White Dog Trailer

I decided to cut a theatrical trailer for the 1982 film "White Dog".
Since the movie was never released theatrically, a trailer was never made.



There was one rough cut B&W dupe that was never finished, but it kind of erased the point of the film and made it more of a straight up "killer animal" flick.

So, here is my attempt to "replicate" an early 80's trailer for Samuel Fuller's WHITE DOG...



Does it work?
Does it make you want to go out and buy the DVD?
Should I keep my day job?

UPDATE: I did receive an email from Producer Jon Davison that was very complimentary, but he did notify me that I misspelled his last name...

damn.

Project #443

I am in the midst of a project.

It’s a project that I am actually following through on: a five song EP covering Morricone’s score to “Gli Scassinatori” (1971). I am already two songs in to it. Hopefully it doesn’t come off as to sacrilegious. I’m not a “visionary” like Zack Snyder.



I’ve been collecting a lot of obscure Morricone albums and this one came off as his most catchy and fun… so I couldn’t wait to get my grubby mitts all over it. The film itself is pretty standard and not too exciting. As you can see from the trailer, Ennio gets top billing along with the actors! Awesome.





Here are the first two tracks from the EP. When I’m finished, I'll post the complete album for those who would be interested.

Track 1: Gli Scassinatori




Track 2: Tema D'Amore

The Score-Off Challenge #15

Remember The Score-Off Challenge? You know, that unstoppable artistic expression of blood sweat and tears wrenched from the souls of your humble narrator and compositional contributors? It’s that ingenious conceptual enigma of three working components that can only be compared to say, the nuts, caramel and nougat of a Salted Nut Roll©.



Well, we are now in the throws of another round. In round number 15, we are summoned yet again by that ham-fisted cigar chomping producer Earl L. Luckes Jr. Our mission: To come up with a theme to “The 13th Promise of Death”. Did we succeed? One will never know if one doesn’t comment. Don’t be afraid of the comment box. We can take criticisms. What good are egos if they can’t be bruised?

And while you’re there, why not take shots at any one of these fine Score-Off Classics:

-Hitler’s Killer 6
-The House That Hell Birthed
-God’s Home Movies
-Mandor!
-Diaper Bag
-Day Of The Vagrant
-The Adventures Of Adam Quest
-In A World…
-The Homesteaders
-Somebody’s At The Door
-The Application
-The Mascot
-The Assassin’s Game
-Candy’s Sticky Cotton

Take your time and enjoy these gems, and remember, without film music, we’d all be dead.

Yes Virginia, there is a Nick Atoms Christmas Record

It's that time of year.

With a generous grant from The Nick Atoms Memorial Foundation, we were able to spread the joy of 2002's The Nick Atoms Christmas Record

Eleven tracks.
Free to download.
Free to enjoy.
Free to share.

A little voting music...

November 4th! Go out and vote!
All eyes are on America!

The Nick Atoms shall lead you to the polls through song!

Set the wayback machine to 2005!

August 2005: Turnidoff artists The Nick Atoms perform on a Talent competition for a local WB affiliate.

We were definitely the odd band out considering the other entries. I'm suprised we got as far as we did.



I think we got second place, but maybe they just told us that to shut us up.

The Score-Off Challenge #10

It's been a whole month!
I know you were all climbing the walls in scratchy withdrawl-like agony for the next installment of The Score-Off Challenge!

Have no fear... It's time to funk it up...