V: The Original Miniseries Soundtrack

After spending a lot of time attempting to find some information on the intro track for “V”, I fired off an email to the creator and director of “V”, Kenneth Johnson. I knew he had a web site, so, I might as well. I had a response within the hour, and he said he’d just send me a copy of the soundtrack! Very cool.

And, just for reference, the original four-hour miniseries is an outstanding piece of work. The second miniseries is really good, aside from one plot-line. The weekly series was a goofy joke, due to NBC interference and massive budget cuts. The 2009 re-boot lost the spirit of the original and I’ll never watch it again, very disappointing. Kenneth Johnson was only involved in the first miniseries, and it shows.

Garage Sale Find: Complete Folio Society Set • History of England

They were asking $125 for this entire set, two of which are on eBay for $250. My dad got them down to $60 and bought them for me. The second day of a garage sale makes the sellers more open to lowering prices, they had a lot of older books that didn’t seem to be moving, unfortunately. I almost bought a really good book on the Boer War that I already had, so, my list continues to pay off! The Folio Society makes great books, so this was a really good deal.

102724 • Mile High Moose Knuckles vs Arizon-a Coyotes

I played five or six really fast games as a sub in the last playoffs, but this game I emergency-subbed in on Sunday was even speedier! I was getting my camera off the glass from my just-completed game, and this guy coming out of a locker room asked if I could sub, their goalie forgot about the game and was playing golf! So, of course I’ll play… second game in a row, no big deal! I had a third game four hours later, all three games of the day were wins! (That’s rare!) So, this was a fun one, glad I stuck around for it! I didn’t know until after the game that our opponent was #2 in the division. Great fun!

102624 • Thrift Store Finds

Eyewitness Pacific Theater • I have the companion book “Eyewitness D-Day”, so this was a nice find, and will compliment my other volume.

Victory at Sea • Wow, the cover of this one reminds me of another book I have. I hope I didn’t already have it!

Stalingrad to Berlin • Same with this one. When you have a lot of books on the same topic, sometimes they start looking alike.

Hitler: Downfall 1939-1945 • This is the second of two books, but published four years ago so the info inside is going to be different from the 1967 book I read on the same subject. I have others like this but the more views I read on this, the better.

It is so interesting to read old books. This one is from 1902, which is more than a decade before World War I, and a decade before the loss of the Titanic. Yet, there is still a lot that is correct in it which can still be learned from. I have to wonder exactly when all of these notes were taken, I think it would have to be soon after the book was originally purchased, so more than a hundred years ago.

A FEW DAYS LATER: I found the American History version of this book at a yard sale for two bucks! It was published ten years after the Western Europe one! What are the odds? I think these history books were for students and many were made. But still, a neat, and timely find!