Assortment Sale of Topics
I started watching the AMC series Mad Men recently, and I began the second episode into the new season, and was almost immediately hooked, but not obsessively so. I began watching from the beginning of season one last night, and the winking and nudging at the audience was a bit obvious, but the characters make it completely worthwhile, and I enjoy the representation of the time period, because I am really into the "good ol' days" and what not. It should also be noted that I am tired of Don Draper's hairy chest.
On my show last week I presented the second in a series on the theme, "The History of the Future", a topic otherwise known as Paleo-Future, named after the blog of the same name. As I said while I was doing my show, I don't want to explain it too much, and let the connections between the pieces speak for themselves. Mysteriousness suits me well. I played synth-y space disco (but not any of the contemporary sort), new wave punk that addressed computers, sounds from the Seattle World's Fair as composed by Attilo Mineo, the requisite Bruce Haack, Moderne's "Switch on Bach" followed by Wendy Carlos, sounds from the Disneyland Monorail and 60's blippy-bloopy novely synth records. This is by far one of my favorite topics, and I hope to one day own the book, Exit to Tomorrow. My fascination with this topic has been informed primarily by my experience at the Epcot Center. It was by far my favorite Disney World park. Most of the rides were about topics such as "The Triumph of Man", "Explorations of Space", "Our History and Glorious Future" and what not.
By far my favorite ride in all of Disney World was Horizons, which closed in 1999. I suppose it is appropriate that it was closed in 1999, at the turn of the century, for Horizons was all about the future, and the ride documented the kind of future that should have been in place by 2000. The reason it was closed was because it was deemed to be "dated". That is a shame, because it documented an idea of the future that was of its time, and was far more charming then the sort of "future" that the new Epcot and Tomorrowland propose. Or maybe am I just an old fuddy-duddy. I loved riding Horizons, it gave my imagination a thrill with its optimistic enthusiasm for the future. It wasn't just the gasp of how cool it would be for ordinary people to live in space, but the irony that none of it could ever be. Horizons was about history more then the future, or the "the history of the future". According to Horizons, our future will involve bright neon, ease of living and instant communication with distant lands.
Here is Horizons in its entirety:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBxRvSG8tDM
On my show last week I presented the second in a series on the theme, "The History of the Future", a topic otherwise known as Paleo-Future, named after the blog of the same name. As I said while I was doing my show, I don't want to explain it too much, and let the connections between the pieces speak for themselves. Mysteriousness suits me well. I played synth-y space disco (but not any of the contemporary sort), new wave punk that addressed computers, sounds from the Seattle World's Fair as composed by Attilo Mineo, the requisite Bruce Haack, Moderne's "Switch on Bach" followed by Wendy Carlos, sounds from the Disneyland Monorail and 60's blippy-bloopy novely synth records. This is by far one of my favorite topics, and I hope to one day own the book, Exit to Tomorrow. My fascination with this topic has been informed primarily by my experience at the Epcot Center. It was by far my favorite Disney World park. Most of the rides were about topics such as "The Triumph of Man", "Explorations of Space", "Our History and Glorious Future" and what not.
By far my favorite ride in all of Disney World was Horizons, which closed in 1999. I suppose it is appropriate that it was closed in 1999, at the turn of the century, for Horizons was all about the future, and the ride documented the kind of future that should have been in place by 2000. The reason it was closed was because it was deemed to be "dated". That is a shame, because it documented an idea of the future that was of its time, and was far more charming then the sort of "future" that the new Epcot and Tomorrowland propose. Or maybe am I just an old fuddy-duddy. I loved riding Horizons, it gave my imagination a thrill with its optimistic enthusiasm for the future. It wasn't just the gasp of how cool it would be for ordinary people to live in space, but the irony that none of it could ever be. Horizons was about history more then the future, or the "the history of the future". According to Horizons, our future will involve bright neon, ease of living and instant communication with distant lands.
Here is Horizons in its entirety:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBxRvSG8tDM