{"id":3451,"date":"2013-04-28T20:16:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T04:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=3451"},"modified":"2013-04-28T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T05:09:00","slug":"home-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=3451","title":{"rendered":"Home theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/twobalds.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"313\" alt=\"[IMAGE] Two Bald Eagles\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;click to listen:<\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/RealAudio\/Asylum.mp3\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/ASJazzFilmTV.html\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/moregn.jpg\"\/><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;about the music<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><font color=#346513>Action packed.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"alex_shapiro\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have TV service, and I rarely go to the movie theater.<br \/>\nThere, I&#8217;ve said it.<br \/>\nI know, it makes me sound weird. Anti-social. Backwoods. Or maybe just deviant (hmm&#8230; this all could be colorfully helpful for the mystique of my composing career).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t appreciate entertainment. But I&#8217;m surrounded by big dramas all day long, on the other side of my windows. Heck, even my job description includes creating drama of the sonic variety. And yup&#8211; since you asked (well, you probably didn&#8217;t, but lots of people who interview me do), there IS a connection for me between the drama I experience and the music I compose. Which means you better hope that my toilets never overflow. I&#8217;d hate to hear what that sounds like in a symphony. Which reminds me of a little exchange I had with a friend years ago: he sent me a link to an announcement from Kohler&#8211; yes, the manufacturer of faucet fixtures and toilets&#8211; about a grant they were offering to instrumentalists and composers.<br \/>\nTo which I quipped, &#8220;Oh, I could be their fartist in residence!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress. Anyway, so yes, I really get off on the action movies I see every day. Just one single screen star is usually plenty to compel me:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/eaglelook.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" alt=\"[IMAGE] Here's lookin' at you, kid.\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Especially when she gets all up in my face and drama-queenie and starts yelling at me:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/eagleyelling.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"305\" alt=\"[IMAGE] Here's yellin' at you, kid.\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>So, one diva bird is cool. But watching TWO stars battling it out is even more riveting:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/twoeagles1-400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"470\" alt=\"[IMAGE] Two Bald Eagles\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And three??<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/three-eagles-1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"229\" alt=\"[IMAGE] Three Bad Eagles\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m on the edge of my seat. Popcorn is strewn everywhere. I&#8217;m breathing fast. And the film score in my head is pounding.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/three-eagles-2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"589\" alt=\"[IMAGE] Three Bad Eagles\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But as I said, even just a single headliner really is enough. Especially when the props department has done such a great job with the scenery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/eagle-soar-cascades400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"301\" alt=\"[IMAGE] Bald Eagle soaring past Cascades\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"clear: both;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;click to listen: &#8230;about the music Action packed. Tweet I don&#8217;t have TV service, and I rarely go to the movie theater. There, I&#8217;ve said it. I know, it makes me sound weird. Anti-social. Backwoods. Or maybe just deviant (hmm&#8230; this all could be colorfully helpful for the mystique of my composing career). 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