Good question.
Yesterday there was a family thing and Pandora playing songs. A song off the Boston album came on and I mentioned that the song was on my all-time favorite album. And for some reason mentioned that the album cover was probably on the TV (I couldn’t see it from where I was sitting). My college age nephew, who probably didn’t even know who Boston was mentioned the space ship was shaped like a guitar. I had all their albums and had seen it lots of times and I had never seen it. And he saw it right away.
I searched through the thread and saw a couple people also hadn’t realized it was a guitar so maybe it isn’t so obvious (but my nephew noticed it right away).
In Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain, the guy who was imagining things about photographed strangers was a reference to Sophie Calle? Or am I imagining things? Are there more connections to her work in that movie?
I was listening to Dr. John’s “Right Place, Wrong Time” in the car today and I think it’s the first time I really paid attention to the lyrics. About 1/2 way through come the lines
Just need a little brain salad surgery
Got to cure this insecurity
A lightbulb goes off in my head…Ah, so that’s where ELP got the name for the album! (a bit of research seems to confirm that their manager suggested the term as an alternative to the title they had in mind, " Whip Some Skull on Ya")
It recently occurred to me that the hill the Wise Ass sits on in the Pearls Before Swine comic strip is not earth but just a load of shit.
Do you have a picture of this so we can get what it is about?
I’d never heard a Boston song before until a little while ago, but when I saw the album cover, I did see it right away. So I guess some people notice it, though I also see how it could be hard to notice as well.
The Wise Ass shows up today, which is presumably what prompted the observation:
Yes, a prime example. I thought of this a few weeks ago but just recently got around to pointing it out. I believe the Wise Ass is sitting atop a dung heap.
I was making a Wizard of Oz reference in another thread and for the first time I noticed the connection between the names of Dorothy’s Aunt Em and Emerald City. The name of the city that Dorothy was trying to reach expressed her desire to go back home to her family.
Wait. Really? Is there more of that kind of thing in the movie? Or book, I should say.
I don’t know if it’s a creative work, or if it’s obvious, but the lemniscate, the mathematical symbol for infinity, looks to me like an hourglass on its side, which, if you’re timing things with an hourglass, pretty much describes infinity.
I’ve always thought it represented the Ouroboros.
I always see it as a Möbius strip.
I don’t know what Baum’s creative process was. But this is an author who gave the name Gale to a character who was carried around in windstorms, so I feel the Em/Emerald connection being deliberate is possible.
To me, it’s always just been a “lazy 8”
Mind. Blown.
As a comment noted, if you can have horny cars, why not zealot planes?
In The Life of Brian, “I’m Brian and so’s my wife!” when they show up with a pardon… is a riff on the famous “I am Spartacus.” scene.
The Cars franchise doesn’t bear too much close scrutiny. For example, they consume gas and oil…but they also consume food (consider Mater’s experience with wasabe, for example). In which part of them does their sentience lie, and what can be replaced, added or removed without issue? Why do the towns have sidewalks? Etc etc etc
It’s the “happy” side of Stephen King’s short story Trucks/ movie Maximum Overdrive. People are long gone by now, but the existing vehicles, which seem to have no knowledge of the human-filled past, simply accept Things As They Are.