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From: bradley!bucc2!pwh@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Pete Hartman)
Date: Wed, 3 May 89 01:40:28 CDT
Lucky Me! A Blockbuster Video store has opened in Peoria. They have an amazing range of videos of all sorts, including (to my delight) _The Whole Story_. Having never seen most of the videos thereon, I felt it necessary to rent it and see for myself what Love Hounds have been talking about all this time.... A few comments and questions: First off, KaTe is MORE beautiful than ever when you can see her moving around, not just frozen in stills on her albums. If only.... Oh well. Hopefully I'll get the chance to see her in person (if not up close) on Tour of Life II, right IED? I must say that the flesh coloured leotard in _The Man With the Child in his Eyes_ was quite, um, surprising until I realized that it WAS a leotard. Two questions about the _Breathing_ video: is the backing spoken vocal the description of a nuclear blast (that's what it sounds like)? And are those Kate's brothers (or some of them, and the rest of the band) in the lake with her? Are the fragments of live performance in the _Wow_ video from the Tour of Life? Is this a slightly different version of the song? I liked it better.....really! Is there any "valid" compilation of videos that has the "moors" version of _Wuthering Heights_ and the "Wogan" version of _Running up that Hill_? The masks in _RutH_ were interesting, seeming to indicate being lost among her imitators..... The "symbol" she uses seemed to evolve from _Army Dreamers_: ___ |/ |\ to _The Big Sky_: ___ \|/ /|\ Besides the Cover of _The Dreaming_ are there any other instances of the appearance of this thing in various incarnations? While I noticed that Kate was quite dramatic with her expressions in several ov the videos, I thought the bug-eyed stance in _Sat In Your Lap_ rather ridiculous looking, to say the least. Probably the only bad thing I found in all of them.... Did anyone else notice the "See no Evil, Say no Evil, Hear no Evil" relationship between Kate and the two jesters on either side of her during the latter sections of _SIYL_? Is the huge building that houses the studio in _Experiment IV_ actually her studio, or one she's worked at? I did find one other thing I didn't like in the videos....is there some significance to her jerky, clockwork motions in _Babooshka_? I really didn't care for them. Is the Bass symbolic (to do with Del perhaps?) Overall, I loved the videos, I HAVE to get a VCR and a (legally bought) copy of this tape..... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...uiucdcs\ Pete Hartman ......noao >!bradley!bucc2!pwh ......cepu/ INTERNET: bradley!bucc2!pwh@a.cs.uiuc.edu ARPA: cepu!bradley!bucc2!pwh@seas.ucla.edu IF ALL ELSE FAILS: bradley!bucc2!pwh@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu