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Monday At The Movies

Well, slightly hinted yesterday, my choice of soundtrack album today is the classic sci-fi horror movie The Thing. First time I saw that film I jumped out of my cinema seat as much as the first Alien movie. Morricone is known for lush orchestration but less so for electronic scores. This is still one of the finest soundtracks around.

Ennio Morricone - The Thing (Complete Score)

00:00 A Ship of Some Kind
01:44 Main Title
02:00 Anarctica, Winter 1982
04:36 It Begins...
05:26 The Norwegian Camp
11:57 The Man-Thing
13:22 What Appears to be Normal
14:20 Weird and Pissed off
15:24 Burn It
16:34 Autopsy on an Alien
18:17 The Crater
21:18 The Probability of Infection
23:57 The Find of the Century
24:22 It's Bennings
25:28 The Chameleon Strikes in the Dark
26:32 The Thing that was Bennings
28:36 Nobody Trusts Anybody / Fuchs
31:00 Mac's Shack
33:50 No Way Out
36:38 The Garry Blair Thing
37:00 The Real Thing
37:57 One Last Thing
40:22 End Title

Enjoy

Monday Musings

Another dull day - overcast milky whiteout. Still, four items sold on eBay over the weekend help to bring a smile.

This morning I was preoccupied with the completion of reports and started another mystery phone call job. Now I do have a visit to do this week in Medway which I will probably do either tomorrow or Wednesday. After then, I will be checking what the next measures the government will bring in to tackle the COVID problem. The Medway one should be okay as it is a food shop but I have others which are not food shops and I hope that they will be open again. One such visit is a chocolate shop at Bluewater and a charity shop elsewhere. We shall see.

I have almost completed another paperback book , and this will be number ninety-six. So it looks like I am well on the way to reach a hundred reads by the end of the year.

So now, before it gets darker today, I will post these items to expectant recipients from my sales. Oh and I better sort out my Xmas gifts to bro and sister-in-law as well as friends such as Phil, Gareth and Ewart this week. It is December tomorrow.

Today I Have Been Listening To ...

The following CDs -

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu
William Onyeabor - Who Is William Onyeabor?
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
Ben O'Neill - Tryptical
Scott Walker - Scott 3

Simply because it is now raining outside - but I have posted those items off

Heavy and Loud!

Music that I have been banging my head to like an old rocker - for all you metal heads!

Iggy Pop - Real Wild Child (Wild One)

PainKiller - Scud Attack

The Blue Humans - To A Higher Time

Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots

Sunn O))) - Hunting & Gathering

PLAY LOUD

Enjoy

After the Heavy We Need The Light

Four selections pulled from the collection -


Brian Wilson presents SMiLE - Heroes and Villains

The project was originally planned to be released in 1967 as a Beach Boys album, written in collaboration between Wilson and lyricist Van Dyke Parks.
It was conceived as a musical journey across America from East to West, beginning at Plymouth Rock and ending in Hawaii, traversing some of the great themes of modern American history and culture.

The original failure to complete SMiLE has been attributed to several factors: internal resistance towards the project, legal battles with Capitol Records, technical difficulties with recording, Carl Wilson's draft battle, and Brian Wilson's escalating drug use, mental health issues, and creative dissatisfaction with the project.

Nearly 40 years later, Wilson chose to revisit the material with Parks, releasing it as a solo album in 2004.

Scott Walker - Jackie

Laura Nyro - Wedding Bell Blues

Can - Mother Sky (1970)

ENJOY

Good Night