Addendum: SCORE!

[sinanju]

Oh yeah, while at Worldcon cruising the dealer's room, I found a table where they proprietor sells out-of-print CDs of movie and tv show scores and soundtracks.  I flipped through them, looking for either Superman or Terminator (I have both of those on LP but haven't owned a record player in more than a decade).

I didn't find either one, but I did find a copy of the soundtrack album for THE SHADOW*.  Wow!  I wasn't looking for that one because, frankly, I had given up hope of ever finding it.  I wasn't even sure it had ever been released.

But now I own it and I'm listening to it even as I type this.  Yay!

*Yes, yes--I'm sure many people will think my taste is all in my mouth now that I've revealed that one of my favorite films is The Shadow.  But so what?  I don't care.  I like what I like, and I like The Shadow.  As a friend of mine put it, it has just the right touch of mystic weirdness.

Comments

[beccadg.livejournal.com]

I wasn't even sure it had ever been released.

Hee! I could've told you that. :D They even released the Taylor Dayne "Original Sin" as a cassette single. Don't ask me how I have the single, but not the album. x_x Anyway, I like The Shadow. :)

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose I could have searched harder than I did. But I wasn't really interested in scouring the net for it. I wanted to find it where I could snatch it up and shout, "Mine!"

Which I ultimately did.

Original Sin...

[seawasp]

... music used for the greatest Babylon 5 video ever made, by my friend Phil Lipari. Great tune.

[mzlizzy.livejournal.com]

I love 'The Shadow'! It just misses being a great movie, but it has so much going for it, including great costume design.

BTW, Glad we got to meet, even if I had no working brain when you stopped by the table. Oh well, at least now we can say we've met in person!

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

Same here! I felt like I should have had more to say, but...there you go. Nonetheless, yes, it was good to meet you in person. You're no longer an imaginary friend.

And yeah, The Shadow rules! I mean, Alec Baldwin, Penelope Ann Miller, Tim Curry, Ian McKellam, Jonathan Winters, Peter Boyle and John Lone! Mystic Wierdness, pulp action, entertaining dialogue--what's not to like!?

Plus, the scenes between Khan and Cranston--talk about your slashy goodness! (And I'm not even a slash fan. But like Smallville, it's hard NOT to see it when Lone's Khan is doing his best to seduce Cranston back to the dark side.)

"You--and only you--deserve to be by my side!"

That was a GREAT film.

[seawasp]

Managed to capture, for me, the spirit of the character very well (and worth the admission price for that one comic-cover moment on the stairs of the Monolith Hotel).

If I'd known you needed the soundtrack, I could have GIVEN it to you. I've had it for years. I assumed with your icon and so on that you'd probably collected all the interesting material on it years ago.

Re: That was a GREAT film.

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose I should confess that I never looked THAT hard for it. I skimmed a few websites now and then, but never made a concerted effort to find it. And anyway--half the fun of finally obtaining it this week was stumbling across it out of the blue at the con!

Yeah, the stairs. For me, the iconic scene was on the bridge when the two thugs finally get a good look at the nigh-invisible superhero who's been terrorizing them.