So true, that.
Of course, music is just a small part of it. And, being an immigrant, one finds MUCH more to this Pursuit than anything else...

If one is paying attention, yes. ^_^

It's not the destination, it's the journey, eh Gene?

it sure was in this case! A completely unexpected destination - and yet, I'd never have arrived without the journey!

Or, to quote more common folk wisdom, it's always in the last place you look!

I've had many a journey like this, though mine more often than not involve the internet.

Awesome - I relate totally to searching for music... Long before the easy way of buying and finding music online, I searched too. Waiting for songs to show up on the radio, waiting forever for the cassette tape I reserved at the library to be returned...

It's awesome that you found good stuff along the way. I love your comics, Gene.

I love yours too, Mary! I'm getting that Mice compilation soon ^_^

Well done. I enjoy Herriman's works as well, though my personal fave is John Barry. How do you feel about Michael Giacchino?

Giacchino is very, very good! I heard his work in The Incredibles but it didn't hit me til later that he'd done a TON of stuff for computer games. I like a lot of composers (I continually run out of room for CD storage) but I have to regard Hermann in a unique persective. He's scored so many important films that (IMHO) he's in a class that few others reach.

True. I'd put Elmer Bernstein and Maurice Jarre in that same heady realm.

As for Giacchino, he's going to be a very busy man the next few years. "Speed Racer," "Star Trek," and "1908" are all on his plate right now, and who knows how much more.

Whups, make that "1906." And add "Land of the Lost" to his list.

What a nice little story. =) I'm a fan of movie soundtracks too though I don't have much knowledge about it.

Sometimes the search is worth as much as finding what you're looking for, and in those instances wanting is JUST as satisfying as having.

One of these days, I should write Dreysanius's story, a polar bear who was a promising professional wrestler at 18... and a parapalegic for life at 19.

I've never been a big fan of soundtracks myself, but the odd one *does* stand alone as music, and some just have a lot of fun songs. I have a few in my collection of CD's, like Cats Don't Dance, The Nightmare Before Christimas, and Li'L Abner, and The Chipmunk Movie.

I also have a copy of the Cars soundtrack if you're interested... While I love the movie, and the soundtrack does its job well, to listen to it alone is a real snorer.

Now, it's all about "Well, if Amazon has it.." for me most times. I do miss poring through small record stores, but so much of my music comes at me via computer now!

Thankfully, the Coverville podcast keeps bringing me new and excellent music, and introducing me to new things.

I've always admired you for your positive outlook on things. And it's another happy ending; yay. :)

Your story reminds me of one a friend of mine wrote for one of my fanzines years and years ago. He was looking for a copy of an old 78 RPM vynal single of an early Rock & Roll classic by Louis Jordan, called "Saturday Night Fish Fry". We spent an afternoon perusing the used book and record stores downtown, as we often did then. To his delight, he found a copy of the Louis Jordan number he was looking for, and priced at only $7! (Or something like that. I wan't even a lot of money then.) Sometime later, while we were having a burger or something, he dropped the bad his purchase was in, and "Saturday Night Fish Fry" as reduced to several broken parts. He was not happy. The night was young, though, and we had several more places to go. You've probably guessed that he immediately found a *second* copy of "Saturday Night Fish Fry" that very night. I think it was a couple of bucks cheaper too. So what are the odds? He looks for a record for months, finds it, breaks it, and finds a second almost before the shock has set in!

Which is another kind of 'record', I would imagine. :)

I love your philosophy, it's totally mine too.
Very nice story again, and always such a wonderful art ^^ ^^

To paraphrase Samuel Johnson: Happiness is where it is found, but seldom where it is sought. :)

And when I think of Bernard Herrmann, I think of the work he did for Alfred Hitchcock, or the fantastic score he did for The Day the Earth Stood Still. I had no idea he wrote a soundtrack for a DePalma film.

*claps*well said mr Catlow, I personally have had a number of expereinces in that department. An congrads on finding what you were looking for none the less

I'm a firm fan of serendipity, myself...scoured most of NW Arkansas in search of an 8-track player, and turns out one of the flea market dealers just happened to have a couple in stock... (listens to Benny Goodman 8-track)

Your storytelling is always amazing.

IF you like movie soundtrack, you like mostly instrumental music? HAve you by any chance heard my favorite instrumental music band, Penguin Cafe Orchestra?