It’s that time of year again. Time to donate some of that spare change to my favorite public radio station.
I know, times are tough, paychecks are getting smaller but this station provides a service that, if it were to disappear, Los Angeles would sorely miss. Plus you have a chance to win some cool stuff. Trust me, I know about winning cool stuff from KCRW. A few years ago they sent me to SXSW. Sweet!
Oh, if you do pledge, let me know what you pick up as a premium.
It’s no secret that I envy Danny Boyle’s resume. Like Coppola and Soderbergh before him, Mr. Boyle is able to jump genres with the greatest of ease. On top of that, he almost always employs great music in his films too. Now he pulls out an awesome 5 song set for the KCRW Guest DJ Project. Could I be more jealous?
FYI, when I get my shot to guest DJ on KCRW, I want at least an hour of Morning Becomes Eclectic (but I could easily program all three). I’m just waiting for the call.
Stan Winston (special effects guru with credits from THE TERMINATOR to EDWARD SCISSORHANDS to JURASSIC PARK) was recently interviewed for the NPR/KCRW radio program The Business and he dropped a great pearl of wisdom. He was speaking of a deleted scene from James Cameron’s ALIENS. In the scene, the marines have set up two auto guns to protect them from an onslaught of creatures. As the monsters rush towards the small group of survivors, the guns mow them down; every so often, the film cuts to the gun’s ammunition indicator, which runs down fast. Wave after wave of monsters rush towards the viewers and the guns keep cutting them down.
As a fan of the film, I can tell you that the sequence is thrilling. Even more amazing is that the whole thing was made with a couple of prop guns, a few guys in creature suits, lots of ooze and some great editing and sound effects.
Stan Winston said that if the film were made today, the studio would want a computer generated effect that would show us a hundred monsters instead of allowing the filmmaking to let us feel them.
The lesson to be learned: tis better to feel it than to see it.
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