Casualidad, o resonancia cosmica ?

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	Esto ha llegado hasta mi buzon y pense que lo mismo le
interesaba a alguien de esta lista, a pesar de estar escrito en
ingles. Resulta que te pones a ver cierta pelicula sin el sonida
mientras escuchas cierto disco, y parece como si el disco hace
referencias a la pelicula.

	Santi



Let's do this after the picnic on Sunday. . .

Follow the Yellow Rock Road Floydian analysis of 'The Wizard of Oz'
        By HELEN KENNEDY
        Daily News Staff Writer

         Call it Dark Side of the Rainbow. Classic rockers are buzzing
     about the amazingly weird connections that leap off the screen when
     you play Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" as the soundtrack to
     "The Wizard of Oz."

         It sounds wacky, but there really is a bizarre synchronization
     there. The lyrics and music join in cosmic synch with the action,
     forming dozens upon dozens of startling coincidences the kind that
     make you go "Oh wow, man" even if you haven't been near a bong in 20
     years.

        Consider these examples:

         Floyd sings "the lunatic is on the grass" just as the Scarecrow
     begins his floppy jig near a green lawn.  The line "got to keep the
     loonies on the path" comes just before Dorothy and the Scarecrow start
     traipsing down the Yellow Brick Road.

          When deejay George Taylor Morris at WZLX-FM in Boston first
     mentioned the phenom on the air six weeks ago, he touched off a
     frenzy.

          "The phones just blew off the wall. It started on a Friday,
     and that first weekend you couldn't get a copy of 'The Wizard of Oz'
     anywhere in Boston," he said. "People were staying home to check it
     out."  It's fun, he said, because everyone knows the movie,and the
     album which spent a record-busting 591 straight weeks on the Billboard
     charts can be found in practically every record collection.

          Dave Herman at WNEW-FM in New York mentioned the buzz a few weeks
     ago. The response more than 2,000 letters was the biggest ever in the
     deejay's 25-year on-air career.

       "It has been just unbelievable," said WNEW program director Mark
     Chernoff. "I've never seen anything like this. "

        The station plans to show the movie using the album as soundtrack
     at a small private screening tomorrow.

        Rock fans always have loved to speculate about hidden messages in
     their favorite albums. But seeking connections between the beloved
     1939 classic kid flick and the legendary 1973 acid-rock album pushes
     the envelope of the music conspiracy genre.

        Nobody from the publicity-shy band would comment, but Morris asked
     keyboardist Richard Wright about it on the air last month. He looked
     flummoxed and said he'd never heard of any intentional connections
     between the movie and the album.

        But the fans aren't convinced it's just a cosmic coincidence. "I'm
    a musician myself and I know how hard it is just to write music, let
    alone music choreographed to action," said drummer Alex Harm, of
    Lowell, Mass.,who put up one of the two Internet web pages devoted to
    the synchroneities. "To make it match up so well, you'd have to plan
    it."
        Morris is convinced that ex-frontman Roger Waters planned the whole
     thing without letting his fellow band members in on the secret.

        "It's too close. It's just too close. Look at the song titles. Look
     at the cover. There's something going on there," Morris said.

        Here's how it works. You start the album at the exact moment when
     the MGM lion finishes its third and last roar. It might take a few
     times to get everything lined up just right.  Then, just sit back and
     watch. It'll blow your mind, man.

        During "Breathe," Dorothy teeters along a fence to the lyric:
     "balanced on the biggest wave."  The Wicked Witch, in human form,
     first appears on her bike at the same moment a burst of alarm bells
     sounds on the album.

        During "Time," Dorothy breaks into a trot to the line: "no one told
     you when to run."  When Dorothy leaves the fortuneteller to go back to
     her farm, the album is playing: "home, home again."

        Glinda, the cloyingly saccharine Good Witch of the North, appears
     in her bubble just as the band sings: "Don't give me that do goody
     goody bull ---t."

         A few minutes later, the Good Witch confronts the Wicked Witch as
     the band sings, "And who knows which is which" (or is that "witch is
     witch"?).

         The song "Brain Damage" starts about the same time as the
     Scarecrow launches into "If I Only Had a Brain."

         But it's not just the weird lyrical coincidences. Songs end when2
     scenes switch, and even the Munchkins' dancing is perfectly
     choreographed to the song "Us and Them."

         The phenomenon is at its most startling during the tornado scene,
     when the wordless singing in "The Great Gig in the Sky" swells and
     recedes in strikingly perfect time with the movie.

          When Dorothy opens the door into Oz, the movie switches to rich
     color and and that exact moment the album starts in with the tinkling
     cash register sound effects from "Money."

          Anyone who has ever nursed a hangover watchin MTV with the sound
     off and the radio on can tell you how quick the brain is to turn music
     into a soundtrack for pictures. But this is uncanny.

          The real fanatics will point out that side one of the vinyl album
     is the exact length of the black-and-white portion of the movie. And
     then there's that iconic album cover, with its prism and rainbow
     echoing the movie's famous black-and-white-into-color switch not to
     mention Judy Garland's classic first song.

          The real clincher, though, the moment where even the most
     skeptical of cynics has to utter a small "whoa!," comes at the end of
     the album, which tails off with the insistent sound of a beating
     heart. What's happening on screen? Yep, you guessed it: Dorothy's got
     her ear to the Tin Man's chest, listening for a heartbeat.

          Maybe it's just a string of coincidences. Maybe the mind is just
     playing some really cool tricks. Maybe some people just have waaaay
     too much time on their hands.  Or maybe, as Pink Floyd sings to close
     out the album, everything under the sun really is in tune.