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To the one of the most influential film composers of all-time, I salute you. You have inspired so many people to become composers. You introduced many of us to leitmotifs in film, and interpolated the melodies of Holst, Strauss, and Wagner in your music. Your 1977 film score is ranked as the Greatest American Film Score ever. http://connect.afi.com/site/DocServer/scores25.pdf?docID=222 You have inspired me to become the composer I am today! Happy Birthday John Williams!

I'm sure you know I'm perfectly aware of both Herrmann's and Williams' places in film music history. Yes, where I live, there are a lot of older composers who've lived most of their lives behind the Iron Curtain and obviously aren't too familiar with American culture. But since the fall of the USSR we've had more and more cultural influence from the West and now plenty of young people are into film music. The older generation is more familiar with Soviet film music. I've heard a lot of it and I can tell you that apart from just a few gems, it was way behind its Western counterparts. And from what I've heard of Bollywood music I really don't expect them to have some kind of Indian John Williams over there. John Williams is one of the greatest living film composers. I don't disagree with anything you said, Chris, but by saying it in this thread you were just shitting on our parade.

Can we leave this scraggy out at least on his birthday.

Let me just say no to all this. We appreciate your eclecticism, but if you want your opinion to be taken seriously when you make suggestions for the site, then you'll want to work on presenting your case with some coherence and semblance of underlying sanity. Even if English is not your first language, you clearly know it well enough to be aware that your writing comes off as being produced by someone under the influence of drugs. I have no problems with you treating YC as a sort of RPG playground for this persona, but I'm afraid you need to come back to visit the real world when you're offering suggestions that are intended to be discussed for the benefit of the entire membership. But thank you for the suggestion.

Well, if you've got the bandwidth to load some acid-trip Gothic Secessionist eye-roaster of a page every time you navigate somewhere, be my guest. I personally would prefer not to be assaulted by something that looks like it was designed by the absinthe fairy trying to combine the influences of Klimt, Dali, Picasso and Canterbury Cathedral in pixel format. Joking aside, there are some very good reasons why YC has a simple and un-fantastic design. It follows the rules of good design and layout with uniform colours and clear fonts. Why do think maps aren't printed on paper that changes colour with invisible pink Gothic fonts? It's because they need to be easy to read at a glance and provide information clearly.