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September 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Newton Brothers: Dr Sleep [OST]
The Newton Brothers Dr Sleep (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Watertower Music I’ve yet to read the book, but I probably will since I’m gearing up to dive deep back into the world of Stephen King – but I saw the film and liked the film, particularly given it had a lot to live up to, […]Archive
September 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Horror Movie Scores: Some Favourites
On a big horror kick right now. I feel like I have been on a big horror movie kick since I was 13. That’s when I conquered any fear of being frightened by overdosing on horror films. The good, the bad, the ugly. Now I’m catching up on some classics I haven’t seen – or […]Archive
July 28, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: A Poem About The Shining
I watched The Shining again. Perfect horror film. Existential fear right there. Amazing performances, brilliantly filmed – that feeling of unease that trickles in with Wendy Carlos’ amazing music and the sound-design just so. And I’m ordering a book to read about the film and noticing my copy of Stephen King’s novel up there on […]Archive
June 24, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: On Reading. And Writing.
Reading Charles Bukowski and Stephen King, that was the thing. Those were the guys. And yet I hardly ever think of them now. Certainly don’t read them. It’s not that I hate their words or worlds or works, I’ve just moved on. That’s what is supposed to happen. That’s what you’re supposed to do. I’m looking – without actively looking – for the next thing to get hooked on, to find and […]Archive
August 19, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein: Stranger Things, Vol. 1 [OST]
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein Stranger Things, Vol. 1 [OST] Lakeshore Records It seems the one thing anyone lured in by Netflix’s Stranger Things can agree on – the music was a triumph; scene-setting, propulsive, era/genre-evoking, it worked stunningly as a masterful prop and part of the manipulation. The score comes courtesy of Kyle Dixon […]Archive
September 9, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Authors I Admire: # 2 Stephen King
I don’t know why people mention Stephen King as if some guilty pleasure, or worse – just straight out don’t rate him, consider him a hack, some below-literature grade of fluke-artist who sold his soul to the movies and got lucky. That’s nuts. That dude can write! In fact he was probably my first writing […]Archive
May 18, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Stephen King: Guns
Guns Stephen King Philtrum Press/Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Stephen King’s first non-fiction Kindle Single is a powerful, timely essay about guns. Obviously he addresses the politics surrounding gun control, the red and blue votes and voters but he makes this about the victims and the crime – rather than about the round-and-round-in-circles debate/s over legislation. […]Archive
May 1, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1379
Pino Donaggio, The Howling [OST] (1981) The music from The Howling has long been one of my favourites; it does what I want from a horror-film soundtrack – chiefly: scares the shit out of me. The film was one of a handful I was profoundly affected by as a youngster. I was traumatised by a […]Archive
November 2, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1503
R.E.M., Murmur (1983) I first heard Murmur after the late-80s/early-90s version of R.E.M. So I loved Green and Out Of Time and then wanted to hear where it had come from. Murmur was next for me. And I loved it. Instantly. I’ve argued before that R.E.M. is/was the best band of the 1980s. And they had a […]Archive
December 18, 2011 by Simon Sweetman