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Quite Possibly The Greatest Movie Soundtrack In The History Of Movie Soundtracks

by Willmovies, music 12/17/200712/17/2007Comments are Disabled

Am I exaggerating in the headline? Maybe a little, but in watching Charles Burnett’s 1977 Killer of Sheep (IMDB link) last night I was extraordinarily moved throughout this strangely compelling and haunting film about life in mid-1970s Watts — equally so by the evocative music choices that complement it. If the soundtrack is not available …

Chill With The ‘Chella

by Willmusic 04/28/2007Comments are Disabled

Ya know, I’m down with this music festival whose name it shares with the valley where it takes place out there happening right now as it does every year. I know there’s a boatload of bands and it’s hot and bottles of water are $20 dollars and the porta-potties are filthy and there’s a whole …

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One Of My Favorite Places In The World

by Willmusic, tidbits 04/01/2007Comments are Disabled

It may look like I know what I’m doing but truth is I don’t play the guitar. Three years after getting this acoustic I know a few chords and the four-notes of the theme music to Monday Night Football and a simple version of the famous part of Beethoven’s 9th and not much else and …

Radio Killed The Radio Star

by Willmusic 08/21/200608/21/2006Comments are Disabled

There’s been a lot of anger and frustration among country-western music fans over the sudden switch of their flagship station KZLA last week to a more contemporary urban dance music format. Even though I’ve never once in my life listened to the station I can certainly feel their pain and relate to their cries of …

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iShouldn’t Have But iDid

by Willgadgets, happiness, music 08/11/200608/11/2006Comments are Disabled

Since the word count on my last freelance gig generated me a few additional ducats, iRewarded myself with an iPod Shuffle and the wonder is what took me so long. Part of the reason is that recently they went from above a hundie down to around sixty bucks. The other part is that it’s not …

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Hand’s On

by Willmusic 06/20/200606/21/2006Comments are Disabled

Coming back home from Costco this afternoon I tuned to KPCC and Terry Gross’ Fresh Air program was in progress. I was immediately drawn to the weary-wise voice of whoever her straight-ahead country gentleman guest was and I soon found out she was talking with a fella the name of James Hand, who seems to …

I Heart GarageBand

by Willmusic 03/15/200603/15/2006Comments are Disabled

I finally got goofing with Apple’s GarageBand application in the initial hope of creating an inaugural podcast… but at this microcosm of my life I find I have nothing to say, important or otherwise. So instead I started playing around with the program’s rich melody creation features and if I’m not careful I could become …