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Dec. 31st, 2002 01:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clayhornikOk- there's this piece of music, written by some German guy. I figure he's German, or Austrian at least. Lets go with Austrian because, well, it's NOT Wagner. It starts out pretty mellow and ... um pastoral. Like if it was in a black and white movie it would be a wide shot of a farm in Kansas, house in the foreground, barn in the background. There's a chimney on the house, wisps of smoke curling out. Tighten the frame and move in slowly toward the farm house, to the porch - there's a porch swing, of course- then through the window and into the parlor, through the lace curtains, naturally. There's a fire in the fireplace, and father is sitting in his chair, reading Thoreau, while mother is knitting in her own overstuffed chair. There's a dog at father's feet.
It's like this for about the first minute, then the pixie, strings and flute sneak in. You can hear the pixies going EEEEEEE! They're tearing the room to shreds, but father doesn't mind because he's swigging something from a hip flask and wearing a tuxedo. Mother is replaced with someone who looks suspiciously like Nicole Kidman. Then the horns and cymbals come crashing through the door, led by... ohhh, Ferrets in clown suits who've started chasing the pixies. This goes on for about a fifty seconds, when Nicole Kidman leaps on top of her chair and starts dancing in a manner that lets us see her bloomers. This is about when the Elephant shows up... you know theres gotta be and elephant...
AND IT STARTS ALL OVER AGAIN!
Three minutes and forty seconds into the piece and Nicole's showing us her bloomers again... Eddie from Fraser shows up and he's jumping up and down and yapping.
Really. At the five minute mark, it's beginning to wind down and as it the screen fades to black as the pixies, the ferrets, the string, the horns, the cymbals and Nicole Kidman collapse, exhausted.
Listen to Offenbach's Overture to Orpheus some time and don't tell me you can't see it happening.
It's like this for about the first minute, then the pixie, strings and flute sneak in. You can hear the pixies going EEEEEEE! They're tearing the room to shreds, but father doesn't mind because he's swigging something from a hip flask and wearing a tuxedo. Mother is replaced with someone who looks suspiciously like Nicole Kidman. Then the horns and cymbals come crashing through the door, led by... ohhh, Ferrets in clown suits who've started chasing the pixies. This goes on for about a fifty seconds, when Nicole Kidman leaps on top of her chair and starts dancing in a manner that lets us see her bloomers. This is about when the Elephant shows up... you know theres gotta be and elephant...
AND IT STARTS ALL OVER AGAIN!
Three minutes and forty seconds into the piece and Nicole's showing us her bloomers again... Eddie from Fraser shows up and he's jumping up and down and yapping.
Really. At the five minute mark, it's beginning to wind down and as it the screen fades to black as the pixies, the ferrets, the string, the horns, the cymbals and Nicole Kidman collapse, exhausted.
Listen to Offenbach's Overture to Orpheus some time and don't tell me you can't see it happening.
