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Waking Belle
Saw the new Beauty and the Beast 3D rerelease tonight. I don’t have any special thoughts about the movie, as it has always been one of my favorites. I was a little too young to see it in theaters, however, and it did remind me that even now with high definition televisions and movie players…
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Modest Mouse
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Ca_edg6RE] There’s video up at the Disney Parks blog of a scoring session for one of their new live shows at California Adventure in Anaheim. It’s a reworked version of “Night on the Bare Mountain” by Modest Mussorgsky, which was used for one of the segments in Fantasia. That piece has always fascinated me because…
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Give Mass Taste Some Credit
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY] I hadn’t seen the Muppet’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” until I read this article in the New York Times about it. I wasn’t disappointed. I especially appreciated the meta-humor of the (now) vintage characters, some of which are references to just-past-their-sell-by-date popular culture trends (Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem referencing psychedelic rock), performing a song…
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A little LOST withdrawal
Now that I’ve suceeded in driving away what little traffic I had to the blog, I can continue posting whatever comes to me at whatever time in as many words as possible. Wednesdays have been rough. No Lost to sustain me through the week. But I have stumbled across a couple of things to keep…
