Imagine if an esteemed 1970s Pig Latin cinema auteur had filmed a classic horror movie entirely in his native tongue.I do have an improved version of the official Octothorpes WordPress plugin, but unfortunately the original authors have refused to open-source it, and without an open source license attached to the original files I built on, I can't share it. <rant>I have to express some frustration. I'm extremely disappointed that Octothorpes do not seem to work at all. The whole project is a brilliant idea—I went for it hook, line, and sinker. In fact, I liked it so much that I immediately started working on improving things, such as their extremely lacking WordPress integration plugin... so eagerly, in fact, that I put in a lot of work before testing whether Octothorpes actually work at all. And it appears that they don't. At least, I couldn't ever get them to, despite sinking several long nights into it. Disappointingly, I had to add a lot of unneeded extra structure to my site code to even try and get Octothorpes working—contrary to what the documentation suggested—and even after doing everything right, as confirmed by their debugging tool, my Octothorpes never appeared on their server. Given that I never got it to work and couldn't find anyone who was able to assist me, all the complexity I had to add to my site in the effort—such as serving Octothorpe-specific page versions, like the one you are looking at right now—became needless cruft. So after a few very long nights of fruitlessly spinning my wheels, I've given up, and removed it all again. I have to add that I'm disappointed. I'm not used to showing up enthusiastic to contribute to an open-source project and so quickly winding up walking away with absolutely nothing, no involvement, no ability to use or run it, no interest in my desire to contribute (even code I've already finished!), nothing. Maybe I've been lucky before now. Octothorpes are a brilliant idea, in concept. I hope they work someday, and become a project that might see wide adoption and contribution by enthusiastic developers. (And that the main devs see the value in WordPress plugin developers expressing an interest in authoring OP integrations with WordPress... 43% of the world's websites can't be wrong...) Sorry to rant, but, my site, my several nights of work lost, my prerogative to express it.</rant>Frustrated rant about it here, click to read...
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Imagine if an esteemed 1970s Pig Latin cinema auteur had filmed a classic horror movie entirely in his native tongue.
Then, imagine that I, at that time, rather than being entirely preoccupied with my second-grade studies and unavailable to travel, had instead left the safe confines of my suburban Long Island childhood home to see the world, eventually insinuating my 8-year-old self among the cream of the European progressive musical vanguard—from among whom I was then plucked by that esteemed filmmaker, and tasked with composing an electronic/progressive score for that movie.
Now, imagine that this vintage score was subsequently lost in legal limbo due to years of rights litigation, highly sought-after by bootleg collectors and attaining mythic status among film-music aficionados, but otherwise languishing unreleased and unknown, until finally unearthed to see release as an official soundtrack album in the 2020s—with the now-decrepit 1970s tape masters given a pristine digital restoration, revealing heretofore unheard detail in the landmark effort that would have most assuredly been the most highly-regarded avant-electronic 1970s progressive horror movie soundtrack to ever be composed and recorded by an 8-year-old.
These audio files are work-in-progress demos, finished but awaiting final production and mastering, for what will eventually be what that long-awaited release of that legendary soundtrack album, had it existed, would have been.
In 1976, an acclaimed Pig Latin filmmaker never made what would have been his sole career excursion into the horror genre, a terrifying supernatural thriller released internationally under the title “Ethay Eadday Illstay Eamscray”, which would otherwise have been an instant classic and revolutionized horror movies for decades to come. Remaining unfilmed entirely in Pig Latin, this unmade genre milestone subsequently didn’t turn the simple language game of Pig Latin from a child’s amusement into a global symbol of fear, dread, and thrilling entertainment.
Beyond the mere fact of the landmark horror film not having been made, also being in America at the time and entirely preoccupied with my studies in Mrs. Beekman’s 2nd grade class, your humble writer was never tapped to compose a soundtrack for the nonexistent film. And thus it came to pass that in the 1970s I never crafted an original prog film score eclectically drawing from elements of rock, classical music, avant-garde electronics, and experimental jazz, which stood alone as a classic in its own right. However, had that legendary film been made, and had I been tapped to compose that score for it, then this album would have been that classic score.
Or, rather, it eventually will have had been, upon completion of the present effort, which still awaits final production, mastering and sequencing.
However, until then, enjoy this current set of files: the work-in-progress demos for the groundbreaking original Motion Picture Soundtrack of the imaginary horror masterpiece, “Ethay Eadday Illstay Eamscray” — or, as it never was remembered and beloved by generations of horror film fans in America, where cultural isolation an ocean away would have left audiences less open to the fictitious international Pig Latin cinema movement (had it existed), simply: “The Dead Still Scream”.
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May-June 2020
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(Note: Due to limitations of WordPress's playlist feature, some tracks above are misnumbered. The tracks erroneously numbered as 6, 7, and 8 on the main album should all be numbered 6. The tracks numbered 9 through 17 are tracks 7 through 15.)
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