The song of my life

[rowyn]

I'm listening to the soundtrack from the vastly underrated film "Toys". One of the songs is Thomas Dolby's "The Mirror Song". I've always thought of this as a good anthem for MUCKers and others who have invested much of their time online:

"Memories of things that never happened
These are always the hardest to forget.
All the old friends and the loved ones
These are the people you haven't even met."

It's almost as good as Willy Wonka's "Pure Imagination":

"There is no place I know
to compare with pure imagination
Living there you'll be free
if you truly wish to be"

I think postvixen, at least, can appreciate the levels of potential meaning in that last line.

Comments

[rowyn]

Yah. I don't take issue with your points: it's not a good kids' movie, and the "Don't play with toy guns or shoot-'em-up video games" theme was preachy and disagreeable.

But I also saw it as a defense of whimsy, which is surely a sentiment in desperate need of defending, and I found a lot of good and enjoyable things about the film that -- to me -- more than made up for its failings. To each his own. :)

[level-head.livejournal.com]

Many years later, after one exposure, the Christmas theme still pops into my head from time to time.

And, though less enjoyably, "Happy Workers".

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[rowyn]

You are up early today, my friend. Or late.

"At the Closing of the Year" is one of my favorite pieces of Christmas music, if not my favorite. (There are some beautiful Christmas pieces by the Transiberian Orchestra which might rival it). It inspired one of the planned (but as yet unwritten) chapters in "Hope".

In the film, it is sung against a backdrop of laughing children. On the soundtrack, the laughing children are not included. It loses a little something. But it's still an excellent soundtrack; it's rare that a film gathers together so many different artists whose work I admire.

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[level-head.livejournal.com]

Up early, in fact. I got in about 2.

I will be occupied much of the day, in fact.

Happy Easter!

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[unfinishedtales.livejournal.com]

And to you. I hope your day is at least as productive as it is occupied.