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Bearmixes Vol. 1 (Remixes of Various Motion Picture/TV Soundtracks)
A collection of free remixes by my brother Ben to celebrate his new official music publishing identity American Bearlines. Click the photo to go there.
I anticipate the track Butterfinger (a remix of “Gassing The Gangsters” from John Barry’s Goldfinger score) will be playing on a loop in my office for the next several weeks.
Plot Device - iPhone Case
This Plot Device iPhone Case and Skin are now available for you to purchase at Society6!
Plot Device - The Official Soundtrack
Download my brother’s amazing score he and Jake Finch composed for Plot Device!
(Click the artwork)
Quint: Now, I’ve heard a story that I wanted to run by you. I have no idea if it’s true, but an effects friend of mine told me about a special screening of E.T. for Ronald Reagan. Have you heard this story?
Steven Spielberg: I was there!
Quint: The story I heard is that when Reagan saw it he started talking about how close to reality it was and he was quickly ushered out of the room. Is that true?
Steven Spielberg: No, he wasn’t ushered out of the room. He was the President of the United States! Nobody could usher Ronald Reagan out of the room! It was in the White House screening room and Reagan got up to thank me for bringing the film to show the President, the First Lady and all of their guests, which included Sandra Day O’Connor in her first week of as a Justice of the Supreme Court, and it included some astronauts… I think Neil Armstrong was there, I’m not 100% certain, but it was an amazing, amazing evening.
He just stood up and he looked around the room, almost like he was doing a headcount, and he said, “I wanted to thank you for bringing E.T. to the White House. We really enjoyed your movie,” and then he looked around the room and said, “And there are a number of people in this room who know that everything on that screen is absolutely true.”
And he said it without smiling! But he said that and everybody laughed, by the way. The whole room laughed because he presented it like a joke, but he wasn’t smiling as he said it.
If this interview was 7 hours long, I swear I’d still watch every frame of it with glee.
”There are certain things directors feel & dream that I don’t like to interfere with. If their intuition says move in a certain direction, I want to let them go that way & not discuss it. Things made conscious become stale & self imitating pretty quickly. When you’re working intuitively, the ideas tend to stay fresh all the time.
Episode 4, we’re serious. And this week, we have a few other surprises for you and all your technologies. So keep your eyes open for tweets and/or robots that look like Haley Joel Osment.
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I think watching too much TV as a kid led me to being very uncomfortable in new situations. To this day, when I drop my kids off at school, I still feel like I’m in 9th grade and I’m uncomfortable and insecure. Like anyone is paying any attention. No one is. People couldn’t care less. But I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way.
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