New Age Creepiness
When I was in college, striving to be an evolved male, I bought a fair amount of Wyndham Hill music. It was all very groovy, trippy, good pot-smoking stuff with folk and burgeoning world overtones. At some point, though, it devolved into a sign of new age triteness — above the level of patchouli and wymmyn retreats — but it sank pretty low.
Imagine my surprise, then, to hear, in the space of a week, two Wyndham Hill artists being used on creepy crime shows, during creepy moments. A theme from Shadowfax’s only album is cop-cum-tortutred-serial-killer-of-bad-guys Dexter Morgan on Showtime’s Dexter. And a piece from Michael Hedges’s Aerial Boundaries is the chase music on Bones when they capture seasons-long bad guy Gormogon (a cannibal with dentures made of human canines). (On a sidenote, I very nearly wept tears of joy when it was revealed that Booth was not in fact dead, but was faking it so he could catch a bad guy.)
And on the subject of music, is anyone else bummed out that M.I.A.’s wondrous “Paper Planes” is being used as cheap trailer music for the new Seth Rogen film?
Disagree with “groovy.” There was never any groove there, likewise the wymmyn’s retreats.
I dunno, I kind of felt that Paper Planes worked really well in the trailer for Pineapple Express ( http://www.ridetheexpress.com/ ) but I have to say I fell pretty hard for it the first time I saw it.
I thought the chorus with kids singing, followed by the sound of three gunshots, the reloading of the gun and the ring of a cash register was a really poignant mix of childish bouyancy and the reality of war, guns, and money. And it seemed like the trailer just grabbed it cuz it was three gun shots with a groovy, er uh cool, beat.
But what do I know, I’m probably just being an effete liberal wanker.