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Lady Is Lingering · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:27 pm Post subject:

Off topic still, but I just wanted to add something about the visuals that sometimes accompany Sparks' lyrics. The many many film references are an obvious example of invoking images with words. My favourite is from Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a damn. Of course the title conjures forth the end of Gone with the Wind, but my favourite bit are the lines

corina · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:20 pm Post subject:

corina · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject:

lady

i never saw "gone with the wind"

would you believe it !?

shame on me...

so my only images from it, are the famous scenes.
not more than this.

"Like this, like this "is my favorite sentence from this song.
the image of russell and the special way he sings this words, got stucked in my head from this video :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JeQUNBhmg0

at 1:24

so when i hear this song i imagine russell, and not scarlet :)
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jill · Sub-Deity Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1281

I liked the videos from your mind, Corina :) Both of them!

If I add the reference given by Lady, then here's a living proof that "How Do I Get To Carnegie Hall" could be understood as some kind of distant and much more refined answer to "Amateur Hour". And maybe with some ghost of Liberace instead of a Menuhin wannabe.

Paradise on earth, that's "Frankly, Scarlett". And there's also the earlier "Gone With The Wind" ("But we could mention that the South might rise again..."), played as an encore at 21x21.

Can't resist to mention too my favorite kitschy western (this time the town is big enough for both of them and the gunshots are completely missing):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwyZQJvWr2A
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sjadey · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:05 am Post subject:

That "With all my might" video is as camp as Larry (as they say). Ron is priceless! Who is the girl in it?
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jill · Sub-Deity Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1281

A comment there says that it's an actress called Lisa Accomando.
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Lady Is Lingering · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:27 am Post subject:

PETER RAWCLIFFE · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:54 am Post subject:

Hi corina,it is english humour that is probably going over your head,its not you,i often sing yes i think im falling in love with myself again,luckily in the later years i was able to marry myself!

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jill · Sub-Deity Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1281

Lady :))))))
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corina · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:59 am Post subject:

jill

i forgot to say that i also imagined "waterproof" video like some kind of a musical, where everybody are dressed with yello plastic rain coats, and are dancing around, swinging their colourful umbrellas.

i see it so real in my minds eye! :)

lady
you know that by not answering my question, you actually did answer!

so now when i know the answer...i will keep the role of the music student in my "carnegie hall" clip, for you!

i dont envy you, she is going to hit you so hard, this music teacher!
and sorry...she is not hot as james mason.
just an old, thin and bitter woman, dressed in black.
like this one:

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corina · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:07 am Post subject:

PETER RAWCLIFFE · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:16 am Post subject:

best way to be corina,keeps you sane!

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corina · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:34 am Post subject:

Lady Is Lingering · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:35 pm Post subject:

corina · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:32 pm Post subject:

i know who did the genius photoshop :)

its a little tribute from me to the queen/king of photoshop.

by the way, are you a graphic designer?
i am, but i dont know photoshop as good as you.
i am a type of freehand :)

and about this picture of russell...yummy!
he never looked so hot as he did in the clips of grat sax !
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PETER RAWCLIFFE · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:44 am Post subject:

Corina,after seeing your picture i know im free,lol
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corina · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:46 am Post subject:

PETER RAWCLIFFE · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:49 am Post subject:

DEFINATELY,YOUR GORGEOUS.

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sjadey · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:50 am Post subject:

Get a room!
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