Sean! Empire of the Sun soundtrack just came up on iTunes and I immediately thought of you. I think that may have been one of the first conversations we actually had, about the merits of that soundtrack.
Another really fantastic non-Williams-esque Williams score?
Catch Me If You Can.
It's a jazzy-fanciful score with lots of wonderful touches.
Oh! Other funny thing about 2002 -- the emphasis on tapes. Tapes, people! We are old.
I was just talking about this with a friend last night. It's startling how quickly we went from vinyl owning the world, to a generation that wonders what those big black CDs are, and now we're on the verge of a generation that will ask "You used to have to go to a store, and buy a
thing
to get music? And that
thing
only came with the twelve songs on it? That's crazy."
They will be saying pretty much the same thing about video.
When I was cleaning out the office this week, I found a box of blank VHS stock. I tried to give it away to one of the other production departments and they all laughed.
Sadly, it looks like T-Rex is also a tea bagger
Aw, well, I'm not a tea-bagger and I share the pain of being out a couple grand in taxes come April 15. Just because ya hate taxes doesn't make ya a wingnut.
Aw, well, I'm not a tea-bagger and I share the pain of being out a couple grand in taxes come April 15. Just because ya hate taxes doesn't make ya a wingnut.
True dat. But since the comic seemed to be mocking T-Rex for his complaints, I thought it might be commentary.
I like taxes in principle. I just don't like paying mine.
I'll take your blank VHS tapes, Jessica. My VCR is hooked up in the office and I have no plans to change that arrangement. (God, I'm old, aren't I?)
Last year, I finally accepted that I will never again possess a VHS player.
Ever.
So I threw out all the tapes I owned. Except I just checked, and it turns out I did keep exactly five tapes - A friend's demo reel, the only copy I have of a short film I worked on, and the original Star Wars Trilogy, in their unpolluted forms.
I know
why
I decided to keep those tapes, I just don't understand how that reason exempts them from the whole I'll never again possess a playback device for them thing.
I like taxes in principle. I just don't like paying mine.
This is similar to how I feel about bills. I hate paying them, but I do love it when they have been paid.
I really need to get a VHS-to-DVD transfer device thingy, because I have tapes with irreplaceable content, deteriorating in drawers as I type.
I just don't understand how that reason exempts them from the whole I'll never again possess a playback device for them thing.
You can bring them over to my house with its functional VCR. (With which I Tivoed goth videos off 120 Minutes and compiled them for Jilli.)
