Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Ruined Music Message-ID: <1552@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 20:51:41 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1552 Posted: Mon Aug 19 20:51:41 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 19:57:11 EDT References: <1547@trwrba.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 21 > I noticed some mention of "ruined" music. Certainly the movie > Apocapalypse Now ruined The Ride of the Valkyeries for me. > Drat. Double drat. I cannot hear this music without seeing > the goddam helicopters! > > Maurice You want to REALLY ruin it? Think of the operatic cartoon with Bug Bunny and Elmer Fudd, where Elmer sings: "Ki-ill the wabbit, Ki-ill the wabbit, Ki-ill the wabbit... " Then think of Pagliacci sung with the words: "I've killed the wabbit, I have killed the poor wabbit..." I don't think such things ruin music for me at all. They just give me a little giggle once in a while when thinking about it. -- "There! I've run rings 'round you logically!" "Oh, intercourse the penguin!" Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr