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12:20:2002 Entry: "Ann : If I were in Pink Floyd, I would be Glinda the Good Witch"

If I were in Pink Floyd, I would be Glinda the Good Witch

Last night, tired after our whirlwind trip to the U.P., we decided to rent "The Wizard of Oz" and sync it to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon." Yes, I know it's silly, but we wanted to try it just to see how it works. Let me first preface it by saying that I LOVE these sorts of weird syncronicity/unexplained weirdness/"turn me on deadman" sorts of things, so naturally, when I read about DSotM and TWoO syncing, I just had to see for myself.

We played the CD two and a half times to run out the movie.

I have concluded the following:

• I'm assuming a mind-altering substance of sorts was used by the first person to discover the synchronicity, hence, we drank wine, which I'm sure made the experience more enjoyable. (Hey, it was all we had, OK?)
• Yes, there are syncs as outlined in some of the links above, however, not *every* action in the movie has an equivalent sound or beat on the album, therefore to think that Pink Floyd did this intentionally is preposterous because if they *had*, the synchronicity would've worked a LOT better. Not every scene change was a song change and visa-versa. Sorry to rain on anyone's parade.
• That being said, we were amused/amazed by many of the syncs, i.e.:
- the predominance of green costume during "Money"
- the lyrics "black, black..." show the witch while "blue, blue..." shows Dorothy
- "who knows which is which and who is who" (witch is witch) shows Wicked Witch looking at her dead sister.
- "Brain Damage" is on when the scarecrow is singing "If I only had a brain" and they're on the yellow brick road during the lyric "got to keep the loonies on the path". If you play the album twice, the second time that lyric appears is when the Witch's Guard is marching on the "path" in front of her castle.
- I'm sure there were more funny syncy things (check the links above) but we were getting a little wined-out and I can't remember them *all."
• Think outside the box. What makes anyone think that Pink Floyd did this on purpose? That is such an oldschool linear timeline assumption. Maybe the creators of TWoO created a movie based on DSotM, hmmm? OK, maybe I'd drunk too much wine at that point. My wine consumption became particularly evident when I started seeing the members of PF as the main characters in TWoO. Don't even ask.
• There are lots of movies that I think a certain album or song would go with (personally, Stan and I would like to see "Brain Damage" synced with Twin Peaks where Windom Earle is in the Black Lodge...maybe DSotM could go with the entire last TP episode?). Perhaps there is a album for every movie ever made? This question was answered when:
• After TWoO was over, we let DSotM play out its third cycle and watched a movie that was halfway over playing on the cable channel the TV was turned to, the old silent film, "Nosferatu." And guess what? Yup, DSotM had syncs to that too! Therefore, I have concluded that DSotM syncs with EVERY MOVIE EVER MADE. Pink Floyd were geniuses! Man, how could they do THAT?

Simply amazing. ;-)

2 Comments

Very strange, yes. And one don't have more fun than one make oneself.

Posted by Nico @ 11:01:2002:08:53 AM CST

If I only had
the Black Lodge.
Maybe the Good Witch
is preposterous.

Posted by aseyelum @ 11:08:2002:02:42 PM CST

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