{"id":5047,"date":"2012-06-12T14:28:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T18:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2012-06-12T14:28:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T18:28:36","slug":"alan-ari-lazar-lalela-music-library-scoring-jerusalema-gangster%e2%80%99s-paradise-and-the-launch-of-big-head-amusements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5047","title":{"rendered":"Alan Ari Lazar: Lalela Music Library + scoring Jerusalema: Gangster\u2019s Paradise, AND the launch of Big Head Amusements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_3251\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 260px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/BigHeadAmusementsLogo_ss.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3251  \" title=\"BigHeadAmusementsLogo_ss\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/BigHeadAmusementsLogo_ss.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"329\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Just uploaded is an interview with Alan Ari Lazar, composer  of <strong>Jerusalema: Gangster\u2019s Paradise<\/strong> (2008) which I reviewed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/g\/3749_GangstersParadiseJerusalema.htm\">DVD<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2469\">M<\/a>] + the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/cd_lp_reviews\/g\/MP3_0274_GangstersParadiseJerusalema.htm\">soundtrack  album <\/a>[<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2495\">M<\/a>] last year.<\/p>\n<p>Lazar\u2019s perhaps best known for scoring TV\u2019s <strong>Sex and the City<\/strong>, but his background  includes\u00a0 a whole variety of genres and  formats, and that wealth of experience has yielded a new music library designed  to service the needs of commercial, TV, and feature film needs.<\/p>\n<p>Called <a href=\"http:\/\/lalela.com\/#explorer\" >Lalela<\/a>, the  site is pretty user-friendly and puts the music up front for anyone to sample,  and features a vast array of material by a variety of composers, many of whom  come from Lazar\u2019s native South    Africa. It\u2019s worth checking out the music \u2013  both the main cues and alternates can be heard for free on the site \u2013 but prior  to that, why not listen to our lengthy conversation about Lazar\u2019s work, which  is available as a <a href=\"http:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/?p=236\" >podcast <\/a>from Big Head Amusements, <a href=\"http:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/\" >my  new site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why a podcast? Because it\u2019s an alternative to printed  interviews, and sometimes a phone Q&amp;A runs long because the conversation  happens to be pretty good. I\u2019ve wanted to set up a site to house audio material  outside of those currently on YouTube, as well as a site that\u2019s essentially an  interface where readers can find out where all the media bits are housed in an  organized fashion.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to material for KQEK.com and media on my YouTube  Channel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/bigheadamusements\" >bigheadamusements <\/a>(Get it? Get it?), there\u2019s an index for stuff on Vimeo, which will include  Editor\u2019s Picks of neat things as well as some of the short films I\u2019m working  on. I\u2019ll still post all blogs here, so this will be the main stream where any  &amp; all updates will reside, but certain media will now exist at BHA.<\/p>\n<p>So the next obvious question is \u2018Why call it Big Head  Amusements?\u2019 and I have a real answer for that, though it\u2019s as peculiar as you  trying to explain to a stranger why you call your tall &amp; skinny best friend  \u2018Zinx\u2019 when his name is Freddie Frattler.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago I made a corporate video with a friend &amp;  colleague (Bill), and among the cast in this exceptionally dull thing was his  brother-in-law Don, who&#8217;s a good actor. Don played an accountant, and the  kidding between Bill &amp; Don included jokes about the latter&#8217;s head, like \u2018Cut! Cut!  Cut! We have to redo the shot because Don\u2019s head\u2019s so huge it ruined the  composition again.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>This went on <em>for hours<\/em>,  which is why I made up a non-existent company (with logo) called Big Head  Amusements. I took the ennui from the big head gags and recombobulated them into my own &#8216;amusements.&#8217; Get it?<\/p>\n<p>When it came time to replace my old company name of Bedlam  Productions (yes, I\u2019m the guy who used to tape performances at fFIDA in the  mid-nineties) for a new production entity, I thought \u2018Why not resuscitate BHA?\u2019  since the experience of being exposed to a stream of big head jokes for an  entire weekend 20 years ago poisoned my sense of humour.<\/p>\n<p>(See, when I write fiction, there are <em>always<\/em> characters with bizarre heads. In my camp, calling someone a  melon head is <strong>not<\/strong> politically  incorrect when in fact the character has a head as round &amp; featureless as a  melon. But I digress.)<\/p>\n<p>That is the origin of <a href=\"http:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/\">BHA<\/a>, and there will be a proper logo  when time permits, since the intricacies of a big head, an arrow, a tag line,  and a sound effect take time to animate.<\/p>\n<p>Plus the head\u2019s so damn big, it keeps sliding off the  monitor, and ruining the damn shot.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>,  Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com <\/strong>(  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/Main_Index_Page.htm\">Main Site<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php\">Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launch of the new multimedia site (&#038; self-serving media portal) Big Head Amusements, and an interview with film composer Alan Ari Lazar (Jerusalema: Gangster&#8217;s Paradise, TV&#8217;s Sex and the City) regarding his work, and the founding of the Film &#038; TV Music Library site, Lalela.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1jp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5066,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047\/revisions\/5066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}