Love is Blue
Warchild
In article <3543445a...@news.globalserve.net>, dave...@utoronto.ca
(Dave Choe) wrote:
> First, I thought of it as just another background tune, like the song
> in the teaser of Anamnesis.
>
> After it kept on playing, it started to grow on me. It's not a bad
> tune, really.
>
> Then after a few more repetitions, it started to bug me. Over and
> over and over and over...*snap*
>
> After Landon's cell mate confessed and said "I love this music," it
> began to frighten me.
>
> When Peter Watts hit the eject button, I felt relieved. When he
> snapped the CD, I wanted to cheer. It was over.
>
> Freakin' excellent episode.
> Damn freakin' excellent episode.
> I was riveted to every scene.
Blue, blue,
My Love is Blue,
Blue is my Love
When Im without you.
--
What is this fish doing in my ear?
Dave Choe
Dennis Ferguson
Dave Choe wrote in message <3543445a...@news.globalserve.net>...
>
>First, I thought of it as just another background tune, like the song
>in the teaser of Anamnesis.
>
>After it kept on playing, it started to grow on me. It's not a bad
>tune, really.
As far as muzak goes, it's pretty good. (Sorry, Lucy and Mr. Mauriat --
it's muzak) The instrumentation is nice and has a surprisingly catchy
melody. But did they really have to play it over and over and over? That
stretch of time while Frank and Peter searched Lucy's old residence was
painful. I don't want to criticize the song's use and reuse, since it's so
important to the plot, but why torture the viewers? :-)
I started to get annoyed at Landon and his friend in that first scene with
the counselor, but the friend got fried and Landon grew on me quickly. I
really can't find any faults with this episode. Surprising, considering
that I didn't really like Lucy Butler's first appearance. The pacing and
treatment of the character worked better for me this time around. Heck, I
felt a definite chill down my spine when Frank found the clipping from 1911.
That's the first time the show's done that to me with a supernatural
episode.
Damn, wish I'd taped this one.
Dennis
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dfe...@gl.umbc.edu (UMBC)
JamesHorn
>What is this fish doing in my ear?
Trying to be and do something extraordinary... play it "Love is Blue" a few
hundred times... it'll die or go away.
;-)
Will Orr
JamesHorn wrote:
Or become extraordinarily mediocre [which is the same thing?].
>
>
> ;-)
Obsidian
This is really going to date me; but when that song first came out I
loved it, after listening to it for a whole episode it was driving me
up the wall, brain washing through music.
Obsidian
Dave Choe wrote:
>
> First, I thought of it as just another background tune, like the song
> in the teaser of Anamnesis.
>
> After it kept on playing, it started to grow on me. It's not a bad
> tune, really.
>
> Then after a few more repetitions, it started to bug me. Over and
> over and over and over...*snap*
>
>
"In order to find the edge, you must risk going
over the edge."
- Dennis Dugan
Jas
Dennis Ferguson wrote:
>
> As far as muzak goes, it's pretty good. (Sorry, Lucy and Mr. Mauriat --
> it's muzak) The instrumentation is nice and has a surprisingly catchy
> melody. But did they really have to play it over and over and over? That
> stretch of time while Frank and Peter searched Lucy's old residence was
> painful. I don't want to criticize the song's use and reuse, since it's so
> important to the plot, but why torture the viewers? :-)
That was the *point*. Brings the viewer into the experience a little
more, wouldn't you say? I can't *believe* how relieved I was when the
music finally stopped...it was *a feeling of freedom*. How many other TV
shows can draw you in like that, make you part of the experience?
Well done. A fine, fine ep.
Jas
--
Well, thus we play the fools with the time,
and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
(To e-mail me, shuck the shellfish)
Dennis Ferguson
Jas wrote in message <35421A...@mudbugs.cadvision.com>...
>Dennis Ferguson wrote:
>>
>> I don't want to criticize the song's use and reuse, since it's so
>> important to the plot, but why torture the viewers? :-)
>
>That was the *point*. Brings the viewer into the experience a little
>more, wouldn't you say?
Like I said, I don't want to criticize it because it was so important.
Obviously, we were supposed to relate to the prisoners, but for me it fell
flat. I doubt the song ended up having the same effect on me as on the
abductees... I just found it annoying. After a couple days of hearing 'Love
is Blue' endlessly, I'd be way past that. I already got the point; the
endless repetition was just irritating and hurt the otherwise-strong episode
a little bit.
>How many other TV
>shows can draw you in like that, make you part of the experience?
I'm glad the music worked for you; it didn't work for me. I just kept
wishing someone would restrain the writers -- the 'Happy Music, Brutal
Scene' thing is getting overdone.
Cgastbook
Here it is again, for those of you who want to check out the "real" story of
Owls and Roosters. Visit the Center for Millennial Studies at :
http://www.mille.org. There's an article by the Center director, Dr. Richard
Landes, and references to how the info was picked up by Chris Carter & Co.
Interesting links, too.
AST
You and me both. I was a freshman in college. Bellbottoms and paisley.
Flower power. Body painting. I still have that lp, Blooming Hits, or
something. Everytime they advertise those collections on late night TV
I get nostalgic. Bert Kaemfert, Percy Faith, Acker Bilk.
You know, this could be the basis for a secret code in some future war.
Like the Navajo codetalkers in WWII.
AST
"He doesn't want anything. He's insane!"
thor...@CAPSecc.co.emery.ut.us
Will Orr
AST wrote:
> Everytime they advertise those collections on late night TV
> I get nostalgic. Bert Kaemfert, Percy Faith, Acker Bilk.
I _love_ Bert Kaemfert!!!!
LEEE242
OK.....so how did they handle the endless repetition of the song for the Closed
Caption crowd??? :)
Jason Dorough
lee...@aol.com (LEEE242) wrote:
>OK.....so how did they handle the endless repetition of the song for the Closed
>Caption crowd??? :)
An idea:
"Oompa-dee-doo oompa-dee-doo oompa-dee-doo..."
-Jason
Milluminati PR
Rebecca Eschliman
In article <35420134...@mc.net>, Obsidian wrote:
> This is really going to date me; but when that song first came out I
> loved it, after listening to it for a whole episode it was driving me
> up the wall, brain washing through music.
>
Ditto, Obsidian. As a matter of fact, I began to wonder if all of
those hatchmarks in the wall were the captives' recording of how many
times they'd heared that song. I know I'd probably resort to something
like that to maintain a fragile psychological distance under such
unrelenting aural attack. And ditto to the being dated by appreciating
the tune when it first came out.
-rje-
Never look a gifted horse in the mouth.
G. M. Lupo
Rebecca Eschliman wrote:
> Ditto, Obsidian. As a matter of fact, I began to wonder if all of
> those hatchmarks in the wall were the captives' recording of how many
> times they'd heared that song. I know I'd probably resort to something
> like that to maintain a fragile psychological distance under such
> unrelenting aural attack...
I have to disagree there, because I HAVE been in a somewhat similar
musical situation. No, I wasn't held hostage by a psychotic
time-traveler, but I did work at Six Flags over Georgia and there's an
almost constant "soundtrack" they play of recognizable, but cheesily
muzak-style songs that one hears from the time you step into the park
until the time you leave.
When I went to work there in '79 (that dates me!), for the first week or
so, I actually liked the music and had some favorites among the
selection. After about the first month, I hated it, and strangely
enough, the songs I had liked annoyed me the most. But after two or
three months, I suddenly realize I didn't hear it anymore. It never
stopped, from the time I was there, but I managed to block it out and
relegate it to "background noise". In fact, it was more unusual for me
when, for some reason, it was turned off. The same phenomenon happens
in buildings with large airconditioning units. You get used to the hum
of the airconditioner that it's weird when it goes off for awhile.
Matt Lupo
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<http://www.webcom.com/hamlet/>
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G. M. Lupo
LEEE242 wrote:
> OK.....so how did they handle the endless repetition of the song for
> the Closed Caption crowd??? :)
Broadcast the works on one of those stock ticker things. Or on one of
those annoying Javascript tickers you get when you forget to disable
Javascript on your browser.
Obsidian
I was in San Jose around that time, used to travel up to San Francisco
every weekend with my husband...kids selling flowers in the street,
painting their cars with peace symbols...Course now you can go to the
local Claires' store and buy peace symbol necklaces,smiley faces, mood
rings and bead curtins.
Obsidian
AST wrote:
>
> You and me both. I was a freshman in college. Bellbottoms and paisley.
> Flower power. Body painting. I still have that lp, Blooming Hits, or
> something. Everytime they advertise those collections on late night TV
> I get nostalgic. Bert Kaemfert, Percy Faith, Acker Bilk.
>
> You know, this could be the basis for a secret code in some future war.
> Like the Navajo codetalkers in WWII.
>
> AST
> "He doesn't want anything. He's insane!"
>
> thor...@CAPSecc.co.emery.ut.us
>
> Obsidian wrote:
> >
> > This is really going to date me; but when that song first came out I
> > loved it, after listening to it for a whole episode it was driving me
> > up the wall, brain washing through music.
> >
--
AST
They just said [Love is Blue playing]
AST
"He doesn't want anything. He's insane!"
thor...@CAPSecc.co.emery.ut.us
SBRICE
In article <35441A1A...@ecc.co.emery.ut.us>, AST
<thorpe.em...@ecc.co.emery.ut.us> writes:
>They just said [Love is Blue playing]
>
>
It was probably the one time the deaf were grateful for not being able to hear.
By the end of the show I was ready to kill. Of course I had to watch the tape
for any of Friday's episode to make sense, since when I watched it live, I was
deeply under the influence, first of morphine (which oddly did not take any of
the pain away) and then Demerol. What a combination hard drugs and A Room With
No View. Another eerie coincidence -- the windows of my hospital room were
mirrored on the inside so at night as I tried to look out of them I only saw my
reflection. I think I have the beginnings of a great Millennium script going
here :-).
Sarah Brice
Head Bartender - Millennium Cafe
Unofficial Milluminati Keeper of the Software
This is who we are.
SBRICE
In article <354344...@elsinore.lupo.com>, "G. M. Lupo"
<ham...@elsinore.lupo.com> writes:
>I have to disagree there, because I HAVE been in a somewhat similar
>musical situation. No, I wasn't held hostage by a psychotic
>time-traveler, but I did work at Six Flags over Georgia and there's an
>almost constant "soundtrack" they play of recognizable, but cheesily
>muzak-style songs that one hears from the time you step into the park
>until the time you leave.
>
>
I believe you have a legal suit here -- cruel and unusual punishment. Quick,
call the ACLU!
tho...@ecc.co.emery.ut.us
Didn't Dave Barry sponsor a "world's worst song" contest recently?
I suppose any popular song could get to you played over and over and over and
over . . .
The only CDs I have that I can listen to continuously are Enya and Steely Dan.
The ones I have that I can't listen to at all anymore are "The Best of Bread"
and Air Supply's greatest hits. I think it's because I developed diabetes
some years back.
AST
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DAD
> The only CDs I have that I can listen to continuously are Enya and Steely Dan.
>
> The ones I have that I can't listen to at all anymore are "The Best of Bread"
> and Air Supply's greatest hits. I think it's because I developed diabetes
> some years back.
>
other stuff (hmm, I think...)
DAD