Comments on: Documentary Evidence http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/09/25/documentary-evidence/ America's favorite blog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:02:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Finny http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/09/25/documentary-evidence/#comment-2442 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/09/25/documentary-evidence/#comment-2442 Dude, if only you had the werewithal to actually produce this as a short film. Someone give this man a grant! Dude, if only you had the werewithal to actually produce this as a short film.

Someone give this man a grant!

]]> by: tim http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/09/25/documentary-evidence/#comment-2443 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/09/25/documentary-evidence/#comment-2443 I'd like to see this film too, unless we would have to watch it during pledge weeks for the next 20 years. I’d like to see this film too, unless we would have to watch it during pledge weeks for the next 20 years.

]]> by: Murray http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/09/25/documentary-evidence/#comment-2444 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/09/25/documentary-evidence/#comment-2444 That may be good enough for the weenies at the UN, but if you want to convince Americans you need much more. Start with a real action figure, maybe Aahnold or better yet, W in a flight suit. Add lots of explosions, (best if the hero is rushing out of the building, the explosion wells up from behind as an orange fireball, and he dives to the ground just in time). Ragtime music and violins? Come on, Americans need synthesized guitars, heavy drums, driving beat, and loud vocals. To cement public opinion have a man on the street take comments of people emerging from a theatre, "I laughed, I cried, I believe". And finish the film with the Bush team (Condi, Rummy, W, Wolfy, and Dick) walking abreast, looking triumphant, taken with a long telephoto lens, (so you can see them walking but they don't seem to be getting anywhere). There, now you have something that Americans will swallow. That may be good enough for the weenies at the UN, but if you want to convince Americans you need much more. Start with a real action figure, maybe Aahnold or better yet, W in a flight suit. Add lots of explosions, (best if the hero is rushing out of the building, the explosion wells up from behind as an orange fireball, and he dives to the ground just in time). Ragtime music and violins? Come on, Americans need synthesized guitars, heavy drums, driving beat, and loud vocals. To cement public opinion have a man on the street take comments of people emerging from a theatre, “I laughed, I cried, I believe”. And finish the film with the Bush team (Condi, Rummy, W, Wolfy, and Dick) walking abreast, looking triumphant, taken with a long telephoto lens, (so you can see them walking but they don’t seem to be getting anywhere).
There, now you have something that Americans will swallow.

]]> by: Pat R. http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/09/25/documentary-evidence/#comment-2445 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/09/25/documentary-evidence/#comment-2445 They haven't needed much to convince most Americans to this point. They haven’t needed much to convince most Americans to this point.

]]> by: Chicory http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/09/25/documentary-evidence/#comment-2446 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/09/25/documentary-evidence/#comment-2446 I second Pat R.'s comment. The only reason the public isn't saying much at present is the "sticker shock" of the ticket - $87 billiion! And counting!!!!! I second Pat R.’s comment.

The only reason the public isn’t saying much at present is the “sticker shock” of the ticket - $87 billiion! And counting!!!!!

]]> by: Dugrless http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/09/25/documentary-evidence/#comment-2447 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/09/25/documentary-evidence/#comment-2447 Off-topic: I highly recommend to readers of this site the "Draft Clooney Movement Gains Momentum" blog entry over at Defective Yeti (http://www.defectiveyeti.com). It reads like something on F.A; I thought for a second I was on the wrong site. Adam, are you moonlighting as a 30-something guy in Seattle? Off-topic: I highly recommend to readers of this site the “Draft Clooney Movement Gains Momentum” blog entry over at Defective Yeti (http://www.defectiveyeti.com). It reads like something on F.A; I thought for a second I was on the wrong site. Adam, are you moonlighting as a 30-something guy in Seattle?

]]> by: michael (in DC) http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/09/25/documentary-evidence/#comment-2448 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/09/25/documentary-evidence/#comment-2448 Adam, just fyi from a musicological nerd point of view: the final 30 seconds of "A Day in the Life" <i>is </i> the final piano chord (played on, I think, 4 or 5 pianos)...the mic stays on as the chord fades for at least half-a-minute. [ /anal-nitpick] Adam, just fyi from a musicological nerd point of view:

the final 30 seconds of “A Day in the Life” is the final piano chord (played on, I think, 4 or 5 pianos)…the mic stays on as the chord fades for at least half-a-minute.

[ /anal-nitpick]

]]> by: Murray http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/09/25/documentary-evidence/#comment-2449 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/09/25/documentary-evidence/#comment-2449 Actually that cord was created in the pre electronic wizardry age, and as the cord faded they turned the volume up on the mike to match. They said that if some one had coughed they would have blown the monitor speakers off the wall. Actually that cord was created in the pre electronic wizardry age, and as the cord faded they turned the volume up on the mike to match. They said that if some one had coughed they would have blown the monitor speakers off the wall.

]]> by: michael (in DC) http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/09/25/documentary-evidence/#comment-2450 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/09/25/documentary-evidence/#comment-2450 Murray, I long for the pre-electronic-wizardry age. I love stories like the organ interlude in "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" where they cut up the tapes & threw them in the air before splicing them back together...or the one about Bowie recording the vocal track of "Heroes" in a warehouse loft with one mic in front of him and another 50 feet away for reverb. Alas, MIDI has made life worlds easier for countless bar & street musicians, but it's made imagination largely superfluous in big-time rock & pop. [/old coot rant] Murray, I long for the pre-electronic-wizardry age. I love stories like the organ interlude in “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite” where they cut up the tapes & threw them in the air before splicing them back together…or the one about Bowie recording the vocal track of “Heroes” in a warehouse loft with one mic in front of him and another 50 feet away for reverb.

Alas, MIDI has made life worlds easier for countless bar & street musicians, but it’s made imagination largely superfluous in big-time rock & pop.

[/old coot rant]

]]> by: adam http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/09/25/documentary-evidence/#comment-2451 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2003/09/25/documentary-evidence/#comment-2451 True enough about the final 30 seconds (but if I'd said "final minute," it probably woulda been confusing). Mo' geekiness: As you probably know, if you listen closely you can hear the squeak of a chair or piano bench being pushed back towards the very end of that chord. And then there's the dog whistle, which I SWEAR I can actually hear... True enough about the final 30 seconds (but if I’d said “final minute,” it probably woulda been confusing).

Mo’ geekiness: As you probably know, if you listen closely you can hear the squeak of a chair or piano bench being pushed back towards the very end of that chord.

And then there’s the dog whistle, which I SWEAR I can actually hear…

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