(LAST UPDATED: May 4, 2008)

Goodness, how did I get here, eh?

I've never really been much for songs (see end of Profile for some songs I like/love) and I guess it's no small wonder that the power and beauty of film scores got me.
One day, while watching a cartoon show, I noticed the music. Then I started noticing other cartoon music ("Ducktales") and then the scores for "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and the Star Trek movies.
I blame James Horner, as my first purchase was the score to "Star Trek 2: the Wrath of Khan" on cassette (you remember those, right?). But that wasn't enough so I went to Dennis McCarthy's ""Star Trek: Generations" score (7th Trek movie). Soon more CDs followed.

One day I found how pissed I was two songs took the place of score tracks on "Star Trek: First Contact" and searched for the missing tracks. The search led me to eBay, where -- for my ignorance -- I purchased a bootleg of the complete score. Turns out it was missing a track and some interesting alternates, but I was happy.
The one track I was dying to get was the fan titled: "Flight of the Phoenix/Death of a Queen".
Later I found out Joel Goldsmith composed this (FreeClyde.com for a variation on the cue), and soon this spiraled into more and more bootlegs in my collection. I blame Joel, he was clearly an unintentionally bad influence on me. ;-)

I soon discovered I ... hate songs, and Hanzi Zimmer. (My Zimmer jokes are plentiful).
You can e-mail Zimmer at: HansZimmerSucks@thefilmscoring.biz

Boy howdy, I made connections with traders who have rare stuff, even getting things I'm not allowed to trade, or tell people I have. I even made friends with some composers. There are some nice people out there, including a director I called once. ;-)

About 1994 or 1995 I discovered MovieMusic.com. A few years later I discovered I was banned. End Story.
EDIT (May 1, 2007): http://www.moviemusic.com/mb/Forum1/HTML/015651.html
Ahem ... assholes.

Via a link there I discovered FilmScoreMonthly.com. I also discovered I can get banned from two boards! :-)
(Will Lukas forgive and forget? Time will tell. Especially he should know I've been, and will still be a purchasing customer...)
It should also be noted that the "thaxtonite" was also told in no uncertain terms to stop harrasing members, "or else", but he still continued. Then he was told when Lukas got back, Lukas would decide his fate (in another thread). Lukas appearently did nothing. then in a recent thread (Feb/Mar 07) the MOD (or Lukas?) said they don't want ot ban anybody. Then why am I STILL banned? His crimes have been more aggrevous.

Eventually I found a cozy niche over at ScoreReviews.com, where the people are nicer, more interesting, and talk about scores I'd otherwise have not known about. But then on November 28, 2007, around 1:30 p.m. CST, they decided to shut down the forum. Fuck.


Throughout this time you've no doubt seen my site, Homeless.150m.com. From about 2003 to now I've had struggles getting jobs, and in all of 2006 was on and off living in my car. I've gone through a lot of crap, medical stuff, but you'll be pleased to know I got a job and have almost saved up enough money (as of 5-4-08) to get a place, so my troubles are somewhat behind me.
Certain members, like Martijn and franz_conrad, have been very nice. Another reason why this board rules. Unless I get banned from here too, then it sucks balls. ;-)

About 2004, thanks to Lukas, my obsession with rejected scores colminated in the creation of http://www.RejectedFilmScores.150m.com. Via that site I have made interesting finding, connections, and had the privalige to interview Marc Shaiman, Craig Safan, and Gabriel Yared, with interviews with the deeply famous orchestrator/composer Jack Hayes, and Christopher Young coming before mid this year.


Since about 2000 I've been on and off living in Panama City, FL (U.S.A.). It's got the "worlds's most beautiful beaches", of white sand; that is, when they aren't whipped away by a hurricane.
And it's also got girls walking around in bikinis in Wal-Mart. Oh, heaven...


Certain people, like franz_conrad, have asked my age. For me, it's a national secret, like my middle name, and thusly I try my best ot make it a game -- cause that's fun, franzy baby. Scientists have long speculated about it.....


Ah, how they years have passed. I've witnessed attacks from the thaxtonite, multiple registrations of Daniel2 (who has returned!), a unreleased score trader go to jail for murdering someone, members of the boards die, scores we thought would never come to CD ... come to CD, and thee unfortunate prevalence of MP3 sourced scores and trading of them, and making copies of stuff you can buy.

Back when I started trading, most of us didn't deal in downloading MP3s and were respectable in that we didn't trade stuff you can buy, but now you can go to places like the dying JWFan.net trading board and see lists offering CD-Rs of in-print Varese Sarabande and Intrada titles, and having a DAMN HARD time finding people who DON'T trade MP3. :-(
I find myself becoming alone in a world were 128 bitrate is the norm and no one seems to mind it, or errors.


When I came into film scores, the world was so promosing, but now it's full of drumloops, toadies from Remote Control (formally Media Ventures) who don't have enough experience, composers who can't do a score without the help of at least five people, and countless bland scores and composers who people praise. And now people like RZA and BT are threatening the very image of scores by killing classically styled scores and instead making studios and directors think low frequency beats and electronica are what films need to sell to the current dumbass generation.
More and more in score and movies I find myself going for stuff over 15 years old. when I watch a movie, it's usually on Turner Movie Classics or AMC and I shudder when another remake comes out, and inappropriate overuse in songs are implemented in TV shows and movies.

Recent years haven't helped the score world when we lost just about thee last of the great composers; Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, and more. I worry for a future where "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" is the "best score of 2006!!" (you can take a guess at who said that...)


Most of the time I'm at TrekBBS.com (as "tharpdevenport"), where we can speak a little more freely and on other issues, since I find other boards aren't so much into that.


What's my family like? Well, half aren't talking to me, the other half doesn't really care, and my sister is a model in California. If you are a producer or director, yes -- she is for hire.
No one in my family likes scores, though my mom has the main titles from "The Good, the Bad & The Ugly" and "American Beauty" downloaded on her computer, and likes them. Go figure.
And my first cousin, well, I tried -- with some remarkable success -- to sire her into a score fan. I even made a compilation CD-R for her and shes listened to it and likes some of the tracks. Siring is always good. We are far too few and inbetween.

SONGS: (incomplete list)
"Standing In A Borken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand" -- Primitive Radio Gods
"Lean On Me" -- Bill Withers
"Bittersweet Symphony" -- The Verve (I believe I see Mel Wesson credited...)
"Due South Theme - Long version with words" -- Paul Gross?
"Unchained Melody" -- The Righteous Brothers
"Change The World" -- Eric Clapton
"Sweet Dreams" -- Eurythemics
"Hold You For the Longest Time" -- Billy Joel
"Fields of Gold" -- Sting



I do not support MP3s -- legally or illegally.

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While I normally keep my Trade List to myself and don't post a link to it, I will post a few titles here eventually. Next up in trade for me: V.I.P.E.R. (unreleased score selections [not the Walker boot]; not for trade), Troy (rejected) -- non MP3, and Enterprise (Star Trek) promo of two Dennis McCarthy scores.

LAST UPDATED: April 15, 2006

Some scores I love:
The Big Blue -- Bill Conti
"CHiPs" (FSM CD) -- Alan Silvestri (and one Bruce Broughton)
Conan -- Basil Poledouris, R.I.P.
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend - Jerry Goldsmith, R.I.P.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 2 & 3 score promos) - Christophe Beck
Capricorn One - Jerry Goldsmith, R.I.P.
DUEL - Billy Goldenberg
Eaters of the Dead (13th Warrior rejected) - Graeme Revell
Ghostbusters - Elmer Bernstein, R.I.P.
Gladiator (rejected; 1992 boxing film) - Jerry Goldsmith, R.I.P.
Jake Speed - Mark Snow
JAWS - John Williams
The Omega Man - Ron Grainer, R.I.P.
Sheena - Richard Hartley
SIGNS - James Newton Howard
Something Wicked This Way Comes (rejected) - Georges Delerue, R.I.P.
Something Wicked This Way Comes - James Horner
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan - James Horner
Titanic - James Horner
Troy (rejected; FANTASTIC score) - Gabriel Yared
The Truman Show - Burkhard Dallwitz
Star Trek: Generations - Dennis McCarthy
Unbreakable - James Newton Howard

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Unreleased scores I own:

BILL CONTI
The Big Blue

VELTON RAY BUNCH
Enterprise: "Similatude"
Enterprise: "Silent Enemey"

And many, many more. Nearly/over 400 unreleased, expanded, complete, promos, private editions, DVD/Lerserdisc isolated, and rejected scores in my collection.

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MSN IM: justinboggan@hotmail.com (I'm rarely on though).