Weekend Music
I give you permission to laugh at me for this one. I can't really defend it artistically, though I won't apologize for liking the first thirty or forty seconds. Let me explain why I like it so much:
Somewhere back in the 1980s, when our children were small, my wife and I discovered Dr. Who, which was broadcast (yes, the old-fashioned way, through the atmosphere) on Saturday nights by Alabama Public Television. It was the Tom Baker period. We were hooked from the first notes of the theme music (well, at least I was). We never have been the sort of people who go out much, and that was especially true when we had young children. So watching Dr. Who on Saturday nights, after the children were in bed, became our big entertainment treat of the week (and if you think that's sad, you need to learn more appreciation for life's little pleasures).
Immediately after Dr. Who came a show called Star Hustler, a brief talk about the astronomical events of the week by a fellow named Jack Horkheimer. It was a perfect somewhat cheesy, somewhat weird dessert to follow the somewhat cheesy, somewhat weird Dr. Who. This Debussy/Tomita piece was the theme music. For years I wondered what it was, but it was only fairly recently that I found out, thanks to the Internet. Hearing the first notes of it takes me right back to those Saturday nights.
And here is an episode of Star Hustler. It's worth sitting through the whole thing to hear his "Keep looking up!" sign-off. And isn't that set great?
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