Pumpkintwisters > Kansas City Life
Okay guys, thought I’d rewind the time machine back to summer 2004 and explain what was my first synch involving 2 movies. Actually I’ve already kind of told a lie. Let’s backtrack even further to a work called Kansas City Life from late 2001 I believe, or shortly before the evolution of Shared Fantasia. It’s not the best of synchs, and I actually pawned it off, in a manner, to another syncher who became a fiction double, a pseudonym. However, Kansas City Life taught me some things about Dark Side of the Rainbow. Again the 1939 Wizard of Oz is used, but only the beginning Kansas part. The second movie is Zappa’s 200 Motels, the same 2nd movie that will be used later on in Pumpkintwisters, the first *baker b.* 2 movie synchronicity. On the audio side for KC Life we have Steve Reich’s City Life and Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music. The 2 minute exact center of the synch (dead center) involves the coupling of the first 2 minutes of Metal Machine Music with the first part of the psychedelic Centerville visit by Flo and Eddie (formerly of The Turtles) in 200 Motels.
You can get a precise example of the 2 minute central section on the video side here
where the sign for Centerville (0:38) comes 2 minutes before a natural break in the Centerville madness when we switch to 2 girls exiting a “rancid boutique” (2:38). This 2 minute excerpt of Centerville also comes exactly in the middle of KC Life, as it turns out. 200 (Motels) also equals 2:00 (minutes).
This is overlapped, again, with the 1st 2 minutes of Metal Machine Music, one of the most peculiar albums in the annals of rock ‘n roll history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYtzNl48F60
Without knowing anything else about the synch we already have some strange bedfellows to deal with. There’s this concerning Zappa’s posthumous induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame…
http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/Zappa_Inducted_Into_The_Hall_Of_Fame
If anyone out there is wondering why Lou Reed (who never had a good word to say about Frank Zappa during Zappa’s lifetime) was chosen to induct Frank into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame … well, so is the late rock musician’s family.
Says his widow Gail Zappa: ‘Ten days before the actual ceremony, we still hadn’t received invitations; the producer said, “Oh, that’s unconscionable! We can give you two free tickets and arrange for two of you to fly from LA to New York.” Well, there’s five of us, of course … He said, “Well, we can sell you additional tickets at $1,500 a piece … but you can’t sit together.” I just laughed. He said something about non-profit organizations, but they can kiss my ass about non-profit organizations, especially when they were going to exploit it this year as a TV show!
‘But Moon had expressed interest in going, so we decided she’d accept the award. A week before the ceremony, they called me and said Edward Van Halen – who would have been perfect – had turned down their offer to induct Frank because he doesn’t do these things. So, I suggested Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson, who Frank knew, loved, and had worked with. They said, “No.” I won’t say why, because I don’t want to hurt Johnny, but I did tell them that Johnny was one of the most lucid and articulate people I’ve ever heard interviewed.
‘I suggested Aerosmith, but was told they were going to induct Led Zeppelin. So, I suggested Led Zeppelin. Again, they said no.
‘I asked them who chooses these things, and I was told “the Board.” I asked if there were any musicians on the board, and, more importantly, are there any black musicians? They had to call me back, and they replied: “Yes. One. Berry Gordy.”
‘They called back, and said “We’ve invited Lou Reed to do it!” I was laughing. It was just so ironic. I said I’d talk to my kids, and they were against it; they believed Lou had millions of chances to make up with Frank. EDIT.
More soon hopefully…
2 turtles in a central location later found in Second Life (read: Kansas City Life, KC being MO’s “second” city)
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