Stranger Than Fiction

09/26/07 12:42 AM

So I am listening to Vangelis music right now. You might think of the Movie Scores: Chariots of Fire, 1492:Conquest of Paradise, Missing, Alexander or Blade Runner when you here the name. You may know the incredible instrumental works, or the collaborations with Jon Anderson from Yes. In 1980 while I was at Herron School of Art in it's original location, I bought my first Vangelis, Opera Sauvage at Second Time Around Records in Broadripple (long since gone from everything but memory) from David Fulton, before the advent of Compact Digital Disc musical storage and playback.
You may not know that you know Vangelis music at all but you do. 1979's Opera Sauvage featured a couple of songs that were prominent in "Give Her the Gift of Diamonds", and "Diamonds are Forever" TV commercials for over a decade. "Chung Kuo", from China another album from 1979 was the bgm (back ground music) for the Mercury Lynx commercials of 1981 and 1982. 1972's French TV documentary L'Apocalypse Des Animaux (Apocalypse of the Animals) soundtrack contains the song "La Petite Fille De La Mer" which is ALSO in 2006's Stranger than Fiction movie and soundtrack. So the music is my connection yet again.

Still, the reason why I titled my post Stranger than Fiction is that along with Elf, Stranger Than Fiction is about the only work from Will Ferrell that I can stand. It proves to me that he is not a one trick, overacting, ham and can actually give a fairly decent performance when directed by someone without SNL ties. The movie is well written, has Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman in it and is not a rehash of a remake of a hackneyed story line, it is actually fresh and original. Not to mention that another one of my over two decade old LP purchases "Whole Wide World" by Wreckless Eric is also in the movie and on the soundtrack.
Right now I am listening to one of the 7 Vangelis CD's I own, 1984's Soil Festivities, not a soundtrack, but a great CD.
The tables have turned even though the turntables are in the attic. David Fulton is now a videographer and photographer, and is one of my regular customers.