Meme: #1 song when I was born

[jedishampoo]

Snagged from loveflyfree:

What was the #1 song the day you were born? Google the date and #1 song and then post your #1 song on your LJ - preferably with a Youtube vid if you can find one!

The 5th Dimension: Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
(I was born at the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, Age of Aquariuuuuuuusss)

Comments

[sharpeslass.livejournal.com]

DUDE!!! You can not have the police. No one should be young enough to have that song. It just makes me too damned old. I loved that song. LOVED Sting. (It is good creepy). But it is far, far too new. Pick something else. Like "I'm a Believer." That is old enough to be a birthday song. No more 80s for you. We're officially changing your age to keep me from depression. Consol yourself with the fact that people are going to say you look reaaaaallly young for your age (this song choice makes you 43, btw).

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

Hee hee...reading all these posts, I just remembered something... When I got divorced one of my acts of liberation was to put a copy of the picture of Sting from Dune, in only the codpiece and a smile, on the bulletin board over my desk so I could admire it. I probably still have it tucked away somewhere. ^_________^ Feyd... lovely, lovely Feyd.

[jedishampoo.livejournal.com]

That was the ONLY time I have found Sting hot! And that was the only reason to watch that movie, IMHO. ;)

(I was always a fan of Stewart and Andy, as far as crushes go.)

[sharpeslass.livejournal.com]

He was uber hot in The Bride too.. and a really odd movie called Brimstone and Treacle, which I loved (he did the soundtrack too. I owned it and had the movie on, of all things, video disk).
When I broke up with my last boyfriend, Jedishampoo taped together a photo of Sean Bean that he had ripped to pieces in a fit of irrational jealousy. It is still on our fridge!! (FREEEEDOM!!) He isn't in a codpiece however. Alas.

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

I had the B&T soundtrack, too. Pretty good. I wasn't that crazy about The Bride, though... maybe if I saw it again now, I'd like it more.

Stewart Copeland is a cool guy, from what I can tell, and cute too, still. He's a homeboy, from right near Kansouame. Andy is an asshole, from all signs and reports I have ever seen - ego the size of a Macy's Thanksgiving float, with not all that much to base it on. I watched a long documentary about their reunion tour (which sadly came nowhere near here) and he did not come across well.

Dune... *sigh* The epic that wasn't. I had such high hopes, because it's one of my all-time favorite books, and has the potential to be such a great movie if done right. Lucas ripped off so much from Dune for Star Wars, but he did it right (at least in the first three, I haven't seen the newer ones.) Instead of dealing with all the great environmental and cerebral themes, they gored it up, and dumbed it down, and still managed to spend a shitload of money. I will say that visually it was stunning, and many things did look much like I had pictured them. And, without it we wouldn't have had Kyle McLachlan, so no Twin Peaks... so it's not a total loss.

[sharpeslass.livejournal.com]

Andy has also aged the least gracefully. Sting is still smokin', Stewart looks just about how he always did (not my type) and Andy looks puffy and old.

The Bride would have been good if Jennifer Beals could act. Also had Clancy Brown in it, who I quite like, but really it was all about Sting in those boots. In fairness, even though I recently picked it up on DVD for cheap, I haven't seen it since I was about 16 years old, so it could really suck.
The Sci Fi mini series of Dune and Children of Dune are quite good. There was simply too much stuff, even in just the first book, to cram into one film. I did actually like the movie though. It looked really good. Great uniforms, attractive men, Brad Dourif, Sting... Problem is, if you haven't read the books, you don't know what is going on and if you have, you're pissed cause they've changed them. Catch-22. Still pretteh though. But if you haven't, I suggest you check out the mini-series versions. Quite good.
(K.M.: True... forgot Dune was his first film.)

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

Do you mean a completely different miniseries of Dune? How did I miss that? Must've been in the lost years (mine) when I was getting one surgery after another... I see from wikipedia there was something in 2000 called "Frank Herbert's Dune" - if you say that is worth it, I will rent it from Netflix sometime. I did see the "Alan Smithee" version of the Lynch & DeLaurentis' version, with extra narrations, minus a lot of the extraneous (and non-canon) gorey shit, and thought it was a vast improvement over the original.

I am with you 100% on your assessment: as far as uniforms, sets, costumes, pretty people (or ugly when need be, although they went WAAAY too far with poor Kenny McMillan), all were generally quite good. It just was all sizzle, but they forgot to add the steak, dammit. It really should have been a series of movies, like the Jedi movies. But even within the limits of doing it the way they did, I think they could have been done better - I think perhaps Lynch & DeLaurentis were not quite the right director/producer pair for the project- their styles run more towards the grotesque and florid than the profound and moving. As I remember Frank Herbert was not totally pleased with the final product, either.

Looks like someone else is going to give it a go - maybe even in 3D?- for release sometime in 2012. It has already had one director change, and now is in the hands of the guy who did "From Paris, with Love" and "Taken" (no idea about either of those.) We shall see.

[clytemnaestra.livejournal.com]

Hehe :) When I was a little kid, my dad used to blast music on sundays (while my mom was at church and we were sleeping in) to wake us up. One of the albums he used to play was "Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994" so whenever I hear the song "Fields of Gold" I get really sleepy :)