Jim Coleman
Jim Coleman
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FIL basically showed me that I didn't want to be doing a rock and roll band in the way in which I had been doing a rock and roll band.
behind fellow generous leave neighbors please
When you're being generous to your fellow citizen, please don't leave behind your neighbors.
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Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist.
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First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations.
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With Frat House, at times I needed to make music that would reflect what these fraternity brothers might actually listen to, but still keep it within the realm of a score; it still had to lead the viewer through the scene, or just help create the mood.
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Born in Baltimore, I lived there 1 month.
american-athlete grew york
I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.
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But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen.
american-athlete musically normally parameters requires scoring
But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices.
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But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.
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Basically, I just try to keep myself from getting bored, but in doing so, at times I'm going out on a limb, not being sure how things will work.
american-athlete forced
Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.
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I think September 11th showed very dramatically how first responders are absolutely necessary in a community.
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I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life.