Gutbrain Records
c/o Rob Price
[No P.O. Box at the moment]
rob@gutbrain.com

Coming Soon:

Submarine Pictures
Rob Price, Reuben Radding & Matt Moran

CDs available:


I Really Do Not See The Signal
Rob Price, Ellery Eskelin,
Trevor Dunn & Jim Black

Get Lost
Rob Price & David Grollman

At Sunset
Rob Price, Ellery Eskelin,
Trevor Dunn & Joey Baron

Providence
Mr. Dorgon & Laura Cromwell

Blue Punctilios
Combination No. 10
(Rob Price, Victor Rice
& Ara Babajian)

Download:

(download)
Chris Cawthray, Rob Price, Ed Zankowski

Alice Bierhorst
Joey Baron
Sandy Bell
Martin Bisi
Jim Black
Shelley Burgon
Chris Cawthray
Jason Crigler
Laura Cromwell
Andrew D'Angelo
Jonathan Dixon
Mr. Dorgon
Trevor Dunn
Ellery Eskelin
Lee Feldman
Scott Friedlander
Pete Galub
Greta Gertler
Jen Gilleran
Michael Gomez
Curtis Hasselbring
Head vs. Wall
Dan Hewins
Chesley Hicks
Kayt Hoch
Wayne Kral
Briggan Krauss
Rebecca Martin
Lucio Menegon
John Mettam
Matt Moran
Now's the Time
Andy O'Neill
Reuben Radding
Ted Reichman
Elliott Sharp
Ches Smith

Ada Online
Ark Square
The Astronomy Picture of the Day
Barnacle Press
Bear Family
Boing Boing
CD Japan
Cinebeats
Cinematic Titanic
Daily Howler
Downtown Music Gallery
DramaWiki
Dusty Groove America
The Fate of the Artist
Film Music Society
Film Score Monthly
Get Your War On
Godzilla Monster Music
Hang Fire Books
The Bernard Herrmann Society
Japan Society
jwz
Marlys
The Mercury Theatre on the Air
Midnight Eye
Motif Backgammon
Nabokov Online Journal
NYCnosh
Pathologically Polymathic
Pulp of the Day
Rigorous Intuition
Bruce Schneier
Sakaya
Screen Archives Entertainment
Slow Wave
Soundtrack Collector
Sunday Press
The Times Literary Supplement
Toho Kingdom
Tokyo Food Page
xkcd
Zembla


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Curtis Hasselbring, Rob Price, Ches Smith, Trevor Dunn & Shelley Burgon
(photo by Alice Bierhorst)

Rob Price, Jim Black, Trevor Dunn & Ellery Eskelin (photo by Scott Friedlander)

Rob Price, Chris Cawthray & Ed Zankowski (photo by by Seven Stock)

Rob Price & David Grollman
(photo by Alice Bierhorst)

Rob Price is on other CDs:

Jubilee
Alice Bierhorst

Smell the Glove
Mr. Dorgon

Dim Sum Clip Job
Harmolodic Jeopardy

Game of Death
Reprisal

APPEARANCES

Friday, 07 December 2007, 9:23 pm Dexter Bierhorst Price Friday, 2008-10-17, 11:00pm — Leftover Daylight, Toronto, ON, Canada Chris Cawthray (drums), Rob Price (guitar) Ed Zankowski (tenor sax) Saturday, 2008-10-18, 8:00pm — The Avant-Garde Bar, Ottawa, ON, Canada Chris Cawthray (drums), Rob Price (guitar) Ed Zankowski (tenor sax)

Friday, 10 October 2008

Yet another handsome volume arrived in the mail the other day, Ray Harryhausen — Master of the Majicks Volume 2: The American Films from Archive Editions.

When I first heard about this book, I panicked. Why didn't I already have Volume 1? It turns out that Volume 2 is the first to be published. The plan is to publish Volume 3 second and Volume 1 third. This is fine.

I'm still (slowly) reading the amazing new Library of American Comics release Scorchy Smith and the Art of Noel Sickles, so I've had to put this Harryhausen book on hold.

The Harryhausen book looks really great, though. I spent a few minutes flipping through it and was very impressed. When I saw this reproduction of a letter from the Department of Defense concerning Project Bluebook and a book called The Flying Saucers Are Real, I got very excited, thinking, "I have that book!".

I was wrong, though. I don't have that book. I have these books:

The Allingham book I bought in San Francisco. I can't remember where I got the Ruppelt book.

Thursday, 09 October 2008

Spotted in Manhattan yesterday, a pointed comment on the current financial crisis.

Wednesday, 08 October 2008

Sarah Palin? Yawn. Give me the South Carolina nominee for Miss Teen USA 2007 anyday.

That YouTube clip comes with an extremely unattactive option: "View all 95,533 comments".

Tuesday, 07 October 2008

The car chase in Bullitt is justly celebrated. One of the things that makes it great is Lalo Schifrin's music, particularly the lack of it. He writes a prelude to the chase itself, as the two cars slowly drive around, preparing for the inevitable clash. The music stops and the click of a seatbelt fastener acts as the report of a starting pistol. From that point on, the sounds of the engines and tires are the music.

(What makes the famous chase in The French Connection so good is Gene Hackman's face. He makes that scene exciting almost all by himself.)

It seems that few people think about not scoring scenes these days. One of the reasons I found Hellboy 2 to be dull was that Danny Elfman's score runs throughout, stopping only when Guillermo del Toro wanted us to hear a Barry Manilow song. That's how I remember it, anyway.

A couple of years ago there was an article about movie music in the Palm Beach Post. The author, Scott Eyman, addressed one of the problems when he wrote:

Monday, 06 October 2008

The twenty-ninth Soundtrack of the Week is Intrada's release of Boy on a Dolphin, scored by Hugo Friedhofer.

This is some of my favorite "underwater" music, right up there with Bernard Herrmann's Beneath the Twelve Mile Reef, John Barry's Thunderball and Saint-Saëns' "The Aquarium" from "Carnival of the Animals". There are also several beautiful cues written in a Greek style, similar to klezmer and Middle Eastern music.

Boy on a Dolphin is perhaps distinguished by being one of the first movies — maybe the first? — in which the female lead walks in a specially dug trench so she won't tower over her shorter male co-star. The leads are Sophia Loren and Alan Ladd here, but I remember hearing the same story about The Blue Lagoon with Brooke Shields and some guy.

Saturday, 04 October 2008

My brother sent me this link to Joey Baron solo. I don't spend a lot of time on YouTube but this is worth watching. Why isn't this multi-camera shoot of his performance available as a DVD? I would buy at least a dozen!

In other news, Jesse Reklaw has a new book out, The Night of Your Life. His previous book, Dreamtoons, (now out of print) has long been one of our favorites. People tell Jesse their dreams and he makes comic strips out of them. For a sample, look at his website, Slow Wave.

Friday, 03 October 2008

The Japanese movie Kairyu daikessen (Ultimate Dragon Battle, I think it would translate as, more or less) has several other titles (according to the Internet Movie Database): The Magic Serpent, Froggo and Droggo, Grand Duel in Magic, Les monstres de l'apocalypse and, my favorite, Ninja Apocalypse.

If I had seen this movie twenty-five years ago or so, it would have changed my life. It begins and ends with scenes of combined ninja action and giant monster battles. In between is a lot of flying around, snakes turning into people, scrolls turning into snakes, explosions, throwing stars, giant magic glowing things and tons of other stuff.

It's perfect for an afternoon when you've taken both cold and allergy medicines.

Thursday, 02 October 2008

In 1970 Tom Stoppard wrote a screenplay about Galileo. It never became a film, or a play, as Stoppard at one point thought it might. In 2003 Areté magazine published the full text of Stoppard's Galileo, and it is certainly worth reading.

In the second scene, Galileo's student Cosimo asks, "Does it really matter whether the sun moves round the earth or the other way round?"

Galileo replies: "Matter? Not to the earth or the sun — but there are interests, in Rome, for whom a moving earth is a threat to stability… just another planet, whirling through space, no longer the apple of God's eye — you see? When dogma prevails over truth, it matters, yes."

Wednesday, 01 October 2008

That's Dexter with my old teddy bear.

Happy sake day!

On the subject of books, this comic from xkcd expresses my own feelings rather well.

And coming soon, perhaps in time for Halloween, is a new Gutbrain CD: