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Diane Warren | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan interview is really interesting, and a drive to make the above MUSIC+COMIC. In D Flat/C# Dorian @ 135BPM. Powered up the MS-20mini for the first time in awhile too.

Brian Cadd has a story that he was in the studio with THE POINTER SISTERS to record one of his songs, and he was playing the piano in the session. They decided they wanted to change the key to suit their voices better, and as he couldn't do that himself, they had to get another guy in to play the piano. He just laughs it off. Being a great song writer and being a great versatile musician aren't related.

It seems Diane Warren is a bit that way herself, great at the words, emotion and melody, and that is the bit that counts. Maybe a bit like Irving Berlin, but they didn't go into it.  

Makes me feel a bit better about the music I am making.

Other Things

So the FAIRLIGHT INSTRUMENTS 50YEARS pin arrived in the mail today, for attendance of the Event held 2025/12/19 in Sydney. I was one of the ex-staff on Zoom that attended. 

The type of thing worn on a suit. I rarely do that.  Put it on my hat maybe?😀  Not that anyone I expect to meet will ever have any idea what it is about.

I had my first medical procedure on Monday, 2 days ago and it was painless and took all of 5 minutes. Will go back in a bit over a week for #2 to be taken care of.

Urasawa Naoki's ASADORA vol 9 English was released yesterday and I ordered my copy.

After watching THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY for the first time, Star Trek leaving Netflix last week and BONES repeats starting on Netflix this Sunday,  HALO TV series on PRIME seemed the best option. 5 episodes in and it is holding my attention.  Never played any of the games but know about MASTER CHIEF. For something that started as a FPS, the TV series has a very human core to the story. 

Watched part of a JAMES CAMERON interview in the last weeks and there was one part where he says after finishing Titanic, he spent many years doing other things like the deep sea dive and working with NASA making cameras. The guys at NASA were super smart and driven and paid little attention to films and what the latest buzz in that, what was his world, was up to, and he hadn't met people like that before.   I had spent years in a similar frame of mind where the trivia of movies was a waste of time and there were far more important things to do. Part of the reason I can catch up on things in retirement.  

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