Warren Ellis says Interesting Things

[andrewducker]

It's not as strange a piece of TV as CSI, which has gotten genuinely odd in its old age.  I saw a re-run from last season recently, and there's a two-minute sequence of William Petersen sluicing blood off a body on a metal tray put to "Sfevn-G-Englar" by Sigur Ros.  That's all it is.  Slowed down visuals of water washing blood off brushed steel.

Twenty years ago, that would've been an art film.  Now it's a musical interlude in a major US network show.

From today's Bad Signal about TV.

Comments

[communicator.livejournal.com]

Great stuff. It hasn't ceased to be Art, it's just that art has been sneakily integrated into the mass media.

[pickwick.livejournal.com]

We've just got into CSI recently. I love all the random arty stuff, and the music... I do occasionally have to physically knock the "Montage" song from Team America out of my head, but that's OK.

[andrewducker]

The hour's approaching to give it your best / You've got to reach your prime / That's when you need to put yourself to the test / And show us the passage of time / We're gonna need a montage / Ooh, it takes a montage / Show a lot of things happening at once / Remind everyone of what's going on / In every shot, show a little improvement / To show it all would take too long / That's called a montage / Girl, we want a montage / In anything, if you want to go / From just a beginner to a pro / You need a montage / Even Rocky had a montage / Always fade out in a montage / If you fade out it seems like more time has passed in a montage...

[pickwick.livejournal.com]

*beats self over the head repeatedly*

Heh. That's my favourite song in the whole thing.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Yeah, one episode of CSI has some recent nine inch nails song as the montage music. I laughed a lot. At the song, and the combination of the two.