As a smaller child, the music from Legend and Susperia (I watched a lot of horror movies at a much earlier age than I should have) really grabbed me. One of the first albums I ever bought for myself was the Robin Hood Prince of Thieves soundtrack (I still like that score...and that movie, damnit!). As a teenager, I was really into Oingo Boingo (still am), which of course led to Danny Elfman, though almost embarassing how long it took me to make that connection. Twin Peaks was on with its' haunting, dreamy, silly score. Around that time I started to learn to play guitar (Frank Zappa's "Watermelon In Easter Hay" was the inspiration for that).
After a long road of musical self-education and study, my love of film music seems the perfect place to explore my ecclectic tastes, and push myself into doing music I might not have done otherwise. I love film almost as much as music and being involved in both is the most satisfying thing I have ever done!