Graham Watt
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Lukas posted on FB that he accidentally knocked the url out of place. The man with the screwdriver will come when he wakes up.
Ha ha! I’M John Blankenship too!!!
The new board is worse than useless. I can’t even post on it now (“Sorry, something is wrong with your data.”)
I’m not even half-way through the Tim Greiving book, but I’m enjoying its thoroughness. Every paragraph has me scuttling to the copious notes at the end to find the sources of the info.
Having said that – and I know you (Thor) has mentioned this… It’s noticeable how he races through all Williams’ early TV work. Even the Irwin Allen shows get barely a mention (apart from some nice words about LOST IN SPACE’s “My Friend, Mr Nobody”. The author also calls the Irwin Allen themes “songs”. Is that accepted nowadays?
Rather perplexed at his total dissing of DADDY’S GONE A-HUNTING, which I thought was a great score. Other cases are multiple.
It seems that for Greiving, the composer only really flourished after HEIDI, THE REIVERS etc… which might be the case, but it’s a conservative view. Now I’m ploughing through page after page of how great STAR WARS is.
I’m not passing any final judgment until I finish the book, but at the moment I’m seeing that it’s a little lop-sided.
Ah! Now I understand. I “didn’t realise” that the Forum Feedback and the Welcome topics were pinned. But I’ll never forget that as long as I live.
Thor, I don’t know how often you visit FSM nowadays, but your old thread about deceased former members has been… resurrected… with the addition of a few more names.
I ordered my copy of the Tim Greiving book on John Williams yesterday – should arrive on or before next Friday.
I’m selective when it comes to biographies, especially of film-related people. From what I have, too many seem to be written by “fanboys” (thanks to Ford Thaxton, I am now considered such), with very little critical filter, and the others seem largely copied and pasted from Wikipedia.
But I have high hopes for the Greiving book.
By the way Thor, I “know” (infer) that the Greiving bio flummoxed your own plans to eventually write the “definitive” JW biography. Is there anything that you had previously researched (for example, Williams’ ancestry) which is not covered in the new book?
Hello again, playmates!
Just to clarify/ confuse the issue wot I was on about several moons ago, this particular topic was (previous to this post) last contributed to 2 dager, 8 tiner siden.
The topic “Been to Any Good Concerts Lately?” is currently three places down the list, and yet the most recent post was a mere 19 minutter siden.
Do I make myself clear?
Is there a way to show the most recent posts at the top of the list? I thought that most message boards did that by default.
Big bro is on the insurance case now, Thor. I imagine we’ll get a percentage back.
Thinking about all this – and it might be good fodder for a new topic – I’m not sure a actually want to go to Skye next year. Not becuase it isn’t beautiful (it’s spectaular), but because every year there are more and more tourists. The island is still mostly single-track roads, and nowadays, in the summer, they’re packed with tour coaches maneuvering around the passing places. I suppose the next step is to make all the roads much wider to accommodate them, but then the place loses all its charm. The road through Glen Coe on the mainland has been ruined, for example. Maybe Alan has an opinion on this.
When I retire (three more years – I hope I stay alive), I’m going to take my holidays in May. Good weather, fewer tourists.
Hello playmates!
I recently got back from a visit to the Auld Country. My brother and I had booked a week in a cottage on the Isle of Skye (spectacular place), but the day before we were due to travel, my brother “fell” (not quite sure how he did that) and broke his collarbone. So we had to cancel it, and lose all the money we’d paid to book it. No refund when you break your collarbone the day before arrival!
And so I spent two weeks sleeping on the floor in my brother’s little house, which is also my sister-in-law’s house (as you can imagine). Not quite Skye, but my brother’s greenhouse is coming on a treat.
Thor, the Nieto book seemed VERY heavy-going back in the day. Full of diagrams and the philosophy of colours. I was initally against the idea of reading the book, because there are actually NO film composers mentioned throughout. Now, skimming through it, it seems absolutely fascinating.
Thanks Thor. Yes, we get over everything. I’m a grandad now! Taking the baby out for a lunchtime beer tomorrow!
Hey, are we going to have a Cheers “live chat” sometime soon? It’ll be like Andy Warhol’s TRASH, only with less action.
Has anyone seen CORRUPTION? It’s a 1968 piece of Brit exploitation, with Peter Cushing (he HATED the film) as a surgeon who has to kill young women for their glands (or something). To see Peter Cushing on a train letching over some bird opposite him in a mini skirt, then killing her (and getting his tongue down her throat and everything), later killing another young girl, stripping her and rubbing his blood-drenched hands all over her tits… then he cuts her head off. How he could go home to his beloved wife Helen and chat cheerfully about the day’s filming I’ll never know.
Bill McGuffie did the score. It’s like somebody has suddenly put on a “Live at Ronnie Scottt’s” jazz record. And all this for scenes of Cushing chasing dolly birds along the beach so that he can mutilate them. Perhaps if there had been a backstory of Cushing as a frustrated jazz musician….
