RTP-area local music and culture

[Nathaniel Florin <npflorin AT yahoo.com>]

It's good to see that 12 years in we're still capable
of a real stupid flamey thread. There some life in the
old gal yet!

Kevin Darbro <kdarbro AT nc.rr.com> wrote:
>Amazon says it won't be released until 6/6/06.
>Curiously, that's the same
>day the new "Omen" movie is being released.

More importantly, it's National Day of Slayer.

http://www.nationaldayofslayer.org/

IMDB says Song of the South got theatrical releases in
1980 and 1986. I saw it in one of those releases, I
assume the first. My main memory is that the very
imprefect combination of animation and live action in
the story scenes made me feel a bit claustrophobic,
like how I felt when I saw Pete's Dragon. The animated
characters are so obviously on top of the (physical)
film in a more or less realistic setting that the
world looks completely wrong, and it's unsettling (in
a negative way). Not like, say, Mary Poppins, where
the animation + live actors scenes are in an animated
world, so you accept the imperfect merging of the two
because you're eye isn't searching for reality.

Nate