Jacqui wrote: <So what would the character's 'theme tunes' be if they had them?>
Well, Tarrant's would *have* to be "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" (can't you just *see* him falling in love with one of those WW1 planes????)
Vila - "With a Little Bit of Luck" from My Fair Lady, or "You Gotta Pick a Pocket or Two" from Oliver
Avon - "Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (I DO!!!)"
Servalan - "When (not If) I Rule The World ..."
Jenna and Cally - "These Boots Were Made For Walk - Tripping."
Blake and Avon - "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" (but more importantly Nimrod, by Elgar :-))
Travis has already been given Tom Lehrer's "We'll All Go Together When We Go."
Soolin? - "You Can't Get a Man With a Gun (So Just Shoot Him.")
----Original Message Follows---- From: jacquispeel@netscape.net To: blakes7@lists.lysator.liu.se Subject: RE: [B7L] Re: democracy Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 06:15:03 -0400
Helen Krummenacker avona@jps.net wrote:
Does anyone remember if there is any mention of democratic elections within the federation
itself?
- Iain
I don't think there is, but one thing that makes me think there is some pretense of elections is that Blake's first work was with the Freedom Party. Doesn't the word 'party' politically imply that there is room political participation among 'the people' and some form, however rigged, of election?
There is a saying to the effect that any State with the word 'Democratic' in its official country title usually isn't. Is Blake trying to create not necessarily a more 'democratic' state/Federation but one which is more responsive/less hostile to the people it governs - two different things.
Jacqui
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In hopes that this is not too off-topic, because I know classical more than rock, here goes;
Federation pursuit ships advancing:
The frenetic second movement of the Shostakovich Symphony 10, the so-called "Musical Portrait of Stalin."
Fed soldiers storming down halls and kicking down doors, gunfire:
The same composer's third quartet, second movement, whose other movements contain themes of deep sorrow, mourning the fallen victims. The eighth quartet, of course, written autobiographically for the "Victims of War and Fascism."
To represent the Fed inexorable advance across the galaxy, conquering worlds:
By the same composer, there's the Bolero-style "Nazi Invasion" theme in his Symphony 7. Which grows on you, after a while.
Hmm. . . perhaps I should have called this thread Shostakovich and B7 . . . I recently read a book of his suggesting that he encoded dissident themes in his music, his string quartets being privately written for friends, being among his best known examples. He lived during the time of the Stalin terrors, and watched a lot of friends, relatives, die or disappear, thought he would be next. He slept fully clothed beside a packed suitcase. One never knew when they would come, but it was always at night. These fear themes came into his music, along with a grotesque humor, and even, at times, a transcendance (the passacaglio third movement in his third quartet, it breaks your heart).
ObB7, did music exist in anything other than a trite form, ala "Gold" in B7?
Jackie
G'day
I would have thought some mozart, strass Jnr, and trikosiky would rock the blakes7 them.
cheers tony
At 03:04 27/08/2001 -0700, Jackie Taylor wrote:
In hopes that this is not too off-topic, because I know classical more than rock, here goes;
Federation pursuit ships advancing:
The frenetic second movement of the Shostakovich Symphony 10, the so-called "Musical Portrait of Stalin."
Fed soldiers storming down halls and kicking down doors, gunfire:
The same composer's third quartet, second movement, whose other movements contain themes of deep sorrow, mourning the fallen victims. The eighth quartet, of course, written autobiographically for the "Victims of War and Fascism."
To represent the Fed inexorable advance across the galaxy, conquering worlds:
By the same composer, there's the Bolero-style "Nazi Invasion" theme in his Symphony 7. Which grows on you, after a while.
Hmm. . . perhaps I should have called this thread Shostakovich and B7 . . . I recently read a book of his suggesting that he encoded dissident themes in his music, his string quartets being privately written for friends, being among his best known examples. He lived during the time of the Stalin terrors, and watched a lot of friends, relatives, die or disappear, thought he would be next. He slept fully clothed beside a packed suitcase. One never knew when they would come, but it was always at night. These fear themes came into his music, along with a grotesque humor, and even, at times, a transcendance (the passacaglio third movement in his third quartet, it breaks your heart).
ObB7, did music exist in anything other than a trite form, ala "Gold" in B7?
Jackie
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