For some reason I now have John Barry's "Mujahadin and Opium" stuck in my head. I'm at work where I can't play something else to clear it out. But you know what? It could be a lot worse. At least it's a good piece and not some crappy song accidentally heard on the car radio.
For the last day or two, it's been Harry Gregson-Williams's Prometheus theme. It doesn't help that I can't stop listening to the track "Life," which I just copied to the computer, so now I can play it at a moment's notice rather than getting up to put the CD back in the stereo.
Before that, it was Silvestri's main theme from The Mummy Returns.
Harvey Keitel's Shatner-style spoken-word rendition of "Call Me Maybe," performed live alongside the original singer, whatshername, on Jon Stewart's "Night of Too Many Stars" autism benefit telethon.
I like his threatening-sounding take on the phrase "You're in my way."
I recently watched the film OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE for the first time (had the CD for a long time without ever seeing the film), now Delerue's lovely theme is stuck in my head. But for some reason, it also keeps morphing into Basil Poledouris' great "Cease Fire Shanty" (the slow version) from A WHALE FOR THE KILLING. I can't explain why, since they are not similar pieces...maybe they have a few common notes at some point? I'm not a musician or musicologist, so I can't analyze them. But for some reason my brain makes the connection. Good thing they are both great music.
I haven't been able to shake off JG's Klingon theme for like a couple weeks. Almost in tandem with the Sinatra version of Here's That Rainy Day. Maybe I shouldn't have said this, I dunno...
