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

[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

The music may have been good, and the sets may have been impressive, but I saw this movie in the theater, and I was ... disappointed. I wasn't sure just what this movie was trying to be. If it was supposed to be a film for the kids, then it shouldn't have been.

It just struck me as one of those movies that's trying desperately hard to be "big." It's got all this heartstring-yanking music, it's got Robin Williams ... and it's got Robin Williams bedding the girl, and flinging a bra over the head of a robot toy that's spying on them.

There are too many "kiddie" movies that I had the misfortune of seeing roughly around that time, having material thrown in apparently for the purpose making sure they got a PG rating - lest reviewers give it a knee-jerk "G" just because they think it's a kiddie movie - in the hope of getting better box office draws.