[W David Lichty]

A question: Are any of you a completist of any composer or artist?

I think I have ~107% of Goldsmith’s output. It’s an occupational thing. Given the many things affecting availability these days, such as whether a work was ever released, whether it’s still available, whether the release was complete itself and so on, I think you could think of yourself as a completist if everything from a certain composer is an automatic buy, heard or blind. That makes me a Goldsmith and Williams completist, though only with Goldsmith am I a successful completist, I guess. Oh, and The Beatles. I’m good with them, too.

when John David Towner Williams turned 88 five years ago

Where did that ‘David’ come from? I didn’t know that was there.

…that makes me a little happy.

– have to get nother harddisc –

Probably get it now. Hard drives are going to escalate in price, as the (global!) supply of one of the chips they need has been gobbled up by data centers built for the AI competitors.