Powered
by Live365.com, A Fistful of Soundtracks streams music from movies and
television and airs episodes of the long-running movie music radio program
of the same name. The eps air Tuesdays and Thursdays at midnight, 4am, 10am, 3pm, 7pm and 11pm, and Saturdays and Sundays at 7am, 9am, 11am, 1pm, 3pm and 5pm.
The Fistful channel also airs eps of Morning Becomes Dyspeptic, a comedy album clip show that's been called "the morning show for people who are not morning people." "The F Zone" is a two-hour block of existing songs featured in movies and shows ranging from Mean Streets to The Boondocks. Tune in to "The F Zone" Mondays 4-6am, 9-11am and 3-5pm, Wednesdays 12-2pm, and Fridays 5-7am, 9-11am and 3-5pm on Fistful.
To log on to Fistful, go to iTunes
Radio and click on the Eclectic stations folder. You can also access Fistful
from the Live365 site or Real Radio.
Most recent Fistful episode:
"The Inmates Are Taking Over the Asylum."
Selections from scores to films that were released by United Artists, which has begun celebrating its 90th anniversary with the 2007 release of a mammoth DVD box set and a traveling festival of the studio's most popular movies, even though the anniversary doesn't take place until 2009. (blog post about the ep) (playlist)
Next
new Fistful episode:
To be announced.
Now playing on the Fistful of Soundtracks channel:
Jimmy Aquino
Host/Producer, A Fistful of Soundtracks
Jimmy Aquino (uh-KEE-no) has written film reviews for the San Jose Mercury News (1993-97), capsule reviews of films and CDs for the Metro
(2000-01) and arts articles
for Silicon
Valley Community Newspapers (2001-02). He has also been a contributor to Metroactive's Movie & Television Arts blog.
Jimmy Aquino talks
about why he started Fistful in 1997:
I started collecting movie
soundtrack albums after my hobby of freeze-drying dead pets freaked out
my parents, and they called in the sheriff, so that didn't seem to work
out, and I had to find another hobby. I'm kidding... I don't think there's
a cooler movie collectible than a memento of the music from the movie
that you either enjoyed or made out to when the dialogue got boring. Sometimes,
the music is all that's memorable or outstanding about the movie. Other
times, it's the full frontal nudity.
I began Fistful during
my sophomore year at UCSC to share my soundtrack collection with the rest
of the world. My favorite film and TV composers include Lalo Schifrin,
Danny Elfman, David Holmes, Yoko Kanno of Cowboy Bebop fame, Michael
Giacchino, Jon Brion, all the blaxploitation-era guys and of course, Ennio Morricone. Like the members
of The Clash, I was fascinated by Morricone's
music and the amoral, gritty, sometimes badly dubbed world of spaghetti
westerns. That's why I titled my program A Fistful of Soundtracks.
It's a shoutout to Sergio Leone and Morricone, whose Fistful of Dollars
main title theme was the other tune besides A Tribe Called Quest's "Check
the Rhime" that I couldn't stop humming when I was a teenager.
One thing I enjoy
about having a program like this is the eclectic format. It can go from Vampyros Lesbos to something as completely
different as Glory in a snap. Or an earnest instrumental piece
from Spartacus can be followed by a number from South Park:
Bigger, Longer & Uncut. It's called f***ing with people's heads.
You should try it sometime. It's hella fun.
