Posted 7:12 PM by Gene

As part of my continuing obsession with music downloads I keep finding strange things -- like a musical on golf that is one of the dorkiest things I've ever heard. (No link for obvious reasons.) Not surprising; Peter Jacobsen proved dork and music go together. This wuhk is for people who know nothing of musicals but know enough about golf to think they know something when they know something about nothing. Arnie would chuckle kindly; I can merely cringe. (Amazingly it got a very favorable write-up from The Paper of Re-CORD, albeit with the kind of heavily ironic snicker that seems to be one of its shticks these days.) It is not enough that such a piece of tripe should prove the musical is dead -- it must be a justification for piracy.

On another site (again, no link for obvious reasons -- it's a valuable repository of old soundtracks) I found haunting music from a Columbia B flick called Forbidden Island, one of the last scores by a Hungarian composer named Sandor Laszlo, of whom IMDB.com wrote:

Diagnosed with leukemia in 1955 and given only two years to live, he continued his work in music, and lived fifteen more years.

Such a line is eloquent because it marks the value of perseverance before long odds.