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Contemplating spending a good portion of Sunday trying to choose photos for my Favourites thingamy. I can't imagine it will end well. Editing imagery has always been a pain in the butt... except for my photographic portfolio, which was practically done for me. My teachers knew I'd learn by watching them do it, I suppose. Doesn't seem fair. There was a fellow student, a girl that was reduced to tears because they told her to do it herself.

Tough love should be restricted to friends and family, I'm thinking.

As for photography in general, I wish I wouldn't get bored with something once I'm good at it. It must be years now since I picked up a camara. Even the digital one. Before that, it was playing piano. Now I can only play a few things, and that only out of habit.

Ever see the Highlander series? There's a kind of a Duncan MacLeod theme on piano, I think it was most prominant during that early episode where Tessa was up a mountain and got kidnapped. I worked that into Queen's 'Forever' which is basically a piano verson of 'Who Wants to Live Forever.'

It comes to mind because I've recently been playing with the Beetlejuice theme on Overture. It was the first thing I ever transposed to computer - a crappy old Apple II GS - and I had fun integrating a few elements from the cartoon into it. Did the same thing with Danny Elfman's Batman theme and music from the cartoon based on that.

Danny Elfman was the first name I really took notice of in the world of movie soundtracks. It should have been John Williams, come to think about it; but in my youth, I was still interested in other kinds of music. Tim Burton's Batman marks where the scales began to tip.

Happy Fool's Day.