David Tennant + Peter Davison? Sign me the heck up. Already got a DVD cover on hot standby:
Grab your own copy of the cover here if you’re so inclined (or just want to gawk at my insomnia-and-E.S.-Posthumus-fueled Paint Shop Pro dabblings). I literally used the only still photo the BBC has provided so far (and then that one from the Sun too), so design greatness it ain’t, but it’s just a tad more epic than the original “two guys standing there” publicity shot. 😆 I’m really looking forward to this. If they’d managed to shoehorn Sylvester McCoy into the same little special, I’d be happy beyond belief. But this’ll do nicely. Davison and McCoy were my favorites among the original Doctors, and I don’t care if he has put on a bit of weight, Davison looks great. (I wish that when people looked at me and said “you’ve put on a bit of weight,” I was looking like that guy instead of the fella in the mirror.)
It’s official: despite the glut of CDs I’ve played for him, from Scott Joplin to Vangelis to Moody Blues, Evan’s officially approved darn-near-guaranteed-to-work sleepytime CD is a “baby mix” I assembled for him, whose playlist goes thusly:
- “Lullaby” – Raymond Scott
- “Radio Sheffield” – BBC Radiophonic Workshop
- “Popcorn” – Hot Butter
- “Sleepy Time” – Raymond Scott
- “Sea Sports” – BBC Radiophonic Workshop
- “Apache” – Hot Butter
- “The Music Box” – Raymond Scott
- “Milky Way” – BBC Radiophonic Workshop
- “Telstar” – Hot Butter
- “Nursery Rhyme” – Raymond Scott
- “P.I.G.S.” – BBC Radiophonic Workshop
- “Syncopated Clock” – Hot Butter
- “Tic Toc” – Raymond Scott
- “Wheels” – Hot Butter
- “Summer Intro” – Neil Finn
(The Raymond Scott tracks are basically the entirety of Soothing Sounds For Baby Volume 1, the Hot Butter tracks are all from Popcorn, and the Radiophonic Workshop stuff is all from BBC Radiophonic Music. The Neil Finn track is from the Rain soundtrack.)
So…in other words…Evan’s got a thing for kinda trippy experimental electronic music from the 1960s and ’70s. But man, does that mix knock him out like a tranquilizer dart. Now, I know that he’s not gonna remember any of this stuff, and that these early “preferences” of his will wind up in my memory only, but that music is now inextricably linked with my son in my mind. I also donated the little light apparatus to his room that once powered my glowin’ Dalek; it simply projects its patterns straight onto the ceiling above his crib now. And he seems to dig it – until the colors shifting and the music lull him to sleep.
If he was older than, say, a month, I’d say it’s time to break out some Floyd.… Read more
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