Music: Lost Themes I & II by John Carpenter

Been so locked into writing recently I haven't had time to post about some of the music I've been listening to along the journey. Well, now is probably as good a time as any to given a nod to the man who is not only a musical inspiration, but who has also provided film inspiration - John Carpenter.

In scouring Spotify for instrumental music, I've landed on a number of soundtracks to Carpenter movies (Assault on Precinct 13, The Thing, Escape From New York, They Live being favorites), but only recently discovered his Lost Theme albums (I & II) released in 2015 and 2016. They sound as describes, lost tracks that would fit in perfectly with his 70s and 80s film output: driving bass lines, arpeggiated synths and hypnotic rhythms.

In revisiting my movie upbringing in the 80s, few writers or directors aside from Steven Spielberg and John Hughes find repeated films among my favorites they way that John Carpenter does. He released eight films during the decade, and five of them (The Thing, Escape From New York, Christine, Big Trouble In Little China and They Live) are among my favorite movies of the decade, up their with Aliens, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future and others (someday I'll get around to making a list of favorite 80s movies, thought that seems daunting).