It's kind of cool to see a movie that you did the soundtrack for show up on Fandango :)

For those of you in Los Angeles:



Can't come to the show? buy the DVD release of it :)

Synopsis:

The Plague has come to the small village of Bezirksstadt.

Fathers and Mothers, sons and daughters, all fall to the sharp sickle of Death. Manfred, the Chair of the Medical College, and his fellow Physicians are baffled at finding any way to combat the disease and save their fellow people.

Janick, a young doctor whose radical medical theories about life and death have made him a near-pariah at the college, tries to bring hope in the form of an electrical device capable of re-animating dead tissue. He is decried a heretic, his methods and tools are labeled blasphemous, and he is cast out. But the Plague causes not only sickness, but desperation, and Janick is attacked and his face burned with acid by a thief.

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I am back from my lightning-fast trip to Hollywood for the screening of Prometheus Truimphant from Mad Monkey Productions directed Jim Towns and Mike McKown. The screening went pretty well. It was the first time I had seen the film on the big screen. I was used to seeing it the size of a postcard on my monitor screen in my studio for so long. It looks great on a larger screen. There will be more screenings of the film in the near future in different parts of the U.S. so all of you must see it!


Mike McKown (director) , Melissa Troughtzmantz (actor in the film), Jim Towns (director), & me .
(left to right) photo by: Kim Hutsell



The screening was held at The Egyptian on Hollywood Blvd. It was the site of the premiere for a lot of silent movies like "The Gold Rush" .

More pictures and what else I did while there below
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Well it is confirmed that I will be attending the screening of Prometheus Triumphant on January 19th in the Steven Spielberg screening room at the American Cinematheque Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, California.

The film runs about 80 min., and will be proceeded by two short films by Mad Monkey Productions, 2003's The Sleep of Reason (5 min) and a new film written by Jim Towns and directed by Mike McKown called Red Queen (10 min), and also by a trailer for Jim Towns' Red Sister Red, due out later this year. This marks the first time any of these pieces have been screened for an LA audience, so we'd love to fill the house as much as possible. There will be a short Q&A following the film with the filmmakers and myself, the film's composer.

If you'll be in town and think you can make it, please send us a message so we can put you on the guest list, as seating is limited!


In other news. I got a copy of the soundtrack of the new Sweeney Todd movie. It's very Stephen Soundheim! I wonder if a lot of people will be attending the film thinking it was composed by Danny Elfman and being shocked while watching it...very broadway llike. My friend Kris thinks Johnny Depp's hairstyle in the film was directly lifted from Dave Vanian lead singer from the band The Damned.

Here is the trailer for Prometheus Triumphant that I scored the music for:

Description:  Two years in the making, Mad Monkey Productions' most ambitious project to date, Prometheus Truimphant, isa feature-length motion picture set against a backdrop of Germa nExpressionist sexuality. It is also a hypnotic retelling of a very old tale about love, fate, death and resurrection.

Prometheus Triumphant Trailer

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I have been on vacation the past two weeks. If you would like to know about it email me. Sufficient to say it was awesome! I never saw so many celebrities and geeks at the same time.

I saw the movie "Becoming Jane" last night. I liked it a lot. The screenplay contains a lot of speculative fiction in it but it's a good story. Great ambiance to it that reminds me a little of the movie "Marie Antoinette" . There was a trailer before the movie for "King Of Kong" about two guys that fight for the title of the best Donkey Kong player. I am not sure why but the guy with the mullet and beard cracks me up every time I look at him.

This weekend I am doing some costume test shots for my photo-sheet next Saturday. I can't disclose anything about the whole concept of the next album except that it will be a radical departure from anything I have done before.

There is talk about having a screening for "Prometheus Truimphant" in Los Angeles in October. Once I know more about it I will let you know. There is a good summary about the film here.