So Missouri didn't work out last night. And I'm definitely not in Kansas, either.
I'm watching the first part of Sci-Fi Channel's new miniseries Tin Man. It's a fetishized, twisted adaptation of L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Pretty much everybody knows the story better from the beloved 1939 movie with Ray Bolger and Rufus Wainwright as the Scarecrow and Dorothy.
There are elements that are almost too clever and cute for their own good in this 2007 version, but I'm enjoying an imaginative interpretation. And how can you not like the adorable Zooey Deschanel in anything? Okay, maybe you can dislike her, but you're frankly just a damn crank if you do.
I used to manage a science museum back in college. We had a planetarium that featured laser light shows. Consequently, I have some genuine affection and admiration for Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. I spent many weekends in the early 90s in a projection booth watching rays of red and blue dance through an inevitable rising cloud of pot smoke with that music featured.
I used to manage a science museum back in college. We had a planetarium that featured laser light shows. Consequently, I have some genuine affection and admiration for Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. I spent many weekends in the early 90s in a projection booth watching rays of red and blue dance through an inevitable rising cloud of pot smoke with that music featured.
Many people know of the Dark Side of the Rainbow, but how many have actually tried it? Well, I did with a few friends ten years ago. We waited for the third roar of the MGM lion, then I started the CD.
Dude...
I recall being somewhat awed when, after her house has been upended and whirled through a tornado to the strains of the appropriately named "Great Gig in the Sky"...
...Dorothy walks out into Oz and the next, most famous track on the album is perfectly sequenced to introduce the color of money:
"Us and Them" is probably my favorite Pink Floyd song of all, so let's go out with that as Dorothy eases on down the road:
...Dorothy walks out into Oz and the next, most famous track on the album is perfectly sequenced to introduce the color of money:
"Us and Them" is probably my favorite Pink Floyd song of all, so let's go out with that as Dorothy eases on down the road:
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We did it once. I recall feeling quite amazed. That could have been the drugs, of course.
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