{"id":389,"date":"2016-02-16T08:06:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T08:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2016\/02\/16\/the-rejected-soundtrack-to-the-exorcist-is-fantastic-and-fantastically-unnerving\/"},"modified":"2016-03-26T16:22:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T20:22:05","slug":"the-rejected-soundtrack-to-the-exorcist-is-fantastic-and-fantastically-unnerving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2016\/02\/the-rejected-soundtrack-to-the-exorcist-is-fantastic-and-fantastically-unnerving\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rejected Soundtrack to THE EXORCIST is Fantastic and Fantastically Unnerving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The full story is over at Dangerous Minds (<a title=\"The terrifying rejected \u2018Exorcist\u2019 soundtrack the director literally threw out a window | Dangerous Minds\" href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/terrifying_rejected_exorcist_soundtrack_the_director_literally_threw_ou\">The terrifying rejected \u2018Exorcist\u2019 soundtrack the director literally threw out a window | Dangerous Minds<\/a>), but to cut to the chase, here&#8217;s the full rejected score&#8211;which I find really quite listenable:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7QTTiezP2f4\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(Aside: Now that I hear it again, this puts me in the mind of John Adams&#8217; beautiful elegy for the victims of 9\/11, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1jCdOjOaJsU\">On the Transmigration of Souls<\/a>&#8211;enough so that I sorta wonder if he ever listened this score. At any rate, even if this score doesn&#8217;t appeal, Adams&#8217; piece really is one to listen to, again and again and again.)<\/p>\n<p>Also included in that above-linked Dangerous Minds article is the original &#8220;banned&#8221; trailer for THE EXORCIST, which used this rejected score.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FUN FACT<\/strong>: Dave can&#8217;t watch THE EXORCIST. I&#8217;ve read the book, seen one or two of the sequels, but I can&#8217;t get more than ~30 minutes or so into the original film (in theaters or on video) before having a panic attack[*] and having to quit. Likewise, I can&#8217;t watch that trailer, despite it being just 1:41. I couldn&#8217;t even finish the first minute.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n[*] Not being hyperbolic here; actual <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Panic_attack#Diagnosis\">DSM-diagnosable panic attacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The full story is over at Dangerous Minds (The terrifying rejected \u2018Exorcist\u2019 soundtrack the director literally threw out a window | Dangerous Minds), but to cut to the chase, here&#8217;s the full rejected score&#8211;which I find really quite listenable: (Aside: Now that I hear it again, this puts me in the mind of John Adams&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2016\/02\/the-rejected-soundtrack-to-the-exorcist-is-fantastic-and-fantastically-unnerving\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Rejected Soundtrack to THE EXORCIST is Fantastic and Fantastically Unnerving&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}