By the time you read this, the latest Tween wallet milking franchise, The Hunger Games: Catching Syphillis, will have opened in Octoogleplexes the world over to record breaking box office glory for a second time. Not since someone glued a lightning 
bolt to Radcliffe’s forehead or sparkles to Pattinson’s nipples has there been such a nauseating ballyhoo from teenaged girls and creepy middle-aged women. Every aspect of the movie has been gleaned, dissected and analyzed by the fodder feeding media including the outrage by fans of the books that inspired the franchise who were shocked to find out that the black characters were portrayed on screen by…black actors!
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JAIMIE VERNON – WHERE HAVE ALL THE SOUNDTRACKS GONE
Posted in Opinion with tags American Graffiti, Bee Gees, Bob Segarini, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, Canadian Music, Dazed & Confused, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Elvis Presley, Ennio, Grease, Haunter, Help!, Hunger Games, Jaimie Vernon, James Newton Howard, John Debney, John Williams, musicals, Purple Rain, Quentin Tarantino, Saturday Night Fever, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Soundtracks, Spinal Tap, Swedish Fish, The Beatles, The Big Chill, The Bodyguard, The Graduate, The Rutles, West Side Story on November 23, 2013 by segariniCameron Carpenter: The ABC’s Of Rock’n’Roll – The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
Posted in Opinion with tags A Hard Day’s Night, American Graffiti, Cameron Carpenter, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Jesus Christ Superstar, Movies, music, Purple Rain, Quadrophenia, Records, Soundtracks, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Wizard Of Oz, Tommy, West Side Story on May 30, 2013 by segarini
No, not the great Swedish band but actual soundtracks. We all have our own individual soundtracks for our lives but what of those that were made for stage and screen? The world has changed since the days of Rodgers and Hammerstein and Webber and Rice and what constitutes a soundtrack for today’s generation is a long way away from “Oklahoma!” or “West Side Story”. For every horrible cash-grab “Glee” volume there is a Trent Reznor-Atticus Ross collaboration on the score for “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” or “The Social Network” to balance the equation. Of course both of those were ‘scores’ which is a somewhat different kettle of fish.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 