If you're genuinely, utterly bored, pass a few moments by attempting to guess the piece of music intended to run behind the "doors" bit in this Weekend Digiworld's huge-filesize-for-little-effect Vision On.

There is one (even though there's barely time for it; probably helps if you're humming it irritatingly for several hours while drawing tiny little specks of blocky colour). It's appropriate rather than some wildly random thing, though it's not intrinsically chase-y. (So it's not The Benny Hill Theme, for example.) No reason; I'm just tickled to know if anyone can spot it.

Man, we DEFINITELY don't talk about ourselves enough.

JN.

Roger Whittaker's Mexican Whistler.

benh:
>Roger Whittaker's Mexican Whistler

As Roger might say, "Sorry, that's the wrong answer."

JN.

How about a ditty from one of Buster Keaton's films? Eh? eh? Ok so I can't remember any of the names per se but. I'm correct yes? No?


Also on a side note: Have you got my e-mail about sending you more cash ? For I haven't had a response.... This of course, could be me sending it to some idiotic wrong address.

I think it's probably the theme from Catchphrase, early Roy Walker era.

If it's not, it should be.

The Catchphrase theme is in Advance Wars 2 (One?). I'm convinced. See if you can spot (hear) it.

As for the chase thing...is it the Rocky theme, most recently used in the 118 118 ads?


giant_frying_pan

Got your number!

Spanish Flea

sausageandbun:
>How about a ditty from one
>of Buster Keaton's films?

Tch - you know full well that his pics were silent and the live music accompaniment improvised by the bloke at the local piano. (Though the Carl Davis scores for the 1980s remasters like The General were catchy.) His speak-o-parts (occasionally involving singing) under contract to MGM and others are, of course, not worth becoming upset at all over again. (See the fantastically excellent Brownlow & Gill documentary Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow for the definitive life-in-pictures of B Keaton. Their Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius is also tremendous. Canny businessman our Harold, quite unlike B Keaton or Laurel & Hardy. Tip: own what you do.)

As to the music, none of the guesses is correct. If you pass this way again while lungingly weary of life itself, it's a famous song by a famous band of genuine human persons who weren't themselves above running in and out of doors at high speed. (Oh no! What a giveaway!)

JN.

Is it "Hey Hey We're Einsturzende Neubaten"?

and people say we einsturzende neubaten around

Blume-y. (Blimey.)

Was it Anorexic Robot by Fat Truckers? Probably not. Or Fantastic Plastic Machine's Si'l Vous Plait?

I'm guessing either Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata or Lesbian Seagulls by Englebert Humperdinck.

Speaking of songs, I actually knew the lyrics to the start of RevStu's bit in that very issue. But he ruined it by getting the line breaks wrong like the big, fat-headed idiot he might concievably be, for all I know.

That was artistic licence, man.

you have the single most wonderful avatar ever to have existed.

Shucks. I owe it all to the splendid Emugifs site.