I am so incredibly broke. I'm more then broke - I'm in horrible, horrible debt, the inevitable consequence of choosing a profession which pays you less the harder you work. Its not a good situation, interfacing less then well with modern social constructs ( Read more... )

4 in the morning, mixing down stems to the most frustrating scoring project I've had to date. Corn chips, a micrwave dinner box, an empty salad bowl from 7 Eleven. Coffee. I'm out of water. Life sucks. The radio is on, trying to keep me awake, and who comes on NPR's morning edition but Danny Elfman. I happen to be working on a cue that was based on ( Read more... )

I don't appreciate the value of money ( Read more... )

So much to tell, in terms of work, and LA life. Since I'm not a writer I'm going to jump straight to the more exciting stuff, rather then build to it - Allison Mack, Chloe from Smallville, kissed me! Sort of a peck, really, but definitely enough to make me famous back home (awaiting adulation ( Read more... )

Los Angeles...the land of golden, unachievable opportunity. Here's our movie - score it and send it back to us. We're not gonna tell you what we want. All we know is the editor likes real dark music ala Terminator 3 and Black Hawk Down. But the execs think the temp is too dark. Make sure you emphasize the comedy. But the director hates happy music ( Read more... )

SO I think I may have officially been dealt the most stressful situation I have yet faced ( Read more... )

Film music thrives in mediocrity. Unlike other music, it doesn't need to be produced half as well to be "acceptable" for the screen. So I do what I can within the deadline, deliver the music to the director (who usually is ecstatic that he's getting a score that even sounds halfway decent) and that's that. Later, I listen back and hear all the ( Read more... )

So I'm taking stock of my life now that I know BSG is not on the horizon, at least not definitively. And I'm sorry to say that my life, so far, is not what I want it to be. Not that this is surprising, since I am still in establishing myself mode. I *sort of* have steady work working on this behind the scenes stuff for 30 Days of Night...but I ( Read more... )

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCK ( Read more... )

So weird...just found a video online of someone who's stolen my music for an ad campaign...

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2l4id_mother-earth_ads

Definitely a first. I'm kind of honored. But also appropriately pissed.

Wonder what one does about that.

Greg