I mean, I took basic piano lessons. I can play "Adam's Song" by Blink-182, The Forest Gump Theme, Mary Had a Little Lamb and The Imperial March, and somewhere in my house is the Sheet Music to a dozen Avril Lavigne Songs that I could plink my way awkwardly through, but I never was able to really get my right hand and my left hand to play independently from one another. I fooled around with the guitar for years and for a while, I was half way decent (though, admittedly, I greatly exaggerated my skills to friends), but like anything else, if you don't practice it fades away.
I sang in the choir. I can *sort* of read music. Can I pick a "A" note out of thin air? Nope. Do I know the difference between flats and sharps? Not really. I can follow along by ear, I suppose.
What does all that have to do with the title of my post?
I'm glad you asked, dear Reader. I'm glad you asked.
Despite my ignorance of the fine tunings of music (see what I did there?), I still love it. I listen to music constantly. I am that douche bag playing music on their phone.
In fact, one of the things I do to pass the many hours at work that go by without a phone call is look at furniture that I can't afford and fantasizing about where I'd put it in our apartment while listening to instrumental movie sound tracks. Some of my favorites include Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, Superman: The Movie and yes, Star Wars. You may have noticed that those four films were all composed by the amazing John Williams.
John Williams is undoubtedly the creator of some of the most memorable pieces of music written in the last 50 years. His ridiculous amount of talent aside, Williams is one of the busiest men in the music industry. Nominated (beaten only by Walt Fucking Disney) for nearly 50 (45, to be exact) academy award nominations and 5 wins, 20 Grammy Wins, 7 BAFTAs wins, there is no denying that Williams is a musical genius who pours his heart and soul into his creations.
This one man is solely responsible for the soundtrack of my life until I was 12 and realized in order to be cool I'd have to listen to popular music. My Pony. My Saddle's. Waiting. Come on. and. Jump on it. All that. But in my room, secretly, when I was alone... when other girls my age were... I dunno, whatever the fuck "normal" 12 year old girls do, I was listening to John Williams's score for Jurassic Park over and over again. on TAPE. I listened to that thing so many times, I actually wore the tape out.
Anywho, now that I'm a
As I was perusing the YouTubes looking for new John Williams material, I thought I'd check out his wikipedia page and see what I was missing. Good. Holy. Fuck.
That man did more in the 90s than I will probably accomplish in my entire life. Moosebutter was right... John Williams is the man:
I suggest a new strategy: let the Wookiee win.
Do you have a favorite composer? Some others I enjoy are Hans Zimmer, James Horner, and Alexandre Desplat. What's your favorite musical score from a movie?
