Saturday, January 13, 2018
meaning no disrespect
i just got home from a really excellent Philharmonic concert called "Nordic Landscapes", This concert was held at the Auer concert hall on the IPF - woops - Purdue University, Fort Wayne campus. During two of the pieces, while quietly beautiful music was being played, wonderful views of snowy landscapes, strange rock formations and magnificent mountains were projected on large overhead screens. It was all quite lovely and very well done but half way through the second piece a silly thought flashed through my mind. Do you remember the sci-fi movie from many years ago called "Solient Green"? In the movie, people of the world are living on a planet destroyed by war (everything is grey and gloomy) and surviving mainly on a manufactured food substance called Soilent (sp?) Green. But in a scene toward the end of the movie old people are gathered in a large room where they are shown movies of beautiful landscapes from the time before the earth was destroyed. After they enjoy the lavishly beautiful scenes, they are put to death (they know this is coming) because they are old and have outlived their usefulness, and then - spoiler alert - turned into Soilent Green. Why on earth this weird old movie should have come to mind I do not know. I'm happy to report that as we left there was no one waiting outside to wisk us off to some unknown destination. Although their was this one large white bus from some place called TowneHouse that looked a little suspicious to me.
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