Top 10 Soundtracks
Thursday, 08 July, 2004
This is for Joyce and Duncan who were interested to know. Again, in no particular order:
- The Power of One (Hans Zimmer)
- I am Sam (Various—it's full of Beatles covers and my favourite one is “Julia”)
- Oscar and Lucinda (Thomas Newman)
- Ocean's Eleven (David Holmes)
- La Double Vie de Véronique (Zbigniew Preisner)
- Sneakers (James Horner)
- The Truman Show (Burkhard Dallwitz and Philip Glass)
- The Piano (Michael Nyman)
- A Little Princess (Patrick Doyle)
- A Room with a View (Richard Robbins)
Lately, I've really been enjoying the soundtrack to Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex by Yoko Kanno (on loan from Little Rachel. Yoko is pretty talented; she also did the soundtrack to Cowboy Bebop. I wish I could write music like that.
Blinks:
A way of funding writing in the future: pitch and idea and get people to support it.
Place where you can hire play equipment for parties, etc.
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
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I like number three too!
I watched The Piano the other night and I didn’t like it much. I felt sorry for Sam Neill’s character, even though I wasn’t supposed to.
I think you’re supposed to feel sorry for him. I wasn’t a big fan of the movie either but the music is wonderful and very simple (which means I can play it! Well most of it, anyway). I read a very interesting essay on Bluebeard and The Piano—totally unintentional in the minds of Jane Campion & co. but still significant nonetheless.
I’m glad you like number three!