2014 March 07 • Friday

The J. G. Ballard project continues. After purchasing the large volume of Ballard's complete stories, whose contents are in chronological order, I thought it might be fun to read the novels in chronological order at the same time, going back and forth between short and long works.

The Ballard reading is interrupted by reading several other books. I'd like to keep my sanity. Once the fiction is out of the way there's also a biography and a new collection of interviews to read.

The Unlimited Dream Company is the latest novel in our sequence.

The quality of the writing is extremely high with brilliant metaphors on almost every page. The book itself I found very difficult to get through, repetitive and not very rewarding as a novel.

It has a great first line: "In the first place, why did I steal the aircraft?".

It's hard for me to say what the book is about. The narrator steals an airplane and crashes it into the Thames in Shepperton. He either survives the crash or is resurrected or reborn or something after the crash. Once in Shepperton he becomes something of a god, healing people, absorbing nature's essence, transforming the suburb into a jungle paradise, granting the gift of flight to the inhabitants.

This kind of business goes on and on and is repeated over and over. The effect is like the prose equivalent of a gallery of surrealist paintings all of one period or on one subject. It's the most challenging of Ballard's books for me so far. I can't honestly say that I enjoyed it or understood it though there are things about it I admired.

2014 March 05 • Wednesday

If you spend less than a minute searching the web for a Japanese movie poster for Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man, you'll find this.

But I noticed this other one in the background of a scene in Yasuzo Masumura's Blue Sky Maiden.

I'd like to see the whole poster. Looks like an interesting design.

2014 March 03 • Wednesday

David Shire's music for The Godchild is the 308th Soundtrack of the Week.

This is part of Film Score Monthly's Northwest Passage: Classic Scores from M-G-M, Vol. 2.

There isn't much music, only about 22 minutes for a 15-piece ensemble. There's a lot of guitar playing on it and a recurring bluesy theme. Some of it reminds me of stuff Bill Frisell would do about twenty years later. It's really great!


Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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Soundtracks of the Week
308) David Shire:
The Godchild
307) Donald Fagen & Walter Becker:
You've Got To Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat
306) Herbie Hancock:
Blow-Up
305) Various:
Deutsch Krimi-Musik Vol. 1
304) Nelson Riddle:
The Rogues
303) Charles Bernstein:
Gator
302) Jerry Fielding:
The Gambler
301) Dimitri Tiomkin:
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
300) Bernard Herrmann:
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
299) Piero Piccioni:
7 cadaveri per Scotland Yard
298) Masahiko Sato and Toshiyuki Miyama & New Herd:
Jaga wa hashitta
297) John Lewis:
Odds Against Tomorrow
296) Peter Thomas:
The Big Boss
295) Henry Mancini:
Breakfast at Tiffany's
294) David Whitaker:
Hammerhead
293) Vangelis:
L'Apocalypse des animaux
292) Georges Delerue:
L'Aine des Ferchaux
&
Michel Colombier:
Un flic
291) Henry Mancini:
Condorman
290) Carlo Rustichelli:
L'isola di Arturo
289) Howard Blake:
The Avengers: Original Tara King Season Score
288) Laurie Johnson:
The Avengers: Original Soundtrack Recordings
287) Jerry Goldsmith:
Sebastian
286) Toru Takemitsu:
Car Thieves
285) Gianni Ferrio:
Gringo, getta il fucile!
284) Cliff Martinez:
Only God Forgives
283) Honk:
Five Summer Stories
282) Henry Mancini:
The Days of Wine and Roses
281) Ennio Morricone:
Arabian Nights
280) Gino Marinuzzi, Jr.:
Planet of the Vampires
279) Bud Shank:
Slippery When Wet
278) Maurice Jarre:
Dreamscape
277) Kazuyoshi Saito:
Fish Story
276) Carlo Savina:
Ombre roventi
275) James William Guercio:
Electra Glide in Blue
274) Neal Hefti:
Duel at Diablo
273) Kenyon Hopkins:
The Fugitive Kind
272) Jo Hisaishi:
Kiki's Delivery Service
271) Elmer Bernstein:
The Rat Race
270) David Raksin:
Too Late Blues
269) Georges Delerue:
The Conformist
&
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
268) The Secret Agents:
Mission: Impossible and Other Action Themes
267) Franz Waxman:
Career
266) Various:
Monstrous Movie Music
265) Various:
The Hellcats
264) Dimitri Tiomkin:
55 Days at Peking
263) Armando Trovaioli:
Rapporto Fuller, base Stoccolma
262) John Barry:
Ruby Cairo
261) Ennio Morricone:
Agent 505—Todesfalle Beirut
&
Il Successo
260) John Carpenter & Alan Howarth:
Escape from New York
259) Jan Hammer:
Miami Vice
258) Various:
Tokyo-a-Go-Go
257) Carlo Rustichelli:
Milano Rovente
256) Franco Micalizzi:
Napoli Violenta
255) Albert Verrecchia:
Roma drogata: la polizia non può intervenire
254) Basil Kirchin:
Primitive London
&
The Freelance
253) Duke Ellington:
Paris Blues
252) Phillip Lambro:
Los Angeles, 1937
251) Jerry Goldsmith:
Chinatown
250) Paul Motian:
Punishment Park
249) Maurice Jarre:
El Condor
&
Villa Rides!
248) Various:
Star Trek: The Original Series
247) Various:
That Thing You Do!
246) Vangelis:
Blade Runner
245) Kunihiko Murai:
Akuma no temari-uta
244) Maurice Jarre:
Topaz
243) Franco De Gemini:
From Beat to Beat
242) Jerry Goldsmith:
Warning Shot
241) Stelvio Cipriani:
L'assassino e' al telefono
240) Bernard Herrmann:
It's Alive
239) Craig Safan:
Wolfen
238) James Horner:
Wolfen
237) Kunio Miyauchi:
The Human Vapor
236) Masaru Sato:
The H-Man
235) Sei Ikeno:
The Secret of Telegian
234) Victor Young:
Johnny Guitar
233) Henry Mancini et al.:
Rock, Pretty Baby
232) Georges
Delerue: Rapture
231) David Shire:
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
230) Michael Kamen:
Road House
229) Nino Rota:
Giulietta degli spiriti
228) Kenyon Hopkins:
The Hustler
227) Duke Ellington:
Anatomy of a Murder
226) Basil Poledouris:
RoboCop
225) Alex North:
Dragonslayer
224) Huang Zhan & Lui Tsung-tak:
Green Snake
223) Ennio Morricone:
Il serpente
222) Augusto Martelli:
Il dio serpente
221) Vladimir Ussachevsky:
Film Music
220) Angelo Badalamenti:
Twin Peaks Music: Season Two and More
219) Nico Fidenco:
I Miei Primi 50 Anni da Cantante e Compositore
218) Fred Karlin:
Ravagers
217) Various:
80's Television's Hits
216) Various:
70's Television's Hits Vol. 2
215) Various:
70's Television's Hits
214) Various:
60's Television's Hits Vol. 2
213) Various:
60's Television's Hits
212) Kanno Yugo:
SP (Security Police)
211) Michiru Oshima:
Gokusen
210) Jerry Fielding:
Straw Dogs
209) Carlo Savina:
Malenka, la nipote del vampiro
&
I diabolici convegni
208) Waldo De Los Rios:
A Town Called Hell
&
Savage Pampas
207) Van Cleave:
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
206) Percy Faith:
The Oscar
205) Sally Kubota:
The Toyota 2000GT Documentary 1965–1970
204) The Back-Wash Rhythm Band:
The Golden Breed
203) War:
Youngblood
202) Ennio Morricone:
Matchless
201) Akihiko Matsumoto:
Bayside Shakedown: The Movie
200) Bernard Herrmann:
White Witch Doctor
199) Jerry Goldsmith:
The Swarm
198) Nico Fidenco:
Agente Logan Missione Ypotron
197) Henry Mancini:
99 & 44/100% Dead!
196) Michael J. Lewis:
Theater of Blood
195) The Reds & Michel Rubini:
Manhunter
194) Elmer Bernstein:
Rampage
193) John Williams:
Family Plot
192) Bernard Purdie:
Lialeh
191) various:
Faces
190) Kunio Miyauchi:
Ultra Q
189) Giuliano Sorgini:
The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue
&
John Cacavas:
Horror Express
188) Angelo Francesco Lavagnino:
Il castello dei morti vivi (Castle of the Living Dead)
187) Goblin:
Zombi
186) De Wolfe Music Library:
Dawn of the Dead
185) Capitol Hi-"Q" Production Music Library:
Night of the Living Dead
184) Nico Fidenco:
2+5 Missione Hydra
183) Stu Phillips:
A Time to Every Purpose, The Name of the Game Is … Kill and The Meal
182) Laurence Rosenthal:
Requiem for a Heavyweight & A Raisin in the Sun
181) Nora Orlandi:
The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh
180) Frank Cordell:
Khartoum & Mosquito Squadron
179) Popol Vuh:
Heart of Glass
178) John Cameron:
Psychomania
177) Don Gere:
Werewolves on Wheels
176) Les Baxter:
Hell's Belles
175) Max Steiner:
A Summer Place
174) Luis Bacalov:
Summertime Killer
173) Basil Poledouris:
Big Wednesday
172) Les Baxter:
Beach Blanket Bingo
171) Bernard Herrmann:
The Day the Earth Stood Still
170) Bernard Herrmann:
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Volume 1
169) Bernard Herrmann:
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
168) Bernard Herrmann:
On Dangerous Ground
167) Chuji Kinoshita:
Mito Koumon
166) Fukuda Yasuhiko:
Bakuhatsu! Sukeban Hunters: Sokatsu Nagurikomi Sakusen
165) Yamamoto Naozumi et al.:
All Star Show: Atsumi Kiyoshi
164) Isao Tomita and The Helpful Soul:
A Thousand & One Nights
163) Takeo Yamashita:
Playgirl & Playgirl Q
162) various:
Hawaiian Eye
161) Morton Stevens:
Hawaii Five-0
160) Henry Mancini:
The Hawaiians
159) Elmer Bernstein:
Hawaii
158) Shunsuke Kikuchi:
Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs
157) Jerry Goldsmith and Morton Stevens:
Cain's Hundred
156) Howard Shore:
Crash
155) Henry Mancini:
Experiment in Terror
154) Daniele Amfitheatrof:
Bird of Paradise
&
Hugo Friedhofer:
Lydia Bailey
153) Francis Lai:
Jeune fille libre le soir (The Babysitter)
152) Igo Kantor, Bert Shefter and Paul Sawtell: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
&
James Griffith and Hal Hopper: Lorna
&
Igo Kantor: Vixen
151) John Barry:
The Quiller Memorandum
150) John Williams:
Black Sunday
149) Gianni Ferrio:
Black Box Affair: Il Mondo Trema
148) James Brown:
Black Caesar
147) Jerry Fielding:
The Black Bird
146) Gene Page:
Blacula
145) Vasco Vassil Kojucharov:
Dio Perdoni La Mia Pistola & Anche per Django Le Carogne Hanno Un Prezzo
144) Joe Harnell:
The Bionic Woman: "Once a Thief", "Deadly Ringer: Part 1" & "Bionic Beauty"
143) James Horner:
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
142) Nico Fidenco:
La Via Della Prostituzione (Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade)
141) Nico Fidenco:
Emanuelle e gli ultimi cannibali
140) Nico Fidenco:
Emanuelle Around the World
139) Nico Fidenco:
Emanuelle in America
138) Nico Fidenco:
Black Emanuelle Goes East
137) Nico Fidenco:
Black Emanuelle
136) Stelvio Cipriani:
Il triangolo delle Bermude, Bermude: La fossa maledetta & Uragano … Bermude l'ultimo S.O.S
135) Taku Izumi:
Giant Space Monster Girara (a.k.a. The X from Outer Space)
134) Kikuchi Shunsuke:
Edogawa Rampo Series: Akechi Kogoro
133) Waldo De Los Rios: ¿Quien puede matar a un niño? (Who Can Kill a Child?) & La Residencia (The House That Screamed)
132) Il Reale Impero Brittanico:
Perché si uccidono
131) Patrick Williams:
Cuba
130) Yuji Koseki:
Mothra
129) Marcello Giombini:
Return of Sabata
128) Jerry Fielding:
The Big Sleep
127) Bronislau Kaper:
Home from the Hill
126) Lalo Schifrin:
The Wrath of God
125) Shelly Manne:
Young Billy Young
124) Bernard Herrmann:
Cape Fear
123) Akira Ifukube:
The Three Treasures
122) Maurice Jarre:
Ma Période Française
121) Chappell Recorded Music Library:
The Prisoner: The Complete Chappell Recorded Music Library Cues
120) Les Baxter:
Panic in Year Zero!
119) Charles Bernstein:
White Lightning
118) Ravi Shankar and Ustad Vilayat Khan:
Film India
117) Toru Takemitsu:
Kawaita hana (Pale Flower)
116) Mario Migliardi:
A Come Andromeda
115) Elmer Bernstein:
Stripes
114) Antonio Carlos Jobim & Vinicius de Moraes:
Orfeu da Conceição
113) Sadao Bekku:
Matango
112) Mikis Theodorakis:
Z
111) Shelly Manne:
The Proper Time
110) Ennio Morricone:
Corleone
109) Henry Mancini:
The Pink Panther
108) Nino Rota:
Il gattopardo
107) Piero Piccioni:
Il bell'Antonio
106) Earle Hagen:
I Spy
105) Akira Ifukube, Isao Tomita, Kunihiko Murai, Shigeru Ikeno:
Zato Ichi: The Best Cuts
104) Ennio Morricone:
The Five Man Army
103) Joe Harnell:
The Bionic Woman: "Doomsday Is Tomorrow Part 2" and "The Martians Are Coming, The Martians Are Coming"
102) Gil Mellé:
The Andromeda Strain
101) Kenyon Hopkins:
The Reporter
100) Quincy Jones:
The Deadly Affair
99) The Sandals:
Endless Summer
98) Shelly Manne:
Jazz Gunn
97) Bruno Nicolai:
La Battaglia del Deserto
96) Seitaro Omori:
Arashi o yobu otoko
95) Max Steiner:
She
94) Maurice Jarre:
Lawrence of Arabia
93) Gian Piero Reverberi and Gian Franco Reverberi:
Le Malizie di Venere
Carlo Savina:
Hypnos: Follia di Massacro
Piero Umiliani:
28 Minuti per 3 Millioni di Dollari
92) Yasushi Akutagawa:
Hakkodasan
91) Barry Gray:
UFO
90) James Horner:
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
89) Jerry Fielding:
The Mechanic
88) Elmer Bernstein:
Cannon for Cordoba and From Noon Till Three
87) Ennio Morricone:
Città Violenta (Violent City)
86) Charles Bernstein:
Mr. Majestyk
85) John Barry:
The White Buffalo
84) Berto Pisano:
La Morte Ha Sorrsio all'Assassino
&
Stefano Liberati & Elio Maestosi:
La Mano Che Nutre La Morte & Le Amanti del Mostro
83) Eric Demarsan:
L'Armée des Ombres (Army of Shadows)
82) Alex North:
Hard Contract
81) Jerry Fielding:
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
80) Ernest Gold:
Exodus
79) Andre Previn:
Two for the Seesaw
78) Masao Yagi and Shunsuke Kikuchi:
Kensyu Takakura Shuen Sakuhin Best Selection
77) Marcello Giombini:
Sabata
76) Masaru Sato:
The Film Music of Masaru Satoh Vol. 11
75) Booker T and the MGs:
Up Tight!
74) Ennio Morricone:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
73) R. D. Burman:
The Train
72) Bernard Herrmann:
North by Northwest
71) Hajime Kubaragi:
Doberman Cop
70) Nico Fidenco & Gianni Dell'Orso:
Sharaz and Ragan
69) Erich Wolfgang Korngold:
The Prince and the Pauper
68) Roy Budd:
Get Carter
67) Laurence Rosenthal:
Who'll Stop the Rain
66) David Grusin:
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
65) Bernard Herrmann:
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
64) Angela Morley:
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
63) Yugo Kanno:
Suspect X no Kenshin
62) Chuji Kinoshita, Takeo Watanabe and Taichiro Kosugi:
Junko Fuji Best Collection Volume Two
61) Piero Umiliani:
La Morte Bussa Due Volte
60) Barry Gray:
"Stand By for Action!"
59) Maury Laws & Jules Bass:
Mad Monster Party
58) Angelo Francesco Lavagnino:
L'Impero del Sole
57) Jerry Goldsmith, Harry Sukman et al.:
Dr. Kildare
56) Davie Allan & The Arrows:
Cycle Breed
55) Roberto Pregadio & Romano Mussolini:
Kriminal
54) various:
Ein Wigwam Steht in Babelsberg
53) Piero Umiliani:
Due Mafiosi Contro Goldginger and Due Mafiosi Contro Al Capone
52) Frankie Chan:
Ashes of Time
51) Mario Migliardi:
Matalo!
50) David Shire:
The Conversation
49) various:
Go! Cinemania Reel 4: Screaming A Go Go
48) Georges Delerue:
Day of the Dolphin
47) Goblin:
La Via Della Droga
46) Alfred Newman:
The Best of Everything
45) Akira Ifukube:
The Tale of Osaka Castle
44) Philip Green:
All Night Long
43) John Barry:
Starcrash
42) Bronislau Kaper and Heitor Villa-Lobos:
Green Mansions
41) De Wolfe Music Library:
Kung Fu Super Sounds
40) Bernard Herrmann:
The Thing from Another World
&
Dimitri Tiomkin:
Take the High Ground
39) Nora Orlandi:
Il dolce corpo di Deborah
38) Peter Thomas:
Chariots of the Gods
37) Henry Mancini:
Silver Streak
36) R. D. Burman:
Sholay
35) Jim O'Rourke:
United Red Army
34) Ennio Morricone:
…e per tutto un cielo di stelle
33) Ron Grainer:
The Omega Man
32) Isao Tomita & Kunio Miyauchi:
Mighty Jack
31) Miklós Rózsa:
El Cid
30) Robby Poitevin:
Little Rita nel West
29) Hugo Friedhofer:
Boy on a Dolphin
28) David Shire: Farewell, My Lovely and Monkey Shines
27) Yukihiro Sawada:
Yukihiro Sawada's World
26) Bernard Herrmann:
The Kentuckian and Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot
25) Gladys Knight & The Pips:
Claudine and Pipe Dreams
24) Franz Waxman:
My Cousin Rachel
23) Edwin Astley:
Department S
22) Mikis Theodorakis:
Five Miles to Midnight
21) Bronislau Kaper, Daniele Amfitheatrof and Jeff Alexander:
The Naked Spur: Classic Western Scores from M-G-M
20) Trevor Dunn:
Four Films
19) Les Baxter:
The Dunwich Horror
18) Masaru Sato & Koji Izumi:
Jikiru to Haido
17) Elmer Bernstein:
Gangs of New York, The Journey of Natty Gann and The Scarlet Letter
16) Dominic Frontiere:
The Outer Limits
15) Bernard Herrmann:
Mysterious Island
14) Lalo Schifrin:
Kelly's Heroes
13) Masao Yagi:
Hiko Shojo Yoko (Delinquent Girl Yoko)
12) Albert Elms & Ron Grainer:
Man in a Suitcase
11) Ennio Morricone:
Giornata Nera per l'Ariete
10) Max Steiner:
Pursued
9) José Sola:
Jazz en el Cien Negro Español
8) Bruno Maderna:
La Morte Ha Fatto l'Uovo
7) Mina Aoe & Masahiko Sato:
Onna no Keisatsu
6) various:
Kosmos: Soundtracks of Eastern Germany's Adventures in Space
5) Jerry Goldsmith:
Alien
4) Jacques Loussier:
Dark of the Sun
3) Keiichiro Akagi:
Nikkatsu Collection
2) Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson, David Vorhaus and Dudley Simpson:
The Tomorrow People
1) Luboš Fišer:
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
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