You have brought back fond memories of Mr. K and Yours Truly 1776ing each other (and just about all the other "crazies") to death. And yes, I can recall one of his AHHH, CONGER! responses in those big CAPS from mboard point of origin. Those graphics always put me on the floor.
Oh, wait! I have forgotten that immediately after our concert, I was to travel to the far off land of Boston to spend a few weeks assisting in the opening of a big ol' movie theater there. It must've come up in our brief chat.
I am actually from Indianapolis, both then and now, a fact which led Mr. Goldsmith to mention to my friend and I that his favorite films to have scored in the previous 20-ish years had been Hoosiers and Rudy, due to their being stories about people.
What I hope they still have in Boston is, at a little pub across from the Fenway baseball playing place, something called Sour Cream & Onion Flavored French Fries, which I discovered too late in my time there, and was certain would catch on and slowly make its way across the country, becoming a normal thing, as I had seen happen with salsa and hummus.
Uh oh, you do realize that you were being 1776'd i.e. "Oh Lorien, you can dance"? Eh, no matter. Yes, it was also in reference to the FSCrazies garage encounter after the concert. And I must say I miss the aroma of grilled bratwurst wafting down Lansdowne St. just before a ballgame.
Until Shoeless Joe and his Chicago teammates, Doc Graham, and Terence Mann & Co. entered and exited the diamond in the cornfield in Iowa—not to mention Yours Truly [see https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?forumID=1&pageID=1&threadID=60366&archive=0]--”cornfield” had always conjured visions of a little monster in Ohio who wished away the population of most of the world.
There's a thread entitled Richard Erdman dies currently posted in the other hemisphere. A character actor best known in film, arguably, as Stalag 17's “Hoffy,” Mr. Erdman on TV is best known as the guy who owned A Kind of a Stopwatch in a classic episode of The Twilight Zone. In fact, a picture of his “McNulty” prominently graced the obit in the New York Times.
The influence of that iconic anthology series on my burgeoning love of film music as a youngster has been mentioned ad nauseam over these past 21 years. One of my personal favorite threads early on... https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=7308&forumID=1&archive=1 ...dealt with TZ and Jerry Goldsmith and all sorts of “odd connections.” Richard Erdman had a connection with the then little kid who played the monster mentioned above in another classic episode from that same series.
Among Erdman's acting credits in the memorial thread bearing his name is Rascal. His fellow TZ alum, Billy Mumy, the little kid who played the little monster but who was now a teenager, is the film's star. I have never seen it but have been well aware of the book of the same title that spawned the 1969 film adaptation. It felt like every boy in grammar school read it except me.
I still haven't read it but will shortly watch the film for the first time thanks to the thread and Bob D and the DVD from the local library.
Speaking of iconic, there's a recent resurrected thread PICNIC (Clip with Holden/Novak & Dunning's (sic) score) that says it all. It has perhaps the finest and most memorable arrangement of Moonglow ever played.
“Connections.” The now adult Mr. Mumy “met” Mr. Goldsmith via cameo in a Twilight Zone: The Movie remake of the little monster and the cornfield. But the original (not scored by JG) includes a haunting piano version of Moonglow which is my earliest exposure to the song. Later in life I would discover a bit of a souped up Harry James rendition that has something of a film music feel in its abrupt conclusion.
“Connections.” “Exposure.” Unquestionably, one of my earliest lifelong indelible film viewing music imprints is Invaders From Mars. Again, lots of threads over the years. There is one, however, that stands out now and painfully so. Charles Thaxton is no longer with us as of a week or so ago. Gone before his time, like Thomas Scofield around a decade and a half ago.
Permit me to close with something from a thread twenty years ago, 1999--
“...They say the Net has shrunk the world but at the same time you know and I know it’s not really bringing people any closer together—it’s making them more afraid, drawing them apart. And that’s the great paradox in all this modern-day mass communication. Think about it: Before this century came along people didn’t move around and travel back and forth, they couldn’t pick up a phone—they wrote! Whole relationships were sustained—sometimes MADE—through letters. And people wrote with their minds, their hearts, their souls. And the language? Oh, my God. Think of the letters between John and Abigail Adams....
...Writing letters was an art. But suppose you form a chemistry, find a connection not through the pen but the keyboard...”
I was also there, at that time. Remember when Latham Conger came on and caused havoc.
Yeah, Latham Conger... funny, back in the old days. Still the discussions were mostly informed and courteous, though IIRC you did not even have to register at this board, you could just post. No random or clumsy screenings; an elegant board from a more civilized age.
Yeah, Latham Conger... funny, back in the old days. Still the discussions were mostly informed and courteous, though IIRC you did not even have to register at this board, you could just post. No random or clumsy screenings; an elegant board from a more civilized age.
I feel honoured to have been on the receiving end of Latham's offenses once or twice, but mostly he stayed out of my way.
It's hard to imagine that it started way back in 2000 and we keep coming back to it, but I think it's one of the best threads ever here, and embodies what FSM was created to support. I really enjoy reading everyone's thoughts about this topic! --Dana Wilcox
A perfect accompaniment to the tenor of this anniversary thing. Here is the thread from which the above is taken:
Today marks 15 years on the board for me. The only thing that hasn't changed over these fifteen years is that the Non-Film Score Discussion side is still more interesting than this, the "mainstream" side of the forum.
I think there are fewer arguments than their used to be, though there is also less humor and less discussion. I remember posts claiming how "close knit" the film score collector "community" here was, but I believe that's not so much the case in recent years. The new users coming up are less social in their posts as they must certainly be anti-social in "real" life. As a pal o'mine commented recently, "It makes me appreciate Thor [Haga]."
But it's still fun to be here.
"Reflections" (you rapidly-aging Boomers might remember this in your rare lucidity between LSD flashbacks)
Poor Jim. He never made it to his 16th anniversary. Rip Jimbo Brm
Why you serpent, yer tryin' to tempt him! Well, no matter. JP's anniversary is but days away. Perhaps he's saving his Return to Love Canal moment for this thread. A worthy reentry if ever there were.
Why you serpent, yer tryin' to tempt him! Well, no matter. JP's anniversary is but days away. Perhaps he's saving his Return to Love Canal moment for this thread. A worthy reentry if ever there were.
I'll do whatever it takes- insults, tempting, shaming....
Add to that the relative anonymity of the internet and you have a perfect situation for people really getting hurt.
I compare some of the hostility to driving on the road, silly as it may sound. But if someone drives recklessly and it could have hurt us, we are very quick to yell something out of the window or provide an obscene gesture free of charge. If someone bumped into you in person, most would not be so quick to yell or curse the individual, because one is actually face to face, and more often than not, we would be civil. However, with the internet and everyone's cool and mysterious user names, and the opportunity the forum gives us to vent and not be physically damaged. That way, for example I can call Thor a dumb viking, and not really have to worry about being impaled on his longsword. Or I could say that Batmusicfan has the worst taste in cars and not have to fear being cut down by a thrown batterrang. Or I could call CAT a mangy feline cur, and not have to look out for a flying female with claws extended. Or I could call Joe Esrey a hack student, and not wory a smidge about him dropkicking me through plated glass. You see, this forum provides a degree of protection from you violent monsters, and I for one am very thankful!
Probably the first (and last) attempt I ever made at having a sense of humor. I should do what Thor does: endlessly search for contemporary sitcoms so that I might understand laughter. I encourage other FSMers to do the same.
There's alot of Phelpsiana I won't miss. But his Spock-like dissection of the multidimensional. Norseman is just bout the best thing ever!
"Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away."
Had a feelin' twenty-one was gonna be a good year. But twenty-two...look at where we are now. Yeesh.
Nonetheless, it is now 22 years. No need for social distancing in this little cyber-community. No need to close borders. The occasional self-quarantine, true. The music endures.
