Boy, was I productive last night. Not only did I make and bake about 4 dozen cookies as well as making Czech Christmas Bread from scratch, I was rushing back and forth to my laptop in order to digitize the Mancini mix tape I made years ago. I digitized and edited 26 tracks in the midst of all that baking somehow. Amazing. But I just realized I don't have any of the Breakfast at Tiffany's stuff on here nor the theme from The Great Race. I might download Tiffany's from iTunes Music Store but if I want the main theme from "The Great Race", I'm going to have to set up my laptop near the turntable again.
Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Now they're just nothing. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothing, and that's what they became.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Spidra Webster - Dec 21, 2005 6:23:52 pm PST #1643 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Spidra Webster - Dec 21, 2005 6:34:18 pm PST #1644 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Don't mind me. It seems I'll just continue serial posting. I just noticed that the iTunes Music Store has licensed All Music (Media) Guide reviews. I wrote a number of reviews for AMG in the late '90s. I read the contract before signing it. It was a horrible all rights contract but I was unemployed, on disability and pretty destitute at the time, so I took it. Whereas reviews that were licensed by MSN and others still left the writer's credit on, the iTunes Music Store instance I'm seeing doesn't. It's one thing for me not to get residuals for work of mine that has been resold. It's another thing entirely not to be credited with it. I don't know if any of the reviews I've written have been licensed by Apple (I wrote about stuff more obscure than they generally have), but if it shows up I'd be mildly interested in seeing if there's a case there.
Spidra Webster - Dec 21, 2005 6:45:06 pm PST #1645 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Son of a bitch! They have at least one of my reviews. Uncredited.
erinaceous - Dec 22, 2005 12:31:12 pm PST #1646 of 10003
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
Oh, Spidra! That sucks!
And Hec, I did NOT know there's a song titled "(I Feel Like a) Dictionary" Where? Who? How?
And I would be quite grateful for a little Roger Miller. "My Uncle Used to Love Me But She Died" has been a constant unsolvable earworm for the past couple of weeks ...
Spidra Webster - Dec 22, 2005 1:05:01 pm PST #1647 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Hi erinaceous!
Spidra Webster - Dec 22, 2005 2:03:15 pm PST #1648 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Here's my Mancini in roughly chronological order. I think the chrono order is interesting in order to see his development, but I think I'll also try to work on a mood order.
- Cha Cha for Gia
- Four Girls in Town
- Peter Gunn (Theme)
- Main Title (A Touch of Evil)
- Flashing Nuisance
- Tana's Theme
- The Boss
- Robbin's Nest
- March of the Cue Balls
- Lightly Latin
- Big Noise from Winnetka
- The Blues
- Mr. Yunioshi
- Something for Cat
- Hub Caps & Tail Lights
- Latin Golightly
- The Big Heist
- Loose Caboose
- Baby Elephant Walk
- The Pink Panther Theme
- It Had Better Be Tonight (Meglio Stasere)
- A Shot in the Dark
- Bistro
- Charade
- The Royal Waltz
- They're Off!
- Push the Button, Max!
- The Great Race March
- He Shouldn't-a, Hadn't-a, Oughtn't-a Swang on Me
- Cold Finger
- Pie-in-the-Face Polka
- The Old College Try Cha-Cha
- Frish-Frosh
- My Cousin From Naples
- Congarocka
- Midnight Cowboy (Theme)
- The Hawaiians
- Pineapple Pirates
- Music for a Japanese Bath
- The Streets of Chinatown
- Pink Panther '78
- Thar She Blows
- Hong Kong Fireworks
- Pink Panther '78 (Reprise)
- King's Can-Can
- Cat & Mouse
DavidS - Dec 22, 2005 2:08:33 pm PST #1649 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Mancini's Greatest Hits was my first LP purchase when I was 10 (using my lawn mowing money). I could not believe one man could be so genius as to have produced "Peter Gunn," "Pink Panther Theme" and "Baby Elephant Walk."
"Something For Cat" might be my favorite nowadays though. Perfect drive-your-convertible-to-Palm-Beach music.
Spidra Webster - Dec 22, 2005 2:19:37 pm PST #1650 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
"Mr. Yunioshi" is one of my favorites (luckily I heard the tune before I ever saw the movie so the whole Mickey Rooney-in-yellowface thing hasn't poisoned it). "Four Girls in Town" is so great. It's like having your own personal badass theme music. And I really enjoyed busting out "The Great Race" last night. I'm going to have to rent that movie again.
DavidS - Dec 22, 2005 5:41:50 pm PST #1651 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've finished my Power Pop Christmas mix. Are y'all tired of xmas tunes, or should I bother to post it at Buffistarawk?
Come On Christmas Cheap Trick I Want An Alien For Christmas Fountains Of Wayne Runaway Christmas Pencil Test Super Sunny Christmas Redd Kross 3 Wise Men And A Baby (Xmas Song) The Cavedogs Thanks for Christmas XTC Christmasland The Spongetones Merry Christmas Will Do Material Issue Father Christmas The Kinks This Christmas Shoes Christmas Time Chris Stamey and Friends Santa's Beard They Might Be Giants Home for the Holidays The dB's Piece For Christmas Big People Christmastime Aimee Mann with Michael Penn It's Not Christmas Kelley Ryan God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Jigsaw Seen Little Drummer Boy The Miracle Legion She Feels Like Christmas Day The Critics O Little Town Of Bethlehem Young Fresh Fellows Underneath The Christmas Tree Bill Lloyd Jesus Christ Big Star Baby Jesus Matthew Sweet Deck The Halls R.E.M.
Some of the lesser known names on here did the prettiest songs, and bumped some worthy tunes by much bigger power pop names like The Posies, Smithereens and Hoodoo Gurus.
Steph L. - Dec 22, 2005 5:44:46 pm PST #1652 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Hec, I want it, please. Because I have a power pop Xmas tape you made, and though I don't know if all the tracks on the tape are the same as on this listing, I would still love them in digital format, so I can put them on my iPod.