At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts, I’ve found, serves as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media. ▰ I posted: We live in the golden age of movie scores (that is, movie — and TV — scores being released as albums). But that means we also live in the golden age of recognizing just how much most movie scores sound alike, or more to the point alike within a type. And Ethan Hein replied: “In grad school I learned that the homogeneity is partially due to regular risk aversion but also due to the rise of very detailed temp scores. The music editor makes an entire placeholder score by remixing and editing existing…
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