if wishes were horses...
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boogieshoes... beggars would ride, and i'd totally be able to make 'videos' to songs. i'm not even talking about cutting clips and remixing them to tell a story, just making a montage of stills with different fade-out times that synced with a song. i can't do either.
i think about this every time i hear the kenny loggins version of 'all the little ponies' , and in my mind, i always see a montage of pictures: boys of about 5-7, followed by those same boys as young men in uniform, usually on the battlefield, often with an overlay of birth-death dates. it would be from a mix of wars, so b&w, sepia-toned, color photos...
the weird thing is that 'all the little ponies' is supposed to be a lullaby, but it's written in a minor key, which makes it the saddest darn lullaby i've ever heard. it's a haunting song, and deserves a haunting video montage.
there are some others i'd like to do as well, not always so sad. 'Hero' by Phil Collins could easily be about a hero's sidekick - Vin Tanner or Tonto or Buck or... the person who really keeps the main character on the straight and narrow, who has the real ethics and morals of the show/ legend/ whatever.
there's a song that i can't remember the title of, the refrain goes 'in the house of stone and light'; dude, it came out when The Sentinel was playing, and i always think of the temple scenes in 'Sentinel, Too' - the montage would emphasize mystical connections, of course.
'Come by the Hills' is sung byan Irish group/ singer, loreena mckinnot in this link, and the montage would be all about our greatest legends - Arthur, of course, Cuchulain, Roland, Superman, and some newer stuff - Aragorn from LOTR, and maybe Huma from the Dragonlance world of Krynn.
another nameless song, refrain is something like 'flesh becomes water, blood becomes stone...' or... something.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xander_opal knows which song i'm talking about, but can't remember the title either - xan? memory help here? more mysticism. ETA - found it! and also, i apparently completely banjaxed the lyrics, heh.
the hero song that goes (OMG EIGHTIES HAIR!!) - you know the one ladies - 'i'm looking out for a hero, i'm waiting for a hero through the (?) of the night. he's gotta be bold, he's gotta be strong, and he's gotta be larger than life!' that could go chris larabee-narrow, or micheal beihn-broad, hee. but i think of the 7 galloping across the plains every single time i hear the line about him being 'faster than light'. and also i see him pulling his gun in a showdown. ok, i'm just besotted.
and if i could choreograph? footloose and danger zone need a team gymnastics routine *so bad*. with lots of flips and stuff. *lots* of flips.
but the point is, i can see this stuff in my head... and don't know how to put it together, and don't have the time to learn. it's worse than wanting to be able to draw or paint (which i do), but not having any talent for it (which i don't, alas). i hate seeing all this wonderful stuff in my head, and not being able to share my vision with the world.
as long as we're PCSing (playing cool songs), check out these two songs:
Neverending Story Theme Song
Crow on the Cradle
and someone remind me i really need to buy Andrew Lloyd Weber's Requiem CD. i keep trying to sing it, and can never remember it since it's all in latin.
in completely unrelated news,spartanwerewolf , this link's for you:
http://www.theprovince.com/sports/Hockey+horse+farm+awaits+Lord+Stanley+birth/4872289/story.html
-bs
i think about this every time i hear the kenny loggins version of 'all the little ponies' , and in my mind, i always see a montage of pictures: boys of about 5-7, followed by those same boys as young men in uniform, usually on the battlefield, often with an overlay of birth-death dates. it would be from a mix of wars, so b&w, sepia-toned, color photos...
the weird thing is that 'all the little ponies' is supposed to be a lullaby, but it's written in a minor key, which makes it the saddest darn lullaby i've ever heard. it's a haunting song, and deserves a haunting video montage.
there are some others i'd like to do as well, not always so sad. 'Hero' by Phil Collins could easily be about a hero's sidekick - Vin Tanner or Tonto or Buck or... the person who really keeps the main character on the straight and narrow, who has the real ethics and morals of the show/ legend/ whatever.
there's a song that i can't remember the title of, the refrain goes 'in the house of stone and light'; dude, it came out when The Sentinel was playing, and i always think of the temple scenes in 'Sentinel, Too' - the montage would emphasize mystical connections, of course.
'Come by the Hills' is sung by
another nameless song, refrain is something like 'flesh becomes water, blood becomes stone...' or... something.
xander_opal knows which song i'm talking about, but can't remember the title either - xan? memory help here? more mysticism. ETA - found it! and also, i apparently completely banjaxed the lyrics, heh.the hero song that goes (OMG EIGHTIES HAIR!!) - you know the one ladies - 'i'm looking out for a hero, i'm waiting for a hero through the (?) of the night. he's gotta be bold, he's gotta be strong, and he's gotta be larger than life!' that could go chris larabee-narrow, or micheal beihn-broad, hee. but i think of the 7 galloping across the plains every single time i hear the line about him being 'faster than light'. and also i see him pulling his gun in a showdown. ok, i'm just besotted.
and if i could choreograph? footloose and danger zone need a team gymnastics routine *so bad*. with lots of flips and stuff. *lots* of flips.
but the point is, i can see this stuff in my head... and don't know how to put it together, and don't have the time to learn. it's worse than wanting to be able to draw or paint (which i do), but not having any talent for it (which i don't, alas). i hate seeing all this wonderful stuff in my head, and not being able to share my vision with the world.
as long as we're PCSing (playing cool songs), check out these two songs:
Neverending Story Theme Song
Crow on the Cradle
and someone remind me i really need to buy Andrew Lloyd Weber's Requiem CD. i keep trying to sing it, and can never remember it since it's all in latin.
in completely unrelated news,
spartanwerewolf , this link's for you:http://www.theprovince.com/sports/Hockey+horse+farm+awaits+Lord+Stanley+birth/4872289/story.html
-bs
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Date: 2011-06-01 10:51 pm (UTC)Also? You're not the only one besotted. I keep thinking maybe this is the year I'll get over it but I've been thinking that for about a billion years now. And nope, still crushing strong.
I know that last link isn't for me but it might as well have been. I am all about Lord Stanley's Cup right now. For real.
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Date: 2011-06-01 11:16 pm (UTC)it's hard not to be besotted with Chris, isn't it? :-D
and i'm not a hockey fan, but i thought that story was too cute - especially the foal in the pic! awwww! :)
on of the other things i've thought would be fun would be to overlay tracks one on top of each other - which would be somewhat continuing a family tradition. my grandfather used to have a band and did some of his own recording and would lay down multiple tracks using 8-track technology! but i thought it would be interesting to do an overlay of, say 'William McBride' on top of 'All the Little Ponies' with Andrew Lloyd Weber's Requiem on top of that, maybe add 'Blood on the Risers' as a descant. sort of a musical story as the themes sink and rise, the visual and emotional and musical interpretation of war.
but that's a lot of work, and would involve adapting most of those songs to stretch them out, make them look like a round, add verses, something. but sometimes i 'hear' this *stunning* rendition of things like that in my head, and wish i could be as analytical as beethoven and just math it out on paper. alas, my ambition far outstrips my abilities.
-bs
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Date: 2011-06-03 01:05 am (UTC)sometimes i 'hear' this *stunning* rendition of things like that in my head
I've never asked and I don't think it's ever come up before but are you a synthete? Have synesthaesia? The way you describe the visual overlaying of tracks and hearing it in your head sounds familiar.
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Date: 2011-06-03 02:00 am (UTC)otoh, i frequently have my own internal sound-track going. i don't listen to music while i work, because music is one of those things which completely suck in all my concentration, so i'm actually kind of useless while listening to music. but it doesn't stop songs from repeating my head and stuff. i don't think that counts as synesthesia, though, from what i've been able to research.
erg. i'm tired right now and not able to 'think' about my own reactions to things right now. sorry. all in all, i think it's more likely i have sensory integration issues than synesthesia. the two conditions are related, but not the same.
-bs