the second movement has a cadence to die for, it is that poignant - I've had a sneaking love for that German/Austrian/whatever deaf guy. But just now, listening to the King's Speech soundtrack, I found out that the credits music I loved so much in the film and thought was Alexandre Desplat (of New Moon fame, and yes, I'm going with that, since it's the first time I really loved one of his scores, cause Golden Compass was boring) doing his "imitating classical orchestration but with modern, easily emotionally accessible chord progressions" thing - yeah, that turns out to be some dude who's been dead for almost two hundred years. Dude. I love that guy!
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- ibmiller
- If you actually want to read my blog, it's at http://ibmiller.livejournal.com. This is really just my profile I use for commenting on blogger. Annotated Quotes: "Justice is about harmony. Revenge is about you making yourself feel better." Batman Begins. One of the few films/books which have actually changed/shaped the way I thought. This quotation gives voice to the discomfort I've always had with revenge stories. ANGEL (bitterly) "Am I a thing worth saving? Am I a righteous man? The world wants me gone." Joss Whedon, Amends. Whedon is one of the most God-haunted agnostics I've ever read/watched. In addition to his brilliant writing, his work often (not always, unfortunately, but often) deals with intense moral issues like redemption, atonement, and the masterful way he handles them often profoundly moves me. "We read to know we're not alone. Some might say, we love to know we're not alone." William Nicholson, Shadowlands. Oh, and I'm male.
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