Tomorrow, we go to Nashville and debut our new score to Nosferatu in the evening. Happy Halloween.

Each score written and rehearsed means watching each film one thousand times. I start to love or loathe certain characters for their quirks. I feel like I become familiar with the actors and actresses in a very odd, intimate way.

Then I remember that these are very old movies. Probably all of the actors and actresses in them are long since gone. Even the child actors would be at least in their late nineties. But here they all are on film, alive and beautiful. It is bittersweet.