I are askeered.

[kickaha]

So we're watching BSG tonight, when ginkgo busts out with what has to be one of the freakiest bits of pattern recognition I've seen in a long time.



We're about 1/4 of the way through the show, when she says "They're quoting U2." "WHAT?" "They're quoting U2! Well, actually, they're using quotes from a U2 cover of a Bob Dylan song." "Uh-huh." "Seriously! Google it!" "Which lines?" "'No reason to get excited', and 'There's too much confusion'." "Hon, those are pretty common sentences." "No, really!"

So I google it.

Bob Dylan _All Along the Watchtower_

At this point, I'm kind of thinking "Okay, this is funny, but..." so I leave the page with the lyrics up.

Not 30 seconds later, I hear... "There must be some way out of here..."



I'm keeping the page up for the rest of the episode.

(TWO LINES and she nailed it. TWO!)

Comments

[maisimai.livejournal.com]

y'all are so post modern. Do any of us remember life before the internet--when you had to go to a physical location to research information such as this?

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, thank god I don't have to rely on my memory any more.

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

Well, I totally would have noticed it had I not already known it, but I would have thought Hendrix; I didn't know Dylan did it first.

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

Dylan wrote it and Dylan, Hendrix, and a cast of thousands performed it.

Kickaha kindly recorded for all posterity that, in five seconds of dialogue, I didn't come up with the full lineage on the spot. :P I lurves him.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Hey now, I recorded that you made the leap in *two comments*. Sheesh. The fact that you pulled that out of your head at all stunned me.

[badger.livejournal.com]

*shrug* So what if you think of the U2 version first? I remember Tori Amos' cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" better than the original because I'm a bigger fan of Tori than Nirvana.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Heathen. Kurt gave his life for your sins.

[ssandv.livejournal.com]

Kurt gave his life to get away from Courtney Love. Don't be silly.

Heathen?

[badger.livejournal.com]

Don't you drag David Bowie into this, it's crowded enough already.

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

If I'd have known he was going to do that I would've sinned much more and more often. Hurry his ass up. :p

No, I'm not a fan. :p

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

I totally agree. U2's version is my favorite.

At that point in time, though, I was thinking that I couldn't remember the artist who recorded the most widely known version. Kickaha wasn't remembering it based on U2 or Dylan, and he *might* have recalled the song if I had come up with Hendrix. He was still looking at me like I was insane at that point.

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

Well, you are insane. I mean, you can't really argue that. ;)

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

Not at all! Yay!

Speaking of insanity, did you ever use your vacation days?

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

Vacation starts this Thursday and goes until the second week of April. ;)

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

Daaaaang! That's awesome.

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, from back when U2 didn't suck.

Was it Starbuck who said "There must be some way out of here", and was it said to Baltar? They're clearly the joker and thief, respectively. (Don't spoil me--I watch BSG on DVD, so I'm only up to the end of season 2.5. I can't believe they wasted Dean Stockwell in a throwaway role, damn them.)

Interesting trivial point: One of Liam's favorite bedtime songs (after "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star") is "Van Diemen's Land", also off _Rattle and Hum_. Unfortunately, he thinks it's called "Hold Me Now", so when he talks about it to other people, they end up thinking I'm a Thompson Twins fan. (I decided early on that, if I was going to have to sing to him at bedtime, I was damn well going to sing something that didn't make me want to barf. His repertoire now includes such classics as the Beach Boys' "Shut Down", "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", and the Adventurer's Club version of "Do, Re, Mi"--"Dough, with which I buy my beer; Ray, the guy I buy beer from; Me, the guy I buy beer for...")

[kimokeane.livejournal.com]

I also nailed it after the second line - the first was ambiguous, but after the second I said "Oh, come on, they're not really doing this..."

I definitely heard the shark gasp as the show jumped over it...

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

That's exactly why I didn't say anything initially. They don't do the postmodern thing with our timeline that often (and seem actively to avoid it) and I really like that. Postmodern is overdone and rarely done well. I didn't want it to be a reference we could get. :( I like how the writing has set up the next season, but I'm also terrified because of the song and the song alone. It's pointing directly at Galactica 1980 for me. :(