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Chris Mulick has worked for the Herald since 1998 and has served as the statehouse correspondent covering state government and politics since 2000. He works year-round out of the Herald's Olympia bureau on the state Capitol campus. Have a question? Send Chris an e-mail and he'll answer the best questions regularly. |
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closeIn case you missed the whole flap over the state Democrats’ Dino Rossi YouTube ad I’ve posted both the old version and new version below.
Here’s the first version with familiar theme song from “The Sopranos” that the Italian Club of Seattle found offensive.
And here’s the new version that is identical except for theme music, which sounds kind of the same but is totally unrecognizable.
This whole mess may work to Democrats advantage, since I and others have now given lots of play to their video.
One thing worth noting is how they capture a TV newsreader saying “Olympia’s most powerful special interest lobbying group.” I didn’t see the newscast from which this came. It could the folks in the newsroom just ripped and read from the Democratic press releases referring to the Building Industry Association of Washington, whose lobbyists haven't fared nearly as well as those for organized labor in recent years.
Or the newsreader could have been doing a story on the state’s lentil lobby and the video producers just clipped her "Olympia's most powerful" line out of context. Though I somehow doubt TV news would be doing a story on the lentil lobby.
MORE: I really don’t have time to ponder this but what the heck. One interesting thing, perhaps to no one but me, is that the original video clips a portion of the “Sopranos” theme song that doesn’t actually appear during the opening credits of the program. For one, there is some swearing in the song that appears at the 1:10 mark of the video clip.
Also, the lead singer mutters something that I’m unable to make out in the final three seconds of the song. Anyone know what he’s saying?
It could be nothing of consequence.
Or it could be something cool like Pink Floyd’s alleged “I never said I was afraid of Dorothy” near whisper on “Great Gig in the Sky” from 1973’s “Dark Side of the Moon.” You can hear it when properly matched up with “The Wizard of Oz” below at the 3:50 mark. It sounds there like she's saying "I never was afraid of dying" as some have suggested. Now I've got to go home and check my mp3 player because I don't recall that before.
MORE: A loyal reader below is asking, I think, whether I’ve every watched “The Wizard of Oz” while listening to “Dark Side of the Moon” and the answer is you’re darn tootin’. I found it to be pretty circumstantial in many places and kind of stunning in others.
It’s also worth mentioning the album cover to Pink Floyd’s “Pulse” from 1995, a live album in which the entire “Dark Side of the Moon” is performed, contains images from the movie hidden inside the eyeball. You can’t really tell from that link because you need to see it up close to note the ruby red slippers and old style bicycle that just happen to appear.
And with that, we now return you to regular programming.
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