70 Years Over The Rainbow

August 25th, 2009

Bit of a late blog post, but I just found out that The Wizard of Oz (1939) turns 70 today. And I just had to share that with you, my dear readers. So to celebrate, here’s Miss Garland herself with Over The Rainbow:

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Ages ago I blogged about the Top 30 Most Infamous TV Show Opening Voiceovers (looking back I sooo would have changed that tile to something else), and had meant to do a followup post with just theme songs. Never got around to that, but now I finally got inspired by this blog post from Orbyn about favourite theme songs, and decided to do one myself.

I thought I’d split it up though in two posts: one specifically for cartoons and one for other (normal) shows. So here are the cartoon theme songs I adored:

10. Pokemon

I wouldn’t exactly call this a favourite, but I was shocked to discover I still know all the lyrics. Especially cause I didn’t learn them by choice. I was 13-14 when Pokemon came out, and was too old to really watch it. My sister however is 5 years younger and 8-9 she was exactly the right age for it; she used to watch it every single morning for a couple of months long. And then she got the CD with the soundtrack.

9. Care Bears

I know, I know, it’s a bit… sweet and cutesy, but I still like this theme song:

8. Samurai Pizza Cats

I never liked watching the actual episodes; I just wanted to sing along to the theme song.

7. X-Men

I just loved the intro with all the characters showing off their powers.

6. M.A.S.K

The first time I found out what an acronym was 🙂

5. Gummi Bears

Gummi bears!!!

4. Duck Tales

The weird thing with this is that I’ve watched both the Dutch and the English versions. The theme song was the same except for (of course) the lyrics:

3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

There’s this one vivid memory I have of when I was 7 and overheard a couple of the boys in my class discussing the theme song of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They couldn’t remember the lines exactly and were trying to figure out what they were again. So I jumped in, and sang the entire intro. They were so puzzled that a girl would even watch the show and know the lyrics (“But you’re a girl.”); even for my 7-year-old self that really rubbed the wrong way. Anyhow, here’s the video

2. Captain Planet

The first song I truly remembering practicing the lines and trying to figure out what exactly was sung:

1. Mysterious Cities of Gold

The weird thing is that I don’t remember watching that many episodes of this, but I still get goosebumps every time I hear this song:

So what are your favourite cartoon theme songs? Any really obvious ones I’ve missed?

Tags: TV Series

Trailerrific: Inception

August 25th, 2009

After The Dark Knight, lots of people were wondering what Christopher Nolan next’s project would be. We slowly found out he’s working on Inception, with a fantastic cast. It’s got Leonardo di Caprio, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cottilard, Cillian Murphy, Michael Caine and Ken Watanabe.

But what is it about? Well, until now (actually still even now) Nolan has been extremely tightlipped about this. This trailer is the first thing we see of it:

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Oooh, I like it. Not sure where it’s going, but I’m really curious to see it now. I’m pretty much a fan of Nolan: while I liked both Batman movies, I adored two of Nolan’s “other” movies: Memento and The Prestige. And Inception is looking to be something similar: a movie where you’ll be trying to figure out the entire time “what the hell is going on here”.