STEWART COPELAND

Hey folks, I keep seeing a preview for a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Shepherd_(film)">new movie</a> - directed by DeNiro and featuring Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie - purportedly about the establishment of the CIA.

Now, I don't think I have to tell you that every time I take this in, I die with curiousity on what Miles and Stewart would say about it. I'd hazard it probably takes extreme liberties with reality on what happened Back in the Day, but I'd like to hear the specifics (Ian discusses his dad's career a bit in Wild Thing, and I've heard SC mention it in interviews as well.)

My real question, tho, is WHY did they not get Stewart to do the soundtrack on this film?? Somebody just wasn't using his noodle, here...

Stewart has been so busy doing promotion for Everyone Stares, with the annual Italian tours and one-off projects like Bonaroo and Gizmo show in NJ, that he wouldn't have had time to score it even if it was offerred to him. I don't even know if he's scored any TV commercials this year (although they were playing the heck out of those cool Mitshubishi commercials he scored last year recently) which is usually easy money.

And now he's talking about following Everyone Stares with assembling another movie of all the other bands he filmed with his Super 8 camera, which I imagine could even be more of a beast than Everyone Stares was trying to untangle all the legal issues with all the music and everything, so I don't foresee any other scoring projects in the near future from Stewart. Actually, that's all fine with me since I really enjoyed Everyone Stares and think this new project could be even more exciting. And when Stewart gets his next scoring gig after that, I bet it will be full of that Kinetic energy that he'll get from these exciting projects and will probably make his sound evolve into something even cooler than it already is. I can't wait.

Anyway speaking of the CIA and the Copelands, here's an interesting column from a left-wing writer who blames the CIA's smear compaign (allegedly Miles Copeland's direction) for Daniel Ortega's fall from power in 1990 in Nicargua
http://www.comicbookresources.com/colum ... ticle=2637
The reference doesn't appear until about 2/3 down the page.

Thanks conroy for all this kinetic information.