and the campanologists will take over the airwaves like anton karas

[theladyrose]

The Electric Penguins (Unofficial Campanologist Society) have been resurrected! In other words, we actually have music for the first time in months! It's mostly suitable female choir pieces, but if I ever become unlazy I might actually bother to write down the arrangements that I made up of random songs. Hopefully it won't get stolen like our last three sets. And maybe we'll have enough players so that we don't each play four chimes, although one's coordination does improve quite a bit in the process.

I attempted to give myself a crash course in music theory (and I mean really basic stuff) with some help from shakeitdown. Reading David Cooper's Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo has proved to be amazingly useful in that I've already seen most of the complicated jargon involving complex dissonant chords and whatnot. That doesn't mean I actually understand all of the pitch and rhythm stuff but I need to write up an independent study proposal first before I get thrown into medieval plainchants.

I feel the onset of a Man from UNCLE obsession coming as Ellie rented the first six episodes from the library this afternoon. I've always wanted to see this series so that I could see non-British cult 60's spy shows and be less of a snobbish anglophile, among other things. So far it seems a lot like an American Avengers with two male leads but it's rather addictive all the same. Unfortunately there aren't any other MfUNCLE episodes at the library, so would anyone happen to know where I could find more on VHS or DVD?

Comments

[madbard.livejournal.com]

> Reading David Cooper's Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo

Is this an essay? Journal article?

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

It's a book in the Film Score Guides (can't remember the publisher, sorry) series. I believe that the author also wrote a guide for Herrmann's the Ghost and Mrs. Muir. The only other guide in this specific series I've actually seen is for Max Steiner's Now, Voyager; they're not very easy to find.

Man from Uncle

[drewshi.livejournal.com]

Well, as it's not in official release you could go crazy on ebay:

44 episodes on 22 disks

Or go for the entire series for just a little more:

Entire series

I'm surprised this hasn't made it to DVD yet.

Re: Man from Uncle

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Hi there! Thanks for pointing those out to me. I'm a little confused about the MfUNCLE DVD situation-as far as I know of there were no MfUNCLE American DVD releases but I've heard that they're available abroad. Or were they some kind of American limited edition release?

Re: Man from Uncle

[drewshi.livejournal.com]

I know there were American releases in volumes on VHS, but I think it's something you also need eBay to track down these days.