The Business

Media: Podcast
Title: The Business
Link: http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/tb

First the confession. I have the most un-hip, the nerdiest i-pod in the U.S., perhaps the world. Well, to confess before the confession, it is a budget Sandisk mp3-player, not a sleek, cool i-pod. But worst than that, I use my player exclusively for listening to Public Radio podcasts. Not one song has ever found its way onto my player. (Although I have ripped the occasional radio show from my collection of ‘30s and ‘40s radio programs and put it onto my player; yet that hardly bumps me up in the cool category does it?)

Ok, today’s media morsel from KCRW Public Radio out of Santa Monica. The Business, a program about the all the folks who make film (from the key grips to the moguls), had a great interview with composer Danny Elfman (Simpson’s theme). Listen to it for his story about how the main theme for Batman spontaneously came to him on an airplane and how he frantically kept going back and forth to the bathroom to try and capture it on his tape recorder before the music escaped from his mind. (I’m luke-warm on the film. I love the score.)