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Posts Tagged Stephen King

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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Charles Bukowski, On Reading, On Reading. And Writing, On Writing, Poem, Poem: On Reading. And Writing., Stephen King, Woody Allen ·

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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged [OST], Bernard Hermann, Brian De Palma, Carrie, Composer, Friday The 13th, Halloween, Horror, Joe Dante, Pino Donaggio, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Score, Stephen King, The Howling, The Vinyl Countdown, The Wolf, Vinyl ·

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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 […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Green, Murmur, Out Of Time, Perfect Circle, R.E.M., Stephen King ·

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December 18, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1712

V/A, Blues That Gave America Soul (1980) I’ve no idea where I found this compilation – or when (?) – but I’m glad I did. I have a feeling it was picked up at a book sale-thingy; one of those annual dust-ups where there’s a giant gym full of stuff and almost all of it […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1980, Blues, Blues That Gave America Soul, Bob Dylan, Bobby Bland, Dragon's Den, Johnny Ace, Junior Parker, Memphis Slim, Stephen King, Stormy Monday, Tarantula, V/A ·

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