Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Discovered - My Childhood

I’ve written before about Erv Coppi, the guy who used to host “Horror Nights” on the local PBS station when I was a kid, and how he unwittingly influenced my life.

But what I probably didn’t mention is that every week, the show would begin with a creepy organ music that announced the coming of Erv and his descriptions of the upcoming movie. That creepy organ music meant that good times were coming, and when I would hear it as a child, I knew that it was time to grab the popcorn, plop into the couch and watch Erv.

I loved that creepy organ music. Growing up, I could always hear it in the back of my head whenever I thought of those old scary movies! And as I grew older, I wished I had it to take me back to my childhood days.

I wanted the music so bad that every time I found a Halloween CD, I would buy it in hopes that the mysterious unnamed organ music would be on it. I must have bought more than a dozen cds over the years, but I never found the music. Eventually I gave up on ever finding the tune.

But the other day I was surfing the internet and heard it as a midi music file. I couldn’t believe it! And the site actually listed the name of the music, too!!! So after a few minutes of research, I was able to download the entire song!

The song is called Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor by Bach. You have to make sure to get it in D Minor or it doesn’t sound right. So any of you old Erv Coppi fans out there can find the music too. You know you want to.

The messed up thing about the whole ordeal is that after listening to the whole song, I realized the middle of it is actually the music to my favorite 1980’s video game, Gyrus! I must have played that game a thousand times when I was a kid, never knowing that the music I coveted was literally right beneath my nose.

Go figure.

 

 

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Saturday, August 23, 2008

Letters. We get Letters...

The Reverend Ed sent in this photo and the following comment:

........This is whey they don't televise wrestling at the olympics. One for your wrestling moves page.

 

 

Yeah, we'll name this move the "Beijing Drain Cleaner", but it's also known as "The Shanghai Surprise".

 

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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

It's the race of a lifetime, literally.

Google does one hell of a job modifying it's logo to reflect holidays and special events. I always enjoy checking out what strange and wondrous themes, their designer comes up with.

I thought today's to be especially strange, however. Is it just me, or does that look like a giant sperm cruising through the water? Yeah, I know it's just not me....

 

 

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Friday, August 15, 2008

What were they thinking?

I don’t understand what this Alaskan brewery was thinking when they developed this display. I would think that any guy would reject a girl who is walking around with giant crabs - even if she’s hot and carrying beer.

 

 

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