Zorac (zorac) wrote,
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Of iTunes Shuffle and IMDb

A few random tales of shuffling iTunes:
  1. Late one evening, a couple of weeks back, iTunes randomly played Paul McCartney's Another Day. Unfortunately, this triggered the part of my mind which goes "Ooh. I've heard that in a movie recently..." This sort of thing is always fatal as I of course want to know what that movie was, and I ain't gonna get to sleep until I've got the answer or managed to forget about the question. Thankfully, IMDb* came to the rescue - a bit of poking turned up the soundtrack search page which quickly gave me the answer: 50 First Dates.
  2. I recently watched Charlie's Angels, and remember thinking that I should look up what one of the songs played over the end credits was. This morning, iTunes popped up All the Small Things by Blink 182, and once again I knew it was from a movie I'd seen recently, so I headed over to IMDb, thinking that I could check the Charlie's Angels soundtrack while I was there. Of course, the two questions proved to be each others' answers...
  3. Later on, iTunes brought be part of the soundtrack from the final episode of Babylon 5 and I ended up turning off the shuffle feature to hear the final track as well. Those of you familiar with the show will know that the final episode is more of an epilogue than a finale, and that it appears to be deliberately written to reduce fans to gibbering wrecks - and just the music by itself can do that. Powerful stuff. Randomly, it seems that JMS has some B5 stuff up for auction on eBay - including the dalies and two director's cuts of Sleeping in Light. *WANTS SO MUCH*
* If you're not familiar with IMDb, then why not? It's easily one of the most useful sites on the 'net, with pretty much every bit of information about seemingly every movie ever made (and plenty of TV shows and some video games). Many a time and oft has it saved my sleep or sanity.
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sophie10

May 21 2005, 11:23:37 UTC 15 years ago

All together now, 'GEEK!'

jiggery_pokery

May 21 2005, 15:41:20 UTC 15 years ago

Wah. Why will the winner of the B5 auction be a private collector? Can't it go to a con organisation team who organises just one more B5 con, with one or more (semi-?)public viewings of the tapes as a highlight... *sigh*

Play the lottery tonight, Mark. It's the best chance you have of making enough money to be able to buy the tapes - which I would've thought would be at least $10k.

(Wonder why JMS is selling them?)

zorac

May 21 2005, 17:07:12 UTC 15 years ago

It really would be interesting to see, but as you say, alas, it's unlikely that that will ever be the case. In any case, I wonder what the legalities of distributing or publicly displaying the tapes would be.

As for why JMS is selling the stuff, apparently it's a case of too much stuff, too little space.