Media madness

[gurdymonkey]

1. 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 sasha_khan as I download a copy from iTunes:

http://www.minermusic.com/cc/christmascollection.htm

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.

Watch on YouTube

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. 

Comments

Re: Tangent

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Rubbing moderator-status paws with glee because I can see his email address on the sca-jml Yahoo page: anthonyUNDERSCOREbryantATcoxDOTnet
was the address he messaged from last night.

Keep trying. He's a complete lox about correspondence sometimes.

Re: Tangent

[shalmestere.livejournal.com]

Huh. That's the address I've been using :-/ Guess I'll have to keep trying (eithe that, or start playing with Adobe Illustrator myself)....

Re: Tangent

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

He has this unfortunate habit of vanishing for weeks at a time without answering his email.