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russotto

02-03-2003 08:35 PM

Columbia tribute?

I can't decide if this is horribly appropriate, horribly inappropriate, or just plain horrible.

The original message (from BroadbandReports.com, user "cstrippie"):

Quote:

While I was watching the (endless) replays of the Columbia disintegration, an uncannily appropriate song popped on my mp3 player, so I brought up iMovie, sync'd what seemed appropriate, and posted the results on my wife's .mac account. There are still some elements I'd like to add, but have very serious limits on how much I can use the 'puter (wrist issues).

http://homepage.mac.com/ladygorm/iMovieTheater2.html

Take a look if you get a chance and let me know what you think.

Craig

dave	02-03-2003 09:52 PM

Now it's gone. Tell us what it was.

Uryoces

02-05-2003 12:06 PM

The only thing I can think of, in the absence of further info:

Just a song before I go,
To whom it may concern,
Travelling twice the speed of sound
It's easy to get burned.
When the shows were over
We had to get back home.
And when we opened up the door
I had to be alone
She helped me with my suitcase,
She stands before my eyes,
Driving me to the airport
And to the friendly skies.
Going through security
I held her for so long
She finally looked at me in love,
And she was gone.
Just a song before I go,
A lesson to be learned
Travelling twice the speed of sound
It's easy to get burned.
-- Crosby, Stills, Nash, "Just a song before I go"

russotto

02-05-2003 01:34 PM

It was the video of the debris streaking across the sky set to.... "Dust in the Wind".

Uryoces

02-05-2003 02:02 PM

That works too. Nothing bad about that.

Elspode

02-05-2003 04:00 PM

It works, it is not disrespectful, and it is still a bit warped and twisted. A difficult combination of factors to meld. Well done.

Pie	02-05-2003 04:44 PM

The music that kept going through my head was Steve Miller Band's Fly Like an Eagle... It seemed to have some of the same idealistic impulses that the space program as a whole evinces.

I felt especially bad for Kalpana Chawla and Ilan Ramon. While Chawla was a U.S. citizen, she carried many of the same hopes and dreams for India that Ramon carried for Israel.

- Pie

Undertoad

02-05-2003 05:18 PM

Using pretentious 70s pop songs as a tribute to Columbia? How ridiculous!

I'll nominate Yes' Starship Troopers.

Elspode

02-05-2003 06:45 PM

Hey...I resemble that remark!

Starship Trooper has been my first my CB and then my online handle for a really long time now...

If I'd known it was pretentious, I would have picked something else.;)

BrianR

02-05-2003 06:48 PM

I nominate David Bowie's "Space Oddity"

Brian

is it just me, or am I hearing that MUCH more ofter all of a sudden?

mw451

02-06-2003 06:01 PM

How odd...

Quote:

Originally posted by BrianR
I nominate David Bowie's "Space Oddity"

Brian

is it just me, or am I hearing that MUCH more ofter all of a sudden?

I heard this on the radio on Monday and the first thing I thought of was Columbia's crew. I thought it was just me.

Of course, jaguar won't even look at this thread since "this doesn't effect him". Sorry, had to get in a dig where I could.

Anyway, I think that all of the above songs are appropriate, tho some may seem disturbing at first.

mw

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