'Apocalypse Now' Music Fires Up U.S. Troops for Raid (Reuters Alert!)

Yahoo News ^ | Jun 21, 2003 | Alistair Lyon

[katze]

Back in the 70s, while in London, really enjoyed the piper at Marks & Spencer (M&S) who was up and down the escalator; not sure for how many hours or all day, but was there each time I was. I agree about the "screechy", but I've heard that maybe once.

[katze]

If you mean the one portrayed by Robert Duval, I'm told the movie was entirely fictional. OTOH, before this movie was made, I was told by someone who could have known, there was an officer who deserted, and was living a renegade life with other drug-addicted deserters (ala Marlon Brando) in Vietnam.

The part of the movie about the Cav was well depicted, as I remember them coming into the Officer's Club at Long Binh, with a proud strut and black hats; these were brave men who earned the right to strut.

[harpo11]

Hey, thanks for the link...

[AnAmericanMother]

Too good not to post.

I love Rackham, one of my favorite illustrators. Here's another good one of Brunhilde:

[dighton]

???

[AnAmericanMother]

"Siegfried discovers Fear."

Siegfried discovers Brunhilde in an enchanted sleep. Thinking her to be a warrior, he removes her helm and breastplate, and discovers her to be a woman - the first he has ever seen. For the first time in his life, he is afraid. But, invoking the spirit of his dead mother, he kisses her and breaks the enchantment.

And then all the trouble begins . . . . :-D

[dighton]

So many aunts, so little time.

"I'm not making this up, you know."

[AnAmericanMother]

I thought that was Guthrun. . . . . :-D

Eeeeeek! Save me from Anna Russell (but not right away, I want to listen for a little while.)

LOL!

[Prodigal Son]

It wasn't so long ago that it would have been tagged as "Nazi music." In fact, that was what was insinuated by using it in "Apocalypse Now" -- that the troops in Viet-Nam were no better than Nazis.

It still is tagged that way by some. This is how the idiots over at DU view the same story: http://www.democraticunderground.com/duforum/DCForumID71/6540.html

[montag813]

Drudge on his radio show last Sunday called Beethoven's 9th "creepy" Stanley Kubrik (Clockwork Orange) music or something like that.

Drudge is an imbicile. Just one more example.

[dighton]

Highly recommended, though I'd bet almost anything that you've read it.

[FreedomCalls]

Oh. My. God.

Please never link to them again. There's so much hatred and stupidity combined into one location that I hope I don't turn into a pillar of salt by having looked at it.

I'm going to have to go take a shower. Let's hope the stench will wash off.

[Prodigal Son]

Drudge is an imbicile. Just one more example.

He has lost his mind lately. He was blaming the President for crime in California. Berating callers for being concerned about terrorism. That with Beethoven's 9th was just idiotic.

[rmlew]

Like its lead singer, the website for the band has drowned.

[Enduring Freedom]

Couldn't agree more.

Drudge is nothing to me anymore.

[AnAmericanMother]

Looks good, but I'm ashamed to say I never ran across it. I'll have to look it up, though.

Have you ever seen Newman Levy's Opera Guyed? I'm afraid it's out of print (my opera humor is of an antique date, in this case around 1920.) He skewers the more popular operas in verse. The one everybody seems to know is his sendup of Thais, which can actually be SUNG to the tune of the Georgia Tech "Rambling Wreck Song" . . . "One time in Alexandria, in wicked Alexandria/Where nights were wild with revelry and life was but a game,/ There lived, so the report is, an adventuress and courtesan,/ The pride of Alexandria, and Thais was her name." But he also does a riff on Carmen that parodies Spanish flamenco, and his Walküre is done in the style of an old Yiddish comic monologue . . . "A schone mashpocha, them Hundings! That rosher Old Marcus Hunding, I never knew it such a feller in my life."

Worth reading if you can dig up a copy.

[drew]

Cool! Thanks for the heads up!

[dighton]

I'll keep an eye out for Opera Guyed. Thanks.

Have you seen IowaHawk's classic?

[AnAmericanMother]

LOL! That's unbelievable!

(That whirring noise you hear is Sig. Verdi revolving rapidly in his grave.)

[Poohbah]

This article is barfy, but I really like the idea of our guys hunting terrorists to the tune of "Ride of the Valkyries".

Good one...I also vote for Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song.

AAAAAAAAAAAA-AH!

AAAAAAAAAAAA-AH!

We come from the land of ice and snow...