It's official, I'm a damn coward. I have resolved not to traverse the halls of the Imperial palace unless I have confirmation that Palpatine is elsewhere. Of course this doesn't save me from being called in. But it does prevent me from being pulled in on a whim as I'm picking up my mail. Good thing I have student aides.
To this end, I have resorted to communicating with Palpatine through e-mail. The down side is that I'm prone to typos and stuff... and when I'm emotionally charged, I tend to fire off things before checking them. I just sent an important one back to Palpatine, and it has a couple of booboos that require some judgement to make sense out of the line. crap crap crap crap. Of course, it didn't detroy the point of the e-mail, I think Palpatine will understand.
What made today worthwhile: Yesterday I got in a light conversation with students about the Wilhelm Scream, a stock sound effect that has been an inside joke among movie sound editors for decades. It's a destinctive man's scream.... you've probably heard it 30 or 40 times and not known it. It's been in over 150 movies and God knows how many TV shows. Used to be only industry people knew about it, but now it's been made public.
Well, today I get an e-mail from one of the kids in that class linking me to a YoutTube video someone made that is basically a compilation of scenes from a bunch of movies that all use the scream. Put a big smile on my face, it did.
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Thanks for discussing the Wilhelm Scream in class.
...Have you seen THIS video?
Keep listening!
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