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After the triumphant collaboration on 2008's REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA, a film hailed by The Hollywood Reporter as "the next Rocky Horror Picture Show", director Darren Lynn Bousman and writer/actor Terrance Zdunich had no where to go but down—ALL THE WAY DOWN… TO HELL. These showbiz black sheep invite you dive into the ashes with them on their groundbreaking, new musical film fusion event, THE DEVIL'S CARNIVAL.
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NEW YORK -- Mariano Rivera, like in 601 previous instances, had taken care of business.
In his typical workmanlike fashion, the esteemed Yankees closer tore through the three hitters the Twins offered in the top of the ninth Monday at Yankee Stadium, becoming Major League Baseball's all-time career saves leader with 602.
In his typical workmanlike fashion, the esteemed Yankees closer tore through the three hitters the Twins offered in the top of the ninth Monday at Yankee Stadium, becoming Major League Baseball's all-time career saves leader with 602.
And after Rivera embraced each member of the Yankees -- and with the visiting Twins standing atop the steps of their dugout looking on -- Rivera was urged by teammates to soak in the moment. He stepped back onto the mound and tipped his cap to the crowd, which offered him a rousing ovation.
And in pefect Mariano Rivera fashion, he was all smiles. And all alone at the top.
"For the first time in my career, I am on the mound alone," Rivera said afterward, speaking to the media with his three sons by his side. "There was nobody behind me, nobody in front of me, and I'm still surrounded by so many people. I can't describe that feeling. It was priceless. It was a moment I didn't know could be like that. I was thanking God in that moment."
The outing was so Rivera-esque -- he took down Trevor Plouffe, Michael Cuddyer and Chris Parmelee in order, and even induced a customary broken bat -- as the future Hall of Famer ended the game catching Parmelee looking with the same lethal cutter that has troubled hitters throughout Rivera's 17-year career.
"Definitely a special moment, 602," said catcher Russell Martin, who was behind the dish for the feat. "All-time leader in saves, that's pretty incredible. It couldn't happen to a better guy. His work ethic, how he prepares himself every day, he's one of the greatest. He is the greatest now."
In preserving the 6-4 Yankees victory in the Bronx, Rivera was able to accomplish the feat in front of the home fans and with his family in attendance. He passed Trevor Hoffman on the all-time list, the only player in baseball history with more 40-save seasons (nine) than Rivera (eight).
"I want to congratulate Mariano Rivera on setting the all-time saves record," Hoffman said. "It's a great accomplishment, and he is still going strong! I have tremendous respect for Mariano not just for his on-field accomplishments, but also for his service to the community."
"You don't see this every day," said Yankees manager Joe Girardi, who has had the unique opportunity to be alongside Rivera both as his manager and as his catcher. "You're not around people like this every day, that come to work every day, give their heart and soul, and are always prepared to pitch."
Remarkably, the 41-year-old is as steadfast as ever. It's the seventh time in his illustrious career he has recorded at least 43 saves in a season (1997, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2009). In an era when successful ninth-inning men have the shelf life of a handful of seasons, Rivera has already converted 10 more saves than last year (33), and he could have a few more years ahead of him.
"This is an important moment," said Jorge Posada, who came up with Rivera through the ranks and has caught Rivera in 461 games (next is Girardi with 137). "Nobody ever is going to get even close to this. There are so many intangibles that you have to achieve to get here that it's amazing that we're watching it, and we're watching it right in front of us. We're spoiled when he comes into the ballgame, because he's been able to do it for so long."
Early on Monday, it appeared Rivera's services would not be needed as the first-place Yankees jumped out to a 5-0 lead on a depleted and inexperienced Twins lineup. In fact, Yankees fans were thrilled the club didn't extend it's two-run lead in the eighth. Nick Swisher grounded into a double play, and the place went wild.
"Greatest double play of my life, man," Swisher said. "It took me a quick second to figure out what was going on, but then it sunk in real fast."
And with New York clutching that two-run lead in the ninth, the bullpen door swung open as Rivera emerged with the familiar opening guitar riff and drum beat from Metallica's "Enter Sandman" blaring. And what has become perhaps the most legendary custom in the Yankees' rich history commenced.
Rivera trotted in from the outfield, clutching his glove in his right hand with his eyes focused on the mound ahead of him, while the Yankee Stadium crowd rose to its feet. It would grow louder still through the 1-2-3 ninth as the ever-dominant reliever uncorked one more save for the record books.
"It's unbelievable what he's been able to accomplish in this game," said Twins reliever Joe Nathan, with 260 career saves to his name. "The right guy is the all-time career saves leader, that's for sure. To be able to do it that long -- for the period of time he has -- and to stay healthy is quite an accomplishment. I'm just excited to be here. We were here for one day and we got a chance to witness it. It was pretty cool."
Certainly, the Yankees agreed that they would have not nearly the success they've had through this era without the services of their indelible closer. The team is 633-41 all-time in games that Rivera has had a save chance, and he owns a remarkable 0.71 ERA in 139 2/3 innings of postseason work. No one has more postseason appearances (94), and with his 42 saves in the playoffs, the next reliever behind him is Brad Lidge with 18.
"It's a lot of wins for the Yankees, I know that," Girardi said. "It's a lot of World Series championships, a lot of playoff bids. It's a number that I really don't think we'll see surpassed in our lifetime. Will it happen one day? I don't know, but I'd be shocked if it happened in our lifetime."
Joey Nowak is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @joeynowak. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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I don't deny for a moment that Supernatural is a male-dominated show--from its lead actors to its most frequent recurring guest (Jim Beaver's wonderful portrayal of Bobby) to its props (a classic car belting rock and lots and lots of weaponry). Still, while I've heard a few fans complain about a lack of women on the show (or other complaints about how the female characters on the show are actually used), I don't really agree. I decided to look at, on a season by season basis, the female characters seen most frequently. (So, obviously, random spoilers abound.)
In the first season, the most prevalent female influences seemed to be Mary Winchester, Sam's girlfriend Jess, and Meg (girl possessed by a demon). In a way, all three of these women were victims, but I view Mary and Jess as far more than that--they were major catalysts to the story. They were the people important enough to Sam and Dean (and John) to galvanize the men into action and propel us into season 1 (the hunt for the yellow-eyed demon). And Meg does play a major part in the yellow-eyed demon subplot. Plus, Mary is allowed to kick a little butt even from the beyond and we find out in later seasons that she has a butt-kicking legacy.
In season 2, the main female recurring roles were that of mother-daughter duo Jo and Ellen Harvelle. Frankly, I liked both of them a lot, especially Ellen. I never saw Jo as a romantic possibility for either boy because the dynamic seemed to be more of a...maybe no little sister, but definitely younger tagalong tomboy cousin who just wants to go camping and fishing with the older cool boys (or, in this case, demon hunting. Potato, potahto.) I also thought that both actresses did all right with the material written, although Ellen was my favorite. Just as Bobby usually fills a paternal role on the show, Ellen added a maternal element.
In season 3, of course, we met Ruby and Bela. I've blogged before about the fact that I liked Bela, but the juxtaposition of these two women seemed to be more thematic contrast than character-specific. The boys generally fight demons (things which are inhuman and often evil). So to mix things up a bit in this season, we got a human with a loose moral code and a demon who seemed determined to help. When Bela was taken by hellhounds, it upped the dramatic ante, foreshadowing Dean's own doom to hell. (And I actually liked Katie Cassidy's Ruby...although that changed in season 4 not only because of the actress but because of Ruby's evolving storyline.) It was also in season 3, that Lilith as the big bad began to emerge. (All right, yes, technically, Lucifer is bigger and badder, but as Lilith is the entity working to free him, she is our more pressing concern.)
In season 4, we again have Ruby (who seems more and more a questionable source of assistance, although getting herself tortured to aid the boys was somewhat convincing.) And Lilith becomes an even MORE pressing concern, now that she's breaking seals willy-nilly. In addition to the two male angels who appear throughout the season, we also meet Anna, a deliberately "fallen" angel who regains her winged status, goes at it with Dean in the back of the Impala (but not in that order), saves Castiel's butt in a tense moment, and later chastises him for being on the wrong side.
All in all, I think there have been just as many important recurring female characters as their have been regular male characters (not counting Sam and Dean themselves, as everyone takes a backseat there). Which female characters were your favorite or least favorite? Who do you wish we'd seen more of and what kind of recurring roles do you envision for next season?


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SPARTA, Wis. — Authorities in western Wisconsin have released the name of a woman whose body was found in a burning car last month.
Monroe County Sheriff Pete Quirin said the woman was 33-year-old Karen Koca of New Lisbon.
Quirin said the Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory used DNA analysis to identify Koca. The cause of death has yet to be determined.
The burning car was discovered Sept. 18 north of Norwalk. Investigators have determined the victim was not the owner of the 1998 Pontiac Grand Prix with Minnesota license plates.
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A film about the race to protect Antarctica's Ross Sea, the Earth's last pristine ocean, from our insatiable appetite for fish. Official Selection at the 2013 Intenational Wildlife Film Festival and WINNER of the 2013 Moving Mountains Award at Mountainfilm
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The Ross Sea, Antarctica is the most pristine stretch of ocean on Earth. A vast, frozen landscape that teems with life – whales, seals and penguins carving out a place on the very edge of existence.
Californian ecologist David Ainley has been traveling to the Ross Sea to study this unique ecosystem for more than thirty years. He has written scientific papers describing it as a 'living laboratory'. Largely untouched by humans, it is one of the last places where the delicate balance of nature prevails. But an international fishing fleet has recently found its way to the Ross Sea. It is targeting Antarctic toothfish, sold as Chilean sea bass in up-market restaurants around the world.
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Jenny O'Grady
Music Preparation:
Jigsaw Music
Jessica Wells
Cliff Bradley
Joel Geist
Ellie Cumming
Julian Langdon
Alex Palmer
Oscar Senen
Assistant Orchestrator:
Joan Martorell
Vladimir Tubic
Orchestra Conductor:
Christopher Gordon
The Sydney Scoring Orchestra
Score Contractors:
Click Track Music
Alex Henery
Score Engineer:
Evan McHugh
Score Recordist:
Craig Beckett
Assistant Score Engineers:
Rose Mackenzie-Peterson
Nicholas Rowse
Score Editor:
Tim Ryan
Score Mix Engineer:
Stephen Lipson
Assistant Mix Engineer:
Edward Hartwell
Air Studios Recording Engineer:
Geoff Foster
Air Studio Assistant Engineer:
Laurence Anslow
Song Mix Engineer:
Seth Waldmann
Technical Music Assistants:
Jenny Dirkes
Tom Farries
Joe Cho
Digital Instrument Design:
Mark Wherry
Air Studios Manager:
Alison Burton
Air Studios Coordinators:
Charlotte Matthews
Lucy Matthews
Technical Director Synchron Stage & Chief Audio Engineer:
Bernd Mazagg
Synchron Stage Protools Operator:
Martin Weismayr
Vienna Musicians Contractor:
Christian Buchmann
Score Printing Service:
Vienna Music Angels
Synchron Stage Studio Manager:
Sabine Tucmandl
Remote Control Productions Studio Manager:
Shalini Singh
Score Recorded at:
The Simon Leadley Scoring Stage
The Studio Trackdown Studios
, Sydney, Australia
Air Studios
, London, United Kingdom
Synchron Stage
, Vienna, Austria
Château Routas
, Bras, France
Album Mastered by
Stephen Marcussen
Marcussen Mastering
Executive Album Producer:
Chris McKay
Executive in Charge of Music For Warner Bros. Pictures:
Niki Sherrod
Executive in Charge of WaterTower Music:
Jason Linn
Music Business Affairs Executives:
Lisa Margolis
Ray Gonzalez
Album Clearances:
Margaret Yen
John F.X. Walsh
Soundtrack Coordinator:
Linda Christie
Song Musicians Contractor:
Peter Rotter
Special Thanks:
Chris deFaria, Courtenay Valenti, Dan Lin, Phil Lord, Chris Miller, Will Allegra, Ryan Halprin, Samantha Nisenboim, Sean Wimmer, Chris Leahy, Gabe Hilfer, John Venzon, Will Kaplan, David Burrows, Justin Tranter, Colton Fisher, Mark Davis, Trisha Gum, David & Eva Balfe, Nina & Rufus Balfe
Thanks to:
Dustin Addis, Oren Agman, Darrell Alexander, Maria Alonte, Susan Arnold, Pete Axelrad, Bret Bassi, Hayley Beisler, Maria Belli, Audrey Benoualid, Joseph Billé, Randy Bol, Andrew Brightman, Paul Broucek, Christine Calip, Rocco Carrozza, Candace Carlo, Celeste Chada, Wendy Christiansen, Ollie Fitzgerald, Esther Friedman, Greg Garbowsky, Kerrylyn Genetive, Laura Glass, Jesse Goldsmith, Christopher Gutch, Amy Hartman, Dirk Hebert, Kerry Hickey, Patricia Joseph, Joe Kara, Kevin Kertes, Kolette Kleber, Eliot Knapman, Jeff Koenig, Jake Kozarec, Evan Lamberg, Brian Lambert, David Leiman, Raymond Lewis, Queenie Li, Alison Litton, Anna Livingston, Joe Maggini, Tom Marr-Johnson, Craig Marshall, Gary Miller, Robert Minzner, Genevieve Morris, Amber Naismith, Ralph Paredes, Elizabeth Paw, Jasper Randall, Joel Roman, Peter Rotter, Scot Sherrod, Suzanne Strickland, Lauren Sudar, Christina Swintek, Phillip Tallman, Courtney Teixera, Matt Town, Steve Wall, Shelby Weiser, Steph Whittier, Margaret Yen, Clare Yezerski, Cindy Zaplachinski & Robert Zick
Release date : 02/03/2017
Who's The (Bat)Man - Patrick Stump (3:03)
Forever - DNCE (3:48)
(I Just) Died In Your Arms - Cutting Crew (4:35)
Invincible - Kirsten Arian (2:59)
One - Harry Nilsson (2:22)
Heroes (We Could Be) (Hard Rock Sofa & Skidka Remix) - Alesso Feat. Tove Lo (6:35)
Man In The Mirror - Alex Aiono (2:23)
Friends Are Family - Oh, Hush! Feat. Will Arnett & Jeff Lewis (3:49)
I Found You - Fraser Murray & Lorne Balfe (3:34)
Forever - Justin Tranter (3:49)
Man In The Mirror - Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine (1:49)
Everything Is Awesome - Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine (2:02)
Black (7:32)
Your Greatest Enemy (2:42)
The Arrival Of Robin (2:52)
Joker Crashes The Party (1:33)
No Seat Belts Required (2:17)
To Cage The Joker (1:59)
The Phantom Zone (3:37)
Open For Business (1:09)
Chaos In Gotham (3:20)
Lava Attack (7:40)
For Your Own Good (1:45)
Joker Manor (2:29)
Batman's In The Zone (4:40)
The Babs Signal (2:25)
Battle Royale (4:54)
A Long Farewell (2:49)
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"Joker Crashes the Party" - Wasn't that the name of a cue from TDK? Was this an inside joke?
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2018-01-06 21:53:18
Yeah it is! I'm sure it's a nice reference to it lol
2018-01-07 00:06:02
What to do if the Joker likes to ruin so many parties?
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|| 2018-01-04 10:43:31
Which Balfe scores, in your opinion, are his best? I've just gotten into his stuff recently with Lego Batman and would like a good starting point with him, thanks!
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Max Potcats
2018-01-04 13:05:06
I really liked Son Of God (Faith is amazing), Terminator Genisys is nice too.
2018-01-04 13:25:10
Beyond: Two Souls all the way.
2018-01-04 14:22:38
Beyond: Two Souls and Blackwood are probably my top two from him.
Edmund Meinerts
2018-01-04 15:09:34
From what I've heard, I'd say my top picks from Balfe would be Lego Batman, Home and Beyond: Two Souls. But like Zanelli, I feel Balfe is a composer who does some of his best work in additional music moreso than his solo scores, so if I was making a Balfe playlist I'd definitely also add some of his contributions to Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Kung Fu Pandas 2 and 3, Megamind and Inception.
2018-01-04 16:02:04
Just kidding!
Animation movies (Lego, Home, Kung Fu Panda, Penguins and Megamind) and video games scores (Beyond, Assassins Creed, Modern Warfare). Yeah, I like also some other things, but nothing too remarkable like those above.
Hybrid Soldier
2018-01-04 16:47:12
Ironclad, Harry's Arctic Heroes, Skylanders - Giants...
2018-01-04 17:29:14
AC3 ,Terminator Genius and Ghost In The Shell are mine.
2018-01-04 17:32:06
Genius for me is my favorite.then Beyond Two Souls, Home and Legobatman
2018-01-04 17:54:03
Lego Batman all the way !!
2018-01-04 21:59:05
Crown ,Ghost In the shell ,Last Man on The Moon and only because I love old school MV/Remote control ——— Geostorm
2018-01-05 03:49:18
The Crown and Genius are my favourite
2018-01-05 05:06:50
Call of Duty is Balfe's best along side Beyond Two Souls
2018-01-05 07:18:31
Home and Legobatman
2018-01-05 16:34:46
Ghost in The Shell,The Bible and Take Off from Geostorm.
2018-01-06 18:19:56
Blackwood is a secret gem but I think Ghost In The Shell and The Lego Batman are his best
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|| 2017-03-05 04:10:16
Really loving this score and the film ROCKED. Does anyone know about Genius ? Lorne has posted photos today or recording sessions
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2017-03-05 15:47:46
Genius is the Rob Howard TV show based on The life of Einstein .
2017-03-06 08:03:17
I believe Hans is writing the main theme with Lorne and Lorne is the Doug the score to all of the episodes . The super bowl spot looks amazing . Frost Nixon was a unique score from them both .
2017-03-20 07:21:22
Great score . Nice to hear something so different and so many styles
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Lego Batman just got released in Australia so it was great to hear how the score worked to the film. Amazing work . The Robin song I Found You is excellent and Lorne should be writing more songs . Interested to see Ghost in the shell now
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Replies: 0 || 2017-03-04 15:22:45
Bought the score weeks ago but only now got to see Lego Batman. Lorne's score is better than the first film I think . Great tunes and lovely to listen to and I hope he does more Lego movies
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Lego better be in the Oscars next year. brilliant film and Lroens score is another leval and hope he does more super hero films now
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|| 2017-02-24 03:09:20
Happy Birthday maestro
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2017-02-24 11:24:43
The demos he posted on Facebook arnt on the album ? Does anyone know if releasing them . Great soundtrack and which more animation music was like this
2017-02-24 12:49:52
Great sounding score . Definitely best score of the year . This a cool Batman scorof and better than most of the superheroes movie soundtracks week done to him
Replies: 0 || 2017-02-24 02:07:40
Too many songs but the score is amazing and really enjoying the score
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|| 2017-02-23 12:35:13
Great score . And love the Robin theme . Lovely tunes and cool action music
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2017-02-23 13:41:58
Yes and the robin theme that is the song i Found You is beautiful. Going back to see lego batman again tonight !
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Does anyone know what Mark M was doing the score ?
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|| 2017-02-20 05:50:23
There seems some negative comments about this score but I think it is great because it is fun but also with great serious overtones. For a change , the music was as important as ththe storyline for a change . I was actually shocked to see Lorne's name at the end because I had never heard his music this good. seems like he was allowed to go wild and enjoy writing . Enjoyed this soundtrack more than anything in a long time so well done
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2017-02-20 09:25:34
Onlyon this forum ! I think it's amazing and the music makes the film . I have always been a fan of Hans music but now lorn music is beating everyone's music for animation . Really great and best batman score since batman begins
Edmund Meinerts
2017-02-20 12:05:11
"now lorn music is beating everyone's music for animation."
Sorry. As good as this score is, Lorne still has a long long way to go before he reaches John Powell's level.
2017-02-20 12:34:49
Sorry but !!! Edmund you seem to be in the minority ! Social media is constantly
Mentioning the score in reviews . I realize I'm new to the new site but I follow Ihim on twitter and Facebook and everyone seems to be congratulating on the soundtrack . Apart from you ! Anyway - it's fun and I close my eyes and sit back and listen to it and enjoy A what else can I ask for .
Edmund Meinerts
2017-02-20 14:41:18
Good for him! It's great that this score is getting such acclaim. It's a very fun and enjoyable one. But go out and ask those same people if they like this more or How to Train Your Dragon and then come back and tell me what they say.
2017-02-20 19:56:09
Not just Powell but Zimmer too! The Prince of Egypt, Kung Fu Panda and The Lion King! Another great Powell animated score is Shrek, which he shares with Gregson-Williams :D
2017-02-21 08:08:43
Chad smith played on the score -red hot chilli peppers - what a drummer!!
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Totally lost ! /9 fed up with the violence amongst us all !
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|| 2017-02-13 13:12:36
Anybody got a film order of the score + songs?
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2017-02-13 17:18:59
Feel free to correct me
Who's The (Bat)Man - Patrick Stump
Your Greatest Enemy
Forever - DNCE (could also be the other version, they sound alike)
The Arrival Of Robin (Part 2)
Man In The Mirror - Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine (in the background)
(I Just) Died In Your Arms - Cutting Crew (Briefly)
Invincible - Kirsten Arian (Briefly)
Joker Crashes The Party
One - Harry Nilsson
The Arrival Of Robin (Part 1)
No Seat Belts Required (also a combination of 2 tracks)
To Cage The Joker
The Phantom Zone
Everything Is Awesome - Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine (As elevator music)
Open For Business
Chaos In Gotham
Lava Attack
For Your Own Good
Joker Manor
Batman's In The Zone
The Babs Signal
Heroes (We Could Be) (Hard Rock Sofa & Skidka Remix) - Alesso Feat. Tove Lo
Battle Royale
A Long Farewell
Man In The Mirror - Alex Aiono
Part of the End Credits (didnt stay for all of it) are:
Friends Are Family - Oh, Hush! Feat. Will Arnett & Jeff Lewis
Black Excerpt
I Found You - Fraser Murray & Lorne Balfe
2017-02-13 17:20:05
I forgot The arrival of Robin part 3 (the joker material)
That goes before 'Joker Crashes the Party'
(which I feel hes done in four separate movies now)
2017-02-17 00:00:55
thanks :D
2017-02-17 00:05:25
when say arrival of robin part 1 and 2.. where should it be split?
2017-02-17 02:55:02
The Arrival of Robin
Part 1: Start - 0:51
Part 2: 0:51 - 1:37
Part 3: 1:37 - End
2017-02-17 08:53:07
also 1:29-2:50 from 'Black' was for some reason replaced in the movie with new music
no other track has edits like that I think tho
2017-02-18 09:07:15
Where does the song I Found You feature in the film? It's a beautiful and it's the Robin theme but want to know where it goes .
Hybrid Soldier
2017-02-18 11:08:29
In the end credits !
2017-02-19 21:49:56
Where does Part 3 go?
Replies: 0 || 2017-02-19 12:51:12
Really enjoying this score and the film was great . Lorne's writing is getting
Better and better and this is his best so far . Beautiful and great music .
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Replies: 0 || 2017-02-17 05:22:37
What an amazing score and a cool film . Saw it tonight and it the best batman ever . Lorne score is brilliant .
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|| 2017-02-14 11:45:39
Don't know why everyone is actually raving about this score ? Have listened to it once and I haven't felt the urge to listen to it again. It's a fun score for sure. But saying it's the best score for an animated movie since a long time is a bit too much credit for me... But hey everyone can like whatever they want. Love the first minute of The Arrival of Robin though.
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Edmund Meinerts
2017-02-14 12:34:09
I kind of agree with you. It's a fun score but the level of accolades it's getting would have you think it's the second coming of Jesus Christ.
2017-02-14 14:08:40
It's not just fun score, it's fun "Batman" score. Sure many of us loved Hans' Dark Knight scores but this kind of addresses more aspects of Batman's & Joker's characters not just their broody nature and completely insane unpredictability that was there in Nolan's movies. Also the contrasting comic nature of the film helps the score to be enjoyed on a different level.
Of course it's not the greatest animation score. But when combined with the kind of popularity Batman & Lego movies have, it's just that more people are talking about it. And I, for one, am glad Lorne is getting some much deserved attention.
2017-02-14 19:33:21
Obviously you haven't been reading the reviews then !!!! I think it's a great score
and the film is a massive success . The music is is big part of the film and works brilliantly
Edmund Meinerts
2017-02-14 22:24:21
So if "the reviews" say something, it must be true and the rest of us have to fall in line? LOL
2017-02-14 22:29:20
LOL ! Anyway
2017-02-14 22:35:46
Has anyone seen the physical release . Amazon seems sold out already
2017-02-15 04:19:42
Different Mike here....frequent poster...Whenever I see other Mikes here, I feel the need to change my name. ;)
But I agree with Edmund. It's pretty good, but it's not amazing. Maybe seeing the movie will change my mind.
2017-02-15 06:58:58
Mike - it will change your mind
Replies: 0 || 2017-02-14 10:54:29
What a lovely song I Found You is and Friends are family is great .lornes best score to date I think .
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Replies: 0 || 2017-02-14 10:48:17
Really enjoyable score and the orchestrations are amazing . One of
The best animation music I have heard an a while . Lava attach is a great track.
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Michael Poleschuck
Replies: 0 || 2017-02-14 08:10:15
By the way, does the credit "score producer" for Max Aruj and Thomas Farnon means, that they are also write additional music and arrangements for this?
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Replies: 0 || 2017-02-14 08:00:50
Wow - this is a great album looking forward to seeing the film now
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Replies: 0 || 2017-02-13 17:46:01
This is the soundtrack album that Zimmer and Balfe's Megamind should've gotten! That release was pathetic; it failed to satisfy those who wanted the songs (only had 4) and those who wanted the score (13 cues).
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|| 2017-02-07 15:17:38
Fantastic score, one of Lorne's best. Has anyone else noticed how he quotes The Dark Knight score in "Your Greatest Enemy"?
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2017-02-07 17:05:51
It's funny how everyone is thinking they are hearing every single Batman reference . Fantastic score . Not what I expect led . Seeing the film this
Weekend . Hope it's as good as the soundtrack
2017-02-13 16:05:17
Do I hear a distinct quote of the Arrowverse motifs? I keep seeing The Flash running past me in my mind's eye :)
Crisp Rat
2017-02-13 16:49:21
@Bioscope I thought the exact same thing!
Replies: 0 || 2017-02-13 05:05:58
I can't stop listening to it . It is everything an animation soundtrack should sound like and more . Just saw the film today and the whole score stands
Out in the film . I think this is the year for Balfe .......
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Replies: 0 || 2017-02-13 04:58:37
I Found You is the Robin theme I believe . It is the best song on the album I think and lorne should write more songs . I think it's the best super heros score in along time .
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|| 2017-02-12 11:14:16
i have listened to this score over 10 times . wonderful music and the best animation music in a long time
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Edmund Meinerts
2017-02-12 17:20:19
Kubo and the Two Strings is not even a year old! ;)
2017-02-13 00:41:43
Exactly !
Replies: 0 || 2017-02-11 20:50:04
Really enjoying this soundtrack . So much fun . Seeing the film tomorrow and already imagining what's going on . Got the album on loop now
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Replies: 0 || 2017-02-11 20:06:34
Best score and best film . Saw it this afternoon and laughed so much . The orchestration is stunning and the robin theme is beautiful.
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|| 2017-02-10 18:10:42
Just been to see it and it's really good . Best Batman since Batman begins. Lorne's score is sensational . Score of the year
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Edmund Meinerts
2017-02-10 21:02:54
Score of the year? LOL. It's barely February, dude!
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|| 2017-02-09 04:14:39
Has anyone seen the movie yet ? Reviews seem amazing and score is sounding the best . Apart from Zimmer - best music to come out of RCP in a LONG time.
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Edmund Meinerts
2017-02-09 14:06:40
I'd say that this is the best RCP score since probably Eddie the Eagle - but it doesn't top that little gem, for me. ;)
2017-02-10 03:24:13
What a score . Great animation music but with solid themes .
Defiantly best score of the year - hard to beat this one . Favorite cue is Lava attack and then Kaos in Gotham.
The Lego Batman Movie soundtrack - Lorne Balfe 2017


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I promised to tell the story of how the Marysville Public Library saved my life, but first I want to tell the story about how the Marysville Public Library nearly killed me.
Libraries: more dangerous than they look.
The Marysville Public Library of my childhood was a Carnegie Library built in 1910. It was a brick stump of a building, about as tall as it was thick. You had to climb two sets of steps to reach the main entrance. When I knew it, two rows of mature bushes flanked the stairs. If I recall correctly they were yews. They had a tendency to grow wild in every direction, but someone always kept them neatly trimmed.
In 8th grade I would occasionally be a substitute paper carrier for Cathy Allen, whose route was on the opposite side of town, and on my way home I'd stop by the library to get a drink of water and look at books. On one particular day, as I came out the front door, I thought it would be fun to jump over the bushes. I considered myself a good leaper. I was wrong on both accounts.
My foot caught in the bushes and I fell hard. Right onto a freshly trimmed branch--quarter inch in diameter or so, angled cut sticking up like a pungee stick. It punctured a hole about an inch deep in the top of my thigh and then ripped its way through the muscle as I tumbled over the bushes to the ground.
The minute I tried to stand up I knew I was hurt badly. There was blood everywhere. The gash in my leg was at least four inches long. It hurt as bad as anything I had ever felt. A smart kid would have gotten help.
I wasn't a smart kid.
Back into the library I went, in the side door, down to the basement bathroom. I propped my leg on the sink and ran cold water over the cut, packed it with paper towels, and when it wouldn't stop bleeding I took off one of my gym socks — think about that for a minute: a teenage boy's gym sock, that I'd been wearing all day, running around town to deliver papers — and knotted around my leg to stop the bleeding.
Then I walked home. A little bit less than a mile, but it felt like a death march. My leg throbbed with pain every single step.
At this point, a smart kid would have talked to his parents, gone to the Emergency Room, gotten some stitches and antibiotics.
I wasn't a smart kid.
No, I was scared to death of doctors and hospitals and things like needles and IVs ever since my first eye surgery at the age of 4. I wasn't going to go near them. So I locked myself in the bathroom, washed out the wound with soap and water — it was still bleeding, but not as badly — then I packed it with gauze and wrapped it up with first aid tape. So it all ended well.
Except it didn't. My leg still hurt. Within a couple days it was hot to the touch. I was running a fever. And the bandage was soaked with more than blood.
By the third day, my leg was swollen and I had red and white stripes running down my thigh and calf. It was infected.
This is where you'd think I'd finally ask for help.
You'd be wrong.
I selected tools. A finger nail file that I heated over the stove. A full bottle of rubbing alcohol that I soaked the file in after I heated it. Some gauze and bandages that I had bought at McCarthy's Pharmacy downtown.
I picked off the scab and right away I could that the infection was bad. I won't bother you by describing it. But trust me, you'd be bothered if I did. I proceeded to scrape it all out with the finger nail file. Over and over, debriding the wound, taking breaks only long enough to pour the rubbing alcohol in it. I quit when it was raw and bleeding and I was out of alcohol. Then I packed it up with gauze, wrapped it tight with bandages, and hoped for the best.
If you can't be smart, be lucky. I was lucky. The saying goes that God looks out for fools and children, and I was both.
My fever broke the next day. The swelling went down. The leg stopped aching so badly. Eventually the wound healed, and all I had to show for it was a big purple scar that looked like a red wriggler crossing my thigh and a story that always makes my children squirm in their seats.
Like this, but without the sexy curl.
Looking back now, I know that infections are nothing to mess with. And neither are big deep wounds in your leg. I could have gotten really sick. I could have lost the leg. I could have died.
I could have died because of two things. I was afraid. I was afraid of hospitals, afraid of needles. A finger nail file? Sure. Needles? No way! And I didn't trust anyone. I thought I had to do everything by myself.
I remember always being afraid. As a kid, I was afraid of everything.
My stepfather Ted was an insurance claims adjustor. When I was about five years old, he took me along on some of his claims. Two of them stick out in my memory more than others. One was a car accident. If I remember the story correctly--and I may not, I was only five--a bunch of drunken teenagers crashed their mustang under a semi-truck, tearing the top off the car and killing them. While Ted spoke with the junkyard owner where the car had been towed, I wandered around, curious, and peered inside the wreckage. What I remember vividly is the blood.
Blood in tv shows and movies is always red, no matter how long ago it was spilled. But I hadn't seen those tv shows and movies, so I didn't know that. The dried blood in the car was brown. Like a scab. There were lines of it splattered on the seat-backs and doors, there were splashes of it on the seats, and there was a puddle of it on the floor under and around the beer bottles.
I call it a puddle, but it was more like a crust. There was a bottle cap on the floor, sticking edge up in the dried blood, and I remembering wondering, not understanding, how it got that way.
Second trip I remember with my stepdad was to the site of a house fire. No one had died, but the poor family's home was destroyed. The front half of the house looked like a mouth full of black and broken teeth that had vomited everything—a mattress, a broken TV, pieces of furniture, clothing, family pictures, children's toys—onto the front lawn. Most of it was charred and blackened and all of it was soaked from the fire hoses. The scent of it—the stale, burned, wet, melted plastic scent of it—is haunting. To this day, when I smell anything like it, I flash back to that.
When my stepdad stopped working as an adjustor a year or so later, he took a regular job working night shift at the juvenile detention center. One night a group of teenagers broke out of their rooms, beat him unconscious with a set of weights from the gym, stole his keys and his car and escaped. We went to visit him in the hospital, and I remember how his face was all bruised and bloody.
Like I said, I remember being afraid all the time.
We lived in a trailer park, used to be called Lewis Trailer Park, I don't know what it's called now. In 1971, less than a week before my 7th birthday, a storm hit Marysville. The newspaper called it a tornado, although I understand the National Weather Service never confirmed it. But it did a tornado's worth of damage.
Not as exciting as the Wizard of Oz.
Our trailer wasn't touched, but big trees were blown down and trailers all around us were knocked off their foundations or even flipped over.
Trailers in the hands of an angry God.
One trailer I don't have a picture of, except in my memory. The roof had been peeled off, rolled back like the lid on a can of sardines. The front room of the trailer was the kitchen, and everything in it was destroyed. The cabinets were ripped apart and the contents scattered like confetti. The kitchen table and the chairs were tossed around like children's toys in a temper tantrum. In the whole kitchen only the refrigerator, the big heavy refrigerator, was unmoved.
Equally unmoved, sitting on top of the refrigerator, was a duck. It was a duck decoy or maybe a ceramic cookie jar shaped like a duck. But it sat there, untouched, like it had flown in and alighted safely after the storm was over.
Our trailer was unhurt, but the one down the street was flipped over. This trailer was destroyed, but the fake duck was unharmed. I had a strong sense at that moment that violence was random and unpredictable.
So I was afraid of the place where I lived. And a lot of the time I was afraid where I played.
It's hard to convey to kids today what it was like when I was young, 10, 11, 12 years old. There was no cable television, only three channels, and they stopped broadcasting over night. Video game choices were restricted to Pong. There was no internet, no video streaming, no DVDs. If you were a kid and you wanted something to do, you pretty much had to play outside. So we played outside in the ponds and woods and creek behind the trailers, what today is called, as I understand it, McCarthy Park.
Shit Creek. No, really - the city's waste sewage treatment plant
was located next to the trailer park, just out of view of this shot.
We had a lot of good times in the woods, and it was absolutely essential to the formation of my imagination, but it wasn't without danger. There were the ordinary dangers like the huge snapping turtles under the bridge, which I avoided, or falling through the ice in the winter, which I didn't. When we played around the ponds, we learned to poke sticks through the weeds first so we could find and set off the muskrat traps. Leg traps, like bear traps, only if the bears were really small. We didn't want to accidentally step in them.
But there were other dangers. Like the time when my friend Jeff and I were maybe 11, and two guys thought it would be funny to jump out of the woods and chase us with an ax. We screamed and ran for the trailers, even after we heard them laughing behind us.
There were spots in the woods that were, and probably still are, a little hard to reach, isolated by the creek and the railroad tracks. It was probably the following year when we created a clearing in one of these places. We moved fallen trees out of the way to form a circle, cleared brush out of the center, stacked up all the rocks, and made a place where we could hang out. Then we promptly forgot about and went off to do other things for a while.
When we came back to the clearing weeks, or maybe even months later, we discovered that somebody else had been there. They'd built a fire pit and tossed empty beer cans everywhere, which was bad enough. But what was worst was they had filled the clearing with a whole crop of plants, which were just starting to get some size.
Looking back, it's easy to see that we had stumbled onto someone's marijuana farm. But we were clueless then. We were clueless and angry—somebody had taken our space, littered it with trash, and filled it up so we couldn't play there any more. So, in an effort to reclaim it, we started ripping up the plants.
Well the farmer wasn't too far from his crop. Probably in one of the run-down houses that backed up against the railroad tracks over on East 4th Street. We were just about done re-clearing the space when we heard furious shouting across the creek and saw a man with long hair and a rifle running toward us. It was the gun more than the hair that caught our attention. Especially when he aimed the gun and pulled the trigger.
You hear a bullet whiz over your head and it scares you. At least it scared us. Again, looking back, I don't think he was trying to shoot us, just scare us off, and so he shot over our heads on purpose. But we had no idea at the time. We ran all the way back to the trailers and decided he could have the clearing.
But we couldn't stay out of that park forever. Where else would we play? So the summer after 7th grade, I was with another one of my friends - I'm not going to name him because I don't know if he's ever told his version of this incident - down playing in the woods when two guys surprised us. One of them had a tire iron, looked ready to hit us with it. The other was swinging a length of bicycle chain. If we tried to run or get away, he whipped it at us. To this day, there's probably nothing that scares me as much as seeing a greasy length of bicycle chain swinging at someone.
In use as a battlefield weapon since the Jin Dynasty in 265 A.D.
These guys were no older than us, I think maybe they were brothers or cousins. But they were bigger than us, the kind of kids we called hoods, regular smokers in middle school, always getting in fights. They made us march back into the woods, across the shallow water below the dam, into the dead zone between the creek and the railroad tracks. And all the way back there, they kept telling us how they were going to rape us and beat us up. How if we tried to get away they'd kill us.
I'm not quoting them because I honestly don't remember their words. I remember the tire iron. And the bicycle chain. How angry and frustrated they seemed. How they would snap at us but whisper to each other. How my heart thumped like a woodpecker drilling a tree.
The only thing my friend and I had going for us was we knew the woods better than they did, and we knew where there was a fallen tree across the deep part of the creek. So we kept talking and shifting away from them, letting them think they had us cornered, and then we turned and ran. We jumped up on the tree, ran across to the other side, and didn't stop running until we got back into town.
I promise I'll get back to the library and get back to the books here in a moment. The point is that I didn't feel safe where I lived. And I didn't feel safe where I played. But there was always school. School's a safe place, right?
Between kindergarten and sixth grade, we lived on the same street. Which was good, because I didn't always handle change well. But during that time, in a town of only 5,000 people, I went to this many different schools.
The new building wasn't finished when school started
so we started Kindergarten in the old church offices.
Good news: The new building was finished mid-year.
Bad news: The teacher yelled at me constantly for making messes.
I started having frequent nightmares.
1st and 2nd Grade: Yes, it looks like Arkham Asylum.
During these two years, I had chicken pox, measles, german measles, mumps (twice)
and a bladder infection that put me in the hospital and made me miss a month of school.
No, I don't remember much school from those 2 years. Yes, I support vaccines.
3rd Grade: Woo, they're going to build a new school!
Boo, my sister and I were bussed to this country school
while almost all our former classmates went to school in town.
The new building wasn't finished yet so we started
4th grade here with classes in the old gym.
4th and 5th grades:
Yeah! Life doesn't seem so black and white any more.
6th grade: Back to Black-and-whites-ville.
The church and the city were building new elementary schools, so a lot of kids were in multiple buildings during that time. But I was in more than most for reasons that are still hard for me to explain. I had a few good friends, some of whom are still friends today, but one year I'd be in school with them, and the next year I wouldn't. I was a kid who didn't like change, and yet I was almost always the new kid, always starting over. And it made me the target of bullies.
Well, that's not entirely fair.
The coke bottle glasses and awkward nerdiness also made me a target of bullies. As did the fact that I could be a giant-sized dick. I was angry, I would argue, and I could be abrasive. If someone was even thinking about picking a fight with me, I had the bad habit of talking them into it. The fact is that during my elementary years, I ended up in a lot of fights. Some of them were pretty rough, and more than once I ended up with finger-mark bruises on my throat or even a broken collar bone.
So I was relieved when I got to middle school. There was only one middle school. No more changes!
Except I had another change.
After the first nine weeks of sixth grade, my teachers, who were excellent and who were trying to do me a favor, realized I was bright. Instead of the "vocational" track where trailer park kids usually ended up, they decided I belonged in the college prep track.
So my whole schedule changed. I was put in new classes with a group of kids I mostly didn't know, kids from the "good side" of town. And I was the only new kid moved into their classes.
Even so, things might have worked out okay except I had one teacher who wasn't happy to have me in class. After the first week or two, this teacher pulled me aside. They said, they had to have me in their class but they didn't like it. They knew I was a bad kid. They knew I smoked cigarettes (I didn't). That I was a bad influence (I may have been, I dunno). And this teacher — in particularly Snape-like fashion — stated explicitly that I didn't belong in a class with good kids, that I wasn't allowed to make friends with any them, and the teacher promised that they would be watching me.
I don't know if the teacher said anything to the other kids or if the kids just sensed an easy target, but I have to tell you, the rest of that year was hellish.
On the playground during recess and in gym class, I was always getting shoved and knocked down and punched and threatened by groups of boys. Then, when I would walk home, I had to worry about getting jumped by gangs of kids from the trailer park who were angry at me because I thought I was better than them. I was a dirty fighter, a scratcher, a biter, an eye-gouger. But that year was brutal.
And I couldn't tell my teachers, I couldn't tell any adults, because I didn't trust anyone.
So you have the general picture. There's a lot I've left out. Like the church trip to Colorado, where a bunch of us slid off a remote mountainside, some of us suffering broken bones and concussions while others got frostbite waiting for the helicopters to come airlift us out. Or when I worked at the local restaurant and my boss accidentally knocked an aerosol can in the deep fryer and it exploded in his face. In neither instance was I hurt, nor anyone permanently injured. But all in all it contributed to a constant sense of fear on my part and a lack of trust in adults.
I don't want to be unfair. There were good spots too: I had some great teachers especially in art and English, and in high school I joined the debate team which channeled my argumentative nature. But I was still afraid and awkward all the time. I felt like I had no one to turn to and no future ahead of me. I felt like I would never belong. I was sure that Marysville wanted me dead. The city hated me. It's no coincidence that whenever I write a horror story, it takes place in a small town in Ohio.
Remember the car wreck, the one I saw when I was five years old?
I remembered it too.
And then I got my driver's license.
So one day I was driving home along Main Street and I came to the railroad crossing next to the grain elevator. The warning lights were flashing but in those days there was no gate, nothing to keep you from going out on the tracks.
The train was moving fast. It was twice as big as a semi-truck and had 100 times the weight moving behind it. Anything that got hit by that train...
Roaring like an avalanche, coming down the mountain.
I thought, "This'll be painful but it'll be quick." Hell, it couldn't hurt any worse than pouring rubbing alcohol into an open leg wound.
So I pulled the car forward onto the tracks.
I made sure the driver's side door was lined up in the middle of the tracks. So I was looking right down the nose of that train.
The train engineer laid on the whistle. It was screaming at me to get off the tracks.
The driver in the car behind me starting honking his horn. As if I didn't see the train.
Well, I saw the train. All I had to do was brace myself for the impact.
Instead, I slammed my foot on the gas.
The car shot forward and the train was already whizzing past in my rearview mirror. It must have just missed me by feet. I was shaking so bad I could barely drive. It was months before I could drive across railroad tracks again. I used to go out of town and around the bypass just to avoid driving across them.
So why did I do it? Why did I hit the gas?
The library.
Libraries: much better than trains.
If there was one place I felt completely safe and at home, it was in the library. When I was immersed in a book, I was transported someplace far away from where I lived.
When I was small, I read Dr. Suess and other kids' books, but they made no lasting impression on me. I did not understand whimsy. But the summer I turned 10 years old I climbed, for the first time by myself, the steps out of the children's section in the basement and made my way up to adult fiction.
The old library had huge windows, and it was filled with light like a church, only better than a church because it felt lived in. The front of the library had shelves full of reference books and big oak tables where you could sit and read them. The librarian's counter was old, like a judge's bench. Past that, past the card catalog, was the fiction section. Rows of wooden shelves, dark with age and varnish, filled with books that smelled like… books. Musty. Full of mystery. Some of the best were the old Grosset & Dunlap hardcovers, with their crisp pages starting to yellow, and their faded red spines, worn and fraying at the edges, and the circulation cards tucked in back, stamped with dates, showing how many dozens or hundreds of times they had been checked out over the years.
I read Jaws that summer, and something about the inevitable violence of the shark spoke to me in a way far more profound than anything The Cat in The Hat ever said. But the real turning point for me was when I stumbled into the science fiction and fantasy collection.
I don't want to knock great literature, particularly the stuff we read in school. Some of those books have meant a lot to me. But think about the way most of those books end:
- The Great Gatsby - he fails to make his dream of marrying Daisy a reality and then he gets murdered for someone else's infidelity.
- Hamlet - he fails to prove for certain his father's fate and then he dies a horrible violent death, taking with him a bunch of innocent people as collateral damage.
- The Stranger - Mersault fails to find anything meaningful about life, commits a senseless murder, and then is executed.
- Romeo and Juliet - the young couple fails to escape their violent and dysfunctional families, and end up killing themselves.
- Old Yeller - the dog dies. Let me repeat that for emphasis: the dog dies.
At least in Jaws Brody and company finally kill the shark!
But in fantasy and science fiction books I found even better perspective. No matter how bad I thought my situation was, no matter how afraid, no matter how unfair, the characters in these books had it worse than I did. Didn't like where I lived? Tarzan gets abandoned as a baby in the jungle and is raised by apes. I had it way better than that. Think there's an unsolvable problem? Isaac Asimov shrinks a submarine crew to go inside a guy's body to fix an unsolvable problem. Don't fit in? Neither did Paul Muad'Dib when he went to join the Fremen in Dune, and look what he accomplished. Think life is unfair? Lord of the Rings. Frodo doesn't want the One Ring, he didn't do anything to deserve that burden, and yet he's the one who has to take it all the way to Mount Doom to give Sauron the finger.
You know what I mean.
Literary fiction is afraid of true heroes but genre fiction isn't. People are expected to rise above their problems and circumstance and make a difference in the world for other people. In fantasy and science fiction, nobody has to do things alone. They go get advice. They gather their friends and work as a team. They ask for help. Holy crap, if Hamlet had just read some science fiction that story could have turned out so much better for him!
Fantasy and science fiction novels changed my whole perspective about life and opportunities, not immediately, not all at once, but through a series of cumulative impressions, an offering of alternate models, absorbed and internalized over time. Without those novels I might have stared down that train and decided not to put my foot on the gas at the last instant.
The place I first discovered those books is the library.
And that's how the Marysville Public Library saved my life.


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Two Bedroom Surfside Apartment
The Reef Beachfront Apartments is perfect for your Mount Maunganui accommodation needs. The Two Bedroom Surfside Apartment is a spacious ground floor apartment with a ranch slider leading directly outside for a quick run across to the beach and also provides easy access to our heated pools. The Two Bedroom Surfside Apartment comes with two bathrooms, a full modern kitchen and your own fully equipped laundry – we even supply your beach towels! With all day sun, the patio is perfect for small children to play or for outdoor dining. Ideal for singles, couples, or families.
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Foote, Julia A.J.
|A Long-Lost Brother Found
Having no children,I had a good deal of leisure after my husband's departure, so I visited many of the poor and forsaken ones, reading and talking to them of Jesus, the Saviour. One day I was directed by the Spirit to visit he Marine Hospital. In passing through one of the wards I heard myself called by my maiden name. Going to the cot from whence the voice came, I beheld what seemed to me a human skeleton. As I looked I began to see our family likeness, and recognized my eldest brother, who left home many years before, when I was quite young. Not hearing from him, we had mourned him as dead. With a feeble voice, he told me of his roving and seafaring life; "and now, sister," he said, " I am dying."
I asked him if he was willing to die--if he was ready to stand before God. "No, oh, no!" he said. I entreated him to pray. He shook
I urged him to pray, and to believe that Jesus died for all. I prayed for him, and staid with him as much as possible. One morning, when I went to see him, I was shown his lifeless remains in the dead-house. This was indeed, a solemn time for me.
I had very little hope in my brother's death. But there is an High Priest who ever liveth to make intercession for all, and I trust that he prevailed. The Lord is the Judge of all the earth, and all souls are in his hands, and he will in no wise clear the guilty, though merciful and wise. Willful unbelief is a crying sin, and will not be passed by without punishment. God judges righteously, and is the avenger of all sin. Justice is meted out to all, either here or in eternity. Praise the Lord! My whole soul joins in saying, Praise the Lord!
God, in great mercy, returned my husband to me in safety, for which I bowed in great thankfulness. George told me that the ship was a poor place to serve the Lord, and that the most he heard was oaths. He said that
During the year I had been from home, letters from my parents and friends had come to me quite often, filling me with gladness and thanksgiving for the many blessings and, cheering words they contained. But now a, letter came bringing the intelligence that my family were about to move to Silver Lake, which was much farther from me. I tremblingly went to my heavenly Father, who gave me grace and strength at once.


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...best gift?
I don't know how another Christmas present is going to top this.
Meg and I opened these matching bracelets yesterday -- a super, secret gift from Anna and Emma's dad.
(He didn't wannt to give them to us at Christmas, in front of our other cousins.)
He took Aunt Marie's pearls and had the necklace restrung into three bracelets: one for me, one for Meg and one for Emma. Anna has the orignal bracelet from the set.
I can't remember receiving a gift that made me cry. Until this one, of course. Happy tears and sad tears. Such a sweet, sweet gesture.
I love that it matches my sister and I love that it matches my couins-who-are-basically-my-sisters. I love that I will be able to carry a little of Aunt Marie around with me.
I hope you all have a wonderful day tomorrow - whether it is spent celebrating Christmas or not. I am so lucky to have such a wonderful group of people who read this silly little blog. You're all a pretty sweet gift, too.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
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Obama: Congress, World Credibility at Stake, and More
What's News: President Obama says the world community and Congress's credibility are on the line if Syria's alleged use of chemical weapons goes unanswered. Microsoft's new Xbox One console will be released within a week of Sony's new Playstation 4. Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro is found dead. Joanne Po reports. Photo: AP
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