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Bernard Herrman's soundtrack music from The Day The Earth Stood Still and Journey To The Center Of the Earth and Citizen Kane. Scary stuff.
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Hrm...I've seen Citizen and Day...don't remember anything in particular about the soundtracks, though. Which means it's been too long since I've seen either of 'em!
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Tralala wrote:Hrm...I've seen Citizen and Day...don't remember anything in particular about the soundtracks, though. Which means it's been too long since I've seen either of 'em!
Bernard Herrman made some awesome soundtrack music. If you ever watch Citizen Kane listen to the music, Its dark and depressing. The opening theme in Day is cool, it uses a theriman which has an eerie sound. He wrote music for Alfred Hitchcock movies, his most famous is the theme from Psycho and for some of the Ray Harryhausen movies, Jason and the Argonauts, Mysterious Island, Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. The opening theme from Jason is one of my favorites, kind of like the theme from The Ten Commandants.
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Bighuey wrote:
Tralala wrote:Hrm...I've seen Citizen and Day...don't remember anything in particular about the soundtracks, though. Which means it's been too long since I've seen either of 'em!
Bernard Herrman made some awesome soundtrack music. If you ever watch Citizen Kane listen to the music, Its dark and depressing. The opening theme in Day is cool, it uses a theriman which has an eerie sound. He wrote music for Alfred Hitchcock movies, his most famous is the theme from Psycho and for some of the Ray Harryhausen movies, Jason and the Argonauts, Mysterious Island, Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. The opening theme from Jason is one of my favorites, kind of like the theme from The Ten Commandants.
He's going on my list! The list that I'll get to...probably in April. Sigh.

Hey (seems to be my word of the day), didja know that someone made a movie about the guy who invented the theremin? And at least one person has watched it? :)
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Tralala wrote:
Bighuey wrote:
Tralala wrote:Hrm...I've seen Citizen and Day...don't remember anything in particular about the soundtracks, though. Which means it's been too long since I've seen either of 'em!
Bernard Herrman made some awesome soundtrack music. If you ever watch Citizen Kane listen to the music, Its dark and depressing. The opening theme in Day is cool, it uses a theriman which has an eerie sound. He wrote music for Alfred Hitchcock movies, his most famous is the theme from Psycho and for some of the Ray Harryhausen movies, Jason and the Argonauts, Mysterious Island, Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. The opening theme from Jason is one of my favorites, kind of like the theme from The Ten Commandants.
He's going on my list! The list that I'll get to...probably in April. Sigh.

Hey (seems to be my word of the day), didja know that someone made a movie about the guy who invented the theremin? And at least one person has watched it? :)
Really. I guess he was some kind of a Russian nuclear scientist, he worked on their H-bombs.
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Bighuey wrote: Really. I guess he was some kind of a Russian nuclear scientist, he worked on their H-bombs.
Yup. The movie was actually a lot better than I thought it would be.
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Tralala wrote:
Bighuey wrote: Really. I guess he was some kind of a Russian nuclear scientist, he worked on their H-bombs.
Yup. The movie was actually a lot better than I thought it would be.
What was the name of it? It sounds like something I would like. I like off-beat weird stuff.
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Bighuey wrote:
Tralala wrote:
Bighuey wrote: Really. I guess he was some kind of a Russian nuclear scientist, he worked on their H-bombs.
Yup. The movie was actually a lot better than I thought it would be.
What was the name of it? It sounds like something I would like. I like off-beat weird stuff.
You? Really? Who'd'a thunk? I had to look it up; I'd caught it on TV a few years back. It's Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey.
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Crusher, Ive got to check that out. Sounds like a cool show. I saw a theremin on You Asked For It one time, its a weird instrument. You just move your hands around it to change the pitch. It sounds far out and really weird and creepy. I want one so I can be the first in my block to scare the hell out of my neighbors.
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Yeah! I've actually threatened my next-door (condo) neighbor with that one. We pretty much share a deck (just a privacy divider between 'em), so in the summer, when our sliding-glass doors are open, we can pretty much just yell back and forth to each other if we want something. I play guitar during lulls at work (I have a home office), so she gets to listen to my crappy playing (and swearing, searching for picks, knocking stuff over, etc.). When she cranks her TV or stereo up, that's my signal that she's heard enough. I tell her that one of these days she's gonna hear "oooooEEEEEOOOOooooo..." and see me coming around the divider dressed as Norman Bates! EeeEeeEeeEee! She knows I'm just kidding.
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I dont have to worry much about my neighbors. Im kind of in the House On The Borderland. The one next door has a 10 foot block wall around their house plus a half acre of weeds in between, the house behind me is vacant and the other side is strawberry and onion fields so I can play the stereo as loud as I want, yell and holler, bang away on my banjo, do some so-called singing, do whatever I want.
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The walls here are pretty soundproof, plus my "theremin" neighbor is cool, and the neighbor on the other side is in a band. So I'm doing pretty well, for suburbia. Still n all, I think I'd prefer your situation! Crazy trailer folk, and all. :D
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The first thing that popped into my mind was the Adams Family Theme song from their TV show way back when:

They're creepy and they're kooky,
Mysterious and spooky,
They're all together ooky,
The Addams Family.

Their house is a museum
Where people come to see 'em
They really are a scream
The Addams Family.

(Neat)
(Sweet)
(Petite)

So get a witches shawl on
A broomstick you can crawl on
We're gonna pay a call on
The Addams Family.
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Yeah! That's a good one...got it in my ipod. Twilight Zone theme, too.
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The Alfred Hitchcock theme was a good one too.There was an album that came out about 1959 by Spike Jones And His City Slickers, it was a parody of scary movies Frankenstein, stuff like that. I used to have it but lost it in one of my moves. One part did an imitation of Alfred Hitchcock, he said his car was only used once, you can still see the lipstick marks on the exhaust pipe. I forget the name of the album, wish I still had it it was really weird and strange.

@ Crusher, you might know this album, youre into weird and strange music same as me.
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