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I'll keep it brief, my dear brother will be 30 at the end of the month and his fianc� is going to surprise him with a trip for the two to New York.
I was thinking of contributing to that gift and since my brother was the one who got us both into Marvel comics (back in 1987) I hoped I could find something in New York I could point him towards, with some sort of pre-payed gift certificate or ticket or something. Is there anyone here who lives in New York and/or is proficient in the varieties of major Marvel-related New York shops/museums/galleries/novelty stores that would let me fix this from my end and I could just give him the directions and an envelope? I'm thinking probably a comic book store or a gallery housing litographs and posters from the top X-men/Marvel drawing artists. They'll be staying in Manhattan mostly but I suppose they can get around well enough with cabs and shit. Costs like 40% of a typical Stockholm fare...
Any help would be much appreciated, I'm pretty much at a loss here.
Also, if you've got any strength left in your loins, please tell me, *sob*, What is this song called?
I've tried snooping everywhere, even found a soundtrack for "E Per Tetto Un Cielo Di Stelle" by Morricone (as one tip suggested) and listened to every song in it, no luck.
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According to the IMDb, the game's music was indeed done by Morricone. But, whether that's a pre-existing song, or something specifically for the game, I don't know. At least it narrows your search, I guess.
Addendum : A Google search has turned up this message board thread which claims the games main theme (which I guess is likely to be the song on the Web site) is "Ballata per un Pistolero" by Franco Micalizzi and Roberto Pregadio from the movie Il Pistolero dell'Ave Maria. The thread also has a post listing all the songs from the game.
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You know, I don't think we have any members from New York, or at least not regulars, which is mildly interesting when you consider how many people live there.
And then there's the New York City Comic Book Museum. (Their main page appears to be broken in such a way that it resolves to one of those Buy A Website And Some Pills! pages.)
And in an equally nerdy but different nerd direction, were I going to New York, I'd probably want to visit the Museum of Modern Art, which has all sorts of famous stuff in it. (Dali's Persistence of Memory, for instance.) And, of course, I'd feel like I'd missed something if I didn't go to McSweeney's Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co.
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N u2 tussen, although I haven't found the song yet. It eludes me like nothing I've ever seen before. And I've even gotten the theme song for "Private Eye" with Michael Woods.
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Update: I bought two open tickets to MoMA, put them behind a large picture of their upper terrace so that brother would have to guess first. He liked it a lot. I'm also cooking up a plan together with his feeyonsay to get him to arrive at Mocca's doorstep with a kvestion mark on his fresh face. And the minute he steps out of the museum, fake mob hit.
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You could push his girlfriend off the George Washington Bridge in a "death of Gwen Stacey" move.
Or the old "radioactive cannister in the face" routine ala Daredevil.
...mabye a piece of shrapnel lodged into his chest like Iron Man?
The potential for lethal fun is lmitless with the MarvelTM, universe!
You could also hire a homeless black man to follow him around all day calling himself "The Falcon" in a forgotten 1970's token sidekick sort of thing.
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The observation deck in Rockefeller Center just recently reopened, and it is supposedly one of the best views of the city. (Or so the BBC tells me.) Plus one could get tickets to Conan O'Brien maybe, since it's in the same building.
Maybe I should go visit New York.
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