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Listening to James Horner's theme from Star Trek II, I am left to wonder why I don't own the groovy restored DVD or bluray of that film, or indeed any version of it. It's a bit of a minor adventure movie classic. There's a surprising depth of feeling and gravitas in the original-cast movies I've always thought. Maybe not in the whales one.

More David Cronenberg movies - that's one of my resolutions, as I enjoy him enormously. There's something I'm going to call hallucinogenic clarity in Cronenberg films, where you never get the sense of naturalism intruding even when he's just showing three people at a dining room table. Watch the scene of three people sitting at a table in Eastern Promises and you'll see what I mean.

http://youtu.be/Whw_HyeXyCY

Also I love that I was able to find this scene then, off the cuff, just by typing Eastern Promises table scene into YouTube.

Anyway, that's it for now.

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If I think what my ideal or at least natural job would be I have visions of sitting in a small office filled with clutter where people phone through or knock on the door to requisition things and information from me. Anybody who knows how I live or has seen my bedroom in the last four years or so will understand this perfectly. It's one of the reasons I figure I'd make a good archivist, at least based on the video archive at my university, which I never actually used. Which was basically a hole in wall that dispensed from an enormous ramshackle warehouse like the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I'm reminded of that bit in the X-Files where the Cigarette Smoking Man goes into the storeroom and puts the alien embryo jar into a whole tray of alien embryo jars and wanders off. Cut to external shot day: The Pentagon. Credits.

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Currently a movie I want to watch is The Bounty, with Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson (not to mention Neil Morrissey), largely because the title music is a Vangelis piece that has a passing resemblance to the Freddy Krueger music, and I find that an inspiring tonal choice. Which really is what one wants from a film about seafaring mutiny in the Age of Sail.