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Mar 28, 2015 - 5:50 PM
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Howard L
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LCIII was amusing to me, too. His big thing was to disagree and then declare revoked a respondent's license to criticize film. And I had almost forgotten "Pluto". But DANIEL2 was something else. Whoa.
Howard, I should send you a Happy Anniversary card!! I came, I think, in the fall of 1999. Those were good days.
Much obliged, Madame Darwell [does that take you back? ]. You were much on my mind while I slaved over completing the latest homework assignment (PNJ's new book). Memories of assignments past that tended to start with a promise and then carbon-based life interrupted, only to go back after, oh, give or take three or four years LOL. But we usually managed to finish. And make your grade.
It's funny to consider too the age of threads that come back... a reply is given, in some cases, a few years to a decade later... and then a follow-up respondent realizes afterward he's replying to something posted years ago...but in the meantime a reply comes back from one of the earlier thread contributors who can't believe something he said is eliciting a response from something he said way back when.
The current Gershwin Rhapsody thread is something along these lines.
PS
Ouch, time for another lament over threads lost for all time during/after the switchover in 2000. I, mlw (Michael Ware) and Josh G (Swashbuckler) got into it exceptionally good in one over Saving Private Ryan. Another was like the first thread dealing with Empire Of The Sun that brought everyone out of the woodwork in an infrequent display of ultra-positive unanimity. I especially recall Sheriff Joe's enthusiasm. And what I would give for a certain "FACT or FICTION?" piece created by the late Mr. McKone about sitting at a diner and striking up a conversation with a certain beloved composer, who succeded the former in death a mere five years later (sigh).
PPS
oh brudda, said much of this 14 years ago
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=2274&forumID=1&archive=1
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Mar 29, 2015 - 10:00 AM
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Howard L
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Sounds mighty fine to me. But yeah, that's probably a generic start date for everyone who signed up prior to the board update. Perhaps the actual dates are tucked away somewhere.
Eh, probably in a warehouse in some newspaper magnate's estate.
LOL now I'm thinking of when many of us shifted over to moviemusic.com for the duration. We just picked up from whatever conversations already engaged in and carried on over there like charter members. Of course, some had already been commuting. Not me. But it was pretty neat in that we ended up all being commuters. Separate rails and dependable new passengers. Locals on that line that come readily to mind include Jeron and Lou Goldberg, et al. It must have flustered Peter K, at first, to see such a sudden population increase. And it was lock, stock and barrel with all the feisty, seasoned FSM trimmings [before legendary status of same had set in, of course...].
Kinsinger and H Rocco pulled out the mock red carpet and congratulated me for expanding my horizons. What a couple of wisenheimers. Hey, I only ended up there because someone pulled the plug over here! But dual citizenship in "Scoreville" was and has been sumptuous; the convocation alone in Detroit that summer made it manifest. Sheer aces.
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Lukas here—let's keep it civil, please. Thanks,
Lukas
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Or something like that. This month, according to my reckoning, marks 17 years of posting, replying, lurking, etc. i.e. stirring up mayhem in general at this old film music public square.
--Look at this, I've already got to revise that statement, I just found a hard copy of a post a month earlier. I've been holding to March/1998 as the launch point but it could have been late '97. Even earlier? Oh well, you get the idea.
Where were you in '97-'98?
Good heavens... has it been that long? Seriously, I do not know exactly when I first posted anything to the classic old FSM message board, but it must have been at around the same time, 97/98... by mid to late 1998, I was regularly stopping by and hanging out at FSM.
And I ordered the very first FSM Silver Screen classic release of STAGECOACH back in the day, not knowing that so many more excellent film score titles were to come (not just from FSM).
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Most likely, my first post at FSMMessageboard was some time in spring 1998.
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Mar 29, 2015 - 6:02 PM
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Howard L
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Thor, the screen shot is INCREDIBLE. The names!
Holy cow, Nicolai, I've been looking over hard copies and one is from Dec./'98 that involves a conversation between you, me and Josh G. Your reply is entitled "Does this answer your question, Howard?". It looks like we were discussing listening habits regardless of how good or bad the films were in relation to their scores. Josh reckoned everyone must be sick of him bringing up H. Shore's Looking For Richard.
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.
Tall Guy, that one's for you. Terence Mann may have said it via the incomparable voice of James Earl Jones in the middle of a cornfield, and baseball's The Game, all right, but the name of the game here is film music, this isn't Iowa it's the Net and the FSMessageboard too continues to mark the time. Think of what has happened in your 12 years. In my 17 years at this place I've seen members come and go, some through disgust, a few through death. I've hit it off with Maurice Jarre and John Barry, and others. There was 9/11. I've moved more than half a dozen times, buried both folks, escaped the Intensive Care Unit to post another day, and traveled into Canada in search of the legendary greatest-to-grace-this-board-ever and gone-before-his-time film music fan...then back to Detroit the same day for another chat with the legendary Mr. Goldsmith (that's when I told him to say "Trekkers" and stop calling them Trekkies  ).
And that's just for starters.
Family, indeed.
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Whoa... indeed. We should all have a get together on the 20th or 25th message boar anniversary.
I remember a -- rather lengthy -- thread about 1776 (the musical) that was there at the early days.
I also remember the wonderful contributions by the late Guy McKone and H Rocco. Ah, I'm not a particularly nostalgic person, but I remember those days fondly.
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