"To be or not to be– that is NOT the question"
~Thich Nhat Hanh
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Child of Glass
The other day I had an exchange at The Secret Sun that sent me back to my childhood. These ideas may grow into a post-especially so considering my background (music major in college-I dropped out to become a rock god) and because I've been reading The Hidden Origins of Western Music(k). The jury is still out on that site. I don't know if he is absolutely brilliant or just nuts. I hope one could say the same about me.
Anyway here is the exchange that will likely grow into something:
Here is something I just thought of as my children watch E.T.
Spielberg-it is a German name. (I was a German major.)
Spiel = play; Berg = Mountain. Which brought to mind the mountain everyone in close encounters was obsessed with. They "meet" the aliens at the mountain, that spikey, pyramid-shaped (this is wrong, that's how I remember it) mountain-called. . . Devils Tower-jesus, this should really be a post. Is Spielberg the literal mountain at which to "meet" the aliens?
Devil's Tower? E.T. (a reworking of Peter Pan) Pan? Tower? The Devil and the Tower?
one last tickle.
When I think of close encounters and its "magic mountain" I can't help but thinking of Disney's 1975 Escape To Witch Mountain.
--The movie is waiting for me at the Library today. I'll let you know if it is important (you know to SAVING THE WORLD!!) I hope you know that I'm joking.
The point of this post though is to remember a movie that has haunted me my whole life. I think about it every couple of years or so, but have never gone out and found it. Child of Glass (1978). I found a couple of youtube deals for it. Check em out. (Obviously I didn't become a rock god. I ended up back in college later and studied German Literature.) My interest is piqued enough now to try and find this movie.
--notice the beginning of the video (I didn't plan that) and also the date of this song, 1978 (that was news to me too). What's up '78?
2 comments:
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Hahaha... "Brilliant" or "nuts" eh? Well, my critical thinking faculties are still in tact, but I don't know if that disqualifies me from the latter category. Anyway, glad to see someone is reading the blog.. especially a music major, who might be able to appreciate some of the little musical gems that pop up now and then.
I didn't explain what I was talking about there. In Close Encounters, the aliens make contact through music. I just read Musicophila. Music plays a role in our lives that we barely understand. Big bang or Big Klang? Is everything vibration? Maybe.
2 comments:
Hahaha... "Brilliant" or "nuts" eh? Well, my critical thinking faculties are still in tact, but I don't know if that disqualifies me from the latter category. Anyway, glad to see someone is reading the blog.. especially a music major, who might be able to appreciate some of the little musical gems that pop up now and then.
Thanks!
I didn't explain what I was talking about there. In Close Encounters, the aliens make contact through music. I just read Musicophila. Music plays a role in our lives that we barely understand. Big bang or Big Klang? Is everything vibration? Maybe.
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