I guess you’ve noticed how (especially original) the music for the movies never gets the respect proportionally to its effect. All you hear about is the director, the actors and sometimes special effects, but there’s not much about the composer or the previously written songs that have been used for the movie (or the episode for the TV series). This is a shame because sometimes without the music the scenes wouldn’t be even the half as effective as they are with the music.

One of the greatest examples of masterful synergy between the picture and the sound has been a scene in the most excellent 28 Days Later. Almost at the very end, the situation in the soldier’s house intensifies and the theme, almost 5 minutes long, almost perfectly follows the events on the screen. The theme is called “In The House – In A Heartbeat”, written by John Murphy who wrote most of the music for this film. If you’ve seen the movie you’ll know what I am talking about, and if not, go see it (or, get it on a DVD or over the VOD), it is brilliant.

Well, I am happy to report that another scene, this time from the season 3 finale of the Battlestar Galactica has now taken the crown and is the best picture/sound combo of all time. It’s the last 5 minutes or so of the last episode of the season 3. The original take on Dylan’s “All Along The Watchtower” is absolutely mesmerizing and the events it follows are spectacular.

I find “Battlestar Galactica” the finest TV series showing at the moment, so if you have to choose and watch only one series I’d pick this one.

Finally, to partially justify the subtitle of this blog – on computing, women and beer – I’d like to point you to Maxim’s site (which is SFW) where you’ll find a great pictorial of the Tricia Helfer, also known as the Number Six Cylon. You might have noticed her, she’s a beautiful skinny blond that seduced Baltar

She doesn’t just look great but she can act too. She appeared recently in another TV series called Supernatural, in an episode Roadkill.