The word of the day1 for March 30, 2007 is “auditory” — noun 1 archaic : AUDIENCE. 2 archaic : AUDITORIUM.
Rae sent me a quip: “The trouble with life is there's no background music.” This reminded me of my favorite cartoon episode of Danger Mouse. It seems that Wolfgang Amadeus Schwartz stole the background music so everyone would have to listen to his. (Example: Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” segueing into ”It’s Now or Never.”) So Danger Mouse and his sidekick, Penfold the Hamster, received a tape from THE VAULT, allowing them to have music as they find and defeat Schwartz. At one point they skated through a forest to “Skater’s Waltz.” They escaped from the bad guy’s prison by playing the “1812 Overature.” Good stuff like that.
Lloyd’s cell phone has Debussy’s “Claire de Lune” as the ring tone, but I always thought it would be nice to have the “Empire March” from Star Wars for him to play for his theme song. (No Cyb, you can’t have that as the processional for the wedding.) I don’t know what I would want played for my entrances—certainly not the songs that get stuck in my head for days on end. Oh, wait, maybe that is Life’s background music. If so I want a change of disk jockey.
The quote2 for today is from Tom Brown (1663-1704).Laconics:
In the reign of Charles II. a certain worthy divine at Whitehall thus addressed himself
to the auditory at the conclusion of his sermon: “In short, if you don’t live up to the
precepts of the Gospel, but abandon yourselves to your irregular appetites, you must
expect to receive your reward in a certain place which ’t is not good manners t
mention here.”
;^) Jan
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2 comments:
I'm trying to remember the Emperor's March from Star Wars. I will know it but it escapes recall. The other's I can recall.
As for life having no background music...I sit in my garden 'auditorium' and am enchanted by Nature's song. Especially now that the birds are looking for mates.
Re; your cartoon favourites? Do you know..I had forgotten how much enjoyment these could bring. I haven't watched one for years! Mickey Mouse's Fantasia music is enjoyable as is the Sorcerer's Apprentice. Now I have gone off on an amble through all of my favourites Jan....Lol! It doesn't take much to distract me these days. It must be old age..Lol! Jeanie
Oh, Jeanie, you remember as Darth Vader enters the scene:
Bass tones, even: "Bom Bom Bom, Bom de bom Bom de bom"
Slightly higher "Bom Bom Bom," falling "Bom de bom Bom de bom"
Then James Earl Jones with asthma, "I've come to put you back on schedule."
You'll have to rent the tape, lol.
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