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Topic: What does MovieMusic.Com mean to you...
Scott
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This thread came to me last night after an unusual episode of distain and disgust and just overall negativity that is rather unusual in my life. Hehehe.Anyway, I thought perhaps it would be a good thing to discover what makes this site really click. Sure, it is the love for movie scores that brought me here in the first place but is surely isn't the reason that keeps me here. It is the people. After all, there is FSM, a site I rarely visit and sureley never participate in its message board. Not that it is a bad site or the message board sucks. It just has an atmosphere that I am not too compatable with. Funny thing, when I do go over there, I wind up mostly searching out the posts of some of the regulars here.
Anyways, what does MovieMusic.com mean to you. Is it just a place to educate yourself about this great music? Is it a place to just mingle and make friends? Is it just another place among thousands you visit?
Trying to stay un-emotional about this, all I can say is that this place is my homepage.
The forum is open...
ScottNP: On the beach (man what a score and then that disgusting cover...)
[Message edited by Scott on 10-03-2000]
posted 10-03-2000 06:10 AM PT (US) TimT
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I use these places as online sources of information. Release dates, CD Reviews, audio samples, Track list, and soundtrack sale and trade ads. And I like how it's interactive, you can ask questions, and comment about scores.
Most of the off-topic stuff gets on my nerves though.NP Antony & Cleopatra *****/***** (talk about a brilliant score, with cheesy cover!)
[Message edited by TimT on 10-03-2000]
posted 10-03-2000 07:57 AM PT (US) PeterK
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Somehow I don't like where this thread is going already. Let's not start the whole FSM vs MM again, PLEASE. Removal can be instantaneous!PeterK
posted 10-03-2000 08:19 AM PT (US) Marian Schedenig
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What does FSM mean to me?
Friends. At first, I went there to learn about film music. That's still one of the reasons why I go there. But more important is that I have friends there.What does MovieMusic.com mean to me?
Friends. At first, I went there to learn about film music. That's still one of the reasons why I go there. But more important is that I have friends there.That's also the reason why I didn't come here before the old FSM board closed: I KNEW I would find friends here, could not leave the board later when FSM is back, and thus have to spend even more time at the boards. Did I find friends here? You bet. Do I regret it? Certainly not!
NP: Logan's Run (Jerry Goldsmith)
posted 10-03-2000 09:16 AM PT (US) H Rocco
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I'd agree with all that.
posted 10-03-2000 09:35 AM PT (US) Howard L
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Yes, Marian said it well. You start out coming to a film music website to learn & share and end up getting much more.The webmaster is understandably concerned over the direction this thread could take, but I think I read where Scott is coming from and want to respond in kind:
First, please clarify--are you referring to an "incompatible atmosphere" in the sense that you have to wonder if you're going to get slammed if you create a new post or issue a response that someone doesn't agree with? Anyway, for me FSM means the possibility of that among a host of things. I came to the website around early spring '98 and found the place filled with all sorts of knowledgeable posts and posters. Rather intimidating to someone new to the Net, much less new to conversing about film music to other (gasp!) film music fans.
From then to the present there remained many fine discussions, but as the folks became more familiar there also developed a looser atmosphere. For better or worse. I just know that I started off with decades' worth of appreciation and pretty much was able to express everything I wanted to over these 2 years. Now I'm more or less coasting, occasionally reviving a copied post or something.
Thus, FSM remains an incredible experience for me personally. Has to. When that 'board went down, I eventually made my way over here because other FSMers had, knowing full well I'd head back yonder when it was revived. Truthfully, I have found the FSM crowd a bit more experienced, age- or otherwise, in terms of breadth of film music knowledge. That's not a knock on Moviemusic.com; the only competition that exists comes from dubious minds.
And from mean-spirited poseurs. I felt a twinge of embarrassment when one of the more notorious FSM poseurs was locked out upon posting his first entry to this website. Why I felt embarrassed I am not completely clear on, except I thought it was a shame that it wasn't enough for that non-entity to soil one website. No, it had to come here and pull the same crap. But that's the way of the Net; just a shame that something nice and joyful as a place to discuss film music isn't immune from negative forces. There are plenty of those everywhere.
I've rambled enough. Just thought the orginal post deserved a thoughtful response without going crazy or anything.
posted 10-03-2000 10:53 AM PT (US) Scott
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Man did I skrew up.I made a rather large typo up there people. I wanted to know what this board means to you (look at it again, the last paragraph, I have edited it). I used the FSM board only as an example. I do not, I repeat do not wish to compare the two. I do not say the other board is better or worse, it was only an example.
So, just to make myself absolutely clear, what does MovieMusic.com mean to you.
Sorry, PeterK and all of you for that stupid mistake.
Scott
posted 10-03-2000 01:39 PM PT (US) shrubber
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Forgiveness is divine, and in this case shrubberaneousI couldn't put it any better than Marian. Personally, I used to be a regular at FSM but ended up here when it closed down. Since I would charitably describe myself as rather a chaotic person, I prefer to stick to the one board. Long may both boards continue.
posted 10-03-2000 01:51 PM PT (US) Chris Kinsinger
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Marian said it beautifully, Howard amplified it (nice megaphone, Howard!), and I really have nothing to add, but that's never stopped me before.
I love all of you.
It's that simple.
The more you love someone, the more you want to be with them. I come here EVERY DAY! To be with all of you.
Oh, I have my favorites (stop blowing kisses at me, Howard!), we all do. And sometimes one of you may even get my dander up (TO THE MOON HOWARD, if you don't STOP THAT!), but isn't that what FAMILY is all about?
You folks are in my thoughts and prayers just as certainly as my flesh-and-blood family!
When I know that I have offended one of you, my heart hurts (like it's doing right now).
We may never meet face-to-face (which is why a few of you need to get your photos up in the Member Profiles...YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!), but you folks have enlarged my heart to hold each of you there.
NP: Ben-Hur Rozsa[Message edited by Chris Kinsinger on 10-03-2000]
posted 10-03-2000 02:32 PM PT (US) Howard L
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Zounds! Does this mean I should void my response? Oh what the heck--will keep it as is. Let is stand (in case of future reference).PS
And as for you, Friend Klingon, the Liberty Bell Shrine carbon-based encounter beckons. I expect to arrive in the fair colony of New Jersey on 10/13. DON'T let me down this time. I have H Rocco stories to dispense, heh, Heh, HEH.posted 10-03-2000 02:42 PM PT (US) Marian Schedenig
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quote:
Originally posted by Chris Kinsinger:
We may never meet face-to-faceI do hope this "message board meeting" will happen some day!
quote:
(which is why a few of you need to get your photos up in the Member Profiles...YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!)Ooooh, yes, pleeeeaasse! (I promised Chris not to stop whining)
NP: Sergei Prokofiev: Ivan the Terrible (Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Leonard Slatkin)
posted 10-03-2000 04:39 PM PT (US) Crono/Kyp
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I like to think of this board and the people on it as my extended family. i can tlak to you about things I like and things going on in my life. I think it's great.You all rock.
--Kyp
Writer/AVID Editorposted 10-03-2000 09:57 PM PT (US) Wedge
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Marian, is your CD player lid stuck?!?To me, this board means that I'm fortunate to have more than one great place to discuss my passions.
posted 10-03-2000 10:01 PM PT (US) Graham Watt
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Maybe I'm recycling some of the above, but for me it makes me feel less alone in my madness, after a traumatic, spotty adolescence in which I felt really APART from the things other people did (though I tried to be like them, and even enjoyed it).By the way, I was a spotty adolescent three hundred years ago.
posted 10-04-2000 02:38 PM PT (US) Scott
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Graham,dang you're young.
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