Everybody’s Chattin, Weekend Roundup + Music Break: The Eagles’ Hotel California

Happy Tuesday everybody! It's a short week with the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday, and thank God we got an extra day off in the coldest weekend of Minnesota Winter. Well I sure hope this is as cold as it gets, with temps reaching double digits BELOW ZERO. We barely made it to zero the past couple …

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Everybody’s Chattin + Music Break: SPECTRE’s Instrumental Theme

Happy Wednesday everybody! Can you believe it it's almost mid December? It's been quite a balmy Winter in Minnesota (thanks El Niño!), with lows in mid 30s which is warmer than the highs in a typical Winter. Hey, I ain't complaining! Well, I'm still working daily on my script. As they say, it's 10% writing and …

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Everybody’s Chattin + Music Break: Moulin Rouge’s YOUR SONG

Happy Wednesday all! Boy I felt like I've worked five days already the way my life's been going... SO. MUCH. TO. DO. I do enjoy all the Twin Cities Film Fest festivities though, I've talked to so many great filmmakers/talents, whether in person or via email, so hopefully y'all will stop by next week for …

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Music Break: The Martian’s DISCO Classics

One of the things I thoroughly enjoyed about The Martian was the lighthearted tone of the film, despite the obviously dire subject matter of someone being stuck in Mars. And one of the funniest bits in the film involve something totally unexpected... DISCO music! Matt Damon's character Mark Watney initially hated it, but he's not …

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Music Break: Far From The Madding Crowd (2015)

I'm in the romantic period drama mood this week as I've been listening to the beautiful scores for Pride & Prejudice, Belle (one of my top 10 scores of 2014)... and this one. Though I wasn't as enamored as I would have with Far From The Madding Crowd (due to the Tom Sturridge miscasting as Troy), I actually want to …

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Throwback Thursday: A Funny Thing Happened On My Way Through The ’60s!

Greetings all and sundry! Having enjoyed a few recent get-togethers with family and friends before the murderous traffic of the Fourth of July weekend around the nation's capitol. Topics of discussion have been many and varied. Given the age of the those included range around sixty, plus or minus five. Family wise, politics and religion …

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Music Break: Pride & Prejudice + fave scores from Dario Marianelli

I don't normally do a Music Break post on the weekends but I've been listening to the 2005 Pride & Prejudice score lately so I figure it's as good a time as any. A little bit about the composer... Dario Marianelli was born on June 21, 1963 in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy. He studied piano from …

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