Ozymandias drives a Plymouth - (It's just rust and a fin)
From Richard Frohlich
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Producers: Richard Frohlich
A sound rich commentary on Time capsules and what we ought to leave for the people of the future. Upon hearing of the rusted Plymouth in Oklahoma, I remembered a few other things that had been buried in history.
Full version contains a 1min reading of Shelly's "Ozymandias"
Edited version does not.
Both end with "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas (20 second music bed)
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Review of Ozymandias drives a Plymouth - A CommentaryThis piece begins with a melodramatic nod to a classic piece of literature and ends up in garbage and rust. It's an interesting comparison of the relative values of intentional vs. unintentional leavings for posterity: Ozymandias' boastful claim on eternity, time capsules, and casually discarded foodstuffs. The sound bed is active and amusing, but its very animation may compete with the author's voice for a tired listener's ear. Best aired when the listener is likely to be neither harried nor weary (whenever that might be).
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Transcript
(00:00) RF:
Recent news got me thinking about the buried past -
Buried cars melons gold and "Ozymandias" by Shelly -
[Ozymandius - by Shelley]
[The Day The Earth Stood Still music bed]
(00:11) John S. Martin:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
(01:19) RF:
In the gospel accord...
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Timing and Cues
4:55 Vocals "Everything is Dust in the Wind"
Instrumental until 5:20
Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Running Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Memorial | Bernard Herrmann | Day the Earth Stood Still. | Fox, | 1951. | 00:59 |
| Percy Bysshe Shelly- Ozymandias | John S. Martin | English Romantic Poetry: Read by John S. Martin. | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, | 2004. | 01:07 |
| Theme from "Route 66" (Nelson Riddle) | Paul Phillips and His Band | The Sound of Midnight NAKED CITY. | Medallion, | 1961. | 00:25 |
| Turning Japanese | The Vapors | New Clear Days. | United Artists, | 1980. | 00:24 |
| Nocturne /The Flashlight / The Robot / Space Control | Bernard Herrmann | Day the Earth Stood Still. | Fox, | 1951. | 01:24 |
| Dust in the Wind | Kansas | Point of Know Return. | Kirshner Records, | 1977. | 01:43 |
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Additional Information
- Produced: Jun 18, 2007
- Added to PRX: Jun 18, 2007
- This piece is in English
Bill Anderson
Posted on July 05, 2007 at 03:43 PM | Permalink
Review of Ozymandias drives a Plymouth - (It's just rust and a fin)
Richard is a good storyteller. Carefully and sparingly written and sound rich. Maybe too sound rich? Probably not but perilously close to sounding like distracting SFX by the end of the piece.
Still, well mixed and tightly edited and done with a delightful sense of playfulness and humor.