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Submitted by The DeVille on Sun, 2007-04-08 05:35. Community Stories

10. How do you discover syncs, just mix and match until something works?

Actually it's much easier than that, and funny, too. Stephen and I refer to it as "The Rainbow Connection" (and then we break into song). As you know there's a rainbow on the cover of The Dark Side of the Moon, and in the Wizard of Oz Dorothy sings Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Then there's the triangularly shaped prism on the cover, and all the triangle shapes and references in the movie. So there's your precedent. If there were other syncs, there would also be a trail of bread crumbs to lead you to them. Similar themes, images, titles, lyrics, something that in hindsight is blatantly obvious. As an example let's take Rob Zombie. On track 2 of the White Zombie album La Sexorcisto Vol. 1, there is a snippet from Night of the Living Dead: "...an epidemic of mass murder being committed by a virtual army of unidentified assassins." So when I was looking for the CD to go with Night of the Living Dead, I immediately thought of Rob Zombie. And it absolutely had to be his solo album Hellbilly Deluxe with the song Living Dead Girl. And sometimes the CD will lead you to the movie as in the case of White Zombie's Astro Creep 2000 with the song entitled More Human Than Human. If you'll recall from the movie Blade Runner, that was the Nexus Corporation's motto. Also in the song he says "I am the Nexus 1, I want more life f**ker, I ain't done". Hmmm... Rainbow connection? You bet. That's just one of thirty or so more syncs that Stephen and I know of but have not done yet. How about Planes, Trains and Automobiles (starring John Candy!?!) with the Cars' Candy-O... Planes, Trains and Candy-O. Then there's The Breakfast Club and Supertramp's Breakfast in America, The Running Man and Jackson Brown's Running On Empty, Radiohead's OK Computer with Hackers - it's quite a list. I stumbled onto something miraculous quite by accident, and discovered that I have the knack for it.

From Upchuck Undergrind's interview with The DeVille

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"Similar themes, images,

Submitted by Karl Tune on Wed, 2007-04-11 22:04.

"Similar themes, images, titles, lyrics, something that in hindsight is blatantly obvious."

Yes, I use these as a starting point. But even then many of my attempts to match music to movie end in failure. I scratch my head many times and wonder what the artists were thinking. I don't know.

An art professor told me that modern art is done to impress other artist, not the general public. But it is the general public that generates the money. Picasso and the other surrealists knew that when they generated more main stream art to pick up a few bucks.

"I have dozens of friends and the fun never ends...."

from Styx "Too Much Time on My Hands"

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"An art professor told me

Submitted by baker b. on Sat, 2007-04-21 13:29.

"An art professor told me that modern art is done to impress other artist, not the general public. But it is the general public that generates the money. Picasso and the other surrealists knew that when they generated more main stream art to pick up a few bucks."

Like selling little sketches for a lot of money or sumtin?

baker b.

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An *ssload of nickels

Submitted by The DeVille on Thu, 2007-04-12 22:33.

Hi Karl,

I've been meaning to compliment you on your choice of Styx quotes.

As far as combinations that don't work, true, if I had a nickel for every one that didn't work, well.. I'd have an *ssload of nickels.

But tell me this one doesn't make you smile:

The Prestige with Alice in Chains - Nothing Safe, Best of the Box
("The Safe Prestige")

1. Borden is accused of killing Angier. In his many jail scenes he is In Chains.

2. Many times throughout the movie Angier says "Nobody cares about the Man in the Box", and "Nobody wants to be the Man in the Box".

3. Then narrowing it down even further by supplying the title of the CD - when introducing his trick The Transported Man, Angier always says "I want you to know that this is considered Safe".

Yeah, dude, I'm just trying for the job of a lifetime. Since that cover story on the Rolling Stone is about all of us, I wouldn't even mind a group picture. And soon, like this year!

My message to Warner Brothers, as Billy Joel sums it up so nicely, "You may be right, I may be crazy. But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for". Smiling

The DeVille

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same-ish

Submitted by Leighton on Thu, 2007-04-12 10:19.

yeah i tend to look those sort of things but quite often a certain song will remind me of a certain scene in a film and so ill try the album from there and see what happens...

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Sync tone

Submitted by Jaydingo on Thu, 2007-04-12 12:21.

Thats about the same way I try to go about it Leighton. I even try for an overall "tone" if that makes sense. The intro setup to "The Nightmare Before Lateralus" for example. Album covers & such are usually after thoughts to me. Not to say that doesnt work for others. Cheers!

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