darthspielberg

It's not so neccessarily odd -- it kind of applies to what gets your blood going at a certain age, maybe. For you, you spent more time with movies than you did with the radio. You grew up on something different than most people. Where most people feel something when they hear, say, The Beatles, you hit on something when it applies to this visual cue in a movie -- you let your emotional attachment from that sort of strike you much more than a song off a CD. I know it because it happens to me, too, often. Such as in "Saving The World", from the Superman Returns score. That moment when the camera takes us through the underside of the island, and the last rock crumbles away to show us Superman straining himself, pushing as hard as he can, that's a piece that strikes me really, really hard. It triggers an emotional response that, for a lot of people, hearing about a rapper's hardship or some lovelorn lyric from a rock star does.

Because no one can tell, I just watched the Inside The Actor's Studio with Dustin Hoffman. It actually made me feel elated when I was finished -- because the guy's a depository of information, and he's funny as hell to boot. Even with him being tangental in most of his stories -- a couple of which I just have to share with people.

But I can really understand where you're coming from with the Holst and Tchaikovsky. It's like people that prefer the theater to cinema. They have a more immediate emotional connection to the former than they do the latter. It impresses on them a lot more. And I'm just the opposite (as is Billy Bob Thorton).