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April 14, 2008 |
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Memory Lane
FOUND by Sasha
in Melbourne, Australia
This was lying outside my door this morning, no idea how it got there. A very familiar scene with a fitting backrdop.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
It's another walk down Memory Lane.
mem'ries, all alone in the moooonlight... What kind of uniforms are those little dudes on the right wearing?
Cabbage? you're a Kiwi, right? help us out here.
looks like boy sprouts to me.
Sweeet.
Maybe it was a history project. So the guys on the right are the various Armed Forces in the War, the bow-tied gents are posh grownups of some description (politicians?), and there are various baker-boy caps and other attributes of tradespersons. Love the backloth. Would love to know what they're all singing.
That backdrop is from the psychedelic sixties.
My guesses: 1) this is the end result of some history unit about the colonial past; 2) the play was rampant with stereotypes; 3) at some point somebody's mother was upset because somebody did not get to play the stereotyped role that the mother thought best fit her darling; 4) whoever designed the backdrop used some kind of substance for inspiration and 5) the people in the audience knew it.
It's kindergarten HAIR!
All riiight, man! Far out!! What a groovy backdrop! I am so freaking inspired by riots of colors in the shape of fantastic flowers and butterflies and trees and mushrooms...heh-heh, 'shrooms, man!
And what might these kiddies be singing? Don't know for sure, but in my hallucinations they are singing:
Skidda-marinky-dinky-dinky,
Skidda-marinky-doo
I love you
I love you in the morning
And in the afternoon
I love you in the evening
And un-der-neath the moooooon
Oh, skidda-marinky-dinky-dinky,
Skidda-marking-doo
I love you!
Familiar scene? Fitting backdrop? What?!
It looks like my elementary school's auditorium. Good times...good times.
I think most people who drove down this memory lane would end up careening into a ditch. This picture would make Sonny Bono puke.
Now this is a find!
If i had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning, I'd hammer in the eveniing, all over this land
The backdrop reminds me of the back drop behind Patti Hearst (Tayna) Picture that the SLA sent in to the media.
Wow. From Sonny Bono to Patti Hearst and from HAIR to colonial history. We're clearly grasping here -- finding any and all connecting points (hallucinogenic or not) to make sense of the senseless.
I'm partial to this being the finale of a grammar school colonial musical revue. The oppressed indigenous peoples of Australia are just about to appear for a reprise of their rousing, "Aboriginal Gangsters"
I ran over those kids the last time I went down Memory Lane.
almost looks like the back drop is "under the sea"
and the guy with the striped shirt sitting in the audience has something in his hair. and to me it could be one of two things:
a) random debris finding home in his head
b) those glasses that have straps on them and tighten in the back for those of us who fear gravity will affect our glasses falling from right under our noses
@lauren, I think it is the zipper pull for his Dad costume.
I remember being made to sing many "good old days" songs at the ripe old age of about 6, in various school plays and programmes. Nobody seemed to tumble to the fact that while one is still in kneesocks, there isn't much to one's "memory lane" besides the womb! I suppose they thought it was cute, all the little tots singing about "darling I am growing old, silver threads among the gold." We just thought it was strange.
And if I ever hear that stupid song about the ant and the rubber-tree plant again, it will be too soon! (For those in other places, it was "High Hopes" and it was the theme song to Kennedy's election campaign. And we were forced to sing it at school assembly. No political bias where I grew up, no sir!)
The guy on the far left is obviously Herve Villechaize, and the fellow standing next to him is a young Mean Gene Okerlund.
Oh Flargy, ya beat me to it :-( That was the first thing that went through my head when I saw this... followed closely by the "Me And My Shadow" number from Time Bandits.
"Me and my shaaaaadddooooowwww
Walking down the avenue
(avenue avenue avenue!)"
Aaahhh classic...
Two of the kids in the front row are holding poles that are sitting on the ground in front of the stage. What is that about? Also, some of the kids in the back row appear to be melting into the backdrop. That's kind of unnerving.
SPAM - "what is the opposite of bad?" Somebody is starting to sound like Big Brother...
Oh. Creepy! I thought of "Me and My Shadow" (just the song) while looking at a find the other day. Coincidence?
wow i want that backdrop.
I remember the ant song from Laverne and Shirley.
Those poles are microphone stands. So somewhere on the planet there is a recording of this event!
I remember that 'High Hopes' song from the radio when I was little. I never knew it had political overtones -- in fact I never understood it.
put this daniel johnston song in my head:
When I was out in San Marcos a year ago today
They probably would've put me in a home
But I threw all my belongings into a garbage bag
And out into the worldness I did roam
My hopes lay shattered like a mirror on the floor
I see myself and I look really scattered
But I lived my broken dreams
The wildest summer that I ever knew
I had a flat tire down MEMORY LANE
But I came back after 5 months and a half
And now I'm just trying to explain
And now I'm here
And here I stand
With a sweet angel holding my hand
I lived my broken dreams...
Something about this made me instantly think of Elliott Smith. Perhaps it's just the words 'Memory Lane'.
oh god these comments are funny today!
I had "High Hopes" on a scratchy record when I was little. We had a little record player in our room and we played it over and over. It was a 45 rpm record with a little hole, not a big one. We also had some Disney records. "Davy, Davy Crockett! King of the Wild Frontier!" Hey, one could relate that song to the idea of a colonialism theme for this pageant without too much effort.
The song we sang at pageants was "Roll on Columbia." Talk about repetitive. No offense to Woody, but I thought that song was pretty boring. Especially when you had to sing the chorus every other verse. Yes, I grew up in the Pacific Northwest. And now they're talking about tearing down the dams. Who would have guessed?
Awww...look at the little scouties. I bet they had a super little gang show.
I don't understand the Finder's blurb, where they say, "a very familiar scene with a fitting backdrop."
it doesn't seem familiar to me. To whom should it be familiar, and why? Why is the backdrop so fitting? Am I missing something, or was I simply born into the wrong era?
Davy Crockett! Wow, Clover, that stirs up memories. (Yes, the Disney crazes spread to the UK even then.) Bet you're too young to have had a raccoon skin hat with a tail though.
In the school playground we sang 'Davy Crockett, queen of the tame back nose' (instead of 'king of the wild front ear', geddit?).
I had a raccoon skin hat with a tail...it was fake one.
I got a big laff when I blew my line in my first grade play.
Aw!! Sweet pic of a public school's play!
Good times!
Alan, it would have been even funnier if you blew your load in your first grade play. Or if you were blowing lines in another sense.
it's familiar because we all remember performances from grade school and it's fitting because the sign says "memory lane"