Akira! Akira! Akira! Ifukube! Ifukube! Ifukube!

AAAAAAAAAKIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRAAAAAAA
IFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKUBEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Repeat twelve times and maybe THAT will get us to page eight.)

Akira Ifukube!!!!

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Originally posted by Marian Schedenig:
Hey, I know it's elderberry. But could you have resisted?

36 more posts to go until we reach page #8...

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some backwater place called Harrisburg,PA.

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Oh, so one punch wasn't enuf ta' keep yer TRAP SHUT, eh?

...backwater place...grrrrrrr....

Are you all spoiled brats?

Ford A. Thaxton seems to think that every one here, including me, is a spoiled brat.

He's not been very nice in his emails over the past month. I've asked him why this is so again and again, but he refuses to give me an answer.

Recently, I edited one of his posts to remove some unnecessary "I am better than all of you" attitiude and he wigged out. Hell, I think I've edited everybody here at one point or another. You all seemed to take it well. Ford didn't, unfortunately, and decided to butt heads with me in the "GTE Internet & Napster" thread. It's a fun read.

Anyway, after posting, he then sent me a couple of personal emails (unsolicited). Here are his words:

"I think most of the folk (Including you) are a bunch of spoiled brats who haven't a clue about the rather serious issues at hand."

So, I want to know if Ford's right. Is everyone here a bunch of spoiled brats???

Of course, this is all very much off topic for the message boards and web site as a whole, so I decided to post this in the official off-topic forum known as "? for PETER K."

Feel free to stay on topic... or not. I'd love to hear what you think of what Ford thinks of you.

My advice to PeterK & Ford:
Patch things up right away.
Say "I'm sorry!" and erase the grudge tally.
Give each other the benefit of the doubt, and start all over as if this never happened.

Now I've probably started WW3...

A snippet from the chat session...

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CelebCircl: The next question is from Jerlo.

CelebCircl: What do you think of soundtrack collectors?

GoldsmithJ: I'm glad that people like that exist because they buy records. But I sometimes wonder if an avid collector like Ford Thaxton has a life.

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I might not be as "informed" to everything in the world as Ford Thaxton, but then again, I don't give a s**t.

$0.02

NP: Last Run

Jonathan Little, huge thumbs up my friend. It was a very funny moment, indeed.

That's all for now...

PeterK

I recently found a horrifying and lacerating portrait of Mr. Thaxton written on one of the newsgroups by Lukas Kendall, but I hold no particular brief for Mr. Kendall either, so I'm not about to take sides. No doubt I could find equally vivid words written by Thaxton about Kendall, as well. It would be interesting to mix and match, but I have enough else to do in the next two weeks. Perhaps some upcoming lazier Sunday.

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Originally posted by Mark Olivarez:
Don't you mean page 9?

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Oops, if course it's page 9. Maybe I AM a spoiled brat

Here's some useful info I got as an email today:

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Fun Things To Do In An Elevator

1.When there's only one other person in the elevator, tap them on the shoulder and then pretend it wasn't you.

2. Push the buttons and pretend they give you a shock. Smile, and go back for more.

3. Ask if you can push the button for other people, but push the wrong ones.

4. Call the Psychic Hotline from your cell phone and ask if they know what floor you're on.

5. Hold the doors open and say you're waiting for your friend. After a while, let the doors close and say "Hi Greg, how's your day been?"

6. Drop a pen and wait until someone reaches to help pick it up, then scream "That's mine!"

7. Bring a camera and take pictures of everyone in the elevator.

8. Move your desk into the elevator and whenever someone gets on, ask if they have an appointment.

9. Lay down a Twister mat and ask people if they'd like to play.

10. Leave a box in the corner, and when someone gets on, ask them if they hear something ticking.

11. Pretend you are a flight attendant and review emergency procedures and exits with the passengers.

12. Ask "Did you feel that?"

13. Stand really close to someone, sniffing them occasionally.

14. When the doors close, announce to the others "It's okay. Don't panic, they open up again."

15. Swat at flies that don't exist.

16. Tell people that you can see their aura.

17. Call out "Group hug!" and then enforce it.

18. Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering "Shut up. All of you, just shut up!"

19. Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside, ask "Got enough air in there?"

20. Stand silently and motionless in the corner, facing the wall,without getting
off.

21. Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce in horror, "You're one of THEM!" and back away slowly.

22. Wear a puppet on your hand and use it to talk to other passengers.

23. Listen to the elevator walls with your
stethoscope.

24. Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.

25. Stare, grinning, at another passenger for a while, and then announce "I have new socks on."

26. Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers "This is my personal space."

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I was perusing this amusing (if unwieldy, and slightly wacko) thread, not expecting much........

I find it very interesting that Mr. Thaxton thinks of us as spoiled brats. We have here a collection of students, professionals, retirees, and free-lancers that can be counted on for intelligence and passion - as well as occassionally making a mountain out of a molehill! I personally know and have befriended authors, parents, educators, Disabled Veterans (BESIDES myself), actors, and others, who routinely stop at this board. Spoiled? A HUGE presumption on Mr. Thaxton's part.

That presumption is this: that he has even the smallest bit of contextual identification with the events that have shaped our lives. Of COURSE he has no idea what I, or anyone else here, have been through (or go through on a daily basis). My guess is that such a dreadfully stupid and petulant comment was borne out of inflated self-importance. Basically, since WE are not all Fighting The Good Fight by working in the industry, we have no right to opine on the things we do. Interesting logic, as that same rationale does not apparently extend to him shutting his mouth about the circumstances that each of us face (or have faced).

If this gets edited, I am sure that I will have the grace to understand that my words were not in the best interests of this community. I will also know that I cannot begin to speak for everybody here; and that my opinions are subjective observations that do not begin to quantify the experience of everybody here. So my thoughts on this are distinctly - and solely - my own.

You have NO idea of the circumstances which have shaped MY life, Mr. Thaxton. Be more careful in your communications, please; it is offensive to find that the trials I have faced (or those faced by my friends, which include: bigotry, misogyny, persecution, and the extremes of JUST BEING MISUNDERSTOOD) have been blithely and arrogantly dismissed by someone who just hasn't been there. I can appreciate your Strong Self Concept......

....can you appreciate my desire to provide a demonstration of just how spoiled I was during my combat training?

For the record, I agree with Mr. Goldsmith on this one. And Peter? Stop second-guessing yourself with regard to your philosophical/editorial shepherding of this board. You run a fine place here (outside of the occasional Insulting Dork, which you certainly cannot be blamed for), and your instincts regarding our treatment of each other are spot-on. I love this place!

Now, where did my servant leave the caviar?

I have a confession to make, and I'll probably lose the respect of everyone here for making it. I haven't bought a score CD--or any CD--in almost a year. In fact, the last CD's that I bought were bargain-bin cheapies at Circuit City. I paid $1.99 for most of them, and still seriously considered the purchase before laying out the cash.

That right, the problem here is money. There are tons of scores that I'm dying to have, but I just can't afford them if I want to keep eating and paying my bills. I'm by no means poor, but there's not a lot of extra money lying around. (I know my profile says that I'm a teacher, but I haven't been offered a full-time position yet, so it's substitute-teaching during the school year and part-time tutoring in the summer.) Though I'm sure Mr. Thaxton was not aiming his "spoiled brat" comment at me personally, I do wish he'd consider just how much many of us give up to buy the CD's that he and others produce.

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Chris, exactly. You hardly know the man. I know him well, unfortunately.

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That's a mouthful...the key word being "unfortunately".

Marian: Thanks so much for the elevator tips. I can't wait to use them. Now where did I put that sock puppet...

Thanks for your thoughts. It is indeed an interesting dynamic.

On the one hand, you have a "record producer" who attempts to prove his self-importance time and time again, often with pathetic and sadly miserable results (true colors only starting to show on these boards - if you want, just do a search for "312" in the rec.music.movies forum and look at the Ford material that comes up).

On the other hand, you have passionate movie music fans who do nothing but build solidarity by reaching out to others, from those whose interest is just budding to others who've been at it for 30 years. The fans also have their own budgets to work with - not every CD produced is able to find a home in his or her collection.

Yet, the "record producer" is out there, pretending to be part of the industry and, even worse, thinking that movie music fans are a bunch of spoiled brats.

Let's get this to page 9.... or 10! and 11!!!

Todd - you haven't bought a CD in a year!? You ARE a spoiled brat!

Chris - yeah, they're pretty tempting, aren't they? I got them from a workmate at the university, I'm curious to see what happens when I enter the elevators there next time.

I wasn't personally offended by, or even vaguely interested in Ford Thaxton's comments. I've had such a various and frequently bizarre life that I don't feel I fall into any one category, and have managed to live long enough to feel comfortable in my own skin, which I'm not sure Ford, who's some years older than me, really is, even today. Sometimes a comment like "spoiled brat" would look like projection on the part of the accuser, but I know Ford hasn't had the easiest life -- any more than most of us do. I AM sad to observe that he doesn't seem to be quite the same person I was reasonably friendly with, a long time ago. At least one of our Boarders here is more familiar with Ford's old postings at various newsgroups, and has observed that he seems to have changed a lot -- gone the whole circuit from "To Hell with Re-Use Rights" to "I'm Just A Good Company Man." I have no idea why (well, some ideas, but I won't speculate here). But most certainly he is consumed with his self-image as an industry mover-and-shaker, when in fact he is barely tolerated. Like many people in this business, he manages to hang on to its fringes through a combination of sheer doggedness, and the indulgence of a number of people who either are predisposed to want to help out, or just want to throw him a bone so he'll shut up for a while while he's chewing on it.

One thing that's always been true about Ford Thaxton is that he frequently talks (or types) before he thinks (I am guilty of this myself, which is one reason I recognize the syndrome), and then feels self-righteously wounded because of the response he gets. He is a classic passive-aggressive in this regard (not my characterization, but that of one composer who knew him briefly, whom obviously I am wiser than to name. See, I'm trying to think first ...)

I really never thought Ford was a bad fellow, in fact I used to stick up for him in the pre-Internet days, and I still don't think ill of him, but I am a bit worried at what he seems to be turning into. Perhaps it was inevitable. As so many have said to me, "you don't have to deal with him every day," and maybe I'd have a whole other picture of him if I'd ever had to. True colors, AdministratorK? At the end of the day, sometimes they glow in the dark.

Will this post take us to page 9? I'd be honored.

DjC, for giving birth to a topic containing more than 300 messages...

and Ford, because of all the attention he is getting.

I'd be willing to wager some of our "spoiled brats" have superior internet and computer skills than some record producers. I know my 16 year-old nephew knows more about computers than I ever will.

It's also generally not good business to insult the people who are buying your product(the records you produce). Wil Weaton did that on a Star Trek cruise and was never forgiven.