I cannot see the sun

I saw the ending of this a year or two ago. I told myself I'd watch the whole film soon, but alas that was not to happen. We see beautiful things all the time and promise ourselves we will do something about them. They slip through the holes in our memories, and only find their way back if we're lucky. 

I'm ready to go

Going to Jyväskylä for a night before continuing to our summer cottage. It's the first time I'm going there this year, and the summer is almost over. Damn work...

Found Kyuss again, thanks to a friend finding them for the first time ^^ Can't wait to get a new bass and a new amp.

Thought I had the day off...

The unifying sound of nostalgia

It had been a while since I'd seen Starship Troopers and I had nothing better planned for my ten hour shift, so I dove once again into the horrible, horrible acting and lovely, lovely special effects of the late 90s. In the end, it wasn't nearly as bad as I remembered and at one part I realized that the score was quite fantastic and sounded somewhat familiar. Not similar in the sense that I'd heard it before (as I had seen the film twice before), but in the way that I could feel the soul behind the music.

After the film I had no choice but to apply the palm of my hand gently but firmly upon my face, as the man behind the score was no-other than Basil Poledouris. Now, I'm sure most people have heard his works, but have never head his name. Those that do recognize the name might associate him with a number of flicks. For me, he will always first bring to mind Conan the Barbarian, as that is the movie I have seen more times than any other. I sure hope that the composer for the remake will at least come close to the original. I'm actually rather excited, as Jason Momoa ought to fit into the sandals of the black maned mountain lion better than Arnold. Of course, Arnold will always be the original Conan and his lines will live forever within my heart, but his character didn't really fit into the image of Conan that Robert E. Howard had created.

I also came to realize that the theme of Starship Troopers did remind me a bit of Basil's other composition, the battle theme from the 1987 RoboCop:

Tumbling down the rabbit hole

I couldn't help myself... I fell into the trap I subconsciously made for myself. Sound sane?

But from Jazz 2 to Alexander Brandon to, wait for it... Deus Ex. And we all should know that there's no going past Deus Ex.

Well, it has been a while since my last play-through anyway. For those of you unfamiliar with this extremely entertaining piece of software: listen to the following, get the game, play it and never be the same again. For everyone else: just listen, feel the conspiracy grow within you and reinstall. Or just reinstall, whatever...

Sleepless, yet awesome!

And only because I'm at work. I've somehow managed to fit quite a lot of social life into the past five days, while also doing over fifty hours of work. Still, I'm pretty worn out and two days off couldn't come at a better time.

I've actually hauled my ass into the cinema two times within the week. First I checked out the latest (last) Harry Potter feature, which turned out to be precisely what I expected. Same, unsurprising acting, tons of CGI and an unmemorable score. Yet it was a pretty decent ending for a series where the books are way better than the films and still way worse than what you'd expect from the money the author has made. I saw the 2D version, fortunately.

The second film was in 3D, but for the first time since Avatar it didn't bother me (Tron was close, but still failed). It was THOR! Corny, shiny, flashy, muscles, Norse mythology (quite accurately), beer, fire, ice, lightning, fists, swords, hammers, axes... It was entertaining, surprisingly well made and actually had a plot that you couldn't foresee and could even enjoy. And it looked and felt awesome, especially Asgard and the bridge leading to the Bifrost. Enough hype, just check it out.

This night's crawling along way too slowly... luckily I remembered an old computer game from my youth, or more specifically its soundtrack. Behold, the work of one Alexander Brandon:

PS. You might know him better from Deus Ex or the Unreals...