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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      General Discussion: ...on an incredibly snowy night: unscored   Last Post   Posted:   Feb 17, 2003 - 4:06 AM     By:   Howard L   (Member) Well, we're really getting it this time. It's bad enough that the wind's picking up so as to induce instant arctic blindness, but it's been like 10 degrees since early afternoon. At least that means it'll be easier to shovel, nice 'n light & powdery, but 18 inches (at least!) is 18 inches. Duct tape and plastic sheeting gives way to panic at the supermarket, ya know? It's just about 1am on the East Coast. 'S unbelievably quiet. Normally a scene that's breaking out like this is a no-brainer: Tiomkin's The Thing all the way. But no. Not in this eerily blissful solitude. The wind will be howling. Thanks be to Providence and Public Service Electric & Gas for the protection and security within a warm home. Away from the 10 degrees. Away from the granulated swarm. Unless you've stumbled upon a pair of sneak thieves in Holcomb, Kansas. Unless you've interrupted them looking for a safe they're never going to find. Unless they're prepared to do everyone in In Cold Blood. No music. No. Just a lonely office, a flashlight, and the bewitching sound of the wind howling outside.    Posted:   Feb 17, 2003 - 2:03 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) ...and then suddenly it's morning. Darkness gives way to swirly brightness. The music rises: Williams' Journey to Earth from his great Superman.    Posted:   Feb 17, 2003 - 2:19 PM     By:   CAT   (Member) Once again, Howard, the portraits you have painted have sent my imagination on a glorious journey! Would you happen to be in Rhode Island? CAT    Posted:   Feb 17, 2003 - 3:11 PM     By:   ANZALDIMAN   (Member) No "romance" in this amount of snow Howard..It's downright dangerous..I can assure you, there's more than "the wind" howling around here! (My 40 something neighbors throwing out their backs shoveling) I'm sure Chris already got walloped in Pennsy worse than us here in Jersey, at this point, from what the weather channel says..Stay warm ..    Posted:   Feb 17, 2003 - 4:32 PM     By:   CAT   (Member) This snow?...Absolutely NOT! But Howard's mellifluous prose?...Most DEFINATELY!...romantic, that is! CAT    Posted:   Feb 17, 2003 - 5:10 PM     By:   joan hue   (Member) The TODAY show showed lots of stormy areas in the East. Ouch, I send my pity to all of you. The snow looks relentless. I'm going to quit complaining about the wind storm we're having during our 50 degree days. Stay safe and warm and listen to lots of film music.    Posted:   Feb 17, 2003 - 5:49 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) Hey Joan, it sure was a lot more fun writing about snowy nights while living & working in the Tampa Bay area! Right now it's about 4pm and the snow's still coming down ferociously. Anyway, last night before finally turning in I sneaked a peek outside my bedroom window at the streetlamp and original snowy night setting. The streetlamp remains the best gauge in determining how hard it's snowing. This is all bittersweet, in truth: we move in two weeks. Accordingly, the sight and sounds are being packed away for permanent storage in the boundaries of imagination...and cyberspace. Thank you, CAT. No, the Providence I had in mind is the one often labeled "Divine". I'm presently writing from New Jersey approximately 20 miles NW of Manhattan/George Washington Bridge. Just the same, you have unwittingly (and fortuitously) helped conjure up another appropriate instance of the evening wind 'underscoring' the stark contrast between the warmth and relative safety & security of huddling indoors away from the cold and unpredictable sinister elements of the world outside: Ethan Frome. Oh my, is there anything else like the winter nights of old New England? (My 40 something neighbors throwing out their backs shoveling) Don't rub it in! Instead, think of Charlie Sheen & Co. singing, That's the sound of the men, working on the chain...gaAAAAang, in Cadence.    Posted:   Feb 17, 2003 - 8:41 PM     By:   joec   (Member) After a hard day of shoveling snow I think I am going to watch my widescreen laser of ICE STATION ZEBRA in antication of the FSM cd!    Posted:   Feb 17, 2003 - 9:41 PM     By:   CAT   (Member) Hmmmm, Howard, I too am in North Jersey...Passaic County...approx. 20 minutes from the GWB. BTW: Glad I helped you conjure up the Ethan Fromme! Think I'll curl up with a good book tonight. The situation and the setting outside warrants such an indulgence.    Posted:   Feb 17, 2003 - 10:15 PM     By:   MICHAEL HOMA   (Member) i agree, after all the shoveling i am going to listen to WHERE EAGLES DARE , snow everywhere!    Posted:   Feb 21, 2003 - 3:43 AM     By:   Howard L   (Member) Just a handful of days later comes another unscored sound of unwelcome intruders trying to sneak in under the cover of winter darkness, "intruders" in the guise of gravity and radiated warmth calling down monstrous crystalline stalactites to earth. You wake up startled, you stop and think about it for a second, sigh, put your head back down and hope to shake hands with Mr. Rem and hope it's not the beginning of an endless cycle before the break of day.    Posted:   Feb 21, 2003 - 3:51 AM     By:   Chris Kinsinger   (Member) "I'm sure Chris already got walloped in Pennsy worse than us here in Jersey" RIGHT, ZALDI! THIRTY INCHES OF SNOW! THREE - 0 ! I've been digging, digging, digging, digging, digging, digging, digging...chopping & scooping, chopping & scooping, chopping & scooping, chopping & scooping, chopping & scooping since last SUNDAY...and I'm STILL digging, chopping & scooping. WHO NEEDS A SOLOFLEX??? One winter storm will build my biceps!    Posted:   Jan 27, 2015 - 9:52 AM     By:   Howard L   (Member) bumped per other thread of similar nature and recent reply    Posted:   Jan 27, 2015 - 10:00 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) First I thought -- What? Aren't you in Florida? But then I saw the date of the first post.    Posted:   Jan 27, 2015 - 12:52 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) Just trying to confuse you. And it's working!     General Discussion: ...on an incredibly snowy night: unscored    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

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