How many composers can you name? Do you immediately think of the guys who have been dead for 200 or 300 years? Like Mozart or Beethoven? Or do you think of the guys who are creating the fabulous soundtracks for today’s movies? Guys like John Williams and John Barry? You know, the themes for Star Trek and Band of Brothers and Indiana Jones were all written by today’s composers. Don’t dismiss the work of the modern day composers – they are creating some really awesome stuff.
Category Archives: TV and Movies
Meet Joe Black
There are very few movie that have a shocking scene that catches me unawares and startles me into jumping and gasping the first time I see it. One of the movies that did that – twice! – is, “Meet Joe Black.”
The movie is a remake of one from the 1950’s called, “Death Takes a Holiday.” I actually found the original movie and didn’t see much resemblance at all. In fact, I thought the original was awful. I don’t see how anyone watched the original and decided, hey! Let’s remake this!
The remake is excellent – some fantastic actors and actresses and the director did a fabulous job. I watch that movie at least once a year and always notice new things that I hadn’t noticed before.
Bad TV
For one of the few times I am home during the day and trying to relax a bit and watch some day time TV, man is the selection on daytime TV ever bad. It seems the air waves is filled up with Judge shows and wanna be Jerry Springer spin offs. I think I will just go take a nap, that seems the safest thing to do. I can not believe how bad the TV is during the day time hours, the next time I have a day off I will rent a movie or two to watch that is much safer than trying to watch the junk on day time TV.
3 more weeks
It is only 3 more weeks until football season starts, I can not wait I have watched all the pre season games I could get on my TV and am still wanting more, tonight the Titans play the Oakland Raiders and I will watch every minute with pure glee in my heart. I do not care if it is a pre-season game or not I will absorb the names and stats on many players I will never hear about again. I have tickets to a couple of the games here in Nashville and will watch the rest on TV, only 3 more weeks to wait.
Olympics
The Summer Olympics start next week and I for one can not wait, I love to watch even the silly sports like rowing as well as the super sports like swimming and track and field. I hope the doping scandals are over and the games can go off without incident this time. I have enjoyed watching the Olympics since I was a child and the hours of fun I get watching the TV every four years is amazing.