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It's summer and I've been spending most days tossing the wiffle ball, throwing the frisbee or helping my son learn how to ride a two wheeler. When not doing that I've been working on movie music - This year's silent film is The Magician, which will have it's premier in June at The Monster Bash. I've done music for two short indie films, one a documentary, the other a 50's sci-fi spoof called "Attack of the 50 ft Ghoul Girl". There's also the new Lon Chaney double feature - Outside The Law and The Trap from oldies.com featuring my music. The Slick Allen Trio continues to spin our folky music around the front range and at least two of us are going east this summer to play some shows. You can find out more about the band at www.myspace.com/slickallen trio.
One of the most meaningful works I've taken on this summer has been writing a memorial or requiem for Forrest Ackerman. This will be premiered in June. I used sound bites from an interview I conducted with Mr. Sci-Fi and then used the music to express what the words could not.
I hope you're having a wonderful summertime, drop me a line - come on out to a show, have a good time!

My latest film score for a classic silent film is out now on DVD.
Here's the link:
http://www.oldies.com/product-view/5800D.html

It's a double feature with Lon Chaney - Outside The Law, directed by Tod Browning and a rare Chaney film The Trap which paired Chaney with Irving Thalberg plotting the film. The Trap is short, very little of the film remains but they did a great job restoring the film. the Trap is also interesting in that it's Chaney's most stage-like acting on film and one of his rare flops at the box office. Still you can see elements he would bring back in later films.

More words of wisdom from kindergarten. After talking about Earth Day and what we can do, one boy said "Wow, Earth Day is really a hard day". When I asked why he said "We've got to take care of the whole planet!"