Who Is new Here? / New Members kindly introducing themselves

Hellooooo!!!

Dude, your English is very good. I wish *I* could learn another language as well as you have here! Welcome to the board.

Welcome Juha

I have to second what Steven said, your English is very good, I wish I could write in another language so clearly.

what about my english?

Our next step, as non-English people, is to take over the world and introduce to you Dutch, German and Chinese.

Loads of gobbledegook? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

you may know me as corpsekid

ive matured

haha

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Yeah, welcome back!

Yeah, I remember you!

Only kidding, good to see you round again Brandon

Hello,

Being a reader of both this site, and the old scorereview site, I feel I have you all at an advantage. Since I have read great discussions here, and have gotten excellent recommendations from most of you, I feel I owe you an introduction at least.

My name is Peter, and I'm from the cold, dark, north of Sweden. I'm currently at my fifth year studying computer science engineering at Umeå university, where I do my best to avoid working on my master thesis (a task which I was born to excel at, incidentally).

I was first introduced to scores at a young age in the early nineties. Films such as Star Wars, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, Braveheart, Willow etc, made me realize how powerful music could be (though to be fair, being raised in Sweden in the eighties probably instilled a poor frame of reference, musically).

I have to single out Jurassic Park as the most important film to me at the time. The effects of unleashing the "Journey to the Island" sequence on a unsuspecting 10 year old boy should not be underestimated, both score- and film wise.

Unfortunatly, 10 year old boys become 14 year old boys. As with most other fourteen year old boys, I became a total idiot. This made me move away from scores almost entirely, and listen to metal and the like exclusively. This sorry state of affairs lasted for half a decade so.

Fortunatly I realized the error of my ways, much thanks to the release of Lord of the Rings and Star Wars: episode 1. Having rediscovered my love of scores, I started digging deeper, in hope of finding more excellent film scores (I did). The rest is history.

The composers who get the most playtime are: Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, John Williams, Ennio Morricone and Hans Zimmer.

But sizeable contributions are made by the likes of: Basil Poledouris, Michael Kamen, Bruce Broughton, David Arnold, Alan Silvestri, John Debney, James Newton Howard, John Barry, Alexandre Desplat (and a million others). Drama and adventure are my prefered styles, with action scoring a distand third.

In my spare time, when I'm not writing horribly unwieldy posts on forums, I play some piano and do generally nerdy things with computers (in case the computer science engineer part wasn't enough of a hint). And listen to scores of course.

Some random facts:

* My favorite album is probably Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone.

* I don't get the Lost thing, neither score nor series. Though those two facts might be related. (I still watch most of the episodes for some reason.)

* My favorite moments of synergy between film and filmscore is from Once upon a Time in the West by Sergio Leone with score from Ennio Morricone. When Jill arrives at the train station and Jill's Theme plays as she enters the town. Such a mundane scene really, but it plays wonderfully on screen.

* The scene above is rivaled by The Ecstasy of Gold sequence from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, and would probably win half the days of the week.

* Favorite Williams currently: Schindler's List

I just wanted to say hello (and write a short novel).



// Peter

Hi Peter!
Thanks for the amusing short novel.


Sounds kind of familiar! My first score was also Jurassic Park (I was 14 then). Then The Rock, Crimson Tide and Braveheart among others. My collection got stuck at about 11 scores during puberty (which included a heavy metal phase as well) and I finally had a come back because of The Lord of The Rings in 2001. That's when I discovered the internet too and fellow score lovers and many many more excellent film music and some wonderful people!

Welcome to the board!

It's cool that JURASSIC PARK is everyone's gateway to film music. I was 16 years old when it came out in 1993, and although I had already been aware of film music for a couple of years and begun to explore it, the dino score was the real kick-off for me!

Zimmer was my gateway

Timmer ol'mate, have you been hanging out with the wrong people too much lately?




(southall and Erik)