As a tribute to Leonard Nimoy, I thought I'd feature a song that samples three Star Trek episodes for the voices of Nimoy, DeForest Kelly and William Shatner - Information Society's What's Going On (Pure Energy).
It's 1980s pop, shock-full of bright colours and electronic drums and creepy haircuts and pseudo-British accents and ridiculousness. Fun? Maybe. Good? Not quite.
Over time, InSoc - as fans refer to them - turned to industrial, and I'll admit I'm a tad curious to hear what that act sounds like without the over-brightness... but not enough to look into it tonight. Plus, they went back to brightly-coloured pop in the last decade, reuniting for some reason after a TV show failed to have them do it.
Oh, and in case you didn't think it was 80's enough, David Copperfield uses it in his act (yes, that's where the movie The Incredible Burt Wonderstone got the inspiration for Steve Carrell's character's cheesy theme song by Steve Miller Band), and plays in the movie American Psycho.
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Saturday, February 28, 2015
Friday, February 27, 2015
What Colour Dressed Him Best?
Blue and black, or gold and white?
(yes, that's a dress joke).
But it leads me to Leonard Nimoy, who died today due to complications from COPD (chronic pulmonary disease, something that runs the gamut between severe asthma and lung cancer).
He was an actor, of course, but also a writer, poet, film director (including two of the Star Trek series and Three Men And A Baby), and an inspiration to many. He struggled with his Spock character for a long time, but seemed to come to terms with it in the 1990s, concluding decades of soul-searching with his second autobiography, 1995's I Am Spock (after 1975's I Am Not Spock).
I'll watch Galaxy Quest (in which Alan Rickman's character is a clear homage to Nimoy himself) tonight, to mix some laughs with my sadness.
Live Long And Prosper, concluded the 83-year-old man, in his final tweet earlier this week, publishing his last poem at the same time, for the whole world to ponder:
(yes, that's a dress joke).
He was an actor, of course, but also a writer, poet, film director (including two of the Star Trek series and Three Men And A Baby), and an inspiration to many. He struggled with his Spock character for a long time, but seemed to come to terms with it in the 1990s, concluding decades of soul-searching with his second autobiography, 1995's I Am Spock (after 1975's I Am Not Spock).
I'll watch Galaxy Quest (in which Alan Rickman's character is a clear homage to Nimoy himself) tonight, to mix some laughs with my sadness.
Live Long And Prosper, concluded the 83-year-old man, in his final tweet earlier this week, publishing his last poem at the same time, for the whole world to ponder:
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP
— Leonard Nimoy (@TheRealNimoy) February 23, 2015
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