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Sunday, August 24, 2008

"Shutup, I Love This Title Screen," Part 6

'I don't like the way Teddy Roosevelt is looking at me.'
North by Northwest
Title design by Saul Bass
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Saturday, August 23, 2008

"Shutup, I Love This Title Screen," Part 5

'Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash.'
Casino
Titles by Elaine and Saul Bass
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Friday, August 22, 2008

"Shutup, I Love This Title Screen," Part 4

Who would win in a fight? Animated Don Draper or animated Daniel Craig 007?
Casino Royale (2006)
Title design by Daniel Kleinman
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Thursday, August 21, 2008

"Shutup, I Love This Title Screen," Part 3

Can't knock it.
Hustle
Titles by Joe Berger and Pascal Wyse
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

"Shutup, I Love This Title Screen," Part 2

'I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie. There is no system. The universe is indifferent.'
Mad Men
Title design by Mark Gardner and Steve Fuller

The next five title screens in this series will be from the sequences that influenced the designers of the clever Mad Men titles.
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J. John Aquino
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My first name is Jim, not John. I wish I could write books as "Jim Aquino," but I went with "J. John Aquino" to avoid getting confused with other guys named Jim Aquino.

I ran a Tumblr called Accidental Star Trek Cosplay from 2016 to 2026. This blog is also inactive. Its final post was published on December 1, 2017.

This blog was a tie-in to AFOS (A Fistful of Soundtracks), an internet radio station I ran from 2002 to 2016 (I archived some station content over at HearThis). AFOS focused on music from film and TV scores.

I'm the author of 2020's If You Haven't Seen It, It's New to You. My writing also appeared on Metroactive and Splitsider.

I'm @jjohnaquino on most platforms, including Serializd.

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Jim doesn't give a shit about Blogspot and has better things to do (these are a few of them)

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  • Jim's headers for the Couch Avocados TV discussion thread at The Avocado
  • Serializd
  • HearThis
  • Bluesky
  • YouTube
  • StoryGraph
  • Accidental Star Trek Cosplay (inactive)
  • A Fistful of Soundtracks: The Tumblr (inactive)
  • Mixcloud (inactive)
  • SoundCloud (inactive)

I drink up all the Hennessy ya got on ya shelf, so just let me introduce myself

  • "Accidental Star Trek Cosplay is my new Tumblr about the fascinating subject of people who unintentionally dress like Star Trek characters" (May 16, 2016)
  • "I'm back for one post only to plug my first book, If You Haven't Seen It, It's New to You" (February 26, 2021)
  • "I'm trying to put an end to my history of writing a piece of fiction and never finishing it" (September 12, 2016)
  • "The AFOS blog is switching from weekly to monthly in 2017 and will come to an end in December 2017" (December 16, 2016)
  • "The end of an era: Live365's demise means the demise of AFOS as a radio station after 13 intriguing years on the air" (January 6, 2016)
  • "Variety shows aren't my thing, but Jiminy Glick terribly interviewing celebrities definitely is" (June 27, 2016)
  • "'What's your favorite score?' is not a question I like to be asked" (August 26, 2014)

Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover...

  • Atlanta (January 24, 2017)
  • Batman: The Animated Series (September 7, 2012)
  • Better Off Ted (January 3, 2010)
  • Black Mirror: Series 1 and 2 (December 11, 2014)
  • Black Mirror: White Christmas (December 17, 2014)
  • The Critic (March 18, 2008)
  • Doctor Who, "The Day of the Doctor" (November 26, 2013)
  • Fresh Off the Boat (March 10, 2015)
  • The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, "Def Poet's Society" (October 1, 2014)
  • Game of Thrones (August 25, 2017)
  • Grimm (October 22, 2014)
  • The Grinder (January 19, 2016)
  • Hannibal (December 9, 2015)
  • Keen Eddie (January 17, 2010)
  • Key & Peele (July 27, 2015)
  • Luther (October 19, 2011)
  • The Magicians (April 14, 2016)
  • Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures (January 6, 2010)
  • Mozart in the Jungle (March 9, 2016)
  • Mr. Robot (August 5, 2015)
  • Party Down (June 26, 2010)
  • Pee-wee's Big Holiday (March 24, 2016)
  • Penny Dreadful: Season 1 (October 13, 2014)
  • Penny Dreadful, "Fresh Hell" (May 4, 2015)
  • The Rockford Files (January 16, 2009)
  • Samurai Champloo (April 27, 2015)
  • Selfie (November 25, 2014)
  • The Soup (March 15, 2017)
  • Star Trek (November 21, 2016)
  • Taxi (September 23, 2013)

The Best of Throwback Thursday on the AFOS Blog (January 2015-December 2015)

  • Advantageous
  • The Artist
  • Better Off Dead 30th Anniversary Live Read
  • Bridesmaids
  • Collateral
  • Fight Club
  • Flight
  • The Guest
  • It Follows
  • Kung Fu Killer (2014)
  • The Muppets (2011)
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  • The Simpsons Movie
  • Snowpiercer (2013)
  • Spy (2015)
  • A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
  • What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
  • The Wolf of Wall Street
  • The World's End

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