I think I only have one real objection to online shopping; they keep track of everything you buy. Sure, I could launch into a big tirade about how one day all these database will be connected and we’ll be enslaved in, to quote Alex Jones (I love that guy), a “globally spanning matrix, a control grid that turns our world into a prison planet where we’re subject to the will and the power of the elite,” but I won’t. No, it’s not that the government will come to take my woman’s uterus, black helicopters following me home and such, no, it’s much, much worse…
These bitches, and especially Amazon, since I’ve shopped there regularly over the last decade, have gotten really good at predicting what I like and what will interest me. They have figured me out to the point where I can judge by the subject line of their recommendation e-mails that I should just delete it right there and then and not even bother opening the e-mail. “Would sir perhaps be interested in some Jesper Kyd’s Hitman: Blood Money original soundtrack?” *waggles eyebrows* “Yes…yes, I would, actually. You bunch of bloodsucking vampires!”
Hrm, by Blood Money, I thought you meant the old shoot’em up for the Amiga.
I have mixed feelings about Jesper Kyd; during the Amiga era he was well known for making cool music on the demo scene. However, anyone who knew just a little about composing Amiga music knew that Kyd simply sampled various underground records and used these samples to fill in whole tracks; kinda like remixing, but with even less creativity. And anyone who’d been around him for just a little while knew that he was a spoiled brat who got whatever he wanted from his dad (such as synthesizers, samplers, computer equipment..).
So, yeah, his compositions for the Hitman series are really cool, but I still remember that over-regarded, annoying little Danish brat.
Wow, he goes back to the Amiga era? That alone warrants some respect since most composers that were around at that time were fucking about with with Ataris. I dig his music, though I found his Freedom Fighters OST to be very much the same as much of the Hitman stuff, so perhaps he turns out to be a one-trick poney.