Media madness
Dec. 4th, 2008 07:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkey1. From the "Congratulations, you've created an anachronism!" files: the soundtrack of the film Charlie Wilson's War has got a dilly. During the sequence in which the Afghans begin to use their newly acquired US funded firepower and kick some Soviet ass, a full chorus surges into Handel's "And He Shall Purify" - with a platoon of doumbeks keeping time. Oddly enough it works, (a lot better than Julia Roberts' mummified performance).
2. Ganked shamelessly from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sasha_khan as I download a copy from iTunes:
http://www.minermusic.com/cc/christmasc
Samples can be found at http://www.minermusic.com/samples.htm
AMAZING!!!!
Edit: I repeat: AMAZING! As in mind blowingly wonderful. Thanks, Sasha!
3. Airing this week on the Military Channel, Warriors: The Shogun:
Schedule of airtimes can be found here.
Baron Master Edward of Effingham was a researcher on this BBC project. It looks good - really good.
4. There I am, channel surfing when I think "Is that Sanada-san?" Yes. Yes it was, Hiroyuki-I-Can-Kick-Tom-Cruise's-Ass-Sanada and Cillian Murphy (who kinda sorta makes me think of James whenever I see him), and Michelle Yeoh as well, in what turned out to be a nifty little sci-fi flick called Sunshine. While I missed the first ten minutes of exposition, it's set about 50 years from now and these folks were on a mission to drop a nuke into our dying sun in the hopes of saving mankind. Reminiscent (probably deliberately) of such earnest SF staples of my misspent pre-Star Wars youth as 2001 and Silent Running with a dash of 2010 and Alien tossed in among Danny Boyle's distinctive visuals.
2. Ganked shamelessly from
sasha_khan as I download a copy from iTunes: http://www.minermusic.com/cc/christmasc
Samples can be found at http://www.minermusic.com/samples.htm
AMAZING!!!!
Edit: I repeat: AMAZING! As in mind blowingly wonderful. Thanks, Sasha!
3. Airing this week on the Military Channel, Warriors: The Shogun:
Schedule of airtimes can be found here.
Baron Master Edward of Effingham was a researcher on this BBC project. It looks good - really good.
4. There I am, channel surfing when I think "Is that Sanada-san?" Yes. Yes it was, Hiroyuki-I-Can-Kick-Tom-Cruise's-Ass-Sanada and Cillian Murphy (who kinda sorta makes me think of James whenever I see him), and Michelle Yeoh as well, in what turned out to be a nifty little sci-fi flick called Sunshine. While I missed the first ten minutes of exposition, it's set about 50 years from now and these folks were on a mission to drop a nuke into our dying sun in the hopes of saving mankind. Reminiscent (probably deliberately) of such earnest SF staples of my misspent pre-Star Wars youth as 2001 and Silent Running with a dash of 2010 and Alien tossed in among Danny Boyle's distinctive visuals.
