John:First, this is a wonderful reaction and I’m overjoyed that you felt this way when listening to the album. I think a lot of the creation of art comes from a mysterious place lurking somewhere between what might be called our conscious and sub-conscious. So answering this question is ...
4th Movement of the 9th Organ Symphony,"Symphonie Gothique" (this entire movement is based on a series of variations (some not so obvious) on the plainsong chantPuer natus est("A child/boy is born"), the proper Introit for the Mass of the Nativity, the melody of the chant is heard in...
It is just because of Bond’s wonderful performances that the sport has become popular worldwide. Yes, that’s parkour, an extreme street sport aimed at moving from one point to another as quickly as possible, getting over all the obstacles in the path using only the abilities of the human...
He was a wonderful time-keeper, he had some slickness which I very seldom heard in big band drummers. [Frankie] was not rigid, he had some really slick ways of bringing in and out a motif.” A two-year gig with singer Dinah Washington followed. “During these twenty-three months, we...
of Christmas songs, “All I Want For Christmas” and “Feliz Navidad”. Bend Sinister put their own hard driving, punk stylings on the songs, making them very interesting. But it is their original, “If Christmas Comes This Year” which ...
Heaven's Gate reminded Dwight of It's a Wonderful Life, another box office disappointment, whose initial failure precipitated director Frank Capra's early retirement from the business, a movie that survived long enough to re-enter the American cultural canon because it was allowed to slip into ...
I also had a wonderful experience with Nick Pileggi, the patriarch of Goodfellas who had been Ephron's husband until her death in 2012. He thought the project a good idea, gave me a couple of contacts, and stepped aside. He insisted that his and Ephron's professional activities had ...
of hydrophones to continue the journey. Which leads us to today's Instructable: Build your own professional grade hydrophones. These may not match the durability of what the Navy and commercial ones do, but they certainly meet or exceed the acoustic properties they do. Best of all, they ...
Fire)” with John Legend, the less said the better and one is better off sticking with the original. Of course, the songs themselves have been rearranged with orchestration and such, which add very little to the originals. I prefer listening to...
(Thankfully, the family hired Karina, a wonderful caregiver to help with Matt). Also, all of the Donohue men were cops—Kyle’s dad, Uncle Matt, and his Uncle Paul—and nobody really understood why Kyle would want to pursue anything other than joining the NYPD, much less go to ...