[Dr. Jacoby]

I am still here, although I don’t post that often.

Part of the reason is that I’m incredibly busy these days and don’t have much time to play around on the InterWebz, aside from the occasional thumbs up.

The other part of it is that, for whatever reason, I am less drawn to listening to film scores these days. Not sure why. I am watching more movies now than ever, thanks to streaming, but rarely do I hear a score in a film that makes me want to search for the album. I suppose if the score does not call attention to itself, that is a good thing.

I’m also buying far, far fewer LPs and CDs than I used to. I don’t hop on anything the day of release, because almost nothing sells out instantly anymore. I will occasionally spring for something I really want, like the new Ipcress recording. And even there, the main draw was that I had the original only on LP. (I’m not a big Barry fan, but that is easily my favorite of his.) If Quartet has a summer sale, I’ll probably pick up a few Italian titles that I may have missed.

Maybe I’ve hit a saturation point with LPs and CDs. Maybe I’ve realized that I will never have everything, and even if I did, there is only so much time and brain power to absorb everything. I can’t even begin to imagine the percentage of LPs and CDs I have that I played once or twice.

Still happy to discuss old favorites, though, and I’ve always liked Thor’s more conceptual questions and topics, which are neither genre- nor composer-specific.