a girl's random pain and music

I threw out my back... Again! It's been a pain-spiked / medicated recovery for the last two and half weeks or so. Yeah, fun. I've been catching up on my 'nothing', which is even more awesome! (Please note the sarcasm.)

But just so this post isn't all about pain and pain medication (mostly 800 mg motrin with a kick of naproxen), I'll mention a few things on my imaginary 'current loves' list:

Composer, Steve Jablonsky's score for the film, "The Island" -- a lovely flick by the way, in which Ewan MacGregor and Scarlett Johanssen are as gorgeous as ever.

Composer, Guy Farley's score for the obscure British film, "Cashback" -- an average movie with lovely imagery and a compellingly voiced voice-over. Stay away from his score if you aren't into lush, slightly overblown drama of the orchestral kind. :)

Composer, Adrian Johnston's score for the obscure cinematic gem, "Me Without You" -- I already own the standard soundtrack but it's missing the sweetly dark strains of his instrumental work. I've been hunting it down with little success thus far but I've contacted his management group via e-mail so hopefully I'll receive a positive response soon!

For some reason this image just calls to me:

Perhaps it's the violence of the fire or the little girl,
so calm in a frock and pinafore(?) in the foreground?

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Question: how bad is it to work for the/an evil empire to make
an insane amount of cash? It's totally off-topic of composers and
pretty things but it's a situation I'm facing in which I'm excited
by the work but turned off by the employer. Details on that
later, I guess... Maybe.

Signing off! ^_^