Hum, I can imagine how it would go...
Day 1: Roger: "Hey, I got an idea, let's release __________."
Day 2: Doug: "Hey, you know that score you wanted to release?" Roger: "Yeah?" Doug: "Soundtrackcollector dot com says Varese owns it." Roger: "Fudge."
Day 3: Roger: "Hey, I got another idea!" Doug: "Great, I'll call the studio!"
Day 25: Roger: "So, what's happening with the score?" Doug: "Nobody knows who owns the rights." Roger: "Fudge. Keep looking."
Day 33: Score Nerd passes through town, takes photos of Intrada building complex.
Day 56: Doug: "Roger!" Roger: "Doug!" Doug: "Great news!" "Roger: "We got the rights?" Doug: "Bingo!"
Day 69: Somebody complains the cover to the newest release isn't avaiable in 600x600
Day 74: Doug: "Okay, Paramount says we're allowed into the vaults with two armed security guards for two hours tops to find the masters." Roger: "Sweet."
Day 89: Music Department Guy: "Sorry, we tossed those masters into a landfill over two decades ago, along with "Lawrence of Arabia", to make room for more important things like "There's Something About Mary" and Tyler Bates' score to "300"." Roger: "Fudge." MDG: "No, it's a Twinkie -- I got another if you're hungry," takes a bite.
Day 101: Doug: "Okay, the Loren Alan Davis Estate says they kept the duplicate master tapes." Roger: "Great!" Doug: "In mono." Roger: "Fudge." Doug: "But Liberalcraptrap University says master tapes in stereo were donated to the Music Department." Roger: "Great!" Doug: "The studio won't allow us to use the streo tapes." Roger: "Fudg'it."
Day 126: Doug: "Okay, we've mastered the tapes, designed the art work, gotten the musician credits, hired you know who to write the linear notes, and the studio is in a good mood today and will let us use photos from the film with no hassle." Roger: "Great!" Doug: "But the epic, climaxtic ten minute tour-de-force finale cue is missing." Roger: "Fudging fudger fudg-a-majig!" Doug: "But it's okay, the fans are all right with it." Roger: "Great! Wait, how the frak do they know about it?" Doug: "Somebody did an interview and mentioned it." Roger: "Fudge packing sons'a -- anything else?!" Doug: "Our conceptual artists leaked his idea art with the tracklisting. Oh, and our last release had three typos in the booklet, which is also missing a page." Roger: !!!!!
Day 184: Doug: "Okay, everything seems okay." Roger: "Good, I call the pressing plant..."
Day 185: Doug: "Roger?" Roger: "Doug?" Doug: "Ahhh ... studio says they were wrong, and it's the mono tapes we're not allowed to use, we'll have to start over from scratch with the stereo ones." Roger: !!!!!
Day 191: Roger: "Okay, we got the stereo tapes from the university." Doug: "Great." Roger: "Now what?" Doug: "Just awaiting approval from the legal department."
TWO YEARS LATER: Roger: "Any word on that legal mumbo jumbo?" Doug: "Yeah, they say there are some small issues to work out." Roger: "Okay."
TWO MORE YEARS LATER: Doug: "Hey, remember that Loren Alan Davis score were trying to release?" Roger: "I vaguely recall wasting some years of my life on it, yes." Doug: "All's clear." Roger: "By Crom!!!!!"
YEAR SIX: Doug: "Turns out Loren Alan Davis faked his death and is avaiable to sign the CD's, which we've already shrink-wrapped." Roger: "Tough monkey nuts. And I don't think anybody noticed!"
Day 1 of the New Release: Roger: "How's it going?" Doug: "Been up for one hour so far." Roger: "And?" Doug: "We've fixed two typos in the announcement, and broken sound clip links." Roger: "I blame you, you know." Doug: "Why the hell?" Roger: "You're closer."
ONE HOUR LATER: Doug: "Okay, two hours and it's sold out. Roger: "What are they saying?" Doug: "Ahhh ... 'thanks, saves me a few bucks'." Roger: "Butt munch. What else?" Doug: "'Great, I love it, but where's REVENGE OF THE NINJA?'." Roger: "Order those masters burned immediately if found." Doug: "Yes, sir." Roger: "What else?" Doug: "Thor says it's longer than thirty minutes, yadda, yadda, yadda." Roger: "Yeah, I don't give a flying monkey dookie either. Give me some more." Doug: "As you wish. So-and-so says he bought 'two'." Roger: "There's one poor fan who missed out on it. What else?" Doug: "hainshisway is bitching we announced it in the same day as his new release." Roger: "Ah, great, so our plan worked. What did he release?" Doug: "Nudie Musical 2."
TWO WEEKS LATER: Doug: "A couple dozen people are reporting their CD's arrive." Roger: "What do they think?" Doug: "Ten typos, a producer's name spelled incorrectly, the art work sucks, why isn't it in 600x600, everybody wants to know where the epic finale cue is, and--" Roger: "And the FUDGE WHAT ELSE???!!!" Doug: "All discs are reported with glitches -- we have to re-press....."
One Day Later: Roger's funeral. A fan buys two seats to it.
TWO WEEKS LATER: Newest Intrada Records release.
_________________ "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" "Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment and will die here like rotten cabbages." "Everyone votes for a dictator." THE PRISONER
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