i may just try throwing some shapes at it...

time team, for the next round
you're another team member and ten seconds down
you press a button and the buzzer sounds
now let's play for real money

yea... it would seem that, apparently, i did once write a quiz show song... i'd say loosely based on the weakest link, but that doesn't have buzzers (maybe i was worried about copyright infringement... or revealing myself as a complete and total geek)

i quite often hum the theme tune to family fortunes (the old one with les what's-his-face), especially whilst cooking... and i wrote a tune based on the the original battlestar galactica theme tune ('upswung' via the fatbwoi filter obviously), with words about uhm,... battlestar galactica.

its actually a nice progression, although as a solo acoustic tune i can't see any real way out of it apart from repeating the last two chords (C and D) and then sloping off into G... which is a bit cheesy. the original works by throwing in one of those thoughtful 'luke skywalker staring at the sun on tatooine' type-bits... not especially feeling that section tbh...

as a whole, it needs 'darkening' up a bit, as its a bit major-y atm, so i may try just throwing some shapes at it - the lyrics need to go though...

twitch away the evening
so the coffee has to stop

the original battlestar galactica was pretty 'major-y' as a whole... what was going on with some of those velour uniforms on the commanders, and that robot dog... i reckon the big block-y cylons were much more menacing than those in the new series though... you gotta love the eyes, and not being cgi they seem a bit more solid...

the skirts were a bit whack though...

i actually really like the new series, and despite my natural mistrust of cgi, i definitely think it looks better... (grittier), i haven't watched all of it and i have a horrible feeling that i already know how it ends... (friends who dig sci-fi... who'd have 'em?!).

i haven't seen 'bsg razor' (ahem, geek-out), but even the cgi old-school cylons look more bad-ass than the new-ones... i just can't help but think that robot-killing machines look better when they're still quite square and bulky, and become less scary the more aerodynamic-complete-with-decorative-inlays they have...

although at the opposite end of the scale (and admittedly completely lacking in decorative inlays), the t1000 with its gloopy wet/roundness is pretty menacing...

anywho, i guess the short answer is that i want the old series progression to sound like the new series looks... avec swing and funk, but hey that's just me...

right on 8)