“There are the sounds that are in between music and effects. Mood things. You can have three or four or five or a hundred things running together.”

• May 19, 2023 • Leave a Comment

“I love electricity. I love the wind. I love so many things about sound. I always say that cinema is sound and picture, flowing together in time.”

• April 21, 2023 • Leave a Comment

“A lot of music doesn’t do one thing or another. It just doesn’t do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It’s such a wide range, and it’s really interesting that we all love different things.”

• March 17, 2023 • Leave a Comment

“Rock & roll is like… It’s not just loud, and it’s not just a beat. There’s something. And to find it you would look at Gene Vincent, and Elvis Presley, and those guys… These people, it could make you cry, and it could make you, you know, wild at the same time. There’s a mixture.”

• February 17, 2023 • Leave a Comment

“It’s magic. There’s so much magic in music. It’s incredible. What gets born and how come it gets born. And so, so, so beautiful.”

• January 20, 2023 • 7 Comments

“Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream.”

• December 19, 2022 • Leave a Comment

“It’s not just words or music — it’s a whole range of elements coming together and making something that didn’t exist before. It’s telling stories. It’s devising a world, an experience, that people cannot have unless they see that film.”

• October 21, 2022 • Leave a Comment

“Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It’s a beautiful thing.”

• September 23, 2022 • Leave a Comment

“It’s a real place. All the characters are real. And the place is real.”

• June 17, 2022 • Leave a Comment

“Music Deals With Time And Timing. It’s So Magical, But When You Get Into It, Every Little Sound And Every Little Space Between The Sounds, It’s Critical, So Critical. And If It’s Not There, It Not Only Feels Wrong, But It Ruins Things.”

• May 20, 2022 • Leave a Comment

“A lot of music doesn’t do one thing or another. It just doesn’t do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It’s such a wide range, and it’s really interesting that we all love different things.”

• April 22, 2022 • Leave a Comment

“I’m not a musician, but I love the world of music… I love musicians, they’re a lot like children. They like to sleep late and have fun in life.”

• March 18, 2022 • Leave a Comment

“Meanwhile…”

• November 23, 2021 • Leave a Comment

Here’s to Ben: Dean Stockwell, 1936 – 2021

• November 9, 2021 • 1 Comment

“Sound is almost like a drug. It’s so pure that when it goes in your ears, it instantly does something to you…”

• October 22, 2021 • Leave a Comment

“Play this record loud on big speakers – and crank it so that you can feel it. You gotta feel that thump in your chest.”

• September 17, 2021 • 1 Comment

A Figment In The Elsewhere #5: Mr. Blanche DuBois

• March 25, 2020 • Leave a Comment

“Music deals with abstractions and, like film, it involves time.”

• November 22, 2019 • Leave a Comment

Josie? Is… is that you…?

• October 20, 2019 • Leave a Comment

“Depending on how things have been going [in the episode] certain songs feel correct”

• October 18, 2019 • Leave a Comment