The Liza Minelli thread

[Dogless & Loveless]

FUUUUUUUUUUCK!

[TrampolineFrSpace]

I've actually wanted to post a response to this thread for a couple of weeks, but didn't have the nerve.  This is kinda goofy, but what the hell!

Six degrees of separation:

Liza Minelli is the daughter of Judy Garland.

Judy Garland was a single and actress in numerous movies before she committed suicide.

Judy Garland's first movie was Wizard of Oz.

Judy Garland's big number in the Wizard of Oz was the song Over the Rainbow.  Some people know this song as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow".

The chorus of "Over the Rainbow" is critical to the next link.  It has a sing-song feel to it:
8 syllables
8 syllables
                        slow down with  "behind me": two syllables
8 syllables
8 syllables
                        slow down with "That's where you'll find me": five syllables

If you take this pattern and remove the slow down portions, you get a repeating pattern of 8-8-8-8 syllables with a very sing song pattern.

Compare to the Liz Phair song Flower, which maintains a repeating 8-8-8-8 syllable pattern.  This seems to me to be very difficult to keep up, I keep running out of breath.

If you really want to get the full effect, play these two songs back-to-back.  That's when I noticed it.

My mind is now totally gone

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

[Rammi]

*hides from evil Liza Minelli*

[harkrider]

Judy Garland's big number in the Wizard of Oz was the song Over the Rainbow.  Some people know this song as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow".

The chorus of "Over the Rainbow" is critical to the next link.  It has a sing-song feel to it:
8 syllables
8 syllables
                        slow down with  "behind me": two syllables
8 syllables
8 syllables
                        slow down with "That's where you'll find me": five syllables

If you take this pattern and remove the slow down portions, you get a repeating pattern of 8-8-8-8 syllables with a very sing song pattern.

Compare to the Liz Phair song Flower, which maintains a repeating 8-8-8-8 syllable pattern.  This seems to me to be very difficult to keep up, I keep running out of breath.[/color]

If you really want to get the full effect, play these two songs back-to-back.  That's when I noticed it.

My mind is now totally gone

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

That's an extremely bizarre observation...  But who knows.   There are also those Wizard of Oz theories where you can play Dark Side of The Moon by Pink Floyd, and the songs synch up with the action. 

[TrampolineFrSpace]

Wizard of Oz played this week and I thought about the post.

I seemed to remember that they used to play it in late October or early November.  My son-in-law said that he always remembered it before Thanksgiving.

It seems weird to see it at Christmas time.

Oh yeah, I remembered that Alamo Drafthouse or one of the local theatres was doing the sync with Dark Side of the Moon bit.

As always, trampoline, from space