The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, he said
Okay, Jeff Wayne's Musical War of the Worlds is officially the most awesome accomplishment by civilization ever, and we should all just sit and watch it until the end of days because no-one will ever be able to make anything better. :D I swear to God. I've heard the music before, but I'm watching the stage version on DVD for the first time and it's utterly legendary. I'm a sucker for images in time with a beat, I guess. :P
Oh god, though, the image of this humongous black octopus thing rising up above this huge crowd of top-hatted dudes and Mary Poppins lookalikes like Cthulhu himself bursting up from some Hell dimension? I am so not getting over the sheer unadulterated awesome of that anytime soon. \o/
PEOPLE ARE GETTING FRIED BY HEATRAYS TO AN ELECTRIC GUITAR RIFF. HOW IS THIS NOT THE BEST THING EVER.
Hahaha, the crazy artilleryman just fell down a trapdoor at the back of the stage. xD I'm guessing the audience wouldn't have been able to see it, but the overhead cameras sure picked it up. That was unintentionally hilarious.
I mentioned it on Twitter already, but Richard Burton's head is Weirdly creepy. He-- excuse me a minute--
ULLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
--okay, done-- he'd died, see, when they recorded this, so they've got an enormous disembodied version of his head hanging from the ceiling from these big thick cables. Either it's an anamatronic, or his mouth is being projected on like those dummy heads-on-pikes in the London Dungeon; but either way, his lips are slightly out of sync with his speech and the rest of his face is entirely expressionless and it frightens me. xD
Is that Jeff Wayne singing in the yellow waistcoat? He wins at life, God does he ever. :D ...oh, no, it's Justin Hayward! SAME COMPLIMENT.
Whoever decided to rig the lights so's there are big red spotlights sweeping the audience like heatrays? Needs a medal, right now. And also? For dousing the entire stage and audience in thick red light for the Red Weed sequence. Win.
I love that crazy artilleryman. <3 He has a lot in common with Steve, actually, come to think of it, what with the grand epic schemes that looks like madness from the outside. Difference being that Steve has uber-brains and (perhaps more crucially) comic book science on his side, meaning that some of his plans actually come to fruition. :D
This man is awesome. Though I find it hilarious that he includes playing cricket on his list of vital activities for the underground war effort. *snicker* But no, really. If War of the Worlds was a comic book, maybe Silver Age, then this guy's plan would totally have worked, I promise you.
Dear God, that whole thing was epically fantastic.
Final note: the string section on this was called ULLAdubULLA. How cool is that? :D
Oh god, though, the image of this humongous black octopus thing rising up above this huge crowd of top-hatted dudes and Mary Poppins lookalikes like Cthulhu himself bursting up from some Hell dimension? I am so not getting over the sheer unadulterated awesome of that anytime soon. \o/
PEOPLE ARE GETTING FRIED BY HEATRAYS TO AN ELECTRIC GUITAR RIFF. HOW IS THIS NOT THE BEST THING EVER.
Hahaha, the crazy artilleryman just fell down a trapdoor at the back of the stage. xD I'm guessing the audience wouldn't have been able to see it, but the overhead cameras sure picked it up. That was unintentionally hilarious.
I mentioned it on Twitter already, but Richard Burton's head is Weirdly creepy. He-- excuse me a minute--
ULLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
--okay, done-- he'd died, see, when they recorded this, so they've got an enormous disembodied version of his head hanging from the ceiling from these big thick cables. Either it's an anamatronic, or his mouth is being projected on like those dummy heads-on-pikes in the London Dungeon; but either way, his lips are slightly out of sync with his speech and the rest of his face is entirely expressionless and it frightens me. xD
Is that Jeff Wayne singing in the yellow waistcoat? He wins at life, God does he ever. :D ...oh, no, it's Justin Hayward! SAME COMPLIMENT.
Whoever decided to rig the lights so's there are big red spotlights sweeping the audience like heatrays? Needs a medal, right now. And also? For dousing the entire stage and audience in thick red light for the Red Weed sequence. Win.
I love that crazy artilleryman. <3 He has a lot in common with Steve, actually, come to think of it, what with the grand epic schemes that looks like madness from the outside. Difference being that Steve has uber-brains and (perhaps more crucially) comic book science on his side, meaning that some of his plans actually come to fruition. :D
This man is awesome. Though I find it hilarious that he includes playing cricket on his list of vital activities for the underground war effort. *snicker* But no, really. If War of the Worlds was a comic book, maybe Silver Age, then this guy's plan would totally have worked, I promise you.
Dear God, that whole thing was epically fantastic.
Final note: the string section on this was called ULLAdubULLA. How cool is that? :D