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This guy’s resume spans more than 200 films, from “Empire Strikes Back” to “Robin Hood”.  Here he shows off a few of his secrets for getting the perfect movie sounds.  Really amazing stuff.

Apparently the only blogging I do these days is posting YouTube videos every 3 months. Well, I’m going to show you — me write words before make show movie picture.

I actually found this trailer on the site for Mr. Lee’s General Store & Haberdashery, a cozy little shop nearby that sells things like shaving blades, baseball gloves, mustache wax, switchblades, steel wool, handkerchiefs and fedoras — man stuff. It was from this store that my daughter bought me some wool socks for my birthday. Yes, today is my birthday.

Let’s do this again, shall we?

I watched Observe and Report the other night and this song comes up when the mall security team comes down the escalator in their “strictly business” pose.  My man Bob pointed out it’s an extremely bad-ass track from Patto called “The Man”.  It’s a long one but hang in there for the absolutely frenetic drumming during the closing climax.  Jesus this kills.

It’s a fuckin’ dark comedy (if you dig Jody Hill’s other stuff like The Foot Fist Way and Eastbound and Down) and the soundtrack is absolutely killer — The Band, Dwarves, Yardbirds and a smokin’ Pixies cover.  I figured they must have gotten Wayne Kramer to handle the music again since he’s done such a great job on EBAD but turns out it wasn’t him after all.  Obviously Jody Hill puts a high priority on locating only the finest tracks to aurally accompany his work.