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Old 02-03-2003, 08:35 PM   #1
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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"):

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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.

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Old 02-03-2003, 09:52 PM   #2
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Now it's gone. Tell us what it was.
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Old 02-05-2003, 12:06 PM   #3
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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"
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Old 02-05-2003, 01:34 PM   #4
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It was the video of the debris streaking across the sky set to.... "Dust in the Wind".
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Old 02-05-2003, 02:02 PM   #5
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That works too. Nothing bad about that.
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Old 02-05-2003, 04:00 PM   #6
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It works, it is not disrespectful, and it is still a bit warped and twisted. A difficult combination of factors to meld. Well done.
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Old 02-05-2003, 04:44 PM   #7
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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.


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Old 02-05-2003, 05:18 PM   #8
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Using pretentious 70s pop songs as a tribute to Columbia? How ridiculous!

I'll nominate Yes' Starship Troopers.
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Old 02-05-2003, 06:45 PM   #9
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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.
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Old 02-05-2003, 06:48 PM   #10
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I nominate David Bowie's "Space Oddity"

Brian

is it just me, or am I hearing that MUCH more ofter all of a sudden?
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Old 02-06-2003, 06:01 PM   #11
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How odd...

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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.

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