Halloween Playlist Day Three

by on October 16, 2013 at 7:06 am
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For the next item in our Halloween playlist we have the opening to The Nightmare Before Christmas composed by Danny Elfman.

I’m not a big fan of Elfman’s work,most of the time he sounds like he’s quoting himself, but when he is good he is very good and the score for Nightmare is one of those times.

The movie as a whole is one of the reasons I became a fan of Henry Selick‘s work. It’s wonderfully innovative.

I was very tempted to use Marilyn Manson’s version for this but it’s best to stick with the original don’t you think?

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Halloween Soundtrack Day Two

by on October 15, 2013 at 7:00 am
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For the second night  will be Carpe Noctem (Seize the Night) from Tanz der Vampire the German Musical version of The Fearless Vampire Killers.

I’ve been very fond of German musical theater lately and Tanz der Vampire is one of my favorites. Regrettably it bombed when it came stateside. From what I’ve heard the producers didn’t understand how something could be comedy AND horror so turned it into a ridiculous farce.

If you’d like an English version of this Meatloaf did a very good version of it. I went with the original because I like the dance number.

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Halloween Soundtrack Day One

by on October 14, 2013 at 11:57 am
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Well it looks like the season is upon us and with Halloween just half a moth a way I thought It’s time to get into the mood with my Halloween playlist. This playlist is very much a work in progress and since I generally don’t work on it any time other than October it’s not very big and mostly classical. I’m always looking out for suggestions (I definitely plan to compare notes with a friend of mine whose collection of Halloween music can be measured in days.)

So anyway let’s start with one of my favorites, Modest Mussorgsky‘s Night on Bald Mountain. It’s a wonderful theme poem that embodies the raw emotion of a witch’s sabbath and the terror of the unknown.

Like most people I discovered Mussorgsky’s work through Disney’s Fantasia and was blown away from it. I’ve always been a huge fan of the animator Bill Tytla and his animation of Chernobog is easily his strongest work.

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Kris at the Geoduck Festival

by on October 12, 2013 at 12:32 pm
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Kris-as-touristJust a quick color shot of Kris in all of her unstoppable glory as she was at the Geoduck Festival.

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Friday Museum Sketches

by on October 11, 2013 at 9:33 am
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StLukeToday’s Sketch is of St. Luke the Evangelist by Giovnni Di Paolo (c 1470-75)  from the Seattle Art Museum.

This piece is another reason I’ve slowly begun to love medieval art. In most of the art history courses I took in college would have been using a work like this as the final step to the Reneisance pointing out the lack of perspective and anatomical accuracy and for the longest time I would agree with them looking down my nose at works like this.

But when you really look at these works and see the intricate brushwork you see the artists of this periods new exactly what they were doing and were very good at it.

Another thing I like about this painting is the bull. Now the winged bull is the symbol of St. Luke and you will see it in nearly every image to help identify the saint. But in this picture it looks like a strange but very cute pet.

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