Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.

'Get It Done'


Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


megan walker - Feb 26, 2010 6:02:44 am PST #11423 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

OMG, looking for something about skating music, I found this site: [link]

Apparently, the most successful pieces of music have been:
Carmen
Rachmaninoff (PC 1 & 2)
Malaguena (Offhand I didn't know this and it didn't sound familiar when I played it)
Don Quixote
Swan Lake

It also contains this gem:

And the winner of the Kiss of Death is "Slaughter On 10th Avenue" (No skater has ever won a gold medal with this music)

Based on the title alone, why would you pick this? But apparently 15 people did.

My favorite individual choices are Katerina Witt using "The Muppet Show TV Soundtrack" for a short program and Tonya Harding using this medley (Batman Movie Soundtrack/Send In The Clowns/Wild Thing [Tone Loc]) for a long program.


Barb - Feb 26, 2010 6:11:50 am PST #11424 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”

Malaguena (Offhand I didn't know this and it didn't sound familiar when I played it)

Ernesto Lecuona-- beautiful piece of music, although I haven't heard it in years.

And I LOVE Slaughter on 10th Avenue but I didn't know that about the music with relation to skating. It's been very successful in drum corps.

Tonya Harding using this medley (Batman Movie Soundtrack/Send In The Clowns/Wild Thing [Tone Loc]) for a long program.

Urk. I remember that routine. That's when she landed her triple axel in competition at the U.S. Nationals. It started out so majestic with Batman, then went into Send in the Clowns, which was a serious WTF moment, the really went into WTF??? with Tone Loc. Individually, I can deal with all the songs, but as a medley? It was really musical whiplash.

But then again, I'm a pain in the ass and well do I realize it.


Steph L. - Feb 26, 2010 6:15:44 am PST #11425 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

tommyrot, damn youuuuuuuuuuuu!

You had to link to Questionable Content, didn't you? And it's Friday, which I still have off as part of my company's attempt to not collapse financially. So I have nothing better to do than go back to the first QC strip and start reading them.

THERE ARE OVER 1600 STRIPS.

Damn youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!


megan walker - Feb 26, 2010 6:16:18 am PST #11426 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Not that I really liked any of the music last night (it all sounded pretty generic), but it still bugs me that they don't consistently tell you what it is.


tommyrot - Feb 26, 2010 6:16:56 am PST #11427 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

tommyrot, damn youuuuuuuuuuuu!

Heh heh.

But I'm surprised you haven't read QC before, as it's been discussed here once or twice....


Amy - Feb 26, 2010 6:17:25 am PST #11428 of 30001
Because books.

Not that I really liked any of the music last night (it all sounded pretty generic), but it still bugs me that they don't consistently tell you what it is.

I seem to remember a time when they actually put the music up on the screen under their name and country.


Jesse - Feb 26, 2010 6:17:42 am PST #11429 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Half of my coworkers are supposedly working from home with the snow day, and another bunch are on furlough. I have stuff to do, but you can imagine how much motivation I have to do any of it.

In case you can't, that would be very little.


Tom Scola - Feb 26, 2010 6:17:59 am PST #11430 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Steph, there's a book coming out soon. You might just want to wait for that.


Barb - Feb 26, 2010 6:18:23 am PST #11431 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”

Not that I really liked any of the music last night (it all sounded pretty generic), but it still bugs me that they don't consistently tell you what it is.

I think it was ABC used to put on the onscreen caption, as skaters were being introduced, what music they'd be skating to. I miss that.


tommyrot - Feb 26, 2010 6:18:25 am PST #11432 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

ION, I am wearing pants that I just washed, yet they have little blobs of cat hair on them.

Does that seem right to you?