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Hi Jo... or J'au, as you prefer.

I've had one or two people, well, Svabhava, ask about the Project, and when it might me done and dusted (is it just me, or do other people have difficulty removing Vampire Slayer overtones from this expression in their minds?). I said I'd pass the question on to you.

I know that Project editing is an extra for sub-eds, but I wondered if the Project was still with you, or if it were now just awaiting a space to be published in?

Happy New Year.

The Prophet.

Sorry, it is still with me. I have been working on it, and I feel very guilty about taking so long...

No worries. I'll pass the message on.

TP

Work is paying off...
I've published my efforts on Alexander courage A509320 and Joseph LoDuca A553277 So please have a look and tell me what you think.
I've not edited either one very heavily; especially in the case of Joseph LoDuca it really didn't seem to need anything much beyond slight tidying. I wonder, though, if there's any more stuff you'd like added to the entry on Alexander Courage; about his compositional style, for example

Got to go... running late for my tutorial!

I don't really know that much about Courage unfortunately. I suppose Jus' zis Guy would be the one to ask about it. I'll see what he has to say for himself on the subject.

Hope the tutorial went smoothly.

The Prophet.

Thank you, it did I have that rare breed tutor, who actually wants to hear about any problems I have on the course to see if he can do anything about them. !!!.

Another question: Rereading the <./>subeditors-style</.> page, I see that one is supposed to italicise things like film names, which you've done. It says, however, that one is supposed to put tracks from an album in 'single quotes'; would you like me to treat movements from a film score in the same way? I don't really see any reason not to unless it's something like the Theme from American Beauty, say... but then on the other hand, not being so familiar with the works I can't tell if a theme name is always recognised as that theme's name, or whether you feel that that specific name best describes a particular musical theme.

I hope I'm making sense... what do you think? The entry I'm thinking about this in respect to at the moment is the one on John Williams.

Glad the tutorial went well. I've had both kinds of tutor in my time, including one guy who couldn't even be bothered to show up half the time, and if he did would just reel off a list of books then sod off. Didn't even really discuss the essays he'd set. Any comments he put on the essay when he marked it were pretty useless as well. I particularly recall my first essay with him, he told me to use a larger font and get a new printer, which really did not help my understanding of the issues involved in the scientific dating of archaeological remains.

In the John Williams article, titles like 'The Raiders March' and 'The Ark Theme' are all titles from the album sleeves. In most cases I've tried to use the track titles. I'll have a quick check to see if there are any which are just scene names, but I don't think so.

The Prophet.

Cool, I thought they probably were. I've gone through most of John Williams as well...

I hated the tutor I had last year - he was quite consciencious, but a bad, bad person...

Sounds ominous.

The John Williams stuff is mostly titles. the Nazi theme and Marian's theme, mentioned in the Style section are just descriptors though, and I don't know if Tehm from Jaws has a different title.

The Prophet

Okay Btw, this may interest you: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4349095,00.html - its an interview I read in the guardian yesterday, with John Williams.

Hmm. Looks like there a weakness in the URL conversion when it comes to The Guardian's becomma'd archive numbers. No matter, I know where the interview is.

Cheers.
The Prophet

I posted a bug report.

Hello again

I'm editing A583409 Danny Elfman, and I have one question.
In the second paragraph under the The Batman Theme - Batman (1989) subheader,
>Elfman also composed the score for Burton's sequel, Batman Returns, and the theme was used on the surprisingly Batman animated TV series. Perhaps fortunately for Elfman, he was not implicated in either of Joel Schumacher's entries into the franchise.

Should the word 'surprisingly' be capitalized too? is it part of the title? or was it surprising that the theme was used?

I've moved a couple of things around a little, and I found a video of Danny Elfman on BBC online to link to. I hope this meets with your approval...

The animated series is 'surprisingly good', although being an unqualified opinion, that could just be removed if you prefer.

The vid clip sounds losher; although Beeb streaming video tends to be a little on the stuttery side, largely on account of the servers being so busy most of the time.

The Prophet

The video worked beautifully for me... On an incredibly fast uni connection

I deleted the suprisingly good, because it makes the sentence flow better. I'm not adverse to unqualified opinions per se, though...

I don't find that the speed of my connection makes much diff to vid clips off the beeb.

This may be because I'm usually looking at stuff off the cult website, which probably doesn't run on as many servers as the main site.

The Prophet