rockcritics daily (phase 1)

ANOTHER CASHIER WILL ONLY BE TOO PLEASED TO SERVE YOU

Last post on this version. New version is where it should be.

MORE WEIRDNESS...PHASING OUT RCD 1.1 

Okay, the comments are back, but things inside here have really been mucked with. I have a guess as to what's happened: Although I said below I never "tampered" in any way with this, I meant that I recently haven't tampered with things. In setting up this blog a year ago, I tampered quite a bit with Blogger's code, and was probably even a bit reckless about it. My guess is that my tampering has come back to bite me on the ass. I've noticed that since Blogger has updated their service, things have been a little off with comments and other aspects of it (I often have trouble just getting on to the bloody site). I've heard the same from a couple other people as well.

So, rather than risk losing all of this or dealing with hassles on a site which should be hassle-free, I'm going to start over. I'll keep this version of the blog, but it'll be archived. I've been thinking of updating the look anyway (so many nice new templates to choose from now...), and a new look might even signal a fresh start and attitude. Hopefully the hyper-links will work, and I believe Blogger now offers their own comments system--it should be a better deal all around.

Sayonara, phase I--it's been, um, fun. Details on phase II to follow, hopefully soon...

PRE-CAUTION

Just to be safe (given the bizarre disappearance of the comments), I've changed the password to this site. If you're someone who's posted here before and would like to do so again, e-mail me, and I'll update you. I probably won't respond during the day (I'm not supposed to be on here NOW), unless the post office fixes their free internet terminal.

BABY COME BACK

Hmm, through no fault or tampering of my own, all the comments seem to have disappeared from this page. No clue what happened. I've checked some other blogger sites, and no one else seems to be affected (though I realize the comments fields aren't built into my blogger template--I had to add them from somewhere else). That's a bummer if they're gone--I enjoyed a lot of the comments in there, especially from "regulars" like Richard Riegel and GJ. Will try and clear this up tonight, but if not, apologies to anyone who took the time to add their two cents.

From the "desk" of Gregg Juke ("The Mysterious GJ")

Film Critics or Rock Critics?

Well then, this place has been getting deeper (and deeper) in celluloid over the last few months than my friend Dave and I were in 6th grade (when we finally got the chance to run the movie projector, and used the opportunity to spill the film all over the classroom floor)...

So: Who are the best contemporary film composers out there that have come from a rock/pop music background? We'll define the terms loosely-- "contemporary" = still living, "film" = movies _or_ TV, and "pop music" = any non-classical, or mostly non-classical background, which could include rock, jazz, blues, world, weird; basically playing in a band, as a solo artist, or producing rather than "composing" and conducting via the traditional academic route...

I tried to think of a bunch of these folks off-the-cuff; I'm sure there must be more, but I came up with Mark Isham, Danny Elfman, Howard Shore, Neal Young, David Torn, Quincy Jones, Mark Mothersbaugh, Stewart Copeland, Peter Gabriel, Stan Ridgeway, and Herbie Hancock. Anybody else?

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Bloggers Suffer Burnout. By Daniel Terdiman in Wired News.

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