{"id":9266,"date":"2017-10-31T17:07:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T23:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=9266"},"modified":"2017-10-31T17:07:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T23:07:20","slug":"friday-evening-videos-all-hallows-eve-edition-christine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/31\/friday-evening-videos-all-hallows-eve-edition-christine\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Evening Videos (All Hallow&#8217;s Eve Edition): &#8220;Christine&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little something for the season, from the man whose name is synonymous with Halloween &#8212; <em>Halloween<\/em> the movie, that is &#8212; film writer and director John Carpenter.<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter is essentially retired from movie-making these days, but he&#8217;s been keeping himself plenty busy with musical pursuits. Working with his son Cody (whose mother is the actress Adrienne Barbeau) and godson Daniel Davies, he&#8217;s recorded two albums in recent years,<em> Lost Themes<\/em> and <em>Lost Themes II<\/em>, both of which sound like the throbbing synthesizer soundtracks he used to create for his films. (That&#8217;s a good thing, in my book.) He&#8217;s even done a few live performances, like a bona fide rock star. (I&#8217;ve not been fortunate enough to see him&#8230; yet. But I&#8217;m hopeful.)<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, he&#8217;s stepped back behind the camera and behind the wheel of a familiar old friend to promote his latest release, <em>Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998. <\/em>For an old-school Carpenter fan like myself, the result is pretty close to sublime:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SH2f4A4SVNk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but the hair on my arms rises when those tires start to squeal&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Anthology, <\/em>a collection of Carpenter&#8217;s iconic movie music re-recorded using modern equipment and updated arrangements,\u00a0 came out last month and is available in all the usual formats, from all the usual venues.<\/p>\n<p>And remember, kids, when you&#8217;re out trick-or-treating tonight&#8230;\u00a0 if a strange old man driving a red &#8217;57 Plymouth rolls up and offers you a ride&#8230; don&#8217;t be scared. It&#8217;s only Halloween&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little something for the season, from the man whose name is synonymous with Halloween &#8212; Halloween the movie, that is &#8212; film writer and director John Carpenter. Carpenter is essentially retired from movie-making these days, but he&#8217;s been keeping himself plenty busy with musical pursuits. Working with his son Cody (whose mother is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-evening-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}