RIP Ennio Morricone (1928-2020)

On: By: Romeyn

Ennio Morricone was a prolific Italian composer, with 540 credits to his name. He is best know for his iconic theme to The Good the Bad and the Ugly (1966), which helped define the spaghetti western genre. Besides his work in The Man With No Name trilogy, he also composed the score for Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), the Thing (1982), the Untouchables (1987) and more recently he composed the score for Quentin Tarantino’s, The Hateful Eight (2015). His inventive use of non traditional “instruments” (due to budget restraints) shaped the mood of the dollar trilogy, giving it the atmosphere we all know so well. He died at the age of 91 in the town in which he was born, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Seven Wonders of the World, 1908

On: By: Romeyn


The new wonders of the last few months are:
New York’s 48-story office building
The new 30,000-ton ocean greyhound Lusitania
The War airships being perfected in Europe
Marconi’s transatlantic wireless telegraphy
The powerful electric locomotive for railways
The camera phonograph.
Edison’s $1000 concrete house, built in 12 hours.

These are by no means the “seven wonders of the modern world,” they are the seven wonders of today