Working on next Diary bit.

[camwyn]

I've actually acquired a journal for the Sergeant - I'm going to post the Diary stuff there without lj-cut at some point, but all the work will appear in this journal first. In the meantime I am running a database report, downloading an Office service pack (big sucker, that), and fiddling with theme songs for the various LXG 1936 characters. Haven't gotten far. batyatoon and I have picked out a few, but if someone else has a better idea then please, do let me know. Oh - one other thing. For simplicity's sake the current batch is confined to songs with words; theme music, such as the Donna Diana Overture (a classical piece used as the theme music for Challenge of the Yukon and its successors) is fine but I simply haven't got enough such pieces to hand to select among them. That said:

Mary Poppins: Epilogue (Nothing About Me, Sting).
Lay my head on the surgeon's table
Take my fingerprints if you are able
Pick my brains, pick my pockets
Steal my eyeballs and come back for the sockets
Run every kind of test from A to Z
And you'll still know nothing about me
Run my name through your computer
Mention me in passing to your college tutor
Check my records, check my facts
Or check if I paid my income tax
Pore over everything in my CV
And you'll still know nothing about me...


The Shadow: Woke Up This Morning, A3 / Alabama3.
You woke up this morning, got yourself a gun,
Mama always said you'd be the Chosen One.
She said: You're one in a million, You've got to burn to shine,
But you were born under a bad sign, with a blue moon in your eyes.

You woke up this morning, all the love has gone,
Your Papa never told you about right and wrong.
But you're looking good, baby, I believe you're feeling fine, (shame about it),
Born under a bad sign with a blue moon in your eyes...


Sergeant Preston: Shakedown, Bob Seger.
No matter what you think you pull you'll find it's not enough
No matter who you think you know you won't get through
It's a given L.A. law
Someone's faster on the draw
No matter where you hide I'm comin' after you
yeah

No matter how the race is run it always ends the same
Another room without a view awaits downtown
You can shake me for a while
Live it up in style
No matter what you do I'm gonna take you down


Hugo Danner: This one's a little tough. Candidate 1: Shout, Tears for Fears.
In violent times
You shouldn't have to sell your soul
In black and white
They really really ought to know
Those one track minds
That took you for a working boy
Kiss them goodbye
You shouldn't have to jump for joy...
Candidate 2: Simple Life, Elton John.
There's a breakdown on the runway
And the timeless flights are gone
I'm a year ahead of myself these days
And I'm locomotive strong
My city spread like cannon fire
In a yellow nervous state
I can't cut the ties that bind me
To horoscopes and fate

And I won't break and I won't bend
But someday soon we'll sail away
To innocence and the bitter end
And I won't break and I won't bend
And with the last breath we ever take
We're gonna get back to the simple life again...

As I said, Danner's a tough one. Fortunately, the next is a LOT simpler.
Tom Swift: Book of Days (English version), Enya.

One day, one night, one moment
My dreams could be tomorrow
One step, one fall, one falter
East or west
Over earth or by ocean
One way to be my journey
This way could be my Book of Days

No day, no night, no moment
Can hold me back from trying
I'll flag, I'll fall, I'll falter
I'll find my day may be Far and Away
Far and Away



We didn't even TRY for Dorothy - spent too much time stalled on Lord Wimsey. Sting's "Englishman in New York" is very close to ideal, except that at no point is Lord Wimsey actually in New York - although the 'I'm a civilized alien in a weird land' feeling is still valid. Most of the other Lord Wimsey songs were more Wimsey/Vane than the Wimsey dynamic of the game. Ah well.

Suggestions, anyone?

Comments

[avram]

Actually, I think that’s far too introspective for Tom Swift. From what I’ve read of the books, he never seems to take the possibility of failure seriously.

Tom Swift is probably best thought of as the incarnation of the American notion of Progress. Of course the future’s going to be shiny and wonderful and better than today! Of course all those flashy gadgets make our lives better!

[camwyn]

True enough, but it's almost as hard to find unalloyed, joyful songs of Marvellous Progress!!! these days as it is to find songs for Lawful Good characters. "We Built This City" has too many undertones of teenage dissatisfaction. "Man In Motion" - the St. Elmo's Fire theme song - comes close, but I didn't think of it at the time. And the first person to suggest Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me With Science" gets a bamboo knitting needle shoved where it will do the most good.

[avram]

Parts of Rush’s “New World Man” work, but not all of it.

[batyatoon]

... but it's almost as hard to find unalloyed, joyful songs of Marvellous Progress!!! these days as it is to find songs for Lawful Good characters.

Well, there's always Andy Eigel's "Uplift", but that's really just a bit too long-term-thinking for our man Swift.

Eh. I'm still drawing a blank.

[camwyn]

After some thought it occurs to me that I can give Tom Swift a song if I bend the rules just a bit. If we allow instrumental pieces that are still considered Popular Music rather than Classical Songs or Movie Scores, Tom's theme music is The Brazilian, from Genesis. It's the last song on the Invisible Touch album and it is GORGEOUS.

[camwyn]

Having just finished Gladiator, I can say that Shout is almost definitely the Danner song - if one only uses what one sees in the book. The Elton John song may work, but damn that's one dark book.

[aethereal-girl.livejournal.com]

Hooray!

I was afraid that since I couldn't get to a computer to encourage you to get Sgt. Preston a journal, you wouldn't do it. I find I was wrong. Hooray! Now post there.

[camwyn]

Heh. Next chance I get. Also I need to figure out how to change the colours.

[aethereal-girl.livejournal.com]

For Tom Swift: Moxy Fruvous' You Will Go to the Moon. Or, I suppose, They Might Be Giants' Robot Parade.