If you are, then you could potentially work for Bear McCreary, who wrote the theme to the new(er) Battlestar Galactica and its spin-off Caprica. He's looking for a web designer to design a site for The Battlestar Galactica Orchestra.I gotta hand it to the man for his cleverness. There are likely web designer rabid fans out there who would happily clean Bear McCreary's car with their tongue for a chance to have their name attached with any aspect of the franchise (hopefully they have some talent). I'm sure there will be a cyberspace line to help Mr. McCreary design his site and he doesn't have to pay a dime.
On the other hand, the winner of the contest gets some pretty cool one-of-a-kind Battlestar Galactica merchandise (including the baton from the BSG concert McCreary be conducting), so maybe everybody wins. If you want to create that clever idea of an entire orchestra of Cylon Centurions, now's your chance.
[via Ain't It Cool]
I'm one of those people who needs a creative outlet or I start to go insane. When I'm not pounding out posts about TV on this blog, I'm usually writing something else, or drawing, or playing around with my four-track recorder. My love of music and the creative process attracted me to the video below, which runs about eight minutes and gives a rather detailed account of how the theme to the old Doctor Who series was both composed and performed. I have never seen a single episode of any incarnation of Doctor Who, but that really doesn't matter, I was just fascinated by how all this equipment, most of which is now completely obsolete, was used to create the futuristic theme for the show. 
Most people recognize the name Duke Ellington, but very few know the name Billy Strayhorn. The documentary Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life, which will be featured tonight on the PBS series Independent Lens at 10:00 p.m., hopes to change that. Strayhorn composed many of Ellington's hits, but his quiet demeanor kept him in Ellington's shadow. Also, he was an openly gay black man living in the '40s, a time when most remained closeted for fear of violence or worse.
Typically when someone in the field of animation passes away myself and many of the cartoon/animation site pick up on it long before the mainstream media does, if the mainstream media cares at all, so I feel kinda bad for not reporting this sooner. Anyway, composer Shirley Walker, who wrote music for cartoon series including Batman: the Animated Series, The Zeta Project and Spawn, as well as the Final Destination film franchise, died of a brain aneurysm on November 29 at the unfortunately early age of 61. Walker wrote scores for both television and film since the late 1970s, including popular primetime soap Falcon Crest and the goofy 1980s Gremlins rip-off, Ghoulies. She was working on the direct-to-video DC: The New Frontier when she passed away.
Isaac Hayes, the singer, composer and actor who is most recognized these days for providing the
voice of Chef on South Park is being treated for exhaustion in a Memphis hospital. Hayes won an Oscar in 1971
for composing the theme to the movie Shaft and still tours with his band. He recently did an interview with 
I suppose a piece about my favorite songs from Sesame Street wouldn't be
complete without an initial shout out to the late 
Andy Richter: The TV Squad Interview
Have any questions for Vik Sahay of Chuck? Ask them here!
Mike Henry and Daryl Hall on a Cleveland Show Thanksgiving
