Pumpkintwisters > Kansas City Life Okay guys, thought Id rewind the time machine back to summer 2004 and explain what was my first synch involving 2 movies. Actually Ive already kind of told a lie. Lets backtrack even further to a work called Kansas City Life from late 2001 I believe, or shortly before the evolution of Shared Fantasia. Its not the best of synchs, and I actually pawned it off, in a manner, to another syncher who became a fiction double, a pseudonym. However, Kansas City Life taught me some things about Dark Side of the Rainbow. Again the 1939 Wizard of Oz is used, but only the beginning Kansas part. The second movie is Zappas 200 Motels, the same 2nd movie that will be used later on in Pumpkintwisters, the first *baker b.* 2 movie synchronicity. On the audio side for KC Life we have Steve Reichs City Life and Lou Reeds Metal Machine Music. The 2 minute exact center of the synch (dead center) involves the coupling of the first 2 minutes of Metal Machine Music with the first part of the psychedelic Centerville visit by Flo and Eddie (formerly of The Turtles) in 200 Motels. You can get a precise example of the 2 minute central section on the video side here youtube/watch?v=J-T4prYMoCA where the sign for Centerville (0:38) comes 2 minutes before a natural break in the Centerville madness when we switch to 2 girls exiting a rancid boutique (2:38). This 2 minute excerpt of Centerville also comes exactly in the middle of KC Life, as it turns out. 200 (Motels) also equals 2:00 (minutes). This is overlapped, again, with the 1st 2 minutes of Metal Machine Music, one of the most peculiar albums in the annals of rock n roll history. youtube/watch?v=dYtzNl48F60 Without knowing anything else about the synch we already have some strange bedfellows to deal with. Theres this concerning Zappas posthumous induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame... wiki.killuglyradio/wiki/Zappa_Inducted_Into_The_Hall_Of_Fame If anyone out there is wondering why Lou Reed (who never had a good word to say about Frank Zappa during Zappas lifetime) was chosen to induct Frank into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame ... well, so is the late rock musicians family. Says his widow Gail Zappa: Ten days before the actual ceremony, we still hadnt received invitations; the producer said, Oh, thats unconscionable! We can give you two free tickets and arrange for two of you to fly from LA to New York. Well, theres five of us, of course ... He said, Well, we can sell you additional tickets at $1,500 a piece ... but you cant sit together. I just laughed. He said something about non-profit organizations, but they can kiss my ass about non-profit organizations, especially when they were going to exploit it this year as a TV show! But Moon had expressed interest in going, so we decided shed accept the award. A week before the ceremony, they called me and said Edward Van Halen – who would have been perfect – had turned down their offer to induct Frank because he doesnt do these things. So, I suggested Johnny Guitar Watson, who Frank knew, loved, and had worked with. They said, No. I wont say why, because I dont want to hurt Johnny, but I did tell them that Johnny was one of the most lucid and articulate people Ive ever heard interviewed. I suggested Aerosmith, but was told they were going to induct Led Zeppelin. So, I suggested Led Zeppelin. Again, they said no. I asked them who chooses these things, and I was told the Board. I asked if there were any musicians on the board, and, more importantly, are there any black musicians? They had to call me back, and they replied: Yes. One. Berry Gordy. They called back, and said Weve invited Lou Reed to do it! I was laughing. It was just so ironic. I said Id talk to my kids, and they were against it; they believed Lou had millions of chances to make up with Frank. EDIT. More soon hopefully... https://bakerblinker.files.wordpress/2010/01/snapshot1605_006.jpg 2 turtles in a central location later found in Second Life (read: Kansas City Life, KC being MOs second city)
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:16:36 +0000
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